![]() ![]() I have been influenced by Karl Friston and Mark Solms on these topics. Let’s begin with life and consciousness as such. Throughout the discussion, I will be focusing on differences and interplay between inner directed consciousness, on the one hand, and externally directed consciousness, on the other. And because transcendental states involve courage, curiosity, and openness, they support moving into the unknown.īoth the ego and transcendence are conscious, although egoic consciousness is often dreamy and self-centered, where that of transcendence tends to be bright and spacious. It can facilitate learning athletic skills. In transcendence, loss of concern for the self comes into play as we respond to challenge. They affect focus, pain tolerance, mood, and inspiration. I suspect that a series of states along a “continuum of transcendence” were part of ancient hunting and are no less a part of modern endurance sports. It is the incessant chatter in our minds about our pasts and futures, about our failures and successes. I use the word narrowly for the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. ![]() The “self” here is not the whole person or all consciousness. I will be especially interested in an elusive factor we will call “transcendence.” In transcendence, the self seems to temporarily disappear or blend with the world. I will suggest how we can improve personal performance, but I will be mostly interested in how our brains as well as our bodies are “born” for long distance exercise. Here, I will be pondering why riding gravel is so satisfying and why we can ride long, hard, and fast. We know that there is more to endurance than athletic ability and training. We might also enquire into the psychological side of persistence hunting. ![]() 2 Accordingly, large-sample studies find almost no point where more aerobic exercise is not better for us. 1 Modern human skeletal-muscular structure, skeletal remains of ancestral Homo, increased capacity for thermoregulation, and observations of surviving hunter-gatherer groups in the early twentieth century imply that Paleolithic people practiced persistence hunting, that is, tracking and running animals to exhaustion. The anthropology was popularized in Christopher McDougal’s Born to Run (Vintage Books, 2009) and has become part of the Paleo/Primal movement. You are no doubt aware that our capacity for long-distance running can be traced to the first species of Homo, roughly two million years ago. Here, I broaden the evolutionary background of endurance to include mind and emotion. Ancestral genes were optimized for this regimen over a couple million years, whereas sedentary lives, refined carbs, sugar, and processed food have been common for less than a hundred years, hardly enough time for DNA to catch up if it ever could. It’s likely that our physical and emotional health depends importantly on how much we recreate the endurance running and the natural, nutrient dense eating of our Paleolithic ancestors. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life. Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao. Primal Endurance On Gravel: A View From Anthropology – by John Ingham ![]()
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