I am reading The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs.  I am not sure how many people actually read Burroughs.  I found Naked Lunch to be unreadable but his other books Junkie and Queer are easier reads.  The Place of Dead Roads is about a queer, inter-dimensional, cowboy who is trying to make Earth a vessel to travel through space.  I think the idea is that everyone would have a purpose of being a space traveler.  Burroughs also discussed finding biological ways to space travel.  I think he envisions genetic experiments to alter breathing and other biotic factors so one can live in space.  He appears to be emphasizing once again the idea of a counterculture but one so monumental that it changes time and space.  I think he is trying to say that one would go beyond time.  I am all for conquering time.  I am sure Burroughs came close many times during his lifetime to achieving this goal.