Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
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.
Flow States and Festival Consciousness
Life is a Festival #130: Jason Silva
The Wizard of Awe talks festival consciousness and how we, the refugees from the mundane, can unleash the brave and reckless Gods we really are at Burning Man and beyond.
Dunking on the New Age is Boring Now
Life is a Festival #129: Alex Ebert
There is much that is still valuable and relevant from the New Age.
Building an Ethical & Sustainable Healing Practice
Life is a Festival #127: Laura Mae Northrup (Radical Healership)
From psychedelic medicine to therapy to bodywork, how do we create a practice that is both ethical and sustainable?
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.
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.
The Yang Container
Life is a Festival #100: Benjamin
For the 100th episode of Life is a Festival, I’m honored to bring you this conversation with my dear friend and spiritual teacher Benjamin.
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.
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.
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.
Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World
Life is a Festival #82: Jordan Hall
Jordan teaches us how to make sense and find our footing to meet the world’s complex challenges.
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.
Skeptical Thinking for Spiritual People
Life is a Festival #67: Dr. Anna Zakrisson (Doctor Anna’s Imaginarium)
With an upswell in conspiracy theories and lack of good sensemaking on social media, Dr. Anna Zakrisson of the Swedish Skeptics Association is here to help us think about thinking in this confusing time.