08/12/2026
Hello internet! It is me, Baba Yana. Time to listen to me. (Well, it is always time to listen to me, no?)
Saturday I am teaching you to be an idiot at JetLAG Festival in the beautiful mountains of upstate New York. Six o'clock in the PM. Outpost Soznania. One hour, which is definitely not enough time, but you people have short attention and I have a bad hip.
In Russia there was a holy person called yurodivy, which means Holy Fool. They walked barefoot in the snow, they wore iron chains, they said things nobody understood, and everybody was certain they were insane. Because of this, though, they were the only people in the whole country permitted to tell the truth. One of them handed Ivan the Terrible a piece of raw meat during Lent and asked why a man who drinks the blood of Christians is worried about beef. The Tsar turned his army around and went home.
That is what we will practice together!
We will play games. You will walk out in front of strangers absolutely certain you are magnificent, and you will receive silence, and you will find out what your face does. Then we applaud that face. Then we do it again.
This is called podvig, a holy struggle, so technically you are doing something spiritual and you can tell people that later around the campfire.
Join me for BABA YANA'S SCHOOL FOR HOLY FOOLS
Saturday, August 15, 6-7pm at Outpost Soznania, Jetlag Festival
Come. Bring water. Bring yourself. Maybe bring me a little snack.
До встречи!
📷: incomparable Timothy Hiatt
