All Episodes

Chris Stakich (Summit): The Lie of the Linear Path

Ian MacKenzie: The Lost Boys of the Manosphere

Jenna Ansell (Medicine Festival): Beyond Festival Utopia

Paul Stamets: The Mycelial Web of Burning Man

Josh Shrei (The Emerald): Only Myth Can Save Us Now

Benjamin: Why I Returned to Ibogaine

Alex Ebert: Aspirational Masculinity for the Left

Megan Miller: Why Burners Must Participate in this Election

Atish: Beats, Breaks, and Balance, a DJ Unplugs

Will Chase: How Burning Man Stays Relevant

Burning Man Isn't Cool Anymore

Live From Burning Man Information Radio (Encore)

Chip Conley: Midlife is also a Festival

Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual

Tina Nance: Beyond the "Divine" Feminine

Lizz Larouge & Guinevere Rhonwen: Love's Many Colors

Sami Awad & Sharon Avraham: A Lighthouse for the Middle East

Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers

Gillian Reid: Sexual Kung Fu (Yin)

Mantak Chia: Sexual Kung Fu (Yang)

Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?

Ilana Gilovich-Wave: Requiem for Sleep No More

Darragh Stewart: The Indigenous Medicine of Ireland

Natalie Sanandaji: Surviving the Nova Festival

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

Tyler Hanson: Shenanigans! The Art of Immersive Experience Design

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

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

Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse

Eviatar Frankel: Facing Death with Grace

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

Phil Wolfson: Is Recreational Ketamine Therapeutic?

Sophie Strand: A Mythic Probiotic for Masculinity

Jetta Blaine: The Marvelous Peptides of Kambo

Nick Powers: The Revolution Will Be a Carnival

Mitchell Gomez: How to Stop Fentanyl Deaths (Encore)

Snow Raven: The Unexpected Sweetness of Darkness

Victorien Mulliez: The Path of Joy

Stephen Jenkinson: Personal Growth Won't Save Us

Ian MacKenzie: The Masculine Longing for Mythic Imagination

#144 - Android Jones: The Transformative Vulnerability of Loss

#143 - Monique Shiess, Co-founder of AfrikaBurn: The Catalytic Potential of Burning Man in South Africa

#142 - How to Earn a Secure Attachment Style | George Haas (Mettagroup)

#141 - To Escape the Tyranny of the Self | Benjamin

#140 - Iboga Part 2: Initiating with Iboga in Africa | Apollon (Bwiti Initiations)

#139 - Iboga Part 1: Ibogaine Clinical Treatment | Dr. Felipe Malacara, & Vianey Ariadna Perez (Beond Ibogaine)

#138 - The Art of Interviewing | Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie

#137 - The Queer Muslim Hero of Psychedelic Legalization | Ismail Lourido Ali (MAPS)

#136 - The Gift of Mayan Warrior | Pablo González Vargas (Mayan Warrior)

#135 - The Primal Movement of the Smuggler Yogi | Nick Brewer (Primal Moves)

#134 - Pleasure is Medicine | Chloe Macintosh (Kama: Sex & Pleasure Education)

#133 - The Neverending Healing Journey | Adam Andros Aronovich (Healing From Healing)

#132 - Every Daddy Needs a Daddy | Eamon Armstrong with Chloe Macintosh (Live from Burning Man)

#131 - The Best of Black Rock City | Burning Man Compilation

#130 - Flow States and Festival Consciousness | Jason Silva (Shots of Awe)

#129 - Dunking on the New Age is Boring Now | Alex Ebert (Bad Guru)

#128 - Festivals Create Lasting Transformation | Dr. Molly Crockett (Crockett Lab)

#127 - Building an Ethical & Sustainable Healing Practice | Laura Mae Northrup (Radical Healership)

#126 - The Poetry of Gender | Janne Robinson

#125 - Worldbuilding for a Better World | Lak Mitchell (Boomtown Fair)

#124 - Art and Irresolvable Contradictions (Live) | Tao Ruspoli (Bombay Beach Biennale)

#123 - Welcome Refugees with a Festival | Mike Zuckerman (Borders Without Borders)

#122 - California Lucid Dreaming | Jonah Gabriel Haas (Lucidity Festival)

#121 - ...Because You're Going to Die | Ned Buskirk (YG2D)

#120 - In the Age of Fentanyl, Test Your Drugs! | Mitchell Gomez (DanceSafe)

#119 - I Kink, Therefore I Am: The Art of Liberating Desire | Cat Meyer (Sex, Love, Yoga)

#118 - How Conspiracy Thinking Hijacked the Psychedelic Community | Jules Evans

#117 - The Mycelial Way to Psychedelic Decriminalization | Matthew Duffy (SPORE)

#116 - A Prison is the Shadow of a Festival | Sonya Shah (Ahimsa Collective)

#115 - The Small Self on a Big Stage | Nick Mulvey

#113 - How to Help Someone Having a Bad Trip | Solocast

#112 - Sex and Shamanic Shadow Hunting | Ohad Pele & Jasmeen Hana (ISTA)

#111 - Queer is Questioning | From Spaces Between Podcast with Al Jeffery

#110 - A Superhero Team of Indigenous Elders | Vivien Vilela & Rudy Randa (Aniwa Gathering)

#109 - Voices of the Renegade Burn

#108 - Healing Veterans with Plant Medicine | Jesse Gould (Heroic Hearts)

#107 - Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond | Sutton King (Journey Colab)

#106 - Brotherhood is the Medicine | Adam Jackson (Sacred Sons)

#105 - Ayahuasca for Healing Ancestral Racial Trauma | Tony Moss

#104 - An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture | Jamie Wheal

#103 - From Boy Prince to Embodied Man | Adrian Grenier

#102 - Reconnecting After Covid | Radha Agrawal (Daybreaker)

#100 - The Yang Container | Benjamin

#99 - Love All Your Parts | Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems)

#98 - The Play of Creative Work | Autumn Skye

#97 - Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 | Alex Ebert (Clubhouse Show)

#96 - Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 | Jamie Wheal (Clubhouse Show)

#95 - Building Big Art with the Cape's Creator | Daniel Popper

#94 - Stay Safe, Psychonauts | Dr. Molly (Clubhouse Show)

#93 - Medicine or Meds? How to Manage a Spiritual Emergence | Dr. Joseph Barsuglia

#92 - A Vaccine for Conspirituality | Erik Davis

#91 - The Transformative Power of Folktales | Jan Blake

#90 - Yes, Psychedelics Can Help Heal Attachment Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk (Body Keeps the Score)

#89 - Masters of Steam | Sasha Baibarin and Boris Ryabov (Steamology Institute)

#88 - Don't Flail The Derp | Brad Rhadwood

#87 - Build a Little Ashram in Your Soul | Shiv Charan Singh (Karam Kriya)

#86 - Love Free From Fear | Sabine Lichtenfels (Tamera)

#85 - Decolonize Your Body | Camille Barton

#84 - Musings on Mental Health | Eamon Armstrong

#83 - Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities | Ashoka Finley

#82 - Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World | Jordan Hall

#81 - Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Communities | Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)

#80 - Live From the Infinite Playa | Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)

#79 - That One Time We Saved Burning Man | Marian Goodell (The Burning Man Project)

#78b - Into the Burning Man Multiverse (Clubhouse Recording) | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)

#78a - Into the Burning Man Multiverse | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)

#77 - Making a Magic City | Tony Cho (Metro 1)

#76 - Film Festivals, VHS, & Collaborating with Chance | Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills Movie)

#75 - Founding Everland | Jonny Jenkins (Everland)

#74 - Wrestling with the Predator | Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)

#73 - Trip Sitting America | The Teafaerie (Erowid)

#72 - Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence | Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)

#71 - Collective Liberation for Drug Users | Mohawk the Educator (DanceSafe)

#70 - Grandmother, Teach Me Patience | Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma

#68 - Visions of an Afropunk Futurist | Adah Parris (-ism)

#67 - Skeptical Thinking for Spiritual People | Anna Zakrisson (Doctor Anna's Imaginarium)

#66 - Embodiment Practices for Healing Trauma I Tina Nance (Yoga Barn)

#65 - A North Star for Psychedelic Ethics | Liana Sananda (Auryn Project)

#64 - The Mad Scientist of House, Techno, & Love | Lee Reynolds (Desert Hearts)

#63 - The Way of the Metamodern Burner | Hanzi Freinacht (Metamoderna)

#62 - Financial Resilience for Creatives | Nick Farr, CPA (The Long Disaster)

#61 - Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past | Behind the Mynd with David Colón

#60 - From Crisis to Coronation | Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics)

#59 - Is Life Still a Festival? | World of Wisdom Podcast with Nils von Heijne

#58 - Festival Medicine on the Frontlines | Richard "Wolverine" Gottlieb (RGX Medical)

#57 - Turn Isolation into a Spiritual Playground | Nino Mendes (Nino Yoga - China)

#56 - My Sacred Morning Ritual | Solocast

#55 - A Love Letter to Earnestness | Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)

#54 - The Acid Countess and the Art of Consciousness | Amanda Feilding (Beckley Foundation)

#53 - Wilderness First Responder | Ryland Gardner (NOLS)

#52 - The Marvelous Mother Shucker of Mardi Gras | Katrina Brees (The Bearded Oysters)

#51 - How to Help Someone Having a "Bad Trip" | Sara Gael (The Zendo Project)

#50 - Serve in the Way that Feeds You Most | Christopher Breedlove (Burners Without Borders)

#49 - Party to Escape or Celebrate to Connect? | Live at Spotify Stockholm with Gustaf Tadaa

#48 - The Boy Hero Must Die | The Mythic Masculine Podcast with Ian MacKenzie

#47 - The Work of Art | Amanda Sage

#46 - Tales of an English Folk Hero | Jay McAllister (Beans on Toast)

#45 - Top 10 of 2019

#44 - The Terrifying Delight of Self-Surpassing | Michael Murphy (Esalen):

#43 - A Brief History of British Festivals | Live from Spotify London with Marcus Barnes

#42 - Work, Wealth, and Self-Worth | Tim Chang (Mayfield)

#41 - Iboga, the Mount Everest of Psychedelics | Tricia Eastman & Dr. Joseph Barsuglia

#40 - Living Yoga Off the Mat | Janet Stone

#39 - Bye Bye Plastic, Hello Vibes | Vivie-Ann Bakos (BLOND:ISH)

#38 - Make Sustainability Sexy | Pete Phornprapha (Wonderfruit)

#37 - How to Celebrate Death | Klaudia Oliver (La Calaca)

#36 - We Can All Be Babes | Andrea Graham (The Librarian)

#35 - Depression & Psychedelics: Dancing with the Black Dog | Dr. David Rabin (Apollo Neuroscience)

#34 - The Ripple Effect of Claiming Your Space | Lizzie Rose (Lizzie Rose Media)

#33 - A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance | Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)

#32 - Fumbling Towards Inclusivity | JR Nexus Russ (Catharsis on the Mall)

#31 - Regenerate the Earth 1000 Hectares at a Time | Stephen Brooks (Punta Mona)

#30 - The Wizard of Awe Goes to Burning Man | Jason Silva

#29 - It’s Better With You Here | Live From BMIR (Burning Man Information Radio)

#28 - What's the Point of Burning Man? | Caveat Magister (Burning Man Philosophical Center))

#27 - Can Free Love Save the World? | Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie (Love School Film)

#26 - The Business of Building a Psychedelic Disneyland | Vince Kadlubek (Meow Wolf)

#25 - Dance Music's Woke Girl Gang | Abi Getto & Liz Garard (Nap Girls)

#24 - The Spiritual Side of Failure | Mauricio Boogieloop (Heart Ibiza)

#23 - Keep Psychedelics Weird | Erik Davis (Techgnosis)

#22 - Authenticity, Anxiety, & the Artist | Atish Mehta (DJ atish)

#21 - Demystifying Fly Ranch, Burning Man’s Perennial Oasis | Zac Cirivello (Fly Ranch)

#20 - Cultivating Cultural Curiosity | Yasmine El Baggari (Voyaj)

#19 - From Activist to Ayahuasca Advocate | Tony Moss (Bird Tribe)

#18 - Find Your Rite of Passage | Life Rites with Max Carver & Ari Andersen

#17 - Build Community Like a Social Alchemist | Bear Kittay (Good Money)

#16 - Modern Mentorship is Mutual | Chip Conley (Modern Elder Academy)

#15 - Dress Yourself as a Work of Art | Ash & Tessla (Glitter Spies)

#14 - How to Party Without Breaking Your Brain | Dr. Molly

#13 - A Masterclass in Consent | Romi Elan (SoulPlay Festivals)

#12 - Family is the Headliner | Android Jones

#11 - The Master Builder of Extraordinary Experiences | Benja Juster (Rubbermaid Parties)

#10 - The Verdant World of a Village Witch | Sarah Wu (Envision Festival)

#9 - The Sun Never Rises on the Elrow Party Empire | Vicenç Marti (elrow)

#8 - Planting Seeds for a Legacy | Marcus Golden Barnes (Mixmag)

#7 - The Mythopoetic Antidote for Pornography Addiction | Zhenzan Dao (The MogaDao Institute)

#6 - Beware the Life of an Artist | David Block (The Human Experience)

#5 - Hope for Spaceship Earth | Amanda Joy Ravenhill (Buckminster Fuller Institute)

#4 - The Secret to a Perfect Festival Body | Rebecca Jean (Nourish Inc.)

#3 - Just Say Know: The State of Psychedelics | Brad Burge (MAPS)

#2 - Leaderless Leadership at the Nordic Burn | Gustaf Tadaa (The Borderland)

Introducing the Life is a Festival Podcast

#1 - The Hunt for Sober October | Mikey Lion (Desert Hearts)