Transcendence from Memory Journey by Tanaad

Memoir Essay:

Miho and Joanna, a friend who lives in Sausalito, California, doing a meditation practice before a sound healing session. Joanna is the owner of Bring Harmony Home, working as a caretaker and sound healer.
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We chose to do her sound table therapy session and went to Sausalito from San Francisco crossing The Golden Gate to the north. Her beautiful little home was located by Richardson Bay. There I saw several yachts and houseboats in the harbor, and some warehouses by the road.

She is a friend of James, a friend who let me and Miho stay in his old shared apartment in the Castro District in San Francisco with his sister and a little cute dog named “Fast”, while he was in Berlin. I really appreciated them hosting us. I met James when I performed a set of music, DJing and spoken word at Jam Cafe, a music venue in Bangkok. James was in the audience and after my show, we had a conversation about the “Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies” he knew about this California based organization that supports psychedelic science research that I was interested in.

The session started with a meditation practice, then moved to a bed that has speakers and subwoofers attached. Joanna played a long ambient music piece from the speakers and softly played musical instruments such as a meditation chime, a singing bowl, and also used spoken word to guide us into a deep meditative state. When we finished the sound healing session we had some conversation about general things. She said she relocated from Maryland to The Bay, we also talked about the San Francisco housing shortage.

The night before, we just arrived at The Bay and I walked down the street with Miho to explore the city, in a cold late night from Castro to the San Francisco City Center along Market Street, we found so many homeless communities along the pavement. I also heard one of them walk alone and shout something like a poem. And I saw not just European- American, Native American or African-American people but also other ethnicities. Some of them had a mental illness, some of them were drug addicts, I heard from an Uber driver in San Diego that mostly they were addicted to heroin. I felt that some of them supported each other like they had their own social order with different roles in their communities. I’m not sure how it all worked but it was an interesting part of American society. When we walked too deep to the center, Miho felt unsafe and we decided to walk back to the Castro.

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Tanaad aka Pead (pTR, DRIPTECH, r.flav), is a music producer, musician, DJ and blozxom initiator. Currently based in Bangkok.

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