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2017 Burning Man Podcasts

Sharu - Spring 2014 Promo Mix - Live @ Ecstatic Dance Oakland

Following our good friend Lee Burridge past the sunset and well into the day as sandstorms whipped past us in the background we stood amongst friends and strangers (who are just friends we’ve yet to meet) and we danced and celebrated together, participating in the beauty of a shared moment that can only be held in our memories as a mere shadow of what we truly experienced… What an honor to be part of it all. A big thank you to everyone who helped make that moment happen.

Photo credit: Daniel Eiba
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Thugfucker - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

Composed, Performed and Produced by Eric Oberthaler

Featuring the following 8Dio libraries:
Adagio and Agitato Strings
Qanun, Santur, and Lyre

This composition received 1st Prize for the 8Dio 2015 "Stand-Out" Contest.

At Last Through Thinning Veils

Benjamin Wachs's Album

Fascinating Stranger - Obscure Existentialists at Burning Man

What Kind of Tent Should I Bring to Burning Man?

What Kind of Costume Should I Wear at Burning Man?

Should I Camp in a Tent or an RV?

This mix was recorded at a live Yoga class in San Francisco

Live Yoga Class / DJ Set

Ritual, Dr. Tanya Luhrmann says, is the way we connect the world as it ought to be with the world as it is – and orient ourselves to it.

Ritual Practice and Mental Health (Tanya Luhrmann)

UCLA Anthropologist Dr. Megan Heller studies play — how we do it, why we do it, what impact is has — and when I asked her if she had any thoughts about this year’s theme, “Radical Ritual,” she came back with a challenging question: What’s the difference between “ritual” and “play?”

Ritual as Play (Megan Heller)

Burning Man tech staff member Anselm Engle put the pieces together, suggesting that the experience of going to Burning Man is itself a manifestation of the “Hero’s Journey” — a kind of mythical journey common to most (or even all) cultures.

Burning Man As the Hero's Journey (Anselm Engle)

Theresa Duncan spent her whole adult life doing development and fundraising work for non-profits. But after she went to her first burning man, she realized she hadn't understood gifts at all. On playa she discovered a gifting culture so powerful that at first she didn't even know how to participate. That's not an uncommon experience: many of us realize, our first Burning Man, that we are so used to thinking in terms of transactional relationships that we simply don't know how to give the kind of life-changing gift that we are sometimes offered on playa. We don't even know how to accept it graciously.

I like to tell people it took me about eight years of practice before I got really good at gifting in the sense that Burning Man means it. And I never, never, would have gotten there if I hadn't seen people doing it right, year after year. It's one of the most important things in my life.

Today Theresa is Burning Man's director of Philanthropic Engagement, and prefers to talk about a "gift culture," rather than a "gift economy," because economy implies a balanced transfer, while the power of a gift comes from its lack of balance.

In a podcast with the Burning Man Philosophical Center, she talks about what she calls the "evolution of gift giving" in the lives of Burners. And how to give joyfully.

The Evolution of Gifting (Theresa Duncan)

Has it ever seemed to you that there are more ways to be a citizen of Black Rock City than there are to be a citizen of anyplace else you live? Your home town, your county, your state?

Well, it's not actually true, but it can certainly seem true. And the reason it seems true, according to Walker Fisher, is that there is a link between creative freedom and civic engagement. People who feel creatively empowered in turn make creative spaces, and creative spaces are easier for people to engage with as citizens than conventional spaces. That's because creative spaces as you who you want to be, rather than forcing you to choose from a list of prescribed options.

In this Philosophical Center podcast, we talk about the link between creative freedom and civic engagement. Walker was a Philanthropic Engagement Associate with Burning Man Project at the time this was recorded.

The Link Between Creative Expression and Civic Engagement (Walker Fisher)

Stuff to listen to on the way to Black Rock City. Or if you're stuck in D Lot. Or anywhere, anytime.