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The Gods Are Crazy — And So Are We: PART ONE — Nicole Sallak Anderson
“ You are trying to understand madness with logic. This is not unlike searching for darkness with a torch.” Image by from
“Inside the skull there is a place where the essences of creation play and mingle-
The ecstatic light of awareness and the awareness of that light.
The divine feminine and masculine sport with one another in that place.
The light of their love-play illumines all space.
Rest in that light ever present, and gradually awaken to the steady joy of that which is everywhere.”
~ The Radiance Sutras, a translation of the Vinjnana Bhairava Tantra by Lorin Roche, PhD
A year ago, I sat alone in my wheelchair, parked outside “Le Cave” where I’d just been wine tasting with my husband, along the bustling street called Place Michel Debré, in Amboise, France. Behind me rose the magnificent Château d’Amboise, but it was the rickety, boarded-up, medieval house across the narrow cobblestone street that caught my eye. Imagine this-on either side of the rundown house there were bustling cafés complete with diners enjoying their fromage and vin rouge. People strolled past the gloomy house without a glance, as if I were the only one who could see it. The shutter of the top-most…