serai: (Aphrodite)
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So it looks like John Legend is going to take on the role of Jesus in the live musical of Jesus Christ Superstar. Interesting casting! They've also got Alice Cooper to play Herod, which just tickles me enormously. It looks like it'll be a good production, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

I wonder who they'll get for Judas?

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serai: A kiss between Casey Connor and Zeke Tyler (Whoa)
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Another story is gathering in my head. It's another one-off, separate from the main series I've been writing. It's intense. (SHUT. UP.) So much so that my main problem is working up the courage to start writing it. I think it's gonna hurt, frankly.

But that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'd like to present to you a book I've had for many years, one that is little known, but revolutionary in its impact. It's a small book, and it's fundamentally a work of translation. It's called Prayers of the Cosmos, and it's by Neil Douglas-Klotz, who writes about religion and psychology and is also a poet and artist.

The book is very simple. It takes the two best known Christian prayer-passages (the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes), gives you the original Aramaic (with the King James version on the facing page), then a phonetic breakdown. After that, the book takes each line separately and gives you first the Aramaic, then the English, then a list of possible translations (more on that below), and then a little essay on that line and its components, the syllables and sounds in the words and their meanings. Then as a nice addition, there is an exercise in breathing and tuning you can do to use the line as a meditation point or mantra.

I tell you, the book is a revelation. I had no idea of the scope of the divide separating us from the original words of this man. It's unbelievable. Here's just one example:

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1. Our Birth in Unity )

Does not compute

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 11:41 pm
serai: A kiss between Casey Connor and Zeke Tyler (MessiahOfHotsex)
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Okay, so I'm watching HIC play Jesus, and it's causing something of a cognitive disconnect. Especially since he doesn't look any different on Lost. (see icon)


But it is making me feel distinctly...religious. In fact, I think I feel a bout of ecstasy coming on.



Worship at the altar of Desmond, all ye faithless and accursed!!!

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