CHÖD: Judson Memorial Church, NYC

An exploration of sound, visual art, and psychedelic experience

A unique collaborative performance blending music, art, and meditation inspired the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Chöd and the death process described in THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD (bar do thos grol), which was later assimilated as THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE by Drs. Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert.

This event was recorded live at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, NYC, on April 5th, the anniversary of the death of the Psychedelic Buddhist Saint Allen Ginsberg.

Featuring performances by,

ISAIAH MITCHELL
avant-garde electric guitar

GARCIA PEOPLES
rock n' roll band

MOONHAWK ROPER
animated dharma art films

CHRIS DINGMAN
vibraphone soundscapes

KENDRAPLEX
organ + poetry

MACRODOSE
liquid light art

JONAH SOLLINS DEVLIN
digital frequencies

JESSE JARNOW
disorganizer of chance operations

YOSUH JONES & AUBREY NEHRING
light art visuals

DOC KELLEY
bardo guide

Isaiah Mitchell, guitarist from Earthless, leads a cosmic musical journey that also features the rock band Garcia Peoples, as well as musical friends Kendraplex, Chris Dingman, Jesse Jarnow, and Jonah Sollins Devlin.

Blending heavy psych, improvisation, and trance-like soundscapes, we invite you to embrace fear and enter the bardo!

Immersive liquid light show by Macrodose with original dharma art animation by Arik Moonhawk Roper, as well as new visuals by Yosuh Jones and Aubrey Nehring.

Also featuring guided meditation and ritual by Doc Kelley.

… There is no greater devil than this present ego-clinging, and because of this all the devils will rear their ugly heads as long as one has not severed this clinging to ego.
— Machig Labdrön

Tadyatha Gate Gate
Paragate Parasamgate
Bodhi Svaha

Gate Gate Paragate
Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha

Gate Gate Paragate
Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha

Gone, gone, totally gone
Like your great-grandmother!
Completely, utterly gone,
over the top, to the other side.
— The Highest Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (translated by Allen Ginsberg)

Trust your divinity, trust your brain, trust your companions. Whenever in doubt turn off your mind relax float downstream.
— The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

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