Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
was a level of surrender, and she ended up in tears. I never said a
word to her, and when she left, she stayed for a while, and I felt
like the room just glowed with our co-mingling energies towards
the end, it was just a really beautiful experience. And I can't
explain it, I don't know what happened. But she hugged me, and
she thanked me, and she left. I mean, there's an example of how
silence can be the required language of the moment.
At other times I had young street kids come in and I would just
blast them, I mean the moment would call for a certain… I was just
about being present with what was coming, and it was like no
holds barred. But there was a period where I had to inhabit
silence, because it was my big terror to not speak because most of
us speak out of nervousness, if we feel nervous we start talking,
and we talk about the weather. I mean what if we didn't do that,
what if we just really listening to the moment, I think a whole
other relationship with the world could come into play. I don’t
need to be silent, for a year I hardly spoke; I don't need to do that
now. It's like giving up painting again, you get to the place where
it doesn't matter if you speak or not, but you have all the colors on
your palate. If the moment calls for blue, you've got it. If it calls
for red, you've got it. But I think most of us are pretty lopsided, we
know how to talk, or we're afraid to talk, you have introverts,
extroverts, and we're all specialized in what we do. But how many
of us have the whole palate. And I think that's what we all need to
learn, there's nothing special about that, it's a requirement of our
totality, of our completion on the planet.
TRIP: Yes. You say, and I don't want to catch you on semantics
here, but I'm wondering if there's something more to it than
semantics. You say "We risk far more than life when we attempt
to create a life devoid of a personal relationship with our God".
I'm just wondering, is God something we relate to, in terms of a
relationship, or is it an assumption we make about who we are?
JERRY WENNSTROM: Well, I find… and I don't know if it's the
only game in town. I find I need to have God in my life, whatever
you want to call that God, and I'm not talking religion, I'm talking
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