IVIV, surrounded by a white light....

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you, thank you...bet this is it.

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, David Brodeur <duwamps at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Brodeur <duwamps at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: IVIV, surrounded by a white light....
> To: "'pynchon -l'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 3:54 AM
>  
> > Laura, anyone, anyone:
> > 
> > Throw off an idea about why P writes that Doc went
> into Chick 
> > Palace "surrounded by a white light"....is this a 
> > self-referential allusion ala above, or is the white
> light 
> > pot smoke? a joke about going in with a kind of halo,
> a 
> > numinous glow? 
> 
> I know new-agers who visualize themselves as surrounded by
> white light as a
> sort of protection ritual. Given Doc's trepidation at
> entering and the deep
> breath that precedes this, I took it as something similar
> here. I don't
> remember this being done in 1970, but I spent most of my
> hippy days in the
> hinterlands.
> 
> "Another way to protect yourself, whether you're religious
> or not, is to
> imagine the Creators pure white light coming
> from above. Imagine this light empowering you, covering
> you, protecting you.
> Now imagine this white light has
> turned into a bubble around you, feel its warmth, its
> protection, feel its
> Love. Nothing negative will penetrate
> this bubble." - http://www.evergreenparanormal.com/Prayers.html
> 
> David Brodeur
> 
>