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The Christ and I are face to face in a room filled with incredible flowers, tiger lilies and great orchids. The room breathes with hallucinogenic intensity. Every object glows from within like paper lanterns. Jesus has El Greco eyes. We are outside time.

Before the kingdom of heaven, there deepens an abyss of anguish and death. There is no way around it. You will have to pass through it. Once you have seen it, there can be no going back, no hesitation. The door is slammed shut behind you, barring any retreat. You have swallowed the poison and the clock is ticking. The only way out then is through.

2009