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Energy, pain, and life are all experienced exponentially on the playa. My body mind and soul all quiver with delight, in the memories of my journey through consciousness. I've been touched, challenged, and encouraged, by community, ingenuity and soulful interaction. Upon reflection of my experience, I've concluded that I alone have been responsible for all change incurred within my psyche. The joy I find in this realization is; that I could have done this without you, but I chose to do it with you. The essence of Burning Man lies within the heart of the individual perceiving it. There were so many people, all of whom are entitled to whateve

Residual depression plagues the mind of the newly found dogmatist. Bowing to the interpretations of other more motivated beings, he lowers his head in shame at the uselessness of his own existence. The culmination of all his change has amounted to a life empty and void of joy. The path of least resistance with all its undesiring allure has not led to the "cure all" of his blackened soul.  Here he begins his journey, entangled by the webs of a world, and a people he cannot understand. He steps forward into the mosaic of his fated existence, an existence fated not by the advent of a world incapable of change, but by a man incapable of surrender

Yesterday was my 24th birthday and with the ushering of  12(2), 8(3), 6(4), came a sense of urgency. This urgency, in a truly dualistic fashion, was coupled with a sense of calm and understanding of the importance of this cross roads in my life. In the past, I have celebrated my birthday with large groups of friends and family. We would embark on elaborately planned adventures, or merely gather in large groups. While the importance of these types of birthday celebrations was evident in my past, the need for such opulence seems to have escaped me. I spent yesterday reading, biking, running, and cogitating, all very solitary pursuits. The joy I