Hello and welcome to The Awakening the Below podcast. This is a series of conversations between the spiritual teacher, Jack Morrigan, and me, Oholomo. Together, Jack and I give voice to the underbelly of the awakening process. We talk about what we call The Below — that is to say, the difficult emotions, traumas, strange bodily ailments, spirits, ghosts, ancestors, demons, the imaginal, the soul, energies of the earth, the elements, the dark feminine, and much more — that arise for some people in the process of spiritual awakening.
Without any background knowledge to help contextualize these things, surprise openings to the below can be difficult to understand. They’re consequently often interpreted as spiritual emergencies or mental health crises rather than the blessings and opportunities that they truly can be. The goal of our conversations is to validate and normalize such experiences in order to encourage people to lean into and even embrace the precious dark wisdom that comes from below.
Listeners who like what they hear in these episodes may want to check out the book, Awakening the Below, which teaches readers to recognize the signs of the Below when they appear, to navigate the depths more confidently, and to fully integrate these experiences into their spiritual development in a healthy and meaningful way.
I look forward to this journey with you in this series. Let’s begin our descent.
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