Our project “Human Love: The David Bowie Psychic Journey (HL),” explores the inner, spiritual journey of the rock icon, David Bowie. Seeking information about his imminent death, Bowie visits a psychic to determine the specifics about his mortality.

Rather than simply identifying the date of his death, the foil, Madame Blue, takes Bowie on a deep, spiritual trek that forces him to reexamine his life choices, relationships, and fears and encourages him to take karmic responsibility. In a parallel fashion, we transport audiences on a reflective, inner journey that challenges them to examine things that matter deeply in their personal lives. Bowie thus functions as an existential mirror, a reflection of the common human experience of seeking meaning, joy, and connection.

As Bowie is dragged through the minefield of his youth, relationships, and quest for identity, the audience is implicitly challenged with the same experiential tasks. In this manner, we are creatively exploring the grandiosity of life juxtaposed with its ironic brevity and asking audience members to look within. We ask the eternal questions: Why are you here? And, what is your purpose? In doing so, we intentionally create vulnerability to help audiences surrender their psychological defenses and connect on deeper levels that transcend class, politics, gender, and ethnicity, thereby seeing the world anew. The risk is the unpredictability associated with vulnerability; the reward is solidarity and consciousness. As Bowie once declared, “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”