Spaciousness is a primary ingredient in incubation. If there is no empty place, nothing can emerge and take root. Spaciousness may look luxurious or even like something we don’t deserve. It seems extra—what we do after everything is done. We equate empty intervals with waste or reward. So when pressed, they’re the first thing …
Incubating: Make Space
Author Archives: Leanne Kaiser Carlson
The Alchemist as Nonconformist
As you grow, what becomes real to you will be invisible to others. And what absorbs them may not matter at all to you. You become unlike everyone else—even unlike what you were just a short time ago. Yesterday a thing made sense and seemed worth it. Today it does not. This is how …
Why Things Fall Apart—or Together—Over and Over
The element connecting at first glance appears rather mundane and basic. We almost imagine it as putting little blocks or pieces together. Our blocks may be organizations or departments or people of one kind or another. It seems all we need to do is build the channel or dotted lines so information and resources flow …
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Plentitude and Awe in the Web of Being
When we embody the element connecting, we experience more of what is around us as part of us. Less feels separate or different. In the worst offender, we feel suffering and seeking, distortion and disconnection not unlike we’ve felt in our self. In the most brilliant being or cosmic intelligence, we feel resonances and bonds. …
The Alchemist’s World View
Things have more range, more capacity to morph and transform, than we usually realize. This is the most essential idea in alchemy. How something shows up doesn’t mean a great deal. It might look like lead. It may seem dull, invaluable, difficult, or distorted. But it has the potential to become an array of other …