2.1
“It is possible for our world to be transformed. This transformation hinges on what is common between our world and others.”
This means that a transformed world is experienced, a new world that never fully leaves behind the old one. – But does this mean that we live in two worlds now? That there are two worlds in one? From whence comes this other world? Does it come from above or outside the old world, maybe from some mental projection?
This ‘other world’ comes from things themselves. Minds are grounded in world, and there is no outside from which a world could come. This world comes from seeing things, allowing things to show themselves, differently. As with the projections of the cube (), this projection doesn’t superimpose itself on top of things, but is rather a way that things show themselves. Things bear different senses of world.
There can be two—or more—worlds in one. This is because we never leave our world, even though it’s open to others — a claim to which we’ll return.
Having several worlds in one, or becoming aware of this, can be experienced as a source of tension. This is because some of us deplore contradiction or when world—the place of familiarity and home—is exposed as not definite.
The trees are still there, the rocks are still there, but everything has changed. Everything becomes more expansive, in a sense. As though things have been given back to themselves.