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and exhilarating. At least for a while

Then we realized with profound horror that we had traded in our original, immortal, asexual androgyny for the ephemeral delights and infernal agonies of mortal, animal being. We were packaged in meat. We were The Word made Flesh!

Wherever we turned we saw images of ourselves. This Hall of Mirrors was a regular funhouse, but narcissism eventually gets out of hand. As sexually-split entities inhabiting gender-differentiated bodies, we could now enjoy sticking our protruding bits into every inviting orifice and eventually turn SEX into the biggest business of all time simply by making it illicit unless sanctioned by a secular or religious authority.

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

I USED TO WAKE UP in a cold sweat, heart pounding, from dreams in which I would find myself attending a grand buffet where everyone was formally attired, and all of a sudden I'd realize I was wearing a T-shirt and nothing else! Worse still were the episodes in which I would walk through a door and onto a stage, facing a packed hall, with absolutely no idea how to entertain the audience and no memory of any script. Slowly it would dawn on me that my predicament was even more ludicrous than I'd thought: people were squirming in their seats and tittering because I was completely starkers. Classic nightmares, boringly Freudian but what did they reveal, apart from my modest assets?

Some people are very secretive. I'm the complete opposite. No question of right or wrong: it's the way we're horoscopically or psychologically constituted. However, I've always felt that one has a MORAL RESPONSIBILITY to evolve towards greater openness, greater honesty, greater transparency in other words, NAKEDNESS.

In which case my scary dreams of public exposure weren't necessarily a bad thing merely an indication that deep down I was still afraid of getting hurt. To be more precise, my social ego was afraid of losing status. Without the protection of one's fig leaf or sarong or double-stitched jeans, one is susceptible to malicious attack or ridicule. One is vulnerable but is it such a healthy thing to be invulnerable? Isn't it much healthier to be in direct contact with RAW REALITY and the NAKED TRUTH?

I've tried it. It doesn't hurt. And once your reputation is ruined you never have to worry about it again.

ALL YA GOTTA DO IS, ACT NATURALLY...

" for Heaven, just Heaven, sends a fearful religion to cruel souls." Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 1788

THE PATRIARCHAL RELIGIONS - the

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