The Psi of Cooking

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[Davidd]

So here's the problem.

I love to cook but I only get time at weekends, when I fix fairly elaborate meals for family, friends and anyone who's hungry.  Monday to Thursday, my wife Chris rustles up something quick and tasty for an evening meal.

For lunch, I go to the restaurant at the hospital where I work, and nibble while I scan a newspaper.

Often - and I mean one, two or three times in a week - my lunchtime food choice will coincide with the dish which Chris prepares that evening.  Result:   I have to eat the same meal twice each day.

Today, for example.  I often pick out a sandwich (perhaps chicken or cheese or tuna).  Only today I thought, nah, I want something different.  I want salad.  Oddly enough, I NEVER choose salad to eat.  Nothing against it, but I'm hungry again by mid afternoon.  But today I felt drawn towards those shiny scarlet tomatoes and curly emerald leaves.   Even as I heaped the greenery on my plate I thought, chances are that I'll be eating this again this evening.  Here's my chance to foil this wierd X files stuff.  I could ditch this plate and grab some chicken!  But my palate rebelled.  It didn't want anything but salad.

Nice lunch, though I'd have gorged on chocolate by 3 pm if I could have found any in a filing drawer.

Finished work, got home, found my wife preparing a delicious repast of....lettuce...tomatoes...cucumber...   

Explanation?  Solution?
 
If its psi, that's fine, if it isn't - that's just fine by me too.  As long as my diet gets some variety.


Good to be back here, by the way!!   


 ~ David

[henry]

davidD, you may need to borrow nickeson's apron ..henry

[marianthi]

What if you hold over your lunch the thought: ?This dish is MINE, Chris? so she might not replicate it in a few hours?

Nice to see you back old friend. 

Henry,  Do you have a case about Steven?s apron?   

M.
 

[Davidd]

Hmm....

So you think its telepathy, Marianthi?   Chris is unconsciously tuning into my thoughts and, again unconsciously, fulfilling them?   David is homing in on salad, so salad he shall have tonight....

I like that idea.  Think of the possibilities...   

Seriously, I do think that people can become attuned to each other at levels deeper than ordinary awareness.  Yes, over time we get better and better at noticing the tiny subliminal signals which communicate the other's wishes and intentions.   But there's something about the magic of the We space too, where feelings and even thoughts can be shared over physical distance.  Its clear enough in our identical twin sons, who shared the same space even physically before birth!  I'd say that I'm less likely to anticipate Chris's needs and wishes in this way, maybe because I'm more of a transmitter than a receiver, who knows....

[marianthi]

In the 50?s my dad used to have his newspaper delivered to our apartment.  Since it came at the crack of dawn, my dad agreed to the request of the building caretaker that he could have a read of it and replace it at our doorstep by sunrise.

As this went on, my dad noticed he was dreaming of the main headline stories just before waking up, around the time the caretaker was reading them. This went on for the whole time the arrangement stood, until my dad departed the country.  Meantime for his amusement, he used to tell us what he dreamt till the newspaper was picked up and he could run through the same stories - now from its pages. 

So, what was that?

Surely, it?s not unthincable that Chris can tune into your palate?s whims, David.  She might even be watching you while you eat, at distant places - and who knows what else...

 
M.

[Davidd]

Its not unthinkable, Marianthi, though it would be tough to explain the process...

What's interesting in both our stories is that the psychic link seems to have occurred unintentionally.

If it can happen unintentionally, it could presumably come under conscious control.  The problem with that seems to be that when people try to control psychic abilities, they often, though not always, interfere with the process somehow.  Perhaps this is because there is a regression into egocentrism, which by definition involves a withdrawal from any 'shared being'.  Or perhaps its because psychic links are an aspect of our larger Self, of which the conscious mind is a mere domineering fragment...

Chris is incredibly sensitive to my every ripple of thought and feeling, as it happens.  Just as well that I'm usually in a happy mood (as you know well, my dear!) - if I do happen to feel low, she instantly follows...  A great motivation for me to get positive.   It does seem to be a yin/yang dance, and mostly we keep in step, though there's the occasional sore toe now and then....

~ D

[jimtzu]

If it can happen unintentionally, it could presumably come under conscious control.  The problem with that seems to be that when people try to control psychic abilities, they often, though not always, interfere with the process somehow.  Perhaps this is because there is a regression into egocentrism, which by definition involves a withdrawal from any 'shared being'.  Or perhaps its because psychic links are an aspect of our larger Self, of which the conscious mind is a mere domineering fragment...

a good explanation of how wu-wei extends into the subtle realms!