In a comically perfect compliment to tomorrow’s festivities Jessica Wahman ’90 will be giving a lecture titled “Eyes of the World”: The Grateful Dead and Philosophy. The lecture begins at 5:30pm in Davis.

“Wahman, associate professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College, will examine the Grateful Dead worldview that embraces a paradoxical relationship between fatalism and freedom. In the song “Eyes of the World” an awakened spirit is liberated to wander imaginatively, while tethered to its physical host as part of the inevitable life-and-death cycle of the natural world. Such a naturalistic sense of spirituality is expressed in the writings of American philosopher George Santayana. This presentation will draw on Santayana’s work so as to articulate the naturalism that draws the Deadhead community together.” <via>