The Fredösphere

Memo to Pepsi Inc.:  please take my music without my permission.  If you know what I mean.

UPDATE:  Please scroll down to "Vocal Group Wins" to understand the link.

David Salvage reports on his attempt to mix a little Ligeti into his love life.

Naomi Wolf is talking about a vision of Jesus she received a few years ago.  Via A&LD, I just found out -- you people are supposed to tell me these things.  I'm approaching it with open-minded skepticism.  Seeing herself as a 13-year-old male disciple is quite unorthodox, but it may not be heterodox; the mystics typically turn to fairly bizarre metaphors, even erotic ones, to hint at the ineffable.  What makes this story especially fascinating is that Wolf cannot possibly be satisfying any group; not religious conservatives:

"I believe absolutely that every single one of us is here with a spiritual mission. We come in knowing it and then we forget. If we’re lucky, we re-remember. That’s part of what this book is about, helping people re-listen to their soul because their soul knows exactly what they’re supposed to be doing, even if it is not always clear it knows the direction in which to pull.”

not Jews:

[W]hen one of the foremost feminists in the world, who is Jewish to boot, says she has met Jesus, the ultimate figure of Christianity and the redeemer of lost souls, it’s more than a little disconcerting...."On a mystical level, it was complete joy and happiness and there were tears running down my face. On a conscious level, when I came out of it I was absolutely horrified because I’m Jewish. This was not the thing I’m supposed to have confront me....[It is] completely not the appropriate spiritual experience of someone of my background”.  

and certainly not other feminists:

"I am not going to be in the closet about this any more. I’m on a spiritual path, I answer to a higher authority....I wasn’t myself in this visual experience,” she continues. “I was a 13-year-old boy sitting next to him [Jesus] and feeling feelings I’d never felt in my lifetime, of a 13-year-old boy being with an older male who he really loves and admires and loves to be in the presence of. It was probably the most profound experience of my life.

I'm not thrilled by the "listen to your soul" talk, but this is not the first time Wolf has resisted pressure to parrot her peers' talking points, and in that she serves as a model for all of us.