By JESSICA CADOCH – According to Victor Turner’s traditional ritual structure, the ritual consists of three parts. As I mentioned in Part 2, there must first exist a communitas in order for these stages to take place. Let’s re-cap a bit. Communitas can be describes as “a state of equality, comradeship, and common humanity, outside […]

By BLAZE – One thinks of writing as a peaceful activity. It is not. You grapple with conflicting emotions and concepts, voice or report on violence and hatred, and you edit: slashing out trains or paths of thought, killing it off with the swish of a pen or the click of a button. Even so, […]

By ANTA – What’s good for my heart is if it’s many kinds and beats quickly. If it always feels, experiences, senses and this way, understands – it doesn’t matter if it is about happiness or the greatest of sorrows. I bring it along to beat at Dádpuszta a lot too, but besides Ozora Festival, […]

By FREYA – I hit the road about a month ago and me and a friend are checking out places. Everything was going as good as it could be, and we were ready to discover yet another new place. I mentioned how nice it would be to have a jacuzzi in the garden and to […]

By Jessica Cadoch – Introducing part 2/5 of a look at the various aspects of the festival experience that resemble a traditional ritual. This study analyzes the makeup of a conventional ritual and places it in conversation with the generally-felt experience that is a psytrance festival. As I mentioned in part 1 (which can be […]

By JESSICA CADOCH — Today, we live in a fast-paced world. Expectations are high, the bar is raised, competition is fierce, in whatever field you are in. The pressure is on. But if you go to more remote parts of the world, places where there aren’t 30-storey high buildings, a few cars and no paved […]