Karl Mac Mc Kinnon wrote:
>
>         "Qui Bono?"  Every body asks that question.  "How do I benifit from
> this diet?"  If we make our benifits purely carnal, that is not enough.
> *MAYBE* it can because we don't restrict eating.  In most diets some
> segment of the brain/body called "willpower," the ability to not eat, must
> fight the brain/body matrix.  Man's carnal nature will win out.  We can't
> stop shitting.  We can't stop breathing.  And we can't stop eating.
> Eating less just makes more desire for food.

However, does this require a philosophy?  Let's say I'm born
anencephalic (without higher cortical brain function). I can't think,
but I can eat, crap and breath.  For me a paleodiet allows me to yield
to more primal drives; food and exercise.  Relying on my mind for
dietary choices is contrived and ultimately artificial (See Nicholson on
Naturalism and Kylberg on "intuitive therapy").  It becomes interesting
that the manufactured structures of the mind become hurdles for us to
rediscover what is natural, healthy, and what animals do without
philosophizing.  Bill Cosby says that we have to go to school to learn
natural child-birth.  A sobering commentary of how we are educated into
an ignorance of who and what we are.  Kind of like a Fellini-esque
Hollywood Squares where we attend college "to block" any sense of
intuition about diet and health.  This concerns me deeply when we not
simply buy the seduction of credentials but invite the credentialed to
help finalize the abdication of our intuition/primal mind.

I have this dog meditation; probably a good Neander-Meditation.  Lie on
the ground face to face with your dog (some assembly is required <BG>).
Now just stare into his eyes.  Forget yourself and just stare.  Breathe
with him, breath for breath.  Eye to eye.  Breath to breath.  Lose
yourself.  After a while ask yourself, "Am I my thoughts?"  "Am I my
dog's thoughts?"  Finally, "Are my thoughts necessary for my
existence?"  Do I need thoughts to feel hunger?  Do I need thoughts to
feel the pleasure of a meal?  Do I need these thoughts to be me?  Do I
need these thoughts to be loved by my dog?  do I need thoughts?  I don't
know the answers to these questions.  I don't know if answers are
necessary.

Andrew =8-0
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