Religious and Philosophical Meanings of Travel

The article considers travel as an important condition for the contemplation of revealed forms, leading to religious rethinking and consolidation of religiosity. This becomes possible through a number of religious and philosophical meanings that travel carries. We are talking about the opportunity, through travel, to clearly verify the existence of sacred places and religious objects, to reproduce an emotional connection with them, and to renew religious feelings. Contemplation in such practice takes on not only an external, sensual, but also a mental, internal character.
Analysis of the dialectical unity of the processes of discovery during the journey of visible manifestations of the internal infi nite unity of the Universal in its external subject-substantial diversity allows us to remove the soteriological question about the fi nitude of one’s own existence. Travel aesthetics considers the feeling of the sublime as a way of discovering the dialectical unity of the individual and the Universal through awareness of the power of forces and objects of nature, the external world, and abstraction.
And the mythology of travel considers the possibility of a “meeting” of the real with the transcendental through solitude. The latter becomes a necessary condition for self-knowledge.