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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 />

BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Do you have that experience? Has that<br />

happened to you? Or whatever that is, obviously we can't tell<br />

what…<br />

ROBERT SALTZMAN: Constantly. I don't want it to stop.<br />

BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Oh, really. That must hurt. [Laughs]<br />

ROBERT SALTZMAN: It hurts at first.<br />

BENJAMIN SMYTHE: To not want it to stop. [Laughs]<br />

Awesome. And if it stops, what happens?<br />

ROBERT SALTZMAN: It hasn't stopped; I don't know what to<br />

say.<br />

BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Great, yes, yes.<br />

ROBERT SALTZMAN: I love your YouTube presentations, they're<br />

great, and they really are. I like the one <strong>with</strong> the fun house<br />

mirrors; you want to talk about that?<br />

BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Will you remind me? I don't really watch<br />

my own videos.<br />

ROBERT SALTZMAN: Oh, this was one about how whatever<br />

model you choose, it defines your reality, and it's like being in a<br />

fun house. And you stand in front of one of the distorting mirrors,<br />

and you say, that's reality. And then someone turns you around<br />

and you see another mirror, and you say, oh, no, that's reality, I<br />

had it wrong a moment ago.<br />

BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Well it's so easy to have a position, there's<br />

a narrative position, let's say if I'm nonduality, and if I really hold<br />

a nonduality position, then I actually think something's wrong<br />

<strong>with</strong> duality, which is its own form of madness. And so if I hold<br />

duality and I think, well someday I've got to get the oneness, and<br />

then if I'm a Christian I think well the Muslims are wrong, and<br />

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