Hunt for the Holy
2/29/2004
Canton, Ohio
Olin-Hitt's Garage Mahal
Michael Olin-Hitt
Christopher Reynolds
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Present in Beautiful Approximations
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Holy :
(breath)
Representation,
(breath)
How shall the Holy be represented?
(breath)
Represented, representation, RE-presentation
(breath)
The presentation of Holiness is at once a presentation, representation, a RE-presentation.
So then, I shall speak today of representation.
First, how shall you be represented?
How shall you be representatives
(breath)
of the Holy?
How shall you walk among the people presenting Holiness?
What exactly is your medium, but time itself, life itself?
Shall moments not be an art form?
Shall your life not be a canvas?
Shall your words not be a song?
Shall your actions not be a dance?
Shall you not present Holiness in all that you do?
(breath)
yes!
But shall we speak of representation?
RE-presentation?
There is language.
There is image.
There is sound.
There is feeling and sensation
(breath)
and there is that which is beyond perception.
(breath)
What is before you, my sons and daughters
is to how to bring that which is beyond perception
to the senses,
so the people shall know,
so the people shall follow,
so the people shall become aware,
that in sensation they can know
that which is beyond perception.
So, the artist stimulates the senses.
The artist stimulates the mind.
The artist touches the memory.
The artist pulls upon the heart.
So that the awareness is brought to receptivity,
Receptivity of that which is just beyond awareness
Do you see a veil?
Shall you take the people to the veil and tell them,
"Beyond the veil is the Dance of the Spirit.
Look upon the shadows."
"Behind this veil is the Dance of the Holy.
"Touch and feel the tremors."
(breath)
Now, you cannot ask the people to step beyond the veil, for they shall learn
this themselves, taught by the Spirit. But I tell you, they can step
beyond
the veil, not in body,
and they can know the Dance, the swirlings, the Delight.
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What is before you are barriers
(breath)
barriers to receptivity,
and the barriers are many, multiple.
And some, I'm afraid to say, are darkness.
(breath)
Darkness feeds upon darkness,
lives as a parasite lives.
Those who carry the darkness, feed the darkness.
So, how shall one instruct
those who feed the darkness to feed the light,
and starve the darkness?
(breath)
It is difficult, but you must know where the darkness is. There is
desperation, for the darkness is always desperate, always clinging, for it
resides in
the vulnerabilities.
It knows, when the vulnerabilities become strengths, there is no longer a
home, a host.
So, it feeds upon the darkness,
the weakness,
the vulnerability,
the anger,
the despair,
the loneliness.
It feeds.
It feeds.
It feeds.
(breath)
Now, the Light takes all of these things,
the despair,
the anger,
the fear,
the shame,
(breath)
the hatred,
and turns it upon itself until there is acceptance, patience,
love,
forgiveness,
kindness,
and most of all, receptivity.
(breath)
so the Lord takes what is presented and RE- presents it. Do you see?
There is one more thing to tell you of representation, of Holiness
presented
and that is
the reason for the art,
the reason for the song,
the reason for the words and story,
the reason the image,
the reason.
Presentation of Holiness is always indirect,
except in direct experience.
So, take the direct experience as your guide
to provide the foundations and the framework.
(breath)
For the words are approximations.
The images are approximations.
The songs are offerings.
(breath)
Their purpose is to present and in the presentation,
to sensitize,
re-awaken,
revive the Holy perceptivity!
Perceive in Holiness.
Find then in the Holiness your foundational structure.
Present in beautiful approximations
that which is presented to you.
Do you know, this experience is larger than language?
Chrisdog: yes
Holy: this relationship
transcends all representation of your awareness,
(breath)
(spoken while breathing) "You are on the verge of the Holy.
You are at the edge of the veil".
Before you is that which is with you
and beyond you, simultaneously,
with you and beyond you
pulling you into the beyond,
touching you,
coaxing you,
guiding you.
"Come my sons and daughters beyond the veil
and see the Holy surround you
and know the Holy is passing through you
and know that you are not isolated
or separated from the I Am,
from where I Am."
(breath)
Do you know then,
you are representatives of the Holy
and there are other representatives
among the Holy who Present to you
the Wonder and Glory of Holiness.
There is a chain, is there not?
of representation.
Representativies touching representatives,
encouraging representatives,
pressing,
guiding,
representatives of Holiness,
there is no greater Calling.
It is not a politic.
(begin clapping in rhythm while talking)
It is a fulfillment of Sacred Purpose,
but it will meet the resistance of the politic.
It will encounter the limitations, of civility,
it will measure the foundations of humanity
and there shall be a tension,
a resistance,
a barrier,
but only for those who wish to construct.
(end of clapping)
So you will go to the wall and the barrier.
You will peer in the windows and you will say:
"Come out, the Lord is here, just beyond where you are." The Lord speaks,
the Lord sweeps,
Lords revives,
the Lord RE-presents
all that you are hiding,
all that you fear,
all that you hate,
all that you covet,
all that you hoard
will be presented anew,
Re-presented,
transformed,
"just out here! Step out, step out, step out, step out!".
Some will come,
through the windows,
through the doorways,
some will break through the very walls!
and breathe freely
and see anew.
And others will remain,
patch the holes,
bar the doors,
close the blinds!
They will remain behind the blinds and bars
within the patchwork of limitation,
of civility,
of the politic.
What is civilization after all,
if not barriers, walls,
buildings that separate.
The Lord G-d does not separate.
The Lord G-d brings fulfillment.
So the civilizers fear the chaos and build the structures.
And the artist sees in the chaos,
the very raw materials of beauty,
for that is the Si(gh)t(e) of the Lord.
That is the Sight of the Sacred,
the Vision of Holiness RE-presents the chaos
Chrisdog: I have a question. I would like to sing a gift in through
Michael's ears to you, but I don’t know if you're a Listener for
your Holy Chain of
people. But we would like to sing from our side on into you. Is this a
two-way doorway?
Holy: Certainly. What you offer is a gift, a Sacred Offering
Chrisdog: yes, that's my fulfillment. Can you pass it through?
Is it able to be passed through?
Holy: I can magnify it. You know
Chrisdog: is there a song you want to hear?
Holy: a song of Sacred Relationship
Chrisdog: (sings)
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