Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Welcome to the Gathering Room.

I hope that you are in the mood to make magic today because I am.

And I've been reading about things that remind me how to make magic and I wanted to share some

of those with you. I've shared them before but it always seems to come around a different way.

So in another gathering room I talked about a book by Suzanne E-D-E-R called What You Want,

Wants You. After I did that, our questioning, you know, a lot of you said in questions,

where can I get this book? Well, you couldn't because it hadn't been published yet. I got

to see it ahead of time.

Now it's been published and I just reread it and well, I re-listened to it so I can't hold you up a copy,

but it's really good and Roe is going to put the name of it, what you want wants you and Suzanne

Eater, the author in the comments, I think,

is that right? Yeah. So you can get this book and I really, really highly recommend it. It's one of

those books that as I read it, my muscles unclench and I relax. And it's, I love the way she goes

out. She has a lot of sort of new age sentiments in there,

but she's also really smart and really logical. She was an accountant who is now a new age author.

And that combination sits really well with me because she makes the math work and she accesses

the magic. And her basic premise is really

interesting to me because it's kind of countercultural. Suzanne thinks that sort of the royal road

to our best lives and our destiny and our souls is desire. So we have a view of desire. I was going to call this gathering

room the magic of desire, but I was bouncing it off people and they were like, no, that just

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