Eamon Armstrong 12/26/23 Eamon Armstrong 12/26/23

Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?

Life is a Festival #163

Instead of healing the kink, let the kink heal you.

Eamon Armstrong 12/7/23 Eamon Armstrong 12/7/23

Ilana Gilovich-Wave: Requiem for Sleep No More

Life is a Festival #162

Immersing into immersive experience design with one of the world's most iconic theatrical experiences, Sleep No More.

Eamon Armstrong 11/17/23 Eamon Armstrong 11/17/23

Darragh Stewart: The Indigenous Medicine of Ireland

Life is a Festival #161

Ancient Ireland was like the Amazon, with impenetrable forests navigable only by rivers, deep mysticism, and its very own indigenous medicine, the psychedelic Liberty Cap mushrooms.

Eamon Armstrong 11/9/23 Eamon Armstrong 11/9/23

Natalie Sanandaji: The Good Souls of the Nova Festival

Life is a Festival #160

How one young woman is transforming terror into service and the extraordinary courage and care of the good souls of the Tribe of Nova.

Eamon Armstrong 10/12/23 Eamon Armstrong 10/12/23

Sharon Avraham & Sami Awad: The Prayers of an Israeli and a Palestinian Burner

Life is a Festival #159

Sharon Avraham, co-founder of Midburn, and his theme camp co-producer, Palestinian activist Sami Awad, extend a call for healing.

Eamon Armstrong 10/2/23 Eamon Armstrong 10/2/23

Tyler Hanson: Shenanigans! The Art of Immersive Experience Design

Life is a Festival #158

Exploring immersive art from the circus to vaudeville to Dada, to beatniks and hippies, and all the way to the Cacophony Society and Burning Man.

Eamon Armstrong 9/15/23 Eamon Armstrong 9/15/23

Marian Goodell et al: Inside Burning Man’s Worst Case Scenario

Life is a Festival #157

Will our changing climate stop Burning Man, or will our collective resilience and response to crisis make our community stronger.

Eamon Armstrong 8/23/23 Eamon Armstrong 8/23/23

Caveat Magister - At Burning Man, We're All Amateurs

Life is a Festival #156

Burning Man doesn’t have to be transformational.

Eamon Armstrong 8/14/23 Eamon Armstrong 8/14/23

Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse

Life is a Festival #155

Max helps us unstuck creatively and shares some exceptional poetry.

Eamon Armstrong 7/28/23 Eamon Armstrong 7/28/23

Eviatar Frankel: Facing Death with Grace

Life is a Festival #154

Rarely do individuals possess the courage, wisdom, or awareness to confront death with genuine presence.

Eamon Armstrong 7/17/23 Eamon Armstrong 7/17/23

Dennis Walker (Mycopreneur): The Court Jester of the Psychedelic Renaissance

Life is a Festival #153

How humor keeps psychedelics entertaining and helps level the playing field.

Eamon Armstrong 7/6/23 Eamon Armstrong 7/6/23

Phil Wolfson: Is Recreational Ketamine Therapeutic?

Life is a Festival #152

All your burning questions about Special K to Phil, like whether there's a difference between S and R isomers, if one should "spit the drip" to avoid bladder damage, and if frequent ketamine use leads to memory loss.

Eamon Armstrong 6/21/23 Eamon Armstrong 6/21/23

Sophie Strand: A Mythic Probiotic for Masculinity

Life is a Festival #151

Healthy masculinity has been a passion of mine for years and it was an honor to learn from this neo-troubadour animist and her poetic insights.

Eamon Armstrong 6/14/23 Eamon Armstrong 6/14/23

Jetta Blaine: The Marvelous Peptides of Kambo

Life is a Festival #150

Kambo, an Amazonian medicine derived from the secretions of the Phyllomedusa bicolor has been instrumental in maintaining my mental health for the past six years.

Eamon Armstrong 5/22/23 Eamon Armstrong 5/22/23

Nick Powers: The Revolution Will Be a Carnival

Life is a Festival #149

By emphasizing fun, sacrilege, and even the grotesque, we can safeguard social justice against dogmatism and self-righteousness, preventing its co-option.