Starving for Connection: How Sacred Ritual Heals a Broken System

Morgan Smith
Phoenix, Arizona
kalmwithkava.com

Reality is a tangled web of people and their individual stories. The simple complexities that connect one action to another, even oceans away, are so impossibly intricate that their total pathways remain cloaked even to those they involve.

We’re so quick to throw blame and criticism at the crimes and injustices we see taking place around the world—thinking we know the cause and cure for epidemics that have, in some cases, been unfolding for centuries. We allow anger to leap toward fault and accusations, when compassion, openness, and personal responsibility would be a far better fit.

Kava is a plant whose roots have provided guidance for centuries through ceremonial practices that bring people together. Hardship and conflict are human experiences none of us entirely escape, but finding common ground is how we have survived for thousands of years. By discovering our own roots and holding them in sacred space for those near us and those who come after, we become healed together.

Ad free at Patreon.com/EarthandWater