The second part of this quest deals with five common realities.
Section 2.1 is an exploration of "facts and logic" during a holiday week in Florence, where the three main characters consider the transition from Medieval Scholastic to Renaissance. At the same time they explore the limits of "facts and logic", the boundaries of science, life and death, the hereafter, God, and the possibility of God in the form of a man, the mind of the warrior and the foreshadows of the Reformation. This report of this section is available via another webpage under "Books" on the website of Omnia – Amsterdam Publisher.
Section 2.2 is an exploration of "intensities and association" in Amsterdam, where Carla Drift, Man Leben and Narrator consider the Reformation and the consequences thereof in Holland. During this part of the survey they look into iconoclasm, a personal relationship with God, Calvinistic predestination, fear for freedom, capitalism, to have or to be, the end of time, "My life closed twice before it's close" by Emily Dickinson and "One what is that".
Section 2.3 is an exploration of "emptiness" during a four-day sailing trip with the tidal flow on the Wadden Sea, where Carla Drift, Man Leben and Narrator first survey “emptiness” in the form of "empty from" and "empty to", then consider "emptiness" as "being whole" (or "ursprünglichen Ganz Heit" in "Being and Time" by Martin Heidegger) and thereafter perceive “emptiness” as uniqueness – in unity and unicity – of everyday life superimposed within "being whole” as answer to the question "One, what is that?". This exploration of "emptiness" provides an introduction and commentary on the Buddhist Heart Sūtra.
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