Heresy

[rich]

On 9/14/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> I think if you pursue these sorts of drugs long enough, you eventually
> open up some of these doors. This looks like a near-constant theme in
> Pynchon's writing, these alternate routes of consciousness and the
> "accidental" ways folks end up on their spiritual paths.
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I think the key here is accidental. My most memorable religious
experience if you will was seeing the Virgin Mary on the campus of
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn of all places on my way to library school
class in the mid-90s. and it was unnerving but totally exhilarating.
I had a strong image in my mind of a poem I was writing at the time in
my head called The Mother of Doves and as I was walking with my head
down deep in thought I looked up and saw a homeless woman surrounded
by pigeons (on her head, on her hands, etc. and she was feeding them
and it was like a bolt though my brain--totally accidental,
inexplicable, and wonderful; i was not taking anything at the
time--even if for an instant, this woman was the Virgin Mary. (Never
had anything close while under the influence of few times I did
mescaline-the extent of my psychedic experiences)
and though only an instant that feeling of certainty, of revelation
was very moving; always thought it was funny that after all that drug
taking, I would be so moved while being so straight.

the almost physical sensation of loosening of the heart is closest I
could claim in describing that instant

whatever it was, it was love

rich

rich