I had an "experiment" on instinctive/intuitive eating some weeks ago. My "study" was conducted far in the North, in the middle of winter, so it was known beforehand to miscarry. Though I didn`t take it very serious, I found a couple of interesting things (and I had fun). Eating by bare hands was great! I also found dull to eat tidy (tidyly?). I got some sort of satisfaction from wet hands and face, juices of fruits dripping along the arms and licking hands clean when I finished eating! Now, I wait impatiently for summer: creeping on the ground eating berries, taking a nap on a carpet of moss and not caring a bit of how funny I look like, thinking nothing, just enjoying life with all my six <grin> senses! Right now I can`t imagine myself catching an animal and eating it live or raw but who knows what kind of things I would find myself doing after living some weeks or months in woods! Tiina.