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DIY Spirituality
My bio on this fine site says I’m going to blog on my “mainstay obsessions — culture, ritual, and spirituality,” and it is time to roll up my sleeves and get started. But first, I want to say a little...
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Creativity, Collaboration, and Catharsis
For those familiar with the emotional catharsis that can be discovered through the Burning Man experience—resonating both on and off the playa, and effecting real change in the worlds beyond Black Rock...
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The Temple: Sacred Heart of Black Rock City
[Lee Gilmore teaches Religion & Anthropology at California State University Northridge and is author of Theater in a Crowded Fire: Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man. This post is part of the...
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Lamplighting: Function Becomes Ritual
[Steve Mobia was amongst the original Cacophony Society members who went on the "zone trip" to immolate the Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert in 1990. In Burning Man's early years, he helped create...
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Theater in a Crowded Fire
As the Burning Blog’s occasional religion and spirituality blogger, I would be remiss if I failed to mention a couple recent posts about Burning Man on other blogs and online mags. However, in this...
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What Time Is It?
Photo: mkgraph A rite of passage is an act of growing up, and I don’t just mean maturing; I mean getting older. Time, at least from our ordinary, human perspective, only moves forward. As rites of...
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Passing Through
Photo: mkgraph How do you know when you’re grown up? The question may strike you as trivial, but let it sit for a moment. There are clear answers to it in some parts of the world, but the part from...
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Opera de la Playa
[Jennifer Raiser is an avid long-time Burner, Burning Man Project board member, theme camp leader, and Black Rock Ranger. Her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Nob...
View ArticleThe Things I Left In The Temple.
I loved the theme from the start. It turned up the volume on all that is deep and sacred about Burning Man. It took me years before I had the courage to say that Burning Man was my “Religion.” But this...
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