Really awesome that you got to be part of this experience, Luke!
My wife (who went in 2015) is fond of saying that "there's Burning Man, and then there are all other festivals." And we've been to our share of festivals. She also remarked that "coming back down" takes most people a couple of weeks.
She has always mentioned the sheer scale of it... and yes, you CAN see Burning Man from space. And that was the original gig... to send a visible message to aliens who might be watching. But yeay, if you put Google Maps over the Black Rock Desert and switch to "satellite view," you can clearly see it.
I think you are precisely right that Burning Man is what each person wants it to be. There's also the slightly more "woo-woo" view that you take away exactly what you needed. As I have not yet been, I leave that open.
Here's one for you, though: an unusually large number of innovative creative projects are started in September and October. Coincidence?
As for the spiritual side, I am married to someone who's often "off the deep end" in that direction, and what I have come to understand is that life is constantly unfolding, and people are wired very differently. And so, I think of the example of how people in the middle ages might respond to your smartphone as "magic" and "supernatural" and compare it to things we might think of as "woo-woo" today... that will become a matter of science fact 100 years from now, when our ability to observe and measure them have grown to that point.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your amazing experience!
Thanks @denmarkguy. I always appreciate your well-thought out comments and insight. It was a truly incredible event and I totally agree that much of the "magic is real" stuff really comes down to how we think about "magic" and what starting positions we take regarding knowledge, information, and applied "technology" of all kinds (including spiritual or psychological technologies).
I'm loving the open-mindedness I have right now and I hope to keep it going far beyond the normal come down period. :)
Gah I love this! Luke, you’re such a beautiful human and I adore how open you are to expanding your experience of life.
This was one of my favorite lines:
Why should humans being humans be considered abnormal?
🙌🏽🙏🏽 (Amen, right?!)
Thank you so much for sharing your experience here in detail. We’ve never been and honestly I don’t think have any other real friends who have gone. But I want to and I think we will in a year or 2. Can’t you just see me there? 😃
You seem to have more thoughts on the Sri yantra, and I’d love to hear those. Also can’t wait to hear more, and compare, mushroom experiences. They can be fabulous.
Thank you so much. :) It was so great to see your smiling face today and give you and @sean-king a big hug. I'm so looking forward to hanging out this week and enjoying this beautiful island.
YES! If I accomplished that, it was well worth the effort. I look forward to seeing you in Poland in November. I hope your work is going well and things land smoothly as they can. Conference planning is a huge undertaking and you do it so well.
I ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain this past July and encountered a camaraderie among amazing people who show up for the festival every year and brave the bulls. I have always thought about going to Burning Man. How do you get a ticket?
Looks and sounds like you had a wonderful experience at Burning Man. There are many of us scattered around the world who are committed to a radically participatory ethic and we need to come together more often as an example of what is possible.
We make our own world together when we're not delegating those responsibilities to the man or world leaders. We can take care of each other better than they can take care of us.
I wish I was there with you. See you at Steemfest.
Read every line and it made my day, it really did brother @lukestokes. I am so happy that you went and experienced it. I am sure that the crack that was put in your rigid beliefs will continue to grow until a whole shell falls off. Actually I have little doubt about it, as it always eventually does for everyone (on dying bed) but for the lucky ones it is shed during the life. I feel that you'll be one of the lucky ones. I can't wait to see you next time and feel that energy coming out of you. I am sorry to hear about your parents. The last paragraph made me cry too. Restemeed, upvoted, naturally. Much Love. SO M U C H L O V E !!!!
I've heard how Burning Man shapes the minds that shape the future.
That's for sure @lukestokes. I went there for the first and last time in the year 2000. As one of the international VJs invited to perform to fill with immersive real time 3D visuals what by then was the very first big dancing geodesic dome in the middle of the Playa. In what were then also the most primitive beginnings of experimental videomapping audiovisual technology.
So yeah, that was almost 19 years ago. And wadda blast mate. From all points of view. Left & Right. Up & Down. From Inside & Out and Back & Forth and beyond without question. :)
Discussing ancient plant medicines as "spiritual technology" and hearing from ridiculously smart, scientifically-minded people how "the magic is real" got me to drop so many judgements and closed-off thinking I've been holding on to.
I'm glad indeed that you now feel more open to many more possibilities, further open to being wrong about your assumptions, and you are now truly interested in exploring everything new beyond your usual scope to gain more wisdom and understanding after this recent vivid experience. :)
I've probably done more entheogens than most and my assessment is panpsychism is real and that consciousness likely precedes matter.
The trouble here mostly is that it's incredibly difficult to explain this in words let alone demonstrate what happens (via empirical methods) and even more difficult to enact a living system based on these experiences (the Hindu's tried and failed, IMO). It's good that burning man makes a noble attempt and I should have gone when the opportunity was still available to me 20-years ago.
Good on ya for being brave enough to take this on!
Prior to this experience, I would have laughed off panpsychism as silly woo woo pseudo-science. Now I'm curious and open to whatever might be out there.
Hey Luke, cool to hear about your experiences at buring man. I know we had discussed your plans over medallas at Blockchain Unbound last spring. Hope all is well, gonna be producing a lot of content on steem and dtube this month so Im excited to start really bringing value to the platform with you.
Haha, unfortunately, busy in Michigan working on transforming the city of Pontiac into a cryptopia. https://andrew274f05.clickfunnels.com/hero-page22044831
Check out the video on our site if you wanna learn more, should have the steemit article done soon as well I'll make sure to send you the link. TTYS Luke!
Wow Luke, that post kind of made my cry of joy for many reasons. I have to see Burning Man myself sooner than later.
seeing these "wizards" communicate about things I've previously written off and judged as "not scientific" absolutely changed my reality
Welcome to other side. I am happy you had this amazing experience that opened your eyes to the higher spheres of interconnectednes and magic. Maybe you want to consider to make a Ayahuasca ceremony with us next year at Anarchapulco. The shamans this year were amazing.
Last year at Anarchapulco I had a couple different people say that Ayahuasca was "calling to me." :) I'm certainly open to any and all possibilities. We're planning a move to Puerto Rico this year, so the timing of getting to Anarchapulco might be tricky... but I still would love to make it happen.
I saw so many amazing fire performers! It was incredible and many are connected to my guide as he's helped enabled them to do their art. It was amazing to see.
I'm so glad you got to be a part of this. I haven't been myself, but @brandyb has been quite a few times. We plan on taking the RV next year if you need a ride ;)
I'd love to experience this in an RV with our family some day, when the kids get a little older and become more self-reliant. I hope I can attend again next year and that I can somehow get @corinnestokes to come with me. Brandy is such a beautiful person, it doesn't surprise me at all that she's a burner.
That's great brotha.. I have been to EDC in Vegas, but have not been to burning man yet. I have watched a lot of burning man videos, but I really would like to experience it first hand!
Wow! It sounds like you had a really remarkable experience! I love the collage of art and sculpture you posted. That is pretty cool. I have heard that it is quite the experience, and also quite what you make it. So I'm glad you had such a great time.
Thanks so much. It definitely stretched me in so many ways. It still is, actually. I spent a good amount of time the other day researching Sri Yantra. That's way out there for me. :)
Man, I'm so happy that you had a blast with your first experience! From what I've read it's like you were born for Burning Man, as it aligns with your philosophy. Always great to find a place where you belong!
Hi
Pictures are very good and eye catcher.
Thanks for these photos, articles and sharing you experiences with us. And letting us know about your adventures.
Very few people adventures a lot and also share their experience with others & providing information. And you are one of them.
All these really burning us.
Thanks.
Looks absolutely incredible. Seems a bit of paradise away from the programmed daily life everyone experiences. I hope I have the chance to go in the future.
I've never had the desire to attend myself, but I've always been a little fascinated by the event. A former co-worker of mine went this year as well, so I've already seen pictures of some of the things you posted up here. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
@luestrokes He is a wonderful friend of steemit, you are doing very good publications and very good work in the wonderful platarma of steemit, he continues to do a good job friend. Greetings and blessings for you.
luke sir you are such an amazing person wow what a long blog you have made gives your intelligency ... sir lots of love for you keep working up yes experience matters alot and you are too much ezperienced person
Really awesome that you got to be part of this experience, Luke!
My wife (who went in 2015) is fond of saying that "there's Burning Man, and then there are all other festivals." And we've been to our share of festivals. She also remarked that "coming back down" takes most people a couple of weeks.
She has always mentioned the sheer scale of it... and yes, you CAN see Burning Man from space. And that was the original gig... to send a visible message to aliens who might be watching. But yeay, if you put Google Maps over the Black Rock Desert and switch to "satellite view," you can clearly see it.
I think you are precisely right that Burning Man is what each person wants it to be. There's also the slightly more "woo-woo" view that you take away exactly what you needed. As I have not yet been, I leave that open.
Here's one for you, though: an unusually large number of innovative creative projects are started in September and October. Coincidence?
As for the spiritual side, I am married to someone who's often "off the deep end" in that direction, and what I have come to understand is that life is constantly unfolding, and people are wired very differently. And so, I think of the example of how people in the middle ages might respond to your smartphone as "magic" and "supernatural" and compare it to things we might think of as "woo-woo" today... that will become a matter of science fact 100 years from now, when our ability to observe and measure them have grown to that point.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your amazing experience!
Thanks @denmarkguy. I always appreciate your well-thought out comments and insight. It was a truly incredible event and I totally agree that much of the "magic is real" stuff really comes down to how we think about "magic" and what starting positions we take regarding knowledge, information, and applied "technology" of all kinds (including spiritual or psychological technologies).
I'm loving the open-mindedness I have right now and I hope to keep it going far beyond the normal come down period. :)
Gah I love this! Luke, you’re such a beautiful human and I adore how open you are to expanding your experience of life.
This was one of my favorite lines:
🙌🏽🙏🏽 (Amen, right?!)
Thank you so much for sharing your experience here in detail. We’ve never been and honestly I don’t think have any other real friends who have gone. But I want to and I think we will in a year or 2. Can’t you just see me there? 😃
You seem to have more thoughts on the Sri yantra, and I’d love to hear those. Also can’t wait to hear more, and compare, mushroom experiences. They can be fabulous.
See you later this week! Hugs
Thank you so much. :) It was so great to see your smiling face today and give you and @sean-king a big hug. I'm so looking forward to hanging out this week and enjoying this beautiful island.
thanks for trying to catch the uncatcheable in words. nice to read about your experiences. Def helps putting this higher on the bucketlist :)
YES! If I accomplished that, it was well worth the effort. I look forward to seeing you in Poland in November. I hope your work is going well and things land smoothly as they can. Conference planning is a huge undertaking and you do it so well.
thx man, add some pressure to it :P
You are an absolutely beautiful person. I have mad respect for you and congratulations on such a tremendous journey.
Thank you. I look forward to the many cool things we’ll be doing together in the future to make the world a better place.
I ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain this past July and encountered a camaraderie among amazing people who show up for the festival every year and brave the bulls. I have always thought about going to Burning Man. How do you get a ticket?
A good friend found a way.
Looks and sounds like you had a wonderful experience at Burning Man. There are many of us scattered around the world who are committed to a radically participatory ethic and we need to come together more often as an example of what is possible.
We make our own world together when we're not delegating those responsibilities to the man or world leaders. We can take care of each other better than they can take care of us.
I wish I was there with you. See you at Steemfest.
Very well said, my friend. I look forward to hanging out next month. :)
Read every line and it made my day, it really did brother @lukestokes. I am so happy that you went and experienced it. I am sure that the crack that was put in your rigid beliefs will continue to grow until a whole shell falls off. Actually I have little doubt about it, as it always eventually does for everyone (on dying bed) but for the lucky ones it is shed during the life. I feel that you'll be one of the lucky ones. I can't wait to see you next time and feel that energy coming out of you. I am sorry to hear about your parents. The last paragraph made me cry too. Restemeed, upvoted, naturally. Much Love. SO M U C H L O V E !!!!
Thanks Jan. :)
That's for sure @lukestokes. I went there for the first and last time in the year 2000. As one of the international VJs invited to perform to fill with immersive real time 3D visuals what by then was the very first big dancing geodesic dome in the middle of the Playa. In what were then also the most primitive beginnings of experimental videomapping audiovisual technology.
So yeah, that was almost 19 years ago. And wadda blast mate. From all points of view. Left & Right. Up & Down. From Inside & Out and Back & Forth and beyond without question. :)
I'm glad indeed that you now feel more open to many more possibilities, further open to being wrong about your assumptions, and you are now truly interested in exploring everything new beyond your usual scope to gain more wisdom and understanding after this recent vivid experience. :)
Burn, Rock & Steem On buddy. Cheers!! :)
Thanks for reading and leaving such a great comment. That video mapping video is amazing! I would have loved to see that on the Playa.
Haha way more than just see that on the Playa. You would have lived it intensely in your own flesh. :)
Great story man. Inspiring. I hope I get to experience Burning Man one day.
I hope you do also!
I've probably done more entheogens than most and my assessment is panpsychism is real and that consciousness likely precedes matter.
The trouble here mostly is that it's incredibly difficult to explain this in words let alone demonstrate what happens (via empirical methods) and even more difficult to enact a living system based on these experiences (the Hindu's tried and failed, IMO). It's good that burning man makes a noble attempt and I should have gone when the opportunity was still available to me 20-years ago.
Good on ya for being brave enough to take this on!
Prior to this experience, I would have laughed off panpsychism as silly woo woo pseudo-science. Now I'm curious and open to whatever might be out there.
Welcome to the team:D
and this:
http://www.egodeath.com/EntheogenTheoryOfReligion.htm
Hey Luke, cool to hear about your experiences at buring man. I know we had discussed your plans over medallas at Blockchain Unbound last spring. Hope all is well, gonna be producing a lot of content on steem and dtube this month so Im excited to start really bringing value to the platform with you.
Much Love!
Very cool! I look forward to seeing what you put out there. You going to Steemfest?
Haha, unfortunately, busy in Michigan working on transforming the city of Pontiac into a cryptopia.
https://andrew274f05.clickfunnels.com/hero-page22044831
Check out the video on our site if you wanna learn more, should have the steemit article done soon as well I'll make sure to send you the link. TTYS Luke!
This sounds like such a transformative experience, Luke! Thanks for sharing it with us! You could feel the joy through your words. 😊
Thanks Eric. It truly was amazing.
Wow Luke, that post kind of made my cry of joy for many reasons. I have to see Burning Man myself sooner than later.
Welcome to other side. I am happy you had this amazing experience that opened your eyes to the higher spheres of interconnectednes and magic. Maybe you want to consider to make a Ayahuasca ceremony with us next year at Anarchapulco. The shamans this year were amazing.
Last year at Anarchapulco I had a couple different people say that Ayahuasca was "calling to me." :) I'm certainly open to any and all possibilities. We're planning a move to Puerto Rico this year, so the timing of getting to Anarchapulco might be tricky... but I still would love to make it happen.
OMG!!! You went to burning man? I really want to go one day. My friends are the ones that put on the fire shows! :) Maybe you saw them out there.
I saw so many amazing fire performers! It was incredible and many are connected to my guide as he's helped enabled them to do their art. It was amazing to see.
I'm so glad you got to be a part of this. I haven't been myself, but @brandyb has been quite a few times. We plan on taking the RV next year if you need a ride ;)
I'd love to experience this in an RV with our family some day, when the kids get a little older and become more self-reliant. I hope I can attend again next year and that I can somehow get @corinnestokes to come with me. Brandy is such a beautiful person, it doesn't surprise me at all that she's a burner.
That's great brotha.. I have been to EDC in Vegas, but have not been to burning man yet. I have watched a lot of burning man videos, but I really would like to experience it first hand!
Yeah, it's definitely something you have to experience to understand.
I will try in the next year or so, but great video too.. Let me know if you need any music in the future for background music no charge! 🤘😎
Wow! It sounds like you had a really remarkable experience! I love the collage of art and sculpture you posted. That is pretty cool. I have heard that it is quite the experience, and also quite what you make it. So I'm glad you had such a great time.
Thanks so much! It really was amazing.
@lukestokes You did it!
Stepping outside of our typical comfort zones is one of the most unique feelings. Much Love 🙌
Thanks so much. It definitely stretched me in so many ways. It still is, actually. I spent a good amount of time the other day researching Sri Yantra. That's way out there for me. :)
Man, I'm so happy that you had a blast with your first experience! From what I've read it's like you were born for Burning Man, as it aligns with your philosophy. Always great to find a place where you belong!
Thanks @jedau. It was amazing and so completely diverse that I really think anyone could find their belonging there.
I've heard great things about that event for years now as well. Hopefully one day I could attest to your sentiment.
Oh my god! I had never even heard about this, and now I want to attend the next one! This looks amazing, and inspiring!
Cool! Definitely spend some time to look into it and watch some videos and read up about it. It's an amazing one-of-a-kind event.
I will! Definitely! Already discussed with my wife, and she wants to go too! ;-)
Wow! Such a cool experience!
Sounds amazing. You really had a great time. Always be thankful for every opportunity we had. Thank you for sharing this.
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Hi
Pictures are very good and eye catcher.
Thanks for these photos, articles and sharing you experiences with us. And letting us know about your adventures.
Very few people adventures a lot and also share their experience with others & providing information. And you are one of them.
All these really burning us.
Thanks.
Looks absolutely incredible. Seems a bit of paradise away from the programmed daily life everyone experiences. I hope I have the chance to go in the future.
I've never had the desire to attend myself, but I've always been a little fascinated by the event. A former co-worker of mine went this year as well, so I've already seen pictures of some of the things you posted up here. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
It's something I feel everyone would benefit from at least once. It's truly an incredible experience.
@luestrokes He is a wonderful friend of steemit, you are doing very good publications and very good work in the wonderful platarma of steemit, he continues to do a good job friend. Greetings and blessings for you.
Burning Man begins, drawing 70,000 people (and at least one dragon) to the Nevada desert
luke sir you are such an amazing person wow what a long blog you have made gives your intelligency ... sir lots of love for you keep working up yes experience matters alot and you are too much ezperienced person