How to Not Die at Burning Man…as Told by Burners
Burning Man is an annual festival that takes place in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert that attracts around 70,000 people a year. With dust storms, mutant vehicles, giant art installations, fire art, and tens of thousands of people partying in the desert… Burning Man can be considered to be a hazardous party environment. On the back…
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Read MoreCan Burning Man Change the World? | Andrew Johnstone – EN24
Andrew Johnstone is in charge of designing the Burning Man Man Base, and ensuring that the Man burns safely, so that flaming tons of debris do not cascade down onto the thousands of revelers below. Originally from Great Britain, Andrew currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and children. Since 2005 he apprenticed under Rod Garrett, the architect
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Elizabeth Bast serves as a writer, poet, yoga teacher, yogic life-style coach, visual & performance artist, fusion temple dancer, and musician. She studied at New College of San Francisco with an emphasis on Art and Social Change. Chor Boogie a.k.a. Joaquin Lamar Hailey is an internationally acclaimed spray-paint artist. His visionary murals
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Image from Psycho Babble As the legal cannabis market is growing in numbers, the users are becoming more mature when consuming cannabis products. They start to distinguish qualities that were almost impossible to tell apart when the whole cannabis scene was hidden in the shadows of illegality. Moreover, the profile of the average cannabis consumer…
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“When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT. As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this…
Read MoreWestern Shamans, Sacred Tea Servers & Charlatans | Rak Razam – EN22
Rak Razam is the world’s leading ‘experiential’ journalist, writing about and helping shape the emergence of a new cultural paradigm in the 21st century. A writer, film producer and culture maker, he bridges the worlds of shamanism, consciousness and popular culture. Author of the critically acclaimed book Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey and the companion…
Read MoreIcaros, Shaman Songs & Plant Music | Susana Bustos – EN21
Susana Bustos, PhD, is a transpersonal counselor, professor of psychology, and independent researcher on the entheogenic shamanic traditions of the Americas. Her main body of research and clinical work has focused on Peruvian Amazonian Vegetalismo practices, particularly on the effects of song (icaros) and plant diets on healing processes, as well as on the integration of experiences with plant medicines
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