What happens at the Solidarity Service?

The service begins with a Solidarity Hymn, played synthetically to drum beats and a choir of near-wind and super-string instruments. Dedicated soma tablets are placed in the center of the table, and a cup of strawberry ice-cream soma is passed from hand to hand with the phrase, "I drink to my annihilation." The members sing the First Solidarity Hymn, passing the ice cream around and around, and then the Second Solidarity Hymn, and then the Third. With each song, they invite the Greater Being to annihilate them, at which time their larger life begins.