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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 />

know or own it for itself because the mind is not external to it. It<br />

is <strong>with</strong>in it. <strong>The</strong> I-thought cannot be greater than that which<br />

contains it. Inherent sentience can only BE it. It is all so<br />

maddingly simple and so profoundly ever present as to be beyond<br />

detection.<br />

If you had to pick the biological organ that has the greatest impact<br />

on your well being you would probably say “my brain”. If someone<br />

were to ask you who you are, a voice in your head would say, “I am<br />

so and so, a mother of two children, who is married and works at<br />

such and such”. In essence, that voice in your head, the “Ithought”<br />

is the sum total of everything you have ever known, felt,<br />

or experienced and who you think you are as a story line. And<br />

when your body dies, that “I-thought” or “narrator” in the form of<br />

a “personal soul”, will depart your body and go on to abide for<br />

“eternity” in one of several possible suspect locations.<br />

A spontaneous transformation or dispensation of grace in human<br />

consciousness appears to be taking place along <strong>with</strong> the<br />

information age and emerging as the Truth of what we really are<br />

as Now, <strong>with</strong>out the husk of any particular religion. It is at the<br />

very fingertips of much of humanity. I am a living example of that<br />

phenomenon. Many of you have had the taste of non-duality and<br />

are affirming and being affirmed. Reading these words is not an<br />

accident. It is an affirmation by the same grace.<br />

All of that sounds like a bunch of words and of course, it is. Word<br />

symbols cannot prove anything or transmit anything to anyone.<br />

If, upon their reading, an apparent spiritual transformation takes<br />

place in a reader, it is because the reader is ripe, <strong>with</strong> a mind that<br />

is empty enough or exhausted enough to embrace a radical new<br />

“over standing”. Ironically, it has little to do <strong>with</strong> the “worthiness”<br />

of the one so blessed.<br />

Unbeknownst to me, I was in such a state of ripeness when I<br />

walked through the <strong>Wizard</strong>’s bedroom in 2006 and caught a<br />

glimpse of an open picture book <strong>with</strong> large type on a side table. It<br />

contained quotes and pictures of the venerated Indian sage,<br />

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