Jessica - Oct 31, 2010, 12:38p
I like what you said about not being able to separate out this single piece of survival school, and orphan it from everything else. I think some things are meant to be experienced in their entirely and their power and their magic comes from their wholeness.

To use your dessert-baking as an example, I don't think you would get 10% of the enjoyment of eating a cookie by ingesting 1 1/4 tsp of baking soda. You need all the parts. You need to put them in a ridiculously hot oven and let convection sort them out.

See you in the desert,
Jessica

P.S. I think perhaps you CAN get 50% of the enjoyment of the cookie from eating the chocolate chips alone...so please keep looking into the molecular basis of the magic...


Connie - Mar 26, 2011, 6:52p
I just read Unbroken. You need to read this book. Great story.

I'm glad you stopped the fasting - it sounds like you experienced the mental clarity because you were starting to waste away (die?) from hunger. There's some interesting stuff about this in the book. Um, please don't do that again...

Hope you and B are doing well :)


Yu-li - May 31, 2011, 9:45a
Oh, it's an interesting story. I read blog entries about your experience on X, and some thoughts passed through my mind:

1. You can refer to the neuroscientific definition of comfort. I cannot remember it correctly, but it was like "no signals" from sensors. As you were thinking too much (you were analysing your experience), there could be a lot of signals in your nervous system.

2. Comfort (even though X is not just comfort) is influenced by expectation on comfort.

3. If it is about blood sugar level, more physical labor could help. (I had an experience that food tasted really wonderful after hard physical labor.)

4. Experience is also about control. Your sense of control could make you feel less thankful to the food.

Any way... I envy your experience about X.

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