Feild Trippin
Day 2 in Death Valley
With about 1 hour of sleep after the most paranormal night of my life, I headed to Furnace Creek for a little field trip for myself. I had a few specific things in mind to achieve.
Go To Artist Palette
Do some field recording. I brought a special highly sensitive microphone to record the sounds of nature, and read about a spot in Death Valley where you could hear the sounds of crystalized salt popping and cracking on a hot day. And I wanted to record it for a music concept I had called “Soil Music”. Like Soul Music, but made with soil. Soil sounds. Wow. I’m realizing how weird I am when I write these things out.
See Badwater Basin with the lights on.
I went to Badwater Basin, and saw everyone walking out to where I just was hours earlier. Did that really happen? Was it a dream? It was very strange to see Badwater Basin with the lights on just hours after the event that changed me forever.
Between 2 Carls
I grew up looking up to Carl Sagan. But Carl Jung has slowly become my favorite Carl over time. I love both of my Carls, and I shouldn’t pick a favorite Carl. But Jung might go down as the smartest human to ever live, and his takes on UFO’s and Ghosts really resonated with my experience(s). Both can be discussed in a mature way if people are open to it.
I went to Death Valley to see the cosmos, and found myself in some very deep Jungian psychology stuff.
Maybe Motor Ghost wasn’t lost? Maybe I was, and he was scaring me back on my path?
Maybe “Ride around Shining” was a synchronicity. A seemingly unrelated event, but with a clear cause. They were riding and shining. Out of all songs to be playing that one was pretty much on the nose.
Maybe I should have googled Marta Becket, the owner of the Amaragosa Opera House. She has a beautiful story. She was a dreamer who lived to 92, and was ferociously committed to her vision and her art. Offering inspiration to all dreamers and seekers.
Maybe the UFO’s came because of my silly little narrative of wanting to see the love in the universe. It was “the most peaceful I’d ever felt” when it happened. IDK?
My reality was bending, and “Ride Around Shining” was quickly becoming the official song of this journey.
It was too windy in the day to record “Soil Music”. And too windy at night to do astrophotography. I went back to Badwater Basin at 2AM to see my friends, but nature had other ideas. I was slowly losing my marbles, as you will see in the next page.