Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: No, you don't. But I wondering if you share the perspective
that the Wizard and I do, like we have…
GREG GOODE: Yes. Oh, that people touting their knowledge?
TRIP: Yes.
GREG GOODE: I think it can be almost a cruel thing.
TRIP: Because we have this group page, and we have people on
there that are brilliant and they've got this encyclopaedic
knowledge of spiritual teachings, and they sit there and they just
pour them forth day after day after day. But not once do they
reveal anything human about themselves, or, how they dealt with
their wife going off on the fact that they split for the weekend with
their buddy to go fishing, and whatever. To me it's just so much
more instructive to share how you're dealing as a human being
with life.
GREG GOODE: Yes. I don't hang out on Facebook so much, so it’s
mildly surprising that there are still people like that. Back before
Facebook when Yahoo was the main digital way for nondualists to
communicate with each other; I’ve seen many, many people do the
same thing, and I guess, with the new generation it’s happening
again so I shouldn't be that surprised.
WIZARD: This is great conversation.
GREG GOODE: Here's one thing that I noticed a long time ago,
when a person goes intellectual on someone, it's interesting to
note the dynamics that take place at that moment. Are they doing
it as a way to distance themselves or to put themselves above the
other person? Or are they doing it as a way to reach out and
embrace the other person and draw them in to them? Like how is
it being used, how is the knowledge being used; to separate or to
embrace and love?
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