Cliffe Knechtle

So maybe what I'll do is I'll trivialize death.

And I'll say, you know, death is just a stage of life.

That's about as foolish as saying to a quadriplegic, paralysis is just a stage of exercise.

baloney.

Paralysis is not a stage of exercise.

It's the end of exercise.

And I can promise you, death is not a stage of life.

It's the end of life.

And yet if I'm going to be in control and I'm all of a sudden confronted by something that I really cannot control, my own death,

then I better minimize it, trivialize it, in order to dismiss it, in order to run away from it.

But it's phenomenal when you watch human beings, and when I watch myself, how we long to be in control.

And I think that being in control of whether I'm male or female or both, you know, that's thrilling.

The same way I'm in control of how I express my sexuality in any way that I want.

And that's a pathway to destruction.

It's a pathway to futility.

It's a pathway to death.

New Age is essentially monism, Hinduism.

just in a Western form.

New Age essentially says everything is one, everything is part of spirituality, God is part of everything, everything's part of God.

And the attractiveness of that is, specifically, I get to define who God is then, according to my own biases, my own prejudices, my own wants and desires.