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.
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.
Nick Powers: The Revolution Will Be a Carnival
Life is a Festival #149
By emphasizing fun, sacrilege, and even the grotesque, we can safeguard social justice against dogmatism and self-righteousness, preventing its co-option.
Monique Shiess, Co-founder of AfrikaBurn: The Catalytic Potential of Burning Man in South Africa
Life is a Festival #143 - Monique Shiess (AfrikaBurn)
Towards real radical inclusivity and environmental stewardship at AfrikaBurn
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?
The Mycelial Way to Psychedelic Decriminalization
Life is a Festival #117: Matthew Duffy (SPORE)
Psychedelic decriminalization is on the move throughout the United States and Colorado is at its epicenter.
Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond
Life is a Festival #107: Sutton King (Journey Colab)
What is our responsibility for kinship and reciprocity as we explore the healing power of plant medicine?
Brotherhood is the Medicine
Life is a Festival #106: Adam Jackson (Sacred Sons)
A deep dive on modern men's work and how Sacred Sons is working to bring forth the embodied masculine.
Ayahuasca for Healing Ancestral Racial Trauma
Life is a Festival #105: Tony Moss
A mighty deep dive on Ayahuasca healing for post traumatic slave syndrome.
Decolonize Your Body
Life is a Festival #85: Camille Barton
Camille shows us how to unravel the legacy of colonization in our bodies through psychedelics, grief work and somatic healing.
Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities
Life is a Festival #83: Ashoka Finley
We need to compost the old world, not simply run away from it. Ashoka is here to teach us how to build the infrastructure of care for the new world that we know is possible.
Visions of an Afropunk Futurist
Life is a Festival #68: Adah Parris (-ism)
Self-isolating in her flat in London, Adah Parris offers her perspective on these difficult times, from Covid-19 to racial injustice in the United States.
Fumbling Towards Inclusivity
Life is a Festival 032: JR Nexus Russ
Is Burning Man “a white people thing?”