Religions and Spirits

  • Music, Religions and Spirits

    Out Come the Freaks

    Listening to the Jesus Music of the Seventies

    Listening to the Jesus Music of the Seventies

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

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    Is Yoga a Religion?

    The controversies over yoga in schools

    The controversies over yoga in schools

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...
  • It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
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    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...
  • “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
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    “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

    “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    6 min

    Televangelists Tune Into the End

    National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War

    National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    5 min

    On the Buddha Trail

    Spiritual tourism in India

    Spiritual tourism in India

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits, Technoculture
    16 min

    Lance Daybreak’s Digital Dharma

    Surfing the Indranet

    Surfing the Indranet

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

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    Mormons are Cool

    The most cosmic American religion

    The most cosmic American religion

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits, Technoculture
    13 min

    The Notebooks of Lance Daybreak

    Shards of the Diamond Matrix

    Shards of the Diamond Matrix

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    22 min

    Tongues of Fire, Whirlwinds of Noise

    Images of Spiritual Information

    Images of Spiritual Information

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits, Scholarship
    11 min

    The Esoteric Scholarship of Antoine Faivre

    Meet Hermes, the god of scholars and techgnostics

    Meet Hermes, the god of scholars and techgnostics

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...
  • Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
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    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits

    Amma’s Cosmic Squeeze

    My journey into the arms of Amma the hugging saint

    My journey into the arms of Amma the hugging saint

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...
  • But what if the medium is the message?
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    Quote 1

    But what if the medium is the message?

    But what if the medium is the message?

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

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    Meditating in Sensurround

    Zen retreat with SIGGRAPH chaser

    Zen retreat with SIGGRAPH chaser

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    10 min

    The Wandering Sufi

    Into the Mystic with Peter Lamborn Wilson

    Into the Mystic with Peter Lamborn Wilson

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    10 min

    Solar Temple Pilots

    Reading the End Times with Luc Jouret

    Reading the End Times with Luc Jouret

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    4 min

    Slavoj Zizek’s The Puppet and the Dwarf

    Turning Christianity upside down

    Turning Christianity upside down

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    19 min

    Trickster at the Crossroads

    West Africa's God of Messages, Sex and Deceit

    West Africa's God of Messages, Sex and Deceit

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

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    Captain Jack’s Stronghold

    Ghost Dancing

    Ghost Dancing

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    18 min

    Snakes & Ladders

    The spiritual tension between immanence and transcendence

    The spiritual tension between immanence and transcendence

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Art and Design, Religions and Spirits, Technoculture
    10 min

    Secret Earths

    Re-animism

    Re-animism

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    15 min

    Databases of the Dead

    The Mormon Church and Genealogical Data

    The Mormon Church and Genealogical Data

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...

  • Religions and Spirits
    4 min

    Spiritual Chaos?

    Chaos Spirituality

    Chaos Spirituality

    I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the myriad of musics that have composed my listening life. But if there were, it would have to be a love of and fascination with the sacred, a capacious aesthetic category that, for me, includes both explicitly religious music and those exotic, popular, or avant-garde forms that variously juxtapose, fuse, and transmute the ever shifting boundary between the transcendent and the profane. Beneath this immense canopy, Messiaen butts heads with...