#120: Finding Your Soul in The Darkness with Francis Weller

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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The Alchemy of Initiation: Soul Work and the Art of Ripening This week I am absolutely elated to introduce you to the incredibly insightful, Francis Weller. Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures, and poetic traditions. Having completed some of Francis' workshops myself, I couldn't wait to have him on to speak about the initiatory process and his theories behind soul-centered psychotherapy. In this episode, Francis leads us through a discussion of the soul, and how the greatest work and connection to the sacred is found during our greatest times of darkness and grief. We dive into what Francis teaches as initiation, a process which encompasses grief, loss, challenge, illness etc. where our identity is altered drastically and we land in the hands of something that is far greater than ourselves. ~ Discover: Why we need to fall in love with grief There is so much to be found in the dark Change happens at the edges The child seeking the home vs. becoming the home What elders can teach us What is the initiation? The gateway to accessing our soul Everyone came here with their own medicine Find out more about Francis, and his audio series at www.francisweller.net. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Rose podcast. I'm so excited for you to hear today's
0:13.9	guest. You know, I discovered his work because my partner Kylie sent it over and said, I think
0:18.8	you're really going to love what this man has to say.
0:22.1	And immediately I downloaded it. It was called The Alchemy of Initiation. And that work has
0:27.5	inspired a lot of my solo episodes and a lot of the conversations I've been having with you.
0:32.0	I was immediately captivated, just taken away, you know, because he put into words what I couldn't label,
0:39.8	what I never heard articulated. You know, in our reality that we don't know how to label it
0:46.2	or organize it in language. And I think that's so much of what pulls us to teachers, to books,
0:52.8	to writers, you know, to all these different
0:54.7	people who are essentially guides for us because they are, they're creating, making sense of
1:02.6	the human experience. And I've been really enamored with the mystery that is life that, you know,
1:10.6	we're on this planet.
1:11.8	There's all these magical things occurring.
1:15.3	And we miss them so often.
1:18.2	And we don't realize just how crazy it is of everything that's going on.
1:23.2	We're in the middle of the solar system on this one little planet.
1:27.3	You know, you just think about that.
1:30.9	You know, as I'm sure you know, I have a real nerd out when it comes to psychology, when it comes to research, when it comes to all of that stuff.
1:40.4	And what I love about Francis Weller's work, that's the guest today, is he's a psychotherapist.
1:46.4	He's a writer. He's a soul activist. And I love that merger of psychotherapy with what is
1:52.2	beyond, with the soul. I really think that's something we all on a very unconscious and often
1:59.9	conscious level,
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