Nope, no life changing events at Burning Man and I never had a photo taken of me of myself or by anyone else. I went because a good friend of mine had gone every year from 95-2015 and he convinced me to go. I went in 98,99 and 2000. 99 was by far my best year. I remember everything in all of my experiences there, the fantastic art events out on the playa and the fact that humans put so much labor and resources into building huge, fantastic art structures and then burn them to the ground… that is pretty mind blowing in itself. Tripping at night and wandering around the playa out in the middle of nowhere and stumbling upon these bizarre art exhibits with nobody else around was pretty mind blowing, but then, I had been dropping acid and eating shrooms since I was 16, so it was all in context. But just to get out there, carrying all your water and everything else got tiresome and every year the prices of the ticket got higher. I had experienced the Man three times and it was enough for me, I was Burning Manned out, but truly, I would recommend everyone to go just once. I say that because I suppose the best thing I can say about Burning Man is you’ll see things there you will definitely not see anywhere else. On a side note, my life transformation did come from hallucinogens. I was raised in a very strict hard core conservative Methodist upbringing and I towed the ideological line when I was younger. Even at such a young age I believed the end justifies the means, which is now manifesting itself in our world today, lies, hatred, misogyny, racism, greed… you get the picture, I was all up into it. I was a young xtian soldier fighting on to war. To make a long story short, I ended up dropping acid and had a complete life altering experience and I walked away from my upbringing and I was kicked out of my house when I was 17.5 y/o. I never looked back. I suppose the good thing I can say about being raised in an environment based on such unfettered hatred is I know the psyche of the other half… the half that is trying to destroy us all in the name of Dog.
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