Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
What the point of it is in every moment is there is the potential for
the miraculous to come through, and I think we can either live into
that miracle or we can live in fear. And again I wouldn't have
chosen that situation, and it scared me, I'm not saying I wasn't
afraid, I was completely afraid. But what it was I refused to give
into that fear, I trusted the God of that moment. Again there's
either a God of everything, or there's a God of nothing. And I
needed to find that out. It's everywhere in everything, male,
female, whatever. I mean, anything could happen to anyone of
course.
TRIP: Indeed. you had a couple of friends, a gay couple, that
were influential in your life, and I don't know why I mention them
with so many things to ask you. But..
JERRY WENNSTROM: They're characters.
TRIP: Gilbert and Louis. These guys, they lived in 100 yard long
converted chicken house.[Laughs] And they had room upon
room, and like just when you thought you'd explored the whole
place, they'd show you a whole other room that you didn't know
about. And they had a peculiar dining table, can you share what
that was?
JERRY WENNSTROM: Well, it was out in their garden, they had
lavish gardens and it was a pretty creative place. They were
something of mentors for me. And the table, it was a water table,
it was like a huge round, and I don't know what you call it, like a
huge round…
TRIP: It was like a stock tank, right?
JERRY WENNSTROM: With seats built in around it, and so when
you sat at the table, the food would float on bowls on the water,
and you’d pass it around to each other. [Laughing]
TRIP: I love that. You sat at a stock tank and passed bowls
around on the water. So these guys were very influential. And it
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