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Can you choose a sacred path? Or does it choose you?In Part 2 of this conversation with Faelan Shiva, something shifts. The deeper ground opens — into the initiatory experiences that find you before you go looking, a heretical take on suffering as the spiritual curriculum, and the red flags she wishes someone had named for her years ago.📥 Get Permission to Pause — a free 10-minute guided audio practice:https://danielleys.com/#section-lLumXc541PIn this episode, Faelan Shiva — priestess, astrologer, and sacred sound and voice alchemist — and Danielle continue a conversation that began the week before. Start with Part 1 (Inner Space episode 025) if you haven’t listened yet!In this episode:• Can you choose to become a priestess or shaman? Faelan’s nuanced, unexpected answer• Why initiatory experiences find you — you don’t have to seek them out or schedule them• The heretical take: why Faelan believes suffering as a path to virtue is outdated — and why it’s time to evolve past it• Her own history with violence and trauma — and the clients it prepared her to hold• The masculine/feminine shift underway in how we relate to spiritual development• Nature as the compass: what Faelan’s “Bible” actually is• Red flags in spiritual leadership — two cult experiences and what she watches for now• The healthy teacher-student dynamic: a lineage that stays open vs. one that closes the channel• The one thing every human would benefit from learning: how to hear, feel, and trust your own intuition• Open vs. closed: how to distinguish intuition from fear — in the body“You don’t need to develop it. It’s your birthright. You just have to remember.”Timestamps:[