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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

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<strong>Conversations</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Avant</strong>-<strong>garde</strong> <strong>Sages</strong><br />

Blessed Disillusionment, seeing through ideas of self, I<br />

enthusiastically concur <strong>with</strong> John Wheeler, who said in the<br />

foreword, it is one of the most direct and uncompromising<br />

contemporary books on nonduality available. Morgan's insights<br />

are dead on target and he does not pull any punches.<br />

Morgan Caraway, a cage rattling, green, and non-dual, nonteacher,<br />

and I thought I was the only one. [Laughter]<br />

MORGAN CARAWAY: Apparently not.<br />

TRIP: Well, before we get into your spiritual side, if you will, the<br />

<strong>Wizard</strong> says you're green, what's going on in your green world?<br />

MORGAN CARAWAY: Well my better half, Mary Jane, and I are<br />

very serious about sustainability, and in 2009 we built a yurt on<br />

some property in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and we lived in that<br />

while we built an earth bag house. And now we live in our earth<br />

bag house, and we just added an addition to it, a sun room, so on<br />

sunny days in the winter, we'll get a lot of nice free heat and also<br />

one gets so… we’ll keep our vitamin D up too, go and sit in the sun.<br />

But we're very serious about sustainability almost as far as the<br />

human world goes, I can't think of a more important field, because<br />

to me if something's not sustainable, what is it?<br />

TRIP: I agree there's nothing more important than sustainability<br />

in my opinion. I've dedicated my life to it, and I live in the first<br />

straw bale house built in the south east of the United States.<br />

MORGAN CARAWAY: Oh, really!<br />

TRIP: Yes, and basically my whole scene is a sustainability lab,<br />

but I do think that earth bags basically like the biggest bang for the<br />

buck you can do.<br />

MORGAN CARAWAY: Yes. Well, it's amazing. People buy<br />

houses now, what's one of the cheapest housing options; it'll be a<br />

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