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Jaya Saxena on Giving Ourselves Permission

“If you pick up a crystal and suddenly your writer’s block is gone, it’s not the crystal—it’s you using an object to allow yourself to think differently.”

Dad MagazineThe Book Of Lost Recipes ()Basic WitchesCrystal Clear: Extraordinary Talismans for Everyday Life

MS: “We tell these stories with crystals and incense and chants because we want to create ourselves. To make other people see us and treat us the way we want them to, we have to see ourselves that way first.” Your book has such amazing depth. You’re never just giving readers rock facts. You explore human nature and the ways we cope with existing, while examining your own relationship to each stone. Was that energizing or exhausting, exploring so much within and without? Do you feel like you’ve created yourself here?

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Book cover by Quirk Books