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June 7, 2024 69 mins

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to share this wonderful conversation with Eliza Swann, writer, artist, educator, and author of Auras: The Anatomy of the Aura (A Start Here Guide for Beginners).

In this episode, they discuss:

  • The way the universe gives you what you need
  • Declaring your intention and watching the tests roll in
  • The importance of relational healing
  • Honoring each other's autonomy and seniority
  • The importance of an external perspective
  • Card pull for the week: Home
  • How Eliza's book came about
  • Being raised by her aunt who was a witch
  • Learning auras to talk to plants, animals, etc.
  • Making zines for classes
  • How Eliza's teaching has morphed over the years
  • Finding a new teacher after her aunt's death
  • Learning "woo" stuff in a much more rigid, academic method
  • The different layers of the aura, their importance and their arbitrariness
  • We have so many more than five senses
  • The ordinariness of psychic abilities
  • How you look at the aura is entirely personal and context dependent
  • Your personal cosmology will inform how you connect to the aura
  • How to approach energy reading without making assumptions about the people you're reading
  • Doing this work, is knowing yourself
  • Experimenting and taking notes on your experiments to build knowledge and vocabulary around your own abilities
  • The language of mysticism is heavily centered around vision, but most people don't perceive energy that way.
  • The importance of finding a teacher and some thoughts on how to do it
  • Genius doesn't live in your brain
  • And more!

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Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

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