It is a place of immense community and of humbled solitude; we sit together in our aloneness and speak, one at a time, our deepest language of need, hope, loss, and survival. We remember that all things are connected.
Remembering this is a part of the ceremony.
The intention of the ceremony is to put a person back together by restructuring the human mind.

pp. 278-279, wise women, edited by s. cahill