CELESTIAL SYNAPSE by the Grateful Dead, Feb19-69,
for Frontiers of Science Fellowship / Harbinger Community

EVENT

The Celestial Synapse was a musical event held on the evening of February 19, 1969. The Celestial Synapse was reviewed as a significant musical event, in the Rolling Stone Magazine, April 5, 1969.

Approximately 1,500 invitations were sent out. At least 3,000 people gathered at the Fillmore West, in San Francisco, California.
To capture the audience's attention, the performance began with a Tibetan Buddhist monk playing Tibetan gongs.

The Grateful Dead played well into the night. The Grateful Dead actually provided their entertainment as a benefit.

The Grateful Dead Album, distributed freely, by Naughty Dog, contained the following sessions:

Disc 1:
Lovelight,
Not Fade Away,
Lovelight,
Stage Banter,
Chanting.

Disk 2:
Jam,
The Main Ten,
Jam,
The Other Jam.

The Fillmore event was hosted by Frontiers of Science Fellowship. This organization was housed, from 1967 to 1969, at a commune named Harbinger, located in Lake County, California, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. To differentiate the commune's name from numerous other entities, it will be designated here, and in other related articles, as Harbinger Community.

A conference commenced on February 20, 1969, at the Harbinger site. At least 400 people, including Harbingerites, were in attendance.
The visionary, who founded both Frontiers of Science Fellowship, and Harbinger, and the host of the conference, Donald James Hamrick, was to provide a lecture following a dinner buffet.

REFERENCES

EXTERNAL LINKS

Celestial Synapse Article from Rolling Stone Magazine, April 5th, 1969:
Articles from Rolling Stone
(http:/ / obie1. homesite. net/ deadcd/ articlesrs. htm)

Commentary and downloadable Celestial Synapse music tracks, by Roio:
Big O Audio Archive
(http:/ / bigozine2. com/ roio/ ?p=370)

"There was a gentleman by the name of Don Hamrick (Frontiers of Science) who severely caught my attention during early 1966 in the Haight/Ashbury, because one of his projects involved mapping altered space. Here is a short piece I found on him at the Rolling Stone Archive"
(author unknown)(followed by the Rolling Stone review):

"Celestial Synapse at the Fillmore - Good vibes in the name of science . . . "
(http:/ / www. flyingsnail. com/200811.html)