The Grateful Dead and Synchronicity? 💀🎸🗲

My Grateful Dead keyring (centre)

When it comes to the Grateful Dead, I guess that I'm just a 'touch head' instead of a 'dead head', because I've never done acid or been to a GD live concert (I've never been outside of Australia until this year, barring New Zealand in 1977).

Touchhead?

I just like their music, but don't love it, like I do Bruce Springsteen's, John Lennon's or Peter Gabriel's.

Turtles, Australia Zoo and The Grateful Dead?

The Grateful Dead sticker on my windscreen

I have had a Grateful Dead sticker on the last 3 cars I have owned and when some people see it they ask me if I'm a dead head and I used to say that I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a dead head, but now I know that dead heads would say that I'm a touch head instead.

Fair enough, I guess.

I have to admit that it was more their artwork, than their music that drew me to them as musicians.

I do own a lot of Grateful Dead CDs, but only play them very occasionally.

Season 1: Episode 8

I wrote recently about listening to this podcast episode above in this post -

Jung and the Post-Human Age? 🤖📱

Introducing Dead and Gone

While Season 1: Episode 8 is a good episode to listen to about the subject of synchronicity, the overall two seasons of 'Dead and Gone' finishes in a dead end with a few lines from a Grateful Dead song called 'New Speedway Boogie' - "Things went down we don't understand But I think in time we will ... One way or another This darkness got to give".

In that Season 1: Episode 8 there are some really interesting "strange things happen"/synchronicity stories surrounding the Grateful Dead and especially band member Robert Hunter (who passed away on mine and Bruce Springsteen's birthday in 2019).  

Jake Brennan is a good storyteller, whether or not his stories, or the ones written for him to tell, are true or not.

DisGraceland is another of Jake Brennan's podcasts that I recently found with some interesting stories about the music industry and its personalities.

DisGraceland:
Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

The latest two episodes of DisGraceland are about the Grateful Dead I see:-)

Grateful Dead Pt. 1:
Freedom's Just Another Word for…

Kinda funny how Jake starts off that part 1 episode above with a Charles Manson quote and that Jerry Garcia died on August 9th, 1995 (the anniversary of the Manson Murders). 
Coincidence/synchronicity?

The Grateful Dead Pt. 2:
The Ballad of Pigpen and Old,
Weird America—an Origin Story

Keep on Truckin' Jake.

Life's a journey, not a destination:-)

How to Celebrate Stepmother’s Day?🍎🏰🥳🎉

May 18th

I hadn't heard of Stepmother's Day before, but then again, I've never had a stepmother to worry about ... thank God ... mother;-)

When I think of stepmothers it's always the evil ones that come to mind to me for some reason.

"As the name implies, it is dedicated to stepmothers, and it is the day that’s celebrated on the Sunday after Mother’s Day."

I wouldn't celebrate the day by asking your stepmother along to the cinema to see the new 'Snow White' movie, unless you really don't like your stepmother;-)

Snow White (2025)

This Jungian Life: Ready for the Real Snow White?🎥📕🍎🎬

May 11th

May 11th

Mother's Day Falls on World Ego Awareness Day This Year? 🌹🐦📕📖🤩😍

Creative Codex, $ynchronicity & The $pirit of Creative Geniu$?🃏🤔💭

I put in an Apple Podcast search for podcast episodes about "synchronicity" and up came the most recent podcast episode of the Creative Codex podcast about the tarot titled 'The Tarot • Part II: Synchronicity & The Spirit of Creative Genius', which was a follow up to a previous episode called 'The Tarot • Part 1: Tarot's Origins & The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious', so I listened to them in reverse order:-)

I see that MJDorian has gone down the same sponsorship rabbit hole as Kelly Chase by promoting 'Magic Mind' as a wonder pick-me-up, when I see it as no better than a placebo effect, if any, but maybe these podcast hosts just want to believe in what they are saying about this expen$ive green $hit stuff -

It did nothing for my mind in Golden

Cosmosis: Selling Snake Oil in the Year of the Snake?🐍💊🛸👽😞😕

51: The Tarot • Part II: Synchronicity
& The Spirit of Creative Genius

Tarot's Origins & The Archetypes
of the Collective Unconscious

I've written about the Creative Codex podcast in previous posts a few years back such as these -

Feed Your Head in Bed?

Creative Geniuses Are Always Outliers?

Creative Codex Podcast #39: Carl Jung & Alchemy
  • Part I: Dreams, Art, & Synchronicity

Shrinkronicity?🏥😛

Creative Codex Podcast

I wish MJDorian well in his future podca$ting endevour$, and while I found the two episodes about the tarot thought provoking, I'm not one for paying for podcasts and $igning up to people's Patreon $ites.

When it comes to podcasts that start out free and then start asking for handout$ from li$teners to stay afloat, I say sink or swim.

But I don't mind having to put up with ad$ (because I can usually skip over them), just get some creditable $ponsor$ if you are going to go down that rabbit hole, I say:-)  

My Wedny's Dr. Pepper drink in Las Vegas

I wonder if Dr. Placebo Pepper or Wendy's will throw me $ome money if I tell my readers what it does for my mind?-)

Leaving Sin City (Las Vegas) ... For Good?🎰🎲👼

My one and only Wendy's meal (so far) I ate in Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas ... For Denver?🎰🌄🎲