Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
It always comes back to holding the attention. I recently was given
a gift of what I call my experience of the Lord's Prayer, and in one
part of it it says, I say to myself, give us this day your holy breath
that we may be aware of your divine presence, and know your love,
and it goes on. John blessed me with a great Easter Satsang, I call
it the thorn of death, I don't think he calls it that, but that's
[Laughs]…
WIZARD: Yes, it's the thorn of death. Now what Katie is
confessing is that that's removed.
KATIE DAVIS: That is beautiful. Words always point to this and
it is very rich, nurturing and energetic.
PHILIP: I'm also in a way tickled, and maybe I don't know, I don't
think it's a cynical way, but the whole idea of born again, because
it seems to me that born again became very popular, but you must
die and be born again. The dying part has never been very popular
[Laughs].
WIZARD: That's that I thought.
PHILIP: That's that ego, that tenacious, implacable, ego that is
like the gorgon that you cut off one head and two grow back. As
long as you fight with you, you're feeding it.
WIZARD: Ramana Maharshi says you go to the root. The root is
the I-thought and then investigate that.
PHILIP: Amen.
WIZARD: If you don't have the capacity to do that, then
surrender and put the I-thought out of a job.
TRIP: So, Katie, it's time for my Jerry Springer question. You and
Sundance have a kind of ideal relationship, you're both attractive,
you're both articulate, you both have been successful in the
business world, and you’ve got a nice family. You're so compatible
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