#43 - Augusten Burroughs, Author of Toil & Trouble, Running with Scissors, and more
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Augusten Burroughs is the author of many best-selling books and memoirs, including Dry, Magical Thinking, Lust and Wonder, and the literary behemoth, Running with Scissors. Despite his consistently confessional approach, Burroughs’s latest book, Toil & Trouble, explores a subject he had yet to broach: the fact that he identifies as a witch, and has been practicing witchcraft throughout his whole life. On this episode, he shares some of his spell casting techniques, discusses how magic has affected his marriage and career, and talks about why this newest book was the scariest one for him to write.
Pam also talks about the concept of manifestation, and answers a listener question about casting spells with words vs. images.
Our sponsors for this episode are The Magic Monday Podcast, Lindsay Mack’s Inner Voice course, Hag Swag, and Mithras Candle.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by The Magic Monday Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Magic Monday is a new podcast about all the ways we experience and use the magic of the universe in our everyday lives. |
| 0:17.2 | Give it a listen to learn about energy healing, tap into the energy of the week and get fresh magical ideas throughout the |
| 0:26.6 | wheel of the year. Find Magic Monday at magic Monday Podcast.com and wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:38.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Inner Voice. |
| 0:42.3 | A six-week online intuition course taught by |
| 0:46.2 | Intuitive Tarot Teacher and former Which Wave Podcast, Lindsay Mack, packed with rich and informative lessons, intuitive guidance, and |
| 0:58.0 | tarot wisdom, inner voice is an invitation to deepen our connection to our intuition, expand our channel, and step into greater |
| 1:07.8 | intimacy with our soul's truth. |
| 1:11.3 | Enrollment for inner Voice ends tomorrow, |
| 1:15.0 | Thursday, January 9th. |
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| 1:37.0 | The world is filled with bewitching people and you might be one too. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm Pam Grossman and this is the witch wave. be a friend. bright. |
| 2:03.0 | Oh, one suddenly shakes in the night. |
| 2:10.0 | A mountain might. |
| 2:11.0 | A mountain to my feet to my knees to my feet to my feet to my feet |
| 2:18.0 | A rude in me you can face Rudy, to the witch wave and happy new year. |
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