Burning Man: A Cultish Origin Story
Cultish
Jeff Durbin
4.2 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Eddie and I was in a call. |
| 0:09.0 | Planet Earth about to be recycled. |
| 0:12.0 | Your only chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us. |
| 0:19.0 | It started as an effort by a charismatic creature to build a new society, but it ended, of course, with the tragic deaths of more than 900 people. Please, for God's sake, let's get on with it. We've lived, we've lived as no other people have lived and loved. We've had as much of this world as you're going to get. let's just be done with it. Let's be done with |
| 0:37.5 | the agony of it. This is the revolutionary suicide. This is not a self-destructive suicide. So they'll |
| 0:43.6 | pay for this. They brought it upon us. You're in a cult. I love you, and I want you out of it |
| 0:53.3 | and with Christ. |
| 0:55.1 | But you're... |
| 0:56.1 | You're... |
| 0:57.1 | All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to cultish. |
| 1:04.0 | My name is Jeremiah Roberts. |
| 1:05.0 | Warner the co-host here, riding solo today. |
| 1:07.9 | And I am back in action with my good friend Steve Matthews from California. |
| 1:12.6 | You made a trip here last night. |
| 1:13.9 | Good to have you back, man. |
| 1:14.8 | Oh, it was great to be here. |
| 1:15.9 | Awesome. |
| 1:16.3 | So we are going to be talking today about Burning Man and all the things that entail with it. |
| 1:21.3 | We talked about it about a year ago or so. |
| 1:24.0 | We had Carl Ticrib and Robert, and a couple, a couple other people that were there, just what they do outreach to Burning Man. They've done it for an extended amount of time. You have been to Burning Man yourself personally and you've done a lot of research on it. In fact, we're going to be expounding upon an article that you wrote. I'll hold up here. This is the spiritual counterfeits project. The article here, this is back in 2012. You wrote a very extended article. We'll have links in the description if you want to check this out. And also we'll have some other things here for you. We're going to go really in depth talking about Burning Man. So I'm going to hand it to you. Where do we start regarding everything regarding Burning Man? Where's the starting point? |
| 2:01.1 | All this. |
| 2:01.6 | Transformational festivals. |
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