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LLAM:  Thanks for coming here with me tonight.  I know that your head is full of ideas for the new website we're planning, and its contents.

ROY:  (glares at Llam)  Hey, the art work is important!

LLAM:  Oh, I suppose that it is.  Just another example of my angelic viewpoint, I guess - you see one human couple mating, you've seen them all.

ROY:  That could sound pretty cheesy! (laughs)

LLAM:  There you go again with one of those human metaphors that just escapes me.  How do you mortals relate "cheese" with human sexual intimacy?

ROY:  Well, you see -

LLAM:  (interrupting) I was afraid you'd explain it to me, please, I know the answer, I've been with humanity from the first.

ROY:  Oh.  (after a pause)  Spoilsport!  (Llam laughs)  Well, I guess that that's our introduction!

LLAM:  Umm, you'd best explain that this blog will be about two things.

ROY:  Uhh, Llam, you just did.

LLAM:  Oh.  (brightly) Yes, I did!  Well, since I'm talking - (pauses, looks at Roy) - or writing, for goodness' sake, I'll keep right on going.  I am very pleased to announce that we are starting work on a completely new website.  We're going to pay for the domain and pay to have the pages made by one of our Members - Valyn.  You won't be seeing it for a while but we'll post Updates by e-mail.  The website is tenatively named "spiritualsexuality dot com" and pending our getting a webhost congenial with our aim, the URL should be something quite like that.  As of today Internet searches showed that there were no sites by that name; I realize that that is not conclusive but that's it in a nutshell.  Ling created a sample page which she sent to Valyn as a model and I must say it is probably the most beautiful example of her work I've yet seen.  (looks at Roy)  I should keep going?  (Roy nods)  The website will be pretty much an art gallery with a home page and a contact page and that's it.  Text will be on the homepage only.  The gallery - and this is the heart of the matter - will be photomanipulations of people in various poses of human sexual intimacy.  It is intended as a wordless illustration of how human sexual experience can be the single most profound thing that a mortal can know, that it is in fact divine.

ROY:  One of the things about which I'm a little sad is that we can't post the sample webpage picture in any of our homes on the Internet.  I agree, it is one of the most spectacular things that Ling has ever done.  However, we'll e-mail you a copy if you send us a request - just please state in your request that you are legally able to receive the picture where you live.  Laws about depicting human sexual activity, even photomanipulations, are quite diverse.  Oh yeah, all of the models will be over the age of eighteen.  I think that covers everything.

LLAM:  Not quite.  These pictures will not be copyrighted and will be available for free downloading.  There, that's it, unless you want to go into some more detail?

ROY:  No, that's fine.  Now for the second part - human evolution?

LLAM:  Excellent! (smiles)  Back in 1998 you got it into your head that some of your music could help humanity evolve.  Did you ever think about it much?

ROY:  No.  It popped into my head one night with such force that I knew that it was true.  Sara and I had been working in the studio, possibly on Part of a Process, when I realized that we were doing a lot more than messing around with weird sounds and orchestrating them.  It was after that that I got a copy of Karlheinz Stockhausen's book, Towards a Cosmic Music, that I realized that despite my being part of an older kind of humanity, nevertheless I had some very clear ideas of what was coming in the years ahead as far as music was concerned.  What I learned from his book was that he had exactly the same intuitions, or prophetic ideas,if you will, but some time before I got around to them.  There was no logic in my ideas, either, I mean, I didn't come about them logically.  They just popped into my head: you listen to this stuff, you're gonna start making changes in the DNA.  And to be quite honest, at the time I thought that was a bit far out.  Now I'm comfortable with the idea.  I think that Tim Leary's saying that technology is built into our DNA is right on the money; but he wasn't talking only about "building machines" per se, he was thinking ahead to things like altering our own DNA for the better - and that's already underway.  In other applications of the idea, he was referring at least obliquely to the continuous development of computers and to nanotech also.  But if I'm right, and I think that I am, I'm just a part of this whole new evolutionary swirl.  The music, yeah, but we're the ones who've demonstrated how easy telepathy is, this after 160 years of mumbo with jumbo.  And although I took your "Evolu" pictures partly on faith, working with Ling and the ArtGroup has certainly expanded my imagination.  And this is just the beginning.

LLAM:  Yes indeed.  I see that some of you mortal folks are realizing that you've actually evolved quite recently.  There are two new genes on the human genome which aqppeared 37,000 and 5800 years ago respectively and they have spread rapidly through humanity.  They're actually still working changes in you guys.  Some of the changes that I expect to see are mortal humans needing a lot less sleep, being able to process roughly 100 times the information that you do at this time, and the ability to withstand a hell of a lot more ultraviolet light.  I am correct, am I not, in saying that evolutiuon is spurred by irritants in the environment?

ROY:  A very elegant and simple way of saying it, yes.  But that's not all.  I had to go through an enormous amount of literature on psychology to see if maybe I was crazy after all - being able to percieve you and such - and one of the things which stuck out was that many of the things labelled as "conditions" or "disorders" may be anything but.  Multiple personality disorder? Leave off the word "disorder" and what do you get?  A human being with multiple personalities.  Not veryone with multiple personalities is in a pathological state.  Also, consider autism - being able to live in very specific, highly tuned states for special purposes.  That is what autism boils down to - it's just that the world has had no place for autistic people so far.  It's the same with a percentage of people with MPD or DID; if you are actually several people in one body, you've got quite an internal economy going on in yourself.  One human body with three, seven, thirty minds.  And it isn't a brain pathology; human conciousness is not created by the brain, it uses the brain.  Seeking etiology in childhood trauma is a dead end.  It may be that a large number of people with multiple personalities happened to have had a childhood filled with sexual or violent physical abuse, but I tend to think that this abuse was merely a detonator of sorts.

LLAM:  If you're saying that a child is pushed by such savagery beyond known limitations, those limitations which were understood by mortals up until now,I agree.  What is different in what you are posing here is that the results of being raped or battered have changed.  Up until now, and I do mean within your lifetime and up until the present day, kids either went catatonic, became muderously inhumane or commited suicide.  I see that this is changing.  Children who are abused are learning to escape the confines of the body and to come back to it with others in tow.  Thus, multiple personalities.  But because the quotient of fear is begining to diminish in your world, you'll be seeing a lot less of multiple personality disorder.  And that, my friend, is what I call evolution.  Hopefully, those who learned this, or were "detonated" as you say, will be the last to learn this in such a violent and horrendous way.  Once the meme is established that you can have multiple personalities and have them without being abused as a child,  things will change dramatically for the better.  Ummm, do you mind if I include you under the umbrella of human evolutionary change?

ROY:  Me?  With my humble ego?  Gosh, Llam, I -

LLAM: - walked into that one, didn't I? (laughs)  Okay, you were sexually abused as a kid and you were beaten.  You didn't go catatonic or psychotic, you don't have multiple personalities.  The therapists you've seen have agreed that you were narcissicistic, that you had rage problems and that you were depressed most of the time.  To which I would add, you have a tough time not being an outlaw.  Oh, no, PLEASE don't quote Cicero to me -

ROY: (grinning) "Men of the Roman senate, when we had few laws we had few criminals; now we have many laws and many criminals!"  (laughs)

LLAM:  (glares)  I am so tired of hearing you say that!

ROY:  Alright, but I'm not only excusing myself here.  I'm sorry, dude, didn't mean to piss you off.

LLAM:  It' alright.  (looks away, then begins to laugh)

ROY:  Arghh!  Got me again!  (laughs)  But seriously, Llam, I'll add another thing which our continuing evolution is going to bring about:  the laws will change radically.

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