Our social, political and religious organization is tribal.  As they exist today, these systems are held together by pain, because humans are pain and organize around and according to their pain.  It is how each one of us manifests our pains of aloneness within the group.  It is in these tribal systems that we hold the deep story of Us and Them.  The story of separation.  It is in these groups where we play out the fear of abandonment.  But now, on this journey, it is how we experience the tribe that reveals to us where we are holding the states of aloneness, the states of separation within our own being.  The journey of consciousness asks us to bring awareness to where we host the pain infrastructure within.