Episode 87: Honouring Time: Rituals for Life

Ayurveda & Spirituality with Alakananda Ma · Feb 5, 2026

“One purpose of creative ritual was to experience the connection to “the other” as well as a deeper connection to oneself. That’s why ancient people would say: that ritual made me more aware of how I’m connected to life, to the earth, to the spirits, to the song of creation, and made me more aware of who I am inside, at the level of my own being. What we’ve lost is partly the sense that we are each connected to the whole thing, that each human soul is secretly connected to the living soul of the world.” -Michael Meade

We have created a secular world where time is money and money is time. Yet…