Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
realm, and we have these intellectuals running all over our group
page on Facebook, and they are delighted in their encyclopaedic
knowledge of nonduality. I mean, what have you learned about
the ultimate utility of all of this information that you've absorbed
and that others like to tout on websites and what have you? I
mean, what's the ultimate utility? The Wizard and I are personally
not all that impressed by ever more information. I mean, all the
information you need to live in a wakened life you can get in one
tiny slim volume, like, I mean…
GREG GOODE: Or less. [Laughs]
WIZARD: My first mentor, for me he was completely illiterate, he
couldn't read or write.
GREG GOODE: I'm sorry, Wizard, can you say that over again?
WIZARD: Yes, the first mentor I had who really affirmed my
paradigm shift for me was an illiterate man who couldn't read or
write.
GREG GOODE: Ah, yes. When I was in the Christian church, I
was a deacon in a Pentecostal church, and one of my teachers
there, one of the wisest people I've ever known, was also illiterate.
He could read the bible, but somehow it's almost as though God
made a dispensation, he couldn't read anything else.
TRIP: Really, that's amazing, that is cool. That is cool.
GREG GOODE: But he, other than his great ability for the Bible,
he was functionally illiterate as well. And the information I myself
tend to like, I'm just interested in spiritual teachings, that's just
me, I just have always liked that stuff, I like philosophy. But I
hope that I don't communicate that it's necessary to other people
to get into all the books in order to be happy. I hope I don't
communicate that, that if you're not like me then it's going to suck
for you, dude.
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