September 2, 2025

315. Burning Man: A Cultish Origin Story

We are joined again this week by Steve Matthews from Exposing the Cults to take another look into the world of Burning Man and Transformational Festivals.
Our guest has attended Burning Man and has studied, written on, and has spoken about this growing phenomenon for several years now, and brings us years of his thinking and analysis on this subject in this episode. Matthews likes to point out that, “Young people today are not rushing out and joing groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses these days. Instead, they are pursuing other spiritual paths like Burning Man and other similar Transformational Festivals. Everything is changing now to new forms of spirituality in our culture.”
In this episode we delve into the hard to explain nature of these festivals and describes what goes on at them, as well as uncover the true history of Burning Man and then give a critical response to the emerging Pagan worldview behind Transformational Festival culture.

You can order his full-length joural article from the Spiritual Counterfeits Project here at – https://scp-inc.org/product/the-burning-truth/

You can also follow episodes on the Exposing the Cults YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@ExposingtheCults

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