Aural Pleasures For The Ride To Brc

We don’t usually think of rituals as dangerous, but Crimson Rose literally dances with fire. Her ritual practice has clear and obvious stakes: if something goes wrong, people get burnt. Crimson, who over time has created (or she might say “discovered”) most of Burning Man’s most prominent fire-rituals, sees ritual practice not as a way of going through the motions of what you already know, but as the process of setting the conditions by which you can approach the sacred — and the sacred is the opposite of just going through the motions.