cannabis fitness
journaling and story-making
After the movie's end credits class is dismissed...then everyone's off to pursue their various interests and passions...discussion groups and projects...and so on, as each follows their bliss...learning, healing, playing...taking care of ourselves, our planet, and each other...or so goes the ideal in the world of words and dreams anyway.
Now what about the character of Anton? What might I briefly share at this point about this mostly private character whom Doc calls his problem student; not because Anton causes problems--though he certainly inadvertently does so, as we learn in Chapter 1 Section 4 of our textbook (see "1 + 3 = 13"...aka the Ace of Hearts)--but rather because Anton likes to solve very difficult, if not impossible problems.
In the story just mentioned, we learn how Doc and Anton first meet in 1958, or perhaps I should say re-meet, when Anton is 13 years old and Doc is working as a pharmacist (sort of). Here we learn that Anton is getting into deep trouble with both his math and Sunday school teachers, the former because Anton insists the "plus" sign in the above equation can be interpreted to mean something besides summation, and the latter for Anton's preferring to read Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man over the Bible. Yet, despite Anton's good reasoning, no one will listen to him, except Doc, who seems to have arrived as Anton's guardian angel.
But who's doing the saving here? As Doc is saving Anton, Anton is saving the world in a formulation he calls 'the seventh cauldron problem,' which appears Anton's effort to carry on the work of Jesus and all those before and since who've seen or expressed a vision of Heaven, the creation of Utopia, an Earthly Paradise, and so forth.
In any event, in the introduction of our textbook we flash forward many years ahead to find Anton presenting his answer to Doc in the contents of a little black box, his seventh cauldron problem now reformulated in terms of the Thirteenth Configuration. But what does this mean? Left to explain, Anton simple says, "Step One is a good place to start."
