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I'm a longtime fan of David Byrne, and especially enjoy the blog he keeps at http://journal.davidbyrne.com. His writings bear witness to a person who has a great fascination for spirituality, and impressive knowledge of many Eastern and Western traditions. He seems equally interested by science, and at ease with seeing a world where science and spirit co-exist.
I am yet to see him profess following any one spiritual tradition; rather, he seems interested to collect knowledge about about many.
In 1989 Byrne made a documentary on Candomblé, the African-influenced religion of the Bahia region of Brazil. Around that time there was some speculation on whether he might have received some basic level initiations into that path, but nothing was ever known for certain. If he did, it's more likely he did so out of respectful curiosity to gain firsthand experience of those rituals vs. declaring the path to be his religion of choice. In a 1990's (exact date unknown) interview with Timothy Leary, he described Candomblé ceremonies by saying "It deals with acknowledging and paying homage to the natural forces. And some of those are deadly and some are joyous and some are dangerous and some are life-giving. That's the flux of nature, and to me the religion acknowledges both the ups and downs of it ... When the vibe is right somebody gets possessed by one of the gods. There's a pantheon of gods like in ancient Greece or Rome. The god is said to be there in the room, in the body, so you can have a conversation with him, you can dance with him ... so god isn't up there unreachable, untouchable, it's something that can come right down into the room with you and you can dance with it or ask questions directly to the god." (This whole interview is very interesting, and I've posted a link to it below).
In a recent New York Times interview with Byrne, Jon Parales asked him about his spiritual views and Byrne responded, " "I'm always thinking about it, but not overtly. That might frighten me. Probably like a lot of people, I feel alienated from the traditional models that were presented to me as a child and eventually I left those and said 'That doesn't seem relevant to me.' But like a lot of people, I have some longing for transcending those things in some way shape or form." (See the beliefnet.com link below for more from this article).
I am yet to see him profess following any one spiritual tradition; rather, he seems interested to collect knowledge about about many.
In 1989 Byrne made a documentary on Candomblé, the African-influenced religion of the Bahia region of Brazil. Around that time there was some speculation on whether he might have received some basic level initiations into that path, but nothing was ever known for certain. If he did, it's more likely he did so out of respectful curiosity to gain firsthand experience of those rituals vs. declaring the path to be his religion of choice. In a 1990's (exact date unknown) interview with Timothy Leary, he described Candomblé ceremonies by saying "It deals with acknowledging and paying homage to the natural forces. And some of those are deadly and some are joyous and some are dangerous and some are life-giving. That's the flux of nature, and to me the religion acknowledges both the ups and downs of it ... When the vibe is right somebody gets possessed by one of the gods. There's a pantheon of gods like in ancient Greece or Rome. The god is said to be there in the room, in the body, so you can have a conversation with him, you can dance with him ... so god isn't up there unreachable, untouchable, it's something that can come right down into the room with you and you can dance with it or ask questions directly to the god." (This whole interview is very interesting, and I've posted a link to it below).
In a recent New York Times interview with Byrne, Jon Parales asked him about his spiritual views and Byrne responded, " "I'm always thinking about it, but not overtly. That might frighten me. Probably like a lot of people, I feel alienated from the traditional models that were presented to me as a child and eventually I left those and said 'That doesn't seem relevant to me.' But like a lot of people, I have some longing for transcending those things in some way shape or form." (See the beliefnet.com link below for more from this article).
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