On Pilgrimage and Travel: Where Does Our Venturesome Spirit Come From?

Historical and modern accounts of pilgrimages represent a useful source to analyze and speculate on the origins of humanity’s wanderlust.

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“The pilgrim’s journey, unlike the travelers, never ends; it only deepens. All our life is a pilgrimage.”

-Pico Iyer

I do not doubt that subscribers of their chosen faith take seriously their beliefs and, as pilgrims, are motivated to embark on their pilgrimages to holy sites on behalf of those beliefs. However, I often…