But what if the medium is the message?

I just got back from a couple weeks on the road promoting my new book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, whose amazing photographs were taken by Michael Rauner. My honey and I squeezing into her 86 VW Westfalia with boxes of books, a guitar, and tons of CDs, including Robert Greenberg’s lecture series How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, which is pretty great itself. We drove south from San Francisco and did events in...

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

I just got back from a couple weeks on the road promoting my new book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, whose amazing photographs were taken by Michael Rauner. My honey and I squeezing into her 86 VW Westfalia with boxes of books, a guitar, and tons of CDs, including Robert Greenberg’s lecture series How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, which is pretty great itself. We drove south from San Francisco and did events in...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

I just got back from a couple weeks on the road promoting my new book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, whose amazing photographs were taken by Michael Rauner. My honey and I squeezing into her 86 VW Westfalia with boxes of books, a guitar, and tons of CDs, including Robert Greenberg’s lecture series How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, which is pretty great itself. We drove south from San Francisco and did events in...

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

I just got back from a couple weeks on the road promoting my new book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, whose amazing photographs were taken by Michael Rauner. My honey and I squeezing into her 86 VW Westfalia with boxes of books, a guitar, and tons of CDs, including Robert Greenberg’s lecture series How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, which is pretty great itself. We drove south from San Francisco and did events in...

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

I just got back from a couple weeks on the road promoting my new book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape, whose amazing photographs were taken by Michael Rauner. My honey and I squeezing into her 86 VW Westfalia with boxes of books, a guitar, and tons of CDs, including Robert Greenberg’s lecture series How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, which is pretty great itself. We drove south from San Francisco and did events in...