Part 1: Embodied Presence - Planting our Roots in the Universe (2020-01-22)

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Part 1: Embodied Presence - Planting our Roots in the Universe (2020-01-22) - In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:02.9	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.1	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.9	Namaste and welcome.
0:28.4	We had a decade ago, a spiritual teacher was asked to describe our contemporary society
0:35.4	and his response was lost in thought.
0:40.8	And I thought that was a really kind of wonderful description in a way.
0:45.8	A hundred years earlier, DH Lawrence observed our disconnection really from this living
0:53.2	world and how we lived in another kind of universe in a sense.
0:57.3	We weren't really connected and this is what he wrote.
1:00.9	He said, we must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and
1:08.8	the universe.
1:10.0	For the truth is, we are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs.
1:16.1	We are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal, sources
1:22.0	which flow eternally in the universe.
1:25.1	Invitally, the human race is dying.
1:28.4	It is like a great uprooted tree with its roots in the air.
1:32.8	We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
1:39.3	I think that's one of the best metaphors I've heard about our predicament, the sense of
1:46.0	being like a great uprooted tree in our roots in the air, we're in this kind of cyber
1:51.1	universe, our virtual universe, our lost in thought and we need to replant ourselves in
1:57.9	this living reality, this mysterious, sacred presence that we can only experience if we
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