The Mystery of The Fermentation

The Good News is - it is your choice to be anxious, or not to be anxious. You choose your own posture in the face of mystery.



And in choosing to be not anxious the door to the Great Hall of the Feast is opened - the Feast of all good things that come from the earth and gladden the heart of the Human, the feast of the joyful, authentic engagement, integration of experience, the joyous, authentic engagement, experience of the other.



I work intermittently at a microbrewery.



It is in an old factory on the eastern most edge of the rust belt, a factory that has risen, fell, become ruins, then been restored. It will perhaps fall again, and perhaps rise again in the fermentation of the business-as-usual (b-a-u).



But the not-business-as-usual, (n-b-a-u), the Feast covers the earth if you are only able to see.



I enjoy the brewery. I enjoy the smells, the alchemical plumbing, the great vats that contain the mystery of the fermentation.



I enjoy the worship of Bacchus that is my work in the brewery.



When the beer begins to flow into the new bottles I give the old blessing.



Kai Bacche!



Glory to Bacchus!



May the herbs that come from the earth, may the fermentation gladden the heart of the Human.



When a bottle comes down the assembly line without a bottle cap I raise it high, drink deeply, belch, and then tell my co-workers that there aien't nothing like the first beer of the working day.



But they know that.



The first most important ting is - Be Not Anxious.



Don't go through the gateway of beer to do crack, heroin or prescription anti-psychotics.



As Willy sez - Drink and Smoke Responsibly.



And the most important ting -



Enjoy the Feast!