Johnny Bock

The Reference Point Johnny Bock

The Reference Point is a memoir from the 1960s that starts out with an attempted murder gone good. Usually murder, attempted or otherwise, is thought of as a thing gone bad, but with a little help from irony, stress and mystery, bad intentions slipped into another direction and the ones involved found themselves in a state that defied earthly description. Like it or not, states that defy earthly description filter into our earthly lives. We want a vital connection with a higher state, and for most of us, "maybe" is not an option. We see that humanity, unlike water, seeks higher than its own level, and we see that people have a need to go there.