The Communion of Broken Masks is a small, intense spiritual community of roughly 1,800 adherents built around the ritual practice of identity deconstruction. Drawing from theatrical traditions, Jungian psychology, and West African masquerade spiritual practices, the Communion teaches that every person wears layers of social masks — identities constructed by family, corporation, tier, culture, and augmentation — and that genuine selfhood can only be discovered by ritually breaking those masks, one by one.

Communion rituals involve elaborate ceremonies where participants don physical masks representing their social identities — their corporate role, their tier status, their augmented self-image, their family expectations — and then, through guided ritual, break them. The breaking is physical (ceramic masks are literally shattered), psychological (participants confront the gap between who they perform and who they are), and sometimes augmented (BCIs running identity-deconstruction protocols that temporarily suppress the social-performance software that most people's neural interfaces run constantly).

The movement attracts people in crisis — those experiencing identity dissolution from augmentation changes, corporate restructuring that destroys their professional self-concept, or the quiet desperation of realizing that every aspect of their life has been performed for an audience. The Communion doesn't promise to rebuild what it breaks. It promises that what remains after breaking is real.