Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
to me that if you had been a woman, you would surely have been
raped and maybe killed in some of these ways that you just said,
come on? You let gangs up into your apartment that you didn't
know, and all kinds of crazy stuff. Do you think the path you took,
this total surrender to life that you took, is something that a
woman could also take? Would you recommend this path to your
daughter if you had one?
JERRY WENNSTROM: Yes, it's not about men or woman. I have
a personal mantra, there's either a God of everything, or there's a
God of nothing. And yes, if I had a daughter I would say, you find
your relationship with that, and do whatever it takes to live it out.
I don't think it means being fool hardy, I don't think it means
doing ridiculous things. I think it means being present and
sensing the moment, and meeting the call of that moment.
I mean, I have a friend who in New York City was walking down
the street and this gang came up to her, and she's this little short
person; tiny little attractive person. So this gang came up to her
and started making comments. And she told me a story, I mean,
it was her story, and it's her details, but in some way she was able
to transform that moment by being present in a different way that
both embodied her innocence and her fierce attention to what was
going on. And, again if there's a limit… I mean, it was no different
for me, I mean the stories you've read, I've walked in some of the
most terrifying situations, I didn't create them, they came up in a
moment that I happened to be where I was at the time, and things
happened. I didn't go looking for it, I wouldn't suggest any woman
go looking for those kinds of experiences. What I'm saying is if
they happen be fully present with it, and it's like…
TRIP: Well let's talk about one of those, so people know what
we're talking about. Here's one, and there were so many, I mean
your life is full of these, but here's just one. You came home late at
night one night, and there was a whole like gang of African
American homeless men that were right there in your loft entry
way. And they were drinking, and they looked very suspicious,
and they said, can we come up? And you're the guy that when
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