BARDO BATH + DEATH SALON
Come for the sound bath, stay for our NEW DEATH EDUCATION SALON curated by Sparrow founder Erica Hill!
Saturday, October 5th
Sparrow: A Contemporary Funeral Home
Brooklyn, NYC
Featuring:
JONAH SOLLINS DEVLIN
Opening and closing electric soundscapes
With special guest
KENDRAPLEX
Electric Organ (evening journey only)
CHRIS DINGMAN
Live Vibraphone
ERIKA ROSENBERG
Bardo facilitator
DOC KELLEY
Bardo facilitator
YOSUH JONES & AUBREY NEHRING
Dharma Light Artists
ERICA HILL & FRIENDS
Death Education Salon
Find a comfortable position, relax, and prepare to experience the dying process as described in the Tibetan Book of Dead, and later adapted for psychedelic trip sessions by Drs. Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert.
Psychedelic Sangha will guide you into the Luminous Bardo of Dharmata and back again—renewed, refreshed, and re-birthed.
Following the journey, we invite you stay for our new DEATH EDUCATION SALON curated by Sparrow founder Erica Hill. Engage in further study and open conversation about death and dying with professionals working in the field.
This event is sound bath style. That means you can sprawl out on the floor, but please bring your own mat, pillow, and blanket. As well as any offerings of the senses (i.e. food, incense, candles, flowers), for our Psychedelic Buddhism altar installation .
"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
AFTERNOON JOURNEY
4:00 pm Doors Open
4:20 pm Bardo Journey
6:30 pm Death Salon
EVENING JOURNEY
7:00 pm Doors Open
7:30 pm Bardo Journey
9:30 pm Death Salon
Purchase Tickets Here
HERO'S JOURNEY
This ticket includes a reservation for both the afternoon and evening journeys.
*All tickets include unlimited access to the Death Salon.
*A limited number of partial scholarships are available to those who are currently experiencing financial challenges. Please email HQ@psychedelicsangha.org.
CHRIS DINGMAN | Vibraphone
NYC-based vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman is known for his distinctive approach to the instrument, at once sonically rich and conceptually expansive. In his captivating solo performances, he casts an enveloping atmosphere, creating layers of simultaneous sound that take listeners to a transcendent place. Chris has worked with the legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter and many other of today’s jazz and world music luminaries. Based in NYC since 2002, Chris had been documenting his solo improvisations privately for many years. When his father entered hospice care in 2018, he created the 5-hour extended album Peace. This led to an ongoing evolution of his solo music and his critically acclaimed albums Journeys Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Chris actively tours and has performed worldwide. NPR, the New York Times, AMNY, and many other publications have profiled him. He has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute.
KENDRAPLEX | Electric Organ
Kendraplex was born to a musical household; her mother worked as a country singer while she was growing up. While stationed in Chicago, Kendraplex started her band Names Divine in 2009. Over the next decade, the band worked hard, releasing several albums and touring internationally. In addition to the band, she contributed to various other outfits, including a leading role in the meditative duo Sight of Swans and guitar or keyboard contributions to Eleven Eleven and Dire Wolves. Now living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kendraplex also focused on her solo material, recording home demos and occasionally issuing noisy cassette releases. Her 2018 cassette Called (issued under the name Kendraplex) served as a bridge between work with Names Divine and her solo material, which was growing more abstract and experimental. Her first proper solo album, Intuition, was released in 2019 on the Beyond Beyond Is Beyond label.
ERIKA ROSENBERG, PH.D | Bardo Guide
Erika is a world-renowned expert on facial expression of emotion and a meditation teacher who specializes in emotion and compassion cultivation. She’s a senior investigator on the Shamatha Project (a comprehensive, scientific study of the effects of intensive meditation) at U.C. Davis, Senior Teacher at Stanford’s Center for Compassion & Altruism Research and Education, Founding Faculty at the non-profit, The Compassion Institute, and faculty at The Nyingma Institute of Tibetan Studies, Berkeley. Erika has taught in places as diverse as Google, Inc., Lerab Ling Monastery, LucasFilm, Upaya Zen Center, and Burning Man. Erika has published numerous books, scientific articles and chapters on facial expression, emotion, and meditation. Erika is also an active volunteer in psychedelic harm reduction in The Zendo Project, and a facilitator at Psychedelic Sangha.
DOC KELLEY | Bardo Guide
Christopher “Doc” Kelley is a scholar of Buddhism and a part-time professor in religious studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School University, and Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. He is also the co-founder of Psychedelic Sangha and lives in Brooklyn, NYC. Doc received a PhD in Religion from Columbia University, where he studied Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with Robert A. F. Thurman. Before attending graduate school, he was a “dharma bum” who traveled Asia and practiced Buddhism initially at Kopan Gompa in Kathmandu, then later at Sermey Monastery in India.
YOSUH JONES | Dharma Light Art Visuals
Yosuh Jones is a multimedia artist from St. Petersburg, FL, currently in the Midwest. He works steadily in acrylic painting but also explores collage, mixed media, and, more recently, animation and video art. His works emphasize color, fluidity, and space. Some recurring themes include nature, Buddhist or Eastern religious imagery and concepts, and various symbols and psychedelic imagery with a simultaneous folk art feel or simplicity. He employs abstract, classical, geometric, surrealistic, and representational styles.
AUBREY NEHRING | Dharma Light Art Visuals
Aubrey is an artist, animator, and designer based in Seattle, Washington. He has created work for advertising, educational and informational videos, posters, cards, t-shirts, and album cover art. He has enjoyed collaborating with many great folks on animation, motion design, music video projects, and providing visual projections for live music events.Friday July 27th
7pm
Chris Dingman
Live vibes
Jonah Sollins Devlin
Opening soundscapes
Erika Rosenberg
Bardo Guide
Bardo Guide
Join Psychedelic Sangha for "BARDO BATH: Sparrow Contemporary Funeral Home, an immersive dharma art experience with live vibraphone music by Sonic Shaman Chris Dingman, light art landscapes created by Yosuh Jones and Aubrey Nehring, and guided Tibetan Buddhist Bardo meditations by Dr. Erika Rosenberg and Doc Kelley.
Find a comfortable position, relax, and prepare to experience the Bardo as described in the Tibetan Book of Dead and later adapted for psychedelic trip sessions by Drs. Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert.
Take an immersive trip of the senses with live vibraphone soundscapes with light art projections.
Doc will be your meditation guide through the Bardo of dying into the Luminous Bardo of Dharmata, and back again—renewed, refreshed, and rebirthed. Within this last Bardo, one typically has powerful visions but also the chance to experience the nature of the mind.
After the show, we'll hold space for an integration circle to support a safe and open conversation about death and dying.
Meditation pillows and pads will be available, but you are welcome to bring blankets, yoga mats, etc.
This event is sound bath style. We invite you to sprawl out on the floor, but please bring your own mat, pillow, and blanket.
A limited supply of house mats will be available. Please be sure to bring your own mat, pillow, and blanket. As well as any offerings of the senses for the altar (i.e. food, incense, candles, flowers).
This is a "museum-dose" or cannabis-friendly event. Exercise your cognitive liberty appropriately.
"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
CHRIS DINGMAN | Vibraphone
NYC-based vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman is known for his distinctive approach to the instrument, at once sonically rich and conceptually expansive. In his captivating solo performances, he casts an enveloping atmosphere, creating layers of simultaneous sound that take listeners to a transcendent place. Chris has worked with the legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter and many other of today’s jazz and world music luminaries. Based in NYC since 2002, Chris had been documenting his solo improvisations privately for many years. When his father entered hospice care in 2018, he created the 5-hour extended album Peace. This led to an ongoing evolution of his solo music and his critically acclaimed albums Journeys Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Chris actively tours and has performed worldwide. NPR, the New York Times, AMNY, and many other publications have profiled him. He has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute.
ERIKA ROSENBERG, PH.D | Bardo Guide
Erika is a world-renowned expert on facial expression of emotion and a meditation teacher who specializes in emotion and compassion cultivation. She’s a senior investigator on the Shamatha Project (a comprehensive, scientific study of the effects of intensive meditation) at U.C. Davis, Senior Teacher at Stanford’s Center for Compassion & Altruism Research and Education, Founding Faculty at the non-profit, The Compassion Institute, and faculty at The Nyingma Institute of Tibetan Studies, Berkeley. Erika has taught in places as diverse as Google, Inc., Lerab Ling Monastery, LucasFilm, Upaya Zen Center, and Burning Man. Erika has published numerous books, scientific articles and chapters on facial expression, emotion, and meditation. Erika is also an active volunteer in psychedelic harm reduction in The Zendo Project, and a facilitator at Psychedelic Sangha.
DOC KELLEY | Bardo Guide
Christopher “Doc” Kelley is a scholar of Buddhism and a part-time professor in religious studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School University, and Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. He is also the co-founder of Psychedelic Sangha and lives in Brooklyn, NYC. Doc received a PhD in Religion from Columbia University, where he studied Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with Robert A. F. Thurman. Before attending graduate school, he was a “dharma bum” who traveled Asia and practiced Buddhism initially at Kopan Gompa in Kathmandu, then later at Sermey Monastery in India.
YOSUH JONES | Dharma Art Film
Yosuh Jones is a multimedia artist from St. Petersburg, FL, currently in the Midwest. He works steadily in acrylic painting but also explores collage, mixed media, and, more recently, animation and video art. His works emphasize color, fluidity, and space. Some recurring themes include nature, Buddhist or Eastern religious imagery and concepts, and various symbols and psychedelic imagery with a simultaneous folk art feel or simplicity. He employs abstract, classical, geometric, surrealistic, and representational styles.
AUBREY NEHRING | Visuals
Aubrey is an artist, animator, and designer based in Seattle, Washington. He has created work for advertising, educational and informational videos, posters, cards, t-shirts, and album cover art. He has enjoyed collaborating with many great folks on animation, motion design, music video projects, and providing visual projections for live music events.
Tickets $22-$42
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