IVing IV

[Joseph Tracy]

On Dec 3, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I am going to ask again, since I think it could lead to an  
> unknotting---or further knotting into---many of the questions that  
> go around on the plist guitar.
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> 'as if through the veils of the next world"....Doc's, merged with  
> narrator's metaphor. So, Doc believes in 'the next world' or it is  
> just like any agnostic/atheist shouting "O God"....?
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> Does next world mean something secular here? just the future coming?
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> Veils of the next world: in many Eastern religions, veils are maya,  
> illusion...Doc's resons for this metaphor?.......
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> In Western Christianity metaphors we seldom get 'veils' in my  
> knowledge. Yours?
Veils are there, but  actually they begin in Judaism as a central  
architectural feature of the pre temple tabernacle which  is  then  
repeated in the temple at Jerusalem.

  A veil(blue white,red and purple) separated the holy place from the  
holy of holies which held the ark of the covenant and the divine  
presence. According to Matthew and Luke the veil in the temple tore  
in 2 at the moment of Jesus death.  The metaphor appears in several  
forms in the New Testament.
Celts also  had the idea that there were times and  places where the  
separation between the worlds got thin or opened.
  Islam veils women and Persian miniatures offer glimpses into a  
paradise where women bathe in crystal waters and centaurs with wings  
of fire fly through the heavens.
Not sayin what these dudes were eatin, but sounds like more fun than   
a love affair with a hot kalashnikov or pile of paper with a dead  
prseident's face printed on it.
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Terrence Mckenna  thinks DMT is a door to commune with plant spirits.  
That  such doors facilitate a transformation of matter to  
consciousness.  A sauna and a glass of wine is usually enough for me.

Anyway kind of a bad trip to see the Golden Fang through the veils of  
the next world and I think it's bummin a lot of folks out these  
days.   I don't think Doc really wants to see what he sees, is  
instantly turning it into a kind of visionary insanity. What happens  
to the people who see the hard evidence of something no one else will  
believe or be willing to deal with?

Dorothy  Gale  now color- ized gets a look behind the curtain after  
offing the wicked witch. Does Doc have a similar peek coming?
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> Veils here remind of fog at the end (on the reread).
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