Eamon Armstrong 9/10/25 Eamon Armstrong 9/10/25

#180 - Paul Stamets: The Mycelial Web of Burning Man

Legendary mycologist Paul Stamets to explore mushrooms, mycelium, the cosmos… and Burning Man of course.

Eamon Armstrong 3/27/25 Eamon Armstrong 3/27/25

#179 - Josh Shrei (The Emerald): Only Myth Can Save Us Now

The ancient power of festivals, structure and fluidity of gender, and the soul’s longing for meaning.

Eamon Armstrong 1/21/25 Eamon Armstrong 1/21/25

#178 - Benjamin: Why I Returned to Ibogaine

From Gabon to Cancún, sticking the landing on my healing journey

Eamon Armstrong 12/7/23 Eamon Armstrong 12/7/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 11/17/23 Eamon Armstrong 11/17/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 8/23/23 Eamon Armstrong 8/23/23

Caveat Magister - At Burning Man, We're All Amateurs

Life is a Festival #156

Burning Man doesn’t have to be transformational.

Eamon Armstrong 8/14/23 Eamon Armstrong 8/14/23

Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse

Life is a Festival #155

Max helps us unstuck creatively and shares some exceptional poetry.

Eamon Armstrong 7/28/23 Eamon Armstrong 7/28/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 7/17/23 Eamon Armstrong 7/17/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 7/6/23 Eamon Armstrong 7/6/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 6/14/23 Eamon Armstrong 6/14/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 4/27/23 Eamon Armstrong 4/27/23

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.

Eamon Armstrong 3/2/23 Eamon Armstrong 3/2/23

Android Jones: The Transformative Vulnerability of Loss

Life is a Festival #144

Visionary Artist Android Jones speaks about losing his life’s work, the profound opening of asking for help and his thoughts on AI art.

Eamon Armstrong 12/20/22 Eamon Armstrong 12/20/22

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.

Eamon Armstrong 12/10/22 Eamon Armstrong 12/10/22

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.

Eamon Armstrong 12/1/22 Eamon Armstrong 12/1/22

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.

Eamon Armstrong 11/7/22 Eamon Armstrong 11/7/22

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?

Eamon Armstrong 10/25/22 Eamon Armstrong 10/25/22

The Gift of the Mayan Warrior

Life is a Festival #136: Pablo González Vargas (Mayan Warrior)

Mayan Warrior 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.