4 • The Soul Quest

A treasure hunt for parched participants.

For Burning Man this year, I am creating the Soul Quest: a treasure hunt for parched participants.

This will be a v1 of something I hope to build on and continue with for future years.

The idea is something I wrote about before in more depth, but the short of it is that you need to find and solve a series of clues to discover the treasure. The clues are on posts I hope to station at nearby camps, so that burners go to explore the neighborhood a little while searching, and not just come for one particular thing or event.

Each post also gives you instructions for your journey to the next: a prompt to discuss with your fellow questers.

The posts are themed by the elements — Earth 🜃, Fire 🜂, Water 🜄 and Air 🜁 – with the prompts being People Development challenges that lead you on the real quest: a search for deeper understanding of your soul.

This is a concept drawing for the posts to help me figure out materials (and costs). Not shown is the main treasure destination.

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