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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 />

RUPERT: Oh, yes, yes, hi Shaya.<br />

TRIP: Okay, she says, “Hello Rupert. Isn’t it such a Mystery that<br />

that which moves us from living as a separate person whose<br />

actions and thoughts apparently come from a seamless<br />

consequence of previous events and conditioning, to a being who<br />

seemingly rests knowingly as a universal Being, unlimited and this<br />

recognition that everyone and everything else is this unlimited<br />

consciousness as well. Such a Mystery is it not? With love,<br />

Shaya.” [Laughs] Thank you Shaya for that sharing. Well, I’ve got<br />

some…<br />

RUPERT: Thank you Shaya.<br />

TRIP: I’ll jump around here. A couple more things, I got tons of<br />

things. I haven’t even gotten into my real questions here yet but,<br />

maybe we can--I’ll ask you to respond to these quickly because I<br />

have about 10 or 15 quick items I wanted to ask you, if you don’t<br />

mind.<br />

RUPERT: Okay.<br />

TRIP: Okay? Let’s just start <strong>with</strong>…<br />

RUPERT: Quick response. As you’ve discovered I’m not myself<br />

but I--even though…<br />

TRIP: I’m a burner. I go to the Burning Man event out in Nevada.<br />

And it really is an inspiring event. And one of the things that make<br />

it a sacred event, a pilgrimage, is the art. And I see that you’ve<br />

spent an entire hour on the topic of what is the nature of sacred<br />

art. What is the nature of sacred art?<br />

RUPERT: <strong>The</strong> nature of sacred art. That it’s an art; we mean an<br />

object, something that is made. That the nature of that object is to<br />

transmit directly a taste of art through nature what the reality of<br />

our experience, what Cezanne called nature’s eternity that which is<br />

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