Ep 2 | Who’s Really Driving Your Destiny? Rewriting Spells & Parts Work (IFS) with Maurice Harvey Hall

In this episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, host Tara Tao welcomes her inaugural guest, Maurice Harvey Hall, for a deep and illuminating conversation on self-awareness, shadow integration, and what it means to live as an embodied magician in this reality.

Together, Tara and Mo explore the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and how understanding our inner parts can radically transform the way we meet life, relationships, and purpose. They dive into the resistance that often arises on the healing path, how unconscious beliefs shape our reality through “spelling,” and the ways ancestral imprints live in our bodies and influence our choices.

Takeaways

• The multi-layered nature of Self and the intelligence of our inner "parts"
• How our shadow material silently scripts or spells our reality
• IFS offers a clear, crucial, and compassionate map for inner healing
• The paradox of desiring transformation while unconsciously resisting it
• Why reclaiming exiled aspects—not just pain but power—is essential for living your destiny
• The sacred role of relationships as mirrors and catalysts for transformation
• We manifest not from what we want but from what we know, making belief work essential
• The paradox of affirmations and mindset work, and why shadow integration is non-negotiable
• How trauma adaptations shape identity and limit our potential until compassionately met
• Ancestral healing and how inherited patterns live in our present experience
• Integration of the wild and the wise, the fierce and the soft, leads to embodied wholeness
• How to wield the demon’s hand with a Buddha heart, activating the Bodhisattva and Dark Magician within

Sound Bites

• "We are not just this one singular being."
• "The deeper that we go, the more of us we find."
• "Life is happening for me, not to me."
• "Your unconscious is spelling a deep knowing upon your field of awareness."
• "Self-sabotage is such an intelligent part."
• "Relationships are a good way to see ourselves."
• "To wield the demon's hand with the Buddha's heart - that's master play."
• "Curiosity is one of the greatest skills you can have."
• "You can have a trifecta of experience within you."
• "There's a richness in allowing for whichever vantage point."
• "What is imagination? You are a nation of magicians."
• "You're creating a future reality and receiving realities."
• "You can only manifest what you truly know."
• "There's an abundance of parts that I can hang out with."
• "Our problems, our shadow, our pain is really not just ours."

Timestamps

00:00
Introduction to the Center of Destiny Podcast

03:12
The Importance of Self-Awareness

07:48
Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Shadow Work

17:08
Resistance and the Journey of Integration

26:58
Relationships as Catalysts for Shadow Work

34:39
The Non-Dual Perspective on Life

36:17
The Power of Spelling and Imagination

41:35
Beliefs, Shadow Work, and Manifestation

45:08
Understanding Abundance a

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to the Center of Destiny Podcast
• 3:12 The Importance of Self-Awareness
• 7:48 Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Shadow Work
• 17:08 Navigating Our Resistance Through Transformation
• 26:58 Relationships are Catalysts for Shadow Integration
• 34:39 The Non-Dual Perspective on Reality
• 36:17 The Power of 'Spelling 'and Imagination
• 41:35 We Manifest from Our Beliefs
• 45:08 The Journey between Scarcity and Abundance
• 49:52 Ancestral Healing and Collective Patterns
• 53:42 Integrating the Light and Dark Aspects of Self
• 1:02:44 Invitation to Light Meets Dark in Bali: August 24-31, 2025