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Evelyn moves Trudy into the area, mic at ready, beginning the
interview.
EVELYN
Well now . . . congratulations again!
TRUDY
Thank you.
EVELYN
I think it's the most unusual wedding I've
ever witnessed. Did you write the ceremony
yourself?
TRUDY
Oh no, quite the contrary, it's a church ritual that
I've spent the last week rehearsing.
EVELYN
Rehearsing here at Edgefield?
TRUDY
Well, not out here,
but mentally, there is a script, sort of, the
order of the proceedings is down on paper, in
the Universal Church of Primitive Balance this
is a very traditional wedding.
EVELYN
But very new to many of us, I think. For
example, the fact that you were not present
from the beginning but arrived from the herb
garden later -- that has special significance,
I assume?
TRUDY
The idea is that the bride and groom begin
physically separated. It's not that unusual,
really: in Christian weddings, it's
traditionally bad luck to see your future mate
the day of the ceremony, before the actual
ceremony, you see -- here, the important thing
is that we're a part of nature, the garden being
the symbol of eternal life, life coming from
the seed and all, and so in the garden, to begin
with separation, you'd obviously have to be in
different places here at Edgefield.
EVELYN
I see. There was, here in the ballroom, a
good deal of chanting . . .
TRUDY
Yes.
EVELYN
And words about longing, yang without yin, yin
without yang -- can you explain about that?
TRUDY
It all goes back to Primitive Balance. The
central notion of the church is
complementarity, which means that opposites,
like male and female, but also any opposites,
are incomplete alone and need to united in a
kind of tension, tension in the metaphoric
sense, the way you'd say a poem has tension,
and that with this tension there is
complementarity, because each principle,
whether the male principle or the female
principle, is complemented by its opposite, in
what we call primitive balance.
EVELYN
I'm still not sure I understand.
TRUDY
Primitive balance is the most basic nature of
the universe, of life. Life and death, for
example: opposites, held in complementarity,
different aspects of the same thing, really, a
form larger than either life or death, so that
what we call life is like a special form, a
journey in which we have consciousness and
every thing else, and death is the end of that
form, the tension breaks, and movement into
another form, which isn't really dead, in the
sense of nonexistent, but is just different, a
new form, with new complements and new
tensions. In this sense life is eternal: life
is eternally in primitive balance, in tension,
expressing the complementarity of opposites.
EVELYN
How long have you belonged to the church?
TRUDY
Only a few months.
EVELYN
I must say, you've learned a good deal of
church philosophy in that time!
TRUDY
I find it interesting. Cyndi, of course, has
recorded much of the philosophy, through the
words of Yin Priestess Dwallah, recorded it in
writing, in books and pamphlets, as well as on
audio and video cassettes. The philosophy is
very accessible, actually.
EVELYN
But still new, strange and mysterious to those
of us who haven't been exposed to it.
TRUDY
We're not so weird, really. We go back to the
very basics, to the early matriarchies before
the patriarchal revolution and the Christian
distortion, well, what we call the Christian
distortion, I suppose you wouldn't agree.
Let's just say we go back to principles
expressed twenty-five-thousand years ago,
through Yin Priestess Dwallah.
EVELYN
In this sense, the ceremony becomes very
poetic -- the offering of the female principle
to complement the male principle, making a
whole out of opposites -- something like that?
TRUDY
Sort of, yes.
EVELYN
Perhaps we can get more on the particulars
from the Yin Priestess--
TRUDY
No, she's just Cyndi now.
EVELYN
Cyndi, who channels back through time; and the
groom himself is coming this way . . . Excuse
me, would you join us?
Yang Richard and Cyndi have come into the area, on their way
to the bar.
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