Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
about. Beyond that I wouldn't… to me there isn't any real purpose
or meaning beyond that.
WIZARD: I concur.
ROBERT WOLFE: Good.
TRIP: Now we've had a little, the Wizard calls it a bustle in our
hedgerow here around deification and what not lately.
ROBERT WOLFE: Around what?
TRIP: Deification. In your book you say, I've got a two-part
question here, you say, "Godliness or holiness is not an acquired
trait". So my question is, is anyone holier than anyone else? And
before you answer that I want to say that my friend here, the
Wizard, used to call his friend Ganesan, an Indian holy man,
Ganesan, right?
ROBERT WOLFE: Sure, I know Ganesan.
TRIP: Okay. Is that title BS to put holy man behind anybody's
name? Is anybody holier than anybody else?
ROBERT WOLFE: Well, you might say holy man in the terms of
someone who is living a life which is, you might say, not worldly.
But, no, the question is... is there anything that is sacred in terms
of we'll go into this temple and we'll dip our fingers into this
particular vat of water and so on and so forth. No, nothing is more
sacred than anything else.
WIZARD: So there's no mask any closer to the Truth than any
other mask?
ROBERT WOLFE: That's my opinion.
TRIP: One of the points that you make, and this is a point made
by others recently we've had on our show, and I think it's a really
important point that eluded me I think for quite a while. I've only
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