Burning Man is a week-long yearly festival that transforms Black Rock Desert into a community based on 'Radical Self-reliance' People come to create, to witness creation and to recreate themselves. It is the inner life turned outward. It is about goodness.  It is about sin. Prepare to enter the ephemeral world of Burning Man.

Dear Elise, I am very worried about you going to Burning Man...You are putting yourself in extreme danger.  Physically because the desert is dangerous especially when you are not familiar with that type of climate.  I just do not think you know enough of how to survive in the desert.  You are also putting yourself in great spiritual danger, because there is nothing of God where you are going and what you will be experiencing. This is very Pagan and total evil, which you will see if you decide to go.  Ask yourself this, is going to Burning Man worth loosing your life and possibly your soul...Love Mom.

In reality it is the art we make out of our lives...Burning Man happens to be our canvas.  We paint what we want on it.  It is an important thing, it is not just a festival, its not just a party, it is an important form of expression.

We have 800ft of sail we are going to put up...We hope we don't tip over...But we might...We do not want to run into any Fire Breathing Dragon's and catch on fire, but we might...We hope we do not blow anybody up...But we might.

The Temple of Tears - The center of the alter is reserved for people who have taken their own life, the reason I chose that is because he in our culture we embrace things, tolerate things and celebrate things that the outside world does not understand.  This year it is about a gift, the Temple of Joy.

Reflect on those gifts that people have given you in your life and thank them...You also reflect on those gifts that you refuse to take.  The opportunities in your life that you did not take advantage of...You can spend all your life in remorse.  I cannot erase anything, the temple cannot erase memories but...If you take that information that is in your heart and you put it on a block and you take it outside yourself, forgive yourself, you will have joy.  Someone will still come up to you and say you didn't do this or you could have done that...and you say I know and I have made my peace with that...It will not go in you again.