Weekly Digest: June 16
Kenny Chesney opens up about finding his creativity again on the podcast, a piece on leveraging attention for our life force, and a look at Hilda Af Klint's The Swan.
Life Force Attunement - As Within, So Without by Molly Hankins
Our sacred attention is the dial we use to tune ourselves to all the different frequencies of creation, so when we direct it towards the life-force powering it, we attune ourselves to its limitless potential. Much occult literature references the famous Hermetic axiom, “As above so below,” but the full quote is, “As within so without, as above so below, as the universe, so the soul.” By consciously honoring the expression of this life-giving power in the external world of nature, so too do we activate this energy within ourselves.
The Swan by Hilma Af Klint
For more than thirty years, Kenny Chesney has lived on the road.
The tours got bigger. The crowds got bigger. The machine kept moving.
Eventually, he realized something had quietly shifted.
“Every decision I was making was for Kenny Chesney the persona, not the person.”
It’s one of the most revealing moments in his conversation with Rick.
Not because it’s a story about fame.
Because it’s a story about identity.
At some point, the version of ourselves that succeeds in the world can begin making decisions on our behalf. The role gets reinforced. The expectations grow. The performance continues.
And the person underneath can slowly disappear.
On this week’s podcast, Kenny reflects on the cost of that split.
He talks about life on the road, which he describes as “a beautiful addiction.” He discusses the unexpected gift of spending an extended period in one place while performing at the Sphere in Las Vegas. After decades of constant movement, the stillness gave him something he hadn’t realized he needed.
“My soul truly needed a break.”
The conversation eventually turns toward plant medicine and the perspective it offered him.
For years, Kenny says, “I was running toward things to mask what I didn’t want to feel.”
Work.
Success.
Momentum.
The things that once felt liberating had become a way of avoiding himself.
What emerges from the conversation is not a story about reinvention. It’s a story about remembering.
About finding the distance between the persona and the person. And discovering that the person is still there.
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