FOR THE BROTHAS: AN INTRODUCTION

It must have been about 20 years ago when I first began thinking about creating a "Cultural Salon" as a reaction to the mundane social circles In Washington D.C. The richness of intellectual and artistic interchange had died, college friends had moved, the internet had not yet become the phenomenon it now is... I romanticised about the Salons of the mid to late 1800's in Paris, London and Berlin and the cultural dynamo of the Harlem Rennaisance. I was fortunate enough to meet a gentleman, an artist who lived and traveled with James Baldwin... Jimmy he affectionately called him, and he spoke often of their small cottage in southern France and of the many Artists, Poets and Luminaries that dropped in to chat and relax. Well, the impressionists, cubists, modernists, etc. all hung out together famously in those days and shared their ideas with one another creating a creative greenhouse in a world that was rapidly changing. I longed to have lived in those times, to have met Cassat, Rodin, Ellington, Fitzgerald, Baker, Balwin, well I did finally meet Baldwin and others purely for the joy of intellection upon the arts. This was in the late 1980's and by the mid 2000's I happened to run into a friend of mine from Hampton University who had been living in New York since he graduated in the early 90s. Well, I was surprised to hear him comment that in all of the wonder that is New York he never met anyone who ever really had anything interesting to say about art, literature, architecture, science, fashion or anything... I was so surprised to hear this since it had also been my experience. Well here I am in 2011 attempting the Virtual Salon...

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

WHEN A MAN OUTGROWS HIS RELIGION HE IS REBORN TO TRUTH



THERE IS A NEW SALVATION AFTER A MAN OUTGROWS HIS RELIGION… BUT HE MUST LOVINGLY SHED ITS CONFINING ROBES TAKING THE RAIMENT OF INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS…

I HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS AN AMAZING HUMAN BEING AND I LOVINGLY PULLED HIM ASIDE INFORMING HIM THAT I WAS CONCERNED HE HAD OUTGROWN HIS RELIGION... AT FIRST HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEANT, SO I EXPLAINED… CHRISTIANITY WAS TOO NARROW, CONFINED TO A 4,000 YEAR BIBLICAL PERIOD THAT ONLY REPRESENTED 4 PERCENT OF ALL HUMAN HISTORY IGNORING THE OTHER 96 PERCENT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION.  IT HAS BECOME DOGMATICALLY SELF-ABSORBED IN BEING RIGHT, A CHILDISH AND PITIABLE STATE FAR TOO PETTY AND VAINGLORIOUS  FOR HIS LEVEL OF SPIRITUALITY. SO I TOLD HIM THAT IN ORDER FOR HIM TO CONTINUE TO GROW SPIRITUALLY HE MUST LEAVE IT BEHIND LIKE A COMFORTING CHILDHOOD MEMORY FREEING HIMSELF TO EXPLORE THE INFINITE NUANCES OF CREATION... THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE CAUGHT UP IN THE RUT OF THEIR RELIGION AND THOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY GOODBYE TO FAMILY RELIGION CAN ONLY TAKE THEM SO FAR, IN ORDER TO GROW A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXISTENCE AND HUMANITY A MAN MUST EMBARK UPON A JOURNEY THAT ABANDONS EVERYTHING HE HAS EVER BEEN TAUGHT OR HAS CONCEIVED SHOWING HUMILITY BEFORE THE LARGER TRUTH OF INFINITE WISDOM...

FIN

BIGDADDY BLUES


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