Anything Is Full of Everything: Songs About Spiritual Vision

We’re listening to songs about spiritual vision this week, so get ready for some psychedelia and some songs that stretch out past the time you’re inclined to give them! Send your songs…

We’re listening to songs about spiritual vision this week, so get ready for some psychedelia and some songs that stretch out past the time you’re inclined to give them! Send your songs suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com.

  • 0:00

    Stevie Wonder, “Visions” (Innervisions, 1973)

  • 6:22

    Tina Turner, “I Can See for Miles” (Acid Queen, 1975)

  • 9:04

    Titus Andronicus, “Fired Up” (The Most Lamentable Tragedy, 2015)

  • 13:46

    Reading: William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

  • 15:22

    Beach Boys, “Surf’s Up” (Surf’s Up, 1971)

  • 19:25

    The Beatles, “Strawberry Fields Forever” (single, 1967)

  • 23:27

    Linda Perhacs, “Parallelograms” (Parallelograms, 1970)

  • 28:37

    Reading: Daniel 7

  • 31:42

    Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)

  • 38:32

    Radiohead, “Pyramid Song” (Amnesiac, 2002)

  • 43:47

    Reading: St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine

  • 45:11

    Robin Lamont, “Day by Day” (Godspell, 1971)

  • 48:20

    Pedro the Lion, “Be Thou My Vision” (The Only Reason That I Feel Secure, 1999)

  • 53:30

    Will Sheff, “Evidence” (Nothing Special, 2022)

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Michial Farmer

Michial Farmer is a poet, essayist, and history teacher. He is the author of Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction (Camden House, 2017) and the translator of Gabriel Marcel’s Thirst (Cluny, 2021). He lives in Atlanta.

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