This video is an interesting look at Burning Man and the evolution of consciousness. Author Darrin Drda is a practitioner of Engaged Buddhism who has worked with the Dalai Lama, here is the blurb from his latest book:

As global temperatures rise and natural systems decline, humanity is being forced to confront the darkening shadow of material progress and mechanistic thinking. Meanwhile we can see the dawn of a more enlightened worldview that honors the interdependence of all forms of life and all aspects of reality. Between complete breakdown and universal breakthrough lies the Middle Way of The Four Global Truths

Perhaps some of you going to Symbiosis can let the Paiute people know that we Burners are part of Gaia‘s sacred evolution too.