THE CONCEPTUAL YOU

Armen feels that experiencing the immediate is what carrying provides to both participants. He says they are temporarily less aware of their own "conceptual you" and think about neither their political or social preferences nor their self-consciousness. "It’s not a concept," Armen explains. "It’s an actual experience and it’s not heavy. It’s not confusing in any sort of way, even though that there is discomfort and there are things to navigate, but it just - it just feels very clean and energizing and vitalizing."