Back from Burning Man

I am back from Burning Man. Wooh! What a trip! I feel about 5 years older than I was a week ago. Another whole layer of personal growth, a deluge of realizations about who I am, all stacked up in a few days’ time. Burning Man. 30,000 people coming together to co-create the ideal conditions for enjoying a joint peak experience, an experience that imprints in your body, mind and soul a whole new idea of the heights of the experience of being human.

Take 30,000 people. Bring them in the desert, a hundred miles away from the next city. Remove all the things in life that, at times, separate one from joy: cars, money, buying and selling, stiff ideas about what life is about, etc. Have each of them bring with him/her the best of what they want to offer to others: art, music, food, drinks, parties, games, colors, kindness, fun, etc. And get a true taste of heaven on earth. This is Burning Man.

In addition to what seemed like an uninterrupted stream of personal realizations about the great mystery of life, I was also blessed with another major "mystical episode" there, somehow even stronger than the last one. Woosh – how strong that was! I cannot put into words, and won’t try to. But the whole Burning Man experience is, in a way, nothing less than a mystic experience: a real-life experience in realizing our fundamental connectedness to each other, the impermanence of all things physical, and the law of cause and effect that rules the manifested world. I won’t say much more – words will fall short no matter how hard I try. Just come and experience for yourself!

In the meantime, you may want to check out the Burning Man website (e.g. check out the pictures!) and maybe you will get the beginning of an idea of what it is. But don’t, please don’t, try to fit it in any pre-conceived notion you have of what it could be! It is NOT like anything you have ever experienced or even heard of. You may also try to connect with your local Burning community.

I told my parents on the phone today: "Burning Man is the edge of evolution".