191. Commusings: If You Get Confused, Just Listen to the Music Play

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Commusings is our Sunday morning newsletter where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. Today Jeff recounts a few of his early misadventures in the orbit of the Grateful Dead and how his lifelong love of music, pursuit of well-being, and desire to foster community have interwoven in gratifying and unexpected ways. He also introduces Commune's latest course, Sound Consciousness: Drones for Sonic Bathing, which features Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and table virtuoso Zakir Hussain. You can watch and listen to Sound Consciousness for free for 5 days at onecommune.com/sound. And for more musings and quotes, sign up for our weekly Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com, or connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasno. So many of you may receive my weekly
0:10.7	Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical.
0:16.7	And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it as a bonus
0:21.9	episode. So today's recitation offers a window into some of my madcap misadventures with the
0:28.3	legendary band, The Grateful Dead. This musing is inspired by Commune's new program,
0:34.2	Sound Consciousness, with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Tablo Virtuoso
0:38.9	Zakir Hussein. You can access the program at Onecommon.com slash sound. Also, a brief note of
0:47.5	self-promotion. I've recently released a compendium of all my 2020 commusing articles. The book is
0:53.7	titled Communion,
0:55.2	2020, and the middle path back to reason, morality, and each other. You can purchase one
1:00.9	if you're so inclined at Onecommun.com slash communion. And if you aren't totally sick of me,
1:07.0	you can follow my regular rantings on Instagram at Jeff Krasno. So without further
1:12.9	ado, here is this week's commusing titled, Ify Volvo station wagon, and set off for Hartford, Connecticut.
1:47.3	My tummy was a bit rumbly, my palms clammy. We were on an adventure. Despite my jitters, Tony was a portrait of stoicism, expressionless
1:55.9	behind the wheel. We once drove through the entire state of Nevada without exchanging a word.
2:02.2	Framed by round, Lenin-style spectacles, Tony's lizard eyes provided little visibility into his complex brain.
2:11.2	The journey required music, of course.
2:13.9	Tony instructed me, as he was up to do, to fetch the cassette case from underneath the seat.
2:20.1	I unzipped it to find 64 chronologically arranged bootlegs all meticulously labeled in Tony's
2:27.1	patented all caps penmanship. I fished out a tape marked Greek theater, Berkeley, California, 1984, and handed it to Avery, Tony's girlfriend, who was installed as co-pilot.
2:40.3	She popped it in the player as Tony lit up his gilded proto pipe.
2:44.9	The elixer of wafting weed smoke and slippery guitar licks calmed my nerves as we bananaed onto the Merritt Parkway and headed north.
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