Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
Chip Conley: Midlife is also a Festival
Life is a Festival #171
Midlife is not a crisis but a chrysalis—a time for transformation and growth.
Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual
Life is a Festival #170
In a world beset by tragedy its important to learn how to grieve.
Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse
Life is a Festival #155
Max helps us unstuck creatively and shares some exceptional poetry.
Eviatar Frankel: Facing Death with Grace
Life is a Festival #154
Rarely do individuals possess the courage, wisdom, or awareness to confront death with genuine presence.
Snow Raven: The Unexpected Sweetness of Darkness
Life is a Festival #148
Snow Raven knows darkness intimately, and it has inspired her shamanic music from America's Got Talent to Burning Man.
Stephen Jenkinson: Personal Growth Won't Save Us
Life is a Festival #146
…but perhaps embracing catastrophe might... just maybe.
Worldbuilding for a Better World
Life is a Festival #125: Lak Mitchell (Boomtown Fair)
Few gatherings build worlds with the theatrical flair of BoomTown Fair, a choose-your-own-adventure playground in the English countryside.
Art and Irresolvable Contradictions (Live from Bombay Beach Biennale)
Life is a Festival #124: Tao Ruspoli (Bombay Beach Biennale)
Founded in 2015, Bombay Beach Biennale is a renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy.
...Because You're Going to Die
Life is a Festival #121: Ned Buskirk
Embracing impermanence is one of the paradoxical keys to a life like a festival, to live in the moment we have to learn to let go.
In the Age of Fentanyl, Test Your Drugs!
Life is a Festival #120: Mitchell Gomez
If you love altering your consciousness, test your drugs and let’s end prohibition together.
An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture
Life is a Festival #104: Jamie Wheal
Jamie’s new book "Recapture the Rapture," is your invitation to the sexual yoga of becoming a homegrown human.
From Crisis to Coronation
Life is a Festival #60: Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics)
How long is the journey from crisis to coronation? It may be very long and will certainly be very difficult, but a more beautiful world is possible.
The Marvelous Mother Shucker of Mardi Gras
Life is a Festival #52: Katrina Brees (The Bearded Oysters)
We go deep into the history of Mardi Gras with fabulous parades and exclusive balls, prideful showings and pubic wigs. We discuss Katrina’s work advocating against gun violence, microdosing for mental health, and throwing a lemonade party when life gave her its sourest lemon.
Making Sustainability Sexy
Life is a Festival #38: Pete Phornprapha (Wonderfruit)
Pranitan "Pete" Phornprapha, scion of Siam Motors Group, has created an innovation lab for sustainability… disguised as a festival.
How to Celebrate Death
Life is a Festival #37: Klaudia Oliver (La Calaca)
Can we “undrown” ourselves from painful loss through a celebration of death?
A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Life is a Festival #33: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
When the search for the Grail Castle becomes the prison of Hotel California, we need some tough love to wake the woke.
The Wizard of Awe Goes to Burning Man
Life is a Festival #30: Jason Silva (Shots of Awe)
Chronos and Kairos: Of Timelessness, Flow States, Psychedelics and Death