Where can you get away from it all, explore yourself and find meaning, healing, and adventure? For thousands of people each year, Burning Man is the answer. This annual arts and culture festival held in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, is where participants create a temporary city devoted to art, community, and self-expression. It began in 1986 with the burning of a wooden effigy on a San Francisco beach and now attracts diverse attendees, including artists, musicians, tech innovators, and activists. Known for its emphasis on creativity and radical principles like inclusion and self-reliance, Burning Man offers a unique space for people to explore alternative ways of living and interacting.
In an open, desolate place in the desert, art installations, theme camps, and other projects spring up as the result of collective work and shared resources. This is spurred on by other principles of Burning Man (there are ten), like radical communal effort. Based upon radical self-reliance, participants are encouraged to rely on themselves to meet their needs in the harsh desert environment. This means bringing your own food, water, shelter, and other essentials to survive.
The principles of immediacy and participation, encourage participants to live in the moment and fully engage with their experience at Burning Man. Here participants embody these principles with direct interactions, unmediated experiences, and focus on personal connection and presence. With all this in mind, Burning Man has drawn individuals seeking meaningful interaction and experience, something deeper.
We talked to Masati, founder of Xponential Intelligence (XI) about his experiences at this popular annual desert event. His take on it suggests that it’s a place to experience, grow, and ultimately heal aspects of the human condition—not just the physical self, but the spiritual and emotional parts of being. He shares how people flocked to Burning Man in search of innovative ways to heal, driven by a profound desire for transformation—and what he learned is about healing.
Masati and his group were situated within the Legendary Playground of the Gods, one of many camps at Burning Man. Everyone does their share to help, and he was on the Build team, arriving early to help bring in electricity for the 120 people sharing this camp. Some people were in tents featuring air conditioning, and there were magnificent buses and RVs as well.
Masati, who is known for the frequency meditations that have grown his following to over a million people, says, “Everybody came together, and we put a lot of work to create this place. We had a chef come in, he was part of our group, and he’d cook once a day, so we enjoyed gourmet food. It was amazing in the desert. That’s how it should be, but people think you must go suffer to learn something or expand; they think to have success, they must sacrifice themselves somehow, but that’s not the case.” He continues, “We held meditations throughout the event, and I did hypermeditation and frequency sessions with people every day. People were drawn to Fei and I. We noticed everyone was seeking something they hadn’t experienced before.”
The Search for Healing at Burning Man
According to Masati, the seeking was to fill a void, to expand to a deeper understanding or basically, to heal a part of themselves at some level. In their quest for healing, many people begin by trying to solve physical problems—finances, relationships, health—believing that once these issues are resolved, spiritual expansion will follow. However, Masati’s approach flips this narrative. Healing doesn’t start from the outside to the growth within; it starts with the soul. “You can’t heal the effect. You must heal the cause,” Masati notes.
For most, the misconception is that by focusing on one area of their life—whether it’s their career, health, or relationships—they can fix everything. But this narrow focus often leads to sacrificing other areas of life, creating imbalance. “Most people go, ‘I’ll sacrifice all this time, and then I’ll find time for a relationship, or I’ll find God later,’” says Masati, explaining that people lose themselves in the process.
Self-Healing is True Healing
At Burning Man, many sought new healing modalities, tired from years of unsuccessful treatments. Masati does not claim to heal anyone but instead helps them awaken to alignment with their highest self. In this way, they let go of old patterns that no longer serve them. Sharing some examples, Masati told of one woman who had suffered for 15 years but found her breakthrough in just 10 minutes.
She released the cause of her issues, identified as her brother’s death, and let it go. “The next day, she’s like, ‘I feel like myself again,’” Masati recalls. Similarly, a Navy SEAL who had built an identity around strength found the courage to be vulnerable, transforming his own experience of healing in his sessions with Masati.
This entire journey of Burning Man, underscored for Masati how people need to understand and embrace that healing is not about the external world but about turning inward. As Masati reminds us, there is really only one path—understanding your higher self.
Healing Mastery For All?
What if you could get a life-changing transformation, or go on your own healing journey, without going to Burning Man? Masati shares how his Healing Mastery program helps those in the healing professions, or anyone else seeking to deepen their connection to self, to completely transform. He says, “I don’t heal anyone, but this frequency-based approach helps participants align with their higher selves, so it’s popular for those in the healing professions. People in those positions tend to struggle with their own extreme challenges, including suffering from addiction and even succumbing to suicide,” Masati explains.
According to Masati, this XI program initially was mostly popular with doctors and other practitioners from multiple healing modalities, but it has also come to be enjoyed by leaders across industries, like high-level CEOs and innovators in the tech space, as well as enlightened individuals who were seeking something deeper. Apparently, it’s different because of the content and because the program ties in frequencies with all its modules.
Healing from Within: The Power of Frequency
The Healing Mastery program, according to Masati, goes beyond traditional learning, and offers a deep personal journey through frequency and self-awareness. The program isn’t just about acquiring knowledge—it’s about becoming the embodiment of it. As Masati explains, “It’s not a learning process. It literally is an adaptation or a transmutation of themselves.”
Built around the concept of frequency-based learning, this program combines lectures and meditations that help stars transmit higher vibrations to participants. The goal is not merely intellectual understanding, but actual resonance with higher frequencies.
A Three-Month Journey of Transformation
The Healing Mastery program spans three months, providing participants with the time they need for true integration and transformation. “It’s an interactive deal... It gives them time to settle in, nourish themselves, acclimate themselves to their new self,” says Masati.
Throughout this program, there are several modules, including Objectivity and Non-Judgement, Sacred Space and Discernment, and Shifting from Poverty Consciousness to Wealth Frequency. For example, Masati claims that judgment can interfere with one’s ability to channel healing energy, and that being objective is critical for success. “Only by releasing judgment can one truly tap into their highest healing potential,” he says.
“All of the modules allow you to go deeper inside to master yourself. You’re not going to be out there healing others if you don’t know yourself,” Masati concludes. Participants of the program confirm that by the end of this transformative process, they don’t just learn the techniques, they embody the frequency of healing itself.
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Article originally published by Los Angeles Tribune Magazine (Page 56 - 69)