Falling Into Soul
Falling Into Soul is a podcast for people going through the deeper, more confusing processes of inner healing and soul awakening. In her signature direct, no bullsh*t, yet caring way, McCall Erickson explores unpopular spiritual truths and the finer nuances of soul processes through the lens of alchemy as she shares her lived experiences and intimate songs she has written along the way.
Episodes
42 episodes
Ep. 41 Why It's Hard to Create with Soul (And How We Can Learn)
Western culture is rich in ways to keep us chasing the outer dream and pitiful in ways to facilitate the actualization of an inner soul vision. Our ability to dream with soul and bring forth what lies deep within us has been hijacked by the...
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Ep. 40 With Love for the Ego
What happens to the ego through the processes of alchemy?In this episode let's explore:the progression of ego from Tyrant to Team Playerthe job of a healthy, alchemized ego in sacred alignmentthe partnershi...
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Ep. 39 What the Fire Leaves Behind
Alchemy is a terrible but brilliant series of processes that burn, drown, rot pressurize, and distill every extraneous thing out of the way so you can see what is there. What the fire leaves behind is who you really are. What the fire leave...
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Ep. 38 New Book, New Journey: Down from the Mountain
Announcing my new book Down from the Mountain: On Being Human after Spiritual and Alchemical Initiation now available for preorder. In...
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Ep. 37 How to Recognize the Will of the Soul
What we think we want and what we say we want might not be the same as what the soul wants. The will of the soul is not always immediately known. It's the unconscious continually made conscious through astute listening to body aches, dreams...
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Ep. 36 Burnout and Soul Renewal - A Soulversation With Michael DeMaria
In this episode, Michael DeMaria and I explore the rich, complex, and paradoxical themes of burnout and renewal central to our lives as empaths, recovering codependents (over givers) and creative types.Speaking from our personal experie...
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Ep. 35 The Journey After the Journey
No amount of alchemical death and rebirth cycles can change who you are. It can only reveal it. And then the task becomes to live it, to anchor the unchangeable essence of Who You Are into your ever-changing human existence. Wildness and fo...
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Ep. 34 The Great White Nothing and the Thread That Carries Through
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...
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Ep. 33 Letting Your Best Hopes Go
"One of the hallmarks of maturity is to let some of what seemed like your best hopes go, especially if the tide of life is actually taking them from you and turning your face in another direction." -David Whyte,
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Ep. 32 Connecting With Your Innate Worth (It's Complicated)
Why is it sooo hard to connect with the worth that is inherent in our existence? Why isn't awakening to our true nature, to our spiritual and creative gifts enough to heal this wound and actualize our inherent worth? And why ...
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Welcome to Falling Into Soul (If You Can't Help It)
Did I just make a trailer for this podcast after two years of doing this podcast? Yeah, I guess that checks out. It usually takes me awhile of doing something important before I understand it enough to say what it is.Such is the way...
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Ep. 31 To Be a Mystic--so F*cked and So Beautiful
To be a mystic means to want One Thing more than any other of the things. Mystics have an intense and unyielding desire to know and unite with the divine, god, love, beauty, soul, truth, the core of all cores in this life, not in any other life...
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Ep. 30 The Original Lovers, the Original War (And Yes, Peace)
Why do we have to fall into soul? Why can’t we fly or rise into soul? Why is the way of soul paved by disappointment and disillusionment? Isn’t there a way to skip all that? Surely we can outsmart the fall, if we could just tap into ou...
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Ep. 29 What It Means to Trust Your Direct Experience (And Why It's So Hard)
When the maps you’ve been given don’t match the territory you find yourself having to navigate, you trust the terrain itself and your direct, unique experience with it. This is how to honor and live the soul in a world that gives you a mill...
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Ep. 28 Distillation and the Secret Medicine
"There is a secret medicine reserved for those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew." -The Essential Rumi, Coleman BarksIn this episode I explore the dreadful stage of alch...
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Ep. 27 Dealing With Exhaustion
Is it okay to take a break from alchemy and the inner healing work? It's so exhausting and there's always something more to transmute and heal. Does it ever end? Let's explore causes for and ways to mitigate unnecessary exhaustion....
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Ep. 26 Transmuting Fear and Insecurity to Confidence
When we face and transmute fear, we gain confidence. Confidence that doesn’t depend on things happening in a way we are sure they must happen, but confidence that comes from being insecure, facing the unknown and allowing support and grace ...
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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, disrupti...
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Ep. 24 Space to Be (Song: A Better Me)
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...
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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 misunderstoodIt's not easy to make it or take itbut something's nagging and you just can't shake itYou want to look but it's scary to see everyt...
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Ep. 22 "The Messy Reality of Embodied Living"
"Perfectionism is the attempted tyranny of a concept over the messy reality of embodied living." -Anthony LawlorIn this episode I explore the progression of perf...
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Ep. 21 Doing The Same Things Differently (Song: Once Upon a Time Again)
The same things keep happening, and we have to figure out a way to do them differently. Doing the same things differently. That’s how we grow. In the spirals. Sacred geometry of the soul. In this episode I discussth...
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Ep. 20 Emotional Sobriety - A Soulversation With Michael Brant DeMaria
In this episode, I share a soulversation Michael DeMaria and I had on his podcast Musitations. United in our longtime commitment to healing codependency in our own lives, we explore emotional sobriety and how it relates to the well-being and cr...
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