Substack Exclusive: Making the Paranormal Normal | Mystic Michaela

October 10, 2026

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“You can pretend that it doesn’t exist, but everyone’s interacting with it.” That’s how Mystic Michaela, a fourth-generation psychic medium who specializes in seeing auras, describes the energetic frequencies people give off constantly. In this Substack-exclusive conversation with Jonathan, she explains that what she sees as colors is something everyone senses, whether they realize it or not. The episode is a practical guide to making the paranormal feel normal—grounded in her unusual upbringing, her years as a middle school Spanish teacher, and her new book, Encyclopedia of Energy Healing.

Growing Up with the Secret

Michaela grew up in a strict Catholic family in Buffalo, New York, where extrasensory ability was a family secret. Her mother, uncle, and grandmother were all psychics, and conversations about “dead people on the other side visiting you” were considered normal at home—but never discussed outside it. She didn’t want any part of it. “I believed it. I just didn’t want to be seen because I’m very sensitive and feeling the judgment,” she says. She earned a bachelor’s and master’s in Spanish education and taught middle school for years. That’s where her ability to see life-force energies in color became practically useful. She could tell which students were “purple” (needing theatrical, hands-on learning) versus “yellow” (benefiting from grammar instruction), and

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What you'll learn

1 (00:03) **Episode Introduction** - Hosts Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen introduce a Substack exclusive conversation with Mystic Michaela, author of the Encyclopedia of Energy Healing.
2 (02:51) **Mystic Michaela's Background & Growing Up Psychic** - Michaela describes her upbringing in a strict Catholic family where extrasensory abilities were a normal but secret part of life.
3 (06:27) **From Teaching Spanish to Reading Auras** - Michaela shares how her career as a middle school Spanish teacher led to a practical application of seeing auras.
4 (11:35) **Ad Break** - Advertisement for Kava Haven, AG1, and Progressive Insurance.
5 (15:56) **Live Aura Reading: Mayim's Current Energy** - Michaela gives an on-the-spot reading of Mayim's aura, describing her as primarily "indigo" and "green."
6 (22:23) **Auras as a Language for Understanding Others** - Michaela explains that everyone feels life force energies, but she simply sees them in color, which helps demystify interpersonal dynamics.
7 (24:30) **Comparing Mayim's and Jonathan's Auras** - Michaela describes how Mayim and Jonathan have the same aura colors but in opposite balance, creating a yin-yang dynamic.

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Show Notes

This week we’re sharing a chat Jonathan held on his Substack page, Practical Spirituality, with Mystic Michaela: author, podcast host, and fourth generation psychic medium who specializes in reading auras.

When talking about energy, we explore the question: can you connect to someone’s energy when they aren’t in the room? Michaela says yes. Every version of you still exists, and you can send energy back to a past version of yourself and see that time differently. Nothing ever goes away. Energy is not only present but readable.

What if we’re all mirrored systems giving off a frequency? Most people can’t read it the way Michaela does, but everyone is interacting with it whether they notice or not.

We also talked about how to find your own form of intuition, how to use a pendulum, and what might be happening if you think you’re encountering a ghost. Spoiler: some of them stick around because they want to live with you.

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