Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
away, but when we are still in the mind, and there is no thought,
you realize that it's right here right Now.
WIZARD: Yes, when the form has gone, when someone passes,
then there's absolutely no separation. The communion is always
very profound when a very close one passes, and then that bodily
form is no longer there, we feel that oneness, that presence,
unobstructed.
BRIAN EZZELL: And another thing too, John, was that helping
someone to cross over, which is something I had never done
before, and to do this with someone that has such a profound
mark on your life, I came to realize it's one of the most intimate
things that you can possibly experience with another human
being. A friend of mine, Trista, said that the two greatest
experiences that you can share with someone is when they draw
their first breath, and when they take their last. And, yes, that
really was a profound experience for me to be there, and it was just
the two of us and our dogs that one evening. And the oneness was
palpable. There's time where we can intellectualize oneness, and
we can talk about it on a certain level, and there's times when we
really feel it, and we are it, so to speak. And that was one of those
moments, but, yes. I lost my train of thought there.
TRIP: Well it was a good train. Now you say when the student is
ready the teacher will appear, and then you added a corollary to
that which I really enjoyed. You said, "When the student is ready,
the teacher will leave". Was the death of your mentor…?
BRIAN EZZELL: That's what brought it up, yes.
TRIP: The leaving of your teacher. You're obviously a very wise
man, you appear to me to be quite established in "That", did you
not feel yourself to be until he died?
BRIAN EZZELL: You know, there was quite a length of time in
our relationship where we didn't talk about spiritual issues, I could
probably say for the past 10 years we didn't really have sit down
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