Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.
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Millions of people on every continent of planet Earth, regularly coming together in ecstatic trance-dance celebrations held and energized by pulsing electronic beats, are having the deepest spiritual experience of their lives. In this thoroughly fascinating study, religious scholar Robin Sylvan makes a convincing case for regarding the global rave culture as an authentic expression of a unifying spiritual vision that integrates across all languages, religions and nationalities. Reading this book, as well as going to a rave, will leave you inspired and hopeful for our sadly fractured world.
–Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., co-author of The Psychedelic Experience and author of The Unfolding Self
–Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., co-author of The Psychedelic Experience and author of The Unfolding Self
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Robin Sylvan, Ph.D., is the founder and director of The Sacred Center, a nonprofit educational organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music.
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I love trance music. I love non-fiction reading. But I didn't really enjoy reading this book. Its really more of a longer thesis than a book. The beginning of the book is actually very very compelling, giving a history of how raving began, and how it unites many together.
I didn't finish this book. I got about 80% through and it got weird. The general feeling of the book changed greatly. Focusing more on spirit-ism and good vs evil spirit vibes. In addition the interviews were often times duplicated or only partially re-quoted as the book continued on. Sometimes even the short interjections from the author repeated. Overall, if you are looking for a new way of looking at religion or music even, you may want to pick this book up, (it's kinda pricey for only ~180 pages) but if you are looking for information about raves / electronic music, or even a brief history of said music, look elsewhere.
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global rave culture, one raver, everything inside the container, many ravers, rave crews, rave communities, other ravers, rave experience, rave community, electronic dance music, rave phenomenon, full moon gatherings, most raves, rave scene, primary religious experience, rave events, interview with the author, many raves, trance formation, rave music, experiential states, trance dancing, mystery school Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rhythm Society, San Francisco, Bay Area, United States, Burning Man, Tribal Harmonix, West Coast, Gathering of the Tribes, Love Parade, Los Angeles, Summer of Love, New Year, New York, British Columbia, African American, Hart Plaza, Juan Atkins, New Age, Ocean Deep, Saturday Night Fever, Storm Sessions, Toon Town New!
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- Encyclopedia of Religion Vol 4 Conc - Ecol on 4 pages
- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner on page 101, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Music and Trance: A Theory of the Relations Between Music and Possession by Gilbert Rouget on page 113, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- More Than Dancing: Essays on Afro-American Music and Musicians (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Irene V. Jackson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing by Judith Becker on page 56, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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