#Psychedelic Light Therapy Mississippi

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Exploring Psychedelic Light Therapy in Mississippi! 

Summary: Psychedelic light therapy Mississippi offers a drug-free way to explore altered states of consciousness, providing benefits like creativity and deeper meditation.

Do you want to experience a positive trance state? Would you like to explore altered states of consciousness safely and naturally? If so, you will be amazed to know that Psychedelic light therapy paves a great way to achieve these states without relying on drugs or anything harmful to your body. 

What is Psychedelic light therapy Mississippi? 

In this therapy,  stroboscopic or flashing lights are used which transports the user's mind to altered states of consciousness without the usage of any drug or psychedelic substances. A typical session involves synchronized light and sound to create profound visual and auditory experiences. This therapy aims to provide relaxation, stress reduction, and personal transformation to the practitioner. 

The therapy creates a safe and controlled setting where people can experience mental and emotional changes. These changes might include more creativity, deeper meditation, and improved mental health.

Can light be used for therapeutic purposes? Let's explore Roxiva light therapy:

The Roxiva device makes use of flashing lights to help you quickly enter deep trance-like states. This is easy and effective to use- all you have to do is press a button and lights will handle the rest. These trans states improve you in your routine life and help you make big changes in your personal life and work.

Whereas, for some, attending a session of roXiva light therapy near me is to experience a special, psychedelic-like state. Additionally, the idea of using light and sound to train their brains and improve themselves encourages them to join these sessions.

The reasons why people choose drug-free psychedelic experiences. 

Since time immemorial, people have been using trance-like states to seek spiritual inspiration. You must have heard and seen, tribal cultures using practices like chanting and drumming to bring a positive shift in their state of mind. 

Modern drug laws and potential side effects of psychedelic drugs cause people to avoid using them despite their transformative effects. Because of these laws, people used psychedelics in private, and only recently are they becoming more accepted again. These laws also led to the development of alternative practices like holotropic breathwork, a breathing technique created by a therapist who originally researched LSD.

Do Psychedelic Experiences Have Negative or Scary Aspects?

Many people avoid using psychedelic drugs because they fear having a bad or unknown experience. As a result, they miss out on a powerful way to reach a state where change becomes easier. People prefer to feel in control, which is why drug-free psychedelic experiences are becoming more popular.

A bad trip can be very unsettling and lead to lasting anxiety. The environment and your mood can strongly impact the likelihood of having a bad trip. Despite being challenging or frightening, mystical psychedelic experiences often bring about significant positive changes.

Conclusion

So, if you want to experience different states in the safest way then Psychedelic Light Therapy Mississippi is a promising choice. By using synchronized light and sound, therapies like Roxiva can help individuals enter deep trance-like states without the risks associated with drug use. Whether seeking relaxation, enhanced creativity, or deeper meditation, these therapies offer powerful tools for positive transformation in a controlled and manageable way.

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A Trip to the Sun Ra archives on the occasion of his 104th birthday, as recounted by Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records

Eric Isaacson, owner of Portland’s singular Mississippi Records, and Libby Werbel, curator of Portland Museum of Modern Art, traveled to Chicago last month to check out the Sun Ra archives, housed at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library. Libby is currently curating a show at Portland Art Museum dedicated to Sun Ra, opening later this year. Here, Eric reports on their pilgrimage to Chicago for the week of what would have been Sun Ra’s 104th birthday, plus the genesis of his love for Saturn’s favorite son. 

Before I get into a narrative about me and Libby's trip to Chicago, please indulge me as I write a digressive personal anecdote about the kismet that first led me to Sun Ra.

In the early 1990s, I was traveling through the USA in a van seeing the country for the very first time. In Phoenix, Arizona, I stumbled into a really bad record store, filled with over priced Beatles, Eagles and Rolling Stones collectables. The man behind the counter obviously considered himself a great music scholar and psychedelic warrior of the 60s.  On the floor, beneath a record rack, I found a box filled with strange homemade looking records. The covers were all hand painted and had titles like The Other Side Of The Sun, Disco 3000, Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy, My Brother the Wind and so on. I had never even heard of the artist they were all attributed to — Sun Ra. 

Intrigued by the covers, I asked the record store clerk how much they cost and he said, "Aw, those records all sound like a bunch of noise... and they don't even have real covers, just those hand painted junky lookin' ones. You can have them for $2 each."  Something about the vibe of the record store clerk was so awful and the records seemed to be emanating the exact opposite vibe — so they called to me. The clerk’s contempt for them really did help their cause in my eyes. I was broke, but I bought the whole box.

This began my life long love of Sun Ra.

I used to be the manager of a record store in Oakland called Saturn Records (named after Sun Ra's record label), and now I run a record store and label in Portland, Oregon called Mississippi Records. Our retail shop always has at least 50 different Sun Ra titles in stock. Obsessive? You betcha. Libby Werbel runs an art gallery out of the basement of the record store called "The Portland Museum Of Modern Art." When she first started scheming on what she wanted to show at her gallery, a Sun Ra related show was at the top of the list. Through her world class work at PMOMA, she was recently invited to be visiting artistic director at the actual Portland Art Museum, curating 18 months worth of programing in their contemporary art wing under the theme of "building our own monuments." Who deserves monuments more than Sun Ra, the hardest working man in show business?

This led us to Chicago. The Sun Ra archive is held within the marvelous brutalist architectural library at the University of Chicago, within 150 boxes of varying size. Alton Abrahams, who ran Sun Ra's label Saturn with him and managed the band, donated all the materials to the University’s special Jazz Archive for safe keeping. We requested to spend 3 days combing through the archive, selecting the ephemera and artifacts we’d borrow for a full-on Sun Ra retrospective show at the Portland Art Museum. It was a great joy. The University doesn’t allow public documentation of the treasures in their archive (Editor’s note: the images herein were all swiped from the web), but trust me, it’s a mindblower, especially all the amazing posters of Chicago shows — Sun Ra with Alice Coltrane, Albert Ayler, the MC5 and on and on.

Sun Ra claimed that in 1938, a bright light appeared around him, and, as he says, "My whole body changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up... I wasn't in human form... I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn... they teleported me and I was down on a stage with them. They wanted to talk with me. They had one little antenna on each ear. A little antenna over each eye. They talked to me. They told me to stop attending college because there was going to be great trouble in schools... the world was going into complete chaos... I would speak through music, and the world would listen. That's what they told me."

By the time he arrived in Chicago in 1945, Sun Ra was deeply immersed in the study of music, and the city was the perfect incubator for his unique vision. Despite Sun Ra's personal attempts to obscure his own origins and journey — he loved to be cloaked in mystery and intrigue — the story of Sun Ra since his landing in Chicago has been covered widely and well. His was a nuanced vision, and the picture posthumously constructed by the cold light of archivists and historians would not have been to interesting to him.

Like the man said:

"If death is the absence of life/then death's death is life"

After the cut: some stray observations we had in Chicago during the downtime between our long dredges through the fantastic 150 boxes of Sun Ra's historic artifacts. 

+ We arrived in Chicago off a red eye flight, bleary eyed and near psychedelic from the lack of sleep. Our dear friend Gordon, who happens to work at the Stumptown Coffee situated in the lobby of the Ace Hotel, picked us up at 6 AM and quickly corrected our condition with some cold brew.

+ Truth be told, I am first and foremost a food tourist and the legends of Chicago's 78 neighborhoods of ethnic food offerings was beyond exciting. Gordon was kind enough to lay down a beautiful list of must visit restaurants, some of them within walking distance of Ace. Two blocks away was a tiny Japanese restaurant called Ramen Takeya, which we had to visit twice due to a near religious experience we had while eating a salmon chirashi bowl with crunchy onion bits. We also ate incredible Naples-style pizza, which they cut with scissors to whatever size your heart desires, so you can get away with trying six pies in one sitting. A trip to Chinatown landed us at a perfect no nonsense dim sum place, and then there was the Greek deli that served a spinach pie as big as two fists of fury.

+ We managed to do some non-food related things too — like take a great stroll to the Garden of the Phoenix, a small island park across from the Museum of Science and Industry, replete with its own charming Japanese garden on the water an a surprise sculpture by none other than Yoko Ono. 

+ We went and drank martinis at Al Capone’s old haunt called the Green Mill Cocktail lounge and at in the dark smoke crusted dive in what we were told was his favorite booth. 

+ On our last day we made our pilgrimage to the MCA to catch the Howardena Pindell retrospective which managed to move Libby to tears. Her dedication and political conviction was exactly what both of us needed to see. 

+ Since we had some more time to kill before our evening flight out, we made our way to the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art and upon arrival felt like we hit pay dirt! This place was amazing! Libby waxed poetic about the long history of Chicago and the surrounding areas radical community of self-taught artists and we got to see some of our favorites displayed unassumingly in all their glory. They had everyone: Lee Godie, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Simon Sparrow, Mose Tolliver and Jimmy Lee Sudduth (to name a few) and a full-on recreation of Henry Darger’s apartment, which immediately creeped us both out. It was a perfect treat to the end of our trip, and solidified our belief that Chicago is a city filled to the brim with things to discover. We can’t wait to come back.