You did it!
We are at the tenth session and it's time to celebrate.
In this final session we will celebrate all that you have learned,
Your discoveries,
Insights and wisdom along the way.
We will celebrate that we've had the opportunity to be together for this course and celebrate your big steps on your own journey towards dreaming forth beauty,
Love and peace,
Both in your own life and for all of us.
Let us first summarize what we have explored throughout this course.
In the first session we looked at the numbness that is so prevalent in our world.
We learned about the Kugi people and their warning for us,
Who they call the younger brother because of our immaturity.
And we opened up the possibility that maybe we can do something about all of this together.
In the next session,
The gifts of darkness,
We dove deep into our shadows and looked at what treasures might wait for us at the bottom of the ocean of our unconsciousness.
Maybe you tried to share some of your suffering and pain with a loved one and noticed how the light of awareness from a friend or loved one can help us remember and return to our own innate light and wisdom,
If we are willing to trust and open ourselves in vulnerability.
Then we went from me to a we.
We explored that we can only move into this new earth,
This new flourishing human culture as a collective,
As a circle.
None of us can do it alone.
We are group animals,
We need our tribe,
Our loved ones to thrive.
We also learned about skin hunger and how loneliness can lead us to good things.
In the fourth session,
We finally took a first glance at what we are up against,
The enemy of humankind.
I call it Empire,
A complex web of cultural forces that do their best to suppress us and keep us in place.
We found inspiration in the many rebellious movements throughout history,
In the Nordic mythos of Rangnarok and from the first tree huggers in India and sparked the spirit of the earth rebel inside us.
Then in the fifth session in the living earth,
We remembered that we are part of this planet.
On an intimate level,
We are one planet,
Breathing itself to life,
Every breath.
Going through human history,
We saw how the divinity of the earth was scrapped as civilizations rose.
And with the birth of science,
The last piece of sacredness fell into forgetfulness and there was no more magic,
Only laws and probabilities.
But even this turned out to be a dead end and we glimpsed the possibility of a new way of life.
In the sixth session,
We realized that we are already living in a zombie apocalypse and we tried four pills that could take us out of the matrix.
Your wrath,
Your disobedience and not owning anything attitude.
And the other two pills are your rebel tribe and the rebellion of play.
Doing things for their own sake rather than for a future reward.
On the seventh topic,
We looked at the ancient society of Ladakh and explored four medicines to heal the sicknesses in our hearts and minds.
First medicine is gratitude,
The second is the smile of a rebel,
The third is forgiveness and lastly we have the medicine of the soul,
The spiritual and creative dimensions of life,
Including plant medicines and rituals as well as prayer,
Yoga,
Creativity and so much more.
The eighth session,
The rebellion cells was yet another step down the rabbit hole.
To heal is to make whole or to see something in all its aspects.
We looked deeply at empire,
How this evilness we see in the world is created from our emotional wounds and traumas that have been passed from generation to generation for millennials but can never survive our radical unconditional love.
In the last session,
We dreamed of a different earth,
The dreams of our soul.
We went beyond the idea of death to find new life,
New hope,
New visions for our grandchildren and the coming generations and we reminded ourselves that it's never hopeless even if we are a single hummingbird trying to extinguish the whole Amazon forest on fire.
So what is left to do now?
We celebrate of course.
You did it.
You graduated in this very unofficial,
Unlegitimized course for earth rebels.
Congratulations.
You hopefully have some new refreshing perspectives on the mess that is taking place on earth right now and you hopefully have some empowering tools and insights to continue to be a healing part in all of this.
Why not invite your friends over to celebrate this together,
To celebrate life,
Make a fire,
Sing and dance,
Eat some good food and share all of your recent successes and hardships.
I'm really so happy that you actually took your precious time to go through this journey.
So please feel encouraged to ask any questions you have here on Insight Timer so we can all discuss them together.
It is my hope that this course can become a fertile soil for new ideas and insights to grow through our collective understanding,
Through our discussions by writing,
Thinking,
Feeling together here in this digital forum.
It's been a wonderful process to create this course from start to finish.
I look forward to hearing any of your experiences you've had during this journey.
Let us now end this final session with a brief meditation just like when we began.
Only this time we'll put our awareness on all the good people in our life.
All the people that are close to us.
Your friends,
Family,
Co-workers.
And see if you can find a little bit of this medicine of gratitude.
And also to all the people throughout history who have been working for the good causes.
Trying their best to change our world like the little hummingbird in the story.
And we can rest our awareness in the sense that somehow everything is going to be alright in the end.
Everything.
All our troubles,
All our problems,
All our challenges will eventually be solved.
Maybe not in the way we think.
And I would like to invite you to celebrate all the steps you've taken in your life.
All the challenges you've overcome this far.
All the difficult passages.
And connect with that.
