​The Great Digestion: Moving From Consumption to Communion ​We are biological engines designed to consume. To survive, we must take in oxygen, water, and nutrients. To grow, we must take in information and experience. Consumption is not inherently evil; it is the prerequisite of life. ​However, the modern human crisis our collective “dis-ease” stems from a mechanism that has jammed the “intake” button. We have moved from necessary consumption to chronic extraction. ​We overeat, yet we are malnourished. We doomscroll through terabytes of data, yet we lack wisdom. We crave deep connection, yet we “consume” people through screens, discarding them…