The Lord shows up
The Lord shows up
(this is a chapter from the book Divine Interventions and Timely Communiques)
1/29/74. Northwest corner of Root Ave and 1st St, Scotia, NY.
It happened while I was sitting by myself at about 7 p.m. on a sofa in the living room of a friend's house and just listening to an album - "Brothers and Sisters" - when all of a sudden . . .
And he, the 'Lord' that is, had apparently arranged it that way - the other five people at my 'birthday party' were conveniently for some reason in the kitchen at the time finishing off the cake and ice cream. Conveniently 'out of the way'. And it was the only time during all of high school, I recalled later, that nobody could get there hands on any booze or pot. It was the only time! So we were all just stuck with cake and ice cream.
INTERESTING!
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But anyway, back to the Lord himself showing up ... suddenly one of this album's songs - innocuous at first - just took right over. Then some of the song's amazing keyboards kicked in and the beautiful music kept building and building and by now the Heavens had my complete and utter attention. As well as a divine reality inside of me that before then I didn't even know existed. And then ...
What happened next I can't really describe - because you wouldn't believe it anyway. Let's just say that suddenly a higher 'consciousness' then descended. A lot higher. Think 'magic carpet ride from heaven'. And I was being shown, while in this state of seemingly unlimited religious joy, the inner 'truth' about human lives in general and as you can imagine all kinds of other stuff as well. And I stayed in this rapturous state for the entire evening but I never mentioned a word of this to anyone else ever including my fellow cake and ice cream eaters who eventually emerged from the other room (but were clueless and dumber than rocks) because I somehow knew that it was necessary not to say anything to anybody about this - that is until a full twenty years later when I somehow finally blurted it out to a co-worker while drinking at 'Mr. Smiths' (see similarly named chapter in this pdf).
And from that point on and for the next several months (five to be exact) it was like I had an extra incoming divine energy supply that I could call upon whenever I wanted to. And without even trying - just by thinking back to that birthday event.
AND IT WAS SWEET STUFF!
NECTAR FROM ABOVE!
And I was constantly being shown new astonishing stuff. And I could do things like, for example, pull random books of American literature or poetry off of library shelves and open them up at random and after reading the open page I would then know exactly what would be on the next page word for word. And I'd be right every time. And without even trying. I was having a ball!
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I remember then thinking how unfortunate everybody else on the planet was at that time because they had absolutely no idea what they were missing out on. But I've always been better than all of them put together anyway so I really wasn't that surprised . . .
THEY WERE ALL JUST SCUM IN COMPARISON!
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I've read since then that if you were a disciple of a spiritual master in a previous incarnation and since then have had a series of secular assignments but now you have been born into another lifetime of religious devotion - that that very same spiritual master will remind you of this on your seventeenth birthday.
But exactly how they do this I have absolutely no idea!
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And I remember now that it was just a few months later, while I was walking alone one cloudy afternoon on a nearby country road, that a Divine voice suddenly and very convincingly said to me right out loud -
"YOU'RE THE ONE !!!"
I didn't know exactly what HE meant at the time but needless to say I was quite intrigued!
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And so of course it is now my personal religious belief that every 16 year old out there anywhere in the world who has a 17th birthday coming up should plan accordingly - no pot no booze only cake and ice cream. And while sitting alone put this album on. And when this particular song comes on (hint: an instrumental written entirely by the lead guitarist) and the keyboards first kick in - turn it up.
YOU'LL MEET THE LORD!
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And so anyway I just figured that this heaven sent 'ambrosia delight consciousness' - I didn't actually try 'walking on water' at the time but there wasn't any doubt in my mind whatsoever that I could have easily done so - would last forever. Now throw in the 'you're the one!' stuff and there you go - I had been handed a glorious religious future and I was convinced that nothing could ever even possibly ever go wrong ever!
But I received my first clue to the contrary when I boarded a Greyhound in mid June to go backpacking in CO for five weeks and as soon as I sat down in the bus I realized immediately that I could no longer call upon the extra incoming divine energy supply just by 'thinking about it' anymore. It happened just like that. It was gone! And this left me confused.
But I wasn't worried because I knew that in a year I'd be out of high school and I somehow also knew that if I could then hike thru the whole state of Virginia - for some reason - in early fall that my 'energy supply from above' would then be fully restored. So there - not to worry. All is still well.
AND SO ONCE AGAIN I WAS CONVINCED THAT NOTHING COULD EVER EVEN POSSIBLY GO WRONG!
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Just click here to learn all about 'the epiphany' and how over the subsequent next few years all of this wonderful 17th birthday stuff was almost completely and intentionally destroyed. And it's way worse than you think!