This explorative academic work explores the ancient practice of storytelling and aims to extend the discussion from what is a psychedelic to what is a psychedelic experience?

The focus area is transformational festival, a extreme festive, where participants undergo intense and transformative experiences, often involving psychedelic substances. The methodology used to study thesae transformational event communities, includes innovative Story Sharing Cube as a data collection device. Selected transcribed data prompts are shared to provide insights from the festival participants ́ psychedelic experiences.

The ongoing project by non-funded and institutionally independent Burning Stories scienceart collective has successfully collected 184 stories from 9 transformational festivals, addressing the challenge of collecting qualitative data long after the transformative moment by capturing it in situ, during the psychedelic experience itself. Concluding remarks include discussing the validity of the Story Sharing Cube method and highlighting its potential benefits for studying extreme environments, such as war zones.