The modality of pure experience (Erlebnis) is enjoyment and not belief. With belief we can infer a central detached and deliberating agent, some kind of ongoing measurement, comparison and evaluation and thus a certain ineradicable distance, a withholding of full assent, or even a giving of it but only on condition, and still provisionally - leaping out of a 'plane, but only after first checking the parachute. That there is such a distance is a truth of experience (Erfahrung), but it is a posterior truth, the sad discovery that nothing ever quite measures up to expectation. But if experience were faith then the distance would be a prior condition. As good Bayesian engines we would even be amenable to persuasion, which we are not, although that too is a truth of experience. In enjoyment there is no distance, and if distance is still claimed as a possibility this refers to a conscious discipline, an ataraxia, that is prompted by disappointment, and hence by the addition of a form of belief, namely the expectation about the duration of the enjoyment, that it will persist, or will soon end. How it is that the self or subject arises again and again with no separation from enjoyment, and in the very present of the enjoyment, whether positive or negative? This is the mystery that demands to be known, and in this demand, the mind is forbidden its usual strategy which would be to insert the finest of wedges between the self and its enjoyment, or between the enjoyment and its enjoyer.