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There is a battle of the bands raging across the globe right now: psych rock bands vs. pan-psych rock bands.
Psych rock bands adopt the aesthetics of psychedelia as an excuse to "jam" for hours and hours on end. The idea is that this "jamming" will somehow rectify the mind-body problem by destroying its component parts, forcing us all into a state of boredom so profound that we lose all sense of our physical form and our minds alike. Not only do we find this to be an extremely dubious excuse for playing a single song for 37 minutes, the far more important problem with psych rock bands is that they pathetically insist on reinforcing the blatant falsity of a dualistic world view.
The real truth is that there is no mind-body problem to overcome. We all—all as in all, as in peacocks and mold slime and trees, but also all as in the entirety of you and the entirety of me, from our nose to our toes, from our quirks to our quarks, from our germs to our genes— are conscious.
In contrast, pan-psych rock bands do not “jam.” In fact, silence is their most defining feature. Pan-psych rock bands believe that at its most fundamental level, all matter is conscious. They believe this is a pan-psychist world.
Pan-psych rock bands stand in the space between things and offer a resounding affirmation, a YES! The anthem they sing is the hit collaborative single— I and Thou are We. Pan-psych rock bands turn the mind-body problem on its head— literally— and direct us to a world of enchanted charisma and immanent mentality.
some favorite psych rock bands:
Psych rock bands adopt the aesthetics of psychedelia as an excuse to "jam" for hours and hours on end. The idea is that this "jamming" will somehow rectify the mind-body problem by destroying its component parts, forcing us all into a state of boredom so profound that we lose all sense of our physical form and our minds alike. Not only do we find this to be an extremely dubious excuse for playing a single song for 37 minutes, the far more important problem with psych rock bands is that they pathetically insist on reinforcing the blatant falsity of a dualistic world view.
The real truth is that there is no mind-body problem to overcome. We all—all as in all, as in peacocks and mold slime and trees, but also all as in the entirety of you and the entirety of me, from our nose to our toes, from our quirks to our quarks, from our germs to our genes— are conscious.
In contrast, pan-psych rock bands do not “jam.” In fact, silence is their most defining feature. Pan-psych rock bands believe that at its most fundamental level, all matter is conscious. They believe this is a pan-psychist world.
Pan-psych rock bands stand in the space between things and offer a resounding affirmation, a YES! The anthem they sing is the hit collaborative single— I and Thou are We. Pan-psych rock bands turn the mind-body problem on its head— literally— and direct us to a world of enchanted charisma and immanent mentality.
some favorite psych rock bands:
Jefferson Airplane
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Grateful Dead
Phish
some favorite panpsych rock bands:
Cool Hand Luke
Princess and the Pea
I Contain Multitudes
Wolves in the Throne Room
Phish