Paul Lenda – At a cacao ceremony I went to recently, I felt a deep communion with the dozen or so people I was with that felt like an ancient feeling of gathering and being in tribes. This is something I have felt even more magnified at small intentional festival gatherings.

This is something that we have largely lost in the sense of gathering for a uplifting, lucid, and heart-centered purposes. Getting together to go drinking alcohol or seeing people playing sports can at some level seem like unifying experiences, but they lack the depth, sacredness, healing, and elevated feelings that you can feel when you see the sun, that giver of life, set below the horizon while dozens of people drum and sing from their hearts. Continue reading →