Vincent Bridges

Genesis 1: 18 - “. . .to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.”

Psalms 118: 27 - “The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine upon us. With boughs in hand, bind the festal sacrifice with ropes to the horns of the altar.”

The Revelation of St. John 1: 18 - “I am the Living one. I was dead and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and hell.”

On Christmas Night, 1996, in an upper class neighborhood of quintessentially yuppie Boulder, Colorado, six year old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her own home. The crime was made to look like a botched kidnapping, and the fumbling of the local police created an unsolvable problem. Over three years after the murder, after endless investigations by police, the district attorney’s office and a grand jury, it looks as if there will never be enough physical evidence to make an arrest.

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“When the Moon is in the Seventh House

And Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then Peace will guide out planet

And Love will steer the stars.

This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius…”

“Age of Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In” sung by The Fifth Dimension

The dawn of a new age, the beginning of a new paradigm is not a sharply delineated event. It is more of an on-going process; something that happens with its own momentum, proceeds according to its own agenda, and creates along the way ever-richer patterns of previously unglimpsed meaning. As the new ordering principle emerges, there are swirls and eddies of psychic energy that all too often in the past turned into an avatistic and aggressive pattern of revolutions, wars, and religious orthodoxies. As Taurus turned into Aries, Moses smashed the golden calf and Akhenaton invented monothesism; as Aries turned to Pisces, Jesus preached the gospel of love and his apostles built a church on the gospel of fear; and now, as Pisces turns to Aquarius, we must face the issue of power, and the fate of our species, and all the species on this planet.

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Long shot establishing a vista of alpine meadow with snow capped peaks in the far background. In the middle distance is a small pagoda-like pavillion. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar play Indian flavored Grateful Dead music in the background as the camera begins to travel in toward the pavillion.

As the camera approachs the pavillion, we begin to hear a voice over the music.

Voice- (Cheerful and solemn). . . slowly, slowly, that’s good! Now feel that sensation, stay locked on your partner’s eyes and just feel. . .

The camera moves slowly up to the pagoda and we see a dozen couples, all in their mid-teens, seated in lotus posture facing each other. Their knees almost touch, but not quite. Everyone is fixed on their partner. The camera travels through the group, then focuses in on the old fat Buddha seated on a pile of cushions. He continues to talk, eyes closed and with a big smile, as the camera closes in and fades out.

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I was moved by your note to Whitley, but I don’t think he will get it. I tried to tell him something similar over dinner in Atlanta in December of ‘95. He heard me, but he didn’t grok it. He was in the process of writing his latest book — the name of which escapes me at the moment but it came out this winter - and was more interested in interpreting his own internal visions, of which I, or at least my StarGate cap, seemed to be a part, than listening to any grand unified theories. Oh well.

In many ways, Russ, you are one lucky dog. (I mean that in all senses including Gurdjieffian.) At an age when you are still young enough to enjoy it, you have stumbled on The Invisible College. You are supported in an atmosphere of synchronicity so rich as to make one wonder if it wasn’t intelligently designed. The boys out in Cosmic Coincidence Control worked overtime on this one.

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