Charles Brown Speaks Out
 The road never traveled
Jim and Bernie and I are entering uncharted territory. We don't have any road maps. We have nothing from the past to guide and direct us - because there have never been human beings on this planet really living without death.
Do you want to know where we are going? I wish I could tell you, but I can't - I've never been there before. All I can say is to let go of any images of the future you might have because, whatever they are, I'm sure we will blow them somewhere along the way.
Are you ready to go all the way with us? If so, I have to warn you - I don't know where "all the way" is. If that's your destination, though, then you'll probably fall away somewhere, because eventually you'll find a spot that's 'all the way" for you, and you won't want to move on when we're ready for the next leap.
Are you waiting to see if we make a mistake? If so, then I trust you won't have to wait long - since we're traveling without maps we sometimes have no way to proceed except through trial and error. We may move one way and decide that's not what feels right, then try something else.
If you are seeking perfection then you will judge that as a mistake, and grow suspicious of our movement. I have to tell you now, we are going to make a lot of mistakes in living forever - not intentionally, but through constantly venturing into the unknown.
Are you looking for someone who's always right, who's got all the answers? Since we will be forever changing, we have to give up any investment in being right. We must be fluid and pliable with one another, able to shift in a moment, holding on to nothing except each other. Being right is too constricting to allow one to live forever - believe me, I know, because I've tried it!
Well then, if we don't know where we're going, and we know we'll take plenty of wrong turns along the way, then why should you come with us?
Because you feel the same passion to live, the same immortal intelligence, that we do. Because you have such a hunger to come together with other human beings on this planet, that you're not even aware of their mistakes. Because you are so damned thankful that we have found each other that you want nothing to ever come between us. And, finally, because you feel such an organic connection with us, that you can do nothing else but come along.
Charles Paul Brown
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