Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
What’s important to convey about this sojourn, however, is not
that what happened was in itself so off the charts crazy wild cool
that I had no choice but be blown away. No, it illustrates that the
ordinary is transformed by the alchemy of Faith into the
extraordinary. Not faith in a storyline, belief system or anything in
particular. Faith in the Mystery that all is perfect and you are the
theatre in which everything naturally occurs. When you are ready
to re-cognize the non-physical reality that you are in free fall, the
world of form confirms it for you everywhere.
Not long after our return from India, my friend, the Wizard, was
invited to a return appearance on a local FM radio station’s
program on spirituality called Touchstone. As it turned out, the
show’s host, Paul Nagy was ready to let his role go and I asked to
take his place and the Wizard was happy to join me. For the next
three years I would have the amazing grace of conversations with
avant-garde sages from around the world in all walks of life. I was
surprised that the established, largely unknown sages of our time
would agree to have a conversation with me, a total spiritual
newbie, on a micro power FM station with a three mile radius,
(albeit simulcast on the web), simply on the strength of an
invitation by the Wizard. But there it was and I was not resisting!
Each week I would study the different sages’ books and pore over
their web sites, videos and blogs; anything I could get my hands
on. I would celebrate their unique gifts, share their masterly
elocution, probe them over any inconsistencies, and ask them for
the spiritual solutions to my own dilemmas. Each and every time
I was surprised by their complete and nuanced grasp of this nondual
reality and by their unique talents for expressing it. One,
Francis Lucille, had the grandfatherly sweetness of a fine wine
mellowed with age. Another, Rupert Spira for example, possessed
an unrivalled capacity to vivisect this dimensionless moment of
now that would take you to and through the very door of presence.
The younger sages such as Jeff Foster, Benjamin Smythe,
Bentinho Massaro, Morgan Carraway, Lisa Cairns, Ilona and
others were fabulously in touch with the intimacy of “suchness”
this “no-thing” this Now. Maren Springsteen was like a sweet icing
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