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Psychedelic Sangha, 161 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

04/04/2026

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BARDO BATH:
“Dharma Art Empowerment”

Receive your “Dharma Art Empowerment” and rediscover the artist in you!

Dharma Art Productions and Psychedelic Sangha are proud to welcome special guests:

Poet Anne Waldman
Bassist William Parker
Poet-musicians Zoe Brezny & Mario Miron

And longtime collaborators:
Garcia Peoples
MACRODOSE
Chris Dingman
KENDRAPLEX
Clau Zerez & F***y Perez
Jesse Jarnow and more!

Join us (in person or online) at Judson Memorial Church in New York City’s West Village for an immersive experience into the luminous bardo of Dharmatā—a liminal space brimming with creativity.

This event features live performances and art baths designed to ignite the imagination, including performative poetry, rituals, live music, noise elements, light projection art, sing-alongs, and art-based activities.

“Creation Stage art and music for Psychedelic Buddhists and Buddhistic Psychonauts.” —Doc Kelley

Spread out on the dance floor with your mat, blanket, and cushion—rest assured, Psychedelic Sangha holds a safe space.

But be forewarned!

There are no singing bowls in this sound bath. Get ready for mind-altering music and poetry for deep listening and ecstatic dance.

“Trust your divinity, trust your brain, trust your companions. Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.” —Drs. Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, & Ralph Metzner

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03/28/2026

We are pleased to host the following distinguished artists, who will give in-person keynote speeches at our upcoming conference, PSYCHEDELIC BUDDHISM 2026: “The Practitioner as Artist,” starting Friday, April 24th in NYC.

*Performance poet Anne Waldman*

*Visionary artists Alex Grey and Allyson Grey*

*Avant-garde musician William Parker*

We invite you to attend for free at The New School, or register for online access (not free).

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03/17/2026

Whether you see yourself as an artist, practitioner, psychonaut—or a blend of all three—this conference aims to deepen your connection to the creative process as a spiritual practice.

Learn more at www.PsychedelicBuddhism.org

03/04/2026

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BARDO BATH:
“Dharma Art Empowerment”

Receive your “Dharma Art Empowerment” and rediscover the artist in you!

Dharma Art Productions and Psychedelic Sangha are proud to welcome special guests:

Poet Anne Waldman
Bassist William Parker
Poet-musicians Zoe Brezny & Mario Miron

And longtime collaborators:
Garcia Peoples
MACRODOSE
Chris Dingman
KENDRAPLEX
Clau Zerez & F***y Perez
Jesse Jarnow and more!

Join us (in person or online) at Judson Memorial Church in New York City’s West Village for an immersive experience into the luminous bardo of Dharmatā—a liminal space brimming with creativity.

This event features live performances and art baths designed to ignite the imagination, including performative poetry, rituals, live music, noise elements, light projection art, sing-alongs, and art-based activities.

“Creation Stage art and music for Psychedelic Buddhists and Buddhistic Psychonauts.” —Doc Kelley

Spread out on the dance floor with your mat, blanket, and cushion—rest assured, Psychedelic Sangha holds a safe space.

But be forewarned!

There are no singing bowls in this sound bath. Get ready for mind-altering music and poetry for deep listening and ecstatic dance.

“Trust your divinity, trust your brain, trust your companions. Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.” —Drs. Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, & Ralph Metzner

Ticket link in bio!

03/03/2026

Psychedelic Sangha and The Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College (The New School), invite you to participate in Psychedelic Buddhism 2026: “The Artist as Practitioner.”

We are honored to host the following distinguished artists, who will give in-person keynote speeches at the New School University on Friday, April 24th: performance poet Anne Waldman, visionary artists Alex Grey and Allyson Grey, and avant-garde jazz musician William Parker.

This year’s conference will focus on the modern artist as a spiritual practitioner, exploring how Psychedelic Buddhism and art can deepen awareness, promote compassion, and uncover the profound, non-dual essence of existence.

Our program features both in-person and online activities, including a film screening, a plenary session with keynote speakers at the New School University, three virtual panels, and an in-person art event at Judson Memorial Church.

Last year, we held our inaugural conference—a historic event, the first conference entirely dedicated to Buddhism and Psychedelics. It drew more than 600 people, both online and in person (see Matteo Pistono’s “Attitudes are shifting about Buddhism and Psychedelics” in Lion’s Roar).

Learn more here or via the link in bio.
www.PsychedelicBuddhism.org

02/26/2026

Today we are wishing Happy Re-Birthday and long life to Lama Mike Crowley!

Michael Crowley was born Feb. 26th, 1948 in Cardiff, Wales. He began studying Buddhism with a Tibetan lama in 1966, becoming an upasaka of the Kagyud lineage in 1970. In order to augment his Buddhist studies, he acquainted himself with Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mandarin Chinese.

Lama Mike has lectured at the Museum of Asia and the Pacific, Warsaw, the Jagellonian University, Cracow, The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His work has been published in Fortean Times, Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness, and Culture, Psychedelic American, and Psychedelic Press UK. In January 2016, Mike receved the R. Gordon Wasson Award for outstanding contributions to the field of entheobotany.

He currently serves on the advisory board of The Psychedelic Sangha, a group of psychedelically-inclined Buddhists, based in New York and he teaches at the Dharma Collective in San Francisco.

12/04/2025

presents,

“The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson:
MANDALA & SAMADHI”

Screening & Conversation

With Guest Speakers:

Erik Davis
Raymond Foye
Charles Stein

And moderator Doc Kelley

Saturday, December 6th
3:00 pm. EST

LIVE ONLINE
(with asynchronous viewing option)

Step into the “Cosmic Cinema” of avant-garde artist Jordan Belson (1926-2011) with dharmanaut Erik Davis, the inestimable scholar and curator Raymond Foye, and legendary alchemical poet Charles Stein.

Join us online for this rare opportunity to engage deeply with Belson’s films “Mandala” and “Samadhi,” as well as some of his two-dimensional art from the 1940s until his death in 2011.

We will take our time through the collection, meditating on each work, before engaging our guest speakers in a moderated conversation to share their thoughts and reflections.

We hope you will join us online for this deep dive into the work of a true elder in the lineage of Psychedelic Buddhism, and a profound influence on Psychedelic Sangha and Dharma Art Productions.

We are very grateful to the Belson estate for making these materials available.

“Jordan Belson (1926-2011) was one of those singular visionaries, a remarkable Bay Area-based artist and filmmaker whose meditative, trance-like 16mm shorts, most of which Belson created, in part, on a light table of his own design, are numinous, poetic, and aesthetically ravishing. Having already turned on before the Beats showed up — he was an old friend of Harry Smith when Smith still lived in the Bay — Belson walked his path of art mysticism for many decades, studying meditation, yoga, and comparative religion, and consuming more than the occasional visionary compound. His lifelong devotion to the Mystery shows in the best of ways. Films like “Samadhi”, “Cosmos”, and “Chakra” hand your third eye to you on a mandalic platter, plumbing the esoteric implications of abstraction so fundamental to modern art. But they also capture aspects of the internal phenomenology of meditation and trance like few other visual artifacts I know. Forget 2001: A Space Odyssey; in terms of cosmic cinema, this is The Sh*t.”

-Erik Davis

12/02/2025

presents,

“The Great Perfection and Psychedelics:
Self-Emergence, Substances & Practices”
With Guest Speaker David Germano, Ph.D.

December 2nd
7:00 pm EST

Live online
(With asynchronous viewing option)
Link in bio

Join guest speaker David Germano, with moderators Tomas Sander and Doc Kelley, for the next installment of our Speaker Series.

ABSTRACT:
Psychedelic-based experiences are characterized by powerful autonomous sensory experiences that unfold outside of either one’s internal intentions or the external stimulation of specific sensory objects. The Great Perfection (dzokchen) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism offers a variety of meditative practices focused on eliciting precisely such self-emergent experiences as part of a contemplative pathway aiming at transformative insight into the nature of self and reality. Its central practice of “direct transcendence” (thogel) involves sustained gazing to the side of the sun, at an empty sky, or in pitch black darkness to elicit self-emergent visions of colors, shapes, and patterns that gradually become mandalas of Buddhas. However, there are also a variety of other framing meditations that involve all five senses and focus on such self-emergent sensory experiences. These practices are then embedded within, and transformed by, a larger contemplative path and powerful philosophical system. I will explore the nature of these meditations in the hope of contributing to discussions of how best to practice psychedelics, how to interact with and respond to such self-emergent experiences, and how to develop broader theoretical frameworks for understanding their significance. In addition, the tradition in its early form draws extensively upon the sensory experience of material substances, including, in at least one important instance, hallucinatory substances.

11/11/2025

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VIBING VAJRASATTVA
Weekend Retreat

With Chris Dingman
Doc Kelley
Daphne McWilliams

February 6th - 8th
(out of town near NYC)

FREE ONLINE
INFORMATION SESSION

Sunday, December 4th
6:00 pm EST

RSVP link in bio

Join us for this free online information session where we will unpack the program and answer all your questions. Register here to receive the free Zoom link for this meeting.

PROGRAM BELOW

Live vibraphone by Chris Dingman
With guided meditation and support from
Doc Kelley and Doula Daphne McWilliams
Guest lectures by Lama Mike Crowley
Vibing Vajrasattva is a sonic-based psychedelic approach to Buddhist sādhanā practice that features a four-week incubation period of mostly autonomous practice, culminating in an in-person group weekend retreat, followed by online integration. These three phases — incubation, invocation, and integration — which we’ve dubbed our “Third Eye Approach” are inspired by the Vajrayāna Buddhist Mahāsiddha model in ancient India and Tibet.

The Mahāsiddha practitioners, a largely autonomous group of social misfits, were remarkable for their diversity of composition (coming from all walks of life and occupations) and for their tradition of periodically gathering as a sangha to hold space for the Ta***ic Feast (Skt. gaṇacakra Tib. tsok), a sensory-rich community engagement with the sādhanā believed to have included “amrita,” a psychoactive elixir used in sacraments on a large scale in the Buddhist world during the Middle Ages.

Our Third Eye Approach is also an evolution of Timothy Leary’s psychedelic protocol of “set and setting,” wherein the “set” includes the 4-week incubation phase in which the practitioner fosters a deep and personal connection with the practice in preparation for the more conventional “set and setting” on the day of the Ta***ic Feast (or weekend retreat).

This program is not intended to substitute the traditional Buddhist preliminary (ngöndro) practice of reciting 100,000 Vajrasattva mantras. There is no empowerment or refuge ceremony for this program, which is open to both Buddhists and non-Buddhists.

Learn more
www.PsychedelicSangha.org

11/09/2025

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It worked!

We may not have levitated the Pentagon or rid the White House of its demonic possession, but things are looking brighter here in New York City!

It was Anne Waldman’s clear white light that guided our way through the bardo last Sunday evening (November 2nd, Día de Mu***os) for DEMONS OUT! An Evening of Alchemical Music & Poetry at Sparrow Funeral Home in Brooklyn.

The occasion was to revive the energy of the original attempt to levitate and exorcise the Pentagon in 1967, which was led by Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders (not to mention Kenneth Anger).

At 6 pm, the music began …

Read the rest and see more photos at
The Paisley Gate (our free blog).

www.PsychedelicSangha.org

11/02/2025

& Dharma Art Productions
Present,

“The Cosmic Cinema of Jordan Belson:
MANDALA & SAMADHI”
Screening & Conversation

With Guest Speakers:
Erik Davis
Raymond Foye
Charles Stein

And moderator Doc Kelley

Saturday, December 6th
3:00 pm. EST

LIVE ONLINE
(with asynchronous viewing option)

Step into the “Cosmic Cinema” of avant-garde artist Jordan Belson (1926-2011) with dharmanaut Erik Davis, the inestimable scholar and curator Raymond Foye, and legendary alchemical poet Charles Stein.

Join us online for this rare opportunity to engage deeply with Belson’s films “Mandala” and “Samadhi,” as well as some of his two-dimensional art from the 1940s until his death in 2011.

We will take our time through the collection, meditating on each work, before engaging our guest speakers in a moderated conversation to share their thoughts and reflections.

We hope you will join us online for this deep dive into the work of a true elder in the lineage of Psychedelic Buddhism, and a profound influence on Psychedelic Sangha and Dharma Art Productions.

We are very grateful to the Belson estate for making these materials available.

“Jordan Belson (1926-2011) was one of those singular visionaries, a remarkable Bay Area-based artist and filmmaker whose meditative, trance-like 16mm shorts, most of which Belson created, in part, on a light table of his own design, are numinous, poetic, and aesthetically ravishing. Having already turned on before the Beats showed up — he was an old friend of Harry Smith when Smith still lived in the Bay — Belson walked his path of art mysticism for many decades, studying meditation, yoga, and comparative religion, and consuming more than the occasional visionary compound. His lifelong devotion to the Mystery shows in the best of ways. Films like “Samadhi”, “Cosmos”, and “Chakra” hand your third eye to you on a mandalic platter, plumbing the esoteric implications of abstraction so fundamental to modern art. But they also capture aspects of the internal phenomenology of meditation and trance like few other visual artifacts I know. Forget 2001: A Space Odyssey; in terms of cosmic cinema, this is The Sh*t.“
—Erik Davis

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