Life is a Festival
258 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsThrough intimate, long-form interviews, Life is a Festival unlocks the wisdom of cultural pioneers to help listeners integrate transformational experiences and create more joy and adventure in their daily lives.
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#170 - Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual
May 16, 2024 16:43 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBIn a world beset by tragedy its important to learn how to grieve. If you don’t feel your feelings you’re going to have problems, but how exactly should we tend to our grief? Today, we are welcoming back Camille Barton to celebrate the publication of their first book, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care and Community. In our conversation today, you'll learn how untended grief can have harmful consequences. We begin with one of my favorite t...
#169 - Tina Nance: Beyond the "Divine" Feminine
April 23, 2024 20:16 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBTina Nance, yin yoga and embodiment specialist returns to Life is a Festival to share her evolving ideas around gender, trauma healing, and embodiment. In today's episode, we continue our exploration of gender and sexuality. We dive into processing trauma within the nervous system and whether a finite amount of psychological "garbage" needs to be processed for healing. Our conversation spans mythopoetic femininity through the lens of the Egyptian pantheon and masculinity through archetypes....
#168 - Lizz Larouge & Guinevere Rhonwen: Love's Many Colors
March 19, 2024 03:21 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBToday's episode is about love and all its messy colors. Guinevere Rhonwen & Lizz Larouge created the festival Colours of Love on the island d of Koh Phangan as their wedding celebration and continued it even as they were separating. In this episode, we explore how they embraced love while parting ways at the place of their union. We cover a wide range of topics, including the festival's nature, whether it could be dubbed a "big gay wedding," the influence of female leadership on festival c...
#167 - Sami Awad & Sharon Avraham: A Lighthouse for the Middle East
February 15, 2024 13:45 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBI've never had so many requests for guests to return to the show as I have for Sami and Sharon. As you may recall, a few days after the events of October 7th, I asked Midburn co-founder and artivist Sharon Avraham, and his Palestinian theme camp co-lead, peace activist Sami Awad, to come on the show and share their immediate experience. Much has happened since then, and many of you have wanted an update from these two friends. You will be happy to know that they are involved in an amb...
#166 - Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers
February 06, 2024 02:12 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBDoes open relating always lead to polyagony? Or is there a way to heal the wounds of gender and experience love free from fear? Today we are revisiting an episode originally released in 2019 with Ian McKenzie and Julia Maryanska about the Love School at Tamera. Their documentary "Village of Lovers," will be available at a global streaming premiere on February 7th. We revisit this discussion about love, relationships, and intentional communities today in a new edit. In this episode, w...
#165 - Gillian Reid: Sexual Kung Fu (Yin)
January 14, 2024 05:12 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBIn Part Two of our Taoist sexuality series, focusing on woman’s body’s and yin principles, I speak with the Senior Woman’s Instructor at Tao Garden, Gillian Reid. Gillian shares her insights on yin and yang energy, self-love, and intimacy. Beginning each day with gratitude and stretching, she highlights the importance of focusing on the heart and finding balance in one's daily activities. She also discusses how to harness one's energy using principles of Taoism, including the microcosmic or...
#164 - Mantak Chia: Sexual Kung Fu (Yang)
January 09, 2024 13:55 - 50 minutes - 47 MBGuys, have you ever wished that instead of ejaculating and falling asleep, you could shoot orgasmic energy up the back of your spine to revitalize your mind and experience rolling orgasms? Well, it turns out there's an ancient Taoist practice that teaches just that, and all it takes is a bit of training. After an erotic detox last year, I embarked on a pilgrimage to the renowned Tao Garden, located just outside of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand, to learn from Master Mantak Chia. Master Chi...
#163 - Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?
December 25, 2023 04:10 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBLately I've noticed a curious trend: many of my female friends, particularly those from the Burning Man community, are exploring a path of sexual healing by becoming Professional Dommes. To shed light on this phenomenon, I spoke to Colette Pervette, a professional dominatrix and the mentor behind MistressClass, an immersive program designed to guide women into the realm of becoming a dominatrix. In this episode, we explore the origins and motivations behind kink and Colette and I role play ...
#162 - Ilana Gilovich-Wave: Requiem for Sleep No More
December 07, 2023 01:51 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBToday we're immersing into immersive experience design through one of the world's most iconic theatrical experiences, Sleep No More. Joining the production right out of college, my guest Ilana Gilovich-Wave is now Sleep No More’s Chief Storyteller. In today’s episode, I chat with Ilana about Sleep No More, immersive experience design, and carving out a path as a young artist. We also delve into how Ilana’s career path can inspire those just starting out. We cover advice for young creatives ...
#161 - Darragh Stewart: The Indigenous Medicine of Ireland
November 17, 2023 02:02 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBApparently, ancient Ireland was like the Amazon, with impenetrable forests navigable only by rivers, deep mysticism, and its very own indigenous medicine, the psychedelic Liberty Cap mushrooms. Today on the show, recorded in Southern Ireland, I’m speaking with Darragh Stewart. Darragh is not only a molecular biologist and a passionate advocate of Celtic mysticism and Irish culture, but he's also the co-founder and scientific lead facilitator at Inward Bound, one of the world's first psychede...
#160 - Natalie Sanandaji: The Good Souls of the Nova Festival
November 09, 2023 18:35 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBOn October 7th, Natalie Sanandaji, a Persian Jew from New York, attended a psytrance festival, to dance and feel the acceptance she only finds among her fellow peace-loving trancers. The events of that day and what has followed are deeply etched in our global consciousness. Today on Life is a Festival, Natalie tells her story. Our conversation today isn’t about sensational details or moral positions. Instead, Natalie and I have deliberately chosen to focus exclusively on the experience of a...
#159 - Sharon Avraham & Sami Awad: The Prayers of an Israeli and a Palestinian Burner
October 12, 2023 19:29 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBIn light of the recent tragic events in Israel, particularly the horrific attack at Nova festival, I wanted to offer the global festival community a conversation centered on hope. Today's Life is a Festival episode features Sharon Avraham, co-founder of Midburn, and his theme camp co-producer, Palestinian activist Sami Awad, as they extend a call for healing. On the show we discuss Midburn, Israel's Burning Man regional event, and Sami’s dedication to nonviolence. The two talk about their j...
#158 - Tyler Hanson: Shenanigans! The Art of Immersive Experience Design
October 02, 2023 13:21 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBToday we dive deep into the magical world of shenanigans — or immersive experience design for the uninitiated — with our guest, Tyler Hanson, the brain behind Kulturehaus, a trailblazing agency for festival immersive imagineers. On the show, we explore the crucial role of humor in human survival. We take a historical journey of immersive art from the circus to vaudeville to Dada, to beatniks and hippies, and all the way to the Cacophony Society and Burning Man. Tyler shares how he became a ...
#157 - Marian Goodell et al: Inside Burning Man’s Worst Case Scenario
September 15, 2023 19:29 - 2 hours - 130 MBBurning Man 2023 was many things, most of which were not accurately portrayed in the media. We experienced a weather event that united us, tested our resilience, and sparked a renewed sense of purpose while also accelerating a critical examination of where Burning Man stands in the broader context of sustainability. Today on the show, I've asked five different guests to help craft a comprehensive picture of the 2023 event, the state of our culture, and the future of Black Rock City. (01:00...
#156 - Caveat Magister - At Burning Man, We're All Amateurs
August 23, 2023 17:19 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBHappy procrastination week, my fellow burners! In aid of my own procrastination, I've repurposed an early episode, which is still my favorite on the subject of Burning Man. In this interview, I discuss the philosophy of Black Rock City with Burning Man’s Philosopher Laureate, Caveat Magister (the pen name of Benjamin Wachs). Additionally, I offer a short excerpt from the book I’ve been writing. On the show, we discuss what it means to burn, the power of gifting in building community, and ho...
#155 - Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse
August 14, 2023 18:09 - 1 hour - 74 MBMy guest today is Max Stossel, an award-winning poet who was named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. Max and I are talking about one of my all-time favorite subjects: our relationship with the creative muse. You might learn a thing or two about getting unstuck creatively, but at the very least, you are about to hear some exceptional poetry. The show opens with a candid discussion of authentic vulnerability. We discuss the creative process, how to use and break structure...
#154 - Eviatar Frankel: Facing Death with Grace
July 28, 2023 19:24 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBToday's episode is dedicated to my dear friend, Eviatar Frankel, who died a week ago from complications related to a rare lymphoma. I was privileged to sit with Ev in a men's circle throughout his battle with cancer. Each week, and in countless private conversations, he displayed remarkable grace. This podcast features readings from Eviatar's personal philosophy, deeply rooted in determinism, and includes two interviews. On the show we hear from Erica Dean, a mutual friend pivotal in Ev's c...
# 153 - Dennis Walker (Mycopreneur): The Court Jester of the Psychedelic Renaissance
July 17, 2023 17:04 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBPsychedelic Science, the largest psychedelic conference in history, put on by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, has come and gone. Today, to recap this event and to emphasize the vital role of the trickster in the psychedelic movement, I'm speaking with Dennis Walker, the Instagram satirist well-known for his roastings of all things psychedelic. In this episode, we explore the role of satire in holding social movements accountable—a necessity in our current times. W...
#152 - Phil Wolfson: Is Recreational Ketamine Therapeutic?
July 06, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 77 MBToday on the show, I'm speaking with the Godfather of ketamine therapy, author of The Ketamine Papers, and creator of the ketamine lozenge, Dr. Phil Wolfson. This episode marks the first time Phil has shared his insights on this mercurial molecule for those who use it recreationally, or as he prefers to term it, "ground use." As Phil stresses on the show, he doesn't condone any illegal behavior and provides his comments strictly for educational purposes. Our conversation starts with Phil's ...
#151 - Sophie Strand: A Mythic Probiotic for Masculinity
June 21, 2023 19:24 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBToday on the show, I'm in conversation with Sophie Strand, the mistress of mycelial masculinity and author of The Flowering Wand. Healthy masculinity has been a passion of mine for years and it was an honor to learn from this neo-troubadour animist and her poetic insights. During our discussion, we discuss the androgynous rockstar Dionysus, modern misunderstandings of Odysseus, and the theriomorphic archetype of masculinity. Sophie elucidates why healing is always relational and the role o...
# 151 - Sophie Strand: A Mythic Probiotic for Masculinity
June 21, 2023 19:24 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBToday on the show, I'm in conversation with Sophie Strand, the mistress of mycelial masculinity and author of The Flowering Wand. Healthy masculinity has been a passion of mine for years and it was an honor to learn from this neo-troubadour animist and her poetic insights. During our discussion, we discuss the androgynous rockstar Dionysus, modern misunderstandings of Odysseus, and the theriomorphic archetype of masculinity. Sophie elucidates why healing is always relational and the role o...
#150 - Jetta Blaine: The Marvelous Peptides of Kambo
June 13, 2023 20:05 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBKambo, an Amazonian medicine derived from the secretions of the Phyllomedusa bicolor—also known as the giant monkey tree frog—has been instrumental in maintaining my mental health for the past six years. Today's guest, facilitator Jetta Blaine, helps us understand why, and it boils down to peptides. Our episode begins with essential considerations about vetting practitioners and contraindications for sitting with kambo. We then delve into the basics of the medicine and the origin of kambo as ...
#149 Nick Powers: The Revolution Will Be a Carnival
May 22, 2023 20:44 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBWould you believe that carnivals are a crucial element of social movements? Indeed, today's guest, Professor Nick Powers, suggests that by emphasizing fun, sacrilege, and even the grotesque, we can safeguard social justice against dogmatism and self-righteousness, preventing its co-option. During our conversation, Nick and I reminisce about our early days as passionate, albeit somewhat overzealous, young activists. We share our mutual love of Burning Man, where he co-founded the People of C...
#149 - Nick Powers: The Revolution Will Be a Carnival
May 22, 2023 20:44 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBWould you believe that carnivals are a crucial element of social movements? Indeed, today's guest, Professor Nick Powers, suggests that by emphasizing fun, sacrilege, and even the grotesque, we can safeguard social justice against dogmatism and self-righteousness, preventing its co-option. During our conversation, Nick and I reminisce about our early days as passionate, albeit somewhat overzealous, young activists. We share our mutual love of Burning Man, where he co-founded the People of C...
#149 - Mitchell Gomez: How to Stop Fentanyl Deaths
May 10, 2023 02:28 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBToday is National Fentanyl Awareness Day, and I believe this issue to be the most pressing concern facing our community of cognitive liberty. I use drugs and psychedelics to explore my consciousness, and many of the people I love do the same. The issue of fentanyl adulteration and the 100,000 deaths categorized as overdoses in 2020 indicate that this problem affects us all. I personally have friends who have died from fentanyl adulteration. In this episode, I am reposting a conversation I h...
[Repost] Mitchell Gomez: How to Stop Fentanyl Deaths
May 10, 2023 02:28 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBToday is National Fentanyl Awareness Day, and I believe this issue to be the most pressing concern facing our community of cognitive liberty. I use drugs and psychedelics to explore my consciousness, and many of the people I love do the same. The issue of fentanyl adulteration and the 100,000 deaths categorized as overdoses in 2020 indicate that this problem affects us all. I personally have friends who have died from fentanyl adulteration. In this episode, I am reposting a conversation I h...
#148 - Snow Raven: The Unexpected Sweetness of Darkness
April 27, 2023 19:48 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBPeople in conscious communities often pay lip service to shadow work, but what does it truly mean to embrace darkness—both the darkness of the world and within our own hearts? Snow Raven (Haar Suor), a member of the shamanic Sakha people from Arctic Siberia, knows darkness intimately, and it has inspired her transformative music from America's Got Talent to Burning Man. On the show, we discuss the Sakha Republic as one of the darkest places on Earth and explore how mental health challenges ...
#147 - Victorien Mulliez: The Path of Joy
April 19, 2023 18:46 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBVictorien is one of the most joyful people I know. The French DJ, flutist, and social impact entrepreneur seems to have a few things figured out. From Vipassana meditation to sobriety, he shares his secrets with us today. On the show, we begin by discussing the nature of joy and despair. Victorien shares his tools for cultivating joy, starting with creativity, and offers advice to young artists who would also love to be big in Pakistan. We discuss the power of nature and delve deep into Vip...
#147 - Victorien Mulliez: The Path to Joy
April 19, 2023 18:46 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBVictorien is one of the most joyful people I know. The French DJ, flutist, and social impact entrepreneur seems to have a few things figured out. From Vipassana meditation to sobriety, he shares his secrets with us today. On the show, we begin by discussing the nature of joy and despair. Victorien shares his tools for cultivating joy, starting with creativity, and offers advice to young artists who would also love to be big in Pakistan. We discuss the power of nature and delve deep into Vip...
#146 - Stephen Jenkinson: Personal Growth Won't Save Us
March 30, 2023 17:24 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBToday's conversation is a serious one, yet it is approached with the poetic grace that only Stephen Jenkinson can deliver. Personal growth and healing alone won't shield us from impending catastrophes, but perhaps embracing them might... just maybe. In this episode, we discuss why personal growth for its own sake can resemble a tumor and examine the issues surrounding healing culture. We discuss the concepts of wholeness versus goodness and listen to Stephen's experiences in Cadiz, Plymouth...
#145 - Ian MacKenzie: The Masculine Longing for Mythic Imagination
March 14, 2023 22:44 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBToday Ian Mackenzie returns to Life is a Festival to discuss mythopoetic masculinity. Ian is a filmmaker, essayist, and host of the Mythic Masculine Podcast and A Gathering of Stories. He is teaching a new online class called Re-storying Masculinity with Advaya which starts on March 14th. Our conversation begins with a history of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement and its splinter, Men’s Rights activism. We talk about how mainstream culture is really an anti culture that eats culture, including...
#144 - Android Jones: The Transformative Vulnerability of Loss
March 02, 2023 20:44 - 1 hour - 73 MBJust over a month ago, the beloved Visionary Artist Android Jones lost his life's work and all his tools for creation in a fire on his property in Colorado. Today, Android returns to Life is a Festival to share his experience of loss, the profound opening of asking for help and his thoughts on AI art. On the program Android describes how he designed his studio as a runway to attract the muse. He discusses his experience of losing the barn and how he processed his grief with kickboxing and t...
#143 - Monique Shiess, Co-founder of AfrikaBurn: The Catalytic Potential of Burning Man in South Africa
February 13, 2023 17:50 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBIn 2017 I attended Afrikburn, the Burning Man regional event which takes place a few hours north of Cape Town in the Tankwa Karoo. Afterwards, I wrote an article called “Afrikburn: The Unbearable Whiteness of Burning” with the wisdom and support of Co-founder and Creative Director Monique Shiess. Today on the show, I reconnect with Monique to discuss how things have change for Afrikaburn in the last five years. On the show Monique shares her experience growing up in South Africa and produci...
#142 - How to Earn a Secure Attachment Style | George Haas (Mettagroup)
January 10, 2023 17:34 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBWhy is a Buddhist meditation teacher trying to heal attachment styles? Aren’t Buddhists supposed to be all about non-attachment? Today's guest, George Haas, has been teaching meditation since 2000, and lately focuses primarily on preparing the path to enlightenment by resolving maladaptive responses to difficult childhood experiences. On the show we talk about different insecure attachment styles, including anxious-preoccupied, avoidant and disorganized. We talk about what an earned secure ...
#141 - To Escape the Tyranny of the Self | Benjamin
December 31, 2022 21:51 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBIf you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you may know that I have a mentor and spiritual guide named Benjamin, an extraordinarily generous man who seems to have inexhaustible time for me in guiding my path forward. For many years, Benjamin has been working on a process of dissolution of the constructed self. In this conversation, Ben and I talk about the nature of the self, from a neuroscience perspective to a mythopoetic perspective. We explore completing the construction of th...
#140 - Iboga Part 2: Initiating with Iboga in Africa | Apollon (Bwiti Initiations)
December 20, 2022 21:46 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBFor Part 2 of our exploration of the psychedelic plant iboga, I have the honor of sharing a conversation with Apollon, a Bwiti N'ganga from Gabon. On the show we open with the colonial history of Gabon and the difference between Bwiti Fang in the North and Bwiti Missoko in the South. Apollon describes the meaning of Bwiti and how Westerns can connect with this spiritual practice. He describes how the Bwiti see addiction and why you have to learn to live with the devil inside you. Apollon sh...
#139 - Iboga Part 1: Ibogaine Clinical Treatment | Dr. Felipe Malacara, & Vianey Ariadna Perez (Beond Ibogaine)
December 09, 2022 22:35 - 1 hour - 56 MBIn the first of a two part exploration of the psychedelic West African shrub Tabernanthe iboga, this podcast investigates the Western clinical model and the extract ibogaine HLC. I visited Beond Clinic in Cancun to discuss addiction and trauma treatment with Medical Director Dr. Felipe Malacara and Nursing Lead Vianey Ariadna Perez. On the show we learn how patients receive comprehensive treatment at the clinic. We discuss the neuroscience of iboga and why it is so effective in treating add...
#138 - The Art of Interviewing | Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie
December 01, 2022 19:38 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBTo celebrate four years of Life is a Festival, today I’m sharing a conversation I had with my friend Ian MacKenzie about how to conduct a good interview. Whether you want to start a podcast or are simply interested in being a better conversationalist, I think you’ll find this helpful. On the show we go over how to research your guest so you can bring more to the party, how to create a roadmap for an engaging, spontaneous conversation, and how to make your guest feel safe to offer their most...
138 - The Art of Interviewing | Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie
December 01, 2022 19:38 - 47 minutes - 40.4 MBTo celebrate four years of Life is a Festival, today I’m sharing a conversation I had with my friend Ian MacKenzie about how to conduct a good interview. Whether you want to start a podcast or are simply interested in being a better conversationalist, I think you’ll find this helpful. On the show we go over how to research your guest so you can bring more to the party, how to create a roadmap for an engaging, spontaneous conversation, and how to make your guest feel safe to offer their most...
#137 - The Queer Muslim Hero of Psychedelic Legalization | Ismail Lourido Ali (MAPS)
November 07, 2022 18:22 - 1 hour - 82 MBAs Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act goes to voters, it's the perfect time to consider how powerful psychedelic molecules should enter mainstream consciousness. Today on Life is a Festival Ismail Lourido Ali, Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) explains the various pathways to legalization including the Decriminalization movement, medicalization, religious exception, and legal adult use. The first half of our conversation i...
#136 - The Gift of Mayan Warrior | Pablo González Vargas (Mayan Warrior)
October 25, 2022 18:31 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBMayan Warrior is one of the most iconic mutant vehicles at Burning Man and its impact goes far beyond the Playa. This week on Life is a Festival, founder Pablo González Vargas talks about gifting, Mayan culture, and the challenges of bringing an art car 8,000 kilometers to That Thing in the Desert. On the show Pablo shares his initiation into Burning Man culture and the difficulties the car faced in its first years. We talk about the physical, communal, and spiritual value of Burning Man. We...
#135 - The Primal Movement of the Smuggler Yogi | Nick Brewer (Primal Moves)
October 12, 2022 17:12 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBIn the countryside of Ibiza there is a strange and challenging movement practice called Primal Moves. Founder Nick Brewer’s personal history is stranger still. Today on Life is a Festival, Nick shares his incredible life story from South American smuggler to yogi and the daily practice which became his refuge and his dharma. On the show, Nick shares his story from his time as an alpine skier, to smuggling cocaine in South America, to isolation in the bowels of an Argentinian prison. Nick ta...
#134 - Pleasure is Medicine | Chloe Macintosh (Kama: Sex & Pleasure Education)
October 01, 2022 18:52 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBIf we want to actually live in our bodies, sexuality should be a daily practice. Today on Life is a Festival, Chloe Macintosh, founder and CEO of Kama, teaches us the importance of pleasure for healing and growth. On the show we talk about the importance of embodiment and the gap in adult sex education. We explore pornography addiction, erectile disfunction and the magical art of squirting. Chloe shares her four part daily practice and we finish our conversation diving into BDSM and polyamo...
#133 - The Neverending Healing Journey | Adam Andros Aronovich (Healing From Healing)
September 23, 2022 18:05 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBHave you found yourself caught up in a never-ending healing journey? Are you rushing from workshop to ceremony to retreat trying to peal all the layers of your existential onion? Maybe what you need is healing from your healing! Today on Life is a Festival, Adam Andros Aronovich, creator of “Healing From Healing” offers us levity and a much needed reprieve from our hyper-individualistic personal development. On the show we discuss the fundamental importance of community in healing work. We t...
#132 - Every Daddy Needs a Daddy | Eamon Armstrong with Chloe Macintosh (Live from Burning Man)
September 17, 2022 18:15 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBToday on Life is a Festival in a talk recorded live at Burning Man, I share my personal kink journey and how I learned to alchemize adolescent sexual shame through the archetype of “Daddy.” I was interviewed by the brilliant Chloe Macintosh, founder of the sexual wellness app, Kama, who will be a guest on a forthcoming episode. On the show we discuss where kinks come from and how accepting, embracing, and embodying them can be healing for you and your lovers. We discuss creating safe conta...
#131 - The Best of Black Rock City | Burning Man Compilation
August 25, 2022 22:41 - 1 hour - 97.7 MBFor those about to Burn! I have procrastinating my own packing for That Thing in the Desert by making you this compilation of my best Black Rock City conversations. From asking the Big Meow Marian whether Burning Man is a festival, to fumbling towards inclusivity with activist Nexus, from Burners without Borders to the Nordic Borderland, these are some of my favorite BRC moments from Life is a Festival. I’ve also added a few PSAs including how to talk to cops (Don’t!), how to protect yourse...
#131 - The Best of Black Rock City | Burning Man
August 25, 2022 22:41 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB#131 - The Best of Black Rock City | Burning Man by Eamon Armstrong
#130 - Flow States and Festival Consciousness | Jason Silva (Shots of Awe)
August 20, 2022 20:29 - 1 hour - 57 MBThe Wizard of Awe, Jason Silva, returns to Life is a Festival to discuss festival consciousness and how we, the refugees from the mundane, can unleash the brave and reckless Gods we really are at Burning Man and beyond. On the show we discuss freedom from self and expanded circles of moral concern. We talk about using avatars to explore and create our true selves. We touch on ontological and peak experience addiction. We explore the predictive brain theory and solving the problems of the wor...
#130 - Flow States and Festival Consciousness | Jason Silva(Shots of Awe)
August 20, 2022 20:29 - 1 hour - 52 MBThe Wizard of Awe, Jason Silva, returns to Life is a Festival to discuss festival consciousness and how we, the refugees from the mundane, can unleash the brave and reckless Gods we really are at Burning Man and beyond. On the show we discuss freedom from self and expanded circles of moral concern. We talk about using avatars to explore and create our true selves. We touch on ontological and peak experience addiction. We explore the predictive brain theory and solving the problems of the wor...
#129 - Dunking on the New Age is Boring Now | Alex Ebert (Bad Guru)
August 09, 2022 20:52 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBThis podcast has highlighted many long-standing issues with New Age spirituality and the dark side of “good vibes only,” but according to today’s returning guest, rockstar philosopher Alex Ebert, dunking on the New Age has become boring and there is much that is still valuable and relevant from its perspective and rituals. On the show we begin with a review of the issues with spiritual communities from the dark side of manifestation to how toxic positivity functions like cancer. Alex expla...