Bad Coffee

"People who drink coffee are ...insane and possessed,and what is worse, willing to be posessed. Most people in asylums drink coffee. If you let them stop drinking it they would gain enough equanimity to leave. But no, they don't stop. In fact they drink more and more, and they get crazier and crazier. They're dehumanized with every single goddamned drop, and although they sense it, they are like lemmings, or buffalo who jump off cliffs. People drink coffee and it makes them insane."

"Must you drink coffee? Why not cocoa, tea, cola tea, mate, yoco infusion or guarana? Why caffeine? Why not theobromine or theophylline ? ....You know what they used to put in ground coffee to bulk it up?.. Roots, rocks, baked horse liver, clays, ground peanut shells, copra, sisal, feathers and pig shit. And no one knew. How would they have known? They were already Hogarthian zombies who professed allegience to.. to what? To a king? To a messiah? To a belief? To what? To what? Not even a false messiah or a usurping pretender, not even to a wrong idea or a hypnotic creed. But to a bean, a bean, a bean, bean, bean, bean!"

Exerpt from one of many coffee rants in "Memoirs From Antproof Case" by Mark Helprin p 215, 216

Navajo Creation Story 5th stage

"At the Dawn of the arrival of early humanlike beings in the fifth world, they find themselves on an island surrounded by water after travelling through a reed to escape a flood of water in the fourth world. In this world, the final human form is quickly completed, and many types of animals begin to appear. Coyote, howling at the top under the arch, is an important figure in Dine' legend. He appears around this time and influences a lot of what happens at this early stage, such as the placement of the stars."

Julie Newdoll

The New World

His disciples said to him, "When will....the new world come ?"

He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it."

His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
He said to them, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying , 'Here it is' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and men don't see it."

-The Gospel of Thomas 42.7 -51.18, in NHL 123-130

For background on Elaine Pagels and the discovery of the Nag Hammadi texts, see THIS.