Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence
Life is a Festival #72: Zhenevere Sophia Dao (The MogaDao Institute)
Zhenevere Sofia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains.