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Ep. 25 Alchemizing Difficult Situations (Without Knowing Much About Alchemy)

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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.

  1. Start Where You Are and Let It Happen
  2. Know the Essence from the Form
  3. 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
Click here to read or listen to my book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening

Support the show

--> Get a copy of my NEW BOOK Down from the Mountain directly from me
--> Preorder Down from the Mountain on Amazon (Kindle and Paperback)
--> Read or Listen to The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening

  continue reading

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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.

  1. Start Where You Are and Let It Happen
  2. Know the Essence from the Form
  3. 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
Click here to read or listen to my book The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening

Support the show

--> Get a copy of my NEW BOOK Down from the Mountain directly from me
--> Preorder Down from the Mountain on Amazon (Kindle and Paperback)
--> Read or Listen to The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening

  continue reading

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