Welcome Home

Adapted from an essay by Rob Brezsny from his fantastic book Pronoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.

Welcome Home

Let me remind you who you really are:
You're an immortal freedom fighter in service to divine love.

You have temporary taken on human form, forgetting your true origins, in order to liberate all sentient beings from suffering and the bondage of false belief.

You will accept nothing less than the miracle of bringing heaven all the way down to earth.

Your task may look impossible. Ignorance and inertia, partially camouflaged as time-honored morality, seem to surround you. Pessimism is enshrined as a hall mark of worldliness. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as wit and perceptiveness. Irony is hip. Stories about treachery and degradation provoke a visceral thrill in millions of people who think of themselves as reasonable and smart. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly truth are readily believed.

To overcome these odds, we must be both a radical revolutionary and practice radical acceptance. We must be both a wrathful destroyer of falsehoods and a loving creator of true beauty. We must resist the temptation to be seduced by the thousands of delusions that have been carefully packaged to lull us into in-action. We must stay in a good mood as we overthrow the stressful hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.

We are facing the extinction of our natural habitat and the possibility of endless war, but there is an even bigger threat to the long-term fate of the earth, of which all others are but symptoms: the death of the imagination.

But what can we do?

We can create safe houses to shelter those devoted to the incremental awakening of humanity. We can create sanctuaries of festivals and parties and cafes and workshops and homes, where we can ritually celebrate the evolving mysteries of positive co-creation.

We must facilitate the regular practice of trust, cooperation, innovation and love.

We can be patient with one another as we attempt the difficult and almost impossible. We can pull each other out of our comfort zones.
We can provide gentle encouragement and committed cooperation.
We can be inclusive.
We can offer the gift of our honesty.
We can resist the substitution of passive consumption for active participation.

We can discover, exercise and rely on our own inner resources, even as we move towards greater partnership.
We can seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves and the reality of those around us.
We can make contact with a natural world exceeding human powers.

We must conspire together to carry out an agenda that Barbara Marx Hubbard describes as: to hospice what's dying and midwife what's being born.