Both Worlds

01. Both Worlds - Beyond Zero Gravity, 1996 CD EP      Another Planet Records - AP-6016-2 02. Both Worlds - Memory Rendered Visible, 1998 CD Album      Roadrunner Records - RR 8750-2 I am back from the Montreal Hare Krishna fest. For years I have been trying to have people tell me about the soul, and the spirit. But noone was ever able to give an intelligent, or at least intelligible explanation. However these things seem to be hot items and the new age, awareness, otherworldly movement seems to know what's it's all about (you, know, the energy and all that). But nobody has ever been able to tell me anything about it. So today I took the Krishna opportunity to talk to a specialist, and I found one at the reincarnation booth (no kidding, there is a reincarnation booth, with a trio of bald guys taking questions). I spoke 70 minutes with the boss. It was a lot of fun. No better than the 2 hours chat I had in February with a professional Jehovah witness (although this dude had not given me any food, while the Krishnas will feed you a large plate of delicious veggies). But I progressed a bit, here is how the soul works according to Mr Krishna: the soul is an eternal entity (energy!) that emanates from God (aka the eternal source of everything). There is an infinite number of souls. The soul has no other function or purpose than enjoying the love of God and serving him (which is strange since God is all-powerful, therefore does not need servants, zer?). Sometimes, as it may happen in a loving marriage or in cow's head that always eats grass from the same field (that were the analogies I was given), the soul gets to wonder how fun it would be to try something else (than the love of God). Then, the soul dives to the material world, selects a father and attaches itself to a sperm (I had no patience to ask how this works). When the sperm fertilizes an egg, the soul inhabits the baby  and lives a human life (or a rabbit life, or a sharktopus life), until the body dies. Then the soul goes back to the spiritual world and tries again (dives into another sperm), until it matures and understands that material life is bullshit. There is nothing better than the love of God and serving him (doing what?). That cycle can be a long, tedious process, especially if you consider the unbelievable waste of sperm that occurs on our planet (I only have two kids and have no intention to procreate more: billions of souls have wasted and will waste their time with me alone - multiply that by the billions of males - fucking genocidal sodomites). The non-fertilizer sperms die and their freed souls start over. Many other questions received funny answers at the same level of baseless, clueless blabber (what about asexual procreation, plants vs. animals: the only difference is the ownership of a nervous system - why is a nervous system needed to the soul - it contradicts the sperm scenario since a sperm is just a cell, what about mushrooms, mono-cellulars, why bother at all with finding the light during our material life since the soul being eternal, it will eventually find its peace with the next bodies and let me just live my heavy metal life, etc,). The best of it will be used in a forthcoming story. I actually learned one thing for real, that all that is a synonymous to nothing, which is the difference our world would experience without any of this supernatural fantasy. This is the perfect occasion to reload the two excellent Krishna-core releases of Both Worlds, a super group involving famous NYHC people (from Leeway, Agnostic Front, singer of Cro-Mags, etc.). This stuff rocks and is pretty much a continuation of the last Leeway album with a touch of early Quicksand and a teardrop of Shelter (of course). Much better than 108, in the Krishna vibe. Classy, groovy, catchy, heavy, zer! I have to find and talk to a buddhist. HAIL SATAN! Remove brackets and unzip: [hare hare zer] !ZER Both Worlds ZER!