Rocco Jarman, a guest poet on the Poetic Resurrection podcast, read his poem; They Might Have Told Us. The message was clear: awareness of our behaviors and beliefs influences all aspects of our lives. The tone was one of reflection and self-examination, so that we might overcome ourselves.

"Sacred does not need to have anything to do with shared or imposed ideas of religion or god, or whimsy. It is simply the answered wish to discover something deep, foundational and meaningful about this world and our sense of very private gratitude and belonging, we get from that encounter." ~ Rocco Jarman

Rocco is an Australian Philosopher Poet and Podcaster. He has an unorthodox and autodidactic mastery of human psychology which provides cutting and insightful observations on all levels of personal psychological, interpersonal and societal dysfunction and specifically the path to effective remediation and stable actualization.

Rocco’s own idiosyncrasies have proven to be his greatest assets, which are an undiagnosed neurodivergence, a mistrust of teachers, sycophants, systems and hierarchies, and an irreverence for the restrictive silos of academia. This has resulted in him being an autodidact across many fields such as psychology, philosophy, behavioral science, psychedelics, project delivery, corporate leadership, agile, history, social engineering and relationships.

Rocco has an extraordinary mind, with a way of looking at the world, our journey through it and the blind curve we are stuck on, which beautifully reconciles the scientific and the sacred, and provides insights which land like a drink of fresh water after weeks in the desert.

They Might Have Told Us

they might have told us

when we were young:

self-ownership is a kind of leadership

where you do not expect of yourself

to master the world around you

but rather,

it is an allowing of mistakes.

they might have said

not to get so hung up

on the successes or failures

of a moment,

they should have said

to allow yourself to try,

and not expect

to get it right first time,

allow yourself even

perhaps, to give up on things

that are no longer meant for you,

or were never truly yours to begin with.

they might have let us know

that the path to wholeness

involves asking no one but yourself

for permission,

and wearing all regrets

like a meadow wears the morning mist

and afterwards the dew.

they really should have told us.

but they did not know themselves.

because no one told them.

and now,

no one else is coming.

© Rocco Jarman, October 2021

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Website is roccojarman.com

Substack is https://eyeswideopenlife.org