Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
very powerful way to be on the planet, but you enter that moment,
that interaction, that relationship, with that possibility from
absolute emptiness. I actually have a great story if you want to
hear it that relates to Marilyn.
TRIP: Yes.
JERRY WENNSTROM: When I first met Marilyn, because I had
nothing, I moved to Whidbey Island with a backpack, I had
absolutely no possessions. And there were many people in my life,
and Marilyn and I were getting closer. But I didn't know about
relationship, I didn't know if that's where I was going. I was just
following the signs, watching what I needed to do and be. And I
was invited to Marilyn's family for Christmas, and so there was
this huge family gathering, and they serving this alcohol punch so
people were drinking and loosening up a lot. And at one point,
everybody was wondering who this strange guy is, he has no
possessions, and Marilyn is just coming out of a painful divorce,
does she need another strange person in her life to do her harm?
And they didn't know, and for good reason they wondered, who is
this guy?
And so all at once this very drunk cousin of hers really pounced on
me, basically, who the hell are you, and what are you about? And
so when he asked the question, and in as polite a way as possible,
the room fell silent, because everyone wanted to know but he was
drunk enough to actually ask. And so there was one of those
moments, who am I? At some level the projection was completely
accurate, I was nothing, I had nothing, and who am I? That
moment elicited prayer, who am I, God. So instead of saying like
I'm a PhD and I've got a million dollars in the bank, who am I,
God? That's a whole other response to the moment. And in that
questioning myself I went deeply within and I simply told my story
in a very simple way. This guy ended up in tears, he was an old
hippy who totally sold himself down the river, he was a career
military guy, hated his life, he was an alcoholic. And so he ended
up in tears, and he said, and he was an old hippy, he said, I always
knew you could live that way, I'm glad somebody did. And at that,
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