[3] The events are characterized by heightened transpersonalism, collective ecstasis, utopian narratives, and community allegiance.
They attract the atypical attendance of a social class characterized by expendable amounts of financial and temporal wealth.
[4] Their charismatic deployment of spiritual and entheogenic information emboldened by on-site ecstatic experience closely parallels religious revivals.
Attendees may disengage conservative social norms and identify as an "evolved culture"—a worldview influenced by millenarian archetypes of planetary transcendence, and the evolution of consciousness.
[9] Less than a year after a successful Kickstarter campaign, Jeet-Kei Leung and Akira Chan screened the first installment of their four-part documentary film series, The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (2013).