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Amy, thank you for driving up from up south.

Amy was in the car for about three hours coming up here today.

I really appreciate her making the drive.

And for those of you who are perhaps not familiar with my podcast, I had Amy on an episode 475, which I just hit 660, so that was probably 18 months ago.

And we actually discussed this book, so we're going to expand on that today.

I first kind of wanted to ask the room, when you come into a room like this, and you see each other and the vibe of the room, do you all feel any energy presence amongst yourselves?

Amy, when you come into a room like this, given this is is what you study and practice, what kind of energy do you feel?

So

when I come into any space with a lot of people, I tend to seal up my energy field, which I can teach you all how to do,

only because there's crowds.

Now, all of you, of course, have fantastic energy.

You're here to talk to us.

You've come in because you may have listened to Passion Struck, the podcast, which is fantastic.

But when I come into a space with a lot of people, the first thing I like to do is just have a little bubble around me and then make sure I'm coming in with the spirit of joy.

So I'm raising frequency.

And

as somebody who's been intuitive for a lot of my life, I tend to turn down the volume on the crowds.

But when we're in a room like this, I get to relax and open up and talk to all of you who are here to talk to us about common things that we're interested in.

Yeah, so what really interested me to Amy's work is I

am fortunate enough that I get to see the early releases from all the major publications or publishers of what's coming out.

And Hay House happens to be one of my favorite who now publishes your books.

And I happened to see your book coming out, but what really caught my eye was that you, Mac, you combined physics with spiritual practices.

And I wanted to kind of understand what got you interested in that diverse mix.

I've always been a science nerd.

I've always been very into science.

physics, all of that, even as a child.

So as a child, I was a member of the Astronomy Book Club and all kinds of things like that.

So I was always interested in that.

And then in sixth grade, we did a unit called Matter, Matter, Everywhere that was about atoms and what they're made of, protons, neutrons, electrons.

And I was hooked.

So even from a young age, I looked at things in this way.

Over time, I trained with my late medicine teacher.

I steeped myself in a lot of different traditions.

while I was in college and then as I got the opportunity to be a writer, I got to combine that with scientific knowledge, like as later when we talk about auras, we'll get to talk about the actual science of auras.

But it's been an interest almost lifelong of mine.

Yeah, and what led you to writing this book now?

I mean, as the introduction

just covered, I mean, you've studied and written about mindfulness, you've talked about crystals, you've talked about chakras.

Why auras now?

So aura alchemy is my 18th book and

it was a study in the work that I do as a medical intuitive where I do combine the science of particle physics, quantum mechanics with you know spirituality, clairvoyance, the systems of the body.

So the aura is an extension of the body's energy system.

So to write a book about that, it's kind of a gateway into how do we clean it, clear it, fill it with high vibrational energy.

What do all these colors mean that people discuss?

It was a really great entry point to get into the medical, intuitive, energetic side of things.

And you start out the book by telling a story about your brother.

Yes.

And you talk about natural sparkles.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was hoping, because I think that sets up the whole book, you could talk about that experience.

I love it.

And it'll be fun to tell my brother I got to talk about it too.

So when we were little we had this area next to our house that we called the stream

and my brother was younger so for

those of you who have younger siblings in the early years if you're the older sibling you maybe get to direct the little brother.

As they get older they can pick you up and it's a different story.

But when we were kids, we would make this thing called the stream and we happened to just have a yard that was sloping in a pretty suburban area

and it was dirt because my dad hadn't filled the grass in for a long time.

It was kind of on the side.

This was back before the days of water conservation.

It was up north, so it wasn't an issue.

And we would turn on the hose, except there was just a faucet and water would come out.

And so we would manicure it into all these different tributaries and streams.

We put the G.I.

Jones and the Star Wars figures there.

And through all of that time, it it was a multi-year process our cousins did that with us our neighborhood friends were everybody came over and made the stream like fall

summer spring always the winter the spring the stream was closed down but during all of that time I was looking at what I thought of as nature sparkles and so I would see you know sparkles and and they would be moving they would be moving with the stream they would be around the stream and then as it got closer to dusk, I would see more.

And then I would even see

what now we would call the aura or electromagnetic field of the tree line as we got closer to dusk, which is a great time to see all of that.

Usually I would know to start looking for my friends, the trees,

I would just think it was their cloak, close to the time when my mom would tell us to come in for dinner.

So it was kind of an early introduction, and for a long time, I just assumed everybody saw that and I actually think a lot of people do.

I've now over the years shown many friends, family members, you know anybody I'm out in nature with, especially when you're hiking and you're in a less urban area, you can often see those sparkles if you kind of know how to unfocus your eyes and look for them.

So it was something that I kind of

thought everybody saw.

It took me a while to realize they didn't.

But that was again another point that was illustrative of

me wondering what were things made of what were these so that's what was very exciting when i started to learn about science and and then of course as i was an adult you know really a voracious reader being able to

sort of create ideas around what these things might be and then what a privilege as john knows when we get to write books and share our ideas

no No, it's awesome.

And

for those who haven't listened to the podcast, I have a lot of different guests on, and I've been fortunate to have a number of astronauts.

I think I'm up to eight or nine now, and I have two or three astronauts who are very close friends of mine, including a Naval Academy classmate of mine and another who was my physics instructor.

But you have an astronaut story, I understand.

So you took this concept of sparkles to outer space.

I did.

And not just with any astronaut, but with John Glenn.

I understand when you were like fifth or sixth grade, you actually reached out to him because you had heard he had seen sparkles in space.

I saw the movie The Right Stuff, if any of you have seen it, it's a great movie.

And they showed when he was in Friendship 7, you know, he was in space.

They depicted his account of all of these sparkles around the capsule.

He was, you know, in the early space program for those who, you know, didn't see the movie or read, there's a book too.

I think I read the book as well.

So I think it was, yeah, fifth or sixth grade.

And I was like, wait a minute.

sparkles in outer space because I see these sparkles in the stream.

What are these?

And plus I was trying to learn about, you know, matter and energy and thinking about what I used to anyways think of as the tiny universe.

So I wrote a letter to John Glenn.

So fifth, sixth grader, writing a handwritten letter, which I grew up with many learning disabilities.

So my writing was not easy to read.

So I really had to sit down and take the time to make the letter legible, first of all.

Wrote the letter to John Glenn saying, I'm really wondering, what do you think the sparkles around Friendship 7 were made of?

And it was so exciting, you know, for somebody especially who was into science and I wanted to be an

astronaut too at the time.

I got this huge Manila envelope back with signed pictures, all these like different things about the space program, a letter I'm sure from his staff that appeared to be signed by him.

It was like my prized possession for years.

It was such a fun thing to again keep igniting that excitement for science, which I did actually go to school for education.

I was a teacher as well for years.

And I really felt that was so important to keep the joy and the spirit and the excitement alive in all of these topics.

Science was an easy one for me, obviously.

So I want to talk about auras.

So this is something that honestly I

didn't necessarily believe too much in when I was younger.

I thought it was a bunch of foo-foo stuff.

And

when I was in the military, I unfortunately was hit from behind by

a rocket-propelled

grenade, which

caused me to have a traumatic brain injury.

And I was in a coma for a couple weeks.

out of that

I had

weird senses that I had never experienced before suddenly come alive.

And it was very much freaking me out because I started to see energy fields and colors and things like that and had no idea what I was experiencing.

And I was in my mid-20s when this happened.

And I eventually started to do some research on it and found out that what I was seeing was

auras.

But it was weird.

And you and I talked about this the last time because sometimes I can see them and sometimes I'm unable to see them.

And when I'm kind of in the zone of seeing them, and I think it's when I'm most in tune with myself,

they're really vivid.

And for part of my professional career, it was

when I did have the capability, it was a blessing because I was able to very much read people and their emotional state when I was in meetings.

But one of the things you talk about is that auras are dynamic.

Yes.

And so that experience I had of them kind of coming and going, sometimes being able to see, because I don't think it's just my energy, it's the other person's energy as well.

Absolutely.

Can you talk about that a little bit and the science behind it?

Yeah, I mean, so the way I define an aura is a biologically generated electromagnetic field.

It's made of subatomic particles known as photons, which comprise light, electricity, and electromagnetic force.

So, we're always emanating this.

Even now, I'm gesturing, you know, I'm Mediterranean, so I'm gesturing all over the place.

I'm speaking, all of this is happening due to the movement of electricity in the body, these photons.

And they do have their own electromagnetic field.

They're made of force.

So, in aura alchemy, you get a hopefully really fun science lesson in the beginning.

But the reason for that is so you understand that photons are force and charge they don't have any mass but they are always there so when we are talking john and i are talking we're interacting with you guys we're all exchanging emanating these photons the the photons that are moving through our brains are actually what are triggering and potentially even comprise our thought process so when we're interacting we're moving in a different way.

But either way,

photons never stop moving.

Electromagnetic force and charge never stops moving.

So our auras are so mutable and changeable because we're sitting here, but at the same time, I could be thinking, I'm not.

In this case, I'm very comfortable.

But I could be thinking, wow, this light is really bright.

It's cold.

I'm feeling this.

I'm feeling that.

So there's this other charge around somebody.

So say in a meeting, what a gift, right?

To be able to sense in a meeting like that.

And definitely story of my life too.

Sometimes it's too much

and that's when we have to turn the volume down.

But in a meeting, you know, it may give you insight into the state of the other person and say you're negotiating or something.

So yeah, they're always moving, changing.

And I'd love to hear, John, is that still common for you all the, you know, years after your TBI to see that?

them?

Like I said, it kind of comes and goes.

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Now, back to my conversation with Amy Lee McCree.

Before I was at Dell, I was at Lowe's Home Improvement, and I remember

I had been working on this huge project.

The way we would get these projects approved is ultimately we would have to brief

the CEO and his staff.

And the CEO and the CFO would ultimately make the decision.

And so I came into this meeting so eager to have this, and then

I

could just see that the CEO was inflamed in

just bright red.

Yeah.

And for me, alarm bells started coming up that

for me to give the presentation in that moment.

It wasn't going to land at all.

And so

it was discouraging because I knew I was going to have to punt, but it helped me realize that if I went through, it would have ended up in not the result that I wanted.

Right.

So did you not pitch?

What did you do?

Well, I still had to pitch, but I pitched it differently.

I mean, because my boss was expecting me to pitch.

You couldn't be like, hey, look at his aura.

So, yeah.

So, I pitched it more instead of trying to get approval, as instead using it as an opportunity to educate him more about what we were trying to do and lay the groundwork for when we came back,

we would have

a better chance of getting it approved because

it was not a tiny project.

This was like a $75, $80 million initiative.

Yes.

So the perfect case of reading the room.

Yes.

And for those who shop at Lowe's, what I was pitching him is what Lowe's now calls my Lowe's,

the whole loyalty management program.

And at the time, the reason this was so controversial is Lowe's during that era said we will never have a loyalty program.

and so bringing a loyalty program to them

under those circumstances was rough as it as it was but it it turned out

we got it launched in a different way from a loyalty program this the person who's the CEO now has turned it into a loyalty program

but a great opportunity to read the room since the energy of the person or people you're interacting with.

Yeah, you want to know how we ended up selling it?

How?

So at that time,

for any fans of NASCAR, Jimmy Johnson was the driver for Lowe's.

And

we got more information on our customers by Jimmy Johnson's fan club because there were like 15, 20 million people in it and we had access.

all that information.

So we sold this as an extension of the Jimmy Johnson fan club that Milo's was a natural extension, and it would feed the bigger NASCAR

beast.

Get around the no loyalty program

idea, which I'm sure later everyone said, wow, that's a great idea to have a loyalty program.

It was.

They just didn't want it to

be like going into a grocery store.

Salesy.

Yes, they wanted it to be more customer-centric.

Yeah.

But interesting story.

What a fun story where an aura was able to help you ultimately close a bus deal.

So I want to get back to science just one second.

You say that matter and energy kind of coexist or intertwine.

Yes.

How does that matter since we're using the word matter to

talking about auras?

Great question.

So we'll do a quick but really fun science lesson.

So in the land of existence we have matter, energy, force, and charge.

Matter and energy are called, the particles that comprise matter and energy are called fermions.

So that means they have mass.

So that's, you've heard of protons, neutrons, electrons.

Protons and neutrons are also made up of smaller elementary particles, which means the absolute smallest particles called quarks.

But But so, those quarks, those electrons, the protons, the neutrons, all that matter and energy, those are fermions.

They all have some mass, even if it's a little bit.

You may have also heard of a particle called a neutrino.

That is also a fermion, which means it has a little bit of mass.

Now, on the other side of things, we have bosons.

Bosons have no mass, all they are is force or charge.

So, photons, which are light, are under that category of

bosons, not photons, bosons.

So are a bunch of other particles called gluons, something called the Higgs boson, which is the result of something called the Higgs field, which was postulated to have come into existence seconds after the Big Bang, pervades everything and actually helps, through something called the Pauli principle, give matter and energy its mass and its heftiness.

But those are even bosons.

So quick, fun, hopefully not too confusing science lesson.

But to go back to auras, our body is made from the mass perspective of

matter and energy.

So protons, neutrons, electrons.

But then these photons, this light and electricity, is running through our body.

It's our thoughts.

It's causing all of our functions.

The involuntary functions like breathing, the way that our heart is pumping blood, that is an electrical charge pumping the heart muscle.

Everything is the result of the movement of photons in the body.

So because photons are electromagnetic force, they're an electromagnetic field, they emanate out and around our body.

A really great example to describe that.

is if we were to take like the light that's coming through a lamp or the lights above us.

If it were to move that electrical energy and electricity electricity would move through an uninsulated copper wire.

It's comprised of electrons, which as we know have a little bit of mass, and photons, which are just force and charge.

So if we were to use a copper wire to power that light and have it not have any insulation around it, the photons, which are an electromagnetic force, would travel on the outside of the copper wire.

So that's why they're prone to emanating, they're prone to creating a field because they they actually are a field.

So we're just a walking charge.

We are a field of energy woven through, moving through the matter and the actual energy in our body.

We're actually force and charge as far as the aura goes.

So hopefully that was a decent explanation when I try to explain science.

I like to keep it easy to understand, but there's a lot of particles involved.

So I understand that you have some cleansing techniques.

Yes.

Is there a cleansing technique that we could have the audience try?

Sure.

We can do lots of cleansing techniques.

So we can actually do a cleansing technique and then we could like fill up the empty space too with whatever frequency we want if we want to try that.

We'll see if these are in the book.

You'll have to check because there's a lot of, there's, gosh, I think there's like 20 or 30 techniques in the book.

I'm going to have you use one that

will actually get to benefit the space here too so one of the things we do talk about Nora Alchemy is do buildings spaces hills oceans have auras do

are there is there energy around areas geographic areas and a lot of times there is so we'll also get to maybe benefit the space we're in just by filling it with good energy after.

So should we, should we do this?

Yeah.

Okay.

So, come up for it if the audience is.

Yeah.

Why don't we do this interactively?

So, we're going to use an invocation first to make sure everything that happens is for the highest good.

So, I'll say it aloud, and you could repeat it, call and response, or if you'd like to repeat it in your head, you can, but we may as well say it aloud.

So, we'll go ahead and do that, and then I'll just take you through the process.

So, I ask

that all that transpires

in the entirety

of this aura cleansing

be for the very highest good

of all life

and in accordance

with universal

natural law

helping all and harming none.

I ask

that I be protected fully during this process

fully during this process.

And I welcome the presence

of my highest vibrational

guides.

Guides.

Okay, for now we have a nice intention.

So if you'd like to close your eyes, I can take you through this aura cleansing process.

So picture beneath this room about three feet a sheet of white light and you can picture it extending out around the edges of the room up to 10 feet it's a huge sheet of beautiful white light picture it there and it's sort of just gently floating and undulating on a cosmic breeze this sheet of white light will now begin to raise up and you can just watch it raise up through

the aura area the charge underneath you which is your connection to the earth watch it raise up through where your feet are and then up through your legs through your knees watch this sheet of white light moving up through your torso up through your upper torso up through your head and then watch it go up above you moving up through the space above you all the way up up up up up till it goes up above the ceiling of this room and then we'll just watch that bundle into a little ball and go into

the sun.

We can just watch it go straight into the sun and be transmuted back into pure white light.

And so now bring your awareness back into your body and notice how that feels.

And if you would like to just popcorn style, say a word about how that feels, we'd love to hear that.

Light Light and bright?

Free.

Free.

Clean.

Clean.

Clear.

Clear.

Calm.

Peaceful and calm.

Peaceful and calm.

Fulfilled.

Fulfilled.

Like an exhale.

Like an exhale.

Anything else?

How does that feel, John?

Kind of

like took a weight off.

Yeah.

Lighter.

Lighter.

It's a real easy way to just clear things out.

And then we'll refill now.

So, a great principle after we clear energy is we may as well fill it with high vibrational energy.

And my work as a medical intuitive and just a human, I think of joy as the highest vibration in the known universe, and it's really helpful in medical intuitive work for raising vibration.

So again, you can close your eyes and just visualize up up above your head, about five, six feet, your own individual, beautifully gleaming golden faucet.

And this is a joy faucet.

And then see yourself turn the faucet on and watch pure white light, maybe it has gold sparkles in it, cascading down through your body, through the top of your head, all around you in a really wonderful stream.

Watch it move through your body, feel it move down through your body and out into the earth, out your feet.

So you're just being rinsed out, filled up with pure joy.

And you can say the word joy aloud after me to heighten that energy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Joy.

Good.

So, how did that feel?

You can tell us popcorn style if you'd like.

Warm, cleansing.

Cleansing, warm,

relaxing, relaxing,

fulfilling.

Say that one again.

Fulfilling.

Fulfilling.

How did that feel for you, John?

Joyful.

Joyful, yeah.

A great way to uplift the energy of a room is just to repeat the word joy over and over together.

And I always feel it like it's kind of coming up through the room.

Like it is like, you know, raising vibration, but it sort of feels like an upward energy typically.

So there's a little aura cleansing filling up and hopefully we're all feeling very joyful.

So I'm a big football fan.

We got a big game here in town going on right now as we're doing those Jets and Bucks.

But I'm an Eagles fan and like many people who watch the Eagles, they saw on the sidelines A.J.

Brown, the wide receiver, reading a book called Inner Excellence by this author called Jim Murphy.

And I happened to interview Jim last week and we were talking a lot about perspective, which is something that

I study a lot.

But as I was reading the book,

you also go into perspective and how energy can kind of turn it on or turn it off.

And I thought that was really interesting and I was hoping you could talk a little bit more about that.

Sure.

Well, you know, perspective in so many ways.

So some of us might be what sometimes we call empaths, highly sensitive people, things like that.

So from that perspective, say we go into, I, for example, go into a space, I could feel bombarded, but I also could take 100% responsibility for my energy, seal it up, fill it with joy, and go in and feel really

enlivened.

Now, on the other hand, some people have like a personality or a disposition where being in crowds really makes them thrive and so in those cases their perspective is this is awesome and it's filling me up so a lot of it is belief right it's how we're thinking and to go back to this idea of auras and electromagnetic fields it's the way that the photons which are light and electricity are moving through our brains and creating our thoughts and so we're charging our thoughts with whatever our emotions are, whatever our feelings are, whatever our perceptions are, and our perspective.

And then that's shaping our experience of reality.

Well, thank you for that.

And

one of my favorite stories of

perspective came from an astronaut, actually.

And

prior to him being an astronaut, he was a Navy SEAL and he was at Buds, and he was talking about Hell Week.

And

he was just saying that when you're in something like that,

there is so much pressure on you that

it's so easy to fall into the perspective

of, I'm never going to be able to make this.

And he told me this story that

there was, the commanding officer asked them to clean his office prior to Hell Week.

And so him and a squad go into it, and on

the desk, right in front of him, was the entire manual for what was going to happen

for Hell Week.

Oh.

And his first

thought was

we should take it, we should understand it, we should do everything.

But then his perspective shifted and he said, you know, we're probably being set up here in one way or another.

And so he said, we should not touch it.

I don't want to have anything to do with it.

But two of his people in his squad ended up taking the book, spending the whole night studying it, copying it.

And does anyone have a guess what happened the next morning?

It was a completely different play.

Well,

those two who looked at the book, their perspective shifted so much because they saw what was going to transpire over the next five days that they completely psyched themselves out and rang the bell, which means they quit before they even started Hell Week.

And Chris just told me that it was this great example of,

you know, sometimes knowing

is a worse perspective than being able to handle it moment by moment and being able to deal with the adversity that comes

one angle at a time.

And my reason for asking all this is part of the book is really going into mastering success, which to me, when you're faced with a situation like that, like any trying

time,

it's how do you get yourself in the mental state to realize that trying times are going to end.

And no matter how much adversity you might find yourself in,

it's a finite.

stage.

And so for me, this intuitive capability has always allowed me somehow to realize that no matter how bad the moment I'm in, there's another side of it that I'm going to get through.

Yes.

I was hoping you could might be able to expand on that using the science.

Absolutely.

You know,

it's belief and it's thought.

And I would also say, too, with your story, I would imagine for those two people that did look at the manual, they also may have additional perception around should we have done that were we in integrity with ourselves with with our you know commanding officer with the job we were supposed to do so imagine also how that's affecting their thoughts another way of psyching themselves out so in terms of adversity it's a great question and when we're thinking about success we if we begin to understand that through our thoughts through shaping that movement of photons in our brain and throughout our body, we can create a state, whether it's an emotional state, a mental state, an energetic state.

If we're going into something or we're experiencing adversity,

and of course we're not in, let's say, like immediate danger or something like that.

Because then of course we have to deal with the situation.

But if we're working through something or we're trying to have a certain outcome, we have the power to take charge of our thoughts and even maybe use them to shape our feelings and our emotions, which then shapes our energy, it shapes the way that we interact with the world.

You know, people talk about the law of attraction, which is absolutely fantastic.

And I mean

totally something that I work with in my life.

But it's also about our thinking, our feeling, the state we're creating within us, and then the way that we're interacting with the external world as human projectors.

So our thoughts, our feelings, the energetic movement in our body, all of that is going out through this lens of our aura and then projecting out into our external world.

So if we've cleaned the lens, we've infused the lens with joy, then we're amplifying.

And then if we're, for example, looking for a successful result, something we want to create, we could even infuse our thoughts, our feelings internal, then our auric area, and then let that lens magnify whatever we want.

Now, if we're dealing with an obstacle, too, we could say, Okay, I'm going to take 100% responsibility for myself because I can.

And how will I shape my thoughts, my feelings, my external reality from the inside out?

And that affects our choices, it affects everything we do.

So, I think it's also empowering to see and sense and feel that A, A, we have these fields and B we have some ability to affect them and then that can extend out into our world.

So if

one of the audience members here has never experienced an aura but is wondering if they have the ability.

Yes.

What are some of the initial signs?

It's a great question.

So like I mentioned, dawn and dusk are great times to see that.

A really easy way to do that is, especially at dawn and dusk, to even hold your hand up and so have it where, you know, you have a dusky sky and not a lot of artificial light.

And then if you do hold it up, sometimes that's a time when you can sort of unfocus your eyes and especially to see around the fingers, around the hand.

It's an easy way to see.

It's a way to start that process.

And it's not just about seeing auras.

it's about sensing auras.

Maybe some people are clairaudient and they hear auras.

I tend to have a psychic smell sense.

I will smell things before they happen too.

All the senses can be involved.

The knowing,

even a taste might come to you.

Those of us who have synesthesia, which I think, John, do you have elements of synesthesia at times from your TBI?

At times.

It sounds like, maybe.

Maybe you should explain to them.

Yeah, so synesthesia, you know, there's lots of different explanations, but I just think of it as like sometimes my senses mix.

So, you know, some people might experience synesthesia.

Like

they look at a, for me, like I look at a number, but then I get like different metallic tastes and maybe feelings or different things like that.

For me, it's especially present with plants.

So that's why it's fun for me to use herbal medicine and things like that, because I'll get a lot of input from plants.

That's like the medical intuitive side of it.

But in terms of seeing, sensing, it doesn't have to just be visual.

It can be

a color comes to mind.

Something comes to mind that reminds you of a feeling, a scent.

a flower if you're a botanical person.

But you can start by looking at the hand in dusk.

You can start by noticing, like I mentioned as a child, the aura around plants, especially big trees at dusk, are easy to see.

And it's also opening up to that sense.

It's also taking like a snapshot and a crowd passively is a great place to do that where maybe you're like sitting in the bookstore later and you're just having a tea and you could just like look at a crowd of people, close your eyes, relax,

gently open your eyes but with an unfocused stare.

That's a time where a lot of times it might not be colors, sometimes it's more like movement of energy or like heat off pavement when you see that thermal energy moving.

That's a way that

Sometimes an aura will show you it's moving even though it looks a little bit clear.

That's a common way I think people perceive auras.

Because it can be a little bit distracting to walk into if you weren't prepared for that say you've walked into your meeting and everybody's auras are going nuts.

It can be kind of a lot to manage that sensory input.

So it can be nice to ease into it and use these techniques and then the sense begins to grow the more that we look notice it and trust it.

So I understand you have something coming up in October.

Yes.

That has to do with atomics.

Yes.

So I teach the atomic healing method.

I have another hay-house product too called the atomic element healing oracle.

So in that, every card is an element of the periodic table and has a healing property and a spirit guide associated with it.

And then I also teach the atomic healing method medical intuitive certification, which is a nine-month deep dive into learning how to do what I do.

So I used to only teach this to private apprentices.

Now this is the third year where I'm certifying people in this method that I've used for 25 years as a medical intuitive.

It's a lot of subatomic particles.

It's traditional Chinese medicine woven through that.

Lots of shamanic work.

It's just like the biggest joy of my life to get to teach that to my students.

And what's the outcome?

The outcome is you're certified in the atomic healing method, so you can use that from a career standpoint and you do a lot of medical intuitive work.

You go through beginning, intermediate, advanced, expert level work.

In this training, you trade a lot with your partners and then when you graduate, you can use that on yourself, your family, your friends, or some people use that for a career change as well.

I have lots of wonderful practitioners.

Some of them are brand, you know, came in brand new and now they're doing these sessions like I would do.

And then some of them are adding it to things like their holistic veterinarians, cranial sacral therapists, massage therapists, distance, you know, Reiki healers.

So it's another layer to learn from me on the medical intuitive side.

Awesome.

Well, I thought I would open up questions to the audience in case any of you had any.

And I'm going to just repeat it so we can get it on the podcast if you have one.

So if anyone has one, if you want to raise your hand and

Eric, do you have a question?

Can I ask a question?

Sure.

John, would you tell us what inspired you to write Passion Struck?

I want to hear the origin story of Passion Struck, the book, and the podcast.

Well, I can tell you, I never in a million years thought I was going to be doing any of this.

I guess I found myself like a lot of people do in life where

you've been doing something for a while but you feel like

the universe is calling you to do something different.

And I had been given this

vision that I was supposed to help a group of people.

The words I were given was the lonely, the helpless, the bored, the broken.

And I

had no idea who they were.

And so I was really struggling with how do you identify who that group of people

are.

And eventually I realized I was one of those people.

And

so, once I figured this out, and this all ties to my work around the science of mattering, I realized that I had become

really invisible in my own life.

And when I say invisible,

my priorities were way out of whack.

And so I started to really do this inner work

where I started to

try to analyze

the people that have it or seem to have it all together

and that they are able to change course or to live a what I now call a passion-struck life.

How are they doing it?

And so I started to study anyone I could get my hands on.

It started with

You know, because I came from the business space looking at business executives, but then I started looking at performers and athletes, and then eventually doctors,

you know, nurses, just everyday people.

And I came up with this set of principles

that I started to see come up again.

And so I went through a period of two years of trying these things out on myself.

Yes.

And that became the basis of what's in the book, or the 12 principles.

And so

all all that research happened before I started the podcast and so I was thinking of writing this book and you know what it's like to try to find an agent so I started to reach out to agents and all of them said

great concept but you don't have a platform and so how do you know that all this stuff that you're talking about is even going to work and so I decided to

start the podcast as a way to test the ideas.

Yes, and thusly create a platform too, because for anyone who's aspiring to write a book, that's always like the big thing.

Yes, well, I think half the time they care more about your platform than they do the quality of your writing.

I think so.

But in your case, the writing's great, and then the podcast has just reached so many listeners, and because we're all asking those questions about meaning.

You know, it's a universal thing, I think.

Well,

it kind of started, I was looking at more like peak performance, and then I did a shift

after the first year of the podcast more to how do I look at human flourishing in every single possible way that I can.

From the aspect of personal, people's personal stories, from talking to health practitioners, to neuroscientists, to behavioral scientists.

So I could cover every angle.

that I possibly can.

So if you're not familiar with the podcast, we attack it from pretty much every every lens you can think of.

I've now gone to doing more of a series-based approach.

I'm most like you would see going to

a contemporary type of church where they'll cover a series.

So the series that we're in right now is kind of deconstructing humanity.

And so I've been looking at different aspects of the human experience.

through my solo episodes and through the people I bring on.

So next week,

for instance, I have two, we're talking about two people's personal stories.

I have this gentleman, Joel Beasley, who's coming on, who's actually from Sarasota, moved to Tennessee, but he's going to talk about this major shift in his life that he

is pursuing becoming a world-class comedian in improv.

So his goal is how do I sell out

how do I sell out Madison Square Gardens someday?

So he's kind of in the first year of this journey, but he's already selling out venues.

So we kind of go through his, and then I'm also talking to this woman,

Sandy Yazavokich,

and she is going to talk about

overcoming cancer and some other things and how she was able to beat the odds.

Yes.

So just a couple examples.

Thank you for asking.

I love the podcast.

I love listening to it.

I'm excited to listen to both of those too.

And

in the land of all this wonderful research you've done, if you were going to share with all of us a couple principles around how to live this passion-struck life, what would you say?

I'm just turning the questions on you.

So it's interesting since I just brought up that book, Inter Excellence.

Has anyone here read it?

I heard that the story that you told about the

situation.

yeah

so so almost the whole thing he talks about in the book like his big thing is uh fear is how do you confront fear and it's it's one of the core principles of my book as well but he he ties fear to self-centeredness

and and i think that there's an aspect of it um but but in his

The way he lays it out is it kind of starts with our inner world and then it goes to mindset and then it goes to your relationships.

So

your inner world is your beliefs, your values, your mindset you can think of as the pathway to

how you architect your life and then your relationships are how you connect with others.

I thought he had a missing, which I talk about him, I thought he had a missing element and that is our behaviors because I thought you can have all the mindset and inner beliefs that you have, but if you're not intentional, which is what my book is about, about how you deploy them,

it kind of goes...

Absolutely.

I had the same discussion with Angela Duckworth.

Like, you can have all the grit in the world, but if you're not intentional about how you're deploying it, you can be pointing it at the wrong thing.

Absolutely.

So in the behavior science world, they don't call it intention.

They call it self-control.

But it's really kind of the same thing.

Being intentional is,

I mean, you can say an intention, but in order to make that intention come to life, it really does take self-control.

Absolutely.

So I would say that, and then another thing he and I talked about that I like to talk about as well is your environment.

So your environment plays a huge role in your outcomes.

And so in the book, I talk about this whole idea of the mosquito auditor.

And I really talk about it

in the lens of the people who infiltrate your life.

And I call them, I came up with this concept mosquito auditor because I was trying to think of how do you talk about

those things in your life that really deter you from going to where you want to take it?

And I came up, and to me, a mosquito is like that because

they're so small, you don't really feel a mosquito before it bites you.

And so I came up with the invisible suffocator, the blood sucker, and

the pain in the ass are the three mosquitoes I talked about.

But those three mosquitoes are also the environments that we put ourselves in because those environments can suck the blood out of us.

They can make us look at the world like the invisible suffocator does from a

half glass half full.

Or they can become the pain in the asses that are the weights that hold us from what we're achieving.

And he was really talking about this in the lens of Jim's a professional, former, he played for the Phillies organization.

He was talking about it in terms of a lot of professional athletes.

they let the environment that they're in dictate their outcomes instead of them controlling it.

So, I would say that that environmental aspect plays a huge role in

shaping the life you want to achieve.

And the intentional living and the intentional behavior, I think, sometimes can overcome an environment that you're finding yourself in as well.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I'm big in my own world on conscious and intentional living.

That's kind of like

a North Star for me is

being clear.

So like the clearest one wins.

So being clear on what do we want.

And that could be physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, anything.

Yeah, it was actually one of your first books.

That's right.

I love how you do your research, Jeff.

So, Amy, if people wanted to learn more about you, where is the best place for them to go other than going downstairs and signing?

Yes.

Buying your bookshelves.

Come get a book.

We have copies here of Aura Alchemy, A Little Bit of Mindfulness, A Little Bit of Goddess.

My website is my name, AmyLeemerCree.com.

You can find everything there.

That's also my Instagram handle.

If you want to say hi to me on Instagram, I'd love to see you there.

And I can tell you, she's one of the rare...

influencers who's on Instagram.

You're actually talking to her if you send her a message.

It's usually me, yes.

Well, Amy, thank you so much for coming.

And Oxford Exchange, thank you so much for having us.

That's a wrap on today's live conversation with Amy Lee McCree.

What I loved about this episode is how it bridges the scientific and the spiritual, reminding us that energy isn't just an abstract concept.

It's something that's measurable, malleable, and deeply personal.

Here are a few reflections to carry with you.

First, your energy field influences how others experience you, often before a single word is spoken.

Second, intention, awareness, and simply daily practices can help you sense, strengthen, and recalibrate your energy.

Whether you approach it from physics, psychology, or spirituality, energy is an invisible force that shapes our inner and outer worlds.

If this conversation sparks something in you and you want to listen to the full episode, including questions that we got from the audience that aren't a part of today's podcast.

You can go to our YouTube channels at John R.

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And third, leave a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

And don't forget, this Friday, I'll be making a very special announcement about a project I've been working on for the past year.

I can't wait to share it with you.

On Thursday, we continue our Forces We Cannot See series with an extraordinary conversation with Judd Kessler, author of Lucky by Design.

We'll explore the hidden role luck plays in shaping our success, why we often misunderstand it, and how we can design our lives to invite more of it in.

You won't want to miss this one.

The way that I think about the hidden markets that I talk about in the book is indeed about scarcity and about when there's more people who want something than we have.

slots to give.

And that's true for French laundry reservations.

It's true for Taylor Swift tickets.

It's true for the seats in the best elementary schools in New York City, but it's also true in getting into the elite colleges and the admissions rates at the Ivy Leagues and at many of the universities that are the best in the country are very small.

The chance of getting in is vanishingly small.

For more reflections and behind-the-scenes insights, join me each week on our sub stack at theignitedlife.net, where I share episode workbooks, frameworks, and tools for living more intentionally.

Until next time, tune into the forces you can't always see.

Lead with intention, and as always, live life passion-struck.