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!
Plus...
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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