Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
MORGAN CARAWAY: Yes. You know the Truth is we live
comfortably; we have plenty of power for what we need. The thing
in sustainability is for every dollar you spend on efficiency, you
save $5 that you would spend on a solar system, or whatever
power you're using. So you just find efficient gadgets.
TRIP: Cool, now let's move onto your spiritual life here. You say
that your book is entitled Blessed Disillusionment. Can you
explain what disillusionment means?
MORGAN CARAWAY: Well, it's strange, I think usually in our
culture when we hear the word disillusionment, there's a sense of
failure around it, or I was disillusioned, people would say, and it
just seems like a defeat. But to me all disillusionment means is
losing the illusions that one has held onto. The main illusion that
is the bane of our lives is the illusion of separation, the ego idea.
And it crosses over with sustainability, once again the ego feels
separate, so it feels apart from nature, it feels like it can pollute the
environment without polluting itself. That's just an illusion
though, it isn't separate, it has to breathe the air that gets polluted,
the organism does, and it has to drink the water. So separation
just doesn't exist on any level, and to me, the main illusion is the
illusion of separation.
TRIP: And that's what your book is really about, it goes through
that illusion over, and over, and over again.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Yes. It's the root. In sustainability it's also
the root of the problem, it's feeling apart from the world, and
human beings feeling apart from each other. I figure why strike at
the symptoms of that problem, you might as well go ahead and
strike at the root of it.
WIZARD: Yes.
TRIP: Speaking of that separation, I've got a question for you, and
it's a question I have for almost all of the authors of books about
reality, if you will. You had a choice in the writing of the book, you
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