The 1,000-year-old woman and the professor

 @copyright 2018/Mike Consol


Lolita Firestone then invited audience members to step onto the stage, one by one, and participate in satsang.

An old woman claiming to be 1,000 years of age came to the mic. “I'm speaking for the first time in three years,” she said. “I just left the monastery.”

 

Next up was a physics professor from Yavapai Community College who insisted he was putting the finishing touches on the long-sought Unified Theory of the Universe that would prove the existence of God.

“Einstein had it wrong,” he said, “or at least incomplete. I’m just a few months away from cracking the code, after which we will have the Theory of Everything, and it will be a coherent framework, all-encompassing and fully interconnected. Sitting at the center of the whole shebang will be the Divine Light of the Creator. Case closed.”


@copyright 2018/Mike Consol

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