Motel Nirvana

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Melanie McGrath. Motel Nirvana

MELANIE McGRATH. Motel Nirvana

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Prophets

DAY ONE

DAY TWO

DAY EIGHT

DAY TEN

DAY ELEVEN

Heading West

Getting Off

There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute

Highway 666

Postcard Home

God’s Country

The Grander Purpose

Two Cities

Standing People

The Death Cult

La Jornada

The Firm

HISTORICAL ADDENDA

Motels

Love Junky

Driving

White Light, Greenbacks and Redskins

Prozac Dreaming

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Dreaming of the New Age in the American Desert

What of myself?

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We sit and wait in silence. Every now and then Wasp’s stomach chirps. An Institute assistant, also dressed in linen, begins setting up tape machines and microphones by the door, and after a wait of a few minutes Griscom herself hovers in, head-to-toe white silk robes with white silk hair and golden tan, smiling an abstracted, internalized kind of smile, and stands with arms outstretched for the assistant to wire her up. Fully wired, she processes to a chair at the front of the room, lowers herself into it and does something Hindu with her hands.

‘Enlightenment is really the recognition …’ Griscom pauses, regarding with indulgent modesty the microphone clipped to her breast. The chic assistant grapples with the connection, the tape rolls, the microphone picks up and Griscom begins again. ‘Enlightenment is really the recognition and acceptance of all energies and the capacity to be where they intersect, where those spin points are, where the negative pushes itself into the light, or is drawn into the light, so that there is a correspondent intersection between the doing and the being.’

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