Spiritual Wisdom inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love”

I was a terrible cry baby and coward as a child. And I still cry a lot and I am afraid of many things, like, for instance, surfing, skiing, dust mites, and the possibility that somebody somewhere might be angry at me. What for, I’m not sure. (But you know who you are!)

Spiritual Wisdom inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love"

The thing is, I am fascinated by other people's stories, and I'm often very talkative and can't ever say “No” to anything or anyone. As a consequence I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time. Therefore, one of the ways I can be alone is if I go traveling. This is the secret reason I travel so much. To get away from everyone I know. I love my friends and family plan with AT&T, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my favorite things to be. “Can you hear me now?" … I don’t think so.

Spiritual Wisdom inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”

As long as we shall live, every time we breathe out or in--or maybe in or out--we are repeating this mantra: I am Divine, I am with God. I am an expression of God’s will, I am not separate and I am not alone, I am not this so-called illusion of a real person or individual. Do you think I'd just lay down and die? ... I will survive ... As Long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive ... I've got all my life to live ... I've got all my love to give ... I will survive, ... I will survive ... It took all the strength I had ... I'm trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart ... And I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself ... I used to cry, ... But now I hold my head up high ... I'm not that stupid little person who was so in love with you ... And so you thought you'd just drop by ... But now I'm saving all my lovin' ... Did you think I'd crumple? ... Did you think I'd lay down and die? ... Not I. I will survive ... As long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive ... I've got all my life to live ... I've got all my love to give ... I will survive ... I will survive.

Christopher Hitchens

Since I serve on the Editorial Board of Midwest Quarterly
I read a lot of essays/articles submitted to the journal.

Recently we got an essay called:

"God loves you, Christopher Hitchens"

Now that Hitchens is dead (completely, irrevocably, inoffensively dead)
all sorts of religious types are coming out of the woodwork in order to
kick the corpse and piss on his dead body. Here is my response to one:

"I guess this essay proves, if it needed to be proven, that it is
sometimes better to be a live dog than a dead lion. This essay
gives us the spectacle of a Christian dog urinating on the corpse of the dead
Atheistic Beast (sans 666).

"It is rather sad and pathetic, that such dogged (or as the author
might say, doggerel) creatures can approach the great carnivore, safe
in the knowledge that now He can no longer roar, much less bite.

"Aside from a bit of wordplay (overused and not particularly clever)
this essay has nothing to recommend it. The author's prose is
a one-trick circus pony dragging itself in a circle, its withered cock
dragging in the dust."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__uyG2-bn8

This is now the youtube address

now on youtube

Here is my latest interview, now on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/witchtalkshow

This interview was a lot of fun, and I think you will enjoy it. 

Here is a link to the radio interview from 5/1/2012


http://gralienreport.com/

“After this learned exploration of how necrophilia, hallucinogens, body fluids, human sacrifice, and ancestor worship powerfully influenced the major religions like Judaism and Christianity, it will be hard to view those venerable faiths and institutions in the standard, conventional way. During his stunning intellectual romp, Lee also provides fascinating, even ‘heretical,’ insights into such personages, places, and practices as the Roman catacombs, Last Supper, Eucharist; Neolithic, Hebrew, Greek, and Egyptian burial rites; Horus, the Virgin Mary, Moses, Jesus, the Knights Templar, veneration of saintly relics and the Holy Grail, Minoan mead-making, Dominicans, corpse-painting, psychedelic mushroom-growing, anointing, witch-hunting, Prometheus, and goddess worship.”
(Sanford Berman, award-winning librarian and author of Prejudices and Antipathies )