I spend a lot of time exploring ‘the important things we overlook’. These include such features of our everyday experience as insects, our hands, our relationship with water, and, in this installment, our passage through doorways or ‘portals’ — and ‘turning a corner’.
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Each day, in our lives, we pass through many doors. Long ago, such passages were understood (in various ways) as transformations, or even passages between worlds. As we ‘turn corners’ on the other hand, we experience a radical change our orientation, and thus, too, our perspective and relationship with all that is seen or encountered.
Few of us moderns would stop twice to actually think about what happens to us when we pass through, for example, a common doorway in our homes. Or turn a corner on a street we are walking or traveling upon. Yet the actual effects are profound. Consider the sense of passing into or out of your home’s entrance doorway — or the radical transformation that happens when you enter or exit a vehicle of any kind. Consider the change that overcomes one when one’s entire relationship with directionality is transformed by a turn.
Long ago, humans were far more aware of these transformations for many reasons. One of them is that they spent most of their time in open…
