Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
anything, boom you just was you, it was just who you were, it was
what you had to do.
JERRY WENNSTROM: Well it wasn't based on any particular
tradition, but I wouldn't say I didn't have a poetic sense of the
possibility form things I've read, from people like Ramakrishna,
and Yogananda, and Christ. I mean, it's not like I didn't know the
potential for this life. So it's not a religion, and there's no
particular one, but if there is that God of everything, it's in your
heart, it's in your potential in each moment, it's there, it's not
arrogant to expect that that is there and to call on it, and to try and
find how to live in relationship with that. And there are times I
just did this interview where I told the story, I didn't tell in my
book, about a way that Ramakrishna came through in a very
visionary way. I didn't talk about it because I hate talking about
this psyche smyche stuff, and I didn't put it in my book. But there
are times when literally deities from traditions I felt would come
through to save the day and help me in very particular ways. And I
think sometimes when you put your foot out into that emptiness
and you don't know what it's going to land on, your foot falls into
place in say a Hindu belief, or a Christian belief, or a bagman, that
moment, that person, that expression, if your God is that moment.
And there's no greater religion than the religion of all things, that's
what native traditional spirituality is about in all cultures, there's a
God of everything, the trees, they're singing, the birds are talking.
It's all there telling you how to go, where to go, how to be, if we're
paying attention. And that is our birthright no one can claim it,
the Catholic church doesn't own it, the Jews' religion doesn't own
it, the Hindu's don't own it, the Muslims don't own it, it's a God of
everything, it's all the great big harmonious singing dancing
Mystery.
TRIP: Jerry, you are a sage, and I'm honored to have spent this
hour with you, truly it's been fabulous for me. We only have about
two more minutes, I want to mention that you have a website,
www.handsofalchemy.com , and currently you're featuring a series
of interactive coffin like boxes that are magical that all kinds of
297