Practices of Reconnection and Remembrance and Why They Matter: A Conversation With Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke

Greetings listener friends, we are so grateful to have you join us for this deep conversation about practices of Reconnection & Remembrance and Why They Matter. This is the third in a series of podcasts on Practices of Presence, Practices of Depth and Soul, and Practice of Reconection & Remembrance and Why They Matter.

We begin with a favorite line from dear Dr Jaiya John: "It is not that we have so much to learn. It is that we have so much to remember. We are alive in the colonizing centuries of the Great Forgetting. Let us journey now into this new era upon us of the Great Remembering. We need teachers gifted not at cold instruction but at Loving reunion. We need homecoming."

We have so much to remember.

We follow the muse through many topics related to reconnection and remembrance. We speak about the long tail of our human history and ancestry, and how it has only been roughly 1-2 generations since the technological revolution, only 20 since the industrial revolution, just 600 since agriculture, and at least 200,000 generations before that - of being humans in intimate relationship with the living world.

We speak of this long ancestral inheritance in terms of foundational human intelligences that many modern humans have forgotten, that we can always remember and return to. Movement intelligence, ritual intelligence, village mindedness, rhythmic intelligence, sensitivities to the natural world and so much more.

We reflect on naturalness, and what is different in the learning process when we are remembering a capacity that is natural yet perhaps forgotten or unpracticed, and what kinds of practices offer the soil conditions that support the blossoming of our naturalness and uniqueness.

We speak about the importance, from our Tibetan Buddhist lineages, of short glimpses, repeated many times. We share many ways to return to our embodied presence, our connection with the Earth, ways to return to what is most essential and important, over and over and over through the day.

May you enjoy the conversation!

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