No Snake, No Apple, Just Love
Original Sin is a Lie: How Spirituality Defies Dogma and Reveals Our True Self by Bob Peck
“Now I like sitting down, listening, and talking. I don’t need to go to ‘the thing’ anymore. I’m losing interest because the hype around a seemingly important cultural social event is usually plastic. Our celebrity heroes are actually just normal people, holding surface-level conversations, dealing with their own human-life-obstacles and blockages. That kind of hype is empty. Ultimately, we have two choices: We’re either sharing with other people in an authentic way that reminds them of their own inner light, or to quote Terrence McKenna, we’re “dithering while Rome burns”. We’re all going to die. Initiate a genuine connection with as many people as you can while breath is going through the lungs.” — Bob Peck, from Original Sin is a Lie
Once upon a time (the 1990s) in the Texas Hill Country, two disparate events happened at around the same time. I like to imagine them occurring simultaneously.
Event 1: At a remote brothel turned rock-star getaway owned by the front man of the industrial rock band Ministry, Timothy Leary is among a group of roughly a dozen celebrants. He is in Texas doing a fundraiser for an Austin literary magazine called io. One of io’s editors, a college student named Leah…
