pachamama

I am blessed with my own tribe of free spirited, creative, gypsy pachamamas; supreme, divine, fertile, transcendent, Mother Earth goddesses. we like to be together and express each of our individual and collective creativity often, preferably daily. we like to talk, endlessly about the minute and infinite realities and dreams of life. we like to move, gracefully through our world.. and fiercely on the dance floor. LIFE is our dance floor. nature is our palate. the ocean our drink. we create our own realities. we are 'lionesses on the prowl of soul searching enlightenment'. we have an intense pulse of wanderlust beating through our bodies; constantly calling us to bigger things, different places, new people, and ever lasting journeys. we seek to conceive peace inwardly and outwardly. we are the change we wish to see in the world. we inspire, support and love each other. unconditionally. we are pure originality and raw ingenuity. we are invariably resurrecting the minds of sleepers and seekers. we are the seekers. we come together as individuals, making a collective force. we are continually finding and remembering the deep root of our being. we are consciousness in the flesh. we are IT. we are love, we are light. we are eternally transforming, evolving, revolutionizing, loving, seeing, doing, and BEing. we honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. and when we are both in this place, we are one.

waiting.

01 Waiting In Vain - Karsh Kale , Susheela Rahman, Sam Mills and Vishal Vaid by Karsh Kale Official

what is burning man...

"Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance... they depart one week later having left no trace whatsoever. Then they return home to embody the principles they learned year-round."

"You're at the end- and the beginning- of your journey to Burning Man.
You belong here and you participate.
You're here to survive.
You're here to create.
You're here to experience.
You're here to celebrate.
You'll leave as you came.
But you'll take the world you built with you."


-From burningman.com

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." — Albert Einstein

"Creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy." — Unknown

"Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is “spiritual” when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life." — Robert C. Fuller

"Namaste. I honour the place in you where the entire universe resides… a place of light, of love, of truth, of peace, of wisdom. I honour the place in you where when you are in that place and I am in that place there is only one of us." — Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being “drawn toward.” Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one’s friends and enemies." — Carter Heyward

"Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity." — Henri Nouwen

"But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat." — Molly Haskel

"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist." — Thor Heyerdahl

"No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up." — Chuck Palahnuik, Invisible Monsters

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself." — Alan Alda

"Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy." — Audre Lorde

Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
— Girl, Interrupted

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
— Albert Einstein

Because sometimes you have to step outside the person you’ve been, and remember the person you were meant to be, the person you want to be and the person you are.
— H.G. Wells

)'( half way home )'(

what is Burning Man?

If you asked me this six months ago, when I returned from my long anticipated first burn, I wouldn't know what to tell you exactly. I came back to my default world thoroughly disappointed in my experience in Black Rock City. I thought I went in with no expectations, but obviously there were some hidden ones or I wouldn't have felt the way I did. (And as I am now fully realizing, there were a lot of hidden things I didn't know about myself this past year.) I thought it was going to be more of a spiritual experience, more awe inspiring, more life changing. I had wanted to see and hear and do more. I was disappointed in myself for making it all the way out there and not taking full advantage of it's potential. I was so absorbed in "absorbing", that I never fully put myself out there to enjoy all the playa really has to offer.

But then I realized that my experience there was a culmination of the entire year prior. That is how I was living my life, over-absorbing and keeping my head in the clouds, avoiding reality with fun people and places... So why would my time on the playa be any different? I had been so completely lost and wandering the past couple years that my time at Burning Man was the cherry on top, the last hurrah, the big bang before I snapped back to consciousness and proceeded to have the biggest emotional overhaul of my entire life.

But there's always order in the chaos.

My Burning Man experience was my wake up call. To wake up to reality, face my biggest demons, take responsibility for my life and for my own peace and happiness, and to realize my true passions and my inner most soul. I don't regret my time there, or anything about the past couple years, I only see them all as learning experiences. I could not know what I do now if I had lived any differently. I realized that you can have that deeper, more spiritual connection at Burning Man (and in real life) but you must seek it out. You must create it. Everything is what you make it. So this year, I am ecstatic to make my second journey down that dusty road. because as I'm learning more about myself and my personal needs and desires, I know what I want to give and get out of my time there. I am confident in that knowledge and in myself, and I know I will only keep developing more in the process.

I have awakened! This is my right of passage, into a new world. A new world that is exactly what I need to serve me and that I need to serve. It's the "deeply fathomed change" that I've been seeking, and in truth, is "the only pathway forward." We can only go forward from here.

So, knowing this life-inspiring realization, I can't stop thinking and dreaming.. about what I want my life to be, about who I am and who I want to be, what I'm going to create, on and off the playa, and to thus carry with me and share with others. And about what Burning Man actually is. What it means to others and what it means to me, how it has shaped the person that I am and am continually becoming.

Although my first year wasn't as "deep" as I'd wanted it to be during, I'm now realizing its true depth in the aftermath. And that's just as crucial (if not more) as what you take in on the actual playa. I've come to realize Burning Man's real importance in my life, and am dedicating myself to further understanding it, further experiencing it, further creating it and further sharing it. There are only a few things in my life that have had such a profound impact on me in my entirety (mind-body-soul), and these are the things I hold dear to me and proudly call them my life passions. Burning Man, its meaning, experiences, and impact is one of these.

Some may say I need to "get my priorities straight" or merely dismiss this boldness as some crazy "phase" in my life that I'll soon get over. But I will have you know, my life priorities have never been more on point and in progressive direction than they are right now. And I owe part of this to my knowledge and exposure of and at Burning Man. Although it seems like this is the time and generation to be jumping on any and all bandwagons, I assure you, (not that I feel the obligation to) my passions and intentions are real, and my conciousness permanently wider. And isn't that at the root of all of this? That regardless of age, sex, race, religion, education level, social circle, music preference, sobriety or intoxication level, beliefs or ideals- one more opened mind, one more expanded conciousness, one more soul with passion and drive for the world and themselves, one more filled heart, is the true purpose for any of it.

That much I know for sure. I hope that all beings feel this love, this awakening to their true nature. May they be continuously filled with new light, new energy, may they keep progressing forward to create new realities, and may they be filled with peace and be free from suffering. May all beings be well.

Love and Light )'(