An afterthought I had while exiting the parking lot of Trader Joe's this morning...
The virtues of fasting, not only felt spiritually and mentally, can be summed up in the realization of how lucky we are that we may choose not to eat. Undoubtedly, I will return to a fairly standard diet next week: Union Grill french fries, Bangkok Balcony tofu pad thai, the occasional late night Bocca "extra spicy" tofu "chik'n" patty... but if for no other reason, to observe that a vast portion of the world survives without food incidentally, those same people working harder physically and under the greatest stress of all (the fight for survival) than we assume we do in our world, fasting may bring us closer to the conscious realization of our etherial substance. Indeed, a religious practice, an occult virtue, ascetic requirement, a form of protest, a component of alchemic ritual and a necessity for performing natural magic and connecting astrologically with the heavenly spheres, to undertake a fast is a virtue unto itself, regardless of connecting with the profundity of the act.
On a less philosophical note: I bought California organic lemons from Trader Joe's, the difference is astounding! The other lemons taste like poison in comparison, I shall never revert.
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