frequencies

a collaborative genealogy of spirituality

Wavelength: subculture

obsession

by John Lardas Modern

WAVELENGTHS: academia, addiction, community, interiority, subculture

automatic writing

by Darryl Caterine

WAVELENGTHS: automatic writing, belief, practice, ritual, spiritualism, subculture

cannabis club

by Luís León

WAVELENGTHS: Cheech and Chong, community, experimentation, marijuana, mysticism, practice, racism, subculture

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

by Melissa Wilcox

WAVELENGTHS: AIDS, community, holiday, ritual, sexuality, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, subculture

LSD

by Gary Laderman

WAVELENGTHS: 1960s, Andrew Weil, experimentation, Huston Smith, psychedelics, psychiatry, subculture, Timothy Leary

magic

by Tanya Luhrmann

WAVELENGTHS: academia, druids, magic, modernity, nature of reality, ritual, subculture

espresso

by Paul Christopher Johnson

WAVELENGTHS: Bachelard, Bergson, espresso, food, Futurism, Marinetti, Roland Barthes, subculture, technology, transnational circuits

Burning Man

by Lee Gilmore

WAVELENGTHS: Burning Man, community, nature, radicalism, ritual, subculture, syncretism, technology, transgression

The Church of William Blake

by Thomas Csordas

WAVELENGTHS: Allen Ginsberg, artists colony, community, institutional skepticism, performance, poetry, spiritualism, subculture, William Blake

Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

by Joshua Dubler

WAVELENGTHS: dancing, Eliade, experience, hearing, Holocaust, indie rock, music, sexuality, skepticism, subculture