Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Yes, beautiful, beautiful. I get goose
bumps. Yes, it's really one cannot put it in words, like you say, it's
eternal; it's unchanging, unchallenged, ungraspable. It's so, so
beautiful, and beautiful isn't even an attribute that doesn't even
describe it or that is shallow in comparison to what really is.
Thank you for sharing that, that's really, really lovely.
WIZARD: I met Papaji before he died, I liked him, and he was a
real friendly guy. He liked his TV [Laughs].
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Bless him, I love that man.
WIZARD: I had gotten some inside information of what to bring
him, I said, "What does he really, really, really, really, really
want?" I was told what he really, really, really, really wants is
some whiskey and some cigarettes. And I said, "You've got to be
kidding me". And they said, "No, he uses them as currency for the
people that help him". So when I was going in and I flew over
there on British Air…
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Good for you. Lovely, I'm very glad to
hear that.
WIZARD: Trip and I went to India we flew on British Air, too.
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: The only way to fly.
WIZARD: Only way to fly. And we would have dinner with Papaji,
what I was not aware of was there was this little room off to the
side where people would just sit and watch him, so I didn't realize
that was going to be there. But when I got in I just went ahead
with it anyway and plopped the fifth of whiskey, Jack Daniel Black,
and a carton of Benson & Hedges on the table [Laughs]. And he
received them most graciously. [Laughter]
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: How refreshing, I love that.
WIZARD: There was a kind of silent gasp [Laughs].
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