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Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Atomic Energy and the Future
By the time I80 turned South in Nevada burners were dropping out of the sky. The back of one trailer was stenciled "We Burned a Man Near Reno Just to Watch Him Fry." And as more and more RVs and trailers, painted and piled with bikes, were filling the gas stations that we passed through, the approach took on less a sense of arriving as one of finally condensing.
The energy that buzzed through our skulls was frictionless, without haste or anticipation. It was just something beautiful to observe as we turned onto the 447 towards the last few towns, finding the first hints of the power of what was congealing ahead of us.
Every time we crested a hill in the dark the trail of red lights stretched off into the darkness like embers from a fire. When the first lights of Black Rock City appeared enormously on the horizon, the embers tightened into a fuse. Our own small consciousness ignited that fuse and exploded onto the dust of the playa, echoing through us with an atomic force.
My first impression of the playa was that is was straight out of Mad Max. The steam punk costumes, and the painted vehicles in the arid desert feel apocalyptic, and contributed to my first thoughts, that Burning Man is like the worst case scenario in some respects.
What would the world look like scorched by global warming? What would people create if their landscapes were littered with scraps and debris? It would all look like Burning Man.
It reminded me of a line from Daniel Pinchbeck's book 2012:
It may be that in order to survive the apocalypse you must experience it first within your own being.
Of course, it would later sink in that Burning Man is not only a survival festival: it is a thriving festival. Every aspect of art, transportation, and community totally blows open the gates of normalcy and necessity, skipping and hopping through the scorching heat and the unrelenting sandstorms with inspiring levels of excess.
+ pantheogenesis
The DreamRise lectures didn't take place in just any massive tent. The Pantheogenesis temple that was the heart of Entheon Village was over 3,000 square feet of tents that went through every phase of the journey to enlightenment.
There were three layers of crystal grids. One, in the center of the Heart Space - the central and most expansive space - was like a crystal map of the city. Two other layers of crystals were burried in the sand, one around the tent, and one around the outskirts of Black Rock City, creating one of the most massive crystal grids on the planet.
+ dreamrise recordings
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