University Earth

Jessica Rooks
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Welcome to University Earth. Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. University Earth is a video-first educational experience for curious minds, open hearts, and lifelong learners exploring the deeper questions of the human experience. Hosted by Professor Jessica, Professor of Consciousness, University Earth approaches life as a classroom—one where our experiences, relationships, challenges, choices, and unexpected turns become part of the curriculum. Rather than telling you what to believe, University Earth invites you to explore. Through thoughtful lessons, spiritual exploration, personal growth, healing, conscious living, and higher perspectives, we examine some of humanity's biggest questions: Why are we here? Did we choose this life? Why does life keep teaching us the same lessons? Is our path already written? How much of our lives is shaped by free will, and how much by something greater? What can our experiences teach us about who we are becoming? Each class explores one of these questions through Professor Jessica's lessons and reflections, followed by a Student Perspective from another student of life—sharing experiences, insights, and wisdom from somewhere around our global campus. Because no two students experience the curriculum in exactly the same way. University Earth is not about having all the answers. It's about asking better questions. It's about discovering new ways to understand the experiences that shape us, finding meaning in the lessons life places in front of us, and recognizing that growth doesn't always come from what happens to us—but from what we choose to do with what happens. Every experience is a lesson. Every challenge is an opportunity for growth. Every perspective has something to teach us. And every human being is still a student. Welcome to University Earth. Class is now in session. 🌎🎓 UniversityEarth.org

  1. Episode 100

    CLASS 100 Why Are We Here? Welcome to the Human Experience

    Welcome to University Earth—where life is the curriculum and your soul is the student. In this special Orientation episode, Professor Jessica welcomes you to a different kind of classroom—one that exists beyond the walls of any university. Here, the lessons aren't found in textbooks. They're found in relationships, challenges, joy, grief, purpose, healing, and the everyday experiences that shape who we become. If you've ever asked questions like: • Why am I here? • Is there a purpose to my life? • Why do difficult experiences happen? • What is spiritual awakening? • How do I find meaning in life's challenges? ...you're already asking the questions this curriculum was designed to explore. Throughout this series, we'll examine timeless spiritual ideas, philosophical questions, and personal growth through the lens of education—exploring concepts found across spiritual traditions while encouraging curiosity, critical thinking, and personal reflection. Each class at University Earth includes: 🎓 A thought-provoking lesson 🎤 A Student Perspective conversation 📝 A reflective assignment you can apply to your own life 💭 Questions designed to help you see your experiences from a new perspective Whether you're just beginning your spiritual journey or you've been walking this path for years, Orientation is your invitation to step into the classroom with an open mind and a curious heart. Because here at University Earth... Life is not happening to you. It's teaching you. Welcome, student. Class is now in session. 📚 In this Orientation class: ✔ What is University Earth? ✔ Why is life viewed as a classroom? ✔ What you'll learn throughout Semester One ✔ How each lesson builds upon the last ✔ How to get the most from every class ✔ Your first reflection assignment   🌎 About University Earth University Earth is a video-first educational series created by Jessica Rooks that explores spirituality, consciousness, personal growth, emotional healing, self-discovery, and the human experience through the metaphor of Earth as a university. Rather than telling you what to believe, each class explores ideas found in spiritual traditions, psychology, philosophy, and lived experience—inviting you to ask deeper questions, discover your own truth, and become an active participant in your own growth. Because awareness is how we begin to understand the curriculum of life. 🎓 Continue Your Education Next Class: ➡️ Class 101: Did You Choose This Life? Understanding Soul Contracts Explore the fascinating idea that your soul may have chosen certain relationships, experiences, and lessons before you were born—and how that perspective might change the way you understand your own life. 📌 Connect with Professor Jessica Website: www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-rooks-20436368/ Email:awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

  2. Episode 101

    Did You Choose This Life? Understanding Soul Contracts - Class 101

    Welcome to University Earth—where life is the curriculum and your soul is the student. In Class 101, Professor Jessica explores one of the most fascinating questions in spirituality and the human experience: Did you choose this life? Across spiritual traditions, there is a long-held idea that before entering this lifetime, our souls may have chosen certain experiences, relationships, and themes as part of our growth. But what does that actually mean? Did we choose every detail of our lives? Did we choose the difficult experiences we've endured? And if some parts of our lives may be part of a deeper spiritual curriculum, where does free will fit in? In this class, we explore soul contracts as a spiritual perspective—not as a belief you are required to accept, but as an invitation to look at your life through a different lens. We examine how soul contracts may relate to relationships, recurring patterns, synchronicities, life-changing experiences, and the lessons that seem to find us again and again. We also explore an important distinction: considering an experience meaningful does not mean believing that we consciously chose every painful thing that happened to us. Sometimes the more powerful question isn't "Why did this happen to me?" but "What might this experience be asking me to learn, and who am I becoming because of it?" Today's Student Perspective features Martha Wright, Shamanic Medicine Woman and Akashic Reader, who joins Professor Jessica to explore soul contracts through the lens of relationships, personal experience, and the possibility that some lessons continue unfolding long after an experience has ended. 📚 In This Class ✔ What are soul contracts, and why do spiritual traditions explore them? ✔ The difference between Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Soul Contracts ✔ How recurring relationships, experiences, and patterns may reveal deeper life lessons ✔ Whether we can "fail" a soul contract—or simply resist, postpone, or repeat a lesson ✔ How viewing life's challenges as opportunities for growth can change the questions we ask 🎓 Continue Your Education Previous Class: ➡️ Class 100: Why Are We Here? Welcome to the Human Experience Begin with Orientation and explore the foundational questions behind the University Earth curriculum. Next Class: ➡️ Class 102: Why Does Life Keep Teaching the Same Lessons? A New Way to Think About Earth as a School If our lives are part of a curriculum, why do certain lessons seem to keep repeating?   📌 Connect with Professor Jessica Website: www.UniversityEarth.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.rooks.77377/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1120_livingmybestlife/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-rooks-20436368/ Luna & Verse Studio: https://www.lunaandversestudio.com Email: awakenyourauthenticself@yahoo.com

  3. Episode 102

    Why Does Life Keep Teaching the Same Lessons? A New Way to Think About Earth as a School | Class 102

    Have you ever wondered why you keep experiencing the same patterns in life—even when the people, relationships, circumstances, and surroundings have changed? Why does the same kind of relationship keep appearing? Why does the same fear keep resurfacing? Why do certain life lessons seem to follow us from one chapter to the next? In Class 102 of University Earth, Professor Jessica explores the deeper meaning behind recurring life patterns and repeated life lessons and asks a question that can change the way we understand our experiences: What if the pattern isn't happening to you? What if it's trying to teach you something? Through the lens of spiritual growth, self-awareness, consciousness, and the human experience, this class explores why some lessons seem to repeat until we recognize what they are asking us to see, understand, or change. This isn't about pretending difficult experiences don't hurt. It's about developing the awareness to recognize patterns, understand the lessons within them, and consider what becomes possible when we approach our experiences from a different perspective. Professor Jessica is also joined by guest Diana Divine Soul Guide, Multidimensional Channel, and Galactic Shaman for a Student Perspective, bringing lived experience into the classroom and demonstrating how the lessons we encounter in life can become part of our own journey of growth and understanding. Because sometimes the greatest shift doesn't happen when the circumstances change. It happens when we finally see the pattern.   Timestamps 00:00 — Class Is Now in Session 00:13 — Why Does Life Keep Teaching Us the Same Lessons? 02:00 — When the Pattern Keeps Repeating 04:00 — What Recurring Lessons Are Trying to Show Us 05:40 — Recognizing the Lesson Beneath the Experience 06:57 — Student Perspective: Diana Divine 09:00 — What Happens When We Finally See the Pattern? 11:50 — The Lesson From the Student’s Perspective 14:10 — Professor Jessica: Bringing the Lesson Home 15:20 — What Do We Do With What We’ve Learned? 17:18 — Class Dismissed   In This Class We Explore: Why certain life lessons and patterns seem to repeatHow recurring experiences can reveal opportunities for self-awareness and spiritual growthWhat recognizing a pattern can change about the way we experience itA Student Perspective on learning through lived experienceYour Reflection Assignment What lesson keeps showing up in your life—and what might it be asking you to see now?   CONTINUE YOUR EDUCATION 🎓 Class 101: Soul Contracts Did You Choose This Life? Understanding Soul Contracts 🎓 Orientation: Welcome to University Earth Where Life Is the Curriculum, and Your Soul Is the Student   🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Have you lived a lesson that belongs in the classroom? Your experience may help another student understand their own. Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: https://www.universityearth.org/the-lecture-hall#become-a-university-earth-student   🎓 University Earth Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student.

  4. Episode 103

    Is Your Life Already Planned? A New Way to Think About Free Will & Destiny | Class 103

    Have you ever wondered if your life is already planned? Are the major events of your life predetermined, or do you have the free will to choose your own path? If destiny exists, what does that mean for the choices you make? And if we truly have free will, can there also be a larger purpose or plan unfolding through our lives? In Class 103 of University Earth, Professor Jessica explores the relationship between free will and destiny and asks whether these two ideas are actually opposites. Are we creating our lives through our choices, or are we moving through a life that was already mapped out for us? Through the lens of spirituality, consciousness, soul purpose, personal responsibility, and the human experience, this class explores different ways of thinking about destiny, free will, and the possibility of a predetermined life. Rather than offering a simple answer, Professor Jessica invites us to consider a more nuanced possibility: that some circumstances of our lives may be beyond our control while the way we respond to those circumstances remains ours to choose. Professor Jessica is joined by Kadir Oust, a Law Student from the Netherlands, for a Student Perspective that brings another voice into this exploration of choice, responsibility, destiny, and the forces that shape the human experience. Timestamps 0:01 — Intro: “University Earth” and the idea of life as a class0:27 — Earth as a school; introducing free will vs. destiny0:54 — Life gives questions, we write the answers1:22 — Why asking better questions matters1:51 — Life’s unexpected moments and turning points2:20 — Experiences as part of the curriculum2:49 — What kind of person each experience makes you3:19 — Free will as choosing who we become3:46 — Starting the deeper question: how much is written?4:14 — Spiritual, religious, and philosophical views on destiny4:43 — Coincidence vs. meaning5:11 — Curiosity over certainty6:04 — Humanity’s shared search for purpose6:34 — Free will and destiny working together7:04 — The artist and the blank canvas analogy7:34 — Inspiration through hardship8:03 — The same event, different meaning8:31 — Wisdom as how we meet life, not predicting it9:20 — The central takeaway: choosing how chapters are lived9:55 — Student Perspective12:58 — Reflection Assignment14:07 — Closing remarks and call to subscribe14:55 — Final sign-off  CONTINUE YOUR EDUCATION 🎓 Class 102: Why Does Life Keep Teaching Us the Same Lessons? Exploring recurring life patterns, repeated lessons, and what our experiences may be trying to teach us. 🎓 Class 101: Soul Contracts Did You Choose This Life? Understanding Soul Contracts 🎓 Orientation: Welcome to University Earth Where Life Is the Curriculum, and Your Soul Is the Student 🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Have you lived a lesson that belongs in the classroom? Your experience may help another student understand their own. Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: University Earth — Become a Student 🎓 University Earth Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student.

  5. Episode 104

    Is Karma Punishment? What Your Life May Be Trying to Teach You | Class 104

    What if karma isn’t about punishment-but about consequence, awareness, and the opportunity to grow? In Class 104 of University Earth, Professor Jessica explores the meaning of karma and its relationship to our actions, choices, patterns, consequences, accountability, and personal growth. Rather than viewing karma as a cosmic justice system where the universe keeps score, this class asks a different question: What can our experiences teach us? Karma has deep roots in Indian philosophical and religious traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, with different meanings and interpretations across those traditions. Here, we explore karma as a framework for understanding action, consequence, learning, and transformation -not as a system of blame. That distinction matters. Pain is not proof of wrongdoing, and suffering does not mean someone deserved what happened to them. Instead, we can ask: What can I learn from this experience, and what choice is available to me now? Joining Professor Jessica for today's Student Perspective is Hakeem Bourne McFarlane, author of Choose Yourself, speaker, creator, and educator focused on human behavior, accountability, and experiences. Hakeem explores the space between emotion and action—and the power we have to choose what comes next. Drawing from his own experience with anger and reactive choices, Hakeem shares how behaviors that once felt protective ultimately became barriers to his growth. He challenges us to consider whether we're choosing from old habits, our present emotional state, or the deeper intention we set before circumstances changed the equation. 🎓 Class 104 Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to University Earth 00:30 Karma: Punishment or Curriculum? 02:25 Karma as Consequence, Feedback & Learning 04:41 Responsibility Is Not the Same as Blame 07:07 From “What Did I Deserve?” to “What Can I Learn?” 08:19 🎓 Student Perspective: Hakeem Bourne McFarlane 10:55 The Power to Choose: Habits, Emotions & Intention 15:05 When Our Choices Have Consequences 16:22 Reflection Assignment: Become an Observer of Your Curriculum 18:38 Class Dismissed 🎓 Continue Your Education Class 101 — Did You Choose This Life? Understanding Soul Contracts Explore the possibility that some of life's experiences may be connected to a deeper purpose. Class 102 — Why Does Life Keep Teaching the Same Lessons? Explore what repeating patterns may reveal about the lessons we are still learning. Class 103 — Is Your Life Already Planned? Free Will vs. Destiny Explore the relationship between choice, free will, destiny, and the human experience. 🌍 University Earth Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. What did one of life's difficult experiences teach you? #UniversityEarth #Karma #SpiritualAwakening #PersonalGrowth #SelfAwareness #Consciousness #HakeemBourneMcFarlane #ChooseYourself

  6. Episode 105

    Why Do You Keep Repeating the Same Lessons? Understanding Life Patterns | Class 105

    Have you ever changed the relationship, the job, the city, or the circumstances-only to find yourself facing the same emotional lesson again? In Class 105 of University Earth, Professor Jessica explores repeating emotional patterns and recurring life lessons, and what they may reveal about the way we respond to the experiences we encounter. From abandonment, trust issues, self-worth, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and rescuing others to boundaries, self-trust, control, and the fear of never being enough, sometimes the circumstances change while the emotional pattern remains remarkably familiar. Professor Jessica examines why emotional patterns can repeat, how habits and early life experiences can influence our responses, and why awareness and curiosity can be more useful than shame. This isn't about blaming ourselves for everything that happens to us. Instead, this class focuses on the patterns within our own experience that we can observe, question, and learn from. In today's Student Perspective, Dr. Jessie Ferreira from ASQ Empowerment, shares her personal experience with self-trust and boundaries, including how awareness, stepping outside the immediate emotional response, and practicing what she calls “Position Zero” can help interrupt familiar patterns and create the possibility of responding differently. The question shifts from: “Why does this keep happening to me?” to: “What keeps showing up here—and what lesson might be asking to be understood?” Because repeating a pattern doesn't necessarily mean you're failing. It may simply mean there's still something here worth learning. IN THIS CLASS: • Understanding repeating emotional patterns and recurring life lessons • Why awareness is the beginning—not always the end—of change • Exploring self-trust, boundaries, people-pleasing, and familiar responses • Using curiosity and reflection to recognize patterns and create new choices TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Welcome to University Earth 00:31 — Why We Repeat the Same Emotional Patterns 02:25 — What Is a Pattern—and Why Does It Repeat? 04:20 — Why Familiar Patterns Keep Showing Up 05:18 — Reflection, Awareness & Recognizing the Lesson 06:47 — Boundaries, Self-Trust & Learning Not to Abandon Yourself 07:46 — What If the Pattern Is Information? 08:27 — Student Perspective: Dr. Jessie Ferreira 10:02 — Self-Trust: Dr. Jessie’s Recurring Life Lesson 15:00 — Can Awareness Actually Change a Pattern? 17:52 — Vulnerability, Healing & Interrupting the Pattern 20:08 — Reflection Assignment: What Lesson Keeps Showing Up for You? CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY: Lesson 104 - Is Karma Punishment or Curriculum Life is not happening to you. It's teaching you. I'm Professor Jessica, and I'll see you in our next class. Class dismissed. 🎓🌎

  7. Episode 106

    Why Do Relationships Teach Us So Much? What Other People Reveal About Us | Class 106

    What if the people in your life aren't simply part of your story... but part of your education? In Class 106, we explore one of Earth's most powerful classrooms: relationships. Why do certain people affect us so deeply? Why can one relationship challenge us, change us, or reveal something about ourselves we didn't know was there? From family and friendship to romantic relationships, colleagues, and even brief encounters, the people who cross our paths can become unexpected teachers. Or, as Professor Jessica likes to call them... Group projects. Humanity's oldest spiritual assignments. 😂 But this class isn't about believing that every person was destined to teach us something—or that every painful relationship is somehow our fault. It's about becoming curious about what our relationships might reveal. Because sometimes... we don't discover who we are by looking inward alone. Sometimes... we discover ourselves in relationship with someone else. In this class, we explore: Why relationships can become powerful classrooms for self-awarenessWhat our reactions to others might reveal about usThe difference between self-reflection and self-blameWhat we may be learning—and teaching—in the relationships that shape our lives Then, we bring the lesson into real life with a Student Perspective by Journalist Nick Rivera, reflecting on what relationships has taught him about himself   Timestamps 00:00 Class Is Now in Session 02:23 Why Relationships Reveal So Much 04:45 When Other People Become Mirrors 07:09 Are We the Student or the Teacher? 09:29 What Relationships Leave Behind 11:54 The Relationships That Change Us 13:20 Student Perspective: Nick Rivera 14:09 What Do Our Relationships Reveal About Us? 15:18 The Lesson That Stayed With Him 18:11 Your Student Assignment 19:00 Class Dismissed   🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Have you lived a lesson that belongs in the classroom? Your experience may help another student understand their own. Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: https://www.universityearth.org/the-lecture-hall#become-a-university-earth-student 🌎 UNIVERSITY EARTH Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student.

  8. Episode 107

    Manifestation: From Desire to Reality—What It Really Takes to Create Change | Class 107

    Manifestation explained: how your beliefs shape your reality and what it really takes to create change. If you've tried visualization, affirmations, and vision boards and still feel stuck, you are not alone. Manifestation is often reduced to “think positive, visualize what you want, and wait.” But what if conscious manifestation requires more than that? In University Earth Class 107, Professor Jessica Rooks explores manifestation, desire, intention, belief, action, personal responsibility, allowing, and conscious creation—and takes a closer look at what manifestation may actually require. Conscious manifestation can be understood as a process involving desire, belief, intention, action, responsibility, and allowing. Rather than focusing on controlling reality or guaranteeing a particular outcome, this class explores what it means to consciously participate in the reality you are creating. She explores the difference between wanting something and becoming consciously involved in creating the conditions for it—including the role of unconscious beliefs, visualization, action, personal responsibility, and releasing attachment to a specific outcome. In this class, we explore: The difference between desire and intention, and why creating change requires conscious participation.How conscious and unconscious beliefs can support or conflict with what we say we want.Why action and personal responsibility are essential parts of creating meaningful change.What it means to practice allowing and detachment without becoming passive.Featuring a Student Perspective with Scarlett Seebach, Author and creator of Astral Reiki, on manifestation, subconscious beliefs, nervous system responses, and detaching from the outcome. ABOUT PROFESSOR JESSICA ROOKS Jessica Rooks is the host of University Earth, where life is the curriculum and your soul is the student, and Awaken Your Authentic Self. Her work explores spiritual awakening, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, shadow work, and conscious living through lived experience and student-centered teaching. ABOUT UNIVERSITY EARTH University Earth is a class series where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. Each class explores the human experience through spiritual education, consciousness, healing, personal growth, and real-life reflection. 🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Have you lived a lesson that belongs in the classroom? Your experience may help another student understand their own. Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: University Earth — Become a Student Explore all classes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdxCVNseZXjE  🎓 University Earth Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student.  This class is for educational and spiritual exploration purposes and shares personal perspectives. It is not medical, mental health, or financial advice.

  9. Episode 108

    Your Ego-Protecting You or Holding You Back? Understanding the Voice Behind Your Choices | Class 108

    What is ego — and is yours protecting you or holding you back? In University Earth Class 108, Professor Jessica Rooks breaks down spiritual ego, fear vs ego, and how to overcome ego for personal growth, self-awareness and spiritual awakening. The ego is your sense of identity — the stories about who you are and what you can and cannot do. Healthy protection becomes limitation when staying familiar feels safer than growing, changing, and choosing differently. If you find yourself second-guessing your choices, staying inside what feels familiar, or saying "that's just not who I am," you may be listening to more than fear. Professor Jessica Rooks explores what the ego may be trying to protect — identity, safety, control, and sense of self — and how that protection can sometimes begin keeping us small. The ego isn't simply arrogance or self-importance. It is connected to identity, lived experience, and the stories we carry about what is possible for us. The question becomes: Is this actually my choice, or is my protection choosing for me? IN THIS CLASS, WE EXPLORE: • What is ego and what the ego may be trying to protect — including identity, safety, control, and sense of self • When protection becomes limitation and why the familiar can feel safer than growth • Fear vs ego — and how each influences the choices we make • Why the goal isn't to eliminate the ego, but to become conscious enough to hear it without automatically obeying it • How awareness, self-reflection, and consciousness create space to question old identities and choose differently STUDENT PERSPECTIVE WITH TARA WISKOW Featuring Tara Wiskow, intuitive healer, speaker and coach for women from Greenbush, Minnesota. Tara shares her deeply personal experience of recognizing how old patterns and beliefs were keeping her inside a familiar identity — and what happened when she began choosing self-love, changing the way she saw herself, and showing herself what was possible outside her comfort zone. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Class Is Now in Session: Meet the Ego 01:59 — Is Your Ego Protecting You or Holding You Back? 04:23 — When Protection Becomes Limitation 06:18 — Fear vs Ego: Who Is Making the Decision? 08:37 — Hearing the Ego Without Letting It Choose 10:34 — Student Perspective: Tara Wiskow 11:41 — How the Ego Protects Us 17:08 — Tara's Story: Choosing Self-Love Over Old Patterns 21:50 — Reflection Assignment: What Are You Protecting? 24:06 — Class Dismissed ABOUT PROFESSOR JESSICA ROOKS Jessica Rooks is the host of University Earth, where life is the curriculum and your soul is the student, and Awaken Your Authentic Self. Her work explores spiritual awakening, personal growth, conscious living, healing, self-awareness, fear, identity, and the lessons of the human experience through lived experience and reflection. ABOUT UNIVERSITY EARTH University Earth is a class series where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. Each class explores the human experience through spiritual education, consciousness, personal growth, lived experience, and real-life reflection. 🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Have you lived a lesson that belongs in the classroom? Your experience may help another student understand their own. Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: University Earth — Become a Student Continue Your Learning JourneyStart from Class 101

  10. Episode 109

    Fear Keeps You From Moving Forward—Understanding Courage, Action & What Fear Really Is | Class 109

    Fear Keeps You From Moving Forward? How overcoming fear, fear of the unknown and fear of change work — and how courage and action create clarity | University Earth Class 109 with Professor Jessica Rooks If you know what you want to do but feel stuck, hesitant, overthinking, or waiting for certainty, you are not alone. In University Earth Class 109, Professor Jessica Rooks explores what fear is really doing when it keeps you from moving forward — and how understanding courage and action helps you move anyway. Fear is a protective response designed to keep you safe. Courage is not the absence of fear — it is what you do next while fear is present. Discernment is fear giving you useful information to pay attention to. Avoidance is fear becoming a pattern that keeps you inside what is familiar. Drawing from lived experience, Jessica shares leaving the United States to travel the world despite never traveling internationally before — quitting a 16-year career, selling, giving away or donating approximately 95% of what she owned, leaving family and friends, and taking her life and podcast on the road without a fixed plan. Instead of waiting for a perfect plan, she chose a flexible plan to learn, adapt, and grow along the way. In this class, we explore: Why fear exists to protect us and why eliminating fear isn't the goalHow fear becomes a pattern of overthinking, hesitation, and staying stuckFear of the unknown vs. useful intuition — discernment vs. avoidanceFear of change and why certainty rarely comes firstWhy courage doesn't require fearlessnessHow action creates clarity when you don't have all the answersWhy a flexible plan beats waiting for the perfect momentWhat it means to hear fear without letting it make the decisionFeaturing a Student Perspective with author and filmmaker John R. Spender on fear, courage, uncertainty, and the choice to move forward. ABOUT PROFESSOR JESSICA ROOKS Jessica Rooks is the host of University Earth, where life is the curriculum and your soul is the student, and Awaken Your Authentic Self. Her work explores spiritual awakening, personal growth, conscious living, healing, self-awareness, fear, courage, and the lessons of the human experience through lived experience and reflection. ABOUT UNIVERSITY EARTH University Earth is a class series where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. Each class explores the human experience through spiritual education, consciousness, personal growth, lived experience, and real-life reflection. 🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: University Earth — Become a Student Explore all classes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdxCVNseZXjE  Continue Your Learning Journey Start from Class 101: https://youtu.be/90M92F38rzU 🎓 University Earth Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. This class is for educational and spiritual exploration purposes and shares personal perspectives. It is not medical, mental health, or financial advice.

  11. Episode 110

    How Do You Move Forward When Part of Your World Is Gone? Understanding Grief |Class 110

    Grief is one of the most profound human experiences we can face, yet we are often taught to think of it as something we eventually need to “get over.” But what if grief isn't about moving on? What if it's about learning how to move forward while carrying the love, memories, relationships, and experiences that changed us? In University Earth Class 110, “How Do You Move Forward When Part of Your World Is Gone? Understanding Grief,” Professor Jessica explores why grief changes us so deeply and what loss can ask of us beneath the pain. Drawing from her own lived experience after the death of her second husband, Professor Jessica opens this class with a deeply personal reflection on losing not only her husband, but her friend, her imagined future, and a significant part of the life and identity she had built around their relationship. This conversation explores grief, loss, bereavement, love, attachment, identity, healing, emotional change, and the pressure society places on people to “move on.” Rather than treating grief as something that needs to be fixed or overcome, this class invites us to consider what happens when we give ourselves permission to grieve in our own way and in our own time. In this class, we explore: • Why grief can affect our emotions, identity, relationships, routines, and sense of purpose • Why moving forward is not necessarily the same as moving on • The connection between grief, love, attachment, and loss • Why there is no single “right” way to grieve • How loss can change the way we see ourselves and our future Professor Jessica is joined by Devorah Brinkerhoff for the Student Perspective, exploring what personal experiences with grief can teach us about loss, love, change, healing, and the human experience. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — My Personal Experience With Grief 02:28 — Why Grief Changes Us 04:54 — Moving Forward Without Leaving Love Behind 07:04 — What Is Grief Asking of Us? 09:30 — Moving Forward vs. Moving On 10:54 — Student Perspective: Devorah Brinkerhoff 13:13 — Why Society Struggles With Grief 15:39 — Reflection: Learning to Live With Loss 18:04 — Class Dismissed ABOUT UNIVERSITY EARTH University Earth is a consciousness and human-experience video podcast hosted by Jessica Rooks, where life is the curriculum and the human experience is the classroom. As Professor Jessica she explores the questions, patterns, experiences, and spiritual concepts that invite us to become more conscious of the lives we're living. Subscribe and join the next class.  🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Have you lived a lesson that belongs in the classroom? Your experience may help another student understand their own. Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: https://www.universityearth.org/the-lecture-hall#become-a-university-earth-student  🎓 University Earth Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student.

  12. Episode 111

    Forgiveness Doesn't Mean Going Back: You Can Forgive Without Reopening the Door | Class 111

    Forgiveness doesn't mean going back. You can forgive without reopening the door. In University Earth Class 111, Professor Jessica Rooks explores what forgiveness really means, how to forgive someone who hurt you, and how to let go without forgetting, excusing harmful behavior, or reconciling with someone who caused you pain. Speaking from lived experience — not from a textbook — Professor Jessica shares how childhood sexual abuse by her biological father from age five to nine shaped the way she saw herself, trusted men, and navigated relationships. Through her healing journey, she came to understand that forgiveness wasn't about making what happened okay. It was about releasing what she no longer wanted to carry. You can forgive someone without trusting them again, maintaining a relationship, or giving them access to your life. Forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same thing, and healing doesn't require you to minimize the harm someone caused. 🎓 IN THIS CLASS, WE EXPLORE: Forgiveness and Boundaries: Why forgiveness doesn't mean approval, reconciliation, or allowing someone to hurt you again.Letting Go Without Forgetting: How forgiveness can help you change your relationship with the past without denying what happened.Their Journey Is Theirs. Your Healing Is Yours: A spiritual perspective on personal responsibility, soul journeys, and releasing what belongs to someone else's choices.Self-Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth: How compassion for yourself can become part of healing and moving forward.🎓 STUDENT PERSPECTIVE Joining Professor Jessica is Sonika Cottman, author of Formless, sharing her perspective on forgiveness and how our understanding of it can change through lived experience. ABOUT PROFESSOR JESSICA ROOKS Jessica Rooks is the founder of University Earth and host of Awaken Your Authentic Self, a spiritual podcast exploring personal transformation, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening. Through lived experience and a soul-centered perspective, she explores the lessons that shape how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and the human experience. ABOUT UNIVERSITY EARTH University Earth is a soul school for the human experience, exploring life's lessons through consciousness, relationships, grief, fear, forgiveness, personal growth, and spiritual understanding. Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student.  🎓 WANT TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY EARTH STUDENT? Apply to share your Student Perspective → Website: University Earth — Become a Student Explore all classes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdxCVNseZXjE  Continue Your Learning Journey Start from Class 101: https://youtu.be/90M92F38rzU  Disclaimer: This class is for educational and spiritual growth purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional mental health care, therapy, or medical advice. If you are navigating trauma or abuse, support from a qualified professional may be helpful.

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Welcome to University Earth. Where life is the curriculum, and your soul is the student. University Earth is a video-first educational experience for curious minds, open hearts, and lifelong learners exploring the deeper questions of the human experience. Hosted by Professor Jessica, Professor of Consciousness, University Earth approaches life as a classroom—one where our experiences, relationships, challenges, choices, and unexpected turns become part of the curriculum. Rather than telling you what to believe, University Earth invites you to explore. Through thoughtful lessons, spiritual exploration, personal growth, healing, conscious living, and higher perspectives, we examine some of humanity's biggest questions: Why are we here? Did we choose this life? Why does life keep teaching us the same lessons? Is our path already written? How much of our lives is shaped by free will, and how much by something greater? What can our experiences teach us about who we are becoming? Each class explores one of these questions through Professor Jessica's lessons and reflections, followed by a Student Perspective from another student of life—sharing experiences, insights, and wisdom from somewhere around our global campus. Because no two students experience the curriculum in exactly the same way. University Earth is not about having all the answers. It's about asking better questions. It's about discovering new ways to understand the experiences that shape us, finding meaning in the lessons life places in front of us, and recognizing that growth doesn't always come from what happens to us—but from what we choose to do with what happens. Every experience is a lesson. Every challenge is an opportunity for growth. Every perspective has something to teach us. And every human being is still a student. Welcome to University Earth. Class is now in session. 🌎🎓 UniversityEarth.org

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  • Creator
    Jessica Rooks
  • Episodes
    12
  • Seasons
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Jessica Rooks
  • Show Website
    University Earth