Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 12/20/22 Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality 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.

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Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 12/10/22 Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality 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.

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Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 12/1/22 Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality 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.

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Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 11/7/22 Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, Spirituality 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?

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Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Community, Leadership, Yoga, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 10/12/22 Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Community, Leadership, Yoga, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 10/12/22

The Primal Movement of the Smuggler Yogi

Life is a Festival #135: Nick Brewer (Primal Moves)

The incredible life story of how a South American smuggler became a yogi and the daily practice which became his refuge and his dharma.

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Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Harm Reduction, Gender, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 10/1/22 Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Harm Reduction, Gender, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 10/1/22

Pleasure is Medicine

Life is a Festival #134: Chloe Macintosh (Kama: Sex & Pleasure Education)

The importance of embodiment from erectile disfunction to the magical art of squirting.

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Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Burning Man, Harm Reduction, Critical Thinking Eamon Armstrong 9/23/22 Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Burning Man, Harm Reduction, Critical Thinking Eamon Armstrong 9/23/22

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.

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Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Burning Man, Gender, Harm Reduction, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 9/17/22 Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Burning Man, Gender, Harm Reduction, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 9/17/22

Every Daddy Needs a Daddy

Life is a Festival #132: Eamon Armstrong with Chloe Macintosh (Live from Burning Man)

Kink, like psychedelics and Burning Man itself, can be a powerful transformational technology, if used wisely.

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Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Leadership, Burning Man, Festivals, Community, Harm Reduction, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 8/26/22 Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Leadership, Burning Man, Festivals, Community, Harm Reduction, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 8/26/22

The Best of Black Rock City

Life is a Festival #131: Burning Man Compilation

From Burners without Borders to the Nordic Borderland, these are some of my favorite BRC moments from Life is a Festival.

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Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Leadership, Spirituality, Burning Man, Critical Thinking, Festivals, Film Eamon Armstrong 8/20/22 Personal Growth, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Leadership, Spirituality, Burning Man, Critical Thinking, Festivals, Film Eamon Armstrong 8/20/22

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.

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Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Critical Thinking, Gender, Leadership, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 8/10/22 Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Critical Thinking, Gender, Leadership, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 8/10/22

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.

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Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Burning Man, Festivals Eamon Armstrong 7/29/22 Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Burning Man, Festivals Eamon Armstrong 7/29/22

Festivals Create Lasting Transformation

Life is a Festival #128: Dr. Molly Crockett (Crockett Lab)

A new study from Yale University confirms what all always knew was true about the power of festivals.

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Personal Growth, Community, Critical Thinking, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong 7/1/22 Personal Growth, Community, Critical Thinking, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong 7/1/22

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?

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Burning Man, Festivals, Art, Leadership, Mental Wellness Eamon Armstrong 4/2/22 Burning Man, Festivals, Art, Leadership, Mental Wellness Eamon Armstrong 4/2/22

Welcome Refugees with a Festival

Life is a Festival #123: Mike Zuckerman (Borders Without Borders)

Can we take Burning Man principles and apply them to refugee situations?

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Community, Mental Wellness, Gender, LGBTQ, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 2/14/22 Community, Mental Wellness, Gender, LGBTQ, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 2/14/22

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

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Community, Critical Thinking, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Yoga Eamon Armstrong 2/4/22 Community, Critical Thinking, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Yoga Eamon Armstrong 2/4/22

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.

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Community, Critical Thinking, Harm Reduction, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Race, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong 1/19/22 Community, Critical Thinking, Harm Reduction, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Race, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong 1/19/22

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.

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Mental Wellness, Community, Harm Reduction, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Solocast Eamon Armstrong 11/17/21 Mental Wellness, Community, Harm Reduction, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Solocast Eamon Armstrong 11/17/21

How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip

Life is a Festival #113: Solocast

My experience offering psychedelic peer support in the wild.

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Community, Gender, LGBTQ, Leadership, Sexuality, Mental Wellness, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 10/22/21 Community, Gender, LGBTQ, Leadership, Sexuality, Mental Wellness, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong 10/22/21

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.

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Community, Fashion, Gender, LGBTQ, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 10/14/21 Community, Fashion, Gender, LGBTQ, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Sexuality Eamon Armstrong 10/14/21

Queer is Questioning

Life is a Festival #111: From Spaces Between Podcast with Al Jeffery

What does it mean to call yourself “Queer?”

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