The starkness of the desert can play tricks with the mind, not just thirst and heat. The lack of outside stimulus, the familiar street, cars, people and whatever may bring up the fear of empty mind and being alone and boredom and endless mirages.
The stillness and quiet can be like meditation and when it gets past hallucinating, fantasising and then begins to watch this strange stuff appearing out of nowhere as it seems in the mind and indeed what is mind.
So the desert can be useful in its emptiness and should one go through the 'pain' of familiarity then something else rare and beautiful may arise or just appear when all thoughts and hints and nuances fade, surprisingly it has been there all the while and is always there until the seduction of some stored memory 'stick' Mind DVD or CD lures one away into mindless illusions and distraction.
SHACK
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