It's to help make us into better people.

より良い人になる助けになる。

It's a sort of therapy.

セラピーのようなもの。

Without anything mystical being meant by this, all of us are, in one way or another, on what could be termed "an inner journey".

神秘的な意味なしで、

That is, we're trying to develop in particular ways.

私たちはみな、何らかの方法で、「内なる旅」と呼ばれるものにいる。

In a nutshell, the point of travel is to go to places that can help us in our inner evolution.

つまり、ある特定の方法で成長しようとしている。

The outer journey should assist us with the inner one.

簡潔に言うと、旅行の意味は

Every location in the world contains qualities that can support some kind of beneficial change inside a person.

私たちの内なる進化を助ける場所へ行くこと。

Take these 200 million year old stones in America's Utah Desert.

外の旅は内の旅をサポートするべきだ。

It's a place.

世界のどの場所も

But looked at psychologically, it's also an inner destination, a place with perspective, free of preoccupation with the petty and the small-minded.

人の内側に良い変化を何らかの形で

Somewhere imbued with calm and resilience.

サポートするような資質がある。

Religions used to take travel much more seriously than we do now.

例えば、アメリカのユタ砂漠にある２０万円前の古い遺跡。

For them, it was a therapeutic activity.

それは場所だが、心理的に見ると、

In the Middle Ages, when there was something wrong with you, you were meant to head out for a pilgrimage, to commune with relics of a saint or a member of the holy family.

内なる目的地でもある。

If you had toothache, you'd go to Rome, to the Basilica of San Lorenzo and touch the arm bones of Saint Apollonia, the patron saint of teeth.

全体像がある場所。

If you were unhappily married, you might go to Umbria to touch the shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia, patron saint of marital problems.

狭量や人間が小さいことによる先入観がない。

Or, if you were worried about lightning, you were sent to Bad Münstereifel in Germany to touch the skull of Saint Donatus, believed to offer help against fires and explosions.

落ち着きや忍耐ともなる、どこか。

We no longer believe in the divine power of journeys.

宗教は私たちが今考えるよりも、もっと真剣に旅を捉えていた。

But certain parts of the world still have a power to change and mend the wounded parts of us.

彼らにとって、セラピーの活動だった。

In an ideal world, travel agencies would be manned by a new kind of psychotherapist.

中世では、

They'd take care not just of the flights and the hotels, they'd start by finding out what was wrong with us and how we might want to change.

何かおかしいことがあったら、巡礼へと向かうことを意味した。

The anxious might be sent to see the majestic, immemorial waves crashing into the cliffs on the west coast of Ireland.

聖人や聖なる家族のメンバーの

People a bit too concerned with being admired and famous might be sent to contemplate the ruins of Detroit.

聖遺物を拝領するため。

Someone out of touch with their body might be recommended a trip to Porto Seguro in Bahia in Brazil.

歯痛があったら、

Nowadays, too often, we head off without fully knowing what's wrong with us.

ローマにあるサンロレンソのバシリカに行っていた。

Or precisely understanding how our chosen destination is meant to help us.

そして歯の守護聖人、聖人アポロニアの腕の骨に触った。

We should become more conscious travelers on a well articulated search for qualities that places possess, like calm or perspective, sensuality or rigor.

不幸せな結婚をしたら、

We should follow old-fashioned pilgrims in striving to evolve our characters according to the suggestions offered up by the places we've been to.

アンブリアに行くかもしれない。

We need to relearn how to be ambitious about travel, seeing it as a way of helping us to grow into better versions of ourselves.

結婚問題の守護聖人、カッシアのリタの聖廟を触る。