The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer

  Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 8 PM! Please join us for a wildly original theatrical spectacle designed to get you up-close-and-personal to the God/dess. If you can imagine an event that feels like "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" or "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," only with serious sacred intent, you're on the right track. The FCDB Entheogenic Mass is a ritual magic dance party that gives you the opportunity to do collective shadow work that helps save the world! Get your tickets here!

While in a psychedelically-altered state of consciousness, you can intensify the vividness and information density of your closed-eye visuals--at will.  You can also influence their symbolic content. You can ameliorate any anxieties that arise, and even, should it become necessary, fight off predatory or parasitic entities that sense vulnerability and attack. How? By singing. You can control your psychedelic experiences by singing . Everyone knows psychedelics and music go together like chocolate and peanut butter. These medicines can enhance your experience of music, let you hear things you never noticed, stimulate pleasure in ways you never expected. Psychedelic researches like Timothy Leary, Stanislov Grof, and Christopher Bache have used music to drive their own journeys and those of others. And of course, in the ayahuasca space, practioners use icaros , sacred songs, to treat their patients. But have you ever considered why and how music can have these effects? The Phonomanti...

  The Entheogenic Mass is not a performance. It’s a form of experimental, participatory theater designed to create a direct and immediate experience of the Sacred. You are asked to play the dramatic role of FCDB believer. Even if you don’t believe, act like you do. If that feels weird, try framing the Mass as a kind of role-playing game set two hundred years from now. You’re an adherent of a psychedelic religion that holds that during the 20 th Century, the Divine returned to Earth in the form of popular music to save our civilization from its suicidal nosedive. By working with the songs in the Mass, you’re endeavoring to connect to Akasha, the Goddess of the Future, and channel Her energy into the world. In so doing, you can help humanity survive the myriad existential threats we face and build our glorious destiny, the science fictional Suffragette City.   To that end, please sit, stand, and dance as requested, and please do your best to feel the emotions the songs are ...

  For many people, religion is a poison word. To them, "religion" is synonymous with Christianity, and given the sex scandals, pedophiliac criminal conspiracies, hypocritical teachings of a "prosperity gospel," and fascistic nationalism that have tainted Christianity in the United States, it's not hard to understand why. But that antipathy doesn't squelch the longing for something transcendent, some framework of meaning that helps make sense out of life. So, looking outside the church, people identify as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR) and graze at a buffet table of belief systems--a ladle of Buddhism, a heaping helping of Law of Attraction, a side of quantum theory, etc.  Which is fine! But also a missed opportunity. Your enjoyment of almost any experience can be amplified by doing it alongside other people. Whether it's rock climbing, enjoying a comedy show, dancing, or eating dinner, when the right people-- your people--gather to engage...