Deserts Within and Without

The desert is perhaps an elemental theme in our own psychology. What is it that can be found in the desert?

I have often been struck how the external world around me can reflect so accurately, in a symbolic way, inner states and conditions of life, and vice versa. Part of this may be to do with the eyes that see this world, or, rather, the mind behind the eyes, changing how things are perceived depending on that inner state. There may also be influences of su…