Ecstatic Prophets, Compulsive Fascists
a new translation of 1 Samuel 18 – 31 & how this ancient text helps us figure out what to do with the ecstasy & fascism in each one of us and all of our institutions
volume 2 of The Naked Path of Prophet Series by Brian J. Shircliff
During the same ancient era that the Greeks were practicing a democracy-with-slaves and their storycrafters zoomed through towns with Homeric tales of war and valor and hailing gods and goddesses seducing and fighting each other and humans…
a band of ecstatic-prophetic storycrafters from present-day Israel & Palestine were the first to have an inkling of democracy-without-slaves…these bordercrossers who were seduced by the One who gives us all life in the wind — YAHWEH — the One who in these ecstatics-prophets’ 1 & 2 Samuel stories invites a genderbending, bordercrossing, and even same-sex love that topples priestly, royalist, and hierarchical imaginations…
the ecstatic-prophets’ wild ways of swooping through towns and saving civilization with an invitation to a simple, often ignored experience…an experience that gets us out of the rascally messes we’ve inherited and build onto with every generation. So far.