I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had

BILL HICKS: CONSCIOUS APE AND LATTER DAY PROPHET ... BUT WITH BALLS

Posted by Jon King on Apr 24, 2009

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Like Martin Luther King, Bill Hicks had a dream, a vision of how things could be…

Bill Hicks: Conscious Ape

I don’t think any stand-up has ever said it quite like Bill Hicks. I don’t think any stand-up has ever had the balls, or the vision.

His insight was second to none. His ability to express his own unique version of this multidimensional reality in which we exist, unsurpassed.

To me Bill Hicks will always be the John Lennon of stand-up—a genius, a revolutionary, a prophet.

Which is why Bill Hicks is included here as our first acknowledged Conscious Ape. Hopefully he will not be the last.

Bill Hicks: Prophet

To many, of course, Bill Hicks was more than just a Conscious Ape, more than just a folk hero and icon for truth. Without wishing to canonize the foul-mouthed Texan Christian cruncher, Bill Hicks was nothing short of a latter day prophet, in the truest sense of that term.

Like Martin Luther King, Bill Hicks had a dream, a vision of how things could be if only we’d get our shit together and risk a little trust—take responsibility for who and what we truly are and live as though we mean it, as though we care about each other and this incredible world on which we all live.

Where many prophecies tend to dwell on catastrophe — Pole Shifts, Earth Changes, Comet Strikes, the return of Planet X and the end of the world in 2012 — Bill Hicks’s vision was one of hope, an aspiration that reached out beyond the constraints of religion, fear and impending doom and caught sight of just how incredible life could be—if we want it.

Personally I prefer that kind of prophecy, like the one that says humanity is on the verge of a quantum leap in consciousness, regardless of 1984 or 2012 or any other doom-laden date, and that if we seize the opportunity we could rid the world of greed and fear and fill it up with love.

In this regard I’ll leave the final word to the man himself:

‘I’m gonna share with you a vision that I had… You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year? Trillions of dollars, correct? Instead—just play with this—if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, not one… we could as one race explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.’

Bill Hicks, 1961 – 1994.

Yep, that’s my kind of prophecy. Be sure and let us know yours…

More Bill Hicks HERE…