Approximate Conversations, Vol. 1, No. 2

"They say if you go to the loudest spot that is closest to you, and stay pefectly still for 5 minutes, something happens. Make no movement - remain perfectly silent and hold for a full five minutes. You have to be real careful and consider both volume and distance to hit it just right."

Something happens. What happens ?

"Well, the kind of thing you see in kung-fu movies. Or magical-realist novels. A doorway in full, a bell not rung, and an arc of color and perfume."

When should you go and for how long ?

"To explain : Say you're downtown and there's a car alarm going off. But there's also a construction site around the corner. What do you do ? Remember : TIME! That car alarm is going to get shut down in a few minutes, but those cranes and bulldozers ? All afternoon. However, if the car alarm is going off right in front of your apartment, VOLUME! Who needs to go around the corner ?"

OK - And I go there and ....?

"Something happens."

Something happens?

"Something happens.
Yep. And if you stand as perfectly still as that junior-high king/queen spotlight dance,something like light and volume will exchange particles.... "

Approximate Conversations, Vol. 1, No. 1

"Someday scientists are going to make the connection to the spiritual
realm. Probably the physicists first. They spend all their time
watching the atoms fly around - all that sub-atomic shit, you know ?
They'll make that connection. Guarantee it."

Science is science and religion is horseshit.

"I'm not fuckin talking about religion, dude ! Take all the priests
and rabbis and mullah motherfuckers and line 'em up against the wall!
Fuck 'em - I'm talking about the present-day, eternal reality of
spirit which can be OBSERVED AND CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE ! Do you think
I'm some kind of dropout dumbass who never read a book ?"

What's the difference between religion and reality of spirit ?

"What's the difference between a flashlight and a supernova ? One is
an imitation of the other. We understand and need light - always have.
Eventually we figured out how to duplicate it and keep it near us.
But it's NOT the original reality. We are dealing with surrogates
until we can get the real thing."

Why can't religion get the real thing for us ?

"Because it is happy to settle for second-best. It tells you BE QUIET
AND OBEY YOUR LEADERS AND FOLLOW THE RULES BECAUSE OUR RULES ARE THE
BEST WE CAN DO ! This is why science will have to settle everything.

How do you know science can settle everything ?

"Science has no Pope or Bible or Torah or stable of unicorns. Only
observation and conclusions. The physicists will probably get there
first. Watching the atoms fly around - all that sub-atomic stuff with
the quantum mechanics and whatever. Fuck, man - If God is the
illustrator of all this, then his signature can only be found buried
deep under the paint, woven into the background, and disguised as a
finger-smudge".