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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.”
― McCall Erickson

“It’s the magic of personal transformation—the magic of the soul and spirit through the human life.”
― McCall Erickson, The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening

“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.”
― McCall Erickson, The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening

“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”
― McCall Erickson, The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening

“The soul cannot grow and great art cannot be made unless something begins to stir, create”
― McCall Erickson, The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening

“tension, or fall apart in the physical world.”
― McCall Erickson, The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening