Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
that might gather around. Nevertheless his writing, from
whatever ordinary quadrant it emanates, shines with the positionless
humility of one who has ripened over time, and we're grateful
to have you with us today, Em Be.
EM BE: Hey, it's my pleasure.
TRIP: So at the age of 15 you questioned “what is life”, what was
the answer?
EM BE: Actually I don't know where these questions come from,
and really it's never been a concern of mine, or a question of mine,
where is this question coming from. I just recall, being in our
home, lying on the carpet, those Persian carpets with all these
different drawings and designs, and then lying on the carpet and
looking down the carpet, and just perceiving this person. It wasn't
really verbal, it wasn't like now I talk about it, the words are not
the same, but I just recall lying there and just wondering what am
I, what is it to be?
And it really nagged me, this question, I needed an answer
somehow, the question needed an answer [Laughs]. So I went to
my mom [Laughs], and so I was wondering with my mom, what is
it, what is going on here, who am I, what is this that's going on?
She's a relatively religious person, and certainly from what she
knew, what was her answer about. I forgot what it was, but it
really there was no answer that she provided. And somehow this
question faded. But there was a sense of something unsettled and
that sense of something unsettled was always there. It's more like
a feeling, it's hard to describe.
WIZARD: It's unutterable.
EM BE: Yes, yes.
TRIP: You emigrated here in '68, from where, France, I'm taking
it?
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