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Sheriff: Burning Man Could Be Terror Target
Police Compound at Burning Man. What’s that in the middle? Image: Trevor Hughes, USA Today The Reno Gazette Journal tells us 12 Drop-Off Sites for Your Post-Burning Man Stuff They also interviewed...
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Burning Man Punked Itself
It seems the upside down, headless Man – first spotted by yours truly on our Facebook page in the wee hours of Monday morning… … was not intentional. But it was news-worthy, for USA Today at least....
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Hooligans Attack! White Ocean Sabotaged, Camp Collapses
It seems the Occupy Burning Man Class War long promoted on eplaya.burningman.com (while being simultaneously dismissed as irrelevant at the BJ) has finally come to fruition. White Ocean was sabotaged...
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Let’s Do This!
Filed under: Art Tagged: 2016, brainwashing, burn the man, burn the witch, celebration, celtic, crimson rose, deadhead, death and rebirth, druids, effigy, fire magick, julius caesar, mind control,...
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2016 The Scandals: Further Details
We have a number of updates on this year’s scandals. The biggest one appears to be the Hooligan Attacks on White Ocean during the White Party. This has been picked up by all the usual EDM rags like...
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False Amber Alerts Imprison Thousands: 17 year old Missed Curfew, Gate Closed...
Image: Reddit Burning Man was shut down twice when Burners wanted to leave, due to minors that could not be located by their parents. The first Amber alert happened after The Man burn, shutting the...
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BREAKING: Anonymous Terror Group Claims Responsibility For Burning Man...
Last night somebody calling themselves “anonymous burner” left this comment on our Hooligans Attack and 2016 Scandals stories. The details indicate it is legitimate. They claim there are 4 in this...
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Year of the Mexicans
A guest post from Terbo Ted, the first DJ at Burning Man (1992) and first Mayor of the Techno Ghetto. Burning Man 2016: Year of the Mexicans TERBO TED TERBOLIZARD·FRIDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 . “Make...
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White Ocean, Gabby Giffords & A Stand Alone Complex
Editorial by Terry Gotham Unless you’ve been under a really big, non-dusty rock, you’ve heard about the sabotage/accident/Tusken Raider attack at the White Ocean camp during Burning Man 2016. As my...
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Ten Questions With Terry Gotham: Ingmar Gorman, Psychedelic Integration...
(While partying safely is one of the most important parts of the drug experience, the journey doesn’t end when you come down. Psychedelic Integration is critical to taking what you experienced and...
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2016 Crime Scorecard: New Record for Arrests, Attempted Murder
Image: Buzzfeed Jenny Kane at the Reno Gazette-Journal brings us news of this year’s arrests by the Pershing County Sheriff’s office. The highlights: 46 arrests (up 12.2% from 41 last year) – this is...
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Making Sense of the Non-Census
There’s something strange in our neighborhood. The Black Rock City Census has morphed beyond a mildly useful planning tool, into a full-scale weapon of social engineering. The big question is, WHY?...
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History Of The User & Society: An Introduction
By Terry Gotham I’ve been exceptionally lucky to be able to report on new, interesting and potentially dangerous trends in drug and alcohol use/abuse for Burners.me. Whether it was novel psychoactive...
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The Greatest Cultural Movement of Our Time
A year ago psychedelic luminary Daniel Pinchbeck published a widely discussed article “Why I Am Not Going To Burning Man This Year”. He bashed the event’s destructive waste and hypocrisy about...
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Opium, Cocaine, Fairies, Prohibition & the Gendering of Drug Use
By Terry Gotham I wasn’t sure how to order the stories I’ve been preparing for this series on the History of the Addict & Society. Instead of using something pedestrian like chronology or chemical...
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The Greatest Cultural Movement Of Our Time (Clean Version)
Facebook is censoring this post, and some email subscribers had problems opening it, so this is a re-post with some images removed. Here’s the NSFW original. A year ago psychedelic luminary Daniel...
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BREAKING: Burning Man In Latest WikiLeaks Data Dump [Update]
If you only follow the mainstream media, you might not be aware that over the last few months hundreds of thousands of emails have been released via Wikileaks, exposing all sorts of corruption and...
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The Big Picture
Image: This is Lancashire Black Rock City was designed by Rod Garrett, a member of the Beat Generation. His apprentice Andrew Johnstone from American Steel took over Rod’s role when he passed away,...
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Hypernormalisation
A fascinating new documentary created for the BBC iPlayer video platform features some great footage of a young John Perry Barlow. It traces the last 40 years of history through a counter-cultural...
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The Halcyon Principle
Burning Man has gathered 100 of the leading thinkers in the Burner community at Occult Base Esalen, to try to come up with some ideas about increasing revenue Sustainable Creative Communities....
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