A full-bodied, sensate, throw-it-all-in masterwork by James Humecky This recipe wasn’t planned — it emerged. Built from instinct, memory, and what was in the fridge, it became something alive: a layered, primal farmhouse stew that tastes like it’s been simmering in your ancestral bones for generations. This stew began as a practical improvisation and turned into an edible meditation on sensation. Fat and acid. Smoke and earth. Sweet and salt. The simple act of layering each ingredient with awareness became a ritual of embodiment — a reminder that cooking, like touch, is an art of presence. For years, I cooked by feel. And over the years, a developed some sense of taste and combination and balance. One of my favorite things to do is to look around and see what's available and try and figure out what is the very best, most flavorful, hearty, yummy dish I can come up with. That also meant that I spent many years, creating marvelous dishes, and then never being able to go back and re-create it. Recently, and with the advent of voice recording, that moved into automatic transcripts, that moved into AI being able to outline something in an amazing way, I have begun to develop these recipes. My main hope is that you won't follow it, but that it will be an inspiration and permission to go off the rails in the most delicious and sensate way possible! Flavor Map Bass: sausage, bouillon, cabbage Midrange: carrot, tomato, potato Treble: vinegar, capers, cilantro Harmony: sour cream/yogurt, broccoli Created by: James Humecky Alias: Sir Recipe type: Hearty one-pot meal / Embodied comfort food

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https://james-humecky.kit.com/posts/eroticism-at-the-edge-of-oblivion-1?_gl=1*jnyjkv*_gcl_au*MTM0Mzg4MTUyMC4xNzcwMTUwNzA2 What makes intensity worth it? “When you learn to ride sensation instead of numbing it, you stop being a victim of your arousal. You become the artist of it.” - James Humecky The Edge Isn’t the Point! I remember lying on a floor once, the room dim, practicing a deep breathing pattern, that familiar electricity humming just under the skin. Someone nearby was shaking. Someone else was crying and there was screaming throughout the session. There was that almost aggressive pressure in the air—go there. Push. Break open. Don’t hold back, let all your old hurts and trauma out! I have been doing this work a long time. Long enough to recognize a pattern that repeats across modalities, teachers, workshops, and lineages. There is so much emphasis on the edge. On catharsis. On the breakthrough moment that’s supposed to change everything. Get to the edge.Go past it.Fall apart.Rebuild. Sometimes that works. Most often, it doesn’t. What I’ve seen—again and again—is that intensity without preparation doesn’t liberate. It overwhelms. It leaves people open, raw, disoriented. Or chasing the next hit of depth because nothing actually integrated. The Somatic Pleasure approach has turned in the opposite direction. Building capacity before seeking the edge. Before catharsis, there is the quieter, unglamorous work of learning the body’s language. Breath that doesn’t escalate. Sensation that can be felt without narrative. Movement that reveals where emotion flows—and where it stops. Awareness that notices what’s happening now without needing to fix it. This isn’t about staying shallow. It’s about staying present. When you build capacity first, something changes. The edge stops being a dare and becomes an inquiry. You can meet it without forcing. You can feel what happens when you go beyond it. And—this part matters—you can come back with more information, and the ability to integrate your experience.

If You Can’t Come Back, You Weren’t Initiated Subscribe to Substack Sign-up for the newsletter “Eroticism, may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death.” — Georges Bataille I am reading Georges Bataille’s English translation of Erotism: Death and Sensuality, in which erotic desire is revealed not simply as pleasure or indulgence, but as a willingness to engage life with passion and risk, where the self loosens, taboos give way, and we skim the edge of death. Erotic authority is knowing how close to the edge you can go and having the Somatic intelligence to find your way back. There is a part of you that is not interested in being well-adjusted.It doesn’t want balance.It doesn’t want approval.It wants to feel more—even if that means flirting with the edge of annihilation. That part knows the truth most people spend their lives avoiding: the erotic isn’t polite. It isn’t safe. It doesn’t care about your spiritual vocabulary or your relationship agreements. It presses. It pulls. It asks whether you’re willing to loosen your grip on who you think you are. This is why people keep throwing themselves at peak experiences. Psychedelics. Tantra weekends. Kink and BDSM scenes that promise transformation. Religious devotion dressed up as transcendence. Extreme sports. Relationships that swear they’re about freedom. All of them whisper: Come here. Come closer. Dissolve. And, it works. You disappear just enough to feel alive. Then it’s over. The room empties. The drug wears off. The rope comes off. The altar is dismantled. And you’re back in your body, alone with a nervous system that has no idea what to do with what just happened. So you chase it again. This is where the erotic gets misunderstood. Not as sex, but as escape. Not as intimacy, but as transcendence without consequence. Without preparation. Without return.

↓ Eros as Capacity - tapping into the Life force ​🎧 Podcast Premiere:Friday, January 2 at 10:30 AM PDT Arrive with your body. Press play when you’re ready. Eros doesn’t start with desire—it starts with whether you can stay present with what’s already alive in you. This episode of The Somatic Pleasure Podcast features a grounded, unsentimental conversation with Kirstin Hotelling Zona about eros as aliveness—how it shows up in the nervous system, how it gets mistaken for stimulation, and what it takes to remain with it without performing or collapsing. But here’s the thing—this isn’t really about her. It’s about how you meet intensity. Where you rush past sensation. Where you call it desire instead of capacity. If intimacy, leadership, or creativity matter to you, this episode will land. You’ll be sitting with tensions like: - aliveness vs stimulation - slowing down vs shutting down - desire vs capacity - presence vs performance “Eros isn’t something you chase. It’s something you learn to stay with.” — Kirstin Hotelling Zona