Tasting .... eating... partaking.... ingesting...desire... longing... understanding.... in grafting.... rejoicing... shouting... singing .. mourning... troubled ... sorrowed... are all synonyms in scripture for describing a person with human characteristics. There are these two realities that the christian experiences as the source of all of his choices. We live in a universe of pre determined realities. For before the world was created God knew on an intimate level all the things that make up the reality of living this world both physical and meta physical. And i guess we can describe the process of putting these different sins to death...but just having the single understanding of mortification of sin does not help create the holistic experience of living as if these different concepts or synonyms have the color..flavor... and enjoyment of experiencing this holistic understanding of the illumination of the Spirit. Mortification of sin is having the proper sorrow over our sin and knowing the danger of living in the guilt... sorrow and fear experienced in this reality of feeling the effects of the domination of sin. In this way there is a need to experience deliverance from sin in the desperate way a person views this domination of sin. The sting of sin is death... this is the process of the effects of sin. And i guess that this terribly distressing side of these different experiences as to the level one deals with these different sins is part of the characteristics of the understanding that determines how one will choose the objects that are designed to meet the desire. Mortification is going down in the experience of finding the anger... the guilt... the fear and the dread of sin to face the reality of living in a universe of sin...having the presence of sin.. and dealing with the effects of sin.So that tasting in the biblical sense is this experiencing of this level of humility in having this sorrowful state of mind. 

 Mortification is the process of exposing the level of depravity to the understanding so that in gaining a true sense of the evil of sin a person is imbibed with the level of inward danger that lurks in his whole being. In this way... the reality of living with all of this potential for failure gives this taste of the kind of desperate condition that is required in apprehending the level of the illumination of the reality of Christ presence by His Spirit.This is developing a proper sorrow in order for a person to experience a seriousness that is real. For what we think in our hearts is what we are. What we are determines everything about how we view this world and all of the circumstances that we are confronted with. In between the connections to our choices are these five senses both physical and spiritual in which the experience of peace... comfort... and the general level of these communications that are returning to our understanding about the kind of ingraining that we have processed is this holistic reality of living. We have the potential to live above this worlds domination.