Fri, May 17 at 4:00 PM

Psychedelic Sangha: Back to Buddha Nature

Brooklyn, New York
$19.29 (includes all fees)

Featuring:
Garcia Peoples (Happenings House Band)
Bubba Ayoub (United Brotherhood of Psychedelic Lightshow Operators Local 420)
Jesse Jarnow (Disorganizer of Prankster Chaos and Chance Operations)
Connor Whiriskey (Sound Installations)
Jesse DeRosa (Taper’s Pit)
Teddy Gage (Motion Graphics)

Psychedelic Sangha (Your Grateful Hosts)

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Come rediscover your BUDDHA NATURE with spiritual friends—THE PSYCHEDELIC SANGHA—in a bespoke multi-sensory container informed by improvisational rock music by GARCIA PEOPLES, prankster chaos, flower power, and visionary Buddhist ritual and meditation.

BACK TO BUDDHA NATURE is a new series of IMMERSIVE HAPPENINGS modeled after the infamous ACID TESTS of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters—but with a ROBUST CONTEMPLATIVE COMPONENT. There will likewise be a healthy complement of UTTER CHAOS that falls under NONE OF THE ABOVE and for which your FULL HUMAN PRESENCE is lovingly requested.

BACK TO BUDDHA NATURE will feature 3 sets of music, light, historical video footage, and guided moments of highly visionary BUDDHIST meditation. As well as a host of playful SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES and fun RITUALS in between.

PARTICIPATION is an assumed part of the experience. Bring instruments, gadgets, mantras, zone shifters, drone generators, space-time flangers, whipplecyclotrons, found sounds, and/or a meditation cushion. Bring photos of personal saints and gurus and heroes of the underground. Bring flowers flags, incense, chimes, gongs, cymbals, symbols, costumes, joy. And don’t forget your dancing shoes!

Magick City is 1000 sq.ft. of acoustically luscious performance space for live music, art happenings, flavor raves, and be-ins.

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The general tone of things has moved on from the self-conscious happening to a more JUBILANT occasion where the AUDIENCE PARTICIPATES because it’s more fun to do so than not. maybe this is the ROCK REVOLUTION. audience DANCING is an assumed part of all the shows, & the audience is invited to wear ECSTATIC DRESS & bring their own GADGETS (a.c. outlets will be provided).
– The Trips Festival

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.
– Terence McKenna

The union of wisdom and emptiness is the essence of Buddha-hood or what is called Buddha-nature (Skt. Tathagata-garbha) because it contains the very seed, the potential of Buddhahood. It resides in each and every being and because of this essential nature, this heart nature, there is the possibility of reaching Buddhahood.

– Thrangu Rinpoche

Those who have completed an extensive retreat of Vajrasattva purification testify from their own experience that their perception of the phenomenal world undergoes a profound change. It is not that the world itself has been transformed but that the meditator’s view of it has been purified. It is as if the doors of perception have been opened wider and subtly obscuring curtains have been drawn back from the windows of the mind. Beings and phenomena take on a pure appearance—a reflection of the practitioner’s own newly revealed purity—and the gravitational field keeping us anchored in ordinary mundane reality is relaxed. Although this exhilarating vision of a world filled with infinite possibilities may fade, it provides a great incentive for pursuing the higher practices and a conviction that full enlightenment, though still a distant goal, is actually attainable.
– From Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice

DISCLAIMER: Psychedelic Sangha aims to create safe, communal spaces for Psychedelic Buddhists and Buddhistic Psychonauts. We also provide practical and intellectual pathways to harm reduction trainings through our event programing. We do not provide access to, distribute, or promote the use of illegal drugs.


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