Letters to the Editor
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It Doesn't Really Matter
Does it?
Marshall has a lot of maybes lined up, but not a helluva lot of facts. Prove to me don Juan didn't exist, that Casteneda was a cult leader and charlatan. Then prove Jesus never existed and the choice of all but one of his close followers of grisly deaths rather than lying to protect themselves (suicidal gestures surely) - never happened, and...what difference does it make? What does any of it matter? Either we believe in something or we don't. It doesn't matter the iconography involved. Joseph Chilton Pearce, in the early 70's, went to the trouble to compare Jesus and don Juan, as well as their respective milieus, and the parallels were striking. They also didn't matter. We'll choose something to believe or we'll choose to believe nothing. Which leads me to wonder: Is Nothing sacred?
I am perpetually dumbfounded by the frantic, desperate need of some to kill the compulsion of the rest of us to believe there actually is something more. More! That's all. Just more.
Prove to me there isn't more. Give me a reason to believe - in nothing. At that point maybe I'll become a follower of Robert Marshall. He's got the real truth.