Dr. Wayne Pernell describes Burning Man as a rare space where you can step outside your everyday roles and explore new parts of yourself. Unlike mainstream festivals, it operates on different social rules that echo human evolutionary roots. Returning to ordinary life after the desert hits hard, creating a jarring sense of disorientation.
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Burning man has been very important, very important for me, because I didn't realize there were still venues where you could really step outside your societal role in a safe, supportive environment and really explore. And I think that the Burning man culture. Forget the party scene. The party scene is interesting, but you can get that at Coachella. The part of Burning man that makes it magical is the community and the culture, which plays by different rules than our day to day lives. And I think the rules that Burning man plays by are closer to the roots of how we evolved. And this was not intentional on their part. I think it's pure coincidence, but it's very similar, I think, in the ways that our brains evolved. So when I go to Burning man, when I come home, I feel this extreme sense of jarringness because it's like, wait, I was just living the way that I was supposed to be living, and now I'm living in daily life. And you're like, stever, shut up. Give people your contact information. We need to wrap this up. So. Www.steverrobbins.com.