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Larry Harvey was an American celebrity born on January 11, 1948. He is best known as the co-founder of the Burning Man festival, an annual event that celebrates art, community, and self-expression in the Nevada desert. Harvey's vision for Burning Man emphasized creativity and radical self-reliance, making it a unique cultural phenomenon. His contributions to the festival and its principles have influenced many and continue to inspire participants around the world. Larry passed away on April 28, 2018, but his legacy lives on through the festival.
"It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process."
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"We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other."
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"They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms."
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