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Soul work is not a high road. It's a deep fall into an unforgiving darkness that won't let you go until you find the song that sings you home.
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McCall Erickson
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It’s the magic of personal transformation—the magic of the soul and spirit through the human life.
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McCall Erickson (The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening)
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Awakening doesn’t just continue up and up. It also goes down and down. There are intense paradoxes and tensions to hold. There is ferment and rot and aloneness.
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McCall Erickson (The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening)
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The soul cannot grow and great art cannot be made unless something begins to stir, create
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McCall Erickson (The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening)
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tension, or fall apart in the physical world.
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McCall Erickson (The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening)
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We want to increase the gap time just enough between the uncomfortable feeling and the solution, the story we tell about it, or judgment we put on it. Magic
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McCall Erickson (The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening)