"A Journey from Where to Where"

Oliver Sacks - humanist neurologist and one of the greatest popularizers of science, and also one of my personal heroes - died a couple years back (2015). RadioLab just released an episode featuring recordings from his final days; he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had many interesting dreams:

I’ve been having a lot of strangely archetypal dreams of a journey I have to make. Getting lost, and getting found; full of surprises, maybe going through a door, which I think will be a door to another room but is a door to a mountain landscape – and sometimes frightening ravines and edge-long, very narrow ledges – but then finally coming to some great, spacious, heavenly mountain meadow, and then waking. Dreams about journeys, an approaching end, and..... it’s a journey from where to where.

RadioLab Oliver Sacks: A Journey From Where to Where (10/27/17, 4:49)



See also:
Death
Journey
Mountain
Ravine