Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip
Life is a Festival #113: Solocast
My experience offering psychedelic peer support in the wild.
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.
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?
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.
Love All Your Parts
Life is a Festival #99: Richard Schwartz
Does your inner world sometimes feels like a squabbling family, always reacting to the outside experience and to itself? You’re not alone. In fact there’s an entire style of therapy that specifically seeks to bring harmony to our Internal Family Systems.
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.
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.