"A transcendent exploration of what one man can achieve with an acoustic guitar...simultaneously calm yet very much switched-on."
- Everyday Guitar Gear (feature link)

"If you are like us, then [in you] lies a yearning to discover something DIFFERENT and new, something that floors you, something that moves you, something that gets you excited to go home and download everything of theirs available online and to tell all of your friends about it...Michael Garfield could do that for us this summer."
- Sparkleberry Lane (interview link)


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Writing

Articles from BigThink, Reality Sandwich, H+ Magazine, Acceler8or, Iggli, Octaproducts, d/visible, Zaadz, LostInSound, Cause & Effect Magazine, IntegralWorld, Colorado Music Board, SolPurpose, and more...


Science & Philosophy

• "The Sacred Geography of 21st Century Renaissance Civilization"
• "And Now, Faster-Than-Light Culture"
• "Self As City, City As Self" [video w/ transcript]
• "Coevolution & The Technology Of Desire"
• "The Psychedelic Transhumanists"
• "Exaptation of the Guitar"
• "The Symmetry of Cause & Effect"
• "Psychoactive Vibes:  Light & Sound in Engineering the Spectrum of Consciousness"
• "Playing The Body Electric"
• "The Engine Of Development: Integral Theory & Post-Metaphysical Entelechy"
• "The Spooky World of Quantum Biology"
• "Let A Hundred Futures Bloom"
• "Distributed Intelligence & Octopus Smarts"
• "Biomimicry & The Design Revolution"
• "Biomimicry: Breathing New Life Into Design"
• "Sacred Activism" [video w/ transcript]

Music & Art

• "The Problem – & Promise – of Festivals"
• "The 3-2-1 of Musical Performance"
• "Transcending Possessiveness in Love and Music"
• "The Fullness of Emptiness: Riffing on Arvo Pärt"
• "Why I'm No Longer Starving For An Adequate Myth" (afterword to Suicide Dictionary)
• "The Ear of the Beholder: Tantra & My 'Desert Island' Playlist"
• "The Coming Revolution In Audio Design"
• "Best Seat In The House: You're Virtually There"
• "What Is Visionary Music?"
• "The Music of Proteins"
• "Finding The Music In Noise"
• "R. Luke Dubois' Timelapse Phonography"
• "A Joyful Noise: Phil Kline's 'Unsilent Night'"
• "Giving In To Astonishment: Scenes From Burning Man's American Dream"
• "Love Beyond Life: A Review of The Fountain"
• "Oh, Irony!: An Ode"
• "What Is Integral Art? Or, How To Spot An Integral Artist"
• "The Transhuman Music of Akhentek"
• "Luke Redfield's Folk Mysticism & Mystic Folk"
• "Review: Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid"
• "Review: Lynx's Grain of Sand"
• "Interview: Scott Johnson of the Positive Music Association"

Ongoing Series


• Ode To A Paradigm Shift
• Painting While Dancing
• Soundtrack To Your Funeral

• Visionary Instruments
More

• Michael's blog at RealitySandwich.com
• MG on Erik Davis' Expanding Mind, Progressive Radio Network
• Many more essays in the archives of this website, 2007 - 2008...

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