Letting Go of Control: Surrendering to the Emerging Reality

 

Dear Readers, these messages are intended to help you who chose to be on earth at this time to better understand what is presently taking place. Many of you had concepts about what the ascension process would look like, and what is presently unfolding is not what you had expected.

What you are seeing in the outer world is not just “three dimensional business as usual” but represents a phase of the Divine plan that is moving earth and collective consciousness closer to reality. Earth is not an inanimate piece of dirt to be used and abused, but is a living soul, an expression of the Divine just as every individual and life form is. Most as of yet do not realize this, but are moving and will continue to move closer to it.

The dense three dimensional energies you see presently manifesting on earth are not the new and higher resonating ones of ascension but are of the past, serving as catalysts to open the eyes of those choosing to remain aligned with duality, separation, control, and domination as they surface in order to be seen, rejected, and cleared.

Evolved masters throughout time have attempted to explain oneness to anyone who would listen, but the majority continues to live in, experience, and view life through conditioned states of consciousness. God has never expressed ITself as any form of separation because separation does not and can not exist in omnipresence. God knows nothing about what mankind is ignorantly dreaming however, being creators, the collective acceptance of and belief in separation as reality has and continues to manifest as an illusory three dimensional world.

No one can remain forever in a state of illusion because the reality of being Divine Consciousness will at a point of readiness break through anything having no law to support or sustain it. Experiences of separation eventually bring every person to seek something other than the constant struggle, disease, and suffering they are used to. The Divine spark that every person carries within is always whispering that there is more. Earth was not meant to be a three dimensional school of evolution but became one under the influence of a collective consciousness based in separation.

Mankind has reached a place of spiritual readiness for the ascension process. Much is about to unfold both globally and personally because the intense waves of high frequency energy now pouring to earth are increasing and automatically affecting everything of a lower resonance, the result of which can be seen in the activities of chaos and fear you are witnessing.

Incoming high frequency energies are integrating into the cells of the body causing some individuals to have a physical reaction. Some physical cells are interpreting the new, higher, and different frequencies as being foreign objects, and are manifesting forms of resistance – immune system reactions, pain, allergies, nausea, etc. If this is your experience, don’t panic. Do what you need to do to be comfortable. You may need some temporary help from your physician, but most won’t.

If you need to get some outside help, do it without thinking that you are reverting to an old state of consciousness. Help is available on all levels and is an expression of love even when seen as being ordinary and three dimensional. The main thing is to remember who and what you really are and that what you are going through is an important part of your journey out of the old. Speak to your cells and tell them what is happening. Love your body, pamper it a bit but most importantly trust the process to unfold as it needs to because your Higher Self is in charge. These things are temporary. Resist nothing.

Survival on earth has always been somewhat dependent on a person’s ability to control situations, but striving to always being in control is a third dimensional concept based in fear. Control is doing whatever it takes to make people and situations do and be the way the controller thinks they must be in the belief that their control is for the betterment of everyone involved, even when it involves force rather than firm loving guidance. Actions based in control underlay the decisions and actions of all who live from three dimensional state of consciousness - parents, families, government, religion, education, law, etc. and continues to be considered normal living.

Anxiety, depression, and worry flow from feelings of not being in control, but spiritual evolution requires that at some point every person stop trying to control according to three dimensional concepts of how things must be, and allow the Real you, the Divine Self within, to control. As the AA saying goes; “Let go and let God”. Not some nebulous God out there somewhere, but the real God within.

Every time you find yourself trying to make something happen, force an outcome, or believe that something has failed because it did not meet your or the world’s expectations, sit back and examine yourself for control issues. Ask yourself; “What am I believing that is making me feel this way? In the Light of what I now know, is it true?” Remember, every thing in consciousness, big or small will manifest because as expressions of God, you are creators and consciousness is the substance from which you create.

We are not saying to sit back doing nothing when situations arise that need addressing saying “Oh God will do it” for that is almost always pretending a state of consciousness not yet attained. We are saying that you are entering a time of surrender, a spiritual readiness to step aside and consciously allow the wisdom, intelligence, power, completeness, life, abundance, and control that is already fully present within, to be in control.

Control is a tool that was necessary for survival in the past but that has changed as consciousness has evolved. However, because it remains a firmly established and universally acceptable means of keeping things the way society believes they must be, control continues to influence the simplest and most ordinary decisions of daily living with family, friends, play, work, and even in one’s spiritual journey. Recognize habits of control in situations where you find yourself doing and saying everything you can to make some outcome conform to the way you think it must be.

Spiritually, you are ready to surrender control to the real controller, the Divine Consciousness that you are, the real SELF silently awaiting recognition. Allow the process which involves no longer accepting and surrendering to three dimensional concepts and beliefs, but rather accepting that the real you, Divine Consciousness individualized, is by Divine Law the only real control infinitely governing, maintaining and sustaining Itself.

Go within often during the day, if even for a second to remind yourself that “I AM”. You are in a powerful time of the ascension process right now, even if it seems as if things are in a holding pattern. The incoming high resonating Light energies are going to expose information that will leave even those of you who are aware of it to be shocked and unbelieving.

Exposure must happen in order for the long hidden controlling activities of those attempting to maintain the illusion of separation to be seen by the majority. Be prepared because you will be helping many who simply do not understand what is happening or why. Long established foundations built from illusion must crumble in order for new, higher, and more real ones to replace them.

Rest in truth. Let go of attempts to control in the realization that a Divine Controller is already fully present and functioning within. Allow the process, surrendering to the reality that you are. We are the Arcturian Group.

channeled by Marilyn Raffaele on September 14, 2025 at OnenessofAll.com

We Were Made for These Times

 

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.

I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now. It is true, one has to have strong cojones and ovarios to withstand much of what passes for “good” in our culture today. Abject disregard of what the soul finds most precious and irreplaceable and the corruption of principled ideals have become, in some large societal arenas, “the new normal,” the grotesquerie of the week.

It is hard to say which one of the current egregious matters has rocked people’s worlds and beliefs more. Ours is a time of almost daily jaw-dropping astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

…You are right in your assessments. The luster and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking.

Yet … I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is – we were made for these times.

Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement. I cannot tell you often enough that we are definitely the leaders we have been waiting for, and that we have been raised, since childhood, for this time precisely.

…I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able crafts in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

I would like to take your hands for a moment and assure you that you are built well for these times. Despite your stints of doubt, your frustrations in arighting all that needs change right now, or even feeling you have lost the map entirely, you are not without resource, you are not alone.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. In your deepest bones, you have always known this is so.

Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a forest greater. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

… We have been in training for a dark time such as this, since the day we assented to come to Earth. For many decades, worldwide, souls just like us have been felled and left for dead in so many ways over and over — brought down by naiveté, by lack of love, by suddenly realizing one deadly thing or another, by not realizing something else soon enough, by being ambushed and assaulted by various cultural and personal shocks in the extreme.

We all have a heritage and history of being gutted, and yet remember this especially … we have also, of necessity, perfected the knack of resurrection.

Over and over again we have been the living proof that that which has been exiled, lost, or foundered – can be restored to life again. This is as true and sturdy a prognosis for the destroyed worlds around us as it was for our own once mortally wounded selves.

…Though we are not invulnerable, our risibility supports us to laugh in the face of cynics who say “fat chance,” and “management before mercy,” and other evidences of complete absence of soul sense. This, and our having been ‘to Hell and back’ on at least one momentous occasion, makes us seasoned vessels for certain. Even if you do not feel that you are, you are.

Even if your puny little ego wants to contest the enormity of your soul, the smaller self can never for long subordinate the larger Self. In matters of death and rebirth, you have surpassed the benchmarks many times. Believe the evidence of any one of your past testings and trials. Here it is: Are you still standing? The answer is, Yes! (And no adverbs like “barely” are allowed here). If you are still standing, ragged flags or no, you are able. Thus, you have passed the bar. And even raised it. You are seaworthy.

…In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency too to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn’t you say you were a believer? Didn’t you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn’t you ask for grace? Don’t you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the Voice greater? You have all the resource you need to ride any wave, to surface from any trough.

…In the language of aviators and sailors, ours is to sail forward now, all balls out. Understand the paradox: If you study the physics of a waterspout, you will see that the outer vortex whirls far more rapidly than the inner one. To calm the storm means to quiet the outer layer, to cause it, by whatever countervailing means, to swirl much less, to more evenly match the velocity of the inner, far less volatile core – till whatever has been lifted into such a vicious funnel falls back to Earth, lays down, is peaceable again.

One of the most important steps you can take to help calm the storm is to not allow yourself to be taken in a flurry of overwrought emotion or despair – thereby accidentally contributing to the swale and the swirl. Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely.

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts – adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take “everyone on Earth” to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

…One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.

The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires … causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both — are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

…There will always be times in the midst of “success right around the corner, but as yet still unseen” when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours: They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here.

In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But … that is not what great ships are built for.

...This comes with much love and prayer that you remember Who you came from, and why you came to this beautiful, needful Earth.

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes at scienceandnonduality.com

The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

 

From Wikipedia: The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead refer to a classification of states of consciousness into six broad types, encompassing the entire spectrum of human experience from birth to rebirth. These bardos are derived from the Bardo Thodol, commonly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text revealed by the tertön Karma Lingpa. The first three bardos are experienced during life, while the last three occur during the death and rebirth process.

The first bardo is the Bardo of Birth and Life (Kyenay bardo), which begins at conception and lasts until death, encompassing all conscious experiences of daily life. The second is the Bardo of Dreaming (Milam bardo), a subset of the first bardo experienced during sleep when dreaming, offering an opportunity to practice dream yoga. The third is the Bardo of Meditation (Samten bardo), a state of deep meditation experienced primarily by advanced practitioners, also considered a subset of the first bardo.

The fourth bardo, the Bardo of the Moment of Death (Chikhai bardo), begins when the signs of death become apparent and continues through the dissolution of the elements until the final breath is taken, leading to the state of the clear light of death. The fifth bardo, the Bardo of Reality or Luminosity (Chönyi bardo), follows the final inner breath and is characterized by visions and profound peace, known in Dzogchen teachings as spontaneously manifesting Tögal visions. The sixth and final bardo is the Bardo of Becoming or Rebirth (Sidpa bardo), during which consciousness takes on a mental body and continues until the new life form is established based on karmic seeds.

The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a guide by Dzogchen masters Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, provides teachings on these states, exploring key ideas from the Bardo Thodol and offering guidance for confronting challenges fearlessly. The book, published on October 15, 2024, by Inner Traditions, aims to prepare the mind for the dissolution experience in a friendly and reassuring way.

Forward to The Six Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

by Paul Levi

I’d like to start off this foreword by reflecting back to you, at least in my opinion, how fortunate—indeed, blessed—you are to have come across this book. These are authentic teachings, transmitted by realized teachers, whose sole purpose is to help liberate us from our mind-created prison and awaken us to our true nature so we can remember who we actually are.

The teachings contained in this book are not abstract theories or mere speculations; they are pure, unmediated instructions on how to realize our true nature that have been passed down through an unbroken lineage of enlightened masters going back thousands of years, to Shakyamuni Buddha, and to Guru Padmasambhava, the great eighth-century siddha regarded as the Buddha of our age, who concealed these teachings as a mind treasure, or terma, to be revealed at a later time when conditions are right. That time is now.

These teachings undo one little but enormously consequential mistake that all but the most enlightened among us unconsciously make: in essence, as if falling under a spell, we have succumbed to the chronic habitual pattern of contracting against our own light and clinging to a false sense of a separate self, and this has fed a sense of lack and scarcity and a kind of existential insecurity about who we truly are. This is a form of grasping, a holding onto and becoming attached to the way our conditioned mind thinks and believes things—including ourselves—exist. It is a pattern that we continuously enact beneath our conscious awareness, which means it is rendered unconscious. Unless illumined and seen through, this dynamic develops into what in Buddhism is called “ego clinging.” As a result, we invest much of our precious life force in identifying with, defending, and protecting this fictitious identity, this separate egoic self that doesn’t even exist in the way that we’ve been imagining it does. As if weaving a cocoon around our own true nature, we unwittingly suffocate ourselves by identifying with this self-created egoic illusion, a process that endlessly generates a whole host of other illusions that become mutually self-reinforcing. No one is doing this to us—we are doing this to ourselves. This is the essence of the madness that afflicts the human species.

This is a great danger that Western psychiatrist C. G. Jung warned us about—to mistakenly identify with what he called the “fictive personality,” a process that informs and gives shape to the collective insanity that is currently being enacted all over the world. This idea is supported by the revelations of quantum physics, which has been described as “the crowning intellectual achievement of the last century.”* In essence, the wisdom that has been unlocked in discovering the quantum is comparable to the insights that the spiritual masters of the East have already realized. The teachings that Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, affectionately known by their students worldwide as “the Khenpo Rinpoches,” are offering here transcend time, place, and culture and are truly universal. And even though Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche passed away in 2010—notably only weeks after his final teachings, which are found in this book—his wisdom and compassion permeate the three times. His reincarnation, Khenchen Yangsi Rinpoche, was found in 2016 (the term yangsi is used to refer to the reincarnation of a master).

The dynamic that fuels the ongoing creation and maintenance of this false identity, whose origin and cure is to be found nowhere except within our own minds, drives us into a state of delusion in which we become disoriented and deranged, thereby obscuring the awareness of our true nature. These teachings reveal us exactly as we are, which is to say they reveal our true nature, which is always with us and is already liberated. They help us open our spiritual eyes so that we can finally see, thus healing the chronic, self-induced psychospiritual blindness that afflicts our species.

I have had the honor of knowing and studying with the Khenpo Rinpoches for about forty years. Connecting with these masters has truly been one of the greatest blessings of my life. After meeting the Khenpos I remember feeling so incredibly fortunate, like I had won the lottery a trillion times over. Not quite able to believe my good fortune in finding beings like the Khenpos living in the middle of the samsara that is New York City, I took full advantage of their availability, trying my best to do the practices they taught, which literally transformed my life, leading me to find both my vocation as well as myself. I feel true joy and happiness in being able to share with you what has helped heal and transform my own life.

When I first met the Khenpo Rinpoches in 1984, I was going through a particularly difficult time in my life. They never turned down my seemingly endless requests to meet with them (typically every week), offering me support in every way they possibly could, even going out of their way if they thought it would help. At a meeting with some of my fellow students years later, I shared how the Khenpos had quite literally saved my life. I quickly realized that I wasn’t the only one in the room whose lives they—and their teachings—had saved. The teachings they offer—the nectar of Dharma—can be likened to life-giving oxygen for the soul.

I am of the opinion that one of the Khenpos’ siddhis, which can be conceived of as being superhero powers that are the result of realization, is their incredible ability to teach and transmit the Dharma. I have personally received teachings from great masters of many different traditions, but have never received such direct, embodied, psycho-activating transmissions—as if from one heart and mind to another—as when the Khenpos teach the Dharma. The Khenpos are considered to be two of the greatest scholar-practitioners in all of Tibetan history. In my mind they are the personification of the archetype of the enlightened teacher in human form. I think of them as a two-headed bodhisattva whose sole raison d’etre for being on this planet at this time is to help humanity wake up and remember who we are.

Years ago, when the Khenpos were visiting me in Portland, Oregon, I set up teachings for them that I had advertised as “teachings and transmissions.” As we were driving to one of the venues, I reminded them that they were not only to give a teaching, they were also supposed to give a transmission. As soon as I said this, the Khenpos broke into hysterical laughter. I immediately “got the transmission” and realized the absurdity of what I had just said. Because they had so consciously integrated and realized their own true nature, their very physical presence, along with their teachings, was the transmission! In other words, they so embodied the Dharma teachings about our true nature, which is all about love, compassion, and wisdom, that they effortlessly and naturally could transmit their realization in each and every moment. In essence, the Khenpo Rinpoches had become transparent to the divine light that shines through all of us—what they call “the sunlight of our inborn nature of primordial wisdom.” The light of this realization is available to each and every one of us if we but have the eyes to see.

I’ve had other lamas who knew the Khenpos tell me that in Tibet they are thought of as living buddhas. The word buddha means one who has awakened to the dreamlike nature of reality. This is to say that a buddha is someone who has awakened to the empirical reality that this universe is a shared collective dream that we—all of us—are dreaming into material form moment by moment. To the extent that we are asleep to our true nature, however, we are instead using our innate power to create our experience against ourselves instead of in service to ourselves. Awakening to the dreamlike nature of ourselves and our situation and discovering our true nature is the medicine needed for the collective insanity that ails our species.

Though Khenchen Rinpoche left his body in 2010, his living spirit comes through the teachings in this book so strongly that it is as if he is fully present with us as we read his words. These very teachings are a form of his subtle body and spiritual legacy that he has left behind for our benefit. There is a sense that linear time has collapsed between the time when he gave these teachings and this very “now” moment. In reading his words, we are—potentially, depending on how open we are—receiving a living transmission directly from his realization into our minds.

The Khenpo Rinpoches are masters of our times, two holders of the Dzogchen (“Great Perfection”) lineage, which is considered to be the supreme, ultimate, and simplest path to liberation in the Buddhadharma. I am of the opinion that the arrival of Dzogchen teachings in the West is the most profound spiritual event that has happened in our world in two thousand years—an event that has as its scientific equivalent the emergence of quantum physics in the early twentieth century. The Dzogchen teachings are not ordinary Buddhist teachings. Dzogchen is not an ordinary practice, and yet it couldn’t be more natural. Because of their psychospiritual power, these teachings were kept secret until relatively recently. Like a time-released hidden treasure, or terma, these teachings are being revealed and shared at the exact moment in time when they are most needed by the world.

In Dzogchen, there is nothing to purify, nothing to transform, nothing to liberate, nothing to exorcise, and literally nothing to do other than recognize and then rest and abide in our true nature. One morning over breakfast, as if giving me a personal transmission, Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche simply said to me, “My one practice is to not get distracted.” This is Dzogchen in a nutshell: recognize our intrinsically pure nature and don’t forget it. This is true anamnesia (the opposite of amnesia)—an “unforgetting” not of a past historical event, but a remembering of something timeless that partakes in the eternal that exists within each of us in every moment.

Dzogchen, the “Diamond Vehicle” (vajra translates as “diamond”), is the pinnacle of the Vajrayana tradition and is also known as “Tantrayana.” In laying the foundation for the realization of our true nature, practitioners of this tradition do practices such as reciting mantra and visualizing deities, thereby engaging their body, speech, and mind. Though the countless variety of tantric deities looks just like the polytheism of old, these deities are not seen as external figures that the practitioner believes in and worships, but rather are understood as representing the diverse qualities of the enlightened mind. To use the language of psychology, these various deities symbolize the multifaceted archetype of the Self, our own deepest and most true nature.

In tantra we focus our attention on the archetypal image of the deity and identify with it in order to arouse the awakened aspects of ourselves, bringing these qualities into our present reality. In these visualization practices, the practitioner is instructed to not just see the visualized deity that symbolizes our enlightened nature as being outside of and separate from ourselves, but to merge with the essential qualities of the deity, thereby identifying with the deity to the point where we creatively imagine ourselves as being the deity itself. This is why tantra is also referred to as “deity yoga.” In doing so, we are tuning in to and helping to bring forth in ourselves what the deity symbolically represents—the part of us that is already healed, whole, and awake.

Some of these deities are in sexual union—called yab-yum—which can easily mislead the uninitiated reader to mistakenly think Buddhist tantra is about sexual techniques, without realizing that these tantric deities represent the union of opposites, the coming together of the masculine and feminine parts of ourselves. This is none other than the hieros gamos of alchemy, the sacred marriage, which symbolizes the wholeness of our being. The practice of tantra is a powerful method to swiftly attain the state whereby we can serve and be of maximum benefit to all beings. Tantra helps us realize that the peaceful and wrathful deities mentioned in the title of this book—which we will invariably encounter in what is called the bardo of death—are ultimately nothing more than projections of our own mind. Once recognized as such, these deities reveal themselves to be the very means for our liberation. In essence, tantra is all about helping us wake up and become lucid in the dream of waking life.

These practices help us realize that our very sense of identity, being a function of our creative imagination and a construct of (i.e., something constructed by) our mind, is malleable. In our evocation, visualization, and identification with the deity, we are not merely creating a fabrication, imagining something that doesn’t exist or isn’t real, but rather through an act of creative imagination we are skillfully getting in touch with and becoming familiar with our always available and already existing enlightened nature. The view of Vajrayana is that within our deepest selves we are already perfect, complete, whole, and enlightened. These visualization practices are a way of dissolving our limited conception of ourselves in order to get in touch with—and embody—who we truly are, our buddha nature.

At the end of the visualization practice we are instructed to dissolve the visualization of the deity as ourself, for this can easily become a subtle form of ego-clinging and inflation, at which point we have arrived at the doorway to the state of Dzogchen, the open-ended, spacious emptiness and intrinsic freedom of our true nature. These visualization practices are thus the skillful means by which we creatively and consciously engage with the natural projective tendencies of the mind. On the one hand, projections in our day-to-day lives create separation between people. Our unconscious projections on others, for example, get in the way of our seeing them as they really are. In Tibetan Buddhism, visualization practices consciously take advantage of our natural tendency to project the unknown parts of ourselves outside of ourselves. Just as psychology teaches us to withdraw our unconscious projections and find their source within ourselves, in these visualization practices we are instructed to recognize that the visualized deity is, like a mirror, reflecting back to us the awakened part of ourselves. We are invited to own and step into what the deity is symbolically revealing to us, a process that helps us deepen our intimate connection with our awakened nature, which has always been with us.

The Khenpo Rinpoches lived through their own hellish, harrowing, life-and-death ordeal of escaping Tibet during the Chinese invasion in 1959. They were refugees in India for many years before coming to the United States in 1984, which is to say that the Khenpos have known and experienced the suffering of samsara firsthand. Talking about their status as longtime refugees, the elder Khenpo, Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, one day said to me, “Everywhere I go is my home,” which is a perfect expression of having found the ultimate refuge of his true nature within himself.

The Dzogchen realization is said to “cure the disease of effort,” which implies that not only is there no effort involved in this realization, but that effort is itself the obscuration. Meeting the Khenpos makes this statement understandable, as they are always completely relaxed, at ease in the moment, just simply being themselves, living and being in the fullness of the natural state of what it is to be an authentic, openhearted human being. They are simply in service to the field of consciousness that we all share, modeling the very opposite of being anxious and stressed-out in a world gone mad. The congruence and coherence of their very being and the teachings they share offer us a doorway into that same state, a state that is always freely available to us. After all, it is our very nature that the Khenpos are effortlessly pointing to, reflecting at us, embodying, and transmitting.

The teachings contained in this book are pointing at the dreamlike nature of the universe while simultaneously being an expression of that very dreamlike nature at which they are pointing. As the Khenpos say again and again, “Everything is a dream.” They counsel us to deeply reflect on the dreamlike nature of our situation. Why? In their own words, “Because it’s really true.” From the perspective of the teachings, which reveal the dreamlike nature of our situation in this and every moment, you, dear reader, have dreamed up these very teachings so as to potentially awaken yourself! But as the teachings state, you have to implement, put into practice, actualize, and bring into the core of your heart these teachings in order for them to effectively reveal your true nature. And what is our true nature? To quote the Khenpo Rinpoches, “Our nature is love. Our nature is compassion. Our nature is intelligence. Our nature is wisdom. Our nature is beautiful, and we’re going to bring that up. This is known as ‘practice.’”

It is not an accident that these profound and liberating teachings you now hold in your hands have appeared within the waking dream you are currently having. From the point of view of the teachings themselves, this can only be because of previous virtuous activities on your part that have paved the way for you to connect with such wisdom. My only advice is to take full advantage of your incredibly good fortune. Receive the teachings into your heart and do the practice—bring up and share with the world your beautiful inner heart qualities of love and compassion.

I can only imagine how our world would be utterly transformed as more people take in and earnestly practice the teachings contained in this book. These teachings are quite literally the medicine that can heal our world. Change in our world, however, truly starts with the individual, with each one of us. As the teachings themselves point out, our life—just like a dream—is ephemeral and impermanent. Why not make the most of the precious opportunity that life in the form of these truly sacred teachings is offering to us? As the Khenpo Rinpoches say, “Now is the time to ignite our inner light.” What could possibly be more important than accomplishing what we are here to do—to realize who we truly are and let our light shine so that we can help others do the same.

To Make America Great Again, Start Here

 

It's a big ask, but let's de-politicize the phrase "make America great again" and consider what this would actually entail, not as a lobbyists' grab-bag of tax breaks for the wealthy and arcane giveaways in 500-page Congressional bills, but as a restoration of the fundamental foundations of greatness.

In the conventional contexts of the current era, this boils down to ideology and finance. If we dial back culture-war over-reach and free up "market forces," for example, this will restore America's greatness.

The problem with all this kind of thinking is it's superficial and banal, for it ignores the real source of America's decline: the moral rot that has eroded every institution and every nook and cranny of our society. Whenever I mention this moral rot, I get immediate push-back of this sort: corruption has always been around, so today is no different from previous eras.

While it's self-evident that self-interest and greed manifest as corruption, it's not true that the systemic corruption of the present is no different from previous eras--it's worse, much worse because it's now normalized, and so we accept the most outrageous forms of corruption as "normal."

So private equity buys a company, loads it with debt, transfers all the borrowed cash to the private equity "owners," and then leaves the company a sinking hulk that soon declares bankruptcy. Or when private equity snaps up hospitals and healthcare clinics and prices rise not for better service but to "reward the owners," this plundering of "healthcare" is just good solid MBA-school maximization of shareholder value.

What few seem to notice is the barriers that limited the pillage and plundering of the private and public-sectors have all eroded or been hollowed out. The legal framework is now a mirror-image of the financial sector, a series of facades that mask the pillage and plundering: of course it's profitable, but it's also legal.

The social barriers have also been dismantled. There are no taboos left, as "anything goes" is the modern zeitgeist. The notion that corporations have a social responsibility to the community they're embedded in is now a quaint whiff of nostalgia, along with the notion that corporations have an implicit responsibility to serve the larger national interests as well as "shareholder value."

Every institution has been hollowed out by self-service. Is it any wonder than younger generations have near-zero trust in institutions, given that their PR veneer of "public service" is just a cover for milking the system for private gain?

If you read histories of capitalism you discover that "capitalism" only functions as advertised if it is embedded in a moral order, something Adam Smith understood.

In early European capitalism, Christianity (Catholic and Protestant) provided this moral order. In China, Confucianism provided the moral foundation of the society and the economic - political structures.

If we truly want to make America great again, as opposed to using the slogan as cover for more grift and graft, then we have to start by recognizing the moral sinkhole we're in. Institutions, the government and corporations have all lost our trust because they're all cesspools of self-serving corruption.

No, this is not "normal" or "the way it's always been." Those are the excuses we deploy to avoid facing the truth: our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it's no longer even seen as corruption, it's just business as usual.

There will be consequences, for a society that lacks a moral foundation is a society shorn of value, a society of fakery, PR and narrative control designed to mask maximizing my gain regardless of consequences pillage and plunder.

When a hard rain finally falls, it will surprise us, for in our grandiosity and hubris, we imagined we were gods, immune to the fatal consequences of our corruption.

from the blog of Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com on July 4, 2025

The Hidden Powers of Water That Shape Our Health

 

Healthy water creates the structure, solidity and circulation throughout the body and plays a critical role in preventing many common "inexplicable" diseases.

Throughout history, scientists have discovered water has a variety of largely unrecognized properties (e.g., vortex motion) that are necessary for life to function.

Many of these result from water having a 4^th phase in between a solid and liquid, where it behaves like a liquid crystal and is essential for biology.

Liquid crystalline water provides the strength and stability to the body, alongside creating barriers that protect the blood vessels and joints from wear. It also continually expands, creating the energy source that drives the muscles and nerves.

It also spontaneously generates flows within the body and is responsible for many minute circulations within the body that otherwise cannot be explained (as they lack pumps).

The formation of liquid crystalline water goes hand in hand with zeta potential, the electrical charge that allows substances within fluids (e.g., blood cells) to remain separated, and which when disrupted, triggers a wide range of diseases (e.g., vaccines frequently cause micro-strokes).

This article will explore the vital roles of liquid crystalline water and zeta potential and how that knowledge can be used to support your own health in numerous challenging conditions (e.g., EMF sensitivity, hyper mobility atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure, migraines, impaired wound healing).

To maintain the illusion of knowing everything, science will often choose to simply ignore phenomena which are too complex for its existing models to explain. So, despite water having a myriad of remarkable properties necessary for life, few are recognized by science and the many scientists who’ve recognized the hidden side of water are largely forgotten.

For example, German naturalist Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) discovered that much of what water accomplishes in nature arises from its travel not in a linear manner, but rather in constant spirals and vortices, and created many revolutionary devices.

In parallel, a team of Russian physiologists discovered the heart causes blood to travel in spiraling vortices, which drastically increases blood’s momentum and allows the heart to precisely direct where each type of blood goes within the body.

In short, water is thought of as a uniform, evenly mixed (homogenous) substance that exists to facilitate random mixing of biochemical reactants needed for life, despite abundant data (e.g., the Russian research) showing it often is highly structured.

Classically, we are taught water exists in three states: solid, liquid, and gas. However, throughout history, many researchers have observed that water (e.g., the “protoplasm” surrounding cells) assumes a gel-like state, behaving like a liquid crystal.

In 2009, after noticing that microspheres placed in water would be repelled by seemingly “empty” surfaces within the water Gerald Pollack was eventually able to explain how this seemingly impossible state of water was emerging. Once a few critical factors were present, water would assemble into a lattice on that surface, which prevented anything from passing through it, thereby creating an “exclusion zone” of water.

For exclusion zone water to form, it requires a hydrophilic surface, usually negatively charged. Once this condition is met, and electromagnetic energy is present (particularly infrared light, which exists everywhere), water, like a solar battery, will store that ambient energy by assembling into many layers of offset hexagonal sheets with the formula H₃O₂ often reaching 0.1mm in depth (which molecularly, is massive).

As Pollack describes: This model yields a stable structure that sticks together naturally. This model yields predictable mechanical behavior: semisolid when left alone, yet able to flow in response to an imposed shear force. Its behavior should resemble gelatinous egg white.

Due to this lattice shape, each plane can easily slide past adjacent layers, allowing electrons to travel through the lattice with ease (resulting in conductivity approximately 100,000 times that of surrounding unstructured water).

Since this structure is "missing" protons (it’s H₁.₅O rather than H₂O), those protons go immediately outside the exclusion zone (EZ). Therefore, a negatively charged region exists within the EZ, while a positively charged region (which is acidic due to protons present) exists outside it. This, in turn, has been corroborated by numerous researchers who have both demonstrated a persistent pH change there and successfully harnessed its charge separation to power small electronics.

Since the negatively charged region exists in the crystalline structure, it prevents most substances and ions from existing within it. This separating quality has many uses including economical water purification and allowing cells to create the sodium potassium gradient which is necessary for life but far beyond what membrane pumps alone could accomplish (i.e., cells will continue to concentrate potassium after their membrane pumps are disabled).

Likewise, the EZ has increased viscosity, slowing substance diffusion, and can be directly observed by resonance imaging technologies detecting molecular restrictions (e.g., NMR and MRI).

Note: liquid crystalline water absorbs ultraviolet light (270 nm wavelength), radiates less infrared radiation than surrounding water, and has approximately 10% greater refractive index than bulk water. By each metric, EZ water has a higher density than normal water. It comprises the greatest water percentage at 4 degrees Celsius—the same temperature Viktor Schauberger identified as providing water's greatest density.

This form of water is all around us in nature. For example, it forms the surface layer of water we typically associate with “surface tension” which is strong enough for water striders and certain lizards to stand upon. That layer, in turn, often behaves like a large connected sheet (best seen by observing large bodies of water from above) and when carefully examined, is actually a complex lattice that weaves through the body of water.

Typically, cells are thought to be liquid bags whose contents are dictated by membrane lipids and proteins and held together by a cytoskeleton. However, liquid crystalline water (which forms along the cell membrane and the structures within cells) plays an equally pivotal structural role as it:

•Creates the gel-like stability of cells and tissue (which prevents them from suddenly leaking and spilling out once a puncture occurs).
•Creates a (continually regenerating) protective barrier which prevents things from entering the cells (and likewise protects the lining of blood vessels from being damaged by what flows past them or the load-bearing pivot point within joints from wearing down).
•Lubricates many surfaces, allowing them to slide past each other (e.g., the tendons and fascia are covered with a layer of this water). Conversely, as it disappears, tissues start to stick together (creating problematic adhesions), arthritis onsets, and the blood vessels become vulnerable to injury and atherosclerosis begins. Note: this lubrication can also be observed outside the body (e.g., ice skating is possible because a layer of liquid crystalline water forms between the water and ice).
•Creates non-compressible pockets throughout the body, which are essential for biomechanics (e.g., joints have a layer of liquid crystalline water in the center which bears the force and weight of matching without becoming damaged or resisting the motion).
•These non-compressible structures allow the body to utilize a tensegrity based structure where elastic lines of tissue tension throughout the body can allow any force to be equally distributed throughout the body, both protecting any single area from buckling if exposed to excessive force and allowing free motion throughout the structure (rather than being like a typical building with a largely static one which relies on a single static core).

All of the above raises many questions, one of which is how the 4^th phase of water functions inside the body? I will present some of the findings below.

A consistent pattern emerges when examining each circulatory pathway in the body. Tiny spaces with no extrinsic force driving their flow simultaneously require regular movement through them, and without that flow, life cannot function.

As the hydrostatic pumping force of the heart is largely absent at the capillary bed, many have wondered if an alternate driver of circulation exists. For example, spontaneous circulation can be observed in a developing embryo before heart development, while flow and pressures observed throughout the body are frequently inconsistent with heart-generated pressure being the driving force behind blood circulation.

When I've thought this question over at length, it does not seem realistic that the heart could provide enough force to move the red blood cells through every capillary in the body. What then could be causing the fluids inside the body to move?

Pollack and his team happened upon a chance discovery in their laboratory, which provided an answer to the mysteries of circulation:

Fluid commonly flows in response to an external pressure gradient. However, when a tunnel-containing hydrogel [which contains liquid crystalline water] is immersed in water, spontaneous flow occurs through the tunnel without any pressure gradient. We confirmed this flow in a wide range of plant- and animal-derived hydrogels.

As stated above, liquid crystalline water requires ambient infrared energy and a polar surface to form. A curious phenomenon occurs when that surface lines the inside of a tube—the liquid crystalline water lining the tube causes water to flow spontaneously through it.

EZs [regions of liquid crystalline water] were studied previously by immersing sections of tubes made of strongly hydrophilic material, Nafion, in aqueous microsphere suspensions. A microsphere-free EZ developed adjacent to the tube surface. In the central core of the tube, movement of microspheres demonstrated a flow, continuously sustaining itself at a velocity of ~10 μm/s in the axial direction... On the other hand, flow was not observed in tubes built of hydrophobic materials such as Teflon, which do not generate EZs.

Since liquid crystalline water's formation requires ambient radiant energy, its presence influences observed flow: We found that increased infrared energy substantially increased the flow velocity... application of ultraviolet-containing white light could boost flow velocity by up to 500%. Thus, the self-driven flow mechanism can convert radiant energy into kinetic energy.

Pollack theorized this flow was generated by mutual repulsion between positively charged protons expelled as water (H₂O) transitions to liquid crystalline (H₃O₂) water.

Several observations support this hypothesis. First, protons are continually added to water passing through: We found that the exiting water had a lower pH value than the entering water; the pH difference exceeded one unit and never diminished — even after 30 minutes of continuous flow.

Second, flow was greatest in narrow tubes: Another prediction of the proton-gradient hypothesis is that the flow should be faster in narrower tunnels...a narrower tunnel should lead to a higher proton concentration in the core...which should lead to faster flow in the narrower tunnels. Note: narrow blood vessels are the most vulnerable to their blood flow being disrupted by an impaired zeta potential, and hence where the initial subtle signs of illness often appear.

Third, flow direction was always from the narrower end to the wider end: A common feature shared among the various flows was the direction—always toward the region with a larger cross-section or volume.

Each fluid conduit in the body is lined with a material recognized to create liquid crystalline water. For example, all blood vessels are lined with a protective glycocalyx, which remarkably well-suited for creating liquid crystalline water on its surface. Likewise, liquid crystalline water generating biomolecules divide cells into compartments and simultaneously, by lining the gaps with liquid crystalline water, create a primitive circulatory system, facilitating the exchange of metabolites necessary to sustain life.

The biological flow of fluids independent of a central pump has also been explored in animals:

Blood can apparently flow without a beating heart. After the heart had been arrested, postmortem blood flow was confirmed in mice, rats, dogs, and chick embryos. The flow persisted from 15 minutes to several hours. Furthermore, some amphibian larvae could live up to 15 days following surgical removal of the heart, implying an alternative means for propelling blood.

In short, the human vascular system is structured so that expelled protons can drive circulation, something that hydrostatic pumping alone is not sufficient to do. Note: other organisms also utilize this mechanism. Plants require significant internal water transportation, but they have no pumping organs. In the lab, Pollack demonstrated that the xylem creates liquid crystalline water and that this flow allows water to overcome gravity's resistance and climb up tubes.

When a substance is mixed into water, it can fail to mix, dissolve, or form a colloidal suspension. When repelling forces overcome attractive forces, particles become suspended and a colloid forms.

Chia seeds hence, provide one of the best ways to observe liquid crystalline water directly and to conceptually understand colloidal stability (as something similar to this also occurs with particles much smaller than chia seeds).

Most biological systems, in turn, are colloidal suspensions that depend on mutual negative charges (or various types of minute barriers) to remain dispersed. In health, the disperse forces outweigh the attractive ones, but once this reverses (e.g., due to a vaccine, severe infection or certain positively charged chronic infections like Lyme disease and mold toxicity), fluids will begin to clump together, impairing the microcirculation and elimination of metabolic waste products (amongst other things leading to die-off reactions whenever a therapy targets the infection as the body can’t clear the debris out), and once severe enough, give rise to small or large strokes.

In turn, a major problem with vaccinations (due to their aluminum content) and COVID-19, along with its vaccines (due to their spike proteins) is that both of these carry a very high positive charge density which overpowers the negatively charged dispersive forces within the body. As such, many childhood vaccine injuries can be traced to aluminum induced micro-strokes and likewise, one of the primary issues with the COVID vaccines is the clots they create throughout the body. Note: once you know how to look for them, you can often find signs of a micro-stroke in COVID-19 vaccine recipients.

Likewise, poor zeta potential also underlies many other disease states, and many natural therapies I’ve seen promoted over the years (e.g., Earthing) I believe ultimately work because they improve impaired or clumped together microcirculation (e.g., both zeta potential therapies and DMSO treat poor wound healing as this often results from insufficient blood to the wound).

That has best been shown with the circulatory system as the heart also struggles to pump thickened blood, and many have observed restoring the physiologic zeta potential treats arrhythmias (e.g., atrial fibrillation). Likewise, a strong case can be made that many of the problems attributed high blood pressure are actually a result of concurrently occurring impaired microcirculation and, in turn, extensive data has shown elevated blood pressure correlates with clumped together (sludged) blood (which in turn puts more pressure on the blood vessel walls as it is pushed through). Note: in Chinese medicine blood stasis (which I believe is the same as the blood sludging observed in Western research) is thought to underlie many diseases, including many types of pain (as tissue which cannot get adequate blood “hurts”) including migraine headaches (which also respond to restoring the physiologic zeta potential). Likewise, I believe one of the reasons DMSO is so effective for treating pain is because it eliminates blood stasis in the body (e.g., I’ve received a few examples of where this clearly was the mechanism at work).

Zeta potential quantifies the negative charge maintaining colloidal stability, and since unobstructed microcirculation is so vital to health, a key part of my medical practice revolves around ways to restore the physiologic zeta potential. Because of this, I am always looking at how the factors in a patient’s life influence their zeta potential, and due to their many overlaps, have extensively explored the relationship between liquid crystalline water and zeta potential.

For example, virtually all colloidal systems in nature rely upon mutual negative charges for dispersion, rather than mutual positive charges, which could also create the same effect. I now believe this is due to liquid crystalline water creating a negatively charged (H₃O₂-) coating around polar particles in water, hence necessitating another negative charge to create repulsion.

Likewise, many of the same factors that increase one (e.g., alkalinity) also increase the other. As such, I believe many factors attributed to enhancing one may, in fact, enhance the other (e.g., something that increases the amount of negatively charged liquid crystalline water around a particle will also increase its negative charge and colloidal dispersion, hence also increasing the zeta potential). Similarly, a disruption in one can often affect the other (e.g., in the smallest vessels, a loss of zeta potential which causes blood cells to clump together can obstruct the vessel and negate the blood flow generated from liquid crystalline water).

Many patients who seek out integrative medicine (as the conventional system failed them) are “sensitive patients” who become ill from a variety of triggers others are not affected by (which frequently leads to misinformed conventional doctors assuming the illnesses are psychogenic in nature). After noticing that “sensitive” patients tended to be hypermobile, learning that patients with HPV vaccine injuries (e.g., POTS) were frequently hypermobile, and noting that both of these groups of patients tended to have signs of poor circulation, it dawn on me zeta potential impairments could explain what I was seeing.

This is because in addition to the electrical dispersion between blood cells keeping them separated from each other, it also pushes against the walls of the blood vessels, creating an expansive force from within that allows them resist compression. As such, when the blood vessels weaken (as hypermobility affects collagen throughout the body), a loss of that expensive force becomes enough to occlude the vessels.

During COVID, I then learned many COVID vaccine injuries were observed to result from the iliac vein collapsing and often greatly improved once being stented. As these injuries were seen in hypermobile patients, and were caused by a toxic spike protein which amongst other things damaged the blood vessels (e.g., their structural integrity) and collapsed the blood vessel’s zeta potential (due to its positive charge density), I began exploring other ways to address this problem (as stenting has risks) and saw them help the applicable patients they worked on (e.g., many cases of hypermobility result from nutritional deficiencies).

After this realization, it immediately dawned on me that there has been a longstanding observation many of these chronic illnesses seen in sensitive patients could be improved by stenting the jugular vein open (which was widely done for multiple sclerosis and to a lesser extent other conditions like Lyme disease—until the FDA shut it down). As such, I strongly suspected a similar issue was at play there and subsequently was able to obtain varying degrees of success in patients where I felt it was applicable (along with finding other colleagues had had similar experiences).

These patients are also sometimes quite sensitive to EMFs, and over the years I’ve seen a variety of theories to explain why (e.g., EMFs trigger mast cell degranulation exacerbating the mast cell disorders commonly seen in these patients, EMFs mobilize heavy metals within these patients, EMFs provoke their existing infections into releasing reactive substances).

Given all of that, I’ve long wondered if EMFs affect zeta potential and the immediate responses people get from being around them (e.g., headaches) could be attributed to zeta potential shifts. In turn, some data support this:

•I have seen numerous videos of blood cells under microscopes appearing to clump together after being exposed to EMFs and I know of two studies which also showed this. The first found clumping occurred after being around a wired computer or a 2.4 GHz wireless phone with a much greater effect seen from the wireless phone, the second, in 10 subjects, found 45 minutes of cell phone exposure caused significant clumping to blood cells, and with an additional 45 minutes of exposure, also deformed their shape and the third determined polarized 1.8 GHz caused clumping (with older individuals—who typically have the lowest baseline zeta potential—being the most sensitive to these effects).

•The key problem with the previous data is that potential artifacts are introduced once blood is taken out of the body, so it may not generalize to what occurs within the body. However, one study, using ultrasound of the popliteal vein, was able to show that placing an Apple iPhone 16 (set to emit minimal data) next to the vein for 5 minutes caused significant clumping in the blood, and that after 5 minutes of walking (and no further exposure) some aggregations still existed—with these results being replicated 3 times over a 4 month period. Note: blood sludging from impaired zeta potential, when severe, can be seen in larger veins (e.g., this has been repeatedly shown with ultrasound, and Pierre Kory, a world expert in point of care ultrasound shared that he would occasionally see echogenic blood within the largest vein in the abdomen—at which point the ICU patients soon died regardless of how stable they appeared clinically).

Presently, I know of three explanations which could account for this:

•First, zeta potential, is in part due to the layer of negatively charged liquid crystalline water which forms around cells. Pollack has reported Wifi routers shrink the amount of liquid crystalline water present by 10-15%, and similarly, one study shows that EMFs affect liquid crystalline water). Likewise, as circulation depends upon the liquid crystalline “pump” if EMFs disrupt liquid crystalline water’s formation, this could also account for rapid symptomatic losses of blood flow.

•EMFs may produce positive ions. These decrease zeta potential (which is also why negative ion therapy provides a myriad of benefits and certain environments or weather patterns create significant illness).

•Third, one study determined the polarized nature of unnatural EMFs caused oscillations within the molecules of cells that altered cell membrane potential (and hence zeta potential).

In short, given how sensitive some people are to EMFs, I believe this facet of their condition should be given consideration (particularly since to some extent it can be antidoted by restoring their physiologic zeta potential).

Colloidal solutions can exist either as a thickened “gel” (with significant amounts of liquid crystalline water) or a fully fluid colloidal solution (a “sol”). A key innovation Gerald Pollack made is that, through releasing specific ions, the body can rapidly cycle between having its colloids in a “sol” or “gel” state, creating another way the body can harvest the energy accumulated by liquid crystalline water.

For example, in Pollack’s model, muscles produce liquid crystalline water that stretches their proteins. To contract, calcium (a zeta potential collapsing ion), is released and rapidly breaks apart the liquid crystalline water within the muscle protein, causing the stretched muscle fiber to rapidly shorten (as nothing remains to push it open). Conversely, ATP (which restores zeta potential) is used to rebuild that liquid crystalline water and “relax” the muscle by stretching it back to its resting state.

Likewise, many other cellular processes also depend upon this phase shift such as nerve cells firing (supported by the fact that local anesthetics eliminate the liquid crystalline water in their vicinity) and the rapid expulsion and expansion of vesicles by cells. Note: we frequently find local anesthetics are very useful for dispersing pockets of “clumped fluid” within the body, and, due to the trauma release that often follows, we now suspect those fluid agglomerations (e.g., within the fascia) are a way the body stores trauma.

America’s scientific apparatus has the capacity to produce extraordinary innovations for humanity, but as independent scientists like Pollack have shown, that pioneering spirit has been replaced with a drive to secure future funding and maintain the status quo:

Until the modern era, scientists focused on seeking foundational mechanisms. They tried to understand how the world works... The pursuit of simplicity seems to have largely evaporated from the scientific scene. In four decades of doing science, I have seen this noble culture yield to one less audacious and more pragmatic. The chutzpah has vanished. Scientists content themselves with short-term gains in narrowly focused areas rather than seeking fundamental truths that may explain broad areas of nature.

Water occupies a place central to so many natural processes that few people can conceive that the basics could remain open to question... A third reason for the slow emergence of such fundamental principles plagues all of science: intellectual timidity. Relying on received wisdom feels safer than dealing with the uncertainties of revolutionary disruption.... A fourth reason is outright fear. Challenging received wisdom means stepping on the toes of scientists who have built careers on that wisdom.

Making America Healthy Again, thus is much more than just a question of eliminating a few harmful toxins from our environment. Rather, it is a question of revisiting how the science our decisions revolve around is conducted to begin with. For that reason, a major push from the MAHA leadership has been to reform how research is conducted so that discoveries that can transform science are incentivized and longstanding dogmas (e.g., the “necessity” of fluoride or vaccines) can be challenged rather than censored from every platform.

As such, RFK Jr. and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya have begun enacting a series of vital and long overdue policies to facilitate it. I believe it is critical that we support this endeavor, particularly since it is only through a new form of science that our society can begin to give a serious look at The Forgotten Sides of Medicine, which can allow us to realize the health each of us has been searching for. Of these, I believe the forgotten side of water to be particularly important, as beyond it explaining many mysteries within physiology, the loss of the body’s liquid crystalline water and zeta potential (and the accompanying tissue dehydration) is one of the key degenerative processes that underlie aging.

In my research I have attempted to explain the vital importance of liquid crystalline water and zeta potential throughout the body—something I have greatly emphasized since I recognized their disruption appears to be a key component of spike protein vaccine injuries. One of the most common questions I, in turn, receive is, “What can be done to fix this?”

Once Gerald Pollack introduced the 4th Phase of the Water concept (liquid crystalline water), many people, not surprisingly, started selling things they claimed would help your body produce liquid crystalline water. At this point, I have no idea if most of them in any way do what is claimed, and Pollack appropriately (despite many requests) has avoided studying or endorsing most of them.

Presently, the one thing which has clearly and unambiguously been proven to increase the production of liquid crystalline water is the input of radiant energy. This can either come from light or infrared (which is a type of light) and occasionally from other sources such as sound, ultrasound, and much more debatably energy workers (e.g., a qigong or reiki practitioner) or bioenergy fields (e.g., orgone energy).

Because every object absorbs different wavelengths of energy differently, different wavelengths (e.g., different colors) have differing effects. The most significant effect has been observed with infrared light, and peaks at 3000 nm, a wavelength that matches water's peak absorbance of IR light. Conversely, the worst effect is noted with blue light, something emitted by most computer or tv screens and newer light bulbs (and street lamps). For example, this study by Pollack found that light between the wavelengths of 450-500 nm shrunk the liquid crystalline water present.

I find blue light's destruction of liquid crystalline water compelling since many, myself included, already viewed it as a key toxin of the modern age due to the severe disruption it causes to our circadian rhythm (along with other issues such as headaches). For these reasons, I try to avoid rooms with unhealthy lighting, and with screens, I always use blue light-blocking software such as f.lux.

A variety of approaches utilizing this principle have been developed to produce infrared light, which increases the production of liquid crystalline water in the body. For example, a particulate material designed to increase the formation of liquid crystalline water (e.g., by emitting infrared light) was shown to create at least a 2-3-fold increase in root length or formation of shoots of seeds exposed to it.

As far as I know, the only approach that has been clearly and unambiguously proven to increase the amount of liquid crystalline water in the human body is to be exposed to infrared light, particularly that with a 3000 nm wavelength (many studies have confirmed this). Oddly, not many infrared saunas or mats on the market provide this wavelength of light, and you usually need to buy bulbs that emit at 3000 nm to make a sauna that does.

I am a big believer in infrared saunas, but I am unsure how much they increase the liquid crystalline water in the body. This is not only because of how far they are from the 3000nm wavelength but also because they heat the body up, potentially destabilizing the existing exclusion zones (even though relatively speaking, they don't heat the body's core temperature very much). That said, I believe they most likely do because they improve circulation throughout the body, cause you to discharge positively charged sweat, and afterwards, typically leave the individual feeling much better.

Note: infrared sauna manufacturers claim that their saunas cause your sweat to be 20% toxins, whereas normal sweating is only 3% of toxins. As far as I know, this claim was never proven, and many more conventional individuals, not surprisingly, insist that there is no proof that saunas, let alone infrared saunas, do anything for detoxification. Multiple studies provide limited proof that sauna sweating excretes heavy metals at a greater rate than the normal detoxification pathways (e.g., the kidneys), while another study shows one infrared sauna model causes significantly higher excretion of heavy metals than a conventional sauna.

Many have also argued that the infrared you receive from cuddling with another human (and possibly an animal) may also facilitate the development of liquid crystalline water inside you. That said, I am honestly not sure how this effect could be quantified.

Lastly, many vaccine-injured patients have benefited from red light therapy (which is used because it improves mitochondrial function). Many have also alleged that red light therapy creates liquid crystalline water in the body, but to the best of my knowledge, no evidence has been produced supporting that contention.

I believe one of the greatest disservices the dermatology profession has done to the world has been to spread an immense fear that the sun causes skin cancer (even though the most dangerous skin cancer, melanoma, is linked to a lack of sun exposure). This appears to have come about because the dermatology profession reinvented themselves as cancer fighters (which pays a lot), and part of establishing that cultural belief system revolved around neurotic rituals to avoid all sunlight. I think this is quite sad, because avoiding sunlight significantly increases your risk of death from many different cancers (and overall has a danger of the same magnitude as smoking).

One of the major misunderstandings about sunlight is that its only benefit is vitamin D production. Instead, it has a variety of other ones as well, including:

•Producing cholesterol sulfate.

•Producing nitric oxide.

•Directly creating liquid crystalline water.

Note: I have long wondered if some of the benefits attributed to vitamin D are actually due to it being correlated with the above three occurring.

Since sulfates are used by the body to create liquid crystalline water and maintain the physiologic zeta potential, this function is very important. Since cholesterol sulfate primarily resides in cell membranes (where it is recognized to have a "stabilizing role" for the cell membrane), it provides the critical role of coating the cell with sulfates.

Note: I recently wrote a detailed piece on the harms of statins (which, before the COVID-19 vaccines, were debatably the most overprescribed pharmaceutical that harmed the largest number of people). One of the key toxicities of statins is that they block your production of CoQ10, a vital compound for the mitochondria. Since CoQ10 is also responsible for maintaining cellular integrity, cell membranes breaking apart in certain organs is one significant side effect of the medications. Based on the critical functions of cholesterol sulfate, I have wondered if that side effect is actually due to a lack of sulfate in the cell membranes.

Further supporting the benefits of sunlight exposure, nitric oxide is one of the most important compounds for ensuring cardiovascular health and circulation throughout the body (Viagra, for example, works by increasing nitric oxide production).

When COVID-19 began in December 2019, I sensed it might end up being similar to the 1918 influenza, so I spent a lot of time reviewing all the existing literature. In that process, I discovered that every therapy that actually worked (most did not), with the possible exception of homeopathic Gelsemium (a botanical), did so by improving the body's fluid circulation. Many of those in turn, did something I now know improves the zeta potential. A few months ago, Pierre Kory informed me of one therapy I had missed in this search—being exposed to the sun, which for the reasons detailed above, I believe was another way of addressing the profound fluid stagnation caused by the 1918 influenza.

Note: one of my favorite medical therapies, ultraviolet blood irradiation, can be considered a much more direct form of sunlight exposure (sunlight being used to treat Tuberculosis in fact inspired its original designer). One of the main effects observed with it is a significant increase in blood circulation throughout the body.

Many people believe that sound affects water. This largely entered the public’s consciousness after Masaru Emoto showed that the shape of ice crystals can be radically different depending on what sounds water was exposed to prior to freezing. In many of his experiments, he showed that music would influence the formation of ice crystals and, curiously enough, dark and incoherent music created deformed crystals. In contrast, beautiful and coherent music created elegant crystals.

This suggests that sound may affect the formation of liquid crystalline water. For example, we found that one such source, ultrasound, could drive EZ [liquid crystalline] growth. We applied 7.5- MHz ultrasound, similar to that used for imaging embryos. In response, the EZ typically narrowed, possibly as a result of the induced mechanical shear of molecules rubbing against one another. When we turned off the ultrasound, however, the exclusion zone immediately enjoyed a stunning regrowth: it could expand to five or six times its initial size before ultimately returning to pre-exposure levels. Evidently, the acoustic energy somehow affected the water, spurring a delayed EZ growth — just as incident light could produce EZ growth.

Note: There are quite a few people who believe that prenatal ultrasounds are damaging to babies, and a surprising amount of evidence exists to support that contention. After reading the above line, I realized there might be a mechanism to explain this; the rapid expansion and contraction of exclusion zones from ultrasound might create enough of a shear force to damage the cells and their components.

One of the significant fads that has swept through the holistic field over the last few years has been drinking deuterium-depleted water (DDW), which is the opposite of heavy water. The theory behind DDW is that deuterium (a naturally occurring isotope of hydrogen with a neutron in the nucleus) slows metabolic reactions in the body, reduces the output of the mitochondria, reduces your lifespan, causes cancer, and destroys liquid crystalline water in the body.

Of these claims, the evidence is most robust for deuterium causing cancer (e.g., MRIs looking for deuterium appear to be able to find tumors), and there have been successful treatments of cancer using DDW. Unfortunately, DDW is somewhat expensive, so many other options began to be explored, such as living in high elevation areas (e.g., parts of the Rockies not that far from well-known towns naturally have DDW, and fat is naturally deuterium depleted, so some people follow an extreme ketogenic diet for deuterium reduction).

Given its potential promises, many people started promoting DDW as the cure for everything, and at this point…I am still honestly unsure if it does anything. So, I have been patiently waiting for more evidence to accumulate showing that it does.

One of the most common claims for DDW is that it improves your body’s ability to produce liquid crystalline water. It allegedly does this because:

•Deuterium disrupts the formation of liquid crystalline water.

•Deuterium disrupts oxidative respiration (which requires combusting oxygen into water) and the production of ATP in the body. Since oxidative respiration cannot use deuterium, all water it produces is naturally deuterium depleted.

Note: I have often wondered if this is the reason for some of the alleged benefits of dry fasts, as the water in your body can only come from the metabolism of fats during this period.

However, to my knowledge, all the arguments are theoretical, and no one has actually proved DDW creates liquid crystalline water. If anyone has the data that shows this, I would greatly appreciate seeing it.

Note: widely believed theoretical arguments that lack evidence to support them create many issues in medicine. Two of the best recent examples of erroneous claims were that the COVID-19 vaccines will not change your DNA and that the COVID-19 vaccines would prevent transmission.

Presently, the only water I know of that appears to utilize these principles and benefits people is Divinia Water, which is both deuterium depleted and has a high concentration of liquid crystalline water. My evidence in this regard is weak (e.g., I know of a few people who reversed their kidney disease by drinking it), so my endorsement is tepid at best; I am primarily citing them as an example of where these principles may provide a tangible benefit.

There are also a variety of other waters with similar claims based on the premise that the people of the Hunza Valley lived much longer (reportedly, they had an average lifespan of 120 years) due to the water they drank. I am not sure if there is any evidence that this longevity actually occurs. Still, it’s interesting that the water there was noted to be DDW with a high zeta potential and a high amount of structured water (which is essentially the same as liquid crystalline water). Many attempts have been made to replicate the Hunza water, and some of them have a devoted group of followers.

The general belief that has established itself within the liquid crystalline water community is that if you drink water with a higher concentration of liquid crystalline water or a lower concentration of deuterium, very good things will happen for your health. As shown in the previous section, I am unsure if this actually true. That said, I will share the approaches in this regard that I believe have the most merit.

If vegetable juicing is done correctly (which means using a cold press masticating juicers such as the Norwalk juicer or an Omega juicer—I believe metal ones are better but more expensive—and then immediately consuming the juice after it is made), a variety of benefits emerge for people. For example, one of the original alternative cancer therapies which benefitted many, the Gerson Therapy, was founded on this principle.

One argument that has been advanced to explain the benefits of juicing is the presence of liquid crystalline water, DDW, and possibly some type of electrical charge from the plants. Given that I often see signs that juicing is good for you (provided you don’t juice things that are too sugary) and it is one of the most economical ways to get this type of water, I support this approach…even though I am not sure if the presence of DDW or liquid crystalline water is actually where the benefits of juicing arise from.

When soaked in water, Pollack has stated chia seeds create some of the largest exclusion zones of any food found in nature. This property of chia seeds appears to result from them releasing microfibers that bind pockets of liquid crystalline water around them.

I am personally a fan of chia seeds (provided they were first soaked in water until they formed a gel) because:

•They are very affordable and, to my knowledge, the easiest way to consume large amounts of liquid crystalline water. Note: cucumbers are also often cited as an example of a food with a high concentration of liquid crystalline water.

•They are often extremely helpful for individuals with chronic constipation.

•I tried out more “superfoods” (which I acknowledge is largely just a marketing term) than I can count, and chia seeds were the only ones I ever had a noticeably positive response to.

The only considerable argument I have seen against chia seeds came from Steven Gundry, who said that when he monitored people’s inflammation (which he believes is largely due to lectins that are present in a large number of plants), he found the lectins in chia seeds were sufficient to cause inflammation in some individuals. Although I do not place as heavy an emphasis on lectins as Gundry, every now and then, I have a patient I can tell has a lectin issue and then greatly benefits from the lectin-free diet. Nonetheless, I regularly consume chia seeds.

Pollack tested a variety of other superfoods and found that they also increased the size of liquid crystalline water in the things they are tested on. The main issue with this approach is that he had limited time to test things (and has thus had not tested all that many), so there are likely many "normal" foods that do the same thing. In a previous article, I showed how coconut water, turmeric, a probiotic, and tulsi increase the presence of liquid crystalline water.

In addition, Pollack conducted an interesting study showing that another superfood, bee propolis, did the same. Since some of it may end up coating the lining of your respiratory tract, the study's authors argued that some of the benefits attributed to propolis might result from it doing that and creating a liquid crystalline barrier there.

It has also been mentioned that other herbs improve the body's liquid crystalline water. Years ago, Thomas Cowan stated that hibiscus flowers were one of the best ones for increasing liquid crystalline water in the body (hibiscus is also known to help with cardiovascular issues). I was never able to verify if this was true, but since my body liked hibiscus, I have drank hibiscus tea (in moderation) ever since. Although I do not agree with Thomas Cowan’s perspective on the non-existence of viruses, I have listened to many ideas he has put forward.

Cobalamin (in its various forms) is also known as vitamin B-12. Stephanie Seneff has advanced an interesting argument for another reason for its importance in the body—the body requires it for the production of sulfates (which, as discussed in the previous article, are essential for creating liquid crystalline water in the body and maintaining the physiologic zeta potential). Since a variety of widespread environmental factors cause B-12 deficiency, this is another area worth considering.

Many (e.g., Dr. Mercola) have concluded that eating unhealthy fats (e.g., rancid seed oils) is a root cause of poor health. Since many of the fats you consume end up in the membranes of your cells, at least in theory, significant changes can occur throughout your body depending on which fats you consume to restore the membrane composition of your cells to a healthy balance. For example, the Patricia Kane protocol is often used to restore patients' health with complex illnesses. I have seen some cases where the protocol significantly benefited the patient (although in others, it did very little).

In this series, I have emphasized the importance of water transitioning from a normal state to a gel (and vice versa). As discussed in the previous article, the exact temperature at which this occurs depends on the composition of the gel, and can be influenced by positive or negative ions (both of which the body uses to induce a phase transition when needed).

In cold-blooded animals, because they cannot regulate their body temperature, there is a significant seasonal variability in their body temperatures that must be addressed in another manner.

In principle, natural metabolites may change the transition temperature in bio-membranes. Unfortunately, little is known in this field. It is also well known that the transition temperature depends on the lipid composition. It is not inconceivable that the endogenously produced ethanol may take part in the temperature adaptation reactions in goldfish.

Lastly, in the same manner that cholesterol sulfate is necessary for producing a cell’s zeta potential and liquid crystalline water layer, the same also appears to be true for other healthy fats. One study found large layers of liquid crystalline water (up to 800 µm) on the surfaces of saturated fats such as ghee, coconut oil, and lard. Like many things in the dietary world, the healthiness of saturated fats is a heavily debated subject, but I suspect their capacity to produce liquid crystalline water plays a key role in their health benefits.

In one study, Pollack modeled a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and found that it significantly increased the volume of liquid crystalline water, likely because it shifts the equilibrium towards forming liquid crystalline water. I suspect this also improves the zeta potential of the recipients.

One of the most important things about this effect is that it is temporary. I believe this explains why individuals who benefit from hyperbaric oxygen (e.g., Lyme patients, migraine patients, and COVID-19 vaccine-injured patients) often find they need to get a home hyperbaric system so they can receive it on a regular basis. I have also wondered if this explains part of the benefit people experience with approaches like the Wim Hof method which both significantly increases tissue oxygenation and to some extent alkalizes it.

Conversely, many people with complex illnesses I associate with an impaired zeta potential often find they cannot tolerate being above 5000-6500 feet (which is a critical concept to consider when setting up a healing retreat—I have seen a few cases where failing to follow this was a massive problem for the retreat's founders). Similarly, individuals with these types of conditions often are much more vulnerable to blood clots at high altitudes—which I believe accounts for the concerning incidents we have seen on airplanes since the vaccines rolled out (both in pilots and passengers).

Note: not moving for prolonged periods can also cause blood clots, but I do not believe that is the primary issue with flying. An airplane’s cabin pressure typically matches what is experienced at 6-8,000 feet, and I have met many individuals with these types of disorders (especially COVID vaccine injuries) who are fine with road trips but cannot tolerate flying.

Rather than create liquid crystalline water, anesthetics destroy it. This is because anesthetics (agents that temporarily disable nerves either locally or systemically) share the property of creating clathrates (pockets of water) around them, thereby preventing that water from instead existing in a liquid crystalline phase. Furthermore, to support the link between liquid crystalline water and zeta potential, one of the most commonly used anesthetics, lidocaine, has been found to make the surface charge of biological membranes more positive.

Another related property shared by all anesthetics is their ability to change the cell membrane's transition temperature (to and from the gel state). Additionally, the degree to which an anesthetic can shift the transition temperature of a cell membrane directly correlates to the anesthetics potency, further validating the link between liquid crystalline water, phase transitions, and the function of anesthetics.

One treatment I frequently utilize, neural therapy, employs local anesthetics such as lidocaine and bupivacaine to temporarily anesthetize an overly sensitive neuron (or group of neurons) under the theory that when the anesthetic wears off, the neuron will return to its normal baseline rather than remaining hypersensitive. This therapy is often remarkably effective for a wide range of issues.

Every now and then, I have noticed that the anesthetic injection immediately creates a significant fluid movement in the recipient. Initially, I thought this resulted from systemic tension no longer being active and compressing a fluid vessel. Researching this subject has made me suspect that in certain cases, neural therapy is actually breaking up pathologic fluid agglomerations and thereby restoring a vital circulation.

I will also note that some of these events have correlated with significant psycho-emotional changes in the patients and that many have proposed liquid crystalline water is associated with storing or transmitting information. This observation has made me wonder if trauma, to some extent, can be stored either within clumps of fluid in the body or specific liquid crystalline water structures.

Similarly, many bodyworkers believe that trauma (both physical and emotional) is stored in the fascia due to the fact that their clients often re-live past traumas when the fascia is worked on and experience a resolution of their trauma following the treatment. Given that the fascia is coated with a significant amount of liquid crystalline water, this somewhat supports my hypothesis.

Note: the anesthetics again illustrate how difficult it is to make any generalizations about the relationship between zeta potential and liquid crystalline water, as in many cases, an expected pattern is followed, but in a minority of cases, the opposite of what one would expect occurs. Similarly, while I believe that liquid crystalline water is essential for the body, and the deficiency of it is a widespread problem, in certain cases it may instead be present in excess.

As the previous section has shown, the restoration of liquid crystalline water is still a bit of a Wild West, and it will likely be a decade before we have a clearer idea of how to approach this issue. Fortunately, with zeta potential, individuals have been working on this issue since the 1960s, so we have a clearer idea of what works and what does not.

published at midwesterndoctor.com on May 16, 2023, and August 14, 2025