The Cathedral of Saint Disconnect is a small but growing spiritual movement of approximately 3,500 adherents built around the practice of periodic BCI disconnection — deliberately shutting down neural interfaces for hours, days, or weeks at a time to experience unaugmented consciousness. Founded by a former BCI addiction counselor named Father Ren Alvarez-Nakamura (the title is self-given but sincerely meant), the Cathedral teaches that constant neural connection has severed humanity's relationship with its own unmediated experience, and that periodic disconnection is necessary for spiritual and psychological health.

The Cathedral's practice — called 'the Silence' — involves supervised BCI shutdown in dedicated spaces where members experience unaugmented perception for the first time since childhood. The psychological effects are intense: many members report panic, disorientation, and a profound sense of loss when their BCI goes offline, followed by a gradual rediscovery of sensory experience — colors that look different without BCI filtering, sounds that register differently without neural processing, a sense of solitude that is both terrifying and, eventually, peaceful.

The movement is growing because it addresses a problem that few other organizations acknowledge: BCI dependency. In GLMZ, where BCIs are installed in early childhood and run continuously for decades, the neural interface has become so integrated with perception that turning it off feels like losing a sense. The Cathedral argues this dependency is itself a form of bondage — not to technology, but to the corporations that control the technology. Disconnection, in their theology, is not rejection of augmentation. It's the reclamation of the self that exists beneath it.