Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
could let my love of connecting with people be just what it was,
and it didn't have to be about selling them, that they needed
something that I had, and if they paid me for it I could give it to
them. Because not everyone does this, but there's this perception I
think that goes on in the spiritual culture, what's the expression,
people are trying to sell you your own wallet.
WIZARD: Yes. There are no models in this game; there are no
models at all.
TRIP: Now you're my new friend and you've confided some very
personal stuff with me, do you have a problem with me talking
about that?
BRIAN ADLER: Oh, no, absolutely not.
TRIP: Okay. You were busted for what at the time was one of
largest drug busts in Chapel Hill history [Laughs].
WIZARD: So that's what happened to my supply [Laughs].
TRIP: No wonder we've been dry for so long. And they sent you to
Butner Penitentiary for two years. While you were there you
described yourself as happy, which surprised and confounded your
fellow inmates. How is it that you remained happy when your
freedom was taken away from you?
BRIAN ADLER: It's a lot of what we were talking about with hope,
and I think probably that was the first time in my life where I
actually experienced what we're talking about. I was a relatively
precocious, intelligent student at Carolina, and I had a lot of
ambition for career, wealth, and what have you. And during the
whole time that I was anticipating going to prison and then went
to prison, there was a powerful sensation of all of that. I knew for
sure that those things weren't going to be happening, at least not
in the way that I'd imagined they would.
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