https://www.ryanslesinger.com/blog daily 0.75 2020-09-14 https://www.ryanslesinger.com/blog/dak-prescotts-everyday-bravery-and-talking-about-mental-health-issues monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1600056798813-JNAM7D06D2NGUVPFY79R/dak+1.jpg Blog - Dak Prescott’s Everyday Bravery and Talking About Mental Health Issues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1600057396736-HM9U44FYBN7Y522U1O6O/prescott.jpg Blog - Dak Prescott’s Everyday Bravery and Talking About Mental Health Issues The Prescott brothers: Jace, Dak, and Tad https://www.ryanslesinger.com/blog/leslie-marmon-silkos-ceremony-and-the-invisible-realms-of-reality monthly 0.5 2020-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598202643873-JDCWFXV2Y9985T15B3E1/Silko.jpeg Blog - Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em>Ceremony</em> and the Invisible Realms of Reality - “The title of the novel, Ceremony, refers to the healing ceremonies based on the ancient stories of the Diné and Pueblo people…I was conscious of constructing the novel out of many different kinds of narratives or stories to celebrate storytelling with the spoken as well as the written word.” -Leslie Marmon Silko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598202340345-N12YOKMW7U9EEV9E2V0U/ceremony.jpg Blog - Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em>Ceremony</em> and the Invisible Realms of Reality - “Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place. I have read this book so many times that I probably have it memorized. I teach it and I learn from it and I am continually in awe of its power, beauty, rage, vision, and violence.” -Sherman Alexie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598199300413-CRFXG66P453JM2RH3EYX/IMG_5090.jpeg Blog - Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em>Ceremony</em> and the Invisible Realms of Reality One of twenty-eight story-poems found throughout Ceremony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598200316493-8HEJBH1JBSNU5JLLA5G7/B1B25D2C-EAA3-450E-B7EC-6F1B0350C669.png Blog - Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em>Ceremony</em> and the Invisible Realms of Reality Hailey Jr.’s tracing around the Thought-woman poem shows the Ts’its’tsi’nako kachina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598201027115-6V0TRV1JT1T9YTYGUJ7T/Screen+Shot+2020-08-22+at+3.57.50+PM.png Blog - Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em>Ceremony</em> and the Invisible Realms of Reality A mirrored Ck’o’yo kachina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598202131263-A9QRL5QVUM2F8UZTI4KD/Screen+Shot+2020-08-22+at+3.56.56+PM.png Blog - Leslie Marmon Silko’s <em>Ceremony</em> and the Invisible Realms of Reality Reed Woman kachina. https://www.ryanslesinger.com/blog/thoreauandantiracism monthly 0.5 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594584762873-EFEYBJVCFM4DE56SYH2W/Screen+Shot+2020-07-12+at+3.08.53+PM.png Blog - Thoreau, American Thinking, and Anti-Racism - “It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be a falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain in their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.” -Henry David Thoreau, Walden Painting by John Lautermilch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594585020540-SEX5QJ8X149ZUPQQ51EI/Screen+Shot+2020-07-12+at+3.03.32+PM.png Blog - Thoreau, American Thinking, and Anti-Racism At Walden Pond on HDT’s 197th birthday, 2014. Thoreau cabin site just to right of image https://www.ryanslesinger.com/blog/b67b6qd1zm8x8165ekd4rknlggj8un monthly 0.5 2020-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593876973351-4K3ARBYG85WTQO9W2B2U/Emerson.jpg Blog - Emerson and American Individualism - “Trust thyself: Every heart vibrates to that iron string.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson https://www.ryanslesinger.com/blog/on-the-loss-of-rudolfo-anaya monthly 0.5 2020-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593759822270-HK5639906CIZG4JB3SFQ/rudolfo+anaya.jpg Blog - On the loss of Rudolfo Anaya - And I was happy with Ultima. We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines. She taught me the names of plants and flowers, of trees and bushes, of birds and animals; but most important, I learned from her that there was a beauty in the time of day and in the time of night, and that there was peace in the river and in the hills. She taught me to listen to the mystery of the groaning earth and to feel complete in the fulfillment of its time. My soul grew under her careful guidance. 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Welcome to my home on the internet. Click the button below for information on my upcoming course at Oklahoma State’s Doel Reed Center in Taos, NM: https://www.ryanslesinger.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2020-07-01 https://www.ryanslesinger.com/about-me daily 0.75 2024-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593624085168-I0FCFPKTFLHDS1H450HY/4U7A6790.jpg About Me - About Me Born and raised in Texas, I moved to Oklahoma for college, where I have lived ever since. To me, there is great value in the powerful experience of encountering stories. In my pedagogy I make such transformational experiences accessible for my students. In my scholarship I am drawn to texts that reflect such experiences and I apply a variety of critical lenses and interdisciplinary methods to uncover the historical, cultural, and artistic mechanisms that produce this effect. I am currently at work on a book project—Mystic America—that addresses the variety of ways twentieth-century novelists represent transformational mystical experiences in their work. To relate an ineffable experience in language, novelists often create striking formal innovations that challenge our understanding of genre. I call this trend, “literary mysticism,” episodes of which are often hidden in plain sight in twentieth-century fiction. I am an advocate for the humanities and the liberal arts. Studying fields within these categories prepares us as individuals for a fulfilling, engaged, and successful experience of life. As a culture, we gain the necessary empathy to coexist and thrive from the humanities and the liberal arts. My current residence is just off Route 66 in Tulsa, OK where I live with my wife, Sarah, and dog, Iko. Sarah and I enjoy hitting the road in search of adventure, and we can often be found discovering the wonders of nature, hiking, kayaking, or enjoying live music together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598670182117-37YXE5BUCUKF9M30N9PQ/4U7A6837-Edit.jpg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598667646660-TJIKB921NQPC4T7HZDP5/OSU+seal.png About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1607887188896-9F4RVC7WN4AG793YSHQ4/IMG_5951.jpeg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1598669522484-720OZGBZNRU2GKA2MHR7/Safe+Zone+Logo.png About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593659088111-IJAMQDCFMEHKAYBA1OT2/tulsa+seal+2.png About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593659774636-ZGSLQ2KAOHKDY2YIM5VR/OU+Seal.png About Me https://www.ryanslesinger.com/media daily 0.75 2022-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1621185326567-PF822J6FGDFJQOOGW9GS/MFpod2.png Media - The Millennium Falconers Book Club Each month on The Millennium Falconers Book Club, Dylan Erwin and I get together to dissect and discuss the Star Wars canon, ancient mythology, world religion, comics, and speculative fiction. Whether we’re traveling to a galaxy far, far away, Mount Doom, or Mount Olympus, there's always plenty of room on the Falcon for everyone. Dylan and I draw from our backgrounds in literary and cultural studies to frame our conversations of these texts in monthly podcast episodes. Join the fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1640968100317-E0XPKFXSV0LWS8L7VPBA/Dead+of+Night.png Media - The Dead of Night Yellowstone Public Radio Montana State University-Billings Professor Sue Balter-Reitz interviewed me for her Yellowstone Public Radio Show, The Dead of Night. We discussed my research on mysticism in America, the Grateful Dead’s mythical trip to Egypt, and the place of mystical awareness to the Grateful Dead experience. Don’t miss this wonderful radio show every Friday night at 9:00 pm MST! December 17, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593667221363-K8GJPXPC9ROFFEF8E1W9/Bard.jpeg Media - The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet Prior to starting our podcast The Millennium Falconers Book Club, Dylan Erwin invited me to discuss Ian Doescher’s Shakespearean re-envisioning of the Star Wars saga on his The Lunatic, The Lover, and the Poet: Yet Another Bard Pod. We addressed Episode IV: Verily, A New Hope in three podcast episodes. We will address the rest of the saga on The Millennium Falconers Book Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593666149799-XBUJQBD1R3K5PX155LOD/Alienating+the+audience.jpg Media - Alienating the Audience I sat down with Andrew Heaton of Alienating the Audience to discuss Star Wars and Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey motif. July 2, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/68d5ee9b-2955-4abd-8022-5676f10ec014/IMG_6260.jpeg Media - English Club Faculty Profile December 22, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/29cf59f1-ff30-41d4-b9a4-70f0f64321fb/IMG_6261.jpeg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1667162396422-DIXJYIFSHQ032KHFGVF5/IMG_5666.jpeg Media - The O’Colly, Oklahoma State University Hats Off to Our Cowboy Heroes: Impacts That Last a Lifetime October 17, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593710883476-QJ7ECX8MNDID1PG41TMU/Screen+Shot+2020-07-02+at+12.24.31+PM.png Media - The O’Colly, Oklahoma State University OSU Professors: Who is the Best? August 19, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593755933887-TY5S7SC7GXNARNTSY3LL/Aro%252BHa_0010.jpg Media - The OU Daily, University of Oklahoma Music-Minded Instructor teaches Beatles, Star Wars July 23, 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593756631693-PE27VLS0LX98MEO9F41E/Screen+Shot+2020-07-01+at+10.54.28+PM.png Media - The OU Daily, University of Oklahoma Culturally Conscious Classes Enrich Education Experience May 4, 2009 https://www.ryanslesinger.com/weddings daily 0.75 2020-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593668615717-7JMPWW1XO0XHEJDHRENN/Mortons+Close+Up.jpg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593668739474-AVQ627H5OF9H0NK571E1/Mortons+Wide+2.jpg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593669203306-92KKKZRT6FVJA012OLSU/Jared+and+Kelsey+Wedding-0243.jpg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593669063266-KR5XU8OMVNZ8V7QIIYRI/Jared+and+Kelsey+Wedding-0264.jpg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593669275832-9XMO518EUH2BTC2PN8H3/Rackleffs%2BClose%2BUp.jpg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593669295287-ZJ1FDE2ZJCISF9Q224UJ/Rackleffs+Wide+Ceremony.jpeg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1603821516277-MB63RD50SZXRU6Y4YEJC/0374.jpeg Weddings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1603821541186-DRJPU4QDTNV0ZL7HVNAQ/0038.jpeg Weddings https://www.ryanslesinger.com/projects daily 0.75 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1645654118101-E59ZHAZ0RL3TPUQHRCFE/V9I1-2+Article+Highlights+Square-SLESINGER.png Projects - Teaching the Grateful Dead, Happenings, & Spontaneous Pedagogy Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, vol. 9 no. 1 & 2, February 2022. To teach a course on the Grateful Dead I developed a praxis I call “spontaneous pedagogy” that pairs academic rigor with flexible curriculum details to enable creativity and engagement among students in a truly student-centered classroom. The pairing of spontaneous pedagogy with the Grateful Dead course worked well because the subject emphasizes improvisation, which initially inspired and—during the course—paralleled my praxis. I had developed this praxis previously, implementing it each semester from 2007 to 2010 for one Composition II unit on definitional arguments entitled, “The Nature of Reality.” Students were asked to define what they consider as real and apply that definition to a mythological creature. Utilizing spontaneous pedagogy in this unit was successful: students gained agency in the classroom, guiding our activities towards topics that were important topics for them, and produced unique and excellent work. Following this success, I taught a topic-based intersession class (80 hours in three weeks) on the Grateful Dead in 2011, relying on spontaneous pedagogy and allowing students more agency to determine our curriculum. But something unusual happened: as the students determined the topics for class discussion, they also began assigning themselves additional homework and reading tasks, including their own essay assignments and their submission of their own oral and multimodal presentations on topics of their choosing. I found that spontaneous pedagogy in the Grateful Dead classroom achieved a truly student-centered learning experience as students willingly took over the roles of curriculum and assignment design, leaving me to prepare the classes and participate in them as a guide. In addition to the knowledge of the topic students gained in the class, they also gained a unique experience of a spontaneous atmosphere in an academic setting that paralleled a Grateful Dead improvisation or show experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594621297157-6RMNBDAGVULREGJWA8FU/Steinbeck.jpg Projects - “John Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown: The Clearing Cycle & the Monterey Metaphysics of Ricketts, Steinbeck, and Campbell” Steinbeck Review, vol. 17 no. 2, Penn State UP, Fall 2020. This article discusses an early Steinbeck novel written during his time living in Monterey—To a God Unknown (1933)—as a hermeneutic for assessing his metaphysics, developed out of his observations of natural cycles with marine biologist Ed Ricketts, and a young Joseph Campbell. Described as “speculative metaphysics” by Steinbeck in The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951), their philosophical approach to the world emphasizes holism: spiritually, ecologically, and psychologically. Steinbeck articulates this conception of reality in To a God Unknown. This article shows how these beliefs and the vocabulary Steinbeck uses to describe them are heavily influenced by the company he kept—Ricketts and Campbell. It then close reads Steinbeck’s novel, illuminating the author’s use of a cyclical organizing schema in the form of a recurring trope: a pine glade embedded with spirit, that provides an ebbing and flowing pattern to the characters’ psychological behavior and physical actions. The cyclical return of this important trope has thus far escaped critical attention but is an important demonstration of Steinbeck’s speculative metaphysics. This organizational schema is consistent throughout and provides a subtle, yet persuasive alternative reading of the book, in contrast to the erratic demarcated chapter breaks. In addition to elements of biographical and historical context, the critical lens in this article calls on Jungian psychoanalysis, Campbell’s myth theories, Deep Ecology, and Anthropocene approaches, as each is appropriate to explicate the unique approach to holism in physical, metaphysical, and psychological nature within Steinbeck’s work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593970330702-IGV9OEBCAMZAW9I80D3F/IMG_4712.jpeg Projects - “Foreword.” 14th Annual Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus Program Forthcoming online at the Center for Counterculture Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593968683332-9CO10WT5RRLMBPK84O8D/IMG_4711.jpeg Projects - “And Closed My Eyes To See: Buddhist Resonances in the Grateful Dead’s Lyrics.” Reading the Grateful Dead: a Critical Survey, ed. Nicholas Meriwether, 2012 The Grateful Dead, as a cultural force, was conceived amidst the countercultural heterogeneity of 1965 San Francisco. Buddhism accounted for one of the aggregates of this heterogeneous counterculture; and the Grateful Dead, as both a product of this culture and an agent of its propagation, circuitously reflected this amalgamation and informed it. This chapter uses Buddhist ideas as a hermeneutic device to read the Dead through, and uses the Dead as a historically specific phenomenon through which to read Buddhism in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593989584985-NIOF2RQIXZQYWT4MT9L1/IMG_5298+2.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593977231892-COORUYKWD3E1BAJG5QN2/IMG_7001.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1593976940477-VH22VZZUYI51IMVDNFDX/IMG_5149.JPG https://www.ryanslesinger.com/star-wars-heros-journey daily 0.75 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594097829961-G844SI4JFCFTSYX0FUD5/starwars+crop.jpg Star Wars Heros Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594097829338-INXLS5UTQNQPWE1I36EQ/starwarsclass.jpg Star Wars Heros Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594097824255-6BTWHH6MPSWAO2XMV9VX/stoopsvader.jpg Star Wars Heros Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594097838034-Q9CUVMC2FIGM0QPHEQC5/starwars.jpg Star Wars Heros Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594097824508-983UVDOVWY5MXFI2FFCY/starwars2011.jpg Star Wars Heros Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594099741381-NESENVRXVMN3N3RKXE6X/Screen+Shot+2020-07-07+at+12.26.34+AM.png Star Wars Heros Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594099903803-CW2TV8024USJS4I2CF4M/starwarsflyer+copy.jpg Star Wars Heros Journey https://www.ryanslesinger.com/beatles-and-counterculture daily 0.75 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594229260423-ZG70R0ZB6NPZ3LBX80Z7/Screen+Shot+2020-07-08+at+12.26.02+PM.png Beatles and Counterculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594229048282-2VM4F8I1J0Z2M3GOZGIT/ryanbeatles.jpg Beatles and Counterculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594229042784-U8CL9Q6MYQXM51L9029V/beatles2010.jpg Beatles and Counterculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594229447027-6TKAYTWMP14PFIHKQ0WO/Beatles+Flyer.png Beatles and Counterculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594229632368-5Y0HAV0S98U9XX5NOH5S/Screen+Shot+2020-07-08+at+12.32.55+PM.png Beatles and Counterculture Sample syllabus https://www.ryanslesinger.com/grateful-dead-american-identity daily 0.75 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594933649975-GF8IP5ZJUJG83JTBI6GH/gratefuldead2010.jpg Grateful Dead American Identity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1594933649978-7XPDMKMGMGPAHF5BZ19A/gratefuldead2011spring.jpg Grateful Dead American Identity https://www.ryanslesinger.com/grateful-dead-in-egypt daily 0.75 2022-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596916089287-QI09UYF9A9RVM48T0A9J/egypt+mouse.jpeg Grateful Dead in Egypt Egypt 1978 artwork by Stanley Mouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596306521379-REIW9WIETWXEMFL31PCB/GD+Egypt+Poster.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Egypt 1978 Poster art by Alton Kelley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596303866924-CWY3EBR0CSBYWHPFILJL/The_judgement_of_the_dead_in_the_presence_of_Osiris.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Judgement scene from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Osiris seated at right with Isis and Nephthys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596308606165-X5YGNMRSKXOCH1XYSOZK/akhet_1.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt - The Akhet hieroglyph https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596307933748-C61BOR102X15TL9FDUH5/Karnak.jpeg Grateful Dead in Egypt - The Karnak Temple’s architecture is thought to mimic the solstice sunrise and so also the hieroglyph Akhet, as discussed in this thoughtful exhibition by Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History Left: Sunrise on the Winter Solstice at the Karnak temple. Right: Winter Solstice Sunrise over the Egyptian mountains. Photos: Marie E. Bryan and Kelly A. Cummings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596399897852-MENNBHDVRSERAAGWZHBN/notre+dame.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris (previous to the 2019 fire). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596309826033-UI4RVM668KRI7VAD3DNG/ND+interior.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Panorama of the interior of the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. Photo: Jorge Láscar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596310840403-SGX4QE5R1FKNJH110X5E/tiresias+and+athena.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt - Tiresias, fameux devin, ayant un jour regardé Pallas lorsqu'elle se déshabillait, devint aveugle sur le champ (Tiresias, famous diviner, having one day looked at Pallas when she was undressing, immediately went blind) , 1775 Louis Jean François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596398883866-NDVHCQZKQ8EYT0M6QTBM/Frontispice_du_Myst%C3%A8re_des_cath%C3%A9drales.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Frontispiece of Le Mystère des Cathédrales by Fulcanelli (1926). Note the even alignment of planetary symbols along the top. Note the sphinx. Also note that the position of the raven and skull in relation to the sphinx is approximately the position of the Giza Sound and Light stage, where the Grateful Dead would perform in 1978. Raven and skull are two images used frequently in Grateful Dead iconography. And also, note the outline of a pyramid behind the bird. Inscription reads: “All from one and in one all.” Illustration by Jean-Julien Champagne (1877-1932). 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596399039597-9S7LPM4YOYG2TB9F9OXF/raven+skull.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Raven/crow on skull, Grateful Dead art by unknown artist, “JD.” Uknown year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596312332667-YH89R6U0L2QURDAHNW11/najac.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt - Château de Najac, built in 1253, is one of many chateaus in the Pyrenees mountainside. The location of Fulcanelli’s stronghold is a mystery. Chateau de Najac, built in 1253, is one of many chateaus in the Pyrenees mountainside. The location of Fulcanelli’s stronghold is a mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596312819332-YZ58UOZOD9ER9DRJ0ZMH/canseliet.jpeg Grateful Dead in Egypt Eugène Canseliet, later in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596313063707-439BDBKUDZVZRTZWBRBG/CrossofHendaye.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt The cross at Hendaye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef6c17eb6cc437553e3cd18/1596313444793-MEAT257NNZIG1PL8IJ9E/hendaye+symbols.jpg Grateful Dead in Egypt Symbols on the Hendaye Cross. 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