Ep. 24 Space to Be (Song: A Better Me)
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09/18/21 • 21 min
Allow, allow, allow. Everything, every being, every process has its own wisdom and magic. I am learning to not interfere, to let it be, let it work its magic. I honestly think this is love: space to be. Love is when you let it be. Let it be, allow, receive.
I built this episode around a song I wrote when I left my music career in 2010--specifically the line "I just need some space to be who I am."
I call this The Song That Started It All because it set me on the final and brutal climb of my second half of the mountain journey where I had to go through the dark nights of the spirit and distillation to come to the gates of surrender and walk through.
Exploring the BEING space:
- What does it mean to actually BE our authentic selves in any given moment?
- Why is it so hard to give ourselves space to be?
- What gets in the way of us extending this love to ourselves and others?
- What can come from being in the space of surrender? What magic happens there?
With love for those in the far reaches,
McCall
www.McCallErickson.com
Click here to read or listen to my book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening
- Read The Terrible, Beautiful Truth on Substack
- Stay connected through my Email List
- Get a copy of my NEW book Down from the Mountain directly from me
- Read or listen to my new book Down from the Mountain
- Read or Listen to my first book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening
Allow, allow, allow. Everything, every being, every process has its own wisdom and magic. I am learning to not interfere, to let it be, let it work its magic. I honestly think this is love: space to be. Love is when you let it be. Let it be, allow, receive.
I built this episode around a song I wrote when I left my music career in 2010--specifically the line "I just need some space to be who I am."
I call this The Song That Started It All because it set me on the final and brutal climb of my second half of the mountain journey where I had to go through the dark nights of the spirit and distillation to come to the gates of surrender and walk through.
Exploring the BEING space:
- What does it mean to actually BE our authentic selves in any given moment?
- Why is it so hard to give ourselves space to be?
- What gets in the way of us extending this love to ourselves and others?
- What can come from being in the space of surrender? What magic happens there?
With love for those in the far reaches,
McCall
www.McCallErickson.com
Click here to read or listen to my book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening
- Read The Terrible, Beautiful Truth on Substack
- Stay connected through my Email List
- Get a copy of my NEW book Down from the Mountain directly from me
- Read or listen to my new book Down from the Mountain
- Read or Listen to my first book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening
Previous Episode
Ep. 23 Separation Brings Us Closer (Song: How Some Stories Go)
Space is hard space is good
you need it, but you don't want to be misunderstood
It's not easy to make it or take it
but something's nagging and you just can't shake it
You want to look but it's scary to see
everything's choking and you need to breathe
If you stop for a moment,
the image you've been trying so hard to hold together
might shatter and fall
Wouldn't it be better to keep it all in
and love through these pretenses and walls?
You know there's risk either way,
but you have to move when the heart calls.
Separation might take us further apart,
but it brings us closer, closer after all.
In this episode, we dive into separation, a necessary and vital alchemical phase that helps us know ourselves as individuals so we can be a clearer part of the whole.
- What is separation and how does it show up in our individual alchemy as well as our relationship alchemy?
- How can separation help us heal division in ourselves and relationships?
- Signs of separation: conflict with or needing space from loved ones, feeling the need for alone time, feeling the need to get real about your part and understand your truth in any situation, partnership, creative project etc.
- Symbols and images of separation: air, wind, space, gaps, divides, divorce, sharp tools like swords, knives, extractions tools
- Example of how I've applied separation in my life
- How to make it through a challenging separation phase
At 14:20 I share my original song "How Some Stories Go" written during a really difficult relational separation that taught me the importance of holding tension of not knowing in order to allow the deeper soul story to unfold in time
With love,
McCall
- Read The Terrible, Beautiful Truth on Substack
- Stay connected through my Email List
- Get a copy of my NEW book Down from the Mountain directly from me
- Read or listen to my new book Down from the Mountain
- Read or Listen to my first book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening
Next Episode
Ep. 25 Alchemizing Difficult Situations (Without Knowing Much About Alchemy)
An alchemist is one who takes everything as it comes, transforming the harmful into helpful, the ordinary into extraordinary, and the painful into beautiful. Not by way of bypass, but by way of engaging in deep and, at times, disruptive processes. Alchemists turn their back on nothing, knowing that every life circumstance, desired or not, is the critical base matter needed for making gold.
Alchemy can be an overwhelming esoteric topic with weird words, cryptic symbols and images, and various interpretations. But you don't have to be a scholar of any of that to transmute and transform your life situations.
In this episode, I pare alchemy down to three keys to remember if you want to work magic in your life.
- Start Where You Are and Let It Happen
- Know the Essence from the Form
- Unite the Opposites
With love,
McCall
Quick quotes from the show:
A magical life is no the absence of pain, disappointment, darkness, and heartache. It's living all of that so fully it becomes your beauty.
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” -Rilke
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin
“What we cannot hold we cannot process and what we cannot process we cannot transform. And what we cannot transform haunts us.” -Zen Proverb
- Read The Terrible, Beautiful Truth on Substack
- Stay connected through my Email List
- Get a copy of my NEW book Down from the Mountain directly from me
- Read or listen to my new book Down from the Mountain
- Read or Listen to my first book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening
Falling Into Soul - Ep. 24 Space to Be (Song: A Better Me)
Transcript
Allow, allow, allow. Everything, every being, every process has its own wisdom and magic. I am learning to not interfere, to let it be, let it work its magic. I honestly think this is love: space to be. Love is when you let it be. Let it be, allow, receive.
Thank you for tuning into the Falling Into Soul Podcast. I’m your host McCall Erickson. It’s an honor to be in this space with you exploring the deeper, more confusing alchemical processes that awaken and keep the soul we
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