Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
California Lucid Dreaming
Life is a Festival #122: Jonah Gabriel Haas (Lucidity Festival)
Lucidity Festival is a dreamy annual adventure amidst the coastal California Oaks of Santa Barbara.
...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.
I Kink, Therefore I Am: The Art of Liberating Desire
Life is a Festival #119: Cat Meyer
In honor of the Day of Love, we’re diving into the wonderful world of BDSM
How Conspiracy Thinking Hijacked the Psychedelic Community
Life is a Festival #118: Jules Evans
Over the past two years the optimistic spirituality of many within the psychedelic community has morphed into pessimism and paranoia.
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.
A Prison is the Shadow of a Festival
Life is a Festival #116: Sonya Shah (Ahimsa Collective)
If we are committed to healing and a joyful life, we must look at our culture’s deepest shadows, and change the way we understand justice.
The Small Self on a Big Stage
Life is a Festival #115: Nick Mulvey
In the tradition of an English troubadour, Nick Mulvey is a soulful multi-instrumentalist, Earth protector, and student of Celtic shamanism.
How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip
Life is a Festival #113: Solocast
My experience offering psychedelic peer support in the wild.
Sex and Shamanic Shadow Hunting
Life is a Festival #112: Ohad Pele & Jasmeen Hana (ISTA)
Shamanic sexuality training at the International School of Temple Arts.
Queer is Questioning
Life is a Festival #111: From Spaces Between Podcast with Al Jeffery
What does it mean to call yourself “Queer?”
A Superhero Team of Indigenous Elders
Life is a Festival #110: Vivien Vilela & Rudy Randa (Aniwa Gathering)
From Benki Piyãko to the mysterious Mamos of the Sierra Nevadas, Aniwa is a platform for Indigenous Wisdom.
Voices of the Renegade Burn
Life is a Festival #109
Reflections on the self-organized 2021 Burn from Plan B to drone artists to temple builders.
Healing Veterans with Plant Medicine
Life is a Festival #108: Jesse Gould (Heroic Hearts)
With the rapid fall of Afghanistan, veterans in our communities need our care and support now more than ever.
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.
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 Boy Prince to Embodied Man
Life is a Festival #103: Adrian Grenier
An icon of male fantasy finds peace and purpose in healthy masculinity and joyful service.
Reconnecting After Covid
Life is a Festival #102: Radha Agrawal
Feeling a nervous about post-pandemic gatherings? A master community builder gives us a gentle nudge back to IRL connection.