Home of the Psychic Cat
We are a collection of long time burners, some over 20 years. We are adherents to “Radical Self Reliance.” We all tend to volunteer all over the event. We hail from all over as well, some being professional expatriates. We like to enjoy ourselves but also feel a need to help others. The Psychic Cat is a long time psychic reader here at AfrikaBurn, doing literally thousands of readings over the last 10 years. The objective is to help people find themselves, both through readings and life coaching. We also provide a croquet pitch for folks to come and enjoy our peculiar form of Antarctic Croquet.
Our camp is not a fee camp, we don’t charge. We don’t have rigid schedules of assignments. We are Self Reliant, we share and are motivated to help out where we feel we need to. It is a, as we feel, closer to the ideal that Larry Harvey put forward. Many of us knew him personally, quite a character. We would love folks to join us to be part of our simple vision. We embrace like minded or those that are not, we kind of embrace diversity. Everybody offers something to make the experience special. The spiritually minded are always welcome and the fun loving kind as well. We are a community of ant minded and our friends also grasshoppers. Both are cool and fun. Our camp is a little community to come to and refresh and we don’t want to detract in you getting the best experience you can get from the event, go out and have a party! Come back and recharge.
We tend to have plenty of wine and refreshments. We encourage discussions of current and historical events. If you want to talk metaphysics or politics, we love it and have a great time debating it. Opinions of all walks are welcome. Don’t expect a bunch of monks nodding their heads in unison, we love to have different views and want to hear yours. You might have something we never considered. So if you’re looking for a camp that is laid back, but focused on peoples best inner experience, check us out. Or, if you’re looking to find a group of head bangers, well you may be disappointed, there are other camps for that. Our camp has been located on the outer ring, with an excellent sunset view. As you may expect, sundowners are kind of a thing with us.
So perhaps a little story is in order. The Psychic Cat used to build the airport at Burning Man. Larry Harvey would fly in. The Cat would end up taking him around for the day. So he would bring him to the Man. All the volunteers would cluster around him literally saying “Lawrey, Lawrey.” Repeated at each site we would visit. Hundreds of folk acting like he was some kind of chain smoking messiah. So the Cat was taking him back to his lodgings, seeing he was a bit on edge from all this. “Larry, I know everybody always wants a piece of you and it must get overwhelming.” He nods. “If you’re strung out, give me a call on the radio and I’ll come get you.” “When I get a bit on edge, I grab the truck, my radio, a table and a chair along with a bottle of wine.” “I call Perimeter and say “Perimeter, Dogpilot.” “Go ahead Dogpilot.” “Need to go out to the runway and “Calibrate the Windsock.”” “I go out to the end of the runway and set up my table, drink a bit of wine and watch the event from a mile away watch the sun set, listen and relax.” ’”Larry, looks up, takes a deep drag on his ever-present cigarette, with the thousand mile stare, exhales strongly, “That’s the way the Burn used to be.”
That’s the way we are. Join us, Calibrate your Windsock.
