BLOWING OFF STEAM
It's essential to let our hair down occasionally so we want to throw off our worries and feel some freedom from a modern conformist way of life, but it can at times, take us close to insanity as we shut off our minds to fully experience a state of abandon. And that's the way of a good festival.
Dancing around in a field with a good set of close friends and like-minded strangers, all getting a bit too twisted on the hooch, forgoing sleep and taking on very little food for a few days - can bring about a magical mindset that resets the mind and brings about this much needed sense of freedom that we can only get through carefree abandon.
We see this practice in many older cultures too, where trance-induced drum beating and mind altering potions are taken to bring about these altered states - for joining communities together, healing the sick or connecting to the greater forces in the universe. Nothing has really changed in that regard as is evident with the modern dance music scene that's influenced our hedonistic culture - a rite of passage that so many of us go through to lose ourselves at the many festivals across the world.
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