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Foreign spiritual family. Welcome to Know youw Aura with Mystic Michaela. Today I have a question to ask you. When you go online, have you been feeling increasingly stressed, Anxious, apathetic, nervous, angry? We're going to talk about how online culture starves the soul and. And feeds the ego. But first. Hey, Scotty.
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Hey, guys. Well, it's good to be back. We took a few weeks off. Just a little rest, relaxation, kind of figure things out, sort some stuff out. Yeah, I actually took the time to start watching Vampire Diaries. That's why. That's my reason for the break. Yeah, we can get into that at the end, though.
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We'll get into that at the end.
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Yeah. So I do have some takes on Vampire Diaries, which I'll share. We'll call it over time.
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Again, he's surprisingly into it. It's actually not that.
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It's not bad. It's not bad. Years.
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Okay.
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But before we do that. All right, so you've been on Substack a lot lately. Yes, it's called Auriculture with Mystic Mikayla on Substack. Easy to find. And you did this article on Emma Watson.
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She played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise. Yeah.
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And she's a big actress. Right. I'm sure she did other stuff that I have no idea.
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She's Belle, Beauty and the Beast. She's in all sorts of movies. Yeah.
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And she did this interview. And you got a lot of messages from. I even got some messages about this interview. And I guess the question is, why was this interview so fascinating?
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Yeah.
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I'm sure she's a great person and all, but it seemed like our, you know, especially people in the Mr. McCalla spiritual family really were taken by this interview. So let's talk about that.
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Yeah. So Emma Watson, has she stepped away from acting? So she's in a rare interview, like, seven years after, not really doing much in the public eye. She went on Jay Shetty's podcast, and she had the most indigo conversation you have ever heard without somebody using the word, I am Indigo.
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Right.
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Because she's Indigo Green. And if you listen to the podcast, it's really long. But she's just very sensitive. And she was talking about her experience and her life and why she stepped away and what Hollywood's like. And you know what? Cause she kind of turned to academic academia instead. And she just was. I felt it was a lovely way to describe sensitivity and your experience and emotions and how it affects you and not labeling yourself and allowing yourself to explore different areas of your life via Your sensitivity and whatnot. And of course, the mystic Michaela spiritual family is like, oh, my gosh, somebody's speaking our language. Because nobody talks like this. Nobody talks like this. Usually people go on a podcast and they're like, this is my stuff, and this is how cool I am and whatnot. And sometimes they're funny or whatever, but she's really getting into the nitty gritty. And speaking of things that are of great emotional intelligence and empathy. And so all of us were like, oh, my gosh, we're listening. Oh, my gosh. That actually. That really affected me. That made me think.
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Yeah. I mean, well, okay, my two takeaways from this.
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Yeah.
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Well, one, you just want to take her by the shoulders.
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Yes.
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And then, you know, shake her and say, you're Indigo. Like, we all want to do that, right?
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Yeah. Like, you're Indigo, you know? Yeah.
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Yeah. So, I mean, maybe somehow this will. This. Your article finds.
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That's always your dream, Scott.
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Yeah, that is. Well, it would really help her. I mean, she's just a person like anyone else, obviously, from the interview.
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Yeah.
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And I think that would be something that could truly help her. No. Understanding that color. The other thing is, I actually did look at the comments.
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Yes.
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That were coming in on this interview.
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Yeah.
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Why, you know, why was Obey. Why were people so interested? It.
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Yeah.
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And it. And it was. It was kind of interesting. And I guess this is like, everything on social media is kind of why we're talking about this today is half the comments were, she's amazing.
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Right. Get it?
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Like, that would be like missing Mihailo spiritual family. People say, yeah, she's Indigo. We get this.
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Yeah.
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And then the other half are just negative hate.
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What a whiner.
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What a wine.
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You know, rich kid, baby.
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You know, sensitive.
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Right. You know, Hollywood actress with her fake problem.
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Right.
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It's like that.
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Right. So you have. I guess this is. This is the whole problem with social media today.
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Yes.
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Is that you could put anything on there.
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Yeah.
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And 50 of them are going to say it's great. And then the other 50% are going to say it's negative.
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Yeah. Anything.
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You know, Taylor Swift's album just dropped, and half the people are saying, this is great sound of all time.
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Right.
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And the other half is saying, this is horrible.
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And she always attack.
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She stinks or whatever.
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Yeah, of course.
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So I don't know. That kind of just struck me like, that people would put.
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I mean, it bothers me.
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Yeah.
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Because some. It's because something like this happens. Right. It's A very. It's a rarity where somebody comes out and they're so sensitive and so vulnerable and so upfront about it and so just gracious with their. With their, you know, ability to explain it to us all. And then people like me and all of us listening are like, oh, my gosh.
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Wow.
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Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I never thought about that. Oh, she's speaking to me. And then we open up a little too, and then you see the backlash. And it's basically everything they're calling her, they're calling you, you know, like, stupid, whiny, and all the things that you're like, oh, my gosh. I fundamentally connected with you See, the backlash is like, well, you're stupid. Because their experience doesn't match yours or. Or, you know, they try to minimize what she's saying by saying she's wealthy or whatnot, you know, and it's not like you don't get what they're saying. That's why it hurts. You're like, oh, yeah, okay. I guess I didn't think of it that way, but. But it's really. I think. And this is what I'm gonna talk about today. In online culture, two things can't be true. It has to be this or that. And that is a creation of the ego. So every time we do anything online and we spend time there or whatnot, we are, like, starving our souls, which is a place where lots of things can be true at the same time, and everyone's experience is valid at the same time. And we go into a this or that atmosphere, a polarized atmosphere, in order for our little human egos to feel safe, you know, so it's like attack something that made us feel something is the knee jerk reaction, and we're all getting the ramifications of it. So Emma Watson was like, this is just one of many examples. Oh, yeah, everything but Emma Watson was the one attacked. But if you, like, resonated with what she said, you're attacked, you know, so you feel it and that. And there's really not a difference between her backlash and then you kind of like secondarily receiving that. And it's such. And my whole point of this episode is let's pay attention to it so it doesn't eat us alive. Because it is. I see it. We're all not doing well.
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I think it is. I mean, I think it's just the nature. I don't think there's any way to change it, by the way. No, there's no, it's the nature. Of this. The beast of the social media beast.
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Yeah.
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Because like, let's just think about it. You go, let's see if you mean I go back, oh, I don't know, 15 years ago.
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Okay.
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Is that before, like Facebook and all that?
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Let's just say I think these are like 2008.
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All right, let's say we go to 2007.
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Okay.
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And Emma Watson would give a interview on TV.
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Right?
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Okay. And you hear that interview, and maybe it's the same exact interview.
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Right?
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Okay. You know, where does it go from there? You know, you sit there, you watch it, Maybe you tell one person, oh, I saw that interview. You know, oh, she came off a little whiny and that's the end of it. Or you see, I saw that interview. She was fantastic.
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Right. You know.
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You know, but that's the end of it. It's not like in your face 24 hours a day.
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The worst place that you would encounter would be like, you know, the water cooler. Right.
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That's what I'm saying.
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Like the old break room. And then you could. But you could just avoid that.
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Yeah, you could avoid it.
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Now you can't.
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Or it was for a moment, a fleeting moment in the day, like, oh, you saw that? Oh, yeah, it was terrible. Oh, it was great. And that's the end of it.
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But now it's just like, here's millions of people saying negative things.
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I don't get it. What about the people in the middle? I'm the person in the middle. I've never commented either way. I don't comment if it's positive or it's negative. I just don't comment. You know, if I see something like that, I'm never gonna comment. Yeah, I mean, there's more of us, right?
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That I think there's way the negative people are very, very loud, and so you think there's more of them. And also our brains are pre wired to pay more attention to negativity than positivity. It's just a survival mechanism. By the way, like, you're gonna pay more attention to critique than you are praise. Because if you think critique is the.
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Greatest thing alive, it could go both ways, Right? I don't know. I'm just hoping most of us are in the middle.
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It was a lovely interview, and I highly recommend, if you resonate with sensitivity, to listen to it. And I wrote it too. Like in my substack. I did the five most indigo things she said, because it was. She really did express a lot of those attributes very well without saying It. You know, but yeah.
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Yeah. All right. Well, hopefully her spirit guide is better than mine. Although I have a new one. Name is Mike.
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Mike.
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He's replaced Phoebe.
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Yeah.
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Phoebe's on a bender. She's out of the picture.
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She's done with you.
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I told her you have to go to rehab until you go to rehab.
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That feels so sacrilegious. Or something. Like, my. My Catholic schoolgirl self is like, do not say your guardian angel is having, like, a moment. Like, is that a bender?
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I feel I've been doing much better with Mike. He's the New Yorker.
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Mike's great.
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Yeah, he's a New Yorker guy.
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Was.
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Yeah, I think he's. Was he a cab driver?
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Sure.
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Yeah. Works in a bathroom.
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It's so weird you just said that because your grandpa was a cab driver.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's kind of weird you just said that.
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Oh, wow. And he was for the two.212 was the amount I paid.
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Oh, that's weird. And that's New York.
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The fridge. And that's the area code someone pointed out for New York.
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Yeah. Listener pointed that out. When you first brought this up, you just randomly said 212.
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Yeah.
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And that's New York City's area code.
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And that's where he's from.
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And that's where your grandpa was from. He was category.
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That's crazy. Yeah, that's wild. All right. But anyway, we'll take a quick break. When we come back, you're going to talk about the soul versus ego in social media.
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She was really stressed looking and she's like, I can't handle it. I can't handle it. I knew exactly what she was talking about. She was online too much, you know, and she was going down rabbit holes and she was reading everything and she was really stressed out and she's like, how do I stop? How do I stop? Like, I can't feel like this anymore. I feel so empty inside. And, you know, I gave her my advice, which is, you know, you can read the headlines, but don't go crazy deep diving and then, and then tell yourself, I'm going to do one actionable thing that actually helps instead of keep reading and keep reading and keep getting sucked into it. And that's kind of brought me to talk about how social media and how it's designed is it's a creation of the ego. It's creation of the ego and it's meant to drain us so that we can't feed our souls. So what does that mean on here? I talk a lot about the 3D versus the 5D. The 3D is your physical world and it is a creation of the ego, the collective ego. We all have an ego. What is an ego? The ego is the human part of yourself. And listen, the ego's big thing is it keeps you alive. So we have to love it, okay? Because that's what it does. But the problem with the ego is that the way that it keeps you alive is it really likes you to stay the same. And it doesn't care about your healing or your soul development. It doesn't care about anything except the fact that you are breathing, eating, taking up space and surviving like that. It's. It's totally just body interested. And like I said, obviously that's a good thing because we want to, you know, we want to have a ticket to the show and that's how our bodies stay alive. Like, we have an ego for it's. It's your self interest. The problem with it is, is the ego doesn't like when you learn something new. The ego doesn't like when you level up. And it's only way to kind of keep you from doing that is by keeping you fearful, angry, isolated, busy, in. In survival mode, stressed, anxious. That's how. Because whenever you feel those things, you really aren't. You're not really learning a lot in therapy and you're not really working on your soul development and you're not sitting there journaling. You know what I mean? Like, it's not. When you are ego, when you're in survival mode or ego focused, you're not leveling up your collective, your consciousness, your soul, your life and the way that it looks. And that's what. When I talk about manifesting or we talk about spiritual downloads and spiritual growth, what we're really talking about is you got the ego didn't affect you. So every time you learn something, you know, they tell you the saying. At first the truth will piss you off and then it'll set you free. That's the ego. Like when you hear something or you learn something or you realize something, your initial feeling is like, oh, I don't like that. You know, and then you can get defensive and then you can get like angry at who told you? There's so many. There's so many ways you can react to it. And we've all had those things. Like the friend tells you something and you're like, oh God, why is she so judgmental? She's such a witch. Like, who would say that to me, you know? And later on you might be like, all right, she was right, you know, like that. I just don't want to hear it. I don't like hearing that. Because your ego doesn't want you to learn stuff so that you level up. Well, guess what? Our entire society is. It's a. It's a. It's a collective ego. So our whole society works to keep us down. They don't Want you getting, you know, they don't want you get an education without getting in crazy debt. They don't want you to level up at work without fearing retribution. They don't want you to make more money so that you can live a life with less stress. Like they, like the collective ego wants to keep you the same so that you don't change. And then they have to have traps to do this to keep us down. And, well, here's social media. And lately social media has been using politics. Obviously, there's a crazy polarization over in social media. You know, in the ego, everything's this or that. Okay? Two things can't be true in the ego world. In the collective ego, you're either this or you're either that. Pick one. You get attacked for either way, but pick one. Okay? In the 5D or in the soul identity, the world of, you know, 112 things can be true at the same time. Gray areas are totally there. We're all walking our own path, and it's a collective one. We're all walking honestly together. But the ego world doesn't want you to think that. They want you to be alone, isolated, fearful, anxious, all that stuff, so that you don't feel that energy and grow. So now that you understand that, I think when we understand that the ego's just trying to keep us all down so that we stay alive, you can have a little sympathy for it, and then you can start noticing how it's tricky, how it's getting. It's getting tricky on you. And so social media, and that's what I was getting at, it's sucking us all in. And, you know, I got. I got kids, I got a teenager, so I feel like I'm on there too much just because I'm always trying to, like, know what's happening, especially. Especially now. I mean, what is going on online. I mean, we are exposed. We're not built energetically for. For this much exposure. We are seeing emotion, shock, violence, trauma, and we are seeing everyone's opinions. We should not be knowing what everybody's thinking. Okay? We just shouldn't know that. It's none of my business what everyone's thinking and all of that. When you're a sensitive person, as we talk about over at, you know, the Mystic Michaela Spiritual Family and in this podcast, when you lead with your empath aura and you feel everybody else's perspectives at the same time, it breaks you. You know, it's. It's too much. And the whole point, I feel, of social media is It's a tool of the ego collection of the ego collective to drain our energy so that our soul can't grow. So we're starving our soul to feed our ego. That's what this is. It's. It's a time waster. It's a complete drain upon our compassion or resources so that we spend all our time going down rabbit holes so that we just feel completely apathetic. And then we can't actually do real change. Because there's a difference between reading something and then being like, okay, call to action. I'm going out there, versus reading something and being like, I got to read a hundred more things and now I need a nap and now I'm sad, and now no, you know, the spiral. So how do we react when we see all this stuff? Like, what does happen to us when. When we're at. The ego makes us do a couple things. So when you're online and you're reading these things and you're reading all this stuff and you're seeing all this horrific stuff that's going on, we need to feel safe. So we tend to divide up into groups. So the ego loves polarization. It loves right or left. You know, it loves to stick you somewhere, truth or lie. You know, it likes to stick you in places. And what else, what else does the ego do when we read all these things? Well, it makes us feel. We feel isolated, like none of our actions are going to help anyways. That's just a drop in the ocean, you know. There you go. Amplifies apathy. Ego loves apathy. Ego loves to make you feel like you're so spent you have no emotion left for anyone. How does everybody react to all this that they're seeing? They don't know what to do. Everybody's scared, everybody's sad, everybody's upset. Well, that's going to turn into anger. So we see all these comments of name calling and labels and anger, and we see all this. And we're either called to do that or we hold it all in. And that just supports isolation. The ego loves isolation. See, nobody can help. You better stay. Keep your head down. Don't learn anything. Stay angry. All right? And then we also end up only reading our own views or seeing things that we agree with, so we feel safe. So that cuts out our ability to talk reasonably with each other. That's actually connection. Like talking reasonably with people is very 5D, but this is cutting that out. Oh, well, that's perfect. It's us versus them. Ego loves that. They love an Us versus them. That keeps us down, that keeps us isolated, that keeps us from learning, learning anything new. We just stay in our own opinion circles. And then also social media amplifies extreme views. They don't want you to know that most people are middle of the road, just like you. That most people have a point of view that is compassionate. They don't want you to know that most people are not extreme like what you're seeing online, but they don't want you to know that you know. So there it is. Everyone's extreme. Everyone went crazy. Better keep your head down. Don't learn anything. So once you see how the ego functions collectively and then like interacts with your own ego, you see like, oh my gosh, this is keeping me from socializing, this is keeping me from doing things in my community that could make a difference. This is keeping me from manifesting my own abundance in my life. This is keeping me exhausted, this is keeping me sick. And the ego collective and individually loves that because that means that you've not changed and you live to see another day, which is your ego's whole point. When I come back, I'm going to talk more about the 3D versus the 5D. My three cats, Dusty Banks and Cleo. They're part of my family. They are my fur babies. 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First thing, when you feel that sort of, oh, my God, you know, bait. The bait, the emotion, the trauma, the anger, the labels, the polarization. They're trying to bait me. I'm not falling for it. Not doing that. Okay. Like, we do have to, as Pollyanna as it sounds, believe the best in each other. When you approach people with that sort of. I believe the best in you. You believe the best in me. I want the best for you. You want the best for me. Like that. Just basic understanding. You'd be surprised how many people rise to that vibration immediately to connect with you. I'm not saying everybody will. Okay? I'm not saying people won't drop away from you quick. But you know what? They'll drop away quick. So we have to raise ourselves to a vibration of unconditional love and interconnectedness. And then the people who also want that and then are there. Will come together. That is how change happens, by the way. Like when we all stand on our gratitude and our Stand on our compassion and our. And our sensitivity. What I've noticed is there is a huge attack on sensitivity. Another way that the collective ego wants to make sure you stay down is by telling you your sensitive nature is weak, whiny. That it is a result of some sort of privilege in your life. That your sensitivity is unnecessary. Stupid. They'll label you if we all. You know, sensitivity is something that. It's just. It's. How do I put this? It's like people's perspective. I can feel sad about something, and you can feel sad about something. There's no quantifying who. Whose grief is worse. You cannot quantify pain and I feel like the need to quantify pain a sort of like, well, I hurt more than you, or I have worse than you, or that that adds to isolation and division. We have to just have compassion for everybody's story without, you know, trying to make a competition out of it. Competition is very 3D. But I've been noticing a lot of attacks on sensitivity and. And those who are most victimized by their own sensitivity are the ones attacking. I've talked about this before. It's a phenomenon. There's two types of people. There's the people who went through something, and they will feel it on other people, what they went through, and will attempt to help as much as they can. I see this in parenting a lot. Like most people I read, what happens is you had some sort of trauma happen to you growing up or something. And then, you know, you're either doing a job that helps people who are in that same situation, or you're parenting and you're making sure it doesn't happen again, or you're just a person that is like, okay, I recognize what happened to me, and I never want that to happen in anybody else ever. And then you're just constantly out there working against it and helping other people and supporting them. But then there's another type of person, and they're the person that's like, well, if I didn't, nobody helped me. You shouldn't get help either. And really, it's just their own sadness, like their own vulnerability from that time, like their own anger and feeling of just being forgotten that is so such a festering wound in them that the only way they feel better is. Is to catch other people in that same spot that they were in but crawled out of and ridicule them for not, you know, pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, too. And it gives them a sort of superiority. Well, if I got out of it, you should, you know, I'm not helping you. I'm not doing that. I see this all the time. All the time. I mean, just on the local news I was watching, and they were just talking about, like, a program in our county for free preschool, which has been going on forever. And some ladies like, well, when I was raising my kids, I was single mom, and I worked three jobs, and there was no free preschool. I had to get my own childcare. Da, da, da, da. So I don't want to pay for other people. And it's like, why? Like, why would you want somebody else to go through that? Why would you want somebody else's Kids to go through that. Like this is like I. There it is, you know, and it's just, there's just two different ways of thinking about it. But when you, when I saw that woman, she's a hurt woman. She was very, very hurt and she was very, very unseen and very, very sad. And her ego won't let her move past that into finding connection and finding healing from that time by making sure it doesn't help, doesn't happen to other people, if that makes sense. A lot of people find healing through getting somebody through something they went through and didn't have help with. Anyways, I see this all the time. And you know, a lot of these people who attack sensitive people online, they have this ego need to repress their victimization. They're unheard, invalidated, hurts, and they just turn it into rage. You know, if I can't say it, neither can you. If I didn't get help, you shouldn't have it either. And then the labels like you're a whiner or whatnot, everything turns into this. So here's my little pep talk for all of us. Our sensitivity is nothing to be ashamed of. I grew up that, I grew up very ashamed of my own sensitivity. Well, guess what? I don't feel bad at all. I feel terrible for people. I have compassion. I relate to anybody. I, I find that to be a superpower. It doesn't mean I have to agree with everybody, but I can see the human in everybody. I can see, I can see everyone's soul. Like I can see that. It doesn't mean that I have to do what they say. It doesn't mean I'm going to be manipulated. It doesn't mean that I'm going to, you know, be a follower, which I think a lot of people think that about sensitive people, that sensitive people were weak minded followers. No, it means I see you, I relate, I understand and I'm connecting. I connect to you. I get it. You know, I feel you. Doesn't mean, doesn't mean we're gonna, we're the same person, but it, and with the same thoughts and the same values. But compassion is what connects us and never feel ashamed of that. I feel like if, if we're all gonna get out of this really dark time, it's gonna be because we're all gonna sit, sit with each other and hold each other's hearts and we're gonna, and I don't care if this is Pollyanna, this is what really what I feel. And we're gonna say, I wouldn't want what's happening to you to happen to anybody. I wouldn't want what's happening to me to happen to anybody. I wouldn't want that to happen to myself. Therefore, I don't want it to happen to you. Because when we're connected to each other, when one person hurts, we all hurt. And supporting people getting hurt, that hurts us. So I don't have a solution. I feel like I just want to open my eyes more to how the traps of the ego world is trying to starve us from connection. And hopefully we're all just on the same page. And I'm sending you a big hug of connection right now. And I feel like you're sending it to everybody back at me and everybody else who's listening. And at least we have that right. I'd love to hear what you have to say about all this. As a parent myself, I don't need to tell you how busy you are as a parent. Our next partner makes serving healthy meals much easier for me and much more enjoyable for my kids. It's Nurture Life. And here's something I didn't even think about until Nurture Life. A lot of kids foods can actually contain heavy metals. Nurture Life is the only kids meal brand that tests all their meals for heavy metals. 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B
Hey, guys.
A
All right, so like I said, I'd love to see you over on our Facebook page. A lovely little corner of the 5D in the online world. And we can, you know, make our connections there in positive ways, our soul relationships that we make there. But how have you been dealing with the online world, Scott?
B
Well, as most of you know, like TikTok, I got rid of.
A
Yes, you did. A long time ago.
B
Long time ago. That was. I think it was about two years ago.
A
It was.
B
That was when they took the hostages.
A
Oh. And they were doing terrible things, and.
B
They were doing television. And, you know, I would just go on there, and all of a sudden I flip. You know, what. What are you doing? I get flick.
A
Horrific violence.
B
Yeah, I don't need to see that. And, yeah, in my daily. You know, when I'm just eating breakfast.
A
Right.
B
So I got rid of that app, you know, I. Look, I'll be honest. I've just been watching Vampire Diaries. I broke.
A
I cracked. We broke him.
B
You've seen it, what, eight times? I don't know. How many times have you watched it from finish to end?
A
It's a fall show.
B
Yeah, it's a fall favorite, you know, Abby. And you were watching it, and you started it, and I'd come in here, and that's what I do. I just pop in. I pop out, and then I pop in and out a little bit more. And I pop out a little bit more. Cause you know what?
A
It's actually okay. Yeah, I know.
B
Look, I can make up things, you know, rip it apart for certain things, and I always do. It's a CW show, and it's like a soap opera, but, you know, it's not bad.
A
We should make this overtime.
B
Okay.
A
All right. Overtime. In case you don't want to hear about Scott's experience with Vampire Diaries, which you probably don't. You should probably go.
B
Yeah, there's no reason for you to stay.
A
There's no reason to stay.
B
Yeah. It's time to go now. Anything we Say it's on you.
A
It's on you, not on us. Those are the rules of overtime. Okay, so let me set this up.
B
Yes.
A
Spoiler alerts for if you have it. I mean, the show's old, so, like, we can't really spoil things for you, but we can't spoil it for Scott, okay? He's very. So he is on season two, episode two. He just finished episode two of season two.
B
Right.
A
So we can't do spoilers. I'll just tell you what's going on right now. Okay. Okay. We have Stefan and Damon and Elena and Catherine. Elena's doppelganger just kind of popped into the picture, and she's causing ruckus. And Caroline just turned. Okay. So, Scott.
B
And we just learned there's werewolves.
A
And we just. Oh, we just learned that the Lockwoods are werewolves.
B
The Lockwoods are werewolves.
A
Okay, so, Scott.
B
Yes.
A
Are you team Stefan or team Damon? Well, here.
B
I've already flip flopped.
A
Yes.
B
Okay, so I. In the beginning episodes.
A
Yeah.
B
I was totally team Stefan.
A
Yes.
B
And I thought Damon was, like, creepy, smirky.
A
You know?
B
He always give you that smirk after he said something.
A
Every Abby calls him a smirkaholic.
B
Exactly. He's a smirkaholic.
A
Yeah.
B
And, you know, you and Brie, because Bree's watched the show, too, would always be, like, giving me looks like Stefan.
A
Yeah. You don't get it. You don't get it.
B
I don't get it.
A
Yeah.
B
So I was definitely team Stefan.
A
Right.
B
And then came this episode where it changed everything for me.
A
Yeah.
B
I'm watching it, and all of a sudden, this is a spoiler, right? This is a huge. This is like the huge spoiler of the show.
A
Like I said, we're doing spoilers all the way up to season two, episode two.
B
So he gets turned into a vampire, and then you have to eat someone.
A
Wait, who?
B
Stefan. Stefan gets turned into vampire.
A
Oh, the. Okay, in the. In the. Yes. Yeah.
B
He gets turned.
A
And then in the flashback, when Stefan turned.
B
Right.
A
He went to visit his dad to say, like, hey, dad, I'm not gonna make the transition.
B
Yeah. But. And in this vampire series, you have to eat someone pretty quickly.
A
Yeah. After you've been turned to make the full transition.
B
Right. Otherwise, you die.
A
Right.
B
You know, fine. And he eats his dad.
A
It's crazy. I actually forgot. I must forget that every time I rewatch it. Yeah.
B
I mean, I was so shocked because, like.
A
And then Brie came in at that time, and she's like, oh, my God, I forgot this. And I'm like, I forgot how to forget that? I don't know how, but we were all like, oh, he ate his own dad.
B
He ate his own dad.
A
Like, that's a lot. And. Yeah.
B
And then right from that moment, I switched to team Damon.
A
Right.
B
So now. So then I was team Damon.
A
Yeah.
B
And then, fine, I was team Damon for a little while. And then Stefan, for some reason, got more normal again. Like, they got him off the blood or whatever.
A
Right.
B
Human blood.
A
Because you're like, oh, Damon, you know, he's so up front. At least he's up front.
B
Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
And then Damon, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, kills the brother, kills.
A
Jer, just snaps his neck. Yeah.
B
Now, Jer happened to be wearing what is a super duper ring that saved your life.
A
Yeah, the you can't kill me ring. Right.
B
And the whole question was, does Damon know that he's wearing this ring?
A
Yeah.
B
And he didn't know.
A
You find out.
B
You find out he didn't know. He admits he didn't know.
A
And now.
B
Yeah. So right then and there, I went back to teasing Stefan. And now Stefan's normal in season two.
A
Yeah. So far.
B
So far, he's normal. And Damon's kind of being bad, claiming he's going to kill everyone jerky again. Yeah. And, you know, he's. Whatever. So now, right now, I'm back to team Stefan.
A
It's really hard to be team Demon because he killed Lexi.
B
Okay, I missed that episode.
A
No. No, you didn't.
B
Oh, I didn't.
A
Didn't you? Oh, did you?
B
Dies every episode.
A
You were in and out season one, the first half, and then you really locked in the second half of season one.
B
Yeah. Now.
A
Now, like when something happens, like, for example, when Dame Damon killed Cher, you're like, what? Like, you lose it? Or when we fight. Or when, like, Catherine suffocates Caroline and, like, you know, tell the game. On is your message. And you're like, no.
B
Wait.
A
And then you're like, did she have blood in her system? Yeah.
B
Well, I was really proud of myself because I got.
A
When.
B
Cause it's the same actress playing two parts, which is a little weird. I don't. Did they have budget issues or something?
A
She's a doppelganger.
B
No one looked exactly the same.
A
Right, right.
B
Like, someone's gotta get a tattoo.
A
Well, you're not there yet. Yeah, but someone's gotta get a tattoo. I have guessed.
B
And I. And I. And then she. So at the end of season one, Catherine was with Daemon.
A
Right.
B
And then I figured it out before she chopped off the fingers you did of Uncle John. Right when.
A
Yeah.
B
Remember, I screamed at it. I'm like, that's Catherine. Like, I screamed it out loud.
A
I think it was as she was cutting off.
B
I knew it. I called it. I called it.
A
I called it. No, not when she was with Damon.
B
You didn't know. Oh, come on. Give it to me.
A
Give me the credit. No, because, like, when she makes out with. With cats.
B
Oh, maybe. Okay, fine.
A
Yeah. You were like, what is she doing? What's Elena doing? Oh, my God.
B
Maybe when she lets him in the door, she lets.
A
Listening. Now, listening to Scott watch the show is like. Basically, he's talking to himself out loud with all these questions and we can't. I'm like, I'm not answering a lot of questions. Yeah, most of my.
B
Most of my.
A
What's she doing with glam? Why is she kissing him? Why would she do that to Stefan? And then Aunt Jenna's like, come in. And then.
B
Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
But most of my questions actually revolve around vampires in general. Because there's so many vampire series.
A
Yes.
B
And then this one's got rules. And you gotta like, what are the rules here?
A
That's always the fun part. You find out the rules of that universe, right? For vampires.
B
Like, I've never heard of that thing called. Was it Vivain or Vervain?
A
Well, you get all confused because you used to be really into True Blood, so you keep getting confused. You're like, why aren't they loyal to their makers?
B
Right? In True Blood, you're loyal to your makers.
A
It's just not a thing. Or they're. You're like, why can they change their appearance? Because in True Blood, like, what you are, you stay. Like that kind of thing. And I told you. And in Twilight, like, when you're. When whoever's made a vampire in Twilight immediately gets hot. Like, they get, like, really hot, right? So, like, no matter who you are, when you turn into a vampire, you get hot or whatever, right? In True Blood, whatever you are, you are when you get turned. So if you're 80 years old, you're an 80 year old vampire. Like that. Or if you're just a regular looking person, you're a regular looking person vampire. Like that. And then there's Discovery of Witches, vampire rules, which is similar. But then in this one, they never talk about that. So when people turn, they just happen to already be hot.
B
Okay.
A
Because it's a cw.
B
And in this one it's a CW job. And then this one, everyone has, like a ring for something like, it's the Rings.
A
Yeah. That's annoying.
B
Like, vampires in any other series cannot come out during the day.
A
It was limiting, obviously, the writing, so they had to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
B
They needed them to come out during the day. I get it. But, yeah, that. So that's kind of weird that they could come out in the day.
A
Yeah.
B
The other thing that's weird is this town. I mean, I've never seen a town with that many parades and parties. I mean, every weekend, they have some crazy party in this town.
A
It's like Gilmore Girls. It's a lot of parties in their little town.
B
Yeah. I mean, I kind of want to live there. I mean, I'm okay living there with the vampires.
A
A lot of animal attacks.
B
Yeah.
A
I don't know. It's a good escape, you know, Other shows that are good to escape on would be. I don't know. But Brianna keeps wanting me to get into Gossip Girls. I cannot get past episode four for the life of me. I just can't do it. All right, so I don't know. If y' all think I should get more into it, let me know.
B
But your claim on this series is.
A
I like Supernatural.
B
It's gonna get like. Some seasons are really kind of unwatchable, you said.
A
Yeah.
B
So we're not there yet, though.
A
You can't think about that. You know, it's one day at a time.
B
It weighs on my mind.
A
I know it does. It's one day at a time with Vampire Diaries, you know, like, you're in season two, so it's almost like anybody who's watched this before wishes they were you seeing it for the first time. That's how good season two is.
B
People are envious of me.
A
Yeah. And season three is good, too. And season four is good. And it really depends who you talk to about 5, 6, and 7.
B
There's a lot of Vampire Jumanji in this, too.
A
Oh, It's a little awkward.
B
It's a little too much Jumanji. Vampire Jumanji.
A
It's a little bit.
B
Yeah.
A
And it's hard to believe that they're like, how is Stefan 7? It's supposed to be 17 because he looks like 40. Yeah, they're very mature faces.
B
I like when Brie always tells me what they're doing now. She always tells me, the two brothers, like, they're selling their wares somewhere. Whiskey.
A
They make somerhalder, I guess. He's really an environmental activist. And in one of her classes, they watched a whole documentary, and she was just like, that was her favorite day, she's like, oh, Damon, Damon. I'll do anything for Damon.
B
But I guess they sell their. Like, their whiskey.
A
He's really. He's extra. Damon's a little extra. You don't want to know. I don't like to know about their real lives. It ruins it for me. I like to just keep them in the story. But they are very funny together, and they have, like, a good. Like, they do have a brotherly, like, relationship, the actors.
B
Okay, well, you know their colors offhand or.
C
No.
A
Yeah. Damon is indigo green. Well, Ian Somerhalder. Sorry, even Somerhalder is indigo green.
B
Okay.
A
And then Stefan. Well, Paul Wesley is blue purple. But then I would say in real life, he's blue purple in real life. But then I would say their characters, like Damon, Salvador.
B
Oh, let me guess. Let me guess.
A
Okay.
B
Okay. So now that I know the show.
A
This is aura fiction, so.
B
Right. Aura fiction.
A
Everyone can have what? You know, whatever. Of course we can argue it.
B
All right, so Daemon, he has to have purple in there.
A
Yeah.
B
Right.
A
Purple bomb. He's a big purple bomb.
B
Yeah. Purple bombs things all the time. But, you know, he's got, like, maybe a little tiny blue buried in there somewhere.
A
Interesting. Okay.
B
It's in there. And again, I haven't seen all this the season, so I don't know. And then his logic, color. Oh, man, it would probably. I mean, is he a green or is he a red? Is he red purple?
A
I would say he's more to me, green, purple. Cause he's got all these, like. He's always planning and planning.
B
Right.
A
He is planning. He's got great plans.
B
Yes. He's always on top of the drama.
A
Yes. He loves very on top of it. Yeah.
B
All right. And then Stefan in real life.
A
In real life, he's purple blue. Paul blue. Leslie.
B
Sorry, I apologize. But was Ian Somerhalder in real life?
A
Ian Somerhalder's green in here.
B
Green eye.
A
Okay.
B
Okay. So he's. Okay. All right. And then Stefan, I would say. And again, I haven't. I know he changes a lot. So he's kind of like.
A
Right.
B
But he's also. He's got, like. Sometimes he's like. He reminds me of a red blue.
A
Okay.
B
But then other times, he's not.
A
Yeah.
B
You know, when he gets all, like, on the. On the. On the blood.
A
When he's on the blood, that's like his addiction.
B
Addiction.
A
So that's like his ego. So I wouldn't say that's him.
B
Okay. I would. I would say his true colors could. Could be red.
A
Blue, I think so. I have him. I always think he's, like, very indigo.
B
Indigo. Red.
A
Indigo. Indigo. I would say he's more like purple indigo. As a vampire. That's just me only. Even. He just explained it. He's like every. You know, you get accentuated when you're a vampire. And I was. I could feel other people's feelings, and I was really sensitive. Now it's more so. So he was kind of describing the indigo thing.
B
Okay. Yeah, that's why I put. I just put it blue.
A
He likes to write in his journal.
B
But what. But the red. He is very protective of people. Like, that's true. He's always, like. Even, like the. The one that just switched Caroline. Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
He's trying to help her, you know, keep her alive.
A
Yeah.
B
Show her the way. He's very. I think he's got that red in him. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.
A
Sure.
B
Maybe just wear red. Maybe that's his GSD color.
A
Oh, yes, it's his gsd.
B
Red is Stefan's GSD color.
A
Yes.
B
Okay. And then the main character, Elena. Okay. So she. Well, she, like. She's got to be purple, too. There are a lot of purple characters here. Purple, blue.
A
For her, I would say. Purple, blue, purple, blue. Yeah. And Nina Dobrev is purple blue.
B
Okay. And then the Catherine.
A
Catherine.
B
Well, she's got. She's.
A
She's got the.
B
The red purple.
A
Yeah. I always think she's, like, a red purple.
B
Okay. Red purple.
A
You know, because she's.
B
She's saucy. Yeah.
A
She's scary. Yeah. I like her. She's funny. No, I like. I like how she makes fun of everyone and messes everyone up. I think it's funny.
B
Oh, my God. And then who's the other one?
A
Caroline. Oh, Caroline.
B
She's obviously yellow. Yeah.
A
And Candace King in real life is yellow, yellow, purple, purple. And then in this one, she's kind of like. I would say she's a tri color because she's always, like, a little confused.
B
Yeah, she's always kind of rolling around.
A
You know, she's got her issues. But. Yeah.
B
Okay, we could go. We could do this again and do all the other characters.
A
Oh, yes, I'm sure everybody wants that.
B
Yes. If anybody's still left, which you shouldn't be. Actually, no one should be listening to this right now. Then we could do it again.
A
All right, well, this podcast is for you and about you, and we're so glad you spent some time with us today.
C
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Episode 294: How Social Media Fractures the Soul
Release Date: October 9, 2025
Host: Mystic Michaela
Podcast Network: Wave Podcast Network
In this episode, Mystic Michaela dives into the deep and timely topic of social media’s impact on our spiritual well-being. Drawing on her expertise in aura colors and energetic sensitivity, Michaela discusses how online culture creates division, feeds the ego, and drains the soul. The episode uses recent discourse around actress Emma Watson’s viral podcast interview as a jumping-off point for reflections on sensitivity, public discourse, and the spiritual traps hidden in our online lives. Michaela explores the contrast between living from the "ego" (3D) and the "soul" (5D), and offers compassionate advice for highly sensitive people trying to stay grounded and interconnected in a polarized world.
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This episode is an affirming listen for anyone feeling battered by online culture or struggling to maintain compassion and sensitivity in a divided digital age. Michaela provides not just spiritual analysis, but practical ways to reclaim energy, clarity, and soulful connection—even in the algorithm’s shadow.