What Happens After the Door Is Already Open
The first conversation around the album Larger Earth asked a simple but destabilizing question:
What if Earth is already larger than we were taught to perceive?
The second conversation begins somewhere else entirely.
It starts after the moment of widening.
After the kitchen feels different.
After the street you’ve walked a thousand times seems to have more depth than pavement should allow.
After you realize nothing has changed, and yet everything is quietly rearranged.
Part two of the podcast does not try to define the Larger Earth. It sits with what happens once perception has already slipped its old leash.
When Expansion Becomes Ordinary
One of the strangest things about expanded perception is how quickly it becomes… normal.
There is often an expectation that awareness arrives with fireworks, or at least a dramatic internal monologue. In reality, it tends to show up like an extra room you suddenly realize has always been part of the house. You don’t gasp every time you walk through it. You just start using it.
This is where many people get confused.
They think the experience has “faded,” when in fact it has integrated. Suddenly, what seemed extraordinary is as much part of life as breathing. Were you alive before cellphones were released to the public? Yeah, like that.
The Larger Earth does not pull you away from life. It threads itself through it. On this side, the containment side, bills still need paying. Conversations still happen. Emails still arrive. And yet, something fundamental has shifted in how those moments are held.
Not transcendence.
Choice of view.
Why Music Works Where Language Stalls
This is also where music quietly re-enters the conversation.
Language excels at categorization. Music excels at awareness.
You don’t need to understand a soundscape to know where it places you internally. Luc Lake’s work doesn’t instruct the listener to expand. It offers a frequency environment where expansion is nourished.
Music is not there to convince you of anything, just allow you the space to remember.
The conversation continues in part two of the podcast, where these ideas are allowed to breathe, overlap, and occasionally contradict one another in useful ways.
You are invited, the door is open, it is up to you to step through.
The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.
