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Living Room
Music's Lessons for Mystics: Three songs and a
talk on secular transcendence by Austin Dacey
 THIS WEDNESDAY
May 26, 2010
6 pm Doors, 7 pm Program
Intersections, 274 5th Ave
Btwn 29th
and 30th Sts
With Austin Dacey
Co-Sponsored
by the
Center for Inquiry, NYC
The
experience of the transcendent is often taken as the hallmark of
religion. Or is it the hallmark of the human? Must meaningful
transcendence of self proceed upwards to touch the divine, or is it
better directed outwards to
touch truth, beauty, and other persons? In
this presentation, secularist philosopher (and amateur musician) Austin
Dacey examines music as a model of non-religious, "horizontal"
transcendence. Discussing his activities on behalf of censored musicians
from around the world, and performing samples from his study of
traditional Irish singing, he explores his own favored modes of
self-transcendence that keep both feet on the earth.
Austin Dacey is a writer and human rights activist based in New York City. He is the
author of The Secular Conscience, and his writings have been published
by the New York Times, Washington Post, Dissent, and USA Today. A
philosopher by training, he has taught most recently at Marymount
Manhattan College. He serves as an adviser to Freemuse: The World Forum on Music and Censorship. In
March 2010 he launched The Impossible Music Sessions,
a concert series featuring the artists who cannot appear and
the music they are not free to make. He is still seeking a percussionist
for his new band, The Free Reed Faction.
RSVPs welcome,
but not required, on Facebook or Meetup.com
 This Living Room event is Co-Sponsored by the Center for Inquiry, NYC, whose mission is to "foster a secular society
based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values." Visit
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June Living Room Events
Peter Rollins & Spiritual Storytelling
 Our 2009-10 season is ending with two more wonderful Living Rooms in June.
June 9 Peter Rollins, Founder of Ikon &
author of How (Not) to Speak of God
June 23 Carole Forman, Spiritual Storytelling
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