We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

What started in 1986 as a summer solstice evening ritual burning of their artistic creation of an effigy of a man with a group of just a dozen people at San Francisco's Baker Beach soon became an annual event that over 4 years grew to more than 800 people. In 1990 in collaboration with the SF Cacophony Society the event moved to Labor Day weekend in the Black Rock Desert where it has grown precipitously from a 3 day 80 persons "zone trip" to an 8 day festival with over 50000 "participants.