Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
#175 - Atish: Beats, Breaks, and Balance, a DJ Unplugs
Service, legacy, and giving back to one’s community.
#172 - Live From Burning Man Information Radio (Encore)
Playing around at BMIR 2019 and Harm Reduction Tips for 2024
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.
Sami Awad & Sharon Avraham: A Lighthouse for the Middle East
Life is a Festival #167
Sami and Sharon return to the show to discuss their ambitious peace project, the Lighthouse.
Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers
Life is a Festival #166
The Village of Lovers helps us heal the wounds of gender and experience love free from fear.
Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?
Life is a Festival #163
Instead of healing the kink, let the kink heal you.
Ilana Gilovich-Wave: Requiem for Sleep No More
Life is a Festival #162
Immersing into immersive experience design with one of the world's most iconic theatrical experiences, Sleep No More.
Darragh Stewart: The Indigenous Medicine of Ireland
Life is a Festival #161
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.
Marian Goodell et al: Inside Burning Man’s Worst Case Scenario
Life is a Festival #157
Will our changing climate stop Burning Man, or will our collective resilience and response to crisis make our community stronger.
Dennis Walker (Mycopreneur): The Court Jester of the Psychedelic Renaissance
Life is a Festival #153
How humor keeps psychedelics entertaining and helps level the playing field.
Phil Wolfson: Is Recreational Ketamine Therapeutic?
Life is a Festival #152
All your burning questions about Special K to Phil, like whether there's a difference between S and R isomers, if one should "spit the drip" to avoid bladder damage, and if frequent ketamine use leads to memory loss.
Jetta Blaine: The Marvelous Peptides of Kambo
Life is a Festival #150
Kambo, an Amazonian medicine derived from the secretions of the Phyllomedusa bicolor has been instrumental in maintaining my mental health for the past six years.
Iboga Part 2: Initiating with Iboga in Africa
Life is a Festival #140 - Apollon (Bwiti Initiations)
A conversation with a Bwiti N’ganga about how Westerns can connect with this African spiritual practice.
Iboga Part 1: Ibogaine Clinical Treatment
Life is a Festival #139 - Dr. Felipe Malacara, & Vianey Ariadna Perez (Beond Ibogaine)
Healing addiction and trauma using ibogaine HLC in a Western medical model at Beond Clinic in Cancun.
The Art of Interviewing
Life is a Festival #138 - Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie
To 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.
The Queer Muslim Hero of Psychedelic Legalization
Life is a Festival #137 - Ismail Lourido Ali (MAPS)
From medicalization to religious exception, how should powerful psychedelic molecules enter mainstream consciousness?
Pleasure is Medicine
Life is a Festival #134: Chloe Macintosh (Kama: Sex & Pleasure Education)
The importance of embodiment from erectile disfunction to the magical art of squirting.
The Neverending Healing Journey
Life is a Festival #133: Adam Andros Aronovich (Healing From Healing)
The creator of “Healing From Healing” offers us levity and a much needed reprieve from our hyper-individualistic personal development.
Every Daddy Needs a Daddy
Life is a Festival #132: Eamon Armstrong with Chloe Macintosh (Live from Burning Man)
Kink, like psychedelics and Burning Man itself, can be a powerful transformational technology, if used wisely.
The Best of Black Rock City
Life is a Festival #131: Burning Man Compilation
From Burners without Borders to the Nordic Borderland, these are some of my favorite BRC moments from Life is a Festival.