Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

We grieve the people we lose. We also grieve the life we wanted, and the life we thought we had.

When it hurts, the mind starts searching. What did I miss? What could I have done differently? We revisit the story, hoping to find another ending.

In this episode, I explore grief, self-blame, and the Buddhist teaching of the second arrow: the suffering we add when we turn against ourselves. I draw on Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance, Ram Dass’s teachings on loving awareness, and psychology’s understanding of counterfactual thinking and neuroplasticity.

Alongside these teachings, I share my spiritual perspective through Reiki, shamanic healing, and a quantum lens of possibility and connection. How do we welcome the disconnected parts of ourselves home? How do we become the love that meets the ache?

We cannot out-spiritual life. We can welcome ourselves back, and it can still hurt. We are allowed to be human. In fact, I have learned the more truly spiritually aware I become, the more accepting of my human nature I become.

This podcast closes with a five-minute guided meditation, Hello Darkness, My Old Friend, to meet what’s here with your true essence, compassion and loving kindness.

Liminal with Maggie Taylor: The Seen, the Unseen, and Everything in Between Episode 9

Why Is a Magical Life Negotiable?

What if magic is not something you have to earn, prove, or wait for?

In this episode of Liminal, I explore what it means to live a magical life, not as an escape from reality, but as a deeper relationship with it. We talk about intuition, synchronicities, signs, spirit, energy, and the unseen intelligence moving through our everyday lives.

A magical life begins when you stop dismissing what you feel, what you know, and what continues to reveal itself to you.

IF YOU WANT A MAGICAL LIFE, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE YOU HAVE A MAGICAL LIFE (AND THEN SET IT UP THAT WAY)

You deserve to feel the magic.
You deserve to live the magic.
And the magic is already within you.

Listen to Liminal with Maggie Taylor: The Seen, the Unseen, and Everything in Between on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and YouTube.

Episode 8: Your Karma Leads to Your DharmaWhat if your wounds are not keeping you from your soul’s purpose but leading you directly toward it?In this episode of LIMINAL, I share my understanding of karma & dharma through the lens of spiritual awakening, shadow work and self-healing.I explore karma not as punishment, but as action, energy and consequence. Samsara is the cycle we continue repeating. Dharma is the path through it, the purpose our soul came here to embody.I share how our survival patterns can carry both a wound and a gift. My hyper-independence, for example, holds the pain of not feeling supported, but it also helped me develop strength, intuition and resilience. Healing does not mean rejecting these parts of ourselves. It means loving what is wounded while allowing the gifts within it to evolve.Through Reiki, inner-child healing, nervous-system awareness and loving action, we can interrupt old cycles and create a different experience.I believe you do not heal karma by abandoning the person you once were. You heal by bringing love to the places where love was missing.Your wounds do not disqualify you from your purpose.Your karma may be the very path leading you into your dharma.In this episode: karma and dharma, samsara, spiritual awakening, soul purpose, shadow work, inner-child healing, nervous-system healing, Reiki, self-love, breaking generational patterns and conscious transformation.In this episode: karma and dharma, samsara, spiritual awakening, soul purpose, shadow work, inner-child healing, nervous-system healing, Reiki, self-love, breaking generational patterns and conscious transformation.