CHRIS DINGMAN
Live vibraphone music

KENDRAPLEX Live organ music

YOSUH JONES Dharma Art short films

AUBREY NEHRING Dharma Art short films

DOC KELLEY Guided meditation

MEGAN McCORMICK Death Integration Circle

Join Psychedelic Sangha for an immersive Bardo Bath experience at SPARROW FUNERAL HOME!

Take a trip with Psychedelic Sangha into the bardo for an eyes-wide-open death meditation by Doc Kelley, into 60+ minutes of numinous soundscapes Chris Dingman (vibraphone) + Kendraplex (electric organ), with surreal dharma art visuals created by Yosuh Jones and Aubrey Nehring.

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.

After the jam, we'll convene a sharing circle to support a safe and open conversation about death and dying. We are honored to have death doula Megan McCormick our special guest who will be facilitating the circle.

This is a "museum-dose" or cannabis-friendly event. Exercise your cognitive liberty appropriately.

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).

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
Kendra Amalie was born to a musical household; her mother worked as a country singer while she was growing up. While stationed in Chicago, Amalie 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, Amalie 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.

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.

MEGAN LEAH MCCORMICK | Death Doula
Megan Leah McCormick is a certified death doula and New York Zen Contemplative Studies program graduate. She is a TV presenter who was one of the main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel-adventure series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Australia, Canada, and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet). She also hosted the television series Sea Nation, which aired in 2010.

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.

SPARROW | Funeral Home
Sparrow is a full-service contemporary funeral home in New York City with service offerings ranging from the traditional to the unique. Located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Sparrow is a light-filled space consisting of two ‘celebration rooms,’ a street-facing retail store, and a compassionate, thoughtful, and thorough staff.