During our time at the convivium “tripping balls” as Emp put it was something we all went into in various degrees. Which was to allow and to ramp up a naive wonder and delight, and to use this as a springboard into actuality.
I was cooking some eggs yesterday and after having heated up the pan sufficiently I cracked the eggs in, they covered the whole surface of the pan and I began to become so fascinated about the whole thing…
The heat quickly formed a crust on the under layer of the eggs and now the residual heat coming through the crust was boiling the top layers and sending tiny air bubbles into the yolks themselves, without affecting their integrity though. The yolks were of the most impressive shape and colour, simply perfect! For a moment it was as if there was only those eggs cooking, and the fascinated awareness of the perfection of it all.
‘I’ blipped out for a short while then but ‘I’ came back in to look to digest, to classify, to distinguish the experience. It seems this is the habit of mine which is preventing these experiences from becoming PCEs proper. But lately there is plenty of opportunities to come closer and closer, it is as if I am carrying the flavour of actuality in the pocket with me as I go about my day, and it is never any further away than the simple allowing of a fascinated attention, at the fact that perfection is already always here now.