 - Last login: 7 days agoLilly2112
- Lilly is a woman from Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance ... me ;)
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
what u do is irrelevant
what u achieve is minuscule
what u think is inconsequential
what u believe is paramount
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as everything is." ~ Albert Einstein
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson
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The Burning Man Project :: Welcome Home
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May 2, 10:22am
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No, I 've never had the fortitude to post this photo before. I won't leave it up for long and body paint is as artisticly creative and native as I get ;)
I've been to Burning Man every year for the last 5 years and absolutely LOVE it. It's one of the best things I've ever done for myself. An amazing spiritual and cultural nexus.
There are no rules about how one must behave or express oneself at this event (save the rules that serve to protect the health, safety, and experience of the community at large); rather, it is up to each participant to decide how they will contribute and what they will give to this community.
Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind.
The annual event now known as Burning Man is the result of a merger of two events, one of which began as a nameless beach party on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an 8-foot (2.4-meter) wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.
The inspiration for burning these effigy figures has been shrouded in mystery by Harvey, who described it as a spontaneous act of radical self-expression.
Though, it should be noted that the act strongly resembles the climax of the 1985 film, The Legend of Billie Jean, where an effigy of the title character is consumed in a fire.
Sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend, Janet Lohr, had held art-party gatherings on Baker Beach on or about the summer solstice for several years prior to 1986, and the burning of sculpture was a central theme.
In addition, a key ingredient of the pre-Burning Man gatherings, and a link to today's event, was that Baker Beach is a cove area frequented by nudists.
The event takes place on an ancient lakebed, known as the playa. By the time the event is completed and the volunteers leave, sometimes nearly a month after the event has ended, there will be no trace of the city that was, for a short time, the most populous town in the entire county.
 Art is an unavoidable part of this experience, and in fact, is such a part of the experience that Larry Harvey, founder of the Burning Man project, gives a theme to each year, to encourage a common bond to help tie each individual's contribution together in a meaningful way.
This year's art theme is about nationality, identity and the nature of patriotism. One species of the patriotic urge conflates the nation state with mass identity. Governments, as actors on a worldwide stage, become a surrogate for self, a vast projection of collective ego. And yet, there is another type of patriotic feeling that attaches us to place and people, to a home and its culture. Both these feeling states (and their attendant ironies) are relevant to this year's theme.
This year Burning Man will stand atop an obelisk. This imposing monument, emblazoned with the images of flags, will represent the countries of the world. Ranging from Canada to Chad, from Brazil to Burundi, from Vatican City to the Republic of China, these emblems will shine brightly in the night, gleaming like illuminated gems that stud a giant jewel box.
A double-helix, like a strand of DNA, will form a staircase. Twining around the axis of this tower, it will spiral through a series of viewing platforms. The topmost tier will stand directly underneath the Burning Man.
Today, Americans appear to live amid the tarnished squalor of a second Gilded Age. By nearly every measure, America has become a more unequal society. A mere one percent of the population now controls a third of the nation's wealth. Education, health care and home ownership - these now escape the reach of those who thought they were the middle class. Forty years of heedless mass-consumption have turned dreams into delusions. America's awash in debt. Embroiled in a wayward war, its citizens are told to shop.
Many feel that the United States is now adrift. Its allies, once so numerous, begin to fall away and chart an independent course. Its citizens, more tellingly, have lost their faith in progress. Polls indicate they now believe their children can't expect a better future. They distrust the institutions of government, of finance, and the corrupting power of large corporations. And yet, the native traits of any culture are deep-rooted. Freedom, opportunity, inventiveness, the power to transform oneself: these values and a love of self-expression still endure.
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