Maximal Listening: Experiencing Music With The Entire Body
“Maximum volume yields maximum results.” -Sunn O)))
Listen deeply.
There is a long history of cultures all around the world creating rituals of challenge. Sweat lodges, cold exposure, firewalking, tattooing, kambo…although the spiritual purposes may differ, they do share a function in strengthening will, reshaping habits, opening a participant to memories, visions, and insights, and accessing transformational states of consciousness by challenging the nervous system in a safe, contained, and voluntary way.
Maximal Listening is the practice of experiencing music with the entire body. We use experimental music combined with digital sound technologies and psychedelic guidance protocols to take you on a deep emotional journey of exploration, healing and growth. In this practice, you will be guided into and out of an intense experimental music experience in the complete darkness, which will transition you into a psychedelic state of consciousness without the use of any substances.
Note: Maximal Listening involves hearing and feeling very intense, confrontational, and loud instrumental music, and at times might make you feel difficult emotions and varying levels of discomfort. However, when you choose to be present with this discomfort voluntarily, it can be very beneficial to you, because you are consciously rather than unconsciously accessing the fight or flight response in your sympathetic nervous system. Maximal Listening is a safe ritualistic container for your process of exploration, healing, and growth.
Participants should bring a water bottle and eye mask. Ear plugs, blankets, pillows, water, and tea will be provided.