Eric Hunt

1. Have you ever had a transcendent experience?  If so, what happened?


i used to have them all the all the time.  at least those kinds of moments where i felt a deep connection to life and the universe as a whole.  when i first moved to the city and had little to no money and wasn't getting work, i'd go on many artist's dates, as they are referred to in the book the artist's way(although i hadn't read it yet), and these solo trips around the city would often find me having to stop and sit down or prop myself up against a wall while i blissed out.  it was like a drug.  maybe i was just starving.  money was pretty tight.  i don't have those as often these days, or maybe i do and, like any drug, the effect begins to wear off as you grow accustomed to it.  or maybe im talking about something else entirely.  semantics.




2.  If you had to pick one sense and lose all others, what would it be?


hearing.  but does losing one's sense of touch mean you can't do things like pick up a glass or open a door or brush your teeth?  maybe i'm approaching the question too pragmatically.




3.  What is your favorite attribute in a person?


self-awareness.  when someone understands who they are and how their actions can affect others, they tend to be more honest and open minded and just decent, overall.  or they are complete assholes, but know it.  which i appreciate because then i can dislike them and not feel guilty about it.




4.  Describe your happiest accident.


meeting my fiance.  she was visiting my sister.  i was home working.  we flirted when they stopped by the house before going out.  and if my sister hadn't come down sick, i might have never seen my future wife again.  but she did get sick, and keely had time to kill in a big city all by herself, so i spent the afternoon with her applying my charms.  we ended up spending most of the rest of her week in town together, she eventually moved to nyc, and we are getting married in a few months.  being a man over thirty who spent a year living with his two sisters and three cats, this happy accident probably saved me from a life of animal hoarding and muttered conversations with myself on the subway.




5.  If you had to choose one personal object to leave behind when you are gone, what would it be? 


i have no idea.  there isn't really a physical object that i have given that sort of power or meaning.  i think i gave up any sort of deep spiritual connection with any of my belongings after a fire destroyed everything i owned shortly after moving to nyc.  there were things lost i could never replace, in particular tape recordings of my grandfather reading me bedtime stories like he did so often and well too.  but losing the artifact did nothing to diminish my memories of those actual times. maybe without the tapes, i hold onto them even tighter.  i certainly replay them more, which enhances their power.  so yeah, i can't think of anything i'd leave behind...besides a trail of stories, fond memories and times i'd share with those i've known.