BARDO BATH

Immersive rock music sound bath with guided meditation and visuals

Take a trip with Psychedelic Sangha into the bardo for an eyes-wide-open guided meditation into numinous improvised music soundscapes with surreal visuals.

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.

Our Bardo Baths are “dose friendly,” featuring onsite risk reduction facilitators, and range in scale and length. The largest and longest baths are held at Judson Memorial Church (Manhattan) and Weylin (Brooklyn). They feature live improvised music, group meditation, sound installations, light art, playful rituals, divination, performative poetry, spontaneous improvisation, video art, and a specially curated “Bardo Bazaar” marketplace for vendors.

Smaller, shorter baths are held at venues like Tibet House New York, The Rubin Museum, The Alembic (Berkeley, CA), and Sparrow Funerary Home. These baths focus more on traditional Buddhist death meditations, often featuring a death dula-facilitated integration circle.

“Liberty resides in its exercise.”

— John Perry Barlow

“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

SOUNDS FROM THE BARDO

Bandcamp series of DIY Bardo Baths

Sounds from the Bardo is an album-based series of immersive journeys produced by Psychedelic Sangha. Each Bandcamp digital album is a unique sensory adventure featuring guided meditation, exclusive music, and an accompanying digital light art show.

In 1966 Drs. Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, and Ralph Metzner released The Psychedelic Experience, an album designed to be used as an audio guide for navigating the inner space of the bardo. “Bardo,” in this case, being Tibetan for the liminal space of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep—a hypnagogic state wherein the mind is untethered from the body and free to experience new ways of engaging in sensory experience.

Sounds from the Bardo is inspired by The Psychedelic Experience LP in that it aims to provide a stand-alone album that can be used to explore the bardo. SftB also acts as a virtual, ‘packable’ compliment to the in-person Bardo Bath series Psychedelic Sangha has been hosting at Judson Memorial Church and HiFi Loft in NYC.

Listeners may experience the albums as they wish, choosing to guide their journey via these original performances of light, sound and meditation.