All Ritual Is Radical
By Jon Mitchell
There’s something about the desert. This is not a new revelation; human civilizations have been telling the same stories of ...Read More
Posts about The Theme
Posts exploring the art theme for the event in Black Rock City.
What We Can Learn About the Soul by Talking About the Body — Reading “Materialism”
Sometimes I think that Terry Eagleton is a Don Quixote figure, on a quest that has taken him out into ...Read More
Ritual Principles of Milk + Honey, Purveyors of Radical Shabbat Since 2008
By Alessandra Wollner and H. Connor Moss When Burning Man’s 2017 theme became public, a collective YAAAAAAAAAY! rang through the ...Read More
Losing My Non-Religion: Chronicle of an Emerging Sacrament Among Native Burning Nerds
By Census Team
By S. Megan Heller, BRC Census Researcher / Manager 2004-2015 (with a shit load of help from Picky!) Like ...Read More
How Radical Ritual Creates the World — Reading “The Sacred and the Profane”
We like to think of knowledge as a binary system: things are either knowable or unknowable, with nothing in between. ...Read More
Camp Loveland – a Case Study in Radical Rituals
A guest post by Dragonfly and Jenny Bee, managers at Camp Loveland Loveland Village formed out of a collection of ...Read More
Decentralized Dance Party: A Case Study in Radical Rituals
Editor's Note: Decentralized Dance Parties (DDPs) are brilliant in their simplicity. One person carries a low-power FM transmitter on his ...Read More
Is Going to Burning Man a Hero’s Journey?
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had ...Read More
The Connection Between Ritual, Art, and Play
UCLA Anthropologist Dr. Megan Heller studies play — how we do it, why we do it, what impact is has — ...Read More