Cracked the Code II

Hi diddley ho neighbor!

I just saw The Davinci Code and it was killer. Not so much for the car chases or Tom's dialogue (a couple of those could have been overdubbed, Hollywood), but for the ideas. The meat and potatoes.

When I was writing The Love Artist, I wrrestled with making it all true or writing a story about how it felt (and that wrestling is much fo the book). What I learned was that there are ways to be more true than non-fiction. Much more.

Which is why I consider this blog close to worthless. I can introduce whatever ideas, but as it's essentially non-fiction, it's all left-brain, male, status-quo--EVEN IF THE IDEAS SEEM RADICAL or tweak new nerves in your cranium. This is what the armchair editors and the prophets know--that it has nothing to do with what you say--but how you release. How you say it. (Thanks to Just-Ice for help clarifying that.)

This blog is all talk--or 99% talk, which matters little. I give it away for free because it's still completely rooted in the old world and it's traditions--and even it's toxic homogeny--when I dance about it, sing about it, remain silent about it, paint about it--then it's the real shit. And threatening. And raw, rough, etc. And that's when I charge for it. People like my blog, even if it seems a little over the top or something, The book tends to deal more with the core of things. And...well, whatever...

My point is that there is a world that cannot be measured, where you can't be sure, that can only be described, sketched, pointed towards from this one--though it coexists simultaneously. It is the capital T Truth. This material world is the little t truth. The material world, the smaller one, is contained entirely by this larger world. It is of great importance, but of little ultimate significance. That doesn't say it very well. I guess the best way to put it is--this world is a possibility. And we can do with it whatever we want. And we've been working on it so long we're almost there. And have done almost nothing at the same time. Don't worry, though, these two statements are not contradictory. You can, we can, this world can, be saved in an instant. (But if it took ten years of the hardest work of your life, would you do it?)

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The DaVinci Code was a great discussion of how to talk about and read this larger world from this one. Basically, this world is a book. One that hints at, describes, flirts with, and guarantees the existence of the other, larger one. But, it's only a book. Not the thing. The thing itself can only be experienced. Lived, Enjoyed, etc. And to do that you can't start believing in, or putting your faith in books! Even though a book was where you learned everything you know. That's the trick. To let the book talk to you--and believe yourself even more (and books less) after reading the best book of your life. Having the best sex, eating the best meal. taking the best drugs. To say that we are disinclined to do so I believe would be accurate. But that doesn't mean that all those things aren't showing us the way. Aren't insisting that a better world is right under our nose. Is our birthright. They are. And if we insist that the world is not a loving place, or that god don't love us, then that's just one more thing that we'll be lovingly allowed to do. And one more significant hurdle for us to overcome. Or undercome, as the case may be. Us western types love to overcome things. But some hurdles can only be undercome. The easterns may be better at that, but it's not really for me to say. If you are one and have any ideas about it, I welcome any comment.

One other note I should drop off before getting into things is that this is all, for the most part, part of a continuum. I'm going to talk a lot about being white, and male, and rich, and western, and etc., etc. This is a very useful way to talk about things, evn though I know it murders to dissect. And it's very western. I know this. But I also believe this way of seeing things is true. And does not contradict a wholistic, relativistic viewpoint. (Not all the time anyway). Put it this way--it's much easier to learn if you call a dog a dog and a cat a cat and talk about them as animals that either bark of climb trees. This doesn't mean the cat can't bark. Or that a dog coulnd't get into a tree. If something is true it's not stereotyping, nor does it mean that that's all the thing or person is.

I should also say (can you tell I'm going to get way into it by how hard I'm working to cover my ass beforehand?)--I also should say that I think male and female, western and eastern, concrete and abstract, hard and soft, etc. are all contained within each of us. We may be predetermined for certain ones depending on our birth and upbringing and even how we're feeling and what our last meal was, but I think we all have the capacity to kill, to love, to reason, to play, to feel sadness, to create, to revel, etc. Another way of saying this is that we are BOTH a product of our environment and upbringing and transcendent. And we can, by our beliefs, thoughts, words and actions become even more or either one (more rooted or more transcendant). I would never say it but there are definite time where I feel as though I'm acting more white or more black. There are definitely times when I'm acting more male/control or female/support/allow. And times when I am doing either and should be doing the other. This doens't mean that one or the other is bad--even in a given situation--just that I have things that I want and that flexibility and certain skills and attributes are MORE EFFICIENT ways to bring that about at any point.

I'm kissing so much ass now that I know it's time to move on, so suffice it to say that I know I'm gonna step on some toes and that that might even be love for 15% of the people. Y'all other 85%--all I can ask is that ya feel me. I'm a person just like you who thought to sit down and write this up even though I didn't have to and knew it wasn't gonna be extraordinarily popular (though who knows, I may be selling y'all short...thought ain't none of y'all bought a book yet..but we'll see. I know it happens in a flash--after working fastidiously for years). Or maybe I know I'm' wrong and that I also know that only be appearing wrong can anyone ever be right (get right?).

Love.

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The best thing the DaVinci Code says, although it doesn't DO it, is that sex is key to salvation. That Jesus was a man--AND THAT THAT DIDN"T NEGATE HIS DIVINITY!

This of course, means that you being male, or female, doesn't negate your divinity.

Huh? --Which means, of course, that you are divine. that you are one of god's children.

No matter what your relationship to church doctrine.

It's taken us 2000 years to even deal with the smallest implications of this revelation. Are we ready for the larger? The largest?

All ove the bible it says that we are created in god's image. That we are the children of god. It would take a greater scholar than I (not hard, btw, I got straight Bs), to tell if the church's references to the "only" son of god are from scripture, and accurately translated, or just cool stuff put in later to give it some zaz.

I am a Christian. Episcopalian in fact. And I do go to church on Sundays. But what if Christ being a prophet, being the chosen one and being a regular man were not contradictory? What if he was just ahead of the curve--walking on water-wise, healing-wise, raising the dead-wise, and picnicing-wise? What if he was just straight?

I read somewhere (this phrase means beware, btw, severe conjecture coming up), that Christ means body. If that's true, then I think it's entirely plausable that Christ was the one to show us how to get to god THROUGH OUR BODY. By being ourselves. By feeling ourselves. By not flinching at an ounce of our corporeal pain. "None can know god but through me". --Meaning none can get to god by ideas, or emotions or disembodied, or by renouncing the body. That you've got to go through the body! Be yourself. Feel your body--and not let it own you. Not let it take your mind off of heavenly things. Feel the fear and do it anyway. Feel the pain an do it anyway. And you shall have eternal life.

Who knows? In the bible it talks about people living hundreds of years. Not as a big deal, but just by way of describing who they were. Not like it's trying to convince anyone. If we were more of who we were--if we were doing what we wanted, if we knew god more completely--both as individuals and as a society--wouldn't we by definition be less dis-at-ease? And given that scientifically all we are is energy, if we were better energy, wouldn't we be better energy? Have more energy? Be of greater ease?

Now I'm not getting down to it either. The whole secret that the church wanted to banish and the Priory of Scion wanted to preserve was that fucking was holy. Right? (Funny, then that there wasn't a kiss in the whole movie. --For all you budding film makers out there there's still a 4x The Passion of Christ to be made. Call it The Real Passion of Christ--and show why he was willing to endure what he did unflinchingly--because what he felt with Mary Magdalene was of no consequence to what the Romans could dish out (ironic that the church is centered in Rome?). Because he had known both god the father and god the mother.

I'll get more into this later possibly but it's time to spark up the BBQ. I'll post below what I Treo'd out upon leaving the theatre. I;m going to put it in a separate post because I know all the fucking apologizing at the top of this post will bore some folks off.

Best,

E