“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

The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening

What I have learned from walking this way (and from working closely with others on similar paths) is that following our heart and heeding our soul hardly ever leads where or rewards us how we think it should.

It leads where it leads.

It goes how it goes.

And living that deeper, richer, more mysterious soul magic takes a different set of skills and inner adjustments our culture (including spiritual culture) doesn’t necessarily equip us with knowing how to handle.