IN ILLO TEMPORE

by Linda Eisenstein

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40's & up - older is better

An older woman demonstrates using casino craps as a meditation practice: a way of entering ritual time to make direct contact with the Divine. Comedy.

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Okay. I'll tell you why I come here. But you have to promise not to laugh. I have mystical experiences here. Revelations. It's the closest I ever get to God. I'm talking your full boat altered state: voices, visions, time-distortions, sexual merging, psychic phenomena manifested in the tangible world. And don't say it's my imagination, because I bring back material proof. The last time, I manifested $835. The time before, $240. Not counting what I spent on valet parking.

It's a temple, really. It even kinda looks like one -- huge, impressive, welcoming. Tens of thousands of pilgrims pour through its doors daily, begging for miracles. You never heard so many fervent prayers. So what if it's tacky? So is Mont St. Michel, so is Lourdes, anywhere people gather at the crossroads of hope.

Can I help it if the Divine Nature is most easily contacted in a casino?

(CONTINUES )

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