How do you decide what you’d like to become? What informs that decision and how can you know it’s the right one?

A very good friend of mine will be returning from Burning Man in a couple days. I am eagerly awaiting the report. My sources have thus far painted an overwhelmingly negative picture about what the event has become since hitting mainstream culture. This guy, though, I trust more than others. He’s been around. We’ll see what kind of experience he had.

He lived with a tribe in the Amazon for 9 months doing his dissertation, and it was a culture that used hallucinogenic plants on a weekly basis. So, in addition to having roamed the galaxy and back, he understands the human relationship to the mystical. We’ll see what Burning Man was for him. A bunch of druggie hipsters looking for the next thing to add to their tattoo collection, or actual progressive culture in which humanity can explore itself further, and in meaningful ways.