Chöd: Cutting Through with Isaiah Mitchell and friends

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Philosophical Research Society | Los Angeles, CA

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Enter the charnel ground and cut through the demons of ego-clinging w/avant-garde electric guitar, animated artwork, & guided meditation!
About this Event

Dharma Art Productions Presents:

Chöd: Cutting Through with Isaiah Mitchell and friends – Live Music + Psychedelic Artwork + Guided Meditation


Enter the charnel ground and cut through the demons of ego-clinging with a live avant-garde electric guitar performance by Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless), featuring original animated artwork by Arik Moonhawk Roperand guided meditation by Doc Kelley (Psychedelic Sangha).


Chöd “to sever, to cut” is a Tibetan meditation practice, first developed by the eleventh-century yoginī Machig Labdrön, that aims to cut through the demons of hindrance and obscuration that block our realization of our true nature. The practitioner of Chöd seeks to utilize the power of fear to cut through ego-clinging. Machig Labdrön writes, “… [T]here is no greater devil than this present ego-clinging, and because of this all the devils will rear their ugly heads as long as one has not severed this clinging to ego.”


Join us for this immersive Dharma Art experience in the auditorium at PRS!


BIOS


Arik Moonhawk Roper attended the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1991-1995 specializing in cartooning, illustration, and screen printing. He has since developed a devoted following creating seminal record covers and screenprint posters for a wide variety of bands including rock and metal legends such as Earth, Sunn O))), Sleep, Howlin' Rain, High on Fire, The Black Crowes, Kvelertak, Cathedral, Astra, Earthless, and Windhand among many others. His influences include diverse artists and styles ranging from comic and fantasy art to graphic design and classic illustration. Roper’s work encompasses a diverse field of design and distinct style, ranging from black and white illustration, to meticulous lettering and logo design, to rich abstract psychedelic color and landscapes that often seem to exist in their own universe. The imagery springs from the depths of a fertile imagination, invoking psychedelic visions, ancient dreams, and idyllic natural environments. With an interest in mythology, consciousness, psychology, religion and other timeless subjects, Roper mixes the light and the dark within his art to reveal imagery which is at once strangely unique, distantly familiar and always soaked with an earnestly fantastic aesthetic.


His book, Mushroom Magick (Abrams, 2009), is a vividly surreal collection of exotic fungal species from around the world. His art has also appeared in books such as De Gotham City a Metropolis by French Paper Art Club, Juxtapoz New Contemporaries, Revisionaries: A Decade of Art in Tokion, Appendix N: The Eldritch Root son Dungeons & Dragons, and Taschen's Plant Magick. His collected art book Vision of the Hawk: The Art of Arik Moonhawk Roper was published by Strange Attractor Press in 2023. www.arikroper.com


Doc Kelley teaches Buddhism and Asian religion at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School University in New York City. He is also the founder of Psychedelic Sangha; a non-sectarian and non-traditional spiritual community for Psychedelic Buddhists and Buddhistic Psychonauts. He earned an M.A. in Buddhist Studies and a Ph.D. in Religion at Columbia University where he studied under Dr. Robert A. F. Thurman. www.psychedelicsangha.org



Ticket Price: $20 in advance / $25 at the door (in-person event only).

Please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.


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Please note this particular event is being held in a space that is not wheelchair accessible.


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In the event that PRS is forced to cancel an event entirely, tickets will be refunded or vouchers offered for a rescheduled event


PARKING

Limited parking is available onsite at PRS in both the front lot (entry from Los Feliz Blvd. when heading east) and back lot (entry from first alley way, off Griffith Park Blvd. from intersection with Los Feliz Blvd.), as well as street parking on Griffith Park Blvd. and on Los Feliz Blvd (after 7pm). We encourage attendees to consider carpooling, walking or biking to events if possible, and to please be considerate of our Los Feliz neighbors when parking.


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