Last but not least, if your travels take you to the Pacific coast, visit Bandon. Does consciousness survive death? Who knows, but what a beautiful question. Learn a little more about the possibilities of consciousness and change, if you aren’t already doing so. Listen to Angel’ Flight and other transportive music by Shadowfax and other worthy New Age artists. So if any of this is interesting, here’s what to do. But the building is still there, transformed into a small shopping plaza, but as you’ll see above, the name remains. Maybe it was not a surprise that the Continuum Center as an exhibit is gone. The pictures and text of that visit are a little indistinct in memory, but that song isn’t, maybe because I’ve listened to it a few hundred times since.Ī recent visit to Bandon, for the first time in a long time, revealed that not much had changed, a good thing. It was, it turned out, the sublime Angel’s Flight by Shadowfax, and it was the first New Age music I had ever heard. But the very first thing I noticed was the music playing. When I walked into the Continuum Center in Bandon years ago, I saw the oversized graphics and read about a vision of consciousness. In less talented hands it has been oversimplified and underpowered, but no different than with any other musical genre. New Age music at its start and at its best is an attempt to coax, drag, push, pull and otherwise move your consciousness by the ear. No good cultural development goes untortured. New Age music was once a common category, though it has fallen into disuse. One of faces of the New Age movement that is powerful though sometimes mocked is its music. It was a splendid multimedia exhibit, state of the art for its time. He was impressed and put the exhibit on tour, and also established a home for it in Bandon, in a building on Main Street called the Continuum Center. The exhibit showcased the Immortality Principle, the possibility of consciousness continuing after death. In 1979, philanthropist Hugh Harrison visited the Continuum Exhibit at JFK University in California. By name, “New Age” has fallen into disuse but as a matter of fact, many of the ideas and expressions are now part of our cultural fabric. This included not only spirituality and religion, but psychology, art, music, mythology, earth, food, sex-anything that could help transform us and the way we live. In the 1970s, the movement toward a new consciousness coalesced around the concept of a New Age, a new era of human enlightenment and evolution that would move us forward, leaving some of the darkest aspects of our sometimes-sorry history behind. The New Age is an ignored topic that deserves more than this brief discussion. It is far enough from anywhere-248 miles south of Portland, 465 north of San Francisco-that there are other tourist stops better known and, to some, more exciting. It is also special because few know about it. It is special because of its beauty and spirit, including extraordinary rock outcroppings and stacks of bleached drift logs that hover in the sun and occasional fog. This is about a beach town and the possibility of living forever.īandon is a small beach town (about 3,000 people) on the southern coast of Oregon.
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