On the Concepts of Time, Distance and Parallelity
I encounter awe when I experience my environment. It can be a familiar setting. Out of (k)nowhere it hits me, a kind of deep belonging to the vastness of the world. It does not feel like dissolving into space even though my bodily borders feel less present. I can sense the vastness of everything outside and inside me. I can best acknowledge its various components in their own mode of existence. This occurs when I am most happy, lost or bored. — Is it that I let go of control in those moments?
Reaching the heights of a moment or the top of something that unexpectedly opens up a field or area in front of me, also gives me this sensation. It might go together with embracing the situation and the excitement to get a glimpse on what lies ahead of me. Distance plays a role here. I am not facing an unmovable wall, but a vastness that I can engage with and encounter.
Distance and parallelity are elements of freedom and closeness — of awe
Awe holds a rootedness in oneself allowing for change outside and inside. Sensing which boundaries are existential to remain and which can be, at least for the time-being, dissolved.
When the scale is unclear, when the anchor points are purposefully erased, you can leave room to be anywhere.