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A Long Strange Trip: Exploring How Yoga-Narasimha Landed on the Grateful Dead’s First Album Cover

July 30, 2018 4 Comments

Deepak Sarma He did suggest that I try to interview living members of the band but, alas, I am still pursuing that unreachable lead.

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Jerry Garcia on the Grateful Dead Concert Experience

March 31, 2017 Leave a Comment

Dead concert = religious experience?

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Friends of the Devil?: Deadheads, Religion and Spirituality

July 23, 2015 2 Comments
Grateful Dead Painting

Scott Muir In a recent Sacred Matters post, Gary Laderman suggested that the recent widespread celebration of the Grateful Dead represents both a plentiful harvest of the seeds sown in the countercultural upheaval of the 1960s and a harbinger of the future of religious life in a country increasingly disaffiliated from major religious traditions. Earlier this month, I surveyed 147 Deadheads. 

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