Every year in Nevada, a city in the desert is built from scratch and for a week is populated by tens of thousands of people from all over the world.

Attendees, known as Burners, see it as a grand celebration of life and spiritual transformation.

Burning Man is just one of the countless transformational festivals that encompass the return of the old God.

All right, here we are.

This episode is on Burning Man, a harmless event that's fun for the whole family, right, guys?

Absolutely, bring the kids. Yeah, bring the kids,

have a blast, right? Just tapping into your inner self and a few demons along the way.

Tell us, okay, so. Well, that's Disney. Yeah, that's Disney. Amen. All right, so tell me about

Burning Man. Yeah, so I want to start off by saying that I want to sort of quote and

paraphrase the founders of Burning Man who really described and they said that there's no way you

can truly describe or encompass it unless you've been there. So I am speaking though, I want to make

sure I'm emphasizing. I am speaking, Andrew speaking, we're all speaking as people who are on the

outside looking in. So I'll just talk about how it sort of came to my attention. So as we've

talked about in previous aspects of our discussion, one of the very first episodes we did,

where I had Stephen Bancars on, it was our first sort of general overview of the New Age and the Occult.

He brought up ayahuasca.

And I never even heard of that.

And I was like, well, wait, what's ayahuasca?

What's that all about?

And so now that's not part of a normalized discussion.

So once, even five years ago, wasn't talked too much about.

I wasn't even on my compass.

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