Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Well, then you're a nondual guy.
TRIP: You just answered my question. Hey, let me ask you, this
intrigued me, your nondual dinners with Francis Lucille, I just
started imaging like how intensely interesting that must have
been. Who hung out with you with the nondual dinners?
GREG GOODE: Well, it started… The way I understand it is, it
started with something like a salon, the European salon where
people would come and have very educational highfaluting
conversations. And it's something that Jean Klein and Francis did
some times together, sometimes on their own in Europe when they
were there. And so when Francis came (Jean Klein, I never met
him), but when Francis Lucille came to the United States and he'd
go to the different cities that would host him as a speaker, he
would say, “Well, I might be here for a week, or a weekend, but
outside of the nights that there are full of meetings, let's gather
and have some ice cream or something, get some pizza, and we'll
just talk.” So that’s nice. And so he would come to New York City
about twice a year, and this is in the late '90s, going on to maybe
2003. And then we just continued it when he wasn't there. And
then it broke off into meetings that didn't require his particular
presence or his particular teaching, or his particular influence, it
went renegade in a way, so that anybody could talk about anything
connected with nonduality. And it's been going on like that ever
since those years. Sometimes we'd have them every week,
sometimes we'd have them every month.
Now we have a small group because we like to have a conversation
that is not so big that it breaks up into two or three subconversations.
And there's no focal point, there's no agreed-upon
guru, or teacher, or agenda, it's just people having dinner and
talking about nonduality.
TRIP: And this is where?
GREG GOODE: At a diner in New York City.
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