Burning Man 2025: A Weeklong Pop-Up City

It is that time of year again—the Burning Man Festival 2025 started on August 24th and ended on September 1st, at Black Rock City, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. This year’s Burning Man Festival started out with chaotic weather—wind, sand, and rain storm, which turned the playa into slush-like muddy sludge. The desert is also very hot, dusty, and corrosive. About 70,000 people struggled in the wet muddy ground, not being able to drive their vehicles and bicycles until the mud dried up. But most people didn’t let the weather ruin their weeklong event. Many people stated that it is important to prepare for the worst situations and conditions, which is similar to preparing for camping road trips. I watched videos displaying bars, clubs, music, giant stroller vehicles, dancing, huge bunny vehicle, lots of artistic structures, lot of art pieces, and colorful neon lights at night. There were people dancing inside a huge Illuminati pyramid. A giant teeth structure looks like huge dentures. General Admission Tickets cost $1,164 per person, six days ago. But I noticed that on August 30^th, it went down to $1,048 because only 1% of tickets are left.Some themes include transhumanism, church service, freemasonry, rituals, new age, and other dark symbolism. The Burning Man concept is about One World community. There were lots of “One Eye” symbolism throughout the location. There are many Burning Man Festivals all over the world because it is a huge global network to bring people together into one community, or One World Order.  It is a community where many different people come together to discuss and experience different ideas. There are also orgies, drugs and nudity as well as yoga and other activities. The Temple is a 24-hour funeral, where participants burn away their issues and problems in order to cleanse, detox and heal. They place their offerings and sacrifices inside this Temple so that they can burn everything at the end of the week. It is about death, birth, and rebirth, and this cycle continuously happens. At the end of the cycle, the huge man-shaped effigy is burned, which looks quite cultish, if you ask me, and it is supposed to free or cleanse people from their negativity. But some people might commit suicide by diving into this flaming Burning Man. People tend to get very emotional during this burning man ritual as they become filled with feelings and emotions about their personal issues. It is similar to a pilgrimage.I have covered this annual Burning Man Festival before, and I remember it was more chaotic before. The previous Burning Man Festival had many celebrities, elites, and influencers.  I have watched YouTube videos, exposing all kinds of crazy things happening in last year’s festival, which included a sudden death, or ritual sacrifice. Rituals and weird acts occur at such events, maybe by the intoxicated people because everyone is free to do what they want, as long as they don’t harm others. For this year’s event, I will collect different videos, mostly from people who attended the event, to display their personal experience. Most people tend to have a different experience, whether positive or negative, depending on their own involvement and participation in the event. I will delve deep into this festival’s themes.This video explains the history of Burning Man Festival. The Burning Man idea started in 1986 in San Francisco. Many elites and celebrities attended this festival. But such elites and businessmen turned this Burning Man event into a Bohemian Groves event. It also reminds me of a strange cult group congregating during summer solstice, similar to movies, Midsommar and Wicker Man, to make offerings and sacrifices. Participants’ Radical Participation, involves the participants creating everything, and it is shared with others there, before it will eventually be burned down and destroyed. It is about community and unity. People leave their personal offerings or sacrifices inside the Temple to help them let go and move on, when this Temple is burned down on the last day of the event. I watched a video comparing this event to Aleister Crowley’s satanic philosophy because of the pagan and ritualistic aspects at the event.KTVN 2 News Nevada interviews some designers displaying their booths, filled with their creative and artistic clothes and accessories. These designers sell their items all day.  Meanwhile, I decided to post a male participant’s vlog, summarizing his personal experience each day, from Day 1 to Day 7.During Day 1, it looks like they are setting up and building a temporary pop-up city for a week. All of the sudden, a dusty wind started, resembling a desert sandstorm from a faraway country. The man describes his difficulty in maneuvering and seeing things during this storm. He wore goggles to protect his eyes, and other people were wearing masks to protect their face. His body is covered with a thick layer of dust and sand from the sandstorm. It later started to rain, turning the sandy desert into muddy wasteland. The dust storm lasted for four hours. Apparently, this dust is difficult to remove from one’s body and hair because it sticks like clay. Diluting vinegar or witch hazel with water can help remove this sand, clay, and dust.During Day 2, many large tents have been set up to resemble a campground community for nomads. The desert ground eventually dried up, enabling people to ride their bicycles around the drought desert. He hangs out with others, making his morning coffee at a tent, while enjoying watching some of the vehicles and structures that are already set up for the event. Colorful fireworks go off at night, as people celebrate the start of this event. Bright light structures stand out against the dark sky, as DJs play music, while people hang out, dance, and chill.  Once people pay for the expensive ticket price, which includes entrance fee, everything at this festival is free.On Day 3, he tours the festival encampment looking for breakfast at one of the tents. Later, it started to rain again, adding puddles of muddy water to the sludgy muddy clay, and making it difficult to walk on this muddy clay texture.On Day 4, the participants wake up to a muddy desert. He tours the camping area, and chats with other participants. Giant stroller vehicles, dance parties, and spa treatment are just some of the entertainment activities at the event. There were also two weddings. They actually put up street signs for the event so people don’t get lost roaming around all over the desert. DJs played music while people danced. A rabbit vehicle rolled by. There are lots of art as well as artistic structures. During the nighttime, Illuminati pyramid and other structures glowed in multicolored bright lights under the black night sky.On Day 5, volunteers got up together to set up lanterns along the streets, but they had to dress up in a long robe, similar to slaves in a cultish group. These lanterns are lit at night, along with the multicolored lights of the artistic sculptures and structures. Firemen were there, just in case they were needed for a sudden out of control fire. One of the art sculptures was lit on fire, but it went down to ashes. A huge, fun slide was lit up with red lights as people slid down. An octopus structure looked more like a steampunk version of the Indian goddess. The rabbit vehicle went by in bright neon pink lights. People roller-skated on an outdoor rink. Bikes are parked everywhere, all over the drought desert land. Some people were doing yoga at around 9:30am, under a huge colorful tent. All the bicycles reminded me of the annual Ciclo event, which takes place for one day at certain communities in Southern California. I have also attended mini concert raves, usually at malls and parks, which are similar to such Burning Man Festivals but at a smaller scale. There is a snow cone tent and a coffee tent. The man in the video stopped by to volunteer to be near the burning areas to keep people away from the burning structure for safety purposes. It appears that he stayed up all night until the morning hours of Day 6.Day 6 ends with partying before watching the burning of the effigy man, the main event of this Burning Man Festival. I noticed that this huge effigy was on top of a wooden platform, shaped like a big eye, or the One Eye. It looks like a ritualistic sacrifice, often performed by a native tribe, which makes it pagan. Day 7 is the final day of the Burning Man Festival. The participants partied until the burning of the temple, which is filled with participants’ offerings, sacrifices, and writing of their issues. It appears it was quiet, as the spectators meditated on the burning temple, mesmerized on the bright fire flame burning the structure down, allowing them to release and let go of their past in order to move forward in their life toward their future. Lots of colorful fireworks celebrated the burning of the effigy and the burning of the temple.Meanwhile, I noticed videos about a man who was electrocuted and another man was murdered at the event. NewsNodeAmerica video explains the conditions that led to a man’s sudden electrocution. A female participant noticed many homeless people and drug addicts in Nevada, as she went on her errands to prepare for the Burning Man campout. In Walmart, many merchandise was locked up behind glass cabinets. There is a high crime rate in Nevada, which includes shoplifting. But she appears to be prepared for destructive weather conditions at the event. KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City reports on a female participant giving birth at Burning Man 2025. She had an ectopic pregnancy, and she didn’t even know she was pregnant because she didn’t have any signs of pregnancy.  She went inside her camp’s bathroom and suddenly gave a surprise birth to a baby girl on Wednesday. I first heard about ectopic pregnancy from the 1968 movie, Rosemary’s Baby, because Rosemary was worried that her crazy symptoms had to do with an ectopic pregnancy. This movie is an interesting reference to this year’s Burning Man Festival because both Rosemary’s Baby and Burning Man have to do with a sacrifice ritual. News 3 Las Vegas reports on the homicide at Burning Man, where a man was found dead in his pool of blood during the burning of the huge effigy. A New York Post article reports that Vadim Kruglov went missing from the Burning Man Festival. He is a 35-year-old or 37-year-old white man who was reported suddenly missing from the festival, days after a man was found dead in his pool of blood, around the same time as the burning of the effigy, which has to do with a sacrifice ritual. He is from Russia, and he went missing on Tuesday from the Burning Man Festival. He was last scene on August 29^th.  He was visiting American from Omsk in Siberia, and he arrived Pershing County in Nevada on August 24^th.  His tent and belongings remain at his Burning Man Festival camp. He never returned for his things. Another Burning Man participant, Sofiia Shcherbakova, who knew Vadim, posted on her Instagram page about this missing person, hoping someone has information about his whereabouts. It is later confirmed that the man found dead was actually Vadim Kruglov. Hence, the Burning Man Festival appears to be a pagan pilgrimage for people to let go, cleanse and heal by performing offerings and sacrifices into a fire ritual, and watching it all burn down, which provides some kind of release and relief that they are able to move forward and move on toward a desired lifestyle. But the event promotes this new life as New World Order and One World totalitarian government, monetary unit, and society, all controlled as slaves. The Zionists are actually satanic because regardless of the religion they hide under, they support the unholy trinity—Satan, the Antichrist, and false prophet, pushing continuous lies and filth on the public. I also feel this Burning Man Festival tends to have New Age concepts. Although I think the art and artistic sculptures are interesting, it still has symbolism about the aforementioned ideas in this post because the elites are intentionally promoting and pushing certain ideas on the public. I also noticed this festival had a fireworks celebration at the beginning of the event and at the end of the event, similar to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics. Same concepts and symbolism, but at different global events, created to bring the world together into One World Order for the New World Order agenda.