Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
as long back as I can remember, fell away. And I just knew that
the journey was over.
TRIP: I was suspecting that the journey was over for you from
your writings; however I went onto your Community for Conscious
Living website, okay. And you're the founder of that website. Are
you the writer; are you the writer of that website?
RICHARD YOUNG: No. I haven't contributed in a long time in
that website.
TRIP: Oh, okay. Because on the website it says that it's a
community of likeminded seekers.
RICHARD YOUNG: That's right.
TRIP: And I figure you're a founder not a seeker.
RICHARD YOUNG: Right, right. It is a community of likeminded
seekers, and those folks are still at the stages of the journey where
they're looking, they're continuing to look. And hopefully they will
one day come to the place where they realize that they are that for
which they have been seeking all this time. And as many times as I
say that to them that they have to discover it for themselves, they
have to discover it in their own direct experience. And so I point it
to for them, but most of them are still in the seeking stage, yes.
TRIP: So when you have your hat on as a mystic Christian, or
Christian mystic, you're dealing with folks who have a sense of an
external god who for example in the mission statement of the
Community for Conscious Living they say, "We desire to draw
closer to the loving and enhancing spirit which pervades all
creation". So there's a desire to draw close up to God. But you've
kind put the nail in your own coffin on that one, so how do you
play those roles where on the one hand you seem to intermingle in
a Christian community that does still have an idea of God as an
external presence, and then in your own personal nondual
tradition? [Laughter] Yes, what do you do with that one?
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