Pricks and Pain

On Hot Chile Peppers, Sexual Arousal and Hammers

The neural synapses in our noggins that register sexual pleasure also register pain. There is no difference in the initial registration. It’s the same thing. Subsequent noggin activity then measures the impulses and gauges them as to how they fit into the spectrum, or octaves, of vibrations. The noggin then goes through its files to see what matches up with the particular vibration and then responds accordingly. The files we have for any level of vibration generally are a history, or conditioning, of how we have reacted to that particular vibration in the past. That conditioning is very much tied into our belief system. We can say that beliefs are thoughts that have been repeated so many times that they become automatic responses. They are like a file that immediately pops up in reaction to certain vibratory impulses registered by the noggin.

So if we believe that if someone hits us with a hammer that we will feel intense pain then we will experience intense pain. If we believe that if someone hits us with a hammer that we will get sexually aroused then we will get sexually aroused.

I recently read an article about hot chile peppers that was written by someone who abhors hot chile peppers and hates any food that is “hot.” In the article, they said that our tongue has taste receptors and it has pain receptors. “Normal” food is…