Hello everyone. This is Tonya Dawn Recla, your SuperPower Expert. And I am so delighted to share with you our guest today. Everybody just settles in. This is going to be yummy because so many of us have those moments and those books and those ideas and those thought leaders or those insights that come to us. And it’s that perfect moment of being and the light comes on and then it spreads. And I know so many of you, for so many of you, that the inception point in some of your transformation was reading The Alchemist. Many times we’ve talked about it, we share that wisdom. And so if that is you and you know that book, or if you’re now curious about that book, then you’re in for a real treat today because we’re going to be talking with Colm Holland who was part of the team that brought all of that to us. And so, all of us who benefited from that, we are now going to talk with a gentleman who got to take part in that.
And really, the conversation today is a space so many of you are sitting in. How do I take this knowingness, this wisdom? I know that this walk with the divine, I know that what God’s telling me to do, I know I can see it. I can feel it, but then I look at my life or I look at the world and it’s not that, right? How do I reconcile that? Well, we don’t recommend reconciling it. We actually recommend transforming it. And so that’s what we’re talking about today, transform the mundane into the miraculous. And that means being able to bring heaven here on Earth, right? It means being able to see the divine in everything and watch it transform. And I know you’re hungry for that walk, and we’re going to tell you a little bit more about that today.
Without further ado, please join me in welcoming to the show, Colm Holland. So glad you could join us today.
Hi, Tonya. Pleasure, absolute pleasure to be here with you. Thank you.
Beautiful, beautiful. Well, we will start off in our tradition of asking what are your superpowers?
My superpower is actually fueled by a power that I have learned to tap into probably when I was about 18 years old. And that is the power of unconditional love. So that is my super, am I really good at it? Oh, please don’t press me too hard on that one. Can I love my neighbor as myself? Well, yeah, I’m giving it. Am I able to love my enemies? Let’s just step back on that one for a moment.
But the power of unconditional love is not a superpower that I claim to own like Superman, but it is a power that I claim to have discovered. And the interesting thing about what I discovered about it is that it actually existed within me. I thought it lived somewhere else. I spent a lot of my life thinking, oh, it lives out there somewhere. It’s God out there in the universe, or it’s a spirit out there in the cosmos.
And the big shock, and this was part of what publishing and working on The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the big shock that came home to me, that actually all of us have the power of unconditional love living within our own very beings. It’s just that it’s hidden. It’s buried, just like in the story of The Alchemist. Those of you who’ve read the story, you know it’s all about Santiago, the shepherd boy, and he has buried his dreams, but not only has he buried his dreams, his true empowerment and treasure are buried deep somewhere within the ground, which is representative of his own soul.
And why I love that story of The Alchemist, the hero’s journey, is that of course he goes full circle and comes all the way back around again, and then discovers that the power to turn the mundane into the miraculous, the ability to perform magic in his life, was buried within him, right at the very beginning. He just needed to discover it.
Well, and you said so much with that in the sense that, a lot of times our greatest superpower, right, or superpowers, all start off as our greatest challenges. And there’s a reason for that. We contend that these are divine gifts and it’s available to all of us, but they come at a price. And the price is the willingness to let go of any fear-based version of reality, and relax into the divine.
And sometimes we do have to go on a journey to discover that, because one of the things that we teach is, is you can’t turn aspects of yourself over to spirit if you’re not consciously aware of them. And so if they are programmed and operating without your awareness, then in times of fear or constriction, that’s what you’re going to go to. In which case it’s something that’s housed outside of what you’ve turned over and spirit can’t come in and grab it. You have to be willing to release it. And so, you ingest, or maybe you haven’t mastered it. I think that that really speaks to this beautiful expansive journey we all get to be on where there are layers upon layers, and we can master it here, and then we’re invited into even bigger spaces with it. And the power that we continue to be imbued with and can wield on behalf of it just continues to grow as we continue to be more and more, dare I say, obedient into it, right?
I know that really grates on some of you, former soldiers don’t scare me off. I’m okay with obedience. I’ve learned that that’s served me extremely well in this walk with spirit also. And so I love that you gave voice to all of that. And of course, that walk right back to center.
But here’s the question that comes up is, what is it that determines if people are going to have the courage to allow for the mundane to truly transform? A tiger can want to change its stripes, but it’s got to allow the stripes to change. And so how do we, have you, in your walk and in your work with people and your study in this area, have you come up with the Holy Grail that determines, what is it that’s going to have people stand in the fire and get forged versus running away?
Yes. I’ve discovered the Holy Grail. If you would like to send me $1,000 each to this email address. I accept PayPal, all kinds of credit cards. Seriously, guys, this is the thing. When I encountered the book, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, it took me a long time, but one day I had that Eureka moment. What is the secret that’s actually living within this book? And so that’s why I’ve written my book, The Secrets of the Alchemist, is because I actually did discover a secret that was hidden, as they say, in plain sight. And that was the mysteries of the ancient wisdom of alchemy.
If you go back to the book The Alchemist, and leaf through the pages, it’s like a light comes on. The moment you realize that page after page after page is trying to teach us something about the ancient wisdom of alchemy. And I thought this is amazing. I had no idea this was what I even read the first time around that I read the story.
You didn’t know The Alchemist was written in alchemy?
You ask anybody who’s read it, and nine times out of 10, they’ll say the book is about following your dreams.
How funny? I never even thought about it that way.
Only a few. I’ve only ever met probably one other person ever. It was said to me, “Oh, isn’t it about alchemy?” And I go, correct, yes. You obviously knew that before I did.
I thought everybody knew that, I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have laughed. I apologize.
No, don’t laugh because this is the nature of alchemy. If you study the ancient alchemists, they will tell you, it has this knack of hiding itself. And the moment you think you’ve got your hands on it and you’ve grasped it, this is a truth, okay? This is what it is. And you squeeze it, it pops up somewhere else. Over there, completely opposite direction.
But what I did discover, to answer your question, is if we’re going to take that transformational journey to our true empowerment, which is our real treasure, ancient alchemists discovered there is a path with various steps on it that can assist us. They’re not the actual answer in and of themselves, but they are really helpful things that can help take us there. And they could be boiled down to three core steps.Â
We’re going to leave that as a dangle because people are going to join us right after the break because they’re going to want to hear that. So before we go to the break really quickly, where can people go to find out more about you Colm?
Oh, Amazon, my book is called The Secret of the Alchemist. It’s available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, all great online bookstores. That’s really a good place to start.
Beautiful. And folks, we’ll have a link to that on the page. Make sure you go check out the episode page. I’m grinning from ear to ear, because you’re talking about secrets hidden in plain sight, from the counter-intel world, we love this stuff. This is getting juicy folks. You’re going to want to come back right after the break. Don’t miss out. We’re talking today with Colm Holland about how to transform the mundane into the miraculous. Stick with us folks, we’ll be right back.
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