ABSTRACT
Some of the Gibsonian insights that Edward Reed arrived at after J. J. Gibson's death and in the last years of his own short life are perhaps even more helpful in understanding underlying Deep Travel processes, since they begin to suggest why the second leap within Deep Travel sometimes seems so troubling and, on occasion, overwhelming. These are the moments when an extra effort of some sort seems to be required to keep the travel trajectory from foundering, and when something must be done other than just redoubling whatever one was doing a moment before. The mind could perhaps be making an oddly similar kind of mistake—although a much more painful one—when people find themselves overwhelmed or beleaguered in the midst of their travels, at those moments when an internal compass wavers or the loops of Deep Travel's second leap seem to spiral like an eddy that has become disconnected from a steady current now sweeping past it.
