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December 7, 2022 24 mins

The alchemy of inner transformation is not a self-improvement project. It’s a participation in the soul’s evolution. It may not improve your life at all at first. It’s a rather destructive process–dismantling your beliefs, identities, small hopes and dreams, tearing your life at each carefully stitched seam to reveal what’s unbreakable underneath. It gets worse before it gets worse sometimes, so faithless and consuming, leaving you hanging by nothing but a single thread–your own breath tethering you to life in a place it feels like you never intended to be. And at some point, you realize this is it…there’s nowhere else to go, nowhere to hide, nothing to save you from having to live what’s right here now. So you breathe the breath that is yours to breathe. You take the thread that is yours to weave, and without pretense, fanfare, or promise of any particular outcome you live the impossible–the dream that won’t stop dreaming, the breath that won’t stop breathing, the thread that won’t stop weaving you.

In this episode, we explore: 

  • The difference between self-improvement and transformation
  • The difference between using your creative powers and resources to manifest things to make your life look good vs. using your creative powers to go through inner transformation
  • Looking at the Dark Night of the Spirit from a new angle--The Great White Nothing
  • The "log and fire" analogy to understand the difference between the Dark Night of the Soul and the Dark Night of the Spirit and why the Dark Night of the Spirit can be so challenging
  • Three keys for living through The Great White Nothing/Dark Night of the Spirit

Reading of my piece "The Great White Nothing" put to music at 18:45

With love for and from the Nothingness,

McCall

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