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

I'm Martha Beck.

First thing I want to tell you is that the title of this week's gathering room, what you

wants you, is something I have stolen.

But I'm going to unsteal it right now. It's actually the title of a book

by a Suzanne Edder, E-D-E-R. It's called What You Want Wants You. And I got an advanced copy of the book.

So go ahead and pre-order it because this is a good one. I love this one. And I wanted to talk about it today

because the author makes a very, she's a former accountant, very logical, very practical, but she's

also had experience with what you might call the law of attraction, which I have too. Like we do

stuff, you think of stuff, and there's no way it can happen, and then it happens.

And this goes on day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after

I am convinced it works.

I'm not sure how, but it does.

And I love the way Suzanne Etter talks about this because she's super pragmatic and really logical and rational.

And at the same time, totally woo-woo, which is just where I eat, right?

So I'm going to tell you the premise of her book because it's just, it's made me very, very happy since I read it.

The premise is that everything you're meant to have, all your destiny,

is sort of hovering around, waiting for you in a place that has no linear time, which would be

the universe, because as Einstein said, linear time is only a stubbornly persistent illusion

that humans have. So when something is meant to be yours,

Suzanne Etter says, you feel an urge toward it. And it, at the same time, feels an urge toward

you. This rang really true to me, and I love the way she conceptualizes it because the thing you want, of course,

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