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Chip Conley: Midlife is also a Festival

Life is a Festival #171

Midlife is not a crisis but a chrysalis—a time for transformation and growth.

Community, Death, Race, Festivals, Leadership, Mentorship, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongJuly 19, 2024Chip ConleyComment

Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual

Life is a Festival #170

In a world beset by tragedy its important to learn how to grieve.

Community, LGBTQ, Yoga, Death, Gender, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, RaceEamon ArmstrongMay 16, 2024Comment

Max Stossel: Romancing the Muse

Life is a Festival #155

Max helps us unstuck creatively and shares some exceptional poetry.

Psychedelics, Art, Death, Mental WellnessEamon ArmstrongAugust 14, 2023Comment

Eviatar Frankel: Facing Death with Grace

Life is a Festival #154

Rarely do individuals possess the courage, wisdom, or awareness to confront death with genuine presence.

Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Critical Thinking, Death, LeadershipEamon ArmstrongJuly 28, 2023 Comment

Snow Raven: The Unexpected Sweetness of Darkness

Life is a Festival #148

Snow Raven⁠ knows darkness intimately, and it has inspired her shamanic music from America's Got Talent to Burning Man.

Personal Growth, Community, Mental Wellness, Leadership, Spirituality, Music, Burning Man, Death, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongApril 27, 2023DarknessComment

Stephen Jenkinson: Personal Growth Won't Save Us

Life is a Festival #146

…but perhaps embracing catastrophe might... just maybe.

Personal Growth, Community, Critical Thinking, Mental Wellness, Death, Leadership, Mentorship, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongMarch 30, 2023Comment

Worldbuilding for a Better World

Life is a Festival #125: Lak Mitchell (Boomtown Fair)

Few gatherings build worlds with the theatrical flair of BoomTown Fair, a choose-your-own-adventure playground in the English countryside.

Festivals, Art, Community, DeathEamon ArmstrongMay 26, 2022Bombay Beach BiennaleComment

Art and Irresolvable Contradictions (Live from Bombay Beach Biennale)

Life is a Festival #124: Tao Ruspoli (Bombay Beach Biennale)

Founded in 2015, Bombay Beach Biennale is a renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy.

Festivals, Art, Community, DeathEamon ArmstrongApril 22, 2022Bombay Beach BiennaleComment

...Because You're Going to Die

Life is a Festival #121: Ned Buskirk

Embracing impermanence is one of the paradoxical keys to a life like a festival, to live in the moment we have to learn to let go.

Community, Death, Personal GrowthEamon ArmstrongMarch 17, 2022You're Going to Die, DeathComment

In the Age of Fentanyl, Test Your Drugs!

Life is a Festival #120: Mitchell Gomez

If you love altering your consciousness, test your drugs and let’s end prohibition together.

Community, Death, Harm Reduction, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongMarch 3, 2022Harm Reduction, FentanylComment

An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture

Life is a Festival #104: Jamie Wheal

Jamie’s new book "Recapture the Rapture," is your invitation to the sexual yoga of becoming a homegrown human.

From Crisis to Coronation

Life is a Festival #60: Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics)

How long is the journey from crisis to coronation? It may be very long and will certainly be very difficult, but a more beautiful world is possible.

The Marvelous Mother Shucker of Mardi Gras

Life is a Festival #52: Katrina Brees (The Bearded Oysters)

We go deep into the history of Mardi Gras with fabulous parades and exclusive balls, prideful showings and pubic wigs. We discuss Katrina’s work advocating against gun violence, microdosing for mental health, and throwing a lemonade party when life gave her its sourest lemon.