Michael Garfield's Friends

I'm on a mission to revive the broken lineage of world-embracing, avant-garde scientist-artists. A graduate of JFKU's Integral Theory program and alumnus of the editorial team for Ken Wilber's website, I have a degree in evolutionary biology and work as a live artist, scientific illustrator, essayist, and performing songwriter. To me, science and art enrich each other, and the job of both is to remind people of the vastness and mystery of our world – an experience that draws us out of fear and into wonder.

I am intensely fascinated with the maps we make of reality - how we explore vast interior terrain of the mind and manifest it through personal and communal expression.  Bringing a biologist's sensibilities into the creative process, my songs and images are both contemplative cartographies - landmarks and legends of mystical experience - and field guides to the strange and beautiful life we encounter along the way. 

My passion lies in finding the same processes playing themselves out above and below, finding the patterns that connect, exploring a state of mind and then taking people there. I love the liminal zone between experience and description, determinism and free will. And I take great pleasure in resolving a paradox by the adding dimensions/perspectives.