The Last Man and the End of Civilization

 

We thrive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort

~ Mencius (371-289 BC)

“We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become… more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

In the late 19th century, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that Western civilization was in a state of decline; it had lost its creative vitality and was no longer producing men and women who epitomized the grandeur of the West. Instead, it was producing passive and docile individuals, whose primary aim was chasing shallow pleasures and obtaining material goods. Nietzsche called these pitiful beings the Last Man and he believed that their collective existence marked the end of a once great civilization.

“Alas! The time is coming when man will no more shoot the arrow of his longing out over mankind, and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to twang!…Alas! The time is coming when man will give birth to no more stars. Alas! The time of the most contemptible man is coming…Behold! I shall show you the Last Man.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Relying on Bernardo Kastrup’s book The Daimon and the Soul of the West, we examine the Western identity that the Last Man has forgotten. We also explore why our well-being as a Westerner requires that we once again follow the life path upon which this identity was built.

“No wonder the Western world feels uneasy. . . It has lost its moral and spiritual values to a very dangerous degree. Its moral and spiritual tradition has collapsed, and has left a worldwide disorientation and dissociation.” ~ Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 18

Western civilization was born in the Ancient Greek city-states, it then spread to Rome, and from Rome further westward into Europe and eventually the Americas. But with increasing globalization, and with mass migration dramatically altering the ethnic mix of many countries, one can no longer be said to be Western just because of one’s physical location. Rather as Kastrup explains:

“Westerness is a set of innate values and an instinctive inclination to a certain way of life, an inherent mindset, an inborn mode of being and expressing oneself in the world. The Western mind embodies a particular and recognizable set of psychological archetypes—primordial templates of thinking, feeling, wanting, and behaving — and associated dispositions. As such, the West is a psychosocial grouping, not a geographical or ethnic one, this being its strength and the basis of its long-term viability.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

Why is it important for a man or woman of Western heritage to re-connect with the archetypal Western identity? Can’t we live in another manner and follow another path? The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung warned against this. For just as a tree will fail to grow to its full potential if transplanted into foreign soil, so too do we suffer if we try to build our identity on the traditions, or ways of life, of another culture.

“We have let the house our fathers built fall into decay, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew.” ~ Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

In Jung’s day the spiritual practice of Indian Yoga was becoming popular with many Westerners who were disenchanted with the state of their society. But Jung warned his readers against following such a path. For such foreign practices do not align with the psychology of Western man, they do not mesh with our natural propensities and fail to promote the full flowering of our potentials. Or as Jung writes:

“If I remain so critically averse to yoga, it does not mean that I do not regard this spiritual achievement of the East as one of the greatest things the human mind has ever created. I hope my exposition makes it sufficiently clear that my criticism is directed solely against the application of yoga to the peoples of the West. The spiritual development of the West has been along entirely different lines from that of the East and has therefore produced conditions which are the most unfavorable soil one can think of for the application of yoga.” ~ Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 11

Whether we are from the East, Middle East, Africa or the West we are typically best served by the traditions and practices of our own culture. These ways of life align with our innate dispositions and proclivities and when we follow the path our culture has built for us, we are not forced to ignore elements of our nature, nor express ourselves in ways that feel forced or fake. For we are historically conditioned beings, not born as blank slates, and our heritage plays an immense role in our psychology, or as Jung put it:

“Western man cannot get rid of his history as easily as his short-legged memory can. History, one might say, is written in the blood.” ~ Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 11

In The Daimon and the Soul of the West Kastrup identifies a number of traits that strike at the essence of what it traditionally meant to be Western and fundamental among these is our relationship to matter. Western men and women are drawn to the material world, striving to decode its workings, and sculpting its elements into objects of beauty and wonder. Or as Kastrup writes:

“. . . is there anything more Western than love for the concreteness of the physical world and engagement with its matter? “Engagement” is the salient word here. Westerners, by nature, seek to engage the world of things, the concrete world of matter. Only later in life, jaded by disappointments and exhausted of suffering, do we sometimes try to disengage, abandon the world by following Eastern masters and meditating our way away from everything. But this is an adaptive mechanism, a coping strategy, not a spontaneous, natural disposition.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

The West’s attraction to the material world is evident in the fact that modern science was born here but is also revealed by our love of technology. Even Christianity, the most important religion in Western history, has an intimate relationship with the material world. For unlike other religions such as Judaism or Islam, that discourage iconography, or the use of physical objects to promote transcendence, Christianity, especially in its Catholic and Orthodox traditions, does the opposite. These traditions use the beautiful forms in which matter can be molded to inspire the awe and wonder that a religious mindset requires, and this is another indication that the Western path is to fully engage with the material world, not to turn away from it. Or as Kastrup writes:

“We live our lives in the context of matter and largely couch their meaning in it: the home that cradles us, the car that empowers us, the art that moves us, the places that inspire us, the clothes that represent us, the things we create and thereby embody us, and so on.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

Another fundamental archetype of Western identity is a purpose-oriented mindset or a teleological drive. We are constantly striving for aims and goals and a lack of purpose tends to generate suffering for those of us in the West.

In addition to a teleological drive that pulls us forward, we are also pushed from behind by a sense that something is lacking at the core of our being. No matter what we discover, create, attain, or accomplish we are never fully satisfied and always in search of more, or as Kastrup writes:

“…there is indeed a perennial, primordial lack underlying the Western mind; one that is simply obfuscated by our ephemeral flashes of victory, success, consumption, or whatever the distraction of the moment is.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

While we all sense this lack, most people blame it on the contingencies of life, be it personal failures, the troubles of childhood, an unsatisfying job, a bad marriage, a crumbling economy, or the sick state of society.

“But it hardly ever occurs to us that the lack we feel wasn’t caused;” explains Kastrup “instead, it has always been present. . .We’re simply put together this way, archetypally. The Western life is surfed atop a forever-rolling wave of primordial lack. . . Precisely because we lack, we act, we try, we fight, we risk, we thrash about, we advance, we screw up, we live…” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

This primordial lack is a motivating force behind the active nature of Westerners, or what some call our Promethean impulse. In ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was the titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. Our Promethean impulse drives us to constantly create, discover, and build new things and often with little regard for the consequences. This frenzied activity has created the most technologically advanced society in history and one of the most culturally rich. This drive, however, is amoral and so leads to cultural advancements but is also responsible for some of the evils perpetrated by the West. From the crusades, to colonialism, to the two Great Wars, and the nuclear bomb, there are no lack of examples where this innate drive has pushed us to commit immoral acts.

“Our felt lack propels us towards great good, but also great evil. Frankly, we are loose cannons on the ship of life on earth. Our potential is great – we can be, and have been for a few centuries now, the global engine of human progress – but so is the great danger we represent. Arguably, we’re nature’s greatest gamble on this planet.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

We cannot rid ourselves of our Promethean impulse without neutering our potential and losing our creative vitality and for this reason it is crucial for Western men and women to understand the nature of evil. We must recognize that we all have the capacity for evil and we must be on guard for its expression in ourselves and others. For with such an awareness we are better equipped to apply a moral discernment to the relentless seeking that defines the Westerner and to channel our Promethean impulse in productive ways that advance civilization, rather than destroy it.

Another fundamental element of Western identity is its strong emphasis on individualism. Perhaps more than any other civilization in history the West understood the importance of allowing men and women to unfold the idiosyncratic side of their personality. As Westerners we are naturally pulled in this direction and any blockages to this process manifests as addictions, neuroses, depression and anxiety disorders.

“Individual expression is the engine of the West. We feel the unique push of nature arising from deep within us. . . Even if we rationally believe that the best life-path is the one culture and social expectations lay before us, something in us rebels, screams, trashes about until we hear it and adjust our course accordingly.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

To choose our own life path and to become an individual we need freedom. We need property rights, economic freedoms and freedoms of speech and association, which were fundamental in the West until recently. Modern day governments, however, are increasingly authoritarian and intruding in ever more areas of life and this is thwarting our ability to individuate. Far from a protector of Western values, governments and the politicians and bureaucrats that run them, have become their greatest threat. And as Kastrup writes:

“Individual freedom is the quintessential Western value: the freedom to live and express ourselves as nature wants to live and express itself through us . . . Nature must be free to do what it must – with moral oversight, of course – and it must do a great many unique things . . . That’s why Western countries attract so many outsiders: the latter – Western minds themselves – yearn for the freedom to be themselves and express themselves in their natural, unique ways.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

While Western governments are interfering with our ability to live free, at least for now, we have enough freedom to follow the archetypal Western path. We can fully engage with the material world by building, creating, and discovering new things, we can orient our life in a teleological manner, allowing the Promethean impulse of our primordial lack to impel us forward in action, and in the process, we can actualize our potentials and become who we are.

How do we begin? What purpose do we adopt? What actions do we take? According to Kastrup to fully realize our Western identity we must connect to our Daimon and follow its lead.

“We are segments of nature, not mere witnesses; we didn’t parachute into nature, but grew out of it. Therefore, we are nature, as expressed in a particular volume of space time. Given this, it is also naïve to expect there to be no impersonal force – no impersonal will – acting within us, and through us; of course there is. And I call it the Daimon.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

The Daimon has long been recognized as the force or agency that impels man toward his archetypal identity. Plato discusses how Socrates was guided by his Daimon in the Myth of Er. While Friedrich Nietzsche, a man who was possessed by this force more than most, and who referred to his Daimon as the inner tyrant, wrote the following:

“I have an aim, which compels me to go on living and for the sake of which I must cope with even the most painful matters. . . the “tyrant in me,” the inexorable tyrant, wills that I conquer this time too.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

When we follow our Daimon – or what others have called our soul, vocation, fate, or calling – our life is infused with purpose and meaning and we develop into the person we are meant to be.

“. . .our felt need for a purpose is the intuitive passion that links us to the Daimon’s impersonal will. The idiosyncrasies of our individuality, too, reflect the particular expression of the Daimon in each of us. We are individuals only in so far as the Daimon’s will in us is differentiated. Our Western love affair with matter also reflects the Daimon’s unabashed interest in realizing its impersonal agenda through engagement with the world, not detachment from it. We love matter because the Daimon in us wants to express itself in the world.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

While the Daimon’s expression will be unique in each of us, there are steps we can take to open ourselves up to this guiding force and clues we can look for to detect its call. Firstly, we should strive to diminish our need for social validation, status, or fame. For the Daimon, as a force of nature, is not concerned with these things – it may lead us down a path where social success is its by-product, but it is just as likely to do the opposite. If, therefore, we are hyper-focused on attaining external measures of success, or people pleasing, we will drown out the call of our Daimon.

We should also recognize that our Daimon tends to push us towards pursuits that fit our talents and character traits. This force of nature, in other words, impels us to do things we are good at. If we find ourselves stuck in a career in which we cannot excel, then we are probably not following our Daimon, or as Kastrup writes:

“. . .[a] telltale sign of Daimonic presence is that it always pushes toward something that, though not necessarily part of one’s personal agenda, one happens to be good at. Nature is not inconsistent: it chooses its instruments wisely; it won’t expect of one something one can’t do; it will make sure one has the gift – the skill set – required to pursue one’s fate. So if you think it’s the Daimon forcing you to do something you not only don’t wish to do, but also can’t do then think twice: instead of the Daimon, the push may be coming from some secret self-deceptive narrative of your own.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

The Daimon also tends to express itself in strong feelings, rather than a voice within our head. The Daimon triggers emotions pushing us toward certain actions and pursuits and away from others. And one of its most powerful use of emotions is to trigger pain and suffering when we are straying off course, or as Kastrup explains:

“The adequate reaction to suffering is to pay attention to it critically, for your suffering – unless it is self-imposed in an artificial manner – is trying to show you something, propel you toward something, force some creative act out of you. Suffering is the Daimon’s tool to prevent you from getting stuck and steer you in the direction nature has in mind for you. This is the fate of the Western mind: to pursue its natural teleological arch propelled by Daimonic suffering.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

It was by following the Western path, through all its trial and tribulations, that our forebears created one of the greatest civilizations in history. But today, in the age of the Last Man, most of us are focused on attaining money, material goods, and status, while spending our free time drowning in base pleasures and disconnected from the call of our Daimon. This, however, is a meaningless life path that fails to satisfy the Western demands of our nature and the more of us who live in this manner, the more we contribute to the fall of the West. We need to abandon the path of the Last Man and follow our Daimon, for as Kastrup writes:

“. . .doing the Daimon’s bidding – i.e., accepting one’s natural fate – saturates life with meaning. They who are fulfilling their fates never experience nihilism, or lose touch with life’s immanent magic, purpose, and significance. Depression and ennui are not part of their lives. . . So although being a slave to the Daimon is often excruciatingly difficult, it does have this handsome payoff: the so-called meaning crisis that saddles the [Last Man] becomes so remote and abstract as to effectively vanish into thin air.” ~ Bernardo Kastrup, The Daimon and the Soul of the West

Will more of us following the Daimon save Western civilization? When we observe the scarcity of those who adhere to the Western identity, and the great number of those who live as Last Men, it is difficult to hold out hope. But a Western revival will not require that a majority walk the archetypal Western path, it only requires a minority. For the Last Men are weak and powerless beings, while the men or women who follow the Daimon embody the power of a force of nature and in the process make a mark on history, or as the German polymath Johann Goethe wrote:

“. . .the most fearful manifestation of the Daimonical is when it is seen predominating in some individual character. . . a tremendous energy seems to be seated in [such persons], and they exercise a wonderful power over all creatures, and even over the elements; and, indeed, who shall say how much farther such influence may extend?” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life

from academyofideas.com on September 30, 2025

How to Remote View

 

Remote viewing is one of the most advanced psychic abilities and a structured practice of extrasensory perception (ESP) that allows a remote viewer to describe or gather information about a distant target site using only the mind. Unlike traditional sensory perception, this technique seeks impressions of locations, objects, or events without relying on the five physical senses. Supporters view it as a disciplined method of accessing hidden information, while skeptics often consider it a form of psychic phenomena without scientific proof.

The concept of remote viewing has been explored in both spiritual and experimental settings, where researchers and practitioners alike have tested whether the human mind can access information beyond normal perception. Reports of successful sessions describe participants sketching landscapes, describing structures, or identifying key features of a location they have never physically visited.

The process follows a multi-stage protocol. A typical remote viewing session begins with relaxation or meditation to quiet mental distractions, followed by setting a clear intention to connect with the chosen target. During the session, the viewer records raw sensory impressions, such as shapes, textures, sounds, or temperatures, before attempting to interpret them. Patience, consistent training, and repeated sessions are considered essential for refining accuracy and building confidence in the results.

Remote viewing moved to formal study in the early 1970s when physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff began experiments at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in California. Their work sought to determine whether the human mind could obtain information about distant places or objects without ordinary sensory input, a concept they referred to as “remote perception.”

At SRI, trained participants known as remote viewers attempted to describe hidden or distant target sites, locations, objects, or events, while shielded from all conventional cues. Sessions followed a controlled protocol in which viewers recorded mental impressions such as shapes, textures, and spatial relationships. According to reports, some results produced descriptions accurate enough to be statistically significant beyond chance, sparking interest from military and intelligence agencies.

This research eventually attracted funding from the U.S. government, including the CIA and the Department of Defense, under programs like the now-declassified Stargate Project. These initiatives explored whether remote viewing could aid intelligence gathering during the Cold War and led to decades of classified testing. While the studies generated intriguing data, critics highlighted issues with experimental controls and the often vague nature of the information obtained. Today, despite Targ’s continued advocacy and writings on the subject, mainstream science generally regards remote viewing as pseudoscience, noting that no reproducible evidence confirms it as a reliable phenomenon.

Remote viewing is a skill that most people can learn and improve with steady practice. While a few individuals may show natural sensitivity from the start, consistent training is what allows the majority of students to strengthen their abilities over time. Progress depends less on innate “psychic powers” and more on patience, focus, and regular sessions that teach the mind to notice subtle impressions.

Key factors that support development include:

• Regular practice: Short, frequent sessions help train attention and reduce mental noise.

• Strong concentration: The ability to maintain a quiet, alert mind is critical for receiving accurate impressions.

• Open mindset: Curiosity and a willingness to record even faint or unexpected impressions prevent early filtering.

• Structured methods: Following a step-by-step protocol or guided training provides consistent feedback and measurable improvement.

• Patience and perseverance: Results may start small, but skill grows as the mind learns to separate fleeting thoughts from genuine target information.

Remote viewing is presented as a disciplined way to gather information about a distant target site through focused mental perception. Rather than waiting for spontaneous visions, a remote viewer follows structured steps to capture sensory impressions and record them for later verification. Training focuses on relaxing the body, calming the mind, and developing the ability to notice subtle impressions without letting analysis interfere.

Begin by creating a quiet environment where you can relax and settle your thoughts. Deep breathing or meditation reduces mental noise and strengthens concentration. Practitioners set a clear intent to perceive details about the target while keeping thoughts neutral. This focused state supports the reception of impressions that might otherwise be missed.

During a remote viewing session, a monitor or assistant may provide a neutral cue for the hidden target. Quickly note the first impressions—colors, shapes, sounds, or temperatures—without naming the object or trying to interpret it. Recording these raw perceptions before analysis helps preserve data that can later be matched to the target. Treat each sensation as information, even if it seems random.

Consistent practice strengthens accuracy and detail in remote viewing work. After each session, compare your notes with the actual target to identify patterns and improve precision. Over time, this routine builds confidence and reliability while helping you expand from basic impressions to more complex sensory details.

Beginner Practice Exercise

Developing remote viewing requires practice and a systematic approach. Here is a simple exercise you can do to start training this skill:

1. Select Targets: Ask a friend or family member to choose 5–10 varied images from magazines, such as landscapes, people, or objects.

2. Prepare the Envelopes: Have your assistant place each image face down in a sealed envelope and keep the contents secret.

3. Calm Your Mind: Find a quiet spot, close your eyes, and breathe deeply to reduce distractions.

4. Set the Stage: Write down the date, time, and any distracting thoughts to clear your mind before you begin.

5. Describe the Target: Without opening the envelope, write down the first basic impressions that arise, textures, colors, patterns, movements, without judgment or analysis.

6. Draw a Sketch: Create a rough sketch of the shapes or structures you sensed. Artistic skill is not important; focus on capturing the essence of the impressions.

7. Get Feedback: Open the envelope and compare your notes and sketch with the actual image. Reflect on similarities and differences to learn from the session.

This foundational exercise provides immediate feedback and helps develop the mental discipline that supports more advanced techniques. By repeating the process and reviewing your notes after every session, you begin to recognize subtle patterns, sharpen your attention to small sensory details, and train your mind to capture impressions before analysis sets in. Over time, these habits create the steady focus and self-awareness needed to attempt longer sessions, more complex target sites, and the structured protocols used by experienced remote viewers.

by Gabriel Soca at gaia.com on September 23, 2025

How Exercise Slows Cancer

 

Exercise can slow tumor growth in mice by shifting the body’s metabolism so that muscle cells, rather than cancer cells, take the glucose and grow. A similar process may occur in people.

It is well known that exercise is linked to a lower risk of cancer and that fitter people are more likely to survive it, but the mechanisms behind this are only partly understood. Some of exercise’s influence seems to come via impacts on the community of microbes in our guts and through its effects on the immune system.

To examine another possible route, Rachel Perry at Yale School of Medicine and her colleagues have injected breast cancer cells into 18 mice – 12 of which were fed a diet that caused obesity, which worsens the progression of several types of cancer – and let half the animals run as much or as little as they wanted on an exercise wheel.

They found that after four weeks, tumors in obese mice that chose to exercise were 60 per cent smaller than those in obese mice that didn’t have access to a working wheel – and also slightly smaller than those of sedentary mice fed a normal diet. A 30-minute bout of exercise was tied to increased uptake of oxygen and the key energy source glucose in skeletal and cardiac muscles, as well as decreased glucose uptake in tumors.

“This work reveals that aerobic fitness fundamentally reshapes metabolic competition between muscle and tumors,” says Perry. “Importantly, the exercise intervention was voluntary. We’re not talking about training for a marathon-type exercise, just what the mice wanted to do.”

The researchers analyzed gene activity and identified 417 genes in key metabolic pathways in mice that change as a result of exercise, essentially meaning the muscle tissues metabolize glucose more and the tumor tissues metabolize it less.

In particular, the researchers say down-regulation in cancer cells of mTOR, a protein involved in cell growth, may be restricting tumor growth.

Perry says that because these metabolic pathways are very similar across mammals, she would expect the phenomenon to extend to people, including those without obesity. Indeed, the researchers say that similar changes in gene activity have been reported in humans with cancer when they exercise.

“It is another mechanism demonstrating how exercise creates a more cancer-suppressive environment,” says Rob Newton at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. “We need a clinical trial in people, but I really can’t see any reason why you wouldn’t have a similar effect in humans.”

Perry says metabolism happens in all tissues and is affected by both the microbiome and the immune system. “It’s possible that metabolic alterations could be the missing link between exercise, the microbiome and the immune system, and tumor growth,” she says. “But I would be shocked if the beneficial effects of exercise weren’t due to multiple mechanisms.”

The work also helps explain why low muscle mass increases your risk of cancer death, says Newton. “If the muscle is preferentially taking up the glucose, if you have more muscle mass and you activate it more regularly, then you’re going to have a higher effect.”

He thinks people should think of exercise as a cancer medicine to be used alongside other treatments rather than a potentially helpful lifestyle tweak. “It’s very much about determining what is causing the greatest pro-cancer environment and how to attack that specifically,” says Newton. “It could be increasing cardiorespiratory fitness, but if a patient has exceptionally low muscle mass, then that probably needs to be targeted first with resistance training.”

by Chris Simms at newscientist.com on December 1, 2025

Cancer Dies When You Eat the Right Balance of Foods

 

Dr. Sten Ekberg: Today we're going to talk about the top cancer-fighting foods—the best foods to starve cancer. But in order to make any sense of what those foods are, we first need to understand what cancer likes. If we're going to starve cancer, what is it that feeds it?

The primary cause of cancer is glucose. There's something called the Warburg effect, which we'll discuss in detail shortly. There is also chronic inflammation, carcinogenic compounds, and different chemicals that can cause mutations in cells and drive the conversion from a healthy cell to a cancer cell. Additionally, a lot of oxidative stress can create an environment where cancers thrive. When we have a weak immune system, we can't fight off cancer effectively. The normal situation is that a certain number of cells go bad on a regular basis, but with a normal immune system, we can clean that up. If your immune system isn't working, that might give cancer the upper hand.

There are also some hormonal imbalances that can drive cancer, and then there is gut health, because a dysbiotic gut—if you have an imbalance in your bacterial flora—can affect virtually every one of these other factors.

The number one thing we have to understand about these factors is that when we talk about cancer-fighting foods or the best foods for this or that, most people start thinking with a pill mentality. They think they're going to find that superfood that's going to go in and strike out all the evil in the body, but it doesn't work like that.

First, we have to realize that there are certain things causing cancer, and unless we stop putting those factors in, there's nothing else we can do to make it better. So, the first thing we have to do is to avoid all the different factors that give cancer the upper hand. Then, we want to figure out what are some really good foods — some categories, some types of food — that can help the body, strengthen the immune system, etc., and might be able to offset or compensate for some of these factors.

The Warburg effect basically observes that cancer cells prefer glucose. They're different from your normal cells; they come from your body's own cells but have changed. In that change, they now behave differently and prefer different fuel.

There are basically two ways that a cell can make energy, whether it's a normal body cell or a cancer cell. The first way is called glycolysis, and the other way is called oxidative phosphorylation (oxphos). Oxphos is where we make ATP from ADP. Glycolysis can happen when there is no oxygen present; it doesn't need oxygen to perform that reaction, whereas oxidative phosphorylation requires oxygen.

There are two types of fuel: one is glucose, and glucose can go into either of these two pathways. If we use some other substrate, primarily fat, it can only enter into the oxphos pathway—you can only burn fat in the presence of oxygen. But glucose can be used either way. A normal, healthy body cell, acting well-behaved, is going to use primarily oxphos because we typically have oxygen present. When we don't, that normal body cell can also rely on glycolysis, but it's not going to be as much because, as I said, oxygen is the normal situation. However, a cancer cell is not well-behaved, and therefore, it relies primarily on glycolysis—it's its favorite way of making energy. Even if it can perform oxidative phosphorylation and use oxygen, it's not going to be its favorite; it will favor glycolysis. A normal cell is going to favor oxidative phosphorylation.

Here's why this becomes super important: once we understand a little bit, and you don't have to remember all the details, just know this—oxidative phosphorylation with oxygen is more efficient; we can get more energy made. But with glycolysis, we can do it faster, and that's what the cancer cell really loves. Because cancer is not well-behaved, it's gone rogue; it tries to grow as fast as possible, which is why it prefers glycolysis.

Now, if we load up the system with glucose and have really high blood sugar all the time, we're feeding the cancer cells, giving them their favorite fuel, which allows for very rapid growth. This also means that the worse the cancer is, the more aggressive, the more malignant, the faster-growing it is, the more sugar-loving it becomes. It's more dependent on sugar.

This is how they diagnose these things with imaging—they feed them sugar and see where they light up on the screen because the most aggressive cells are going to be absorbing the most glucose and growing the fastest. If we understand the Warburg effect, it becomes rather obvious what kinds of foods to eat if we want to starve cancer. That's obviously low-carb or, for some people, even a ketogenic diet. I'll run through a few examples real quick here.

Avocado, for example, leafy greens, non-starchy vegetables, extra virgin olive oil, butter, and coconut oil—these are all healthy fats that don't raise blood sugar at all. Other low-carb foods include meat, fish, and chicken. We should always try to get those from natural sources—grass-fed meat, wild-caught fish, and pasture-raised chicken if we can get it; it's always going to be better. Then, nuts and seeds are low-carb, high-fiber, and don't raise blood glucose much at all. Mushrooms are a good example.

It's important to realize that when I give you a list, that doesn't necessarily mean these are the only foods or the only good foods. We need to understand what these foods have in common and realize that there are many other similar foods. Basically, any real food that is similar is going to work well. Additionally, even though these foods are selected to accommodate the Warburg effect and starve cancer cells because they like sugar, a lot of these foods, if they're real, will also reduce or be neutral to chronic inflammation, carcinogens, chemicals, oxidative stress, immune system imbalances, hormonal imbalances, and gut health. This is very different from an isolated chemical or an isolated vitamin that might address one of these factors. It might fit into one category or improve one thing like a medication, but it's not going to create a complete, holistic picture the way that whole food will.

Since inflammation is a driving factor for cancer, we want to eat foods that lower inflammation, or at the very least, are neutral. That would include all low-carb foods again because if we eat high carb and become insulin resistant, that is a driving factor for inflammation. There are other natural foods and compounds in garlic, turmeric, and ginger that can actually have a natural anti-inflammatory effect. Another good example is berries; they contain anthocyanins. Fatty fish, which are high in omega-3s, have a normalizing effect on inflammatory responses. It's not like a pill that you take that's anti-inflammatory, but it helps the body modulate and balance out to appropriate inflammatory responses.

Another example is broccoli, which contains something called sulforaphane. In dark chocolate, we have things like flavonoids. Extra virgin olive oil and olives have something called oleocanthal. Again, I've given you a few examples here, but realize that there are many other real foods that will be beneficial and contain similar compounds. Even though we're focusing mostly on the inflammation component here, a lot of these foods will actually help in all of these different categories.

Next, we have carcinogens and chemicals that the body has to detoxify. Who does that? Primarily the liver. If the liver is overburdened from other things like sugar and alcohol, that's not so great. So, we want to cut those out first, and then we want to think about liver support.

What helps the liver? Again, low carb, low sugar, because those things create a fatty liver, which burdens the liver. Cruciferous vegetables contain something called glucosinolates. Tomatoes contain lycopene, which assists the liver in its detoxification pathways. In the allium family, like garlic, we have sulfur compounds that also assist the liver. Eggs contain choline, which is a very important nutrient for the liver to perform some of its metabolic processes.

I hope you're starting to see the pattern. Many other whole foods, many other real foods, are going to be very similar to this. If we start understanding and seeing patterns, then we're not limited to certain foods, and we stop thinking about them as magic pills or magic bullets. Again, we've focused on carcinogen detox—detoxifying chemicals that can be harmful—but if they're whole foods, they will probably assist us in many other ways as well.

Foods can be immune-boosting too. Garlic and ginger are well-known immune boosters. They are antibacterial in themselves, so if you have an immune challenge, they can actually kill off some things on their own, like a natural antibiotic. But they can also help with immunomodulation, with balancing and stimulating the immune system, making it behave correctly. They can also boost the production of white blood cells, which are your immune-fighting cells.

Another example is mushrooms; they contain something called beta-glucan, which can stimulate immune function. Bell peppers contain vitamin C, which is also necessary for the immune system. A lot of times, people talk about citrus fruits, especially orange juice, and start consuming orange juice by the gallon as if that were the only source of vitamin C. Well, bell peppers actually have more vitamin C than citrus fruits, but they have a fraction of the sugar. Again, we don't want to just take something that could be good if it also contains something that's going to counteract that.

Even though I'm mentioning certain compounds contained in these foods, many other whole, real foods contain these or similar compounds. And again, we're focusing on the immune portion, but if these foods are natural, whole, alive, and fresh, they will assist us in many different areas.

What about hormone balance? What does that have to do with it? There are two hormones primarily associated with driving cancer: estrogen and insulin. With estrogen, of course, it's primarily females and breast cancer, but there are other cancers as well. The key thing to know is that insulin is the primary factor. If we have high levels of insulin, if we're insulin resistant, that's the primary factor that will deregulate estrogen.

The very first thing we need to do is to make sure that our insulin levels are okay. Again, we want to eat a low-carb or moderate-carb diet, especially if you're insulin resistant. The more insulin resistant you are, the fewer carbs you want to eat. Broccoli shows up again; it contains something called indole-3-carbinol, which has been shown to help balance out estrogen levels.

What's important for both inflammation and hormone regulation is that we have a lot of healthy fats. Fatty fish high in omega-3s, extra virgin olive oil, and avocado, which are high in monounsaturated fats and are very neutral to inflammation, can be very helpful for the body to perform many of its functions.

Now you're starting to catch on—you know that many other real foods similar to these can also help you in all these different areas. Finally, we want to choose foods to reduce oxidation and oxidative stress. Some foods contain natural antioxidants, and those are the ones we want to ensure we get plenty of. But it doesn't mean that more antioxidants are always better, like some people think, and then they run to the store and buy these mega-dose synthetic antioxidants. That's not a good idea because oxidation is what gives us energy. When we eat food and turn it into energy, we oxidize that food, produce oxygen and free radicals, and then need these natural antioxidants to neutralize the free radicals.

However, it is totally possible to eat a bunch of these mega-dose synthetic antioxidants and interfere with energy production. Long-term studies have shown that people who consume the most synthetic antioxidants live shorter lives. It actually takes years off your lifespan because that's not the way we want to go about it. We want to get things that are natural, that help the body balance it out naturally, not mega doses that interfere with and flatten what the body is trying to do.

These natural antioxidants can be found in berries, dark chocolate, green tea, turmeric, tomatoes, and pomegranates—all rich sources. You'll find some of these antioxidants in virtually every type of plant, so there's a wide variety of plants, as well as many other real foods, that will help you get these benefits and assist you with all these different risk factors and mechanisms for cancer.

Gut health is tied to immune function—your immune system is heavily dependent on what happens in the gut. Your inflammatory responses, inflammatory regulation, allergies, and autoimmune responses all depend on what's happening in the gut and how healthy and intact it is. Additionally, your hormone balance is affected by gut health because a lot of what goes on in the gut can affect hormone signaling. In other words, poor gut health leads to disease.

The foods for gut health aren't always totally straightforward to figure out because some of the things you're supposed to take, some things that are supposed to be good for you, might not be tolerated well. If you get gassy and have an upset stomach, etc., then that's a sign of an imbalance, and you probably do need some help. One of the first things you want to have is fermented foods or probiotic foods. These are foods that contain bacteria that are good for your gut or supposed to be good for your gut. Some of them can colonize, set up shop, and help balance things out, while others just pass through, but in doing so, they outcompete some of the bad bacteria, providing a competitive environment and keeping some of the others down. Some examples of such foods are sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt, and kefir.

Then, you have prebiotic foods. The first category is probiotics—actual bacteria or spores—but prebiotics are the foods that feed the probiotics. Here we have things like asparagus, onion, garlic, and leeks; they contain a lot of something called inulin or FOS (fructo-oligosaccharides). We also have leafy greens, which contain certain types of fiber and polyphenols, and cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage. These also have lots of good compounds, some fiber, and other compounds that can selectively feed and create a good variety in your gut.

If you haven't figured it out yet, in addition to the foods I mentioned, there are many other good, real foods as well. So, don't limit yourself to just these. Even though these foods are a little special in some ways, they're not unique; they're not the only ones you want to eat.

I started off by saying that while it's important what you eat, it's even more important what you don't eat. So let's compare and contrast a little bit on these seven different mechanisms that create cancer and see what processed food does for them.

First, we have high sugar and white flour in processed foods. They're going to be primarily made from sugar and white flour, which will raise blood sugar. So, immediately, we are violating the principle of not feeding the cancer. We also need to understand that long-term intake of sugar and white flour will drive chronic inflammation—it's the most common mechanism in driving insulin resistance and chronic inflammation.

So now, we immediately knock out the second principle of chronic inflammation—we violate that. Processed food that's high in sugar and white flour is also going to create a lot of oxidative stress. Again, a strike for oxidative stress here. Additionally, these processed foods are going to contain a lot of chemicals—artificial sweeteners, artificial flavorings, artificial colors, pesticides, stabilizers, preservatives, etc. Not only are some of these potentially carcinogenic (and maybe we don't find out for another few years), but a lot of things used in some countries are banned in other countries. These chemicals will also create oxidative stress and inflammation. So again, it doesn't just affect one thing—something that's really bad can strike out lots of different things.

Already, we have four out of seven things here with a strike. Processed foods also create immune system compromise. They place an additional burden on your immune system, so we get a big red X on immunity from processed foods.

So, how are processed foods for hormones? We know that sugar and white flour will drive blood sugar, insulin, and insulin resistance, and insulin will deregulate estrogen, as we talked about earlier. But also, many of these chemicals added to food act as endocrine disruptors, meaning they unbalance your hormone system. Many of these chemicals have a shape and size similar to a hormone and fit into the same receptor, confusing the body. They may block something and stimulate it, or fit into it and stop it, so you get too much or not enough of something because of this endocrine dysregulation. Processed food is pretty good at messing up your hormone system too.

What about gut health? What does processed food do for that? Once we understand how closely tied gut health is to all of these different factors going in both directions, meaning that these mechanisms cause dysbiosis, imbalance, pathogenic overgrowth, and dysregulation of your biome, but then that unbalanced gut will further create more problems and worsen all of these different things, sowe start to realize that processed food is just not a good idea.

Ninety percent of what you eat should be something other than processed food. When we mess with it, when we add chemicals and repackage it, it just doesn't work like food anymore. Learn to understand what real food is, and eat it almost exclusively, and if you truly want to master health learn how the body really works.

from YouTube @drekberg on August 23, 2024

Raise Your Vibration Permanently

 

Thoth, the master of the occult and vibration, left behind a code that will be revealed here. This technique was hidden for centuries, not by accident, but because it does something most modern spiritual practices can't. It stabilizes your vibration at a point where nothing shakes you.

Imagine feeling your vibration rise right now, without having to meditate for hours, repeat mantras, or force positivity. You're going to learn how to feel it. Your energy field is going to start reacting because what you're about to discover isn't theory nor an empty promise. It's the frequency that Thoth called the state of vibrational permanence. And it begins to activate when you align with a simple yet forgotten truth.

But pay attention. It's not enough to know what it is. You need to feel how it works. And that starts now. You'll understand why so many people fluctuate even when they're spiritual and what the invisible mistake is that destroys the vibrational field of those who try to keep their energy high. Once you understand this first hidden point, your energy will never be the same again. This isn't just another technique. It's the foundation of everything. Take a deep breath, because what begins here will shift your field and your reality.

Matter is not made of matter. 

Ultimately, everything that exists is vibration.

Hans-Peter Durr, Quantum Physicist, successor to Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute

You grew up hearing that you needed to feel good all the time. That high vibration meant smiling, being grateful, repeating nice phrases, and avoiding any negative thoughts. They told you that if you were sad, something was wrong with your energy, that if you felt fear, you were attracting bad things, that if you weren't always in a positive frequency, then you weren't spiritual enough. But all of that was the first lie. A lie that was repeated so many times it became a rule. A lie sold as absolute truth by gurus, coaches, and even belief systems that disconnected from the essence of spirituality.

This distortion created something silent but devastating. Spiritual guilt. People began punishing themselves for feeling what is natural. They started faking peace, forcing lightness, manufacturing optimism while inside they were sinking in conflict. The result is a superficial unstable fragile vibrational field like a soap bubble. Pretty on the outside but ready to burst.

The person meditates, makes affirmations, shares inspirational quotes, tries hard to appear elevated, but all it takes is a small frustration, a wrong word, any little setback, and everything falls apart. What seemed like high vibration was just a polished emotional layer trying to cover up what's really pulsing underneath.

Because true vibration doesn't come from denial, it comes from integration. It's not about avoiding the shadow. It's about recognizing that it vibrates too, that it's also part of the field, and that trying to eliminate it is exactly what keeps you from truly sustaining high energy.

The lie was to convince you that high vibration means the absence of pain. When in fact, what defines vibrational elevation is not the absence of pain, but your ability to move through it with awareness without losing yourself.

Vibration doesn't drop because you feel sadness. It drops when you identify with that sadness so much that you forget who you are. When you reduce yourself to the emotion and abandon your presence.

What no one told you is that emotions are temporary, but vibration is a base frequency. A person with high vibration can still feel anger, cry, go through hard times, but they don't break. They don't disconnect from themselves. They don't abandon their essence because there is a deep vibrational root holding everything behind the emotional surface.

And that's exactly where the second most harmful part of this lie comes in. Forced positivity. The kind that tells you to smile when everything in you wants to scream. The kind that demands gratitude when your soul is begging for truth, the kind that turned spirituality into performance, into appearance, into disguise.

Thoth and his teachings weren't about pretending everything was fine. They were about activating a real vibrational force, one that stays alive even when everything around you falls apart. He didn't talk about avoiding chaos. He talked about moving through it with presence.

This distorted view of vibration created a fragile spirituality. A generation of seekers who feel like they're doing it wrong because they can't vibrate high all the time... who blame themselves for not being enlightened... who believe they're failing because their outer reality hasn't changed yet. But the mistake isn't theirs. The mistake is in the lie that was sold as the path.

True high frequency is silent. It doesn't shout. It doesn't need to prove anything. It doesn't show itself in constant smiles or ready-made quotes. It shows up in small conscious choices, in presence amidst discomfort, in the ability to stay whole, even in the face of doubt.

What Thoth left behind wasn't a manual for positivity. It was a vibrational key that can be accessed even in the depths of pain. A technique that doesn't depend on appearances, nor on temporary emotional states, but on a deep recognition of your own energy sustained not by denial, but by inner coherence.

When you understand this, something inside starts to unravel. The pressure to seem evolved, the need to pretend, the weight of spiritual self-demand. And in that silent relief, a new vibration begins to emerge, the hidden law that shapes reality and has always been active. A frequency that doesn't need to prove itself... that simply is. And when it stabilizes, even in small sparks, something starts to happen around you. Situations change. People draw near. The air feels lighter. Life responds differently.

But this is no accident. There's a law at work in this process. A law as old as time, yet barely recognized. And even without being named, it has never stopped working. It's alive now in this very moment, organizing everything around you. Because everything vibrates. And this vibration isn't some hidden detail of reality. It's the invisible mechanism behind all that exists.

Modern science, even unintentionally, confirmed what the ancients already knew. That there is no solid matter. That what we call reality is in fact a network of particles in constant motion. That every atom vibrates. That every thought is an electromagnetic pulse, that the reality you touch is a stable illusion sustained by frequency. But the ancients went beyond science. They didn't just observe this with technical eyes. They used this understanding as a tool for creation.

In ancient Egypt, the principle of vibration was a law of manifestation. Thoth's priests knew that by altering their internal frequency, they changed what manifested outside. The temple was the body. The mind was the altar and the energy field was the bridge between the visible and the invisible.

In ancient India, this wisdom took the form of spanda, a term meaning sacred pulsation. There the universe wasn't static. It was dance. It was rhythm. It was divine vibration moving through everything. Brahman wasn't a still entity. It was a living consciousness pulsing through everything from a leaf to silence. And the human being in this view was a spark of that pulsation.

These cultures didn't use this knowledge to theorize. They used it to interfere, to co-create, to heal, to awaken states of consciousness that reorganized the entire structure of reality. Vibration wasn't just a concept. It was a real tool. a code, a portal. And here is the point almost everyone ignores. This vibration that structures everything doesn't depend on what you see, feel, or say. It responds to what you are. The universe doesn't hear your words. It hears your frequency. And that frequency isn't what you try to project. It's what you sustain in silence when no one is watching.

Thoth understood this with precision and he kept this understanding as a key because he knew that if you manipulate frequency you reorganize the field and if you reorganize the field you reorganize matter. This isn't magic. It's an energetic consequence. Vibration comes before form always. Form is merely the result of the frequency that came before. And when you start to realize this, your relationship with reality changes. You stop trying to control outcomes and start adjusting the source because it no longer makes sense to chase external changes if what generates everything inside keeps vibrating the same.

The law is active all the time. Even if you don't know it, even if you don't want it, and it's not moved by drama, it doesn't respond to empty intention. It answers to vibrational coherence. And that's where the missing link appears. The piece almost everyone ignored when trying to transform life without changing the field. The invisible connection between the internal state and the reality that takes shape around it. Because when this key is rediscovered, the entire field responds as if it had been waiting for your vibrational command to begin reorganizing. And that command, contrary to what many believe, doesn't come from your voice or from your actions or from what you show the world. It comes from what you vibrate in silence.

Even now as you read these words, something in you is emitting a signal. It doesn't matter if you're quiet, still, or calm. Your frequency is active all the time. You are a transmitter, a vibrational field in full operation. And this isn't belief. It's energetic fact. Your presence speaks before your mouth opens. Have you noticed?

Some people enter a room and without saying a word, the atmosphere shifts. Others arrive and even smiling bring an invisible weight that you feel in your body. That's vibration. It's not about appearance. It's about energetic coherence. The problem is that most people aren't aware of this. They think they vibrate only when they choose to, when they meditate, when they're doing something spiritual. But the truth is the field never switches off. It doesn't pause. It's always emitting. Even when you're asleep, even when you're distracted, even when you're pretending to be okay.

The frequency you emit is built by small invisible habits, by recurring thoughts, by emotional patterns that repeat like a background track, by intentions you don't even speak out loud, but that shape your vibration from the inside out. Everything you sustain internally, even unconsciously, is shaping your reality externally. And that's where the root of the problem lies.

Most people try to change their lives by adjusting what they do without ever looking at what they're vibrating. They change jobs, change cities, change relationships, but keep attracting the same kind of experiences because the frequency they emit remains the same. The form changes but the field doesn't and the field is sovereign.

Thoth understood this with almost surgical precision. To him, external reality was a direct reflection of constant energetic emission. In other words, what's around you doesn't determine your vibration. It reflects it. The world shows you every day what you're vibrating. Not to punish you, but to awaken you.

But why is it so hard to keep that field stable? Why does vibration fluctuate so much even when you know all this? Because there is interference, external frequencies trying to scramble your signal, collective vibrations, unresolved traumas, thoughts planted in you since childhood. All of this acts as noise in your field. And it's that noise that destabilizes your vibration.

But there's a breaking point. A moment when even with noise, even with chaos, even with imbalance around you, your internal field can remain stable. A steady, silent frequency that doesn't break even under pressure. And it's exactly at this point that Thoth's technique begins to emerge clearly, an internal practice, invisible, almost imperceptible. But that changes the entire way your energy organizes itself.

The first enemy of vibration, fragmented thought. And for this reorganization to be possible, it needs to pass through an obstacle that most people don't even notice, the chaos of fragmented thought.

You were trained to overthink. From an early age, your mind was conditioned to operate in a state of silent hyperactivity, racing thoughts, automatic comparisons, internal criticism, endless task lists. And all of this happens while you're living, while brushing your teeth, while walking, while talking, while trying to relax. The mind doesn't stop. And what few people understand is that this invisible noise comes at a cost.

Thinking in itself isn't the problem. Thought is a tool. But when you no longer have control over it, when your thoughts become random, repetitive, disordered, your vibration begins to lose coherence. Because every thought carries a charge, a color, a subtle sound, a frequency. And when those thoughts are disorganized, they create a chaotic field around you.

You've felt moments when your head is so full you can't even breathe properly. You try to focus, but part of you is in the past, another in the future, another trying to predict, another trying to control. This fragmented mental state translates into fragmented vibration. And that misaligned field is what prevents your energy from stabilizing in higher frequencies.

Thoth understood this deeply. To him, thought was the first point of vibrational entry. If the mind is misaligned, the entire field becomes vulnerable. It's like a cracked foundation trying to hold up a structure. You might build something beautiful on the outside, but inside everything is at risk of collapse. And this is where many people fail. They try to change their vibration while ignoring the thought behind it. They try to raise their energy without realizing that what supports that elevation is the baseline mental pattern. Because if the mind vibrates fear, judgment, comparison, control, it doesn't matter what you do on the outside. The internal field can't hold.

But there is a way and it's not complicated. What Thoth taught wasn't forced control of the mind or an attempt to silence thoughts by force. He spoke of alignment, of conscious focus, of living presence, of choosing what to observe, of stepping out of autopilot and returning to the center of your own awareness.

That alignment begins with a simple decision - to observe without getting involved. To notice the thoughts, but not follow all of them, not respond to every mental impulse, not automatically believe everything that passes through your mind. It's when you begin to watch your thoughts like watching clouds pass in the sky without trying to grab them, without trying to stop them, just noticing.

This state of observation, even if it lasts just a few minutes, already begins to shift your vibration because it brings order. It silences the noise. It restores power. The energy field responds immediately when it senses that consciousness is back in charge. You don't need to eliminate all thoughts or turn your mind into a zen garden.

You just need to create space. Just interrupt the pattern long enough for the energy to reorganize. And in that space, the field starts to pulse with clarity again. But something is still missing. There's another layer that must be understood for this vibration to stay alive and constant. It's no use organizing thought if emotion keeps fluctuating. And here begins one of the most powerful keys in all the wisdom Thoth left behind.

Have you ever had a moment when everything seemed to fall apart, but still felt a silent peace take over you? Or in the middle of a completely unstable situation, felt such deep gratitude that you couldn't even explain where it came from? These experiences aren't coincidence. They don't come from chance. They happen when for a moment your vibration connects with a higher emotional code. But the secret isn't in feeling that once in a while. The real impact happens when you learn to sustain that state. When peace no longer depends on external silence and gratitude no longer depends on outer achievements. When emotion stops being a reaction and becomes a vibrational decision.

Most people still believe emotion is something that just happens to them as if they're trapped in an emotional thermometer that rises or falls with life's climate. But that's an illusion. Emotion is frequency. Emotion is energy in motion. And above all, emotion can be cultivated, trained, chosen.

Thoth understood this at a level science is only beginning to scratch. He knew that elevated emotions like love, gratitude, compassion, and reverence aren't just beautiful feelings. They're vibrational matrices. They organize the field. They clear the noise. They create an inner environment where energy aligns so precisely that everything around begins to respond in tune.

But there's an even more powerful point. When you manage to sustain an elevated emotion long enough, it stops being a temporary state and becomes an energetic signature. And that signature is what the universe recognizes. It's what defines what you attract, what you sustain, what you expand. Sustained emotion is the field telling the universe, "This is who I am now." Not because of something, not as a reaction to a blessing, but as a choice, as a vibrational identity. And when that happens, the frequency stabilizes. Vibration no longer needs external reinforcements to stay. It begins to exist on its own. And this is one of the forgotten pillars of Thoth's technique because it's not about pretending to be joyful or forcing optimism. It's about cultivating with presence and honesty emotions that are compatible with the reality you wish to manifest. True emotions born from within that remain steady even when the outer world falls apart.

And when you learn to maintain that state, even if the world outside is collapsing, something begins to happen in silence. Time doesn't exist here. Only the now vibrates high. The field organizes itself not because everything is perfect, but because you've learned to vibrate an authentic and sustained emotion, even in the midst of chaos. And when that happens, your frequency begins to cut through the dense layers that once held you back.

But for this vibration to remain uninterrupted, you must access a point where almost no one manages to stay. The now. Yes, the now. The only place where reality truly happens.

But for the conditioned mind, the present is almost forbidden territory. Most people live fragmented. One half stuck in old memories, reliving mistakes, wounds, grudges, and the other half projecting fantasies, expectations, fears of things that haven't even happened yet. It's a constant swing between what's already passed and what hasn't come. And that mental dance drains energy.

This fragmentation creates holes in the vibrational field. It causes leaks. It scatters your presence. The vibration that could be anchored and steady gets lost in narratives that no longer exist or may never exist.

Thoth used to say that time is a functional illusion. It serves to organize things in the material world, but it doesn't define consciousness. Consciousness vibrates in the eternal now. And only in this moment can you truly access the center of your energetic power. When you are present, whole, vibration aligns like a beam of light piercing through every layer of your being. The body responds. The mind quiets. The field pulses. And this state of presence has an effect that many complex rituals can't produce. Immediate coherence. It's as if by fully inhabiting the now, you reorganize everything around you without needing to control anything. Life responds because it finally senses you there, fully there.

This state isn't reached through effort. It's a return, a remembrance. And it's precisely within this that Thoth's forgotten technique begins to fully activate because it doesn't require you to do anything. It just requires you to be.

But even if you access the now, there's a second factor that can destroy your vibration in seconds. Internal incoherence. And it's more common than it seems.

You say you want peace, but you get involved in everything that throws you off balance. You claim to believe in the light, but keep reacting with fear, jealousy, anger, and guilt. You post beautiful quotes but carry silent judgments, unresolved feelings, inner disconnects that keep piling up and creating vibrational cracks. And the universe, which hears everything through frequency, isn't fooled by words. It doesn't listen to what you declare with your mouth. It picks up what you emit with the totality of your field. And when there's incoherence, it responds with confusion, with obstacles, with distorted reflections, not as punishment, but as a mirror. So you can see where you're still fragmented.

Thoth understood that the technique only reveals itself to those who live in alignment. And this alignment is not perfection. It's true presence. It's coherence between what you think, feel, say, and do. When those four come together, the field creates a kind of magnetism that starts shaping reality from the inside out. And this magnetism doesn't depend on rituals or magic words. It's born from vibrational honesty, from your ability to be whole with yourself. Because when mind, body, emotion, and soul vibrate in the same tone, the field expands with a strength that doesn't break and the frequency stops fluctuating with the world.

When the universe tests your frequency, the silent proof, the world in turn begins to react. Because whenever you access a new state of consciousness, the entire universe reorganizes around that new vibration. And what seems like a test is actually a confirmation. You start vibrating higher. And suddenly old situations come back. That person who used to make you doubt yourself shows up again. An old habit tries to pull you back. Heavy emotions that had been asleep rise up as if awakened by your own light. And in that moment, the old mind screams, "See, nothing has changed."

But that's a lie. It has changed. What's different now is that you're shining a light on what used to go unnoticed. What's happening isn't regression. It's the field silently and firmly asking, "Are you ready to sustain who you've chosen to become? Are you ready to remain anchored in the new frequency even in the face of the old scenario? Or will you go back to negotiating your vibration just to fit into the old programming?

This is where many fall. They think they've failed because they felt bad or because reality hasn't yet reflected the new vibration. But this part of the journey isn't a mistake. It's a process. The new energy needs to stabilize. And for that it needs to go through the friction of resistance, not as punishment but as confirmation.

Thoth's forgotten technique doesn't reveal itself when everything is easy. It solidifies precisely when everything around you seems to fall apart because that's the moment you have the chance to show to yourself and to the field that your vibration is no longer a hostage to circumstances, that your frequency is now identity, not a passing state. If you sustain it, something sacred begins to happen in your reality. The same situations that used to throw you off now lose their grip. What once paralyzed you begins to dissolve, and the world around you little by little starts to align with the new vibration you've claimed as your truth.

And after everything comes the most important point of this whole journey. High vibration isn't a gift nor a magical technique. It's an energetic identity. It's not about trying to look more enlightened. It's about becoming who you already were, just without the noise that kept you from your essence.

You don't need perfection. You don't need to get it right all the time. High frequency doesn't come from force. It comes from truth, from surrender, from your willingness to stop fighting life and start living in coherence with what truly vibrates inside you. That's Thoth's legacy.

He didn't leave a formula. He left a path, a way of living where the energy field becomes an extension of the soul, where every choice reflects who you are completely. When this vibration is sustained, what happens outside no longer matters because what happens outside adjusts to what you've already stabilized within. And then you realize you're no longer reacting to the world. You're vibrating the world. You become the point of origin, the center of the field, the energetic reference of the very reality you wish to experience. And now that you know, there's no going back. It's time to choose to sustain this frequency like a true energetic master. Not because you want to prove something, but because you finally remembered who you are.

from YouTube @VibrationalPortal on July 1, 2025

Practicing Daily Alchemy to Attract Anything

 

Energy Flows Where Attention Goes

~James Redfield

Every Thought is a Spell, Every Word is a Portal

What if I told you that you're just one step away from unlocking the ability to attract anything into your life, but there's an invisible saboteur inside you that's keeping it from happening? You've tried everything, meditating, affirming, visualizing. You felt that wave of power and thought, "This is it." But a day or two later, it all falls apart. The anxiety returns. The frustration consumes you. And you're right back to square one.

This cycle isn't your fault. It was designed to keep you stuck. I'm not going to give you yet another positive thinking technique. I'm going to hand you the key to deactivate that inner saboteur. A secret kept for millennia, attributed to the ancient Egyptian god Thoth. A technique so powerful that it doesn't just raise your vibration, it keeps it from dropping again. What I'm about to reveal will change the way you interact with reality forever.

This wasn't supposed to be revealed, but if you found this post, it's because you're ready. Before you ever learned what a bill was, before you cared about what others thought of you, before you even understood the concept of past and future, there was a state of absolute purity. Try to remember, not with your mind, but with your body, the feeling of being a very small child. Your essential nature wasn't anxiety, doubt, or lack. It was pure curiosity, joy without reason, full presence in every moment. You didn't worry about tomorrow. You lived the now with an intensity most adults have forgotten. That is your factory setting, your original state.

We weren't born to struggle. We were born as beings of extremely high frequency in direct resonance with the flow of life itself. In that state there is no separation between desire and manifestation. It is a natural process like feeling thirsty and finding water. There is no concept of making things happen because everything simply happens through us.

Once upon a time we were open channels for the universe's creative energy and reality shaped itself around us with an ease we'd now call magic. But it wasn't magic. It was just our primal nature in action. That memory isn't poetic fantasy. It's a record that still pulses in every cell of your body. That feeling of longing for a home you can't quite name. That sense that something important was lost along the way. That's the echo of your original nature calling you back.

Every ancestral tradition on this planet, without exception, speaks about this state. The Vedic rishis described it as satyananda, the union of existence consciousness and bliss. Taoist masters called it 'following the effortless flow of the Tao'. It's the living truth of who you are buried under the weight of the world.

But somewhere along the journey that connection was sabotaged. As we grew the loud, fearful voice of the world started shouting louder than the quiet wisdom of our heart. We were taught to identify with our limitations, with our names, our jobs, our problems. Unity gave way to separation. We started to believe the lie that we were fragile, isolated beings in an indifferent or even hostile universe. And belief, as always, became our reality. Struggle became our new normal. And it was in that exact moment of forgetting that our vibrational fall began.

The energy that once flowed like a mighty river started to hit barriers of fear, guilt, and shame. It began to stagnate, to rot. The river turned into a swamp. And we started to believe the swamp was our only possible home.

But what exactly caused this disconnection? It wasn't an accident. It was a specific event, a deliberate cut in our consciousness. And the answer to that is stored in one of the best kept secrets in history. A knowledge so vast it was attributed to a cosmic consciousness.

This ancient knowledge doesn't just talk about what we lost. It reveals exactly how that loss happened. It points to the exact mechanism that interrupted the flow and trapped us in a low frequency reality. It's a secret that explains why humanity lives in a state of spiritual amnesia, repeating the same mistakes generation after generation.

Understanding this mechanism is the first step to reversing it, to finally remembering who we were before we were told who we should be. And that memory leads us directly to a figure shrouded in mystery... a master who according to legend held the keys to reality itself... a being who understood the structure of the universe in a way our modern science is only beginning to scratch the surface of. He knew exactly how we were disconnected. And more importantly, he left behind the map to find our way back home... a map that's been hidden in plain sight for millennia... long before the pyramids sliced through the desert sky, long before the religions we know today, a colossal wisdom was entrusted to a legendary consciousness known in Egypt as Thoth. He wasn't just a god with the head of an ibis. He was the divine scribe, the architect of wisdom, the one who recorded the destiny of souls and held the keys to science and magic. To the Greeks he became Hermes, the messenger of the gods and to initiates across all ages he is Hermes Trismegistus, the thrice great, the master of masters, whose wisdom is the cornerstone of all western esoteric philosophy.

Legends whisper about the mythical book of Thoth, a set of papyri that supposedly contain the secrets of the very structure of reality... formulas to command the elements, the power to heal any disease, and even the key to eternal life. It said this knowledge was so overwhelming, so dangerous in unprepared minds that it was sealed and hidden from humanity, meant to be revealed only when we were ready to understand it.

This book is the archetype of the famous Emerald Tablet where Thoth inscribed the principles of the universe. For millennia, relic hunters, occultists, and kings sought this power, believing Thoth's secrets were about external domination. They thought the transmutation of lead into gold was a chemical process to create material wealth. They believed the teachings were about gaining power over others, controlling nations, manipulating nature. But that was the greatest and most brilliant red herring in the history of spirituality. A smoke screen, a glittering veil designed to distract the curious and protect the true jewel, the real power.

The great secret Thoth guarded so carefully was never about manipulating the universe out there. It was always about mastering the universe that exists within us. The alchemy of turning lead into gold was never about metals. It was a metaphor for the process of transforming our densest, heaviest, darkest emotions like fear and shame into the golden radiant light of pure enlightened consciousness.

The power he taught wasn't to control others, but to achieve absolute self-control. Thoth declared to the world one of the seven great hermetic principles: Nothing rests, everything moves, everything vibrates. That phrase became popular, but its true depth was lost. People focused on trying to raise their vibration with superficial methods, like repeating positive phrases while their hearts were full of fear. They didn't realize they were ignoring the driving force. The true cause behind all vibration.

The secret isn't to paint a golden layer over the lead. The real secret is to understand the mechanics behind vibration. Thoth knew that most people would never grasp the inseparable relationship between two forces that operate within us every second of our lives. They're not two separate things, but two sides of the same coin... a cosmic dance taking place on the stage of your soul. And it's the dynamic of this dance that determines absolutely everything you experience in your reality.

Understanding this dance isn't just a key. It's the master key. Imagine two giant gears perfectly interlocked, spinning at the center of your being. They're so interconnected that it's impossible to move one without the other, instantly moving in the same direction with the same intensity. They are for all practical purposes one single machine. Inside you, these two inseparable gears are called energy and consciousness. They are in a perpetual dance, one feeding the other in a continuous cycle that defines the quality of your existence at every moment.

Neuroscientist, Dr. Joe Dispenza, after decades studying the effects of meditation on the brain, summed up this law in brutally simple terms: An increase in energy results in an increase in consciousness, and an increase in consciousness results in an increase in energy.

It's a two-way street with no exceptions. You can't have one without the other. They rise together and fall together. It's a fundamental law of the inner universe, as certain as the law of gravity in the outer universe.

Think about your own experience. When you're sick, drained, low on energy, what happens to your consciousness? Your thoughts turn negative. Your perception of the world gets dull. It becomes almost impossible to feel optimism or hope. Low energy drags consciousness down.

Now remember a moment of epiphany, of deep clarity, a moment when you understood something important about yourself. In that peak of high consciousness, what happened to your energy? You felt a wave of vitality, a power rushing through your body. High consciousness lifts energy.

For a long time, humanity has tried to manipulate this dance in the wrong way. We've tried to force one of the gears to spin, hoping the other would follow. We've tried to force consciousness upward with positive thoughts and affirmations while our body is vibrating in exhaustion and fear. Or we've tried to force energy upward with stimulants like coffee and energy drinks while our consciousness is stuck in a loop of worry and negativity. These are temporary fixes that only create more imbalance. The fundamental mistake lies in trying to manipulate the gears directly. It's like trying to spin a car's wheels with your hands instead of using the engine.

The true secret of Thoth, the mastery that the initiates sought, isn't in pushing the gears of energy or consciousness. It's in taking control of the engine that moves them both. There's a point of origin, a master switch that regulates the speed and direction of this inseparable dance. And that switch is something you already possess. It's a tool you use every second of every day, from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep. The problem is you've been using it on autopilot with no awareness of the creative or destructive power you're wielding.

You've been the pilot of a supersonic aircraft, but have let it fly on factory settings, never once touching the controls. Taking control of that switch is what separates a conscious creator from a victim of circumstances. It's the point where you stop being an effect and become the cause. And that switch, that driving force behind energy and consciousness, is the most powerful and most underestimated tool a human being has. Mastering it is the true path to freedom and effortless manifestation.

The engine that powers the inseparable dance of energy and consciousness, the primary force that determines your vibrational frequency, is your ATTENTION. Where your attention goes, your energy flows. This isn't a motivational quote. It's the description of a fundamental law in the physics of consciousness. Your attention is the most powerful tool you have, the rudder that steers the ship of your life. It works like a spotlight on a dark stage, lighting up and bringing into existence whatever you focus on. The rest stays in the dark in the field of unmanifested potential. It's not your random thoughts that create your reality. It's the attention you invest in them.

A thought is just a passing cloud. But a thought you focus your attention on becomes a magnet. A single moment of genuine gratitude where your attention is fully immersed in the feeling in your heart has a thousand times more creative power than spending your whole day mechanically repeating the word gratitude.

While your attention is actually on a debt you're worried about or a grudge you're holding on to. The quality and intensity of your attention is what really matters. If your focus is constantly hijacked by disaster news, by other people's drama, by fears about the future or regrets about the past, then you're actively using your creative power to water and nurture those weeds in your inner garden. You're energizing scarcity, fear, and separation.

No matter how many times you visualize a life of abundance, your attention always wins. The problem is that the overwhelming majority of humanity lives in a state of completely fragmented attention. Our focus has been trained since childhood to be reactive, not directive. It's hijacked every second by phone notifications, by click-bait headlines, by useless conversations. Our inner spotlight is out of control, blinking frantically between past and future, between guilt and anxiety, rarely landing on the only place where real power exists, the NOW.

We live like passengers in a speeding car, staring fearfully out the window, not realizing the steering wheel has always been in our hands. This lack of mastery over our own attention is why people feel powerless, like victims of life. They're trapped in a frequency they didn't consciously choose without even realizing that the prison was built and is maintained daily by the scattering of their own focus.

Attention is the most valuable currency in the universe. But knowing that isn't enough. If attention is the master switch, the obvious question is where exactly should we direct it to cause real, deep, and lasting change? It's not enough to just try to focus on good things. We need surgical precision. We need a map that shows us the geography of our inner world, that tells us where we are and what the next step is on the journey of ascension.

Thankfully, that map has already been decoded. It offers us unprecedented clarity on the journey of human consciousness, showing the different levels of power and the emotions that correspond to each one. With this map in hand, the task of directing attention stops being a guessing game and becomes a precise science of personal transformation. It shows us the way to move out of the frequencies of suffering and into the frequencies of power and creation.

Imagine having in your hands a GPS map of your soul, a guide that shows exactly where you are on your vibrational journey and what the most direct route is to the next level of power and freedom. This map isn't a theory. It exists. It was meticulously decoded over decades of research by Dr. David R. Hawkins, who created the revolutionary map of consciousness using kinesiology testing on thousands of people.

He was able to assign a precise numerical value to each emotion and human state of being on a logarithmic scale ranging from 20 to 1,000. At the very bottom of this scale, we find the densest and most paralyzing states of existence where life feels like torment. There's shame with a frequency of 20, guilt at 30, apathy at 50, grief at 75, fear at 100, desire at a 125, and anger at a 150.

Living predominantly in these levels is like trying to swim through quicksand. Every movement takes Herculean effort, and the feeling of powerlessness is constant. It's the realm of survival, brute force, and victimhood.

The most crucial turning point in the entire human journey, the great gateway of transformation lies at the frequency of 200, courage. This isn't just another step. It's the dividing line between weakness and power. It's the exact moment when a soul stops blaming the world, circumstances, or other people for its condition and starts taking 100% responsibility for its own energy and its own life. It's the conscious decision that it has suffered enough and that it's ready to seek the truth no matter what it takes.

Above the portal of courage, we enter the realms of true power where life stops being a struggle and becomes a flow. We pass through neutrality 250, willingness 310, acceptance 350, and then reach the higher states everyone seeks: Love 500, joy 540, peace 600, and finally enlightenment from 700 to 1,000. At these levels, synchronicity becomes the norm. Manifestation flows effortlessly and reality seems to cooperate with your intentions because your high frequency naturally resonates with the abundance of the universe.

This map offers us a clarity that is both liberating and brutal. Liberating because it shows us the path, but brutal because it reveals a shocking diagnosis of the current condition of humanity. According to Hawkins extensive research, supported by ancient esoteric teachings from many cultures, the overwhelming majority of the world's population, around 98% of people, live with their dominant energy stuck below the 200 level of courage. They're trapped in an endless cycle of fear, desire, anger, and pride without even knowing there's a way out.

The reason for this mass stagnation isn't fate, karma, or bad luck. The reason is a specific energetic block, a congestion of life force energy located in three crucial points of the human body. This block acts like an invisible anchor, preventing energy from rising to higher levels of consciousness and power.

The exact location of these blocks gives us the final clue to understanding why all attempts at positive thinking fail in the long run. You can't build a skyscraper on swampy ground. First, you have to drain the swamp. And these three points of blockage are the energetic swamp that keeps humanity trapped in a state of suffering.

Your body is not just flesh and bone. It's a sophisticated energy system, a vehicle for consciousness. In Eastern traditions, the main processing centers of this system are known as chakras, energy vortices that correspond directly to the levels of the scale of consciousness. And it's here that the mystery of human stagnation is finally revealed.

The lowest levels of shame, guilt, fear, and anger are not just abstract concepts. They are dense energies that accumulate and crystallize in the first three energy centers of the body. These three lower portals are the root chakra at the base of the spine linked to survival, safety, and the material world, the sacral chakra below the navel linked to sexuality, relationships and primal creativity, and the solar plexus at the pit of the stomach linked to personal power, identity and self-esteem.

This is the exact location of the invisible prison where 98% of humanity has its life force locked up defining their entire life experience from a perspective of lack and struggle.

When energy is blocked at the first portal, life becomes a constant exhausting worry about money, shelter, and physical safety. The fear of scarcity drains life force even if the person has resources.

In the second portal, stagnant energy shows up as guilt, addictions, insatiable desires, and a never ending cycle of toxic codependent relationships.

And when the main block is in the third portal, life turns into a constant battle for power, control, status, and recognition, fueled by anger and pride that are never satisfied.

Living from these three centers is living in animal survival mode. Even if you live in a mansion and drive a luxury car, you're constantly in a reactive state to the external world, driven by your most basic instincts of safety, reproduction, and domination. Your life is not guided by your soul, but by your most primitive fears and desires. You're not creating your reality. You're merely reacting to it day after day.

Meanwhile, the higher energy centers, the portals to higher consciousness, remain mostly dormant, undernourished. The heart, the portal of unconditional love, 500. The throat, the portal of authentic expression. The third eye, the portal of intuition and wisdom. And the crown, the portal of connection to unity and divine consciousness.

The life force energy which should flow freely through the entire system like a spring gets trapped at the base, spinning in vicious circles of fear, guilt, and anger. That's why your attempts to vibrate love or feel gratitude often seem fake and unsustainable. You're trying to turn on the lights on the top floor of a building whose first three floors are on fire and cut off from power. The life force simply can't reach that high.

This block isn't a design flaw or divine punishment. It's the direct and inevitable result of a defense mechanism we all learned in childhood... a mechanism that in its desperate attempt to protect us from emotional pain ended up becoming the very source of all our adult suffering. It is the root of self-sabotage, repeating patterns, and the feeling of powerlessness.

The real alchemy isn't about adding more light, but about having the courage to descend into those three burning portals and finally release the energy that's been trapped there for so long. This stagnant energy in the three lower portals is the root cause of all the repetitive patterns that haunt you.

It works like an invisible weight tied to your ankles. A vibrational anchor that ensures no matter how high you try to jump, you'll always be pulled back to the same place. It's the hidden force writing the script of your life without your conscious permission.

Have you ever wondered why despite all your efforts, it feels like you're reliving the same dramas, just with different characters and settings? This isn't some cruel coincidence of fate. It's the exact manifestation of that energetic weight.

Think about your relationships. You break up with an unavailable or critical partner, swearing you'll never go through that again. Months later, you find yourself drawn to someone who in a subtly different way repeats the same pattern of abandonment or devaluation.

At work. You quit a job where you felt exploited and unappreciated only to find a new boss and a new culture that deep down make you feel exactly the same. That repetition isn't bad luck. It's your stagnant energy acting like a magnet, attracting people and situations that resonate with the frequency of the original unhealed wound.

When an intense emotion like fear, rejection, or anger happens, especially in childhood, and it's not fully processed, its energy doesn't just magically disappear. It crystallizes in your energy field, lodging itself in the portal that corresponds to its nature. A humiliation lodges as shame in the first portal. A betrayal as pain in the second. An injustice as anger in the third.

A lifetime of small and large repressions of holding back tears and pretending everything's fine creates layer upon layer of that dense energy forming an energetic mass that operates in your subconscious. That mass of unprocessed energy acts like an invisible operating system. It filters your perception of reality, making you see the world through the lens of your pain.

A person with deep scarcity energy, for example, could win the lottery. But their internal programming will lead them to lose it all, whether through bad investments, excessive generosity, or self-sabotage. They need unconsciously to validate the belief that money doesn't last or I don't deserve to be rich.

The outer world simply obeys the command of your dominant inner vibration. The most shocking and exhausting part of all this isn't carrying the weight of these emotions itself. It's the colossal amount of life force you spend every day to keep them suppressed.

Imagine holding a beach ball underwater. The effort to keep it submerged is constant and tiring. That's exactly what you do with your repressed emotions. You use your life force to police your inner world to make sure those monsters in the basement of your psyche don't escape and rise to the surface. That effort of suppression is the true cause of your chronic fatigue, your apathy, your procrastination, and your inability to maintain a high vibration for long.

You're not tired of life. You're exhausted from the silent civil war happening inside you 24/7. You're fighting against yourself. And the only way to win that war isn't to fight harder, but to declare a ceasefire. The only way to win is to surrender. But how do you surrender to something you've spent your whole life fighting and fearing? The answer to that question defies everything we've been taught about strength and control.

The key isn't building taller walls to contain the pain. It's learning how to dismantle the dam that in trying to protect you from becoming your biggest prison. And that dam has a name, a specific mechanism that operates in all of us - a conditioned reflex that is the source of all energetic imprisonment.

From the moment we're born, we learn a dangerous and deeply destructive lesson: That feeling certain things is wrong, unacceptable. Boys don't cry. Good girls don't get angry. Stop being scared. That's silly. No one ever sat next to us and handed us a manual on how to navigate the overwhelming intensity of those energetic waves we call emotions. We weren't taught to feel. We were taught to hide. And so our primary instinct, reinforced by family and society, became to resist at all costs.

When an uncomfortable emotion rises up from within, our entire nervous system goes on high alert. The body tightens, breath shortens, muscles contract. An automatic command fires through our being. A silent mantra echoing in our minds. I don't want to feel this. This is dangerous. I need to make it stop. And that contraction, that denial, that desperate resistance is the very glue that seals the bricks of our energetic prison. It's the act of slamming the door shut on a part of ourselves. What we don't understand in our survival programming is that the emotion itself is harmless.

The word emotion comes from the Latin emo, which means energy in motion. That's all it is. A wave of pure energy that if allowed would pass through our body system in about 90 seconds. As neuroscientists like Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor explain, it's a quick and intense storm. But it passes.

However, by resisting it, by trying to hold it back, we freeze it in time and in the body. We build an internal dam to hold back the river of feelings and the energy that should flow freely turns into a stagnant puddle which over time becomes toxic.

Resistance doesn't protect us from pain. It perpetuates it. It makes it permanent. It's the act of resisting sadness that turns it into a chronic state of depression. It's the resistance to fear that turns it into a generalized anxiety disorder. It's the resistance to anger that turns it into a deep bitterness that corrodes the soul. This escape mechanism, this fight-or-flight reaction turned inward on our own emotional world, may have helped us survive in childhood. It might have kept us alive in a hostile family environment or during abuse where expressing feelings was genuinely dangerous. The problem is that this survival software is still running in our adult operating system long after the original threat is gone. And now it has become the main cause of our suffering.

The energy you spend every day to keep that emotional dam standing is the same energy you're lacking to build the career of your dreams, to nurture a healthy relationship, to take care of your body... or to have mental clarity. You're exhausted because you're in a constant fight against the flow of your own life force that pulses inside you. The way out, therefore, isn't building a stronger dam or finding more efficient distractions. The way out is to do the unthinkable, the counter-intuitive. Learn to open the floodgates.

To open the floodgates, it takes an act of radical courage... an act that goes against all of your programming. You have to stop treating your emotions as enemies and start seeing them for what they really are - messengers, parts of you that were exiled and just want to be heard and reintegrated.

There is a method for doing this, an alchemical principle that transforms the very nature of pain. The ancient alchemists in their dusty labs weren't really trying to transform metal. That was the coded language, the symbolic veil for the most secret, sacred, and powerful process of all, inner alchemy. The lead, dense and heavy, was never about the metal. It was a metaphor for our contracted consciousness, loaded with the density of pain, fear, and shame. And the gold, bright, incorruptible and radiant, was not the precious metal. It was the symbol of enlightened consciousness, free, expanded, and pure.

The technique being revealed to you now is the philosopher's stone itself, the method to transmute the lead of your stagnant energy into the gold of your true self. And the secret of that transmutation is so simple. It disarms and challenges the logical mind.

If resistance is what freezes energy and traps it in the body, then surrender is what melts it and sets it free. The key is doing the exact opposite of what your conditioned survival instinct screams for you to do. Instead of running from the emotion, you turn and face it head on with open eyes. Instead of repressing the feeling, you welcome it into your inner space. Instead of distracting yourself with your phone, work, or food, you give it your full focused unconditional attention.

This act of surrender has nothing to do with giving up, being passive, or becoming a doormat for life. On the contrary, it's an act of supreme courage, a demonstration of inner power. It's the conscious decision to willingly dive into the fire of the sensation you fear the most... trusting that on the other side, there is not the annihilation your mind imagines, but the liberation your soul longs for.

It's walking into the storm instead of trying to build a stronger shelter. This path requires activating that frequency that lives at the 200 level on the Hawkins scale. Courage. Not the physical courage to face an external danger, but the spiritual courage to stop running from yourself. The courage to say yes to your internal experience, whatever it may be. The courage to fully feel the shame, the fear, the guilt, the anger in their totality without the filter of judgment and without the compulsive need to fix, analyze, or change anything at all.

It's an act of radical, unconditional love for the darkest, most wounded, and rejected parts of yourself. It's like hugging a scared child inside you instead of locking them in the basement. And it is in that moment of loving absolute presence that the magic of alchemy happens. The frozen energy under the intense heat of your focused consciousness begins to melt. The lead of pain starts to transform under the immense pressure of your presence. And what emerges is no longer pain, but the pure bright light that was always there, waiting to be rediscovered.

You realize that the pain wasn't the problem. The problem was your resistance to the pain. When you surrender to the sensation, you don't feed it. You metabolize it. The energy that was trapped in a pattern of contraction is finally released to flow again, rising through your energy centers and nourishing the higher portals of your being.

Surrender doesn't make you weak. It makes you an open channel for the power of the universe. And this courageous surrender isn't some abstract concept. It's a practice, a sacred process with clear steps that anyone can apply to begin dismantling the energetic prison brick by brick. It's the practical application of alchemy in your own life. A method to transform your greatest suffering into your greatest strength.

Now, let's get into the practice... the how to, the real life application of this alchemy in your life. When a dense emotion arises, whether it's a wave of panic, a stab of jealousy, or a deep sadness, instead of following the automatic pattern of escape or repression, you will make a conscious pause. You will stop everything and then you will follow these three sacred steps.

The first step is locate the sensation. Close your eyes for a moment. Completely forget the story your mind is telling about why you feel this way. Ignore the drama, the characters, the plot. Bring your attention inward and ask where physically do I feel this. Is it a tightness in your chest that makes it hard to breathe? A lump in your throat that keeps you from speaking? A fire burning in your stomach? An emptiness? A weight on your shoulders? You don't need to give the emotion an intellectual name. Just feel it as a pure raw physical sensation. Give it a place in your body. Acknowledge its physical presence without judgment. Just observe. This simple act of locating begins to separate you from the emotion, turning you from victim into observer.

The second step is the most crucial and the most challenging. Allow full expression. This is the moment of surrender. You're going to give full permission for that energy to move however it wants to. Surrender completely to the sensation. If the urge to cry comes, don't hold back the tears. Cry hard. Sob. Let the pain out. If your body wants to shake, tremble, contort, let it. If there's a scream stuck in your throat, go somewhere safe, like inside your car or with your face buried in a pillow, and let it out. Let go of any need to control the experience or appear civilized. Your only task is to be in a safe space for the energy to move. During this process, your mind will panic. It'll bombard you with victim stories, catastrophic scenarios, harsh self- judgments. You're weak. This is never going to end. It's so and so's fault. Ignore it. Treat those thoughts like background noise from a poorly tuned radio. Keep your focus gently anchored in the physical sensation in your body. The mind wants to pull you into the drama of the story. Your task is to stay with the truth of the energy in the body. The story is the past. The energy is the now. Stay in the now.

The third and final step is breathe through it. Start breathing deeply and consciously, but with a specific intention. Imagine that you're breathing in and sending your breath directly into the center of the physical sensation. Don't breathe to try to push the sensation away or get rid of it. Breathe to be with it, to hold it with your presence, to infuse it with the energy of your awareness. Stay present with the wave of energy, riding it with your breath until it loses strength on its own. You'll know the release has happened because you'll feel an unmistakable physical and energetic shift, a sudden lightness, a sense of space opening where there was once contraction, a deep silence where there was once noise and chaos. It may be subtle or dramatic, but the shift is real.

When you do this fully for the first time, you break a spell that's lasted your whole life. You prove to yourself on a cellular level that you are bigger than any emotion and that freedom doesn't lie in the absence of storms, but in your ability to become the vast sky that allows them all to pass.

This process of conscious release isn't just a wellness tool. It's the gateway to one of the deepest psychological and spiritual works a human being can undertake - the confrontation and integration of your own shadow, the place where your greatest treasures are hidden.

This sacred process of emotional release isn't just a technique to feel better in the moment. It's the key that opens the door to the basement of your psyche. The place Swiss psychologist Carl Jung called the shadow. The shadow is our personal storage room of everything we consider unacceptable, shameful, bad, or weak within ourselves. It's home to our repressed rage, hidden greed, secret envy, denied vulnerability, and feared power. Jung once said it is one of the deepest truths in psychology. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate - your repetitive patterns, your failed relationships, your self-sabotage, your bad luck. It's all your unintegrated shadow at the helm of your ship, steering your life while you, the conscious captain, believe it's all just chance.

Every time you use the release technique and allow yourself to fully feel a repressed emotion, you're actually performing a rescue. You're going down into the basement with a flashlight and bringing a piece of your shadow into the light of awareness. You're rescuing a part of yourself that was exiled long ago. This work requires brutal, relentless honesty with yourself. It's the act of stopping the blame game and finally looking in the mirror.

It's saying without sugar coating, "Yes, that furious rage is mine. Yes, that corrosive envy is mine. Yes, that desperate neediness is mine. Yes, that paralyzing fear is mine. And when you do that, when you take ownership of your own darkness, something miraculous happens. You stop projecting it onto the outside world. You stop seeing others as the cause of your problems... the tyrant boss, the narcissistic partner, the backstabbing friend, the corrupt government. You begin to realize they weren't the cause of your pain, but actors hired by your subconscious. They were mirrors reflecting the energy of the shadow you refused to see and feel within yourself.

The universe was sending you messengers to show you what was in your basement. But instead of thanking the message, you were smashing the mirror and blaming the messenger.

When you integrate the shadow, you fire the actors and take the lead role in your own life. Facing the shadow can be terrifying at first because we're dismantling the false idealized image we've built of ourselves, the persona of the good one, the spiritual one, the victim.

There's a deep and liberating secret in this process. The shadows we fear most aren't our enemies. They are actually our greatest allies, the guardians of our greatest treasures and powers. They are parts of our life force that have been fragmented and distorted.

In the darkness of your repressed rage, you won't find evil. You'll find your strength, your passion, your ability to set healthy boundaries and say no. In the depths of your uncried grief, you'll find your immense capacity to love deeply and connect with others. In the vulnerability of your fear, you won't find weakness. You'll find your indomitable courage and sensitivity.

The shadow contains the power you gave up in order to be accepted. By integrating the shadow, you don't become a perfect flawless being. You become whole. And that wholeness, that integration of light and darkness is the true source of personal power and authenticity.

You stop living a divided life and become a unified being. And this practice of integration isn't a one-time event. It's a continuous discipline, a new way of living that turns your everyday life into a journey of constant alchemy.

True spiritual transformation doesn't happen in a weekend retreat or a single cathartic event. Those moments can be powerful catalysts, but real mastery is built in the fabric of daily life. The release of a major emotional load can bring immense relief and a significant vibrational boost. But true freedom comes through constant disciplined practice.

Inner alchemy becomes a new way of life, a spiritual discipline that integrates into every moment of your day. Use this technique of feeling and releasing for everything, not just for big crisis.

That small irritation that shows up in traffic, the twinge of anxiety before an important meeting, the subtle sadness when you see an old photo, the sting of envy while scrolling through social media. Each one of these small emotional reactions is an invitation to the practice. Each one is a golden opportunity to release one more little layer of stagnant energy to clear a bit more of the basement and become a little freer, a little lighter.

Don't wait for the flood. Learn to deal with each drop. Create simple daily rituals to support your inner alchemy. Start the day not by grabbing your phone, but with a few minutes of silence. Close your eyes and just feel your body. What's the state of your energy today? Is there tension, anxiety, peace? Just observe without judgment, like checking the weather. And at the end of the day, before bed, take 5 or 10 minutes to do an emotional checkout. Ask yourself, what did I swallow today? What didn't I allow myself to feel in the rush of the day?

Then process whatever comes up. Be patient and deeply compassionate with yourself during this process. Some emotions, especially those repressed for decades, like childhood trauma or pain from past relationships, carry an immense energetic load. They are like icebergs, and you only see the tip.

You may need to revisit the same feeling of abandonment or injustice many times, releasing small pieces each time, layer by layer, like peeling an onion. There's no rush. You're undoing a lifetime of conditioning. Every layer released is victory.

With each consistent practice, you'll start to notice a subtle but profound shift in your life. Your overall reactivity will drop dramatically. Situations and people that used to drive you crazy and steal your peace for hours or days will start to feel strangely neutral. You'll observe them, maybe feel a small flicker of the old emotion, but it won't stick to you anymore. It will pass through you like a passing cloud instead of settling in like a storm. You'll feel lighter, more present, more grounded in yourself, less dependent on validation or other people's behavior to feel okay. This is the undeniable proof that the technique is working.

Your dominant vibration, your energetic set point is rising on the scale of consciousness. And this rise isn't temporary or forced like it was before. It's permanent because you're not just changing your mood. You're rewriting your very energetic structure from the ground up. And as this new energetic structure solidifies, something extraordinary starts to happen in the world around you. Your new, clearer, higher vibrational signature begins to interact with the quantum field in a completely different way, tuning into an entirely new reality.

As you continue to practice daily alchemy, clearing the energetic static from your three lower portals, something extraordinary and inevitable begins to happen. Your vibrational signature, the sum total of your energetic frequency, becomes clearer, more coherent, and higher. And the quantum field, the sea of infinite potential from which all matter emerges, starts responding to this new transmission. The field doesn't respond to your wishes, your words, or your vision boards. It responds solely and exclusively to your dominant frequency, your state of being.

When your vibration was anchored in fear, guilt, and scarcity, you were tuned in like a radio to a station that only played songs of struggle, hardship, and limitation. And the universe, like an obedient DJ, gave you exactly that, more experiences that confirmed and reinforced your low frequency. You weren't unlucky. You were perfectly tuned into a reality of bad luck.

The law of resonance is impersonal and infallible. Like attracts like, always. As you practice release and raise your frequency to the levels of courage, acceptance, and eventually love and joy, you change your radio station. You tune into a completely new field of possibilities. A parallel reality that's always been available, but was invisible to you from your old frequency.

The new vibration you emit begins to naturally sync with events, people, and opportunities that match it. Synchronicity becomes your new normal. The right people show up in your life at the exact moment you need them. Opportunities that once seemed out of reach suddenly appear out of nowhere, like they just fell into your lap. The solution to a problem that's haunted you for years suddenly becomes obvious during a moment of insight in the shower. This isn't magic in the superstitious sense of the word. It's physics. It's the law of resonance in action.

Clear and direct. You're no longer fighting against the current of life. You've become the current itself. The universe which once seemed indifferent, random, or even hostile starts to reveal itself as your greatest partner, your co-creator. Things begin to flow to you in a way that's much faster, more enjoyable, and effortless. You realize the deep and liberating truth that the universe doesn't give you what you want. It gives you what you are. Manifestation stops being a process of forcing, chasing, and struggling and becomes a process of allowing, receiving, and being. You become a conscious co-creator, an active partner in the dance of creation. The world around you transforms into a faithful mirror of the peace, clarity, and power you finally claimed within yourself. You stop trying to change the reflection in the mirror and start working on the one looking into it. And the reflection has no choice but to change to match your new internal image.

This new reality isn't the final goal. It's just the natural consequence of something much greater, much deeper, and infinitely more valuable: The attainment of your permanent freedom - the ultimate goal of this journey. The true treasure at the end of the road was never about reaching a state of perpetual happiness or never feeling a negative emotion again. That's a childish fantasy that only leads to more frustration.

The real goal, the supreme prize is freedom. The freedom to no longer be a slave to your unconscious and reactive patterns. The freedom to no longer be a puppet of your past traumas and your fears about the future. The freedom to be the master of your own inner universe. It's the freedom to feel the full spectrum of the human experience from the deepest pain to the most ecstatic joy. Knowing that you have the capacity to allow any wave to pass through you without destroying you, without defining you.

It's the freedom to be authentically yourself with all your light and all your shadow in a state of wholeness, integration, and quiet power. Every day you practice, you become more free because you're not clinging to any emotion and you're not repressing any either. You become the silent observer, the vast sky that allows all clouds, light or dark, to pass without resistance.

In this state of inner freedom, the power to manifest the reality you desire becomes a natural consequence of your being, no longer a desperate goal to chase. You no longer need complex visualization techniques, vision boards, or manifestation rituals because your own clear and elevated vibrational signature is the most powerful magnet there is.

You naturally align with your soul's purpose and the entire universe conspires to support this unique and divine expression. That is you. The scribe taught that every thought is a spell and every word is a portal. Now you understand this not as a metaphor but on a cellular energetic level.

You have become the scribe of your own reality, the alchemist of your own being. You've learned to take the heavy lead of your pain, your fear, and your shame, and transmute it through the fire of your conscious presence into the radiant gold of your true essence. You're no longer at the mercy of life. You dance with it.

This information found you at this exact moment because you were ready. The call of your soul for freedom became louder than the noise of your fear. The secret that has been hidden for millennia, veiled in symbols and metaphors, now pulses through your veins as living knowledge, as direct experience.

You faced your shadows and discovered they were guarding your greatest treasures. You broke free from the prison of the three lower portals and opened the way for the energy of life to flow through your heart. The journey has been deep. The transformation is real and irreversible. The life you once knew is over. A new existence vibrating at a higher, clearer, and freer frequency has just begun. The book of your life, which once felt like it was written by someone else, is now blank with open pages, waiting for a new author. Pick up the pen. That author is you.

from YouTube @TheHermeticCodex on October 12, 2025