Fasting - What to Expect

When you decide to halt what the ego desires, your view of yourself will eventually diminish. The lie that is this pyramid doesn't show what happens if you collapse self-identity by choice. It also suggests at the top "including creative activities". C.G. Jung has shown that creative output alone can self-realize an individual by the fact that the artist has processed repressed emotion in the artwork. Dreams, hypnosis, and artistic output are the keys to the unconscious. The creative output could be at the lowest level of the pyramid and lead to self-realization as opposed to self-actualization, which requires too many boxes to be ticked to achieve it. Self-actualization is not an enlightened state.

If you can sit and do nothing at all, and this will be required for extended periods. You will twitch to get up and do something initially. You will make excuses to get up and do something. You sit back down. You'll eventually just be twitching when you think of something to do. After this phase, the knowledge of the act of not moving no matter what the ego commands.