BEN LEE

Check out this great remix by PALE...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:44:15 -0400

Check out this great remix by PALE EYES http://paleeyesmusic.tumblr.com/ for my song “MEDITATION ON BEING BORN” from the Ayahuasca album

“AYAHUASCA: WELCOME TO THE WORK” my new album OUT...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:57:20 -0400

“AYAHUASCA: WELCOME TO THE WORK” my new album OUT TODAY. Download via iTunes and watch this beautifully-made album trailer. Share if you are inspired! Thank you all xoxoo

Ione Skye and Patton Oswalt with a twist on “Charlie...

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:02:41 -0400

Ione Skye and Patton Oswalt with a twist on “Charlie Brown, Linus and Sally” from a #WITS sketch last weekend!

My friend Rory Freedman’s new book “Beg: a radical...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:46:37 -0400

My friend Rory Freedman’s new book “Beg: a radical new way of regarding animals” is out tomorrow! An important new book on animal rights and the movement towards greater compassion! Www.roryfreedman.com/index.php

“Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work” is released in...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:46:53 -0400

“Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work” is released in Australia today! Check out this album trailer to learn what this project is all about…

An interview I did with Music Feeds. "It's not about psychedelics, it's about being free to think"

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:29:43 -0400

An interview I did with Music Feeds. "It's not about psychedelics, it's about being free to think"

“Future Feminism” by Antony Hegarty

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:28:11 -0500

“Future Feminism” by Antony Hegarty

I'm so excited Ben Lee

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:23:25 -0500

losmadden:

Is joining me on The Voice this year. Ben has always been an artist I love and respect. His music has influenced me and I believe he’s going to be a great influence on TeamJoel. Here we go!!!

losmadden: Hanging with @benleemusic

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:33:54 -0500

losmadden:

Hanging with @benleemusic

Tickets on sale now for Byron Bay and Sydney launches of...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:49:25 -0500

Tickets on sale now for Byron Bay and Sydney launches of “Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work”. These will not be traditional rock shows, more like consciousness events. So come along with an open mind and heart and lets explore the inner world together. xo

@pattonoswalt and I finally unite in performance coitus this May...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:21:40 -0500

@pattonoswalt and I finally unite in performance coitus this May 3 for @wits

Coolest welcome mat in Laurel Canyon!

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:49:22 -0500

Coolest welcome mat in Laurel Canyon!

My new web series! “DEEP TALK IN THE SHALLOW END: POP...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:13:55 -0500

My new web series! “DEEP TALK IN THE SHALLOW END: POP CULTURE FROM A CONSCIOUSNESS PERSPECTIVE”. Episode 1 is about the Grammys. Enjoy and share!

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Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:59:07 -0500

PRESS RELEASE: BEN LEE RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA TO LAUNCH HIS NEW ALBUM: “AYAHUASCA: WELCOME TO THE WORK”

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:19:13 -0500

Sydney-born, LA-based singer/songwriter and recording artist Ben Lee is no stranger to the art of music-making.

From his first band at 13, Noise Addict, to the multi-ARIA award winning record “Awake is the New Sleep”, Ben Lee
changed the face of contemporary music history in Australia.

As much as he has been drawn to music all his life, Ben has been equally passionate about esoteric science–the
workings of the human mind and spirit. His forthcoming release “Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work” may be Lee’s
most willful, creative and honest work yet.

Things shifted in the way Ben approached writing in 2003 when he met with an Indian avatar – a spiritually
enlightened master. He’d been living in NYC since ‘99 and went to India, along with the serious possibility of giving
up music. “While there, I met Sakthi Narayani Amma… My spiritual quest really began, and so did my adult music
career,” says Lee. Ben’s next album, “Awake Is the New Sleep” (2005) went Top 10 in Spain, The Netherlands, and
Australia. And Ben’s career has focused in this spiritual direction ever since.

Ayahuasca is a South American vine, known there as the “death vine, or “vine of souls.” In their spiritual practice,
the indigenous people brew the plant into a tea, which they drink ceremoniously as a ritual that has existed for
thousands of years. What ensues is a journey into the depth of the one who’s drunk the tea, illuminating the soul’s
contents, often facilitating a soaring journey of the spirit.

The subtitle of Lee’s album, “Welcome to the Work,” refers to the process of discovering what’s inside, and the
active transformation of turning our darkness into light. That ongoing process of discovery is called “the work.” Co-
created by Lee and Jessica Chapnik Kahn, an Argentinean-Australian actress and musician, Jessica also features as
the female vocals on the record under the guise of Appleonia and will be joining Ben on his Australian tour this April.

While Ben is aware of how volatile the subject matter is, he still maintains a responsibility to be intimately vulnerable
in his art. “I wanted to make music as a gift to the medicine,” Lee underscores,“ in love and gratitude. It’s more
devotional music than anything else, but not easy listening. It’s demanding, experimental music, just as ‘the work’
itself is demanding.”

Check out Ben as he talks about the crowd-funded project here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/benlee.

Ben felt that donating 100% of the album’s artist royalties to charity was a way of keeping all aspects of the
album’s release in alignment with the healing nature of the medicine itself. An organisation that Ben feels a deep
affinity with around the issue of consciousness-based research is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit research and educational organisation where Lee is donating half of his royalty income
from “Ayahuasca”. The other half will go towards the Amazon conservation team.

Ben will perform in Sydney and Byron Bay this April in celebration of the album release. Tickets on-sale 19
February.

Fri, 5 April - BYRON BAY
Byron Bay Community Centre
w/Darpan and Friends, Appleonia,
Avasa & MattyLove, Nadav
Tickets $35 + bf
on-‐sale 19 February
Buy here:
http://www.spiritfestival.com.au/benlee

Sat, 6 April - BYRON BAY
Byron Bay Community Centre
w/Darpan and Friends, Appleonia,
Avasa & Matty Love, Nadav
Tickets $35 + bf
on-‐sale 19 February
Buy here:
http://www.spiritfestival.com.au/benlee

Thurs, 11 April - SYDNEY
Paddington United Church
w/Darpan and Friends, Appleonia,
Avasa & Matty Love, Nadav
and a talk by Juan Ruiz Naupari
Tickets $35 + bf
on-‐sale 19 February
Buy here:
http://www.myheartspace.com.au/

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Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:18:39 -0500

Jen Kirkman - comedian: Think of "MA'AM" as "It WILL Get Better Movement..."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:44:39 -0500

Jen Kirkman - comedian: Think of "MA'AM" as "It WILL Get Better Movement...":

jenkirkman:

Ten Ways Feminism Benefits Men!

Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from something Gloria Steinem wrote. Men who declare themselves “feminist” (which only means that they believe in the social, political and economical equality of women) actually can benefit from the inclusion as well….

Narayani Amma puja

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:45:59 -0500

Narayani Amma puja

Annie Besant on Reading

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:48:35 -0500

Annie Besant on Reading

The Jinn State cc: Dr Krum Heller

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:39:25 -0500

The Jinn State cc: Dr Krum Heller