Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we have another extremely special guest.

Lynn McTaggot.

Lynn is the author of multiple worldwide bestsellers including the frankly game-changing classic The Field. She is also the

editorial director of what doctors don't tell you. Lynn joins us today to talk

about her latest book Power of Eight, also having a book with 8 in the title. How could I possibly let this one go by without reaching out?

Lynn McTaggot, thank you very, very much for your time. This is a real honor.

Oh, it's my pleasure Gordon, thank you.

All right, so we have, you may not be aware, a traditional first question for first guests, Lynn. Were you a weird kid?

That's a great first question. I stood apart a little bit I think I and I really wanted to be you know just

fit in and do things like everybody else you know I even tried out to be a cheerleader didn't get it.

You know I was I had a certain curiosity about certain things I think and I was always

interested in spirituality and I was probably pretty eccentric.

Be from a family that encouraged that sort of spiritual quest or were you the sort of black sheep at home as well?

I wasn't a black sheep. My parents were great. My parents were great enablers. They were very different for me in lots of ways. I adore them, they adore me and you know, my brother too, we were all close, but, and I had lots of things in common like I liked sport and swimming and boating and things like that as my dad did.

But they, I was,

ours were the first generation that went to university

and they were very good about I said I

want to be a writer from the time I was about seven and they were fine with that and I

think my dad's only caveat was learn how to type in case that doesn't work out for you.

And actually, I needed to learn how to tell that that was good advice because

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