"Pantheogenesis" - The shifting of the American Dream from Manifest Destiny to Manifest Divinity, this 12,000 square foot Temple will create in its physical structure a dynamic map of the states of consciousness and being described by the world's sacred traditions. Each individual space will combine participatory activities and art designed to evoke the spiritual states relevant to that part of the whole, building from the material world and culminating in the Union of all that is. A sacred geometrical grid of over 200 crystals will tie the experiences and art of the individual spaces into an overall integrated metaphysical structure drawn from the Kabbalah and Taoism, which mirrors the fundamental processes by which creation brings forth form from the void. This seeds the work of the Temple in the heart of creation, and connects it to the Global Dream Matrix. Please visit www.Pantheogenesis.com for more information.

3D Model of Pantheogenesis Temple

"Feed The Artists" - Feed the artists is a grassroots project operated by Keith Rinzler and Chef JP Weingarten to gift gourmet cooked meals to artists who come early to set up large art installations on the playa. Feed The Artists will be organized out of Entheon's kitchen this year.

This year, FtA will be expanding the program to include more artist groups and more theme camps, with their goal being to provide at least one dinner during pre-week, to each of the funded artist groups who provide their early arrival information (except the very largest groups who already have their own full service kitchen set-ups). That's 30+ artist groups!

"Global Dream Matrix" - The Global Dream Matrix will be a grid of over 1000 crystals in a matrix spread geometrically over the entire expanse of the festival, centered on a massive altar located in the Heart of Pantheogenesis Temple, the sacred centerpiece of Burning Man.

This central altar will be a map of Black Rock City (the location of Burning Man), with the Earth in space above it. The map will have thousands of split geodes embedded in it, allowing participants to come to the map, find the geode that represents their camp or a piece of art, and take half the geode back to that place. This will participatively build a geometrical matrix of crystals across the whole city.

The invitation to participants is to do this with intention, knowing that they are co-creating a vast and intelligent mechanism for bringing dreams into manifestation; thus they are invited to take these geodes and perform ritual, embed them in grids, place them on altars - whatever they want to do in order to concretize their dreams for the future of the planet.

Crystal Grid Central Altar in the Axial Temple at Entheon Village, 2006

A cardboard zendo approximately 40 feet in diameter, built by a team of Swiss and American Zen meditators will be placed on the Esplanade and will host daily meditation sessions. This zendo was a prominent and popular part of Entheon Village 06.

Zendo Entheon '06

Carey Thompson is coordinating efforts to build an entranceway for the village that will have elements of sacred gates from various different cultures and will utilize bamboo from an art project last year (Starry Bamboo Mandala) and recycled/eco-friendly materials.

Stargate by Carey Thompson

Bamboo Entrance, Entheon 2007