Something Biblical

There is something biblical going on.

And yet it has nothing to do with Johnny Patmos' 'Book of Chucklelations'.

On 9/11 a great opportunity of liberation consciousness was offered to our nation.

For a while people stepped back from this consumer special olympics on steroids - this obsessive buying and selling of things that we really don't need, this hopeless entanglement in the material - stepped back from that 24/7 stupid sound about Britney Spears, Carrie Underwear, Brad Pitt, Dr. Phil etc. And for a little while people tried to wrap their minds around the existential parameters of the human circumstances, the dynamic uncertainty, the all-pervading mystery that can turn the wee lives of mice and humans awry.

In a fiery, cinematic moment the most seemingly secure lives - based on good incomes, secure retirements, fat 401k's - ended on that day that it rained burning people.

But then people resumed this consumer special olympics on steroids - this obsessive buying and selling of things that we really don't need - resumed the mindless 24/7 drone about Hannah Montana, corn-holing aliens, conspiracy theory.

And then capitalism on steroids crashed and burns.

It is as Lenin prophecized - The capitalists sold the sub-prime mortgage ropes from which they hang and jerk.

And once more people step back from this consumer special olympics on steroids - this obsessive buying and selling of things that we really don't need - step back from that 24/7 stupid sound about Oprah, Madonna, Martha Steward, O.J. etc. and again try to wrap their minds around the existential parameters of the human circumstances, the place where true treasure lay, the dynamic uncertainty, the all pervading mystery that blow up the delusions of certainty, the delusions of security.

This is the moment we all share in these days of ebbing and then slowly ascending light.