Episode 21 - Getting to Know Crystals with Nicholas Pearson

Getting to Know Woo

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to have author Nicholas Pearson on the show. They talk about crystals and stones and Nicholas's new book, Crystal Basics Pocket Encyclopedia: The Energetic, Healing, and Spiritual Power of 450 Gemstones.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Nicholas's start in minerals at 8yo with his grandfather
• How science & spirituality are describing the same things in crystals
• The historic and living spiritual practices with crystals & minerals
• His random but fateful assignment to work in a natural history museum
• the importance of personal experience
• The drawn between certain rocs and certain people
• Meditating on a stone before learning the geology of it
• The geological promiscuity of copper
• Nicholas's personal approach to getting to know stones
• His personal approach to getting to know stones
• Inviting crystals or stones to work with you
• The environmental and ethical implications of the mineral trade
• What to do when a crystal breaks
• The effect of shape on a crystal
• That time Jon Stewart almost ran over Natasha
• Unlearning self-criticism
• Investigating areas where you are blocked
• Considering your actual capacity when making plans
• Controversy! Natasha likes TikTok!
• This week's energy report
• And more!

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Getting to Know Woo is a 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.

Mentioned in the show:

• Nicholas's website
• Nicholas's instagram
• Nicholas's tiktok
• The Problem with Jon Stewart
• The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players