About This Blog

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It all started in India. A holiday to escape a successful, yet stressful job in the corporate world, turned into an experience I could never have predicted. One which literally changed my life. My time there encouraged me to question what happiness really looked like. And more importantly, felt like, ultimately leading me to make the decision to leave a world, one that had been my whole world, for almost fifteen years. With absolutely no back up plan! Just pure trust that things would work out. And anyone who is a Capricorn, a perfectionist, a planner, a control freak, or all of the above... will understand when I say, that was about as far out of my comfort zone as I could ever imagine.

It was also on this trip, I first heard a beautiful quote by Terrence McKenna, recited to me whilst floating serenely around the back waters of Kerala, surrounded by both nature and magic. These words have stayed with me from that moment, offering encouragement and reassurance as I continue my journey into The Feathered Abyss.

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.” ― Terence McKenna