Hi everyone,
I was sitting opposite the sofa in my living room, the wall with pictures behind, burning candles on the small table between. Between? The “normally” order would looks as: here, me – there the table, the sofa, the pictures behind, the wallpaper, the wall.
But all came together. The distance dissolved, or better, changed its quality. There was no distance in 4 m. I thought: space is not distance! Space seemed me not predictable in m, cm. Space is/ has another level, category.!?
From this moment, I stopped to ask for definitions (for ex.: what is glow, what is the appropriate translation, what is blossom in the context) .To zoom in or zoom out was helpful for trying to get different points of view.
I remembered an old film of Woody Allen( about “Sex”), you could see spermatozoon in high speed, red erythrocytes and then, you could see “the world”, environment out of the “eyes” of the erythrocytes. And I could see myself now very tiny, minute in my zoomed in living room, with this sofa etc. I, the tiny Arthur, felt hisself in a integrated whole, in this unit is nothinge separate. Me, the sofa, candles, all is one united picture. No distance is there, although this “picture” has an extension( here the sofa, there the table….)
In my imaged Liliput-picture I see no experiencable distance. This phenomen I can describe, but not “feel”. But in “real” situation, sitting on chair toward object-sofa, wall, candles and their phosphorescent glow – I could experience the distance when I imaged the space between me and the sofa. For ex.: I thougth, if you stand up, doing 4,5 steps, you could touch the sofa. As if I could “zooming”, changing between two worlds( or more). The one world is: a unit world with no separation of objects and me; I´m_in all objects and all objects are together with me( not so in me, with me), present to me.
There was much mor happened. I´m more satisfied about my “willingness” to let myself more into the experience.
I I´m not so diligent answering your posts- I read all of your writing.
Arthur
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