Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
The Play of Creative Work
Life is a Festival #98: Autumn Skye
To succeed as artists, the muse must find us working, but how do we maintain the play and passion that lit our creative fire to begin with?
Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 (Clubhouse Show)
Life is a Festival #97: Alex Ebert
A robust history of the dark side of New Age thought and how we can refestivalize our spiritual culture.
Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 (Clubhouse Show)
Life is a Festival #96: Jamie Wheal
Recorded on Clubhouse, Jamie helps us understand the worrying prevalence of dark triad personality types in transformational communities.
Building Big Art with the Cape's Creator
Life is a Festival #95: Daniel Popper
Inside the creative process with the South African creator of Tulum yogis and Boom shamans.
Stay Safe, Psychonauts (Live from Clubhouse)
Life is a Festival #94: Dr. Molly
How to protect yourself from pseudo-shamanism, bad medicine, and neurotoxicity.
Medicine or Meds? How to Manage a Spiritual Emergence
Life is a Festival #93: Dr. Joseph Barsuglia
A PhD neuropsychologist explains spiritual initiation through the lens of the Bwiti tradition in Africa and the plant medicine iboga.
A Vaccine for Conspirituality
Life is a Festival #92: Erik Davis
Erik Davis, wizard of weird, returns to the show to address “conspirituality” and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against it.
The Transformative Power of Folktales
Life is a Festival #91 Jan Blake
Jan Blake, one of Europe's most renowned storytellers teaches the medicine of myth through six tales.
Masters of Steam
Life is a Festival #89: Sasha Baibarin and Boris Ryabov (Steamology Institute)
Sasha and Boris are powerful steam masters bringing a traditional Russian banya all the way to Black Rock City.
Don't Flail the Derp
Life is a Festival #88: Brad Rhadwood
The king of “lowbrow visionary art” gives us his own version of making lemons into lemonade.
Build a Little Ashram in Your Soul
Life is a Festival #87: Shiv Charan Singh (Karam Kriya)
A spiritual teacher and kundalini master describes the spiritual pressure cooker of an ashram.
Love Free From Fear
Life is a Festival #86: Sabine Lichtenfels
Can we heal the wounds of love and share lives of both dedication and erotic adventure?
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.
Musings On Mental Health
Life is a Festival #84: Eamon Armstrong
A repod from my interview on Eric White’s show theEWpodcast where we discuss techniques for mental wellness and how to see depression as a teacher.
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.
Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Community
Life is a Festival #81 [In Community]: Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)
Through his exploration of gender and his dedication to humane technology, Andrew is walking the edge of culture and community.
Live From the Infinite Playa
Life is a Festival #80: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
Jamie stopped by Burners Without Borders in the Infinite Playa to talk about the future of Burning Man, hedonism and service, and the importance of shenanigans.
That One Time We Saved Burning Man
Life is a Festival #79: Marian Goodell (The Burning Man Project)
Marian speaks on Burning Man’s cultural course correction, how radical inclusivity must now be proactive racial inclusivity, Burning Man’s 2030 Sustainability Roadmap, and how we as a community can pitch in to keep Black Rock City alive.
Into the Burning Man Multiverse
Life is a Festival #78: Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
Today’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences…
Making a Magic City
Life is a Festival #77 [in Community]: Tony Cho (Metro 1)
From the ashram to Argentina and from Wynwood Arts to Magic City, Tony Cho makes life more festive for us all!