Burning Man

[NYadgal]

Posted: 9/9/09 at 10:47pm

Mission Statement
"Our mission is to produce the annual event known as "Burning Man" and to guide, nurture and protect the more permanent community created by its culture. Our intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the experience of Burning Man can produce positive spiritual change in the world. To this end, it is equally important that we communicate with one another, with the citizens of Black Rock City and with the community of Burning Man wherever it may arise. Burning Man is radically inclusive, and its meaning is potentially accessible to anyone. The touchstone of value in our culture will always be immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, embodied ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant support before sponsorship. Finally, in order to accomplish these ends, Burning Man must endure as a self-supporting enterprise that is capable of sustaining the lives of those who dedicate themselves to its work. From this devotion spring those duties that we owe to one another. We will always burn the Man."


This has always fascinated me.
The ten principles...

Has anyone participated?




Burning Man

Updated On: 9/9/09 at 10:47 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/9/09 at 11:02pm

I had plans to go that fell apart at the last minute seven or eight years ago and I kind of lost interest after that. It seemed like a fun, conciousness raising thing then, but now it just sounds hot and dirty. I bet there are good drugs there, though.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/9/09 at 11:23pm

If YOU decide to go I am there in a second!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 5:18am

Interesting, Phyllis. When I was younger to me it sounded like hot and dirty, and now it sounds like a fun, consciousness raising thing. Several friends go yearly, I hope I can tag along sometime.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 9:33am

How funny. Well if either of you go, I will go. It's something I still think would be cool to say I did (heat and dirt aside).

[tazber]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 9:36am

I have always wanted to do this! It seems like it would be something a bunch my friends and I should do at least once.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 9:59am

I smell a BWW field trip for next year's!

[danmag]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 10:07am

I bet Mr. Roxy goes every year....

[Q]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 10:23am

My understanding from past attendees is that as its publicity has increased through the years, so has its commercialization - and for most, its viability has decreased. Shocking to think that humans could ruin a good idea, I know.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 9/10/09 at 2:29pm

A good friend went last year and is going again this year...

...she finally recovered about 2 weeks ago, just in time...

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