Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
ROBERT SALTZMAN: It's one of those full body orgasms, it's
nothing much.
TRIP: Exactly, Benjamin's weeping with joy.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: It's just beautiful. It's the beauty, it is
amazing. Katie says let love kill you, it has that feeling it's so
beautiful you feel like you're dying. Oh, it's so pretty. The thought
I apologize for.
ROBERT SALTZMAN: Not at all. When we sit here in this state
we become aware that a great deal of what goes on is trying to
avoid the intensity of what love really feels like. And so we find
ways of distracting ourselves, or blinding ourselves, to what we
really experience when we aren't blinded, yes?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Yes, yes. And sometimes allowing it
completely, and then it's definitely like the body starts dancing
around on the floor, and the tears, and the wracking. Because
you're right, it has an orgasmic quality to it even though it's also
slightly painful in some ways.
ROBERT SALTZMAN: Well there are times in one's own life when
we experience physical pain or illness which really turns out to be
the body expanding or opening channels so that it can stand more
of this wonderful energy that might feel like a terrible headache
that lasts for a week, but when it ends you realize that, wow,
something opened up here that was closed up before. This is
great. So better not to resist our ailments and just let them
happen, they may be a wonderful purification.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Yes, I love that I get to listen to you.
ROBERT SALTZMAN: Oh, I love being listened to. [Laughs] I
like meeting you too, this is great.
TRIP: Something that I think is really cool that's happening and
maybe it was happening before I had the ears for hearing it, but it
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