Down From the Mountain: On Being Human after Spiritual and Alchemical Initiation

How do you know you've done enough seeking to find out who you are and why you're here; enough dismantling everything you're not; enough exploring altered states of consciousness and journeying through other realms to gather fragmented pieces of yourself that it's time to come home? And who and what are we coming home to? In a bold follow-up to her first book, "The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy after Awakening," McCall Erickson brings us Down from the Mountain, an exploration of the delicate work of coming back to life after undergoing the alchemical initiation required to uncover and align with the core self. Through candid sharing of her own painstaking integration, McCall weaves resonant language to bridge the gap between the spiritual and the physical, inviting us to bring our inner gold down from our mountaintops into our respective villages and cultivate ways to be more at ease with ourselves, in relationship with others, and with the uncertainties, joys, and challenges of being human. Included in the back of the book: -An Appendix exploring the seven stages of alchemical transformation -An expanded Glossary of alchemical terms