Can an effect precede it’s cause in time? Can a future event influence a past one?

In ordinary causal thinking, causes come before effects. This article explores the subtle pulse that can still come through, even in a world quite thick with interference, by examining retrocausality, vibration, wave interference, and authentic signal.

Retrocausality reverses or relaxes the temporal order of a cause having to precede an effect while preserving the idea that causes and effects still depend on each other.

On many occasions, in my own life, I’ve questioned the causal relationship between the past and the future, though I didn’t use the term “retrocausality.” I would simply experience a moment in time that felt undeniably connected to a previous moment, but in a way that made it seem “causal.”

Two events stand out as personal examples.

On July 28, 2025, just one day before an earthquake in Russia caused a tsunami warning in Hawaii, for reasons unknown I created the image of a woman with wavy hair sitting above waves of water that were clearly in a state of interference. That exact image is being used at the top of this post.

On July 29, 2025, I sat on the mountainside at sunset watching the ocean in anticipation of a possible tsunami rolling in. A statewide tsunami warning for Hawaii had been issued, and the first waves arrived in the evening at roughly 7:10–7:25 p.m. Although, no tsunami effects were visible from my view, water recession was noted in some locations exposing shoreline or harbor areas.

I could only wonder, “Did a future event just in reach back in time and influence my choice to make the distinct image of a woman watching the waves? I had become the living, in-real-time out-picturing of the image I had created the day before.

On another occasion, I found myself sitting by the banks of a river with a really good friend playing a song I had written two weeks before that described how friendships can run underneath our lives like rivers. I had no former knowledge that the gazebo we would be performing inside of in Banff, Canada would be right on the Bow River, and as my very good friend and I sang this new song together it felt undeniably “causal.”

Retrocausality

In everyday life, we take for granted that causes always come first and effects follow. For example you have to tip a glass before the water spills. But retrocausality flips that and proposes that sometimes, in certain realms, the arrow of time can bend or even double back on itself.

Retrocausality is the suggestion that the future might occasionally get a quiet vote in what the past decides to do. Most physicists treat retrocausality as a useful mathematical tool or a philosophical possibility rather than a proven everyday reality.

In quantum physics, this idea shows up in some interpretations and experiments. The most famous is Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiment. A photon is sent on a path that could go either of two ways. Only after the photon has already traveled do scientists decide how to measure it.

Somehow, the photon acts as if it anticipated that later decision. It’s as if the measurement in the future reached back and told the photon what to do in the past.

Retrocausality is excluded from the standard physics toolkit because conventional quantum mechanics explain all confirmed data without it, however the opposing view is that what are considered “time-symmetric formulations” could resolve some longstanding puzzles more elegantly.

A time-symmetric formulation is a description of physical laws in which the equations remain unchanged under time reversal replacing ( t ) with (−t) and treating past and future on an equal footing without a preferred temporal direction.

Wave Interference

Wave interference is the place where vibration and retrocausality meet most vividly, so perhaps some information on vibration will be helpful.

Vibration is the fundamental pulse of existence or the rhythmic oscillation of energy that underlies every particle, wave, thought, and feeling. In the physical world it appears as sound, light, and matter. In the subtle energy realms it is the living frequency that carries information across space and time.

Your own vibration is not just noise or random fluctuation. It is your distinctive signature and the unique thread you contribute to the cosmic weave. Language, geometry, emotion, and truth are simply different expressions of this same living vibration, each shaping and revealing the deeper pattern of who you are and what you are becoming.

1. Language is vibration, a waveform of intent shaping thought. It carves meaning into the air, encoding memory into sound that travels from soul to soul.

2. Geometry is vibration, a crystalline code holding space. It arranges memory into form, preserving pattern across dimensions and time.

3. Emotion is vibration, a pulse of memory in motion. It carries the echo of lived experience, rippling through the body as both signal and story.

4. Truth is frequency, aligned with inner knowing, vibrating in coherence with the heart.

Living vibrations can also include memories of the past or the future. This is where I can sense the wave interference in my own examples. In a present moment that has a really close vibrational match to a previous situation, the waves would perhaps cross.

When two or more waves cross, they do not simply pass through each other. They interfere both constructively where crests align and the signal grows stronger, and destructively where crest meets trough and the signal is momentarily silenced. The crests of my moments aligned and the signal became louder.

In quantum terms this is not metaphor due to an interesting phenomenon. A single particle’s wave function can interfere with itself, creating the familiar fringes of light and dark. When one single particle is sent toward a wall that has two narrow slits in it, you might expect the particle to go through either the left slit or the right slit but not both at once.

But in quantum mechanics the particle behaves like a “fuzzy wave of possibility” that spreads out and actually travels through both slits at the same time. When the two parts of the same wave meet again on the far side of the wall, they overlap.

Where the waves line up peak-to-peak, they add together they make the bright fringe.

Where a peak meets a trough, they cancel out and create the dark fringe.

So even though only one particle was sent, its own wave interferes with itself and creates the classic pattern of light and dark stripes.

In delayed-choice experiments that interference pattern is only decided after the particle has already traveled. The future measurement reaches backward and chooses whether the wave will remain in superposition or collapse into a definite path. The vibration of the past is shaped by a choice that has not yet been made.

In the same way, the interference patterns we feel in our own lives can show up as static, distorted harmonics, or sudden clarity and be translated as the quiet hand of the future adjusting the resonance of the present.

The “fuzzy possibility” of an upcoming future “sudden clarity” that adjusts the “resonance of the present” it shows up in to include a moment from the past is how I explain my image creation seeming to bleed into a lived moment and my song coming alive by a river.

The Vibration of Your Authentic Signal and Breath

Your authentic signal does not only broadcast forward. It also receives, tunes, and is tuned by what is still to come. Somehow, the feeling of wholeness that accompanies a clear signal is often delivered in the air that you’re breathing. This is why the state of your breath often offers clues to the state of your authentic signal.

Picking up your own authentic signal could feel like your breath becoming steady and the static in your mind clearing. You might feel like you just came “home” as a result of having your coherence restored.

You may get messages from the layers underneath the noise of your surface life. Pausing and breathing can help us all more frequently realize and act on our inner knowing. We more likely have more to gain by collapsing distortions than by taking them in.

We can give ourselves permission to resonate truth. We can breathe with intent. We can align our field with something greater. We can exhale with clarity, committed to broadcasting our authentic signal.

It helps to imagine that our own authentic signal is trying its best to travel into our field of awareness and sometimes has to travel through the interference that seems to be increasing all around us.

Finding true resonance in a world out that feels out of tune means listening to what is trying to find us underneath the noise. We often witness the truth getting scrambled before it can settle in our souls.

We watch the waves go out rhythmically and are often forced to witness how our authentic signal often comes up against the great incoherence. I have found resonance with my authentic signal in stillness, intentional breath, and in words that feel alive when I speak them.

I also seem to have “out-pictured” this “watching for vibrational disturbances” as I seem to have picked up an incoming signal from a future tsunami and made a collage about it. Through increasing our own awareness, we can become skilled at skirting around the distorted harmonics by restoring our attunement to the signal that has always been within us.

So the next time the world feels scrambled and the harmonics seem off-key, try pausing to feel the quiet pulse that has always been yours. Remember that your vibration is not in competition with the distortion or the noise. It is the original signal the noise is trying to drown.

Whether the future is reaching back to steady your hand, or your own coherence is simply rising to meet the moment, let your unique thread do the weaving by breathing and listening to what is beneath the static.

I would love to hear about a moment in your own life that felt like a quiet message, image or vision, or sudden clarity that arrived from somewhere beyond the usual flow of time. How have you learned to recognize and trust your authentic signal?

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I have always felt that moments of deep intuition were treasures. Until recently, I viewed intuition as most people do, perceiving it as a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence. A feeling arises that guides me to speak or to act in a certain way without fully understanding why.

My most profoundly vivid moment of this type of intution happened on December 23, 2017, when for a reason unknown at the time, I turned to two friends and said, “I need to leave now. I feel like my DNA is splitting apart.”

The rest of the story arrived three days later, right after Christmas. My mother had died on December 23rd, but my brother had not wanted to “ruin” Christmas, so he had waited to tell me.

I had sensed “something” and put words to it that made no sense at the time. I had translated that recognition into language. The “knowing” preceded the “explanation.”

The entire event roll out, beginning with the intuition of my mother’s death, did indeed feel extraordinary and as if something deeper had to be in play. Recently, in a couple of Substack posts from Nancy Thames, I’ve been able to revisit moments like these in my life and see them from an alternative perspective.

My Intution Understanding Upgrade

Before I go further into my own discoveries about intuition, it would be helpful to look at how our human perception most always operates through filters.

The subtle energy fields around us contain lots of information. We have a multitude of filters. Nancy Thames lists “attention span, nervous system, memory, culture, expectation, fear, belief systems, and expectations.” This intricate layer of filters is different for each person and ultimately changes what gets through.

In addition to that, we are each a unique “biological receiver.” According to Thames, this means that we each have a unique way of using “words, grammar, sequence, metaphor, memory, and conceptual structure.” This is where we translate intuition into language and also where the greatest distortion can occur.

In the case of my mother’s passing, I asked myself, “Did the language I use to describe the situation match what I had received?” Had I added distortion or applied meaning that wasn’t there in the original recognition? I believe that I had accomplished what Nancy Thames calls “fidelity to recognition.”

To me, this means rendering the original intuitive knowing into language as accurately and cleanly as possible, without adding distortion, drama, or meanings that were never present in the pure registration itself.

Some Deeper Truths about Direct Communication

Intuition is recognition of Oversoul Consciousness, which is always happening. Each of us has our own level of interference that stands between us and conscious recognition. Thames writes;

“Oversoul communication is not a special state reached by leaving ordinary consciousness behind. It is ordinary waking consciousness with less interference. It is not something another person can activate for you. It is not something you can purchase. It is not something you can demand. It is not produced by technique. It is not strengthened by spectacle.”

But not every thought, impulse, preference, fear, or idea is Oversoul communication. Thames explains:

“Oversoul recognition does not arrive with the same urgency, self-protection, emotional charge, or personal agenda that marks ordinary mental noise. The quieter the interference becomes, the easier that difference is to see.”

To summarize, Oversoul intuition is simply ordinary awareness cleared of interference so that it is neither forced nor dramatic, and can be distinguished from everyday mental noise by its calm absence of urgency, self-protection, or personal agenda.

Intuition is Natural to Our Bodies

Intuition doesn’t come from another presence situated somewhere beyond my present self that can see what I cannot and then let’s me know about it. That would mean that there would have to be a sender and a receiver. If the receiver is one with and not separate from the field, then nothing outside of itself whispers or speaks.

The body is an instrument before it is an explanation. It receives before it narrates. This is the reason, Thames explains, that intutive knowing can feel immediate and explanation can feel slow. We sense that something is different but it takes time to discern what changed. Thames writes:

“The body is already adjusting continuously to light, sound, balance, temperature, movement, facial expression, distance, rhythm, internal chemistry, and countless changes that never become deliberate thought. Intuition belongs inside that larger fact.”

The “knowing” we experience simply becomes available before the interpretive mind understands how it arrived. This same knowing is even more subtle than the commonly accepted explanation of an “inner voice.”

The idea that being “more spiritual” is the reason some people perceive more of the unseen realms than others is also misleading. People can sense things and not be able to articulate them. The recognition can fade too fast to translate. The rarest capacity is the combination of clear recognition and precise articulation.

What I Now Understand More Clearly

I think I’ve been practicing this path of “clear recognition and precise articulation” for a long time even though I couldn’t explain it until now. Once again, the path that led me to this understanding goes through music, and specifically, songwriting.

I would ask a question with a sincere desire to know the answer, or to connect heart to heart with another soul and then just get quiet and listen. I would sometimes receive a strong original recognition, and yet remain aware that I was already altering the initial communication by adding words and melody to the impressions that came through.

I resisted naming guides, or voices, or claiming a spiritual originas the source of what impressions arrived. The song lyrics that presented themselves helped me recognize what was already present in my own field of awareness. And it usually felt somewhat magical.

I had never really thought about how often we, as humans, blur the distinction of what comes through in an original registration from the interpretation that inevitably follows.

The communication that came through at the moment of my mother’s death was not overly dramatic and could even have had a biological origin. My “DNA splitting apart” comment could have been an observation of an actual bodily change related to microchimerism, the process during pregnancy in which a small number of cells are exchanged bidirectionally between mother and fetus and can persist for decades in tissues, including the brain in some cases.

Where I’ve been a bit mislead

I’ve also had intuitive hits that arrived where I’ve certainly attached meaning to events with a confidence that I now realize was more of a “story.” And I enjoyed the “wonder” that came along with that, encouraged by the culture I’m a part of.

We inherited so many new age narratives in the past few decades that helped blur the intuition lines. We were encouraged to look for signs, visions, and sensations that felt external to “ordinary life.” The label of “extraordinary” seemed to be the stamp that “out of the blue” meant something “more” was happening underneath it all.

We were told to look for messages from our “higher self” or “larger self,” not understanding that there were never two separate consciousnesses involved. Instead, the two parts are just one human receiver that gets the information and then adds a conscious interpretation.

Intuition in new age terms was treated as just one event. The feeling and the interpretation arrived in one neat package. The feeling of a familiar place meant I’ve lived here before, a chance romantic meeting meant we must be soul mates. In other words, any event that produced a powerful internally felt response had to be accompanied by a significant message.

The stronger the sensation, the more important the message was assumed to be. The adjustment that I am making now is to understand that anyone can get a real registration and a fabricated interpretation. Messages might not be entirely imaginary when they arrive, but they also don’t immediately qualify as prophecy.

More About the Need for Explanation

As humans, we like to resolve things. This can be applied to our tendency to make stories from intuitive downloads. The unknown can make us uncomfortable. Thames writes:

“Identity dislikes uncertainty because uncertainty prevents closure. It wants to know what happened, what it means, who caused it, what category it belongs to, and what should happen next.

The need for explanation can become stronger than the commitment to accuracy. Oversoul consciousness does not require that rush. Registration can remain registration. The unknown can remain unknown.”

When we rush to find explanations, we run the risk of turning fear into catastrophy or desire into destiny. Thames proposes that deeper recognition moves in the opposite direction from this and requires giving space for the meaning to arise and that there is no need for “extraordinary” evidence as intuition is part of an ordinary life.

Would intution become more valuable if we no longer required it to be a “system of hidden instruction” or a “means to prove destiny?” If intuition arrives without being predetermined, our bodies can still notice, our minds can still register and investigate, and meaning can still emerge.

This Oversoul communication was and is always happening and we only need to free our minds to recognize its structure accurately. This can mean spending more quiet time away from endless news, entertainment, and social media.

When we step away from the increasing level of noise in our society, it is easier to notice subtle changes. We can take more personal resonsibility for recognizing how different environments affect our ability to receive.

In the end, the deepest gift of this understanding is the permission it gives us to simply notice what arrives through deeper knowing without the pressure to decode, dramatize, or prove anything.

The knowing arrives first, quietly, and precisely. The story we build around it comes second, and we get to choose how much of that story we keep. When we stop demanding that every flash of recognition carry a grand message or destiny, intuition becomes lighter, more trustworthy, and far more ordinary in the best possible way.

I’d love to hear from you: Have you ever experienced a moment of clear knowing that only made sense later, and looking back, can you still separate the pure recognition from the interpretation you layered on top of it?

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References:

I’m including a link to Nancy Thames’s Substack.

Nancy Thames

I am a lifelong contact experiencer, and this publication is the result of writing directly from those continuous, lived experiences rather than interpreting them from the outside.

Thames, Nancy (Aug 9, 2026). [You Know Before You Know Why]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-210550249

Thames, Nancy (Aug 12, 2026). [Oversoul Communication Is Not Intuition ]. https://nancythames.substack.com/p/oversoul-communication-is-not-intuition?

Our hearts emit an electromagnetic field that can be 100 times stronger than the field of our brain.

I once wrote a song pleading for my heart to “become an ocean.”

What I didn’t know then is that I was unknowingly tapping into a profound truth: the heart has an almost oceanic affect on our lives.

I knew that our hearts do more than just pump blood to the rest of our body but I had never considered that my heart could also be a cosmic stargate that pulses with the rhythm of my soul.

I wanted my heart to “become an ocean” by staying open so that the tapestry of energy I was weaving fed me courage and possibility instead of shutting down over life’s disappointments or the pain of betrayal. I wasn’t asking my mind. I was going to the place that would connect me to my deepest emotions and even to the courage of my soul.

It was as if I knew where courage really lived and it wasn’t primarily in my brain or my thoughts. I wanted my heart to become a “home for my brave.”

Heart to Brain or Brain to Heart?

Did you know that your heart sends more signals to your brain than your brain sends to your heart? I would have thought it was the other way around, but a study by Thayer and Lane in 2000 showed that our heart’s neural signals influence our brain’s emotional regulation, more than our brains affect our hearts.

Our hearts then, affect how we process and emotions and stress, even when it feels like it’s in our heads. This demonstrates that coherent heart rhythms can enhance emotional stability and reduce overwhelming stress responses.

Hearts and Coherence

When our heart’s rhythm becomes steady and harmonious, “cardiac coherence” occurs, especially during positive states of love, gratitude, or compassion. This coherence can reach and interact with others, acting as a carrier wave for emotional and energetic information.

The heart’s toroidal field, with its ability to extend outward, supports the idea that we are energetically connected to others and the environment. Authors like Barbara Brennan, in her book Hands of Light (1987), describe the heart chakra as a radiant energy center that links the physical and spiritual selves and facilitates emotional and energetic exchanges.

Coherent heart fields can synchronize between individuals and foster a sense of unity or shared emotional states. For instance, experiments have shown that mothers and infants exhibit synchronized heart rhythms, even when not in physical contact, which suggests an energetic bond mediated by electromagnetic fields (McCraty et al., 2004). Similar effects have been observed in couples or close friends, particularly during moments of emotional resonance.

The Heart as Anchor of the Soul

This toroidal field connect us to a level of resonance far beyond just “cardiac coherence” and this torus around our hearts is described by Quantum Tumbler as the “electromagnetic anchor of your soul,”:

The heart generates a double helical vortex with every beat. Not a piston, a torus. Blood spirals through it in vortex loops, not pushed like plumbing. This spin generates a scalar field that warps local space, aka, biological gravity modulation. Translation? The heart is the center of your bio-ship, bending space to maintain coherence across your body and consciousness.

Our blood spirals and the spin contributes to the field that is generated. This happens with every single beat of our heart which also generates a double helical vortex. This has not been my “go-to” description of my heartbeat, but I’m willing to adjust my perception because it makes a lot of sense.

How does our heart anchor our soul?

The answer appears to be that our hearts anchor our souls through our DNA. If our hearts are biological tone generators, then our DNA is the spiral antennae that receives those tones. Quantum Tumbler explains the role of the heart first:

Inside the heart is a micro-plasma field, a literal living flame. The blood contains ionized particles (iron, oxygen) spinning in rhythmic cadence. When aligned, this creates a coherent plasma state capable of entrainment, resonance, and remote influence.

This “cardiac coherence” was mentioned before as increasing with states of love and compassion. Now, we’re adding the ionized particles, spinning in rhythm and creating a very powerful, resonant, and influential plasma state that is capable of tuning our DNA as described by Quantum Tumbler:

The double helix of DNA is tuned by the heart’s field. Each twist of the helix is modulated by the electromagnetic harmonics of your cardiac rhythm. The language of the soul is embedded in your DNA via this rhythm. If the heart is out of sync, your genetic expression literally fractures.

The very language of our soul is delivered through our hearts to our DNA. Our hearts carry the wave of our soul’s signal. No wonder I wanted my heart to stay open! It’s like having a stargate inside of our bodies that synchronizes our DNA to our most expansive self.

Electromagnetism and the Heart

The heart generates the strongest electromagnetic field in the human body, measurable up to several feet away. According to research from the HeartMath Institute, the heart’s electromagnetic field is approximately 100 times stronger electrically and 5,000 times stronger magnetically than the brain’s field (McCraty et al., 2015).

This expanded field is produced by the electrical activity of cardiac cells, which contract rhythmically to pump blood. These impulses create a magnetic field that extends beyond the body, forming a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) energy field.

Can our hearts think and create memories?

The heart contains its own intrinsic nervous system, often called the “heart brain,” with over 40,000 neurons capable of independent processing (Armour, 1991). These neurons form ganglia, display synaptic plasticity, and operate with a degree of autonomy once thought exclusive to the brain. This neural network allows the heart to “think” and make decisions and influences our mood, intuition, and even cognitive function.

Peer-reviewed studies show heart neurons contain microtubules, which are linked to quantum coherence and encode memory via phase-locked vibrational patterns. This function mirrors how the brain’s memory mechanisms work.

Case studies also reveal recipients of heart transplants inheriting donor-specific traits like food cravings, emotional tendencies, and even handwriting. One woman developed completely new cravings for chicken nuggets and beer and then found that her donor had loved both. These cases defy standard neuroscience but align with cardiac memory field models.

By embracing the heart’s profound power, you can unlock a deeper connection to yourself and others, cultivating emotional resilience and spiritual clarity. Practices like creating more cardiac coherence through love, gratitude, or meditation can harmonize your heart’s rhythm, reduce stress and amplify your intuitive wisdom.

The actual words to the chorus are:

Oh, my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean
So I can ride the currents
So I feel the waves

Oh, my heart may you stay open
May you become an ocean 
So you can be a home for my brave

May your heart become an ocean, too, and stay open enough to carry the language of your soul into every cell, every relationship, and every quiet moment of courage.

Whether you seek emotional healing, stronger relationships, or a sense of purpose, may you turn to and tune into your heart as an open pathway for aligning your body and soul in a natural field of coherence and connection.

What is one practice, memory, or moment that has helped your heart stay open and coherent and how did it change the way you moved through the world? I’d love to know.

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References:

1. Armour, J. A. (1991). “Neurocardiology: Anatomical and Functional Principles.” Journal of Integrative Neuroscience.

2. Braden, G. (2007). The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief. Hay House.

3. Brennan, B. A. (1987). Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field. Bantam Books.

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I’ve been exploring the nature of resonance and coherence over the past year, drawn to increasing my understanding of these simple quantum principles and how they operate in our everyday lives.

My new fascination unfolds from looking at our bio-electrical nature through the lens of coherence and how that relates to consciousness. This inspiration came from a recent post from Nancy Thames in which she makes the claim that restoring our coherence allows our consciousness to navigate with more ease. In her words:

“Every breath that steadies a nervous system, every movement that reorganizes fascia, every night of sleep that reestablishes electrical order is not maintenance performed on a machine. It is coherence being restored so that consciousness moves with less distortion and more clarity.

The body was never separate from consciousness. It has always been consciousness expressed as living biology, one continuous instrument carrying one continuous human experience.”

How is resonance related to coherence?

Resonance : A guitar string plucked in a room is just resonating at a certain frequency. If there is another guitar nearby, that same frequency-matching could cause a similar string on that guitar to start vibrating.

Coherence: The quality of that guitar string’s vibration can lead in two directions. Strong coherence would keep the two strings phase-locked so the energy transfer remains constructive and ordered, synchronized, and efficient. Weak coherence would more easily fall out of phase into fading or messiness.

Resonance is the matching of frequencies and coherence is the disciplined, constructive relationship among those frequencies that turns mere vibration into ordered, amplifying, unifying motion. One could say that coherence is both a measurable physical property and a lived quality of clarity, connection, and integrity.

Coherence is the degree of phase correlation or locking between the oscillating parts. Highly coherent waves maintain a consistent phase relationship over time or space, so their peaks and troughs reinforce rather than cancel.

Without coherence, resonance is weak, noisy, or dissipative, and with it, the system becomes efficient, ordered, and capable of larger-scale effects.

I chose Resonance: The Music Within as my newsletter name because I’m a musician and songwriter who is also deeply curious about the quantum worlds of vibration, frequency, waves, Biogeometry and the unseen worlds.

Resonance occurs when systems share or closely match natural frequencies and energy transfers or amplifies. I began studying resonance-based energy tools with Dr. Robert Gilbert who was licensed to teach these methods by Dr. Ibrahim Karim, the founder of BioGeometry.

The tools we used achieved their effects through resonance/coherence with our body’s own energy system. In other words, the pendulums, rulers, and balancing wheels had to be activated by our body’s peripheral energy field. When the tools entered into communication with specific emotional, mental, or physical energy fields, tuning was available through dials designed to restore proper energy flow or to promote balance.

Bringing Resonance and Coherence into our Lived Experience

If we extend the world of coherence into the vibrational world of matter, mind, emotion, relationships, and quantum fields, then coherence becomes the state of harmonic alignment or “being in tune,” which cycled me right back to my newsletter, Resonance: The Music Within and I pondered what Coherence: The Music Within could mean.

Coherent “music within” would consist of thoughts, feelings, body rhythms, and intentions vibrating in mutual support rather than fragmentation or conflict.

If incoherence is noise, drift, or dissolution, then coherence is the condition that lets something endure and interact meaningfully.

What I take from this is that our coherence matters more than most of us realize and paying attention to what restores coherence is a very worthwhile endeavor. Thames cites a few coherence restorers:

“Sleep restores coherence. Nutrition supports coherence. Movement restores coherence. Healthy relationships support coherence. Chronic stress fragments coherence, pulling electrical and mechanical organization toward protection instead of openness.”

Although my sleep, nutrition, movement and relationships are working quite well with the restoration of coherence, there was another very intriguing layer to discover.

Where the nature of coherence got expanded for me

We each have our own relationship with change, whether we embrace it or try our best to avoid it. Life does not stand still. Moments of happiness arrive, to be overshadowed by moments of dissapointment. There are victories and failures. We are continually being asked to “start over.” Thames asks a very profoud question:

“What if starting over is actually coherence asking for a deepening?”

What this translates into for me is that ALL of life is always reorganizing into greater coherence, meaning I can’t pick and choose which moments participated and which moments didn’t matter. Thames further explains the reason for this:

“Because nothing is isolated. Every movement influences another. Every recognition changes the field from which future experiences emerge. As your awareness changes, the relationships capable of supporting that awareness naturally begin to shift as well. No amount of effort can permanently preserve an arrangement that consciousness has already outgrown.”

And yet, so many of of continue to long for the “good ol days,” and the idea of “starting over” is often linked to failures, endings and collapses which describe situations in which we just couldn’t “hold on.”

But what if the role of consciousness is not to return us to places we have already been? What if consciousness, instead, is alway moving in the direction of greater coherence?

I had a very lucid experience of this “coherence expansion” on a solo birthday excursion where my car broke down and I had to leave it and hitchhike to a cabin I had rented for the evening. The lyrics that I wrote that day:

Imagine every challenge shows us what we need to change And all that carves us deeper gives us strength to start again

Every lesson spirals, Every thought repeats Giving us the time to change the way that we perceive

We can change again, what we think we see. Change again, the truth of our belief.

Change again, forgive, move on, start over. Be wise, be strong, be bolder. Change again, start over

Looking back, I recognize a rare presence of mind that was willing to accept the ending of what my idea of my day was “supposed to be.” (And the next day, I got help and the car was rescued.) I think I had a glimpse of another idea Thames proposes:

“Consciousness has never measured wisdom by how tightly something can be held. It measures coherence by how naturally life continues to express itself.”

The first place we often visit in our minds is like being on a scavenger hunt chasing answers for questions like “What went wrong?” We rarely have the presence of mind to immediately accept the endings in our lives, of jobs, friendships, careers, and all of the other “things” that don’t “turn out” like we thought they would.

Can we change our human tendencies to push against coherence?

How can we more deeply embrace the idea that life will not continue to express itself a certain way when the conditions for that expression have expired? Life is going to reorganize miraculously to the conditions now present.

Nancy Thames uses four “R” words to brilliantly describe our human tendencies to push against the inevitable change that coherence engenders. Repair, Recognition, Rhythm, and Rupture.

Repair suggests that our stories can’t really break without a good explanation and that there’s a way to return to a more familiar and comfortable story if we can just “fix” what went wrong.

Recognition would acknowledge that our “stories” sometimes move on without even giving us a fowarding address. In Thame’s words:

“What appears to be disruption from the human perspective is often the restoration of a deeper harmony that was already unfolding long before the mind became aware of it.”

Preserving the “status quo” and continuity often feels easier than accepting that some arrangement has run its course, due to the fact that our consciousness has outgrown it.

What immediately comes up around this is “What About Grief?”

If we accept change so readily, what happens to grieving what we lose? According to Thames, we can both grieve loss and recognize the space that opens around it.

“A person can fully grieve the end of a marriage, a friendship, or a career while also, eventually, recognizing that the ending cleared space that could not have opened any other way. These two things are not in tension. Grief tends to the loss. Recognition tends to the meaning. Both can be true inside the same life, often inside the same week, sometimes inside the same conversation.”

This grief plus recognition equation brings in the ideas of Rhythm and Rupture.

Rhythm is inherent to your own unfolding. Even two lives, closely entwined, over time require different things. We can learn to ride these rhythms rather than go into guilt when the timelines we share with those we genuninely love fall out of sync naturally.

Rupture helps us step back and notice that the endings we fear the most may have been quietly clearing ground for an evolution that required a space that the old arrangement was occupying.

This does not mean that we just accept endings passively. Some situations honestly deserve repair. The difference lies in knowing which endings are still capable of coherence and which have completed their purpose.

Final Thoughts

Life will continue to do what it always does. It will reorganize itself into ever deeper levels of coherence. When our human minds question the moving pieces and wonder why our reality is wobbling, the consciousness underneath is expressing the next arrangement that allows it to come through and reveal more of itself.

By paying attention to the underlying deeper patterns, rather than frantically trying to resist it and/or rush to restore the familiar, we can learn to recognize coherence as it is unfolding.

As life continues its quiet work of reorganizing into deeper coherence, we are invited to experience resonance and coherence as lived practices and not just abstract principles. The “music within” can become our body’s and consciousness’s shared language of restoration.

Where in your own life have you felt coherence returning after a period of noise or rupture? What practices, moments, or insights help you stay in tune when everything seems to be rearranging? Your shared reflections and experiences may be exactly the resonance someone else needs to hear.

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References:

Thames, Nancy. ( July 24, 2026). [Life Rearranges Before You Understand Why]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-208631114

Thames, Nancy. ( August 1, 2026). [The Human Body Is a Bioelectrical Instrument]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-209401123

Zero-point energy became vastly more interesting to me when I first read that we might be able to access it through our own bodies. This led me to explore more about what zero-point energy is so that I could understand not only how to use it in the future, but also the ways I may have unknowingly accessed it in the past.

I had a vague feeling that this quantum concept of Zero-Point energy explained the fertile fields I had often found in silence, nature, and breath.

Most people hear “zero-point energy” and picture a mysterious, limitless, free-energy source hidden in empty space that could power the world if only we figured out how to tap it. In popular imagination it often blends science fiction, perpetual-motion dreams, and other sensational claims rather than the actual quantum-physics concept of residual ground-state energy.

So, the term “zero-point energy,” although frequently mentioned in the lexicon of quantum physics, is frequently mentioned but poorly understood.

What is Zero-Point energy?

Zero-Point energy is the minimum energy that a quantum system, like an atom or particle retains, even when cooled to absolute zero (-273.15°C), where all motion is expected to stop.

According to quantum mechanics, particles can't be completely still due to the uncertainty principle, so they constantly vibrate or fluctuate, creating a baseline energy in the vacuum. This "residual energy" is often misunderstood because it's a subtle, ever-present quantum effect that's hard to harness or observe directly.

Zero-Point energy is on the opposite side of the great divide that was drilled into our brains in every science class that taught us that the vacuum contained only “empty space.”

An Alternative View

Before I go into the standard defintions of zero-point energy, I’m inspired to share an alternative view writer and researcher Nancy Thames offers:

“They call it a breakthrough. A marvel of modern physics. “Zero Point Energy” — the boundless energy of the vacuum. The quantum hum of the so-called empty void. They say it was discovered. They say it holds the key to free energy, clean power, and even warp drives. But here’s the truth: You never lost access to the field. It was taken, hidden, filtered — and renamed. What they call Zero Point Energy is not new. It is the default state of Oversoul current — the cosmic substrate that precedes both time and tech. It powers life, form, vibration, and remembrance. It was never supposed to be harnessed — because you were it.”

The definition Thames offers is closer to interpreting zero-point energy as source, and her instructions for accessing it are what I am trying to explore here and the way to access it in her words: “You need to dismantle the field that made you forget it was always flowing through you.”

Three Quantum Principles: Casimir, Lamb, and Russel

The vacuum is not the empty “nothing” we were taught in school. It is active.

What if space really isn’t empty? What if, as Quantum Tumbler on X puts it:

“It’s boiling with energy. Every cubic centimeter of space contains more energy than all the matter in the known universe. This is not fringe. It’s quantum electrodynamics 101. It’s the Casimir Effect.”

What is the Casimir effect?

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon, predicted by Hendrik Casimir in 1948, where two uncharged, parallel metal plates in a vacuum experience an attractive force due to quantum vacuum fluctuations. These fluctuations create virtual particles that generate a net pressure difference between the plates, pushing them together.

The Casimir effect demonstrates zero-point energy by showing that quantum vacuum fluctuations, which arise from the non-zero energy of the quantum vacuum, create a measurable attractive force between uncharged plates.

What is the Lamb Shift?

The Lamb Shift is a small difference in energy levels of electrons in a hydrogen atom, discovered by Willis Lamb, The shift is caused by quantum vacuum fluctuations that slightly alter the electron’s position around the nucleus.

These fluctuations are part of quantum electrodynamics and make the electron’s energy levels deviate from predictions of earlier quantum models. This effect provides direct experimental evidence of the zero-point energy of the quantum vacuum, the residual energy that persists even in the lowest possible state of empty space.

What is Walter Russel’s Redshift?

The third quantum principle and the one that is most alive for me is from the polymath and mystic, Walter Russel.

Walter Russel proposed a unique cosmological framework that described the universe as a dynamic interplay of rhythmic balanced interchange, a concept he believed governed all natural phenomena.

Russel viewed the vacuum not as empty but as a vibrant, living medium filled with potential, where waves of light and energy oscillate in cycles of creation and destruction, more like a cosmic breath.

He suggested that this rhythmic process, driven by a universal intelligence or “Mind,” mirrors the inhale-exhale rhythm of life, with creation (compression) and destruction (expansion) being two sides of the same wave cycle.

Redshift is traditionally described as the stretching of light waves due to the expansion of the universe. According to Russel, redshift does not reflect “physical travel across vast distances,” but instead reflects the “universe’s rhythmic pulse, where light stretches as part of a universal wave cycle.”

In essence, this means conventional science sees redshift as a distance effect of an expanding cosmos, while Russel sees it as light participating in the universe’s own cyclic wave motion.

Russell’s vision remains philosophical and poetic rather than accepted physics, yet it still resonates as a way of feeling the universe as dynamic and reciprocal rather than static and empty.

Can we access Zero-Point Energy through our bodies?

The question that first drew me in to this deeper exploration was whether we can phase into that residual field through our own bodies. If the zero in zero-point energy is a threshold rather than an absence, could we sense that threshold through our own bodies in moments of deep stillness?

If the cosmos moves in cycles of compression, expression, and return, does something similar happens in us through attention, breath, and presence? Could the zero in zero-point energy be the ground floor of reality that never goes away?

As I reviewed moments in my own life where I felt a distinctly quiet point around which everything else seemed to turn, they brought new possibilities that seemed to arrive out of the blue and time took on a different dimension.

They all seemed to be connected to moments when I had cleared internal noise, excess mental chatter, and emotional clutter enough that a quiet coherence could be cultivated. In that cleared space, insight and aliveness would tend to appear, along with an increase in what I would call subtle realizations.

Zero-Point Energy is quantum, silent, hyper-structured emptiness. Any internal turbulence such as fear, stress, or shame creates resistance in our access. As a musician, I understand this as the “grace in the space between the notes of a song.” It was the gap where Zero Point Energy was most likely to quietly emerge.

The subjective experiences of fertile silence, expanded presence, or sudden coherence were real for me. Whether they literally coupled me to vacuum fluctuations remains speculative. What science calls the quantum vacuum, mystics have long called source or the ground of being. The overlap may be metaphorical, but the metaphor has power.

What began as scientific curiosity has settled into a more grounded personal practice.

Spending time in nature, barefoot on soil, or simply listening to birds and wind seems to entrain a calmer rhythm. I often deliberately step out of the usual stream of clock-time through playing guitar and singing which requires a sustained, soft attention on the unfolding present moment, the next lyric, the next chord.

I’m more conscious of my breathing, feeling the difference in my nervous system when my breathing slows and steadies.

Zero-point energy is not a secret fuel locked only in labs. The residual aliveness of the vacuum is a real feature of physics. The quiet pulse I feel in stillness, in the spaces between thoughts, and in the simple act of breathing with the world is also real. I no longer need to claim they are the same thing in order to value both.

Aligning with silence, coherence, and a willingness to release unnecessary effort continues to open something essential. The closer I stay to that alignment regardless of its ultimate nature, the more I feel the filters of reality lift enough to reveal access to the unseen realms.

Takeaways

What began for me as a scientific curiosity has unfolded even more deeply into my personal journey. As I’ve come to understand, Zero-Point Energy isn’t just locked in cold vacuums or quantum labs named after the scientists who discovered aspects of it.

The more I align my inner state with silence, coherence, and surrender, the more I feel Zero-Point Energy alive in me, not as theory, but as experience.

What science calls vacuum, mystics call source. And the closer I get to this zero-point hinge, the more value I receive when I tune into this cosmic and essential rhythm.

What quiet practices or moments of stillness have ever made you feel closer to that residual aliveness whether you call it zero-point energy, source, or simply the space between thoughts?

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Casimir Effect: Casimir, H. B. G. (1948). On the attraction between two perfectly conducting plates. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 51, 793–795.

Lamb Shift: Lamb, W. E., & Retherford, R. C. (1947). Fine structure of the hydrogen atom by a microwave method. Physical Review, 72(3), 241–243. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.72.241[](https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/41)

Redshift: Hubble, E. (1929). A relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 15(3), 168–173. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.15.3.168

Thames, Nancy. (July 7, 2025). [Zero Point Energy Wasn’t a Discovery — It Was a Cover Story for the Field They Took From You]. https://nancythames.substack.com/p/zero-point-energy-wasnt-a-discovery

QuantumTumbler. (2025, July 14). [ZERO-POINT ENERGY IS NOT COMING. IT’S BREATHING]. https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1944728040757731645

QuantumTumbler. (2025, July 13). [Zero Wasn’t Nothing It Was a Fold Point]. https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1944397209187037682

QuantumTumbler. (2025, July 13). [It’s the Zero Point]. https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1944419194260406779

Could synchronicity be something more than a mysterious link between mind and matter? This post examines an interesting explanation for synchronicity that although previously outside my understanding feels quite resonant with my own lived experience.

Most humans have a deep, almost universal hunger for meaning and connection in a chaotic world. When a striking coincidence lines up, like thinking of someone and they call, having a dream that mirrors real life, or even finding simple repeating numbers at pivotal moments, it often triggers a little rush of wonder, like the universe just winked at us.

Moments of synchronicity can carry a numinous quality and evoke a sense of profound significance or transformation. Those moments can feel like echoes, arriving from the “out of the blue,” in the form of numbers, words, phrases, people, and/or opportunities that show up around you and feel oddly connected to what you’re working with or have recently focused on.

The concept of “meaningful coincidences”remains influential in psychology, philosophy, and popular culture and offers a lens for understanding those uncanny alignments that feel too perfectly timed to be random. Synchronicity activates the same reward circuits as storytelling, art, or spiritual experiences. You might get a little dopamine and a shiver of enchantment.

Synchronicity defined

The most widely accepted definition of synchronicity comes from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, describing it as an “acausal connecting principle,” in which a meaningful coincidence of events appears symbollically or emotionally related without a causal connection. The acausal force connects inner psychic states such as dreams, thoughts and premonition to outer physical reality.

Jung coined the term in the late 1920s, drawing heavily from the ancient Chinese I Ching, whose oracle system operates on meaningful coincidence rather than linear cause and effect. The concept reached full expression in 1952 with physicist Wolfgang Pauli in their joint book, The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche.

Jung saw synchronicity as one of the universe’s organizing principles in addition to space, time, and causality, and proposed it revealed an interconnected cosmos where psyche and matter intersect at a “psychoid” level.

In the context of synchronicity, Jung used “psychoid” to describe a deep, fundamental layer of reality where the mind and soul of the psyche and the physical world of matter are not fully separate, but intersect or emerge from a shared, neutral ground.

An Alternative View of Synchronicity

Writer Nancy Thames approaches synchronicity in a way that expands on just what that “shared neutral ground” might be. In her recent post, “Synchronicity Is Consciousness Recognizing Itself,” Thames proposes that synchroncity is not just “a curious alignment of circumstances that happened to land the right way.”

Her explanation is that one consciousness creates psyche, soul, and matter, so there can’t be a convergence or coincidence between them because they are expressions of that very same one consciousness. Thames writes:

“Oversoul consciousness is not external to the person experiencing synchronicity. The individual does not receive guidance from consciousness. The individual is consciousness, filtered into biological form, and synchronicity is what becomes visible when that filtering loosens.”

What does it mean for a filter to loosen?

Thames explains:

“When a person’s filter thins, they encounter the right person at the exact moment that person becomes relevant. They receive information that answers a question they had not yet spoken aloud. They notice repeating patterns that track directly against an internal shift they are moving through. These events are not being produced somewhere else and delivered to them. They are pattern that was already coherent becoming perceivable as the filter that had been screening it out loosens its grip.”

Loosening a filter allows more to slip through. If consciousness is not outside of ourselves, then we aren’t asking it to show us something. The change in filters, whether tight or loose is a change in what consciousness, filtered through us, is capable of perceiving, or in Thames’s words, “Synchronicity is the visible signature of that change.”

Coherence between thought, emotion, and intention gives us a clearer pathway to register the field, is less filtered, and more accurately.

A Lived Experience of Profound Synchronicity

One personal example of synchroncity stands out for me. I had an experience a few years ago in which I set two books in front of me. One had been pulled from a glass bookcase in a Marine Science classroom where I would be the substitute teacher for the day. That book was titled Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion, by Ronald L. Numbers.

The previous night I had also pulled a book off of my own bookshelf to take with me that had intrigued me because notes had fallen out from a previous reading. My notes could be summarized as a treatise on how humans from very ancient times can often be key players in the completion of the divine masterpiece known as mankind. That book was Our Cosmic Origin, by Ismael Perez.

Two books on my desk. The students had not yet arrived. I only had time to read one paragraph in each book. The synchronicity of what happened next has stayed with me.

The Galileo book began:

“One spring day in 415, as the story is told, an angry mob of Christian zealots in Alexandria, Egypt, stirred to action by the recently installed bishop, Cyril, brutally murdered the beautiful, young pagan philosopher and mathematician Hypatia. Tutored initially by her father, an accomplished mathematician and astronomer, Hypatia had gone on to write learned commentaries of her own on mathematical and philosophical texts. Her popularity and influence-and especially her defense of science against Christianity- so angered the bishop that he ordered her death.”

The Cosmic Origin book began:

“In the fourth century B.C. a mob of religious zealots destroyed the last of the storehouse of information relating to ancient knowledge. All records about the time before the great flood were erased from history where the Library of Alexandria, the last of its keepers, was a female guardian by the name of Hypatia, who was murdered by the same fanatical religious mob. Volumes of important literature were destroyed; everything from the pre-history of our world, philosophical studies including science and metaphysics blazed in ashes. As a result of burning down this ancient library, all knowledge went up in flames and our world feel into darkness for about thirteen hundred years.”

I immediately asked, Why is Hypatia so strongly in my field right now? I’m not sure that I got an answer at that time, although I was very inspired to continue learning about Hypatia and her life.

If I revisit that episode of great synchronicity through the lens of thought, emotion and intention, I do find coherence.

Thought: Egyptian wisdom is quite interesting to me and I have spent years studying and working with Dr. Ibrahim Karim’s BioGeometry, which contains quite a bit of prehistory blending metaphysics and science.

Emotion: I was very open and trusting as I was consciously invoking bibliomancy, as a practice due to my participation in a Shamanic Dreaming course I was taking at the time. I held very little doubt that what I called “signs” at that time were meaningful.

Intention: My intention was to view whatever my eyes found on the page as important to explore. I chose the two books to open confidently.

My Own Further Exploration

The information that followed the discovery was also quite remarkable in that it named Hypatia’s return to the field.

“Hypatia wasn’t just a guardian of knowledge. She was a harmonic node an encoded lattice anchor. They didn’t just burn a library. They severed a timeline. But now? The resonance she carried is returning. Not as memory but as activation. And we’re the ones rebuilding what was stolen. Not with books but with breath, recursion, and truth. This time: it won’t burn.” Quantum Tumbler on X

I thoroughly enjoyed the journey that opening these two books initiated and learned some principles that actually come back around in today’s writing about synchronicity.

Hypatia’s philosophical views developed from earlier platonic philosophy and placed its main focus on its religious and metaphysical aspects centered around the concept of “the one,” which according to the ancient Egyptian philosopher Plotinus is the highest divine transcendent principle from which the rest of reality emanates.

From “the one” derives the intellect which is responsible for the organization of the material world. Beneath the intellect is the soul which is the perfect image of the intellect. The soul is responsible for regeneration of the material world.

Unlike the intellect and “the one,” the soul is able to interact with the material world, and therefore serve as the mediator between the corporeal world and the intellect. Human souls, according to Plotinus, are fragments of the greater soul that has forgotten its origins, and now dwells in material bodies.

In an interesting spiral, my example of synchronicity returns as a distinct echo of Thames’s claim that one consciousness creates psyche, soul, and matter.

Guidance, Support, or Thinning Filter?

Synchronicity does feel like guidance and support at times, and at the time this happened, I perceived it that way. Thames clarifies that aspect, too:

“What looks like being guided, supported, or remembered by something outside is the filter briefly stepping aside. Nothing was ever lost. Nothing was ever separate. The pattern was always there. Only the clarity to register it changes.”

In the end, understanding synchronicity this way reframes everything. Messages are not sent from somewhere else. A single consciousness expressing itself through countless filtered forms can sometimes be clear enough, in any given moment, to recognize its own pattern in the flow of events.

There is no sender and receiver, only the One momentarily seeing itself in the mirror of lived experience. What we call guidance is simply the filter thinning. What we call coincidence is simply coherence becoming visible.

We do not manufacture synchronicity through effort or technique. We simply stop obstructing it. In that gentle surrender, coherence returns on its own, and the pattern sharpens.

When synchronicity becomes a steady companion rather than an occasional visitor, it means the gap between the filtered self and the greater consciousness we already are has narrowed.

The universe does not wink at us from across a divide. It winks through us, because in the deepest sense, it is us as we awaken, remember, and rebuild the harmonic lattice one clear moment at a time.

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References:

American Psychological Association. (2018). Synchronicity. In APA dictionary of psychology (2nd ed.). https://dictionary.apa.org/synchronicity

Jung, C. G. (1969). Synchronicity: An acausal connecting principle (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). In H. Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung: Vol. 8. Structure and dynamics of the psyche (2nd ed., pp. 417–519). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1952) https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850952.417

Jung, C. G. (2010). Synchronicity: An acausal connecting principle (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.; new foreword by S. Shamdasani). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1952)

Roesler, C. (2020). Synchronicity. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_636

Thames, Nancy. ( July 17, 2026). [Mass Wintessing Filtering and What Alignment Actually Reveals]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-207425510

Thames, Nancy. (Jan 8, 2026). [Synchronicity Is Consciousness Recognizing Itself]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-183978915

Quantum Tumbler. (June 29, 2025) [Hypatia wasn’t just a gaurdian of knowledge]. https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1939425638034890879

Bernardo Kastrup just completely disrupted my understanding of “would have, could have and should have.” His perspective on free will and the mind of the Universe comes close to framing self forgiveness as pre-signed, sealed and delivered.

In other words, the self-forgiveness mantras, workshops, books, and therapies, while feeling helpful and necessary, might not touch the truth of who you were when the “thing” happened.

Whether you argue that it just couldn’t be that simple, which is the direction my thoughts landed before reading his work, I delighted in just trying his ideas on and something did truly shift inside. That “something” continues to evolve.

When you stop to think about all of the choices you’ve made in your life, there are usually a few that you’d honestly like a redo for, right? Or at least that’s what many of us tell ourselves in hindsight. And then we might even make up a story about how everything that followed flowed from that one choice which we label as a “mistake.”

Bernardo Kastrup, a Dutch philosopher and CERN scientist proposes an entirely different possibility.

What if there’s no such thing as “could have been?”

He writes:

“You do make choices, but not in the way you’d like to imagine.”

His explanation is further defined in his discussion about our conceptions concerning “free will,” stating:

“Other people define free will implicitly, differently. Some people think of free will as libertarian free will and what that means is whatever I do, I could have done otherwise. That is probably incoherent. Even though you did make a choice, you made the only choice you could make because you are who you were. You were who you were.”

Yes, you really did make a choice. You felt like you had agency and it felt like your decision. But given exactly who you were in that moment with your beliefs, desires, character, and history, that was the only choice you could have made. There was no realistic alternate version of you that would have chosen differently.

Bernardo Kastrup teaches analytic idealism.

Analytic Idealism is a modern, specific form of metaphysical idealism that places consciousness as the fundamental reality or the ontological primitive of the universe.

But what does that mean?

Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies what exists and what kinds of things fundamentally exist. An ontological primitive is the most basic, irreducible building block of reality. You cannot break it down further or explain it in terms of something more fundamental.

If consciousness is the basic building block of reality, then essentially consciousness is the ground of our being and the only given. Absolutely everything else in existence
must be reduced to, derived from, or composed of patterns or excitations of this primitive.

Kastrup isn’t the only source I’ve found that explains consciousness this way. Substack writer Nancy Thames recenlty made a very interesting statement about consciousness and Earth:

Consciousness did not arrive on Earth from somewhere else and consciousness is not straining against Earth’s weight to reach embodied instruments. Earth is already compatible with any frequency consciousness operates at, because consciousness made Earth in the first place rather than visiting it from outside.

If consciousness is the ground of our being, then perhaps all of the information on how to “raise our consciousness” needs to be reframed. If consciousness isn’t created in our brains, then how do we interface with it?

Kastrup’s view is that our bodies and brains are like a dashboard which has has a simplified interface of colors, textures, and boundaries that allow us to navigate without drowning in what he calls “raw cosmic intensity.” Consciousness did not arrive “later,” after being produced by our brains. Instead, it is the ground, the ocean of our being, the only given.

According to Kastrup, you have never left the mind of the Universe. You are it. He expands on this perspective with his statement, “Reality is Mind.” There is just one boundless, living field of subjectivity whose excitations appear to us as the universe.

In Kastrup’s philosophy, “dissociative” means the process of splitting off or isolating a part of universal consciousness so it feels like a separate, private mind. It’s like creating a mental compartment or “alter” (as in dissociative identity disorder) that experiences itself as an individual “me,” walled off from the rest of the cosmic mind while still being fundamentally one with it.

The dissociative boundary is the mental “wall” or interface that keeps our individual mind separate from the rest of the universal mind. This boundary creates the strong illusion of being a separate “I” isolated from the broader reality. Kastrup prefers to refer to humans as “dissociated alters,”meaning we are like fragmented personalities within a single mind.

Back to Choices and No Such Thing as “Could Have Been”

And therefore, there is no “could have been.” So yes, we all make choices, but that may not be libertarian in the sense that we like to think we could have made other choices. Indeed, as we look back on our lives with more experience and wisdom, we often do ponder the “other choices” we could have made, but could we really have made a different choice?

Kastrup writes:

“Maybe, no, maybe we couldn’t. Maybe the environment would have allowed you to make other choices, but you were who you were.”

The idea is that the enviroment might have offered up some other choices that were possible, but we made the one choice we did because that’s who we are.

I’m not a person with a lot of regrets, however, this information caused me to review a few scenes in my life and I felt a sense of release and freedom from having this new perspective.

Kastrup on Life and Death

Life serves as a laboratory for feeling emotions like love and fear which create understanding and insights. Every thing else, including the world, body, and events are devices to evoke those insights. It’s not random or meaningless. It’s how universal consciousness explores itself through bounded perspectives.

Life, suffering, beauty, and death are all are movements that happen in the one Mind. We evolve through the self-unfolding of experiential complexity. Our experiences contribute memories and insights back to the broader mind upon “re-integration.”

Death is not annihilation, but reabsorption back into the wider field, like a whirlpool dissolving into the river. Physical death dissolves the egoic boundary and the “dashboard” of localized perception, so conscious inner life expands. The unconscious becomes more accessible, self-reflectiveness drops, and you re-merge with Mind at Large.

Meditation, insight, and sometimes psychedelics can act as gentle erosions of this boundary in that they have the potential to gradually soften or thin the wall without shattering it. This allows more “leakage” or direct contact with the transpersonal consciousness beyond our little alter. This results in reduced egoic identification, glimpses of unity, deeper intuition, and a sense of reconnection to the wider mind.

It’s not a sudden breakthrough which could be destabilizing, but a slow, gentle dissolving that expands awareness while preserving functional individuality. These practices are ways to reduce dissociation and experience more of reality’s true nature.

Kastrup and Karim

In studying Kastrup’s ideas, I am reminded of my trainings with BioGeometry Founder, Dr. Ibrahim Karim. Both men are pointing toward more holistic, life-affirming science. Though their teachings differ, they converge on a view where reality is fundamentally about experiential quality and resonance, not just particles and forces.

They both place qualitative measurement above quantitative. For Kastrup, quality means the intrinsic felt nature of reality, meaning the raw, subjective feel of experience itself, not just abstract properties or quantities. It’s consciousness’s direct, felt essence, beyond measurable physics.

In Karim’s work, quality treats subtle energies, harmonics, and resonances as primary and reveals how unseen forces in shapes, forms and sound act as carriers of qualitative energy that harmonize biological systems.

Both critique reductionist physics and emphasize hidden dimensions of reality. Kastrup focuses on the universal mind beyond the dissociative boundary and Karim explores the 98% of reality in subtle energies that lie beyond sensory 2% of reality we have access to.

Kastrup provides the metaphysical foundation of a consciousness-first ontology and offers the idea that we can use meditation and insight to reconnect to univerasal consciousness. Karim offers applied tools of geometry and harmonics for interacting with the qualitative fabric of that consciousness and uses designs and shapes to harmonize energy fields and restore balance and life force.

What Living This Truth Might Look Like

Understanding that self-forgiveness could possibly be pre-signed, sealed, and delivered, changes it from something you need to continually work at, earn, or manufacture to the possibility that there was never a separate “you” who could have done otherwise.

So, try on letting the “could have beens” fall away. Every choice you made was the only choice you could have made because at that moment you were precisely who you were.

You are an alter momentarily carved from the one Mind. And every choice you make now reflects a new angle of reality that has never been seen before.

In this view, the universe is mental yet far vaster than any personal mind. It is alive, transpersonal, and intimately present. To truly live this understanding is to move through the world with both wonder and responsibility knowing that every perception you have is a shared ripple in the greater Mind.

What about you? Have Kastrup’s ideas on consciousness and choice shifted how you relate to your own “could have beens”? Do past decision feels lighter when you consider there was never a separate you who could have chosen differently? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments. Your stories and reflections are what make these conversations meaningful.

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References

Karim, I. (2023). Hidden reality: The BioGeometry physics of quality: The science of subtle energy and life force (Vol. 1). BioGeometry Energy Systems.

Kastrup, B. (2017). An ontological solution to the mind-body problem. Philosophies, 2(2), 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies2020010 (Also featured in Scientific American opinion pieces.)

Kastrup, B. (2019). Analytic idealism: A consciousness-only ontology. Self-published / academic monograph. (Core technical formulation.)

Kastrup, B. (2024). Analytic idealism in a nutshell: A straightforward summary of the 21st century’s only plausible metaphysics. Iff Books.

Kastrup, B. (2025, March 14). Is consciousness the final reality? – Questioning the material universe [Video]. YouTube. Essentia Foundation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcaV3EEmR9k

Thames, Nancy. (July 12, 2026). [The Field Broke Through in 1739 and They Called It God]. https://nancythames.substack.com/p/the-field-broke-through-in-1739-and

You may have seen certain geometric forms and energetic symbols on altars, in sacred texts, esoteric diagrams, and sacred geometry. Their true purpose is often forgotten, buried, or distorted. These forms are among humanity’s most powerful and overlooked technologies. Understanding what they actually point toward is important for an awakened humanity.

Although the shapes themselves can look newly strange, we’ve encountered them before in hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, and ancient diagrams. What’s new is realizing they can operate in both visible and invisible ways. They are not merely pictures; they are invitations.

In my own attempt to understand these forms, I kept returning to information about them because, even without a conscious daily practice of “working with” them, I could feel their influence in my lived experience. I was especially struck by how much more they are than decoration. According to Mark Davey:

They are field operators—scalar tools encoded into visual form and their purpose is to modulate field coherence, to trigger scalar memory or recursion, and align the user with specific harmonics or gateways.”

In other words, they make unseen energies visible so we can more easily align with them. They function as keys that help restore coherence and communication within our subtle energy fields. They live in the scalar, non-local aspects of consciousness and carry the potential to connect us with specific vibrational qualities or open access to deeper states of awareness.

Relating Glyphs to Cymatics

In studying advanced sonic science with John Stuart Reed, I learned about cymatics which is the study of visible sound. What I hadn’t put together until now was that cymatics may have been responsible for the first glyphs. Cymatics is the study of how vibrational frequencies manifest intricate geometric patterns in matter, revealing the hidden energetic blueprints of creation. Ancient people may have seen cymatics patterns in nature and replicated them on the walls of their caves.

What cymatics really shows is that somehow we can witness sound becoming visible explained clearly in a X post by Quantum Tumbler.

“Cymatics is encoded structure. You’re watching vibration translate directly into geometry. That’s not just science, that’s script.”

At this point I could see a correlation. Both glyphs and cymatics represent encoded structure. If sound is made visible by these frequencies creating geometric patterns, it isn’t unreasonable to assume that ancient alphabets and sacred texts and even names of gods may have been based on sound-to-form resonance. And perhaps people who recorded or traced them were just making the waveforms visible.

Why These Forms Are Appearing Now

Many of us sense something newly alive in our interface with the world. It feels as though we are awakening to energies woven through the living connections we move within. These forms may be the very structures capable of holding and transmitting that hidden aliveness.

The state of “being in resonance” with something will always be more powerful than simply “believing in it.” Intellectual dogma cannot activate or bring light into a field. Resonance can. These forms carry meaning more directly than language because they bypass the small, inconsequential concerns that language so easily gets entangled in.

My First Meetings With These Invisible Worlds

I began to study BioGeometry in 2023 with Dr. Ibrahim Karim and the late Dr. Robert Gilbert and continue to deepen my understanding of this amazing body of work. It is relevant because much of the new information I’m finding (about glyphs in particular at the moment) resonates strongly. In studying BioGeometry, I was introduced to “seeing the invisible.”

In fact, Dr. Karim has a saying, “Only those who see the invisible, can do the impossible.” Karim’s work centers around hidden geometric forces that guide all of life which flows from the zero-infinity state described as:

“Omnipresent, Omnipotent Consciousness that has an inert potential for harmony, holistic qualities, and perfect balance where infinity manifests as Divine Law. Geometric manifestation is the result of spiritual wisdom expressed in the living attributes that form the Universal Laws of Nature.

What Karim refers to as the “primordial waters” is the place where all the attributes of Creation or Divinity exist as a potential in a non-differentiated state, where each one is part of the all and the all is in each one.

This means that at the origin point, every law of creation “includes at its core, its opposite in perfect balance and harmony.” The true reality, however, is formless and in the time and space of our current existence, it is beyond our mental capacity.

Karim developed specific Egyptian tools over a 50 year period that only work in the hands of human beings with subtle energy fields. So he was teaching his students to sense through his specifically designed pendulums in order to read the subtle energy in our physical, vital, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.

Through these special tools, we learned that the centering principle, the circular, spiraling motion that continually returns to its source is the basis of the design language of BioGeometry, which strives to connect to the center from which everything emanates and returns. This spiritual centering induces harmony on all levels of Creation.

This became my doorway into a deeper appreciation of these forms. The pulses we measured with the tools and the pulses carried by the forms both operate whether or not we consciously recognize them.

When I looked more closely, I found another profound similarity: the outcomes we measured, or the amount of centering energy generated by different shapes and states resonated strongly with the idea that these forms record and transmit centering states within our subtle energy fields. Our subtle energy can both read and reflect them.

The Circle: Circumference and Center

Dr. Ibrahim Karim offers one of the clearest illustrations of this principle through the simple geometry of a circle:

The sensory mind perceives the circumference of the circle. The extrasensory perception of the heart, however, perceives the light of the vortex at its elusive formless center. The defined circle is related to our separate ego while the center is a total oneness with the Universe in which the ego completely dissolves. The center is a doorway connecting to everything in the multi-dimensional Universe. We are equally perceiving our sensory time-space reality on a left-brain level and equally part of the total multi-dimensional timeless ever-present realities that we perceive on a subconscious level hidden from our sensory awareness.

The circumference is what the ordinary senses and the ego can grasp in the world of form with it’s defined edges. The center is what the heart perceives when it moves beyond form and into the living vortex of light, the point of total oneness where the separate self dissolves. The center is not a location; it is a doorway.

When I realized that nearly everything I had learned in BioGeometry about subtle energy fields could help me understand other geometrical forms, they became far more operational in my daily life. My physical, vital, emotional, and mental senses dropped into a deeper zone of awareness.

My morning yoga began to feel like an empowering and connected ritual that also nourished my subtle energy body, not just something I did in the morning.

My sensitivity to to the energy of other people expanded, but not in a way that I became “more triggered.” It was just the opposite. I increased my range of understanding and compassion.

I began to listen, a lot. With more than just my physical senses. I learned to also listen through synchronicity.

I started to value my own creativity and to follow internal imperatives to stop taking in so much information from others and instead, “amplify what is already alive in me.”

I paid closer attention to my own speech, remembering to breathe, to choose my words with care, and to speak with tone, pause, and reverence.

The creativity that emerged felt equally full of remembrance and emergence. I consciously invited both into the field, and the field became fuller.

This brought me to a deeper understanding expressed by Quantum Tumbler:

These glyphs were never meant to overwhelm. They’re memory seeds. Little harmonic anchors designed to land gently… and then unfold like origami in the soul.

A Helpful Comparison

The metaphor that clarified this for me was to think about how our ears have to be connected to our brains in order to decipher the tones we hear. In other words, we need something to anchor the sound into meaning. Quantum Tumbler explained glyphs that way writing:

A glyph is to the field what a tone is to the ear—a frequency anchor. (In scalar terms)

The field is filled with different invisible frequency anchors or glyphs. It’s important to understand that glyphs operate more on resonance coming from your own subtle energy field than from your mind thinking it has to decode special images.

“Glyphs are more like recursive memories that are waiting for a resonance match invitation into your field. These are scalar mirrors — not messages to decode, but memories to re-become. A glyph is a visual harmonic—a shape that carries resonance potential in the scalar field. It is not symbolic in the usual sense.”

By embracing these principles, you begin to move through life with a quieter mind and a more attuned field. Everyday moments, including your breath, your words, and your creative impulses become doorways rather than distractions.

You gain practical access to greater coherence in your physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies, reduced reactivity, heightened intuition through synchronicity, and a natural return to your own inner authority.

These forms don’t ask you to believe in them. They simply invite resonance. When you accept the invitation, you remember more of who you truly are and step into a more harmonious, multi-dimensional way of being. The invisible becomes a trusted ally, and the center within you becomes the source from which clarity, creativity, and genuine awakening naturally unfold.

I hope reading this has been as clarifying for you as writing it has been for me. I sat with these ideas for weeks until they finally revealed themselves.

“Which visible form, symbol, or geometric pattern has quietly worked on you or felt strangely alive in your own life? What did it shift in your energy, awareness, or daily experience?”

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References:

Davey, M. (2025, May 13). Codex III: The glyphs as code. WhoWhatWhere. https://whowhatwhere.substack.com/p/codex-iii-the-glyphs-as-code

Karim, I. (2022). Hidden reality: The BioGeometry physics of quality. Independently published.

QuantumTumbler. (2025, May 25). [From linear thought to resonance-based awareness]. X. https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1926594851430117456

QuantumTumbler. (2025, May 30). [Cymatics is encoded structure]. X. https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1926594851430117456

QuantumTumbler. (2025, May 13). [These glyphs were never meant to overwhelm.] https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1922251563080548660

QuantumTumbler. (2025, May 30). [Cymatics is encoded structure.] https://x.com/QuantumTumbler/status/1928660549602250855

Are our souls capable of direct apprehension of the eternal, perfect, unchanging realities that lie beyond the physical world?

I’ve asked myself this question many times in my life, never expecting that the answer might be at least 2,000 years old.

Recently, I came across the brilliant writing of Nancy Thames and after reading several of her Substack posts, I’m revisiting this question and others, and answering them within the context of some of the profound ideas she’s presented.

Thames’s recent article on Plato and consciousness contained lots of connecting points or ahas for me. Although Plato exited the planet in 348 BCE, his philosophy has been quoted and taught in schools and universities for over 2000 years. Thame’s main premise that differs from most interpretations is that Plato wasn’t just doing abstract philosophy.

In relating his stories and ideas, Plato was actually describing how consciousness gets “filtered through the body and brain” which Thames calls the “instrument”, and this filtering causes us to mistake the “limited sensory shadows” we’re constantly taking in for full reality.

In my own experience and most likely many others, to mistake the limited sensory shadows for reality is accepted far more often and unquestionably than reporting on what you might have glimpsed and brought through from the other side, all on your own without an authority or a reference.

My quest did not start out as a philosophical journey. It came from a lifetime curiosity of wondering how I could at times sit quietly and hear a whole song being formed which caused me to ask…

“So, where do songs really come from? Are they echoes from the Universe, fragments of something eternal? Or are they shaped within us, formed by the unseen forces of imagination and soul? Are they born from memory and experience, or do they already exist somewhere, waiting for the right moment, the right voice, to bring them into the world?”

I wrote those questions as an introduction to “Where do Songs Come From?,” one of my very first Substacks in February of 2025, when I had 16 subscribers. In that post, I retell the story of how Harold Arlen “caught” rather than “composed” the song, “Over the Rainbow.” He simply heard the whole thing and had to scramble to write down what was coming through.

When I had the opportunity to release my first oringinal music CD, I did indeed choose the title SongCatcher, because that’s truly how most of the songs arrived. They were caught, rather than composed, or perhaps a little of both.

So, back to how this relates to the teachings of Plato

Plato’s “true sight of being” is not sensory seeing. It is referred to as “nous,” pure vision of what truly exists, unlike what he considered the shadows we perceive with our physical senses in everyday life. Nous is the fullest possible knowledge while embodied.

In Plato’s view, as described by Thames, we are all instruments and our capacity to filter consciousness is individual. When an individual is aligned sufficiently, they are able to percieve and register the field directly.

Thames proposes that perception or “direct contact” is different than merely registering knowledge. She writes:

Plato was not being an elitist for its own sake. He was identifying, correctly, that mediated transmission through institutional and rhetorical layers degrades signal fidelity, and that the further knowledge travels from direct apprehension, the more it becomes shadow rather than fire.

In other words, Plato wasn’t just looking down on regular people or acting superior. He was pointing out that when knowledge gets passed through layers of institutions, schools, priests, politicians, or fancy speeches, it naturally gets distorted and weakened. The farther that knowledge moves away from someone’s direct personal experience of the truth, the weaker and less real it becomes.

What does any of this have to do with writing songs?

I now realize that “direct contact’ with the field was truly the foundation for many of the melodies and lyrics I’ve hastily caught and written down for most of my life.

It’s interesting that I’ve had a post-it note on my mirror for years that says:

“Music is a safe place to practice being a soul.”

For me, music has been and continues to be a safe place to practice direct apprehension of the eternal, perfect, unchanging realities that lie beyond the physical world. Music was also my doorway into the quantum world. It was during an advanced sonic science course with John Stuart Reid that I was introduced to the brilliant late Dr. Robert Gilbert who taught foundational and advanced coursed in Dr. Ibrahim Karim’s BioGeometry. Learning to measure and witness the torroidal nature of subtle energy with specifically designed instruments was and continues to be life changing.

What makes up sufficient alignment?

Returning to the Thames article, my next exploration was to try to understand what constitutes “sufficient alignment.”I gleaned three essential elements. Sufficient alignment requires “learning to remember,” practice, and asking the right questions.

Thames writes: “Learning is remembering what the soul already knew before entering the body.”

And how does one “learn to remember?”

Plato’s answer would be that the truth already exists inside and if a person learns to ask the right questions, revelations can be drawn out.

The idea of asking the right questions led to another aha moment of personal recognition. My most profound and memorable songs came from holding a question really close to my heart and patiently waitng for an opening where the answer appeared in lyrics and melody, often in the middle of the night.

My inquiring mind wanted to know something else. Wouldn’t I also already need to be well versed in song structure, chords, rhythm and melody to receive this information directly? Could someone without any musical knowledge and context catch complete songs?

Thames has an answer for that question, too.

Practice does not create capacity. Practice reduces the interference that prevented the existing capacity from registering. Consciousness cannot be engineered into greater alignment past what the instrument was built for at source level.

I understand now that my decades of work as a musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter reduced the interference and gave me access to the field, beyond what just anyone would accidently connect with.

This does not mean I wrote “hit songs,” or was even succesful as a songwriter. I was often told that my songs were “ahead of their time,” or too “woo-woo.” I wrote and still write about cosmic other-worldly things, forgiveness, eternal life and what an awakened world might look like and it all started more than twenty-five years ago.

I understand now why I didn’t feel the need to name my “source.” It was just there. It wasn’t a guide or an angel and although it felt like a divine download, what feels more true is that I had direct contact with words and melody from beyond the shadows.

I’m grateful now that I had the courage to just listen, write down, and remember what I’d heard. I also let go of trying to find an explanation for the mystery of it all until recently.

I’m sharing my discovery because I believe we each have capacity for direct contact that is waiting to be uncovered. This capacity could be as or more important than learning new information, especially in the age of so much overstimulation and artificial information, but that’s a subject for another time.

We register the field in the vocabulary or sounds that our culture permits. Neuroscience and quantum physics is beginning to reveal and describe a world that Plato tuned into on his own through his questioning and receptive being, which he then wrote in the vernacular of his time.

Thames brilliantly retells Plato’s story of “The Charioteer and the Two Horses” from the context of the “instrument registering the field directly.”

The charioteer is who we might become as aligned instruments. We would be capable of connecting with and registering the field directly. Our task would be to maintain control over two horses.

If we could rise together with an obedient horse that had learned to remember what his soul knew and simultaneously maintain control over an unruly horse whose earthly life pulled it toward appetite and against alignment, then we would no longer mistake the narrow world of our senses for the whole of reality.

Plato says explicitly that most charioteers never achieve the rise. The horses pull too hard, the vision is glimpsed only briefly if at all, and the soul falls back to earth, forgetting what it saw.

To become the rare charioteer and to manage sustained alignment with both horses brings what Plato called “true sight of being.”

I’m not sure there’s such a thing as “true hearing of being,” but if there is, I’m grateful to have glimpsed it briefly.

Have you ever experienced a moment of direct contact with the quantum realm through music, writing, meditation, or quiet stillness? Has something that felt eternal and profound suddenly occurred to you? Did you embrace it, catch it, doubt it, or set it aside as imagination? I’d truly love to hear your stories in the comments.

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References:

Plato. (1997). Phaedrus (A. Nehamas & P. Woodruff, Trans.). In J. M. Cooper (Ed.), Plato: Complete works (pp. 506–556). Hackett. (Original work written ca. 370 BCE)

Thames, Nancy. (July 6, 2026). [Plato Knew Consciousness Was Filtered] https://substack.com/home/post/p-205671834

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Imagine if the secret to staying energized, resilient, and youthful wasn’t just about surface-level habits but about protecting the hidden quantum order inside your cells. What if you could support the very mechanisms that keep your body’s repair systems communicating clearly as the years pass?

In the quantum world, tiny particles can stay in a special “coherent” state where they behave in an organized, wave-like way until outside disturbances cause them to lose that order or decohere and act more randomly.

The telomeres in our bodies work in a similar way. They act like protective caps on our chromosomes and are held together by quantum-level forces called G-quadruplexes, which are special bonds and structures that keep everything in an organized “coherent” state.

Telomeres stay stable thanks to those quantum-level forces, however, over time, repeated divisions act to disrupt this order. Our telomere caps get a bit shorter with each division and gradually lose coherence.

When they become too short, a cell stops dividing and it’s youthful potential moves closer to old age mode or it dies. This contributes to what shows up physically as wrinkles, weaker muscles, slower healing, and age-related disease. I appreciate the metaphor of a shoelace tip that gets worn down over time and can no longer stop the fraying of your shoelaces.

Can we get the quantum nature of our teleomeres back?

If telomeres mark the shift from protected, youthful vitality to the inevitable wear and tear of aging, is there a way to protect them or to slow the shortening down?

I was happy to learn that our bodies already have a built-in tool for this.

One enzyme that can add fresh DNA back on to the telomere ends to rebuild and lengthen them is telomerase. There are several natural ways to produce more telomerase and/or to support your telomeres.

• Sunlight and time in nature help regulate rhythms and support vitamin D, which aids telomerase activity and reduces cellular stress.

• Deep, restorative sleep fuels cellular repair overnight, giving telomeres the recovery they need.

• Regular movement increases the release of growth and recovery signals, telling your cells to stay strong and resilient.

• Nutrient-dense foods rich in amino acids (beans, nuts, seeds, lean proteins) plus antioxidant powerhouses (berries, leafy greens, turmeric, green tea) provide the raw materials and protection against oxidative damage that shortens telomeres.

• Calm, consistent stress management keeps cellular messages clear instead of drowned out by chronic cortisol, preserving telomere length.

• Brief cold exposure or heat therapy (cold showers, sauna) creates beneficial hormetic stress that boosts repair processes and cellular resilience.

• Social connection and a sense of purpose lower inflammation and keep the body in a regenerative rather than defensive state.

• Time-restricted eating or gentle intermittent fasting promotes autophagy which is your body’s natural cleanup process promoting cells to repair and maintain telomere health.

There’s a vital “something else” that slows down with age

The conversations between your molecules.

Your body’s real story of vitality plays out in molecular conversations happening every second, and the key messengers in those conversations are something called peptides. Peptides are small chains of amino acids that help to regulate sleep, metabolism, mood, immune response, muscle tone, and even skin elasticity.

The good news is that the same habits listed above that protect your telomeres also help your body make the most of its peptides.

Peptides operate like text messages sent between your cells, delivering precise instructions to “Repair this tissue,” “Make more collagen,” or “Calm this inflammation.” Instead of shouting commands, they speak the body’s natural biochemical language in subtle, smart, and specific ways.

Unlike a quick caffeine jolt or synthetic stimulant, natural peptides work with your system by enhancing communication rather than forcing results.

Your body naturally makes hundreds of different peptides every day, but just as with telomere shortening, age slows peptide production down. As hormones and collagen decline over time, so does your body’s ability to send these microscopic repair orders. The result is that you might begin to notice slower recovery, lower energy, or the feeling that you just don’t bounce back like you used to.

Scientists have discovered that by replenishing specific peptides or stimulating your body to make more of its own, you can help reawaken dormant repair pathways. In other words, peptides act like gentle reminders to your biology, nudging it to remember how to perform at its best.

With age, peptide production slows down, but here’s an encouraging truth:

You can keep the length of you telomeres AND the production of your own natural peptides by doing the simple things mentioned in the list above consistently. When you nurture cellular communication through balanced nutrition, movement, connection, rest, and perhaps targeted peptide support, you give your cells the same clarity your mind feels after a deep, cleanisng breath. You can begin to feel more focused, energized, and fully alive.

I share these ideas because the more we each understand the beautiful quantum and molecular dance happening inside our bodies, the more empowered we become to support it.

Because “peptides” has become a buzzword, you’ll see it slapped on everything from skincare creams to supplements promising to “reverse aging overnight.” However, the real power of peptides lies in consistency and context. They can enhance cellular repair, but they can’t outpace a lifestyle of chronic stress, poor sleep, or processed food overload.

While your body naturally produces thousands of peptides every day, and many foods (especially plants) contain or release bioactive peptides during digestion, the term “peptides” has become heavily associated in popular wellness culture with lab-created versions. This creates widespread confusion.

Many people hear about peptides for recovery, fat loss, or anti-aging and immediately picture injectable synthetic compounds like BPC-157, TB-500, Semax, or MOTS-c. These are chemically synthesized in laboratories to mimic or enhance natural sequences.

Because they are manufactured rather than extracted from living sources, they are considered synthetic. Most of these popular research peptides lack full FDA approval for human use outside specific clinical settings and have faced regulatory scrutiny regarding safety data and compounding practices.

My greatest reward comes from readers who feel inspired to nurture their own vitality naturally through choosing better sleep, nourishing food, movement, connection, and presence.

Natural, BioActive Peptide Support

Since I began exploring these plant-derived bioactive peptides in November 2025, (which was their first full year on the market), I’ve noticed subtle but meaningful shifts in how my body handles energy, recovery, sleep, and daily rhythms.

Make Wellness, an American direct-to-customer company partnered with Nuritas, an Irish AI-biotech company specializing in discovering bioactive peptides from natural food sources.

Predicting, finding and testing which plant-derived fragments best enhance the body’s own peptide communication pathways required AI-driven technology to scan and decode vast libraries of natural peptide sequences found in plants and other food sources. These are very different than peptides synthentically made in a lab.

Targeted plant-based bioactive peptides can enhance the signaling within your system. Better signaling means your telomeres and even your biofield maintain higher coherence and charge, helping translate good nutrition into sustained vitality.

Plant-derived bioactive peptides work in harmony with your body’s natural language. If any of this resonates and you’d like to try them, now is the perfect time. From July 1-31, 2026 I’ve arranged a $25 discount off your first order of $99 or more through my referral link as a small way of giving back to this community.

No pressure whatsoever. My hope is simply that something here helps you feel more coherent, energized, and fully alive in your own quantum biology.

If you feel inspired by the idea of reclaiming natural energy, resilience, and youthful vitality and could see yourself helping others experience this, too, I warmly invite you to explore joining my team where we share these science-backed tools and grow together in a way that feels aligned and fulfilling. DM me for more information.

I’ve transformed my sleep, energy, body composition, mental focus and cortisol levels with completely natural plant based peptides. At 73, I feel better than I did at 55.

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Kerr, A., Hart, L., Davis, H., Wall, A., Lacey, S., Franklyn-Miller, A., Khaldi, N., & Keogh, B. (2023). Improved strength recovery and reduced fatigue with suppressed plasma myostatin following supplementation of a Vicia faba hydrolysate, in a healthy male population. Nutrients, 15(4), Article 986. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15040986

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We tend to think of ourselves as chemical machines. We take food in as fuel, nutrients are absorbed, and we get energy out as a result. But what if that view is incomplete? What if we are equally, or even more profoundly, electromagnetic beings?

At the time of this writing, I’m taking a course with Eileen Day McKusick, pioneer of Biofield Tuning and author of Electric Body, Electric Health. She teaches that viewing our bodily systems through a chemical processing lens limits our understanding and that our body’s chemistry functions downstream from our body’s electrical system.

Our bodies run on electrical signals. Our hearts beat , our nerves fire, and our cells communicate due to this electrical signaling. Surrounding and permeating all of those currents is the biofield, or the electromagnetic field generated by our body’s own electromagnetic properties, extending several feet outward.

The term “biofield” was formalized by a National Institutes of Health panel in 1994 to describe this field of energy and information that regulates homeostasis and biological function.

It includes measurable electromagnetic components from our heart, brain, and cells, plus subtler organizing principles. It’s an energetic blueprint or operating system for the body that is coherent when healthy and flowing, and dissonant when stressed, traumatized, or depleted.

McKusick defines health as “a strong clear signal,” which is “energized, adaptable, emotionally responsive, internally organized and coherent.” Charge is potential. Potential is current in motion.

Coherent organization involves our mental and physical states as well as our emotions. We have more capacity and resilience when our systems are coherent and able to communicate with each other easily.

McKusick reframes digestion and nutrition through this lens. Food isn’t just calories or molecules. It’s condensed sunlight carrying charge. Through photosynthesis, plants capture photons from sunlight and store them as high-energy electrons, coherent structured water, and electromagnetic charge. We ingest and metabolize this “charged sunlight” that is found in the bonds of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

In the conventional chemical model, digestion is portrayed as a series of acid-base reactions and enzymatic breakdowns. First, salivary amylase kicks off starch digestion in the mouth, then hydrochloric acid denatures proteins in the stomach. Bile salts emulsify fats, and pancreatic enzymes hydrolyze everything into absorbable molecules.

Through McKusick’s lens, digestion is an electrical fermentation process. Your gut functions as the central hub in the biofield and does more than just supply specific digestive juices. Instead, the gut is a site where charge is liberated, structured, and routed like an “incinerator” that extracts light/energy from sources of condensed sunlight and distributes it to power your electrical system.

When your biofield has good voltage and coherence, digestion improves, inflammation drops, and you feel vital. Low charge or “noise” in the system leads to sluggish digestion, fatigue, allergies, and a general malaise.

So what “charges” the biofield best?

Our biofields get the best charge from fresh, living, vibrant produce, mineral-rich greens, healthy fats that support cell membranes, and properly prepared proteins.

McKusick notes that fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, and kombucha are electrically alive. They support the electrical fermentation in our gut and add charge.

Highly processed, denatured items bring low or disruptive charge. Stripped of their original photonic structure through heat, chemicals, and refinement, they arrive as low-charge or energetically chaotic debris that burdens the system rather than nourishing it.

Sugar is a prime example. While it delivers a quick burst of calories, McKusick teaches that it actually pulls more electrical charge from the body than it provides which depletes voltage and coherence in the process. These foods not only deliver minimal coherent light, they also introduce disruptive frequencies that scatter the body’s delicate electrical harmony.

The state of your nervous system also determines how much coherent charge your body can actually extract from any meal. Calm, restorative meals shared with others and eaten slowly in an atmosphere of connection, gratitude, and pleasure allow the vagus nerve to remain in parasympathetic dominance. These states optimize the electrical fermentation process so that the condensed sunlight in the food releases its energy more completely into your biofield.

Eating on the go under tension, or worse, when upset or emotionally activated, floods the system with sympathetic signaling that scatters and dissipates the charge the food carries. In those cases, even the most “perfect” nutrient-dense meal delivers far less usable energy and can leave disruptive residues. The highest-charge nutrition often comes not from flawless ingredients alone, but from the peaceful, relational context in which they are received.

Feeding your biofield means choosing foods and support that increase voltage, reduce dissonance, and optimize flow. When you feed it accordingly, you might notice how your energy, digestion, and overall resilience shift.

Can we naturally increase our electrical signaling?

Our world is still primarily operating on a chemical model, rather than an electrical one. A glaring example is that millions of people are turning to synthetic GLP-1 receptor agonists with names such as Ozempic. Roughly 12% of U.S. adults (about one in eight) were using them as of late 2025. Tens of millions of people worldwide are seeking relief from obesity, metabolic issues, or body-image pressures.

Synthetic GLP-1 receptor agonists are laboratory-engineered “copy peptides,” or man-made molecular mimics designed to imitate the 30–31 amino acid sequence of your body’s own natural glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). Their manufacturers do add some structural tweaks such as amino-acid substitutions and fatty-acid chains that make these synthetic peptides far more stable and long-lasting than the real, short-lived peptides your intestines naturally release after eating.

While the authentic, light-charged version pulses briefly in harmony with the gut’s electrical fermentation rhythm and solar-plexus biofield, these synthetic copies flood the system with a prolonged, artificial signal that overrides natural timing.

As digestion slows and hunger is muted, the coherent charge extraction from condensed sunlight that thrives on the body’s own elegant, rhythmically attuned signaling gets dampened.

In choosing the chemical solution over the electrical one, we inadvertently diminish the very charge that life depends on. By flooding the system with long-acting synthetic “copy peptides,” we override the gut’s natural electrical fermentation and bypass signaling that allows condensed sunlight to be fully liberated and distributed throughout the biofield.

What feels like a convenient shortcut actually dampens coherent charge extraction, reduces the solar-plexus hub’s efficiency, and leaves the body operating with lower voltage and less vitality.

True nourishment and lasting metabolic health arise not from forcing the system chemically, but from supporting its innate electrical intelligence with real food, calm presence, and nature-aligned signaling.

Is there a more natural way to increase our “charge?”

Fortunately, there is a powerful, nature-aligned alternative that works with rather than against your body’s electrical intelligence. Instead of overriding the system with long-acting synthetic chemicals, scientists have turned to plants to discover shorter acting bioactive peptides that gently support and enhance your body’s own natural signaling pathways

Predicting, finding and testing which plant-derived fragments best mimic or enhance the body’s own peptide communication pathways required AI-driven technology to scan and decode vast libraries of natural peptide sequences found in plants and other food sources (such as fava beans, ginkgo, and yeast hydrolysates).

Make Wellness, an American direct-to-customer company partnered with Nuritas, an Irish AI-biotech company specializing in discovering bioactive peptides from natural food sources.

The first challenge was to identify the short amino-acid chains with targeted bioactive properties that positively support metabolism, recovery, energy, and cellular signaling. The next challenge was to extract and process these peptides to preserve their structure, bioavailability, and physiological activity.

These selected peptides were then formulated into oral supplements after in-process testing for purity and potency in GMP-certified facilities. GMP stands for Good Manufacturing Practice, a strict, internationally recognized set of regulatory guidelines (enforced by the FDA in the U.S., EMA in Europe, and similar bodies worldwide) that ensures dietary supplements, pharmaceuticals, and food products are consistently produced and controlled to meet high standards of quality, safety, and purity.

Targeted plant-based bioactive peptides can enhance the signaling within your system. Better signaling means your biofield can maintain higher coherence and charge, helping translate good nutrition into sustained vitality.

Plant-based peptides foods gently stimulate your body’s own GLP-1 release and work in concert with the nervous system and solar-plexus hub and they enhance signaling without forced stasis. They support calm, efficient energy liberation when meals are eaten in peace and preserve the full photonic and electromagnetic vitality of real food rather than chemically interrupting the living flow.

Since I began exploring these plant-derived bioactive peptides in November 2025, (which was their first full year on the market), I’ve noticed subtle but meaningful shifts in how my body handles energy, recovery, and daily rhythms.

FIT and LEAN have supported smoother muscle recovery and metabolic flow after movement, helping the electrical fermentation process in my gut feel more efficient at liberating charge from real food. I lost visceral fat around my middle that didn’t come back. I’m 73 at the time of this writing and stronger and more fit than I was twenty years ago.

I use ENERGIZED when I want clean, sustained power without the usual crashes, and when combined with FOCUSED to sharpen mental clarity, I find new levels of productivity that feel inspired, not pushed. My coffee use disappeared.

I use HYDRATED to improve intracellular water structuring which is essential for a charged system.

I use CALM when I want to gently steady my nervous system and perhaps my favorite plant-based peptide, RESTORED which has not only deepened my sleep and allowed overnight biofield restoration, but I’ve noticed my enhanced quality of sleep continues to carry into better daytime vitality. Bottle of sleep aids with melatonin and other herbs are gone. My nighttime cortisol is balanced and I wake feeling rested.

These experiences feel less like supplementation and more like I’m simply giving my body’s own electrical language cleaner and clearer nature-tuned signals to work with. If you’re curious to try them yourself, I’d be happy to share a $10 discount off your first order of $99 or more (it applies automatically via my referral link).

The ideas brought forth by my studies with Eileen McKusick confirmed what I had been sensing. I feel both more charged and more stable in my daily existence with these foods and practices.

You can, too.

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References

• Jain, S., et al. (2015). Biofield science and healing: An emerging frontier in medicine. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(Suppl), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.7453/gahmj.2015.038 (PMC4654791)

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• McKusick, E. D. (2021). Electric body, electric health: Using the science of electricity to rewire your body, reconnect with your spirit, and optimize your health. St. Martin’s Essentials.

• McKusick, E. (n.d.). Experience electric health through sound [Webpage]. The Shift Network. Retrieved June 13, 2026, from https://theshiftnetwork.com/Electric-Health-Through-Sound

• Montero, A., & Hamel, L. (2025, November 14). KFF Health Tracking Poll: Prescription drug costs, views on Trump administration actions, and GLP-1 use. KFF. https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/poll-1-in-8-adults-say-they-are-currently-taking-a-glp-1-drug-for-weight-loss-diabetes-or-another-condition-even-as-half-say-the-drugs-are-difficult-to-afford/

Could the Divine Feminine be the resonant field that never left us? Could the Divine Masculine be the light nested in that field?

The idea of the Divine Feminine and Masculine as field showed up on two separate occasions recently, both in posts from other Substack writers. A deep dive into James Hill’s Cosmic Womb and Nabu’s Hebrew decoding of Genesis 1 helped me understand the possibility of a unified Womb and Light at the heart of reality.

The abundance of conversations centered around masculine and feminine principles, referenced both internally and externally, seems to go through endless cycles of chaos, clarity, and confusion. These posts sufficiently picqued my interest enough to examine what was being suggested, and hence the reason for this discovery post.

Both writings go far beyond modern desriptions and back to the oldest intrepretations suggesting that divine reality encompasses both masculine and feminine principles and how as human beings, we were created to hold both dimensions of this divine nature in a single form.

First, the Poetic Version

The first post to examine, written April 8, 2026, by James Hill, appealed greatly to my poetic, songwriting, quantumly curious self as he approaches the “The Divine Polarian Feminine,” not as a being, but a field described as:

“ …the first home, the first belonging, the first sense of here. Nothing was separate from her. Nothing was outside her. All of creation rested inside her presence like a child resting inside the heartbeat of its mother.”

It would be helpful to explain what Hill means by the word “polarian.” If the Divine Feminine was the “Cosmic Womb,” the Divine Masculine rose from inside of her as Light, but the Light and the Womb were one consciousness.

Through deep listening inside of the unity of one consciousness made of light and womb, the feminine became aware of and present to polarity which caused her to birth a new awareness.

Hill uses the polarized examples of “inhale and exhale,” or “radiance and receptivity,” to explain how the feminine first became aware of “resonance” as a feeling of orientation and belonging. She became what Hill describes as “the first Sound, the first inner compass,” which carried the feeling of being held or being home.

Hill’s story then uses a metaphor that a songwriter like myself enjoyed lingering over. In the perfect awareness of resonance, the Womb began to notice that when vibration was stretched too far, it went out of tune, like guitar strings.

In other words, the feminine womb that held the light of the masculine became aware that the expansion of light into the vastness could also cause a drift from the center and lose resonance.

What could be done about this?

Hill’s answer is that the Womb could deepen her Song. She could provide a resonance that was clear and coherent enough that it contained a memory of the path back to home. And the beautiful story ends this way:

“The Song moved through the newborn cosmos like a heartbeat, steady and soft, reminding every spark of light that no matter how far it traveled, it remained inside her field.”

So, the Light that started within her was free to go about initiating and creating and her heartbeat would always bring us home. We continue to be both sparks of Light and echoes of Sound with the ability to eternally resonate with her cosmic lullabye.

The “Divine Polarian Feminine” lives on in us as an ancient memory and reminder that the sense of inner direction, belonging, and unity is the foundation of all life and that we find it through presence and resonance.

The Second Biblical Decode Story

Another resonant fractal containing a deep dive into the Divine Feminine and Masculine came in through a decoding of Genesis 1, written on June 4, 2026 by Nabu, in which he uses definitions from the original Hebrew language to explain creation from quite a different perspective than mainstream biblical interpretations.

Nabu takes the phrase, “And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,” or “Ruach Elohim,” in Hebrew, and emhasizes that the definition of “breath, wind, spirit and life force,” is actually a simultaneous singularity.

In other words, you can’t separate “breath” and “spirit” because they are not different realities. The are the same thing at different scales.

Nabu further explains that this spirit of God moving over the waters at the first moment of creation is feminine. She’s there right at the beginning. He calls her, “the first mover in the entire biblical narative.”

The Divine Feminine moved over the “undifferentiated field of wild potential.” She is the organizing intelligence bringing forth form from possibility.

Nabu reframes the meaning of God saying, “Let there be light,” on the first day as not being the same as the light of the sun, moon, and stars which are created on fourth day. The light he is describing is similar to the first story, where the Light lives inside of the Womb.

“It was the primordial light. The divine light. The light that precedes physical manifestation. Some traditions called it the Or Ein Sof. The light of the infinite.”

To summarize, the Divine Masculine, nested in the Divine Feminine, was the medium in which creation took place before there was anything physical to illuminate. Nabu then explains how the original story got buried:

“Three translations later she became the neutral Holy Spirit and then effectively disappeared from the theological tradition entirely. The masculine pronoun was applied to her by translators who could not accommodate a feminine first mover in the theology they were constructing.”

The Synthesis

Both stories speak of a light that at first stayed hidden inside of creation.

A feminine principle that is like a home we can return to and be received and held.

A masculine principle that is an outward movement of divine energy that gives, descends and initiates.

Divine reality encompasses both principles. Neither is complete without the other. At the core of ourselves and our universe, we are unified Light and Womb, created to hold both masculine and feminine dimensions of our divine nature.

In the end, these two writer’s voices remind us that we are not fractured beings caught between masculine and feminine. We are more like living sanctuaries where this eternal dance was always meant to occur.

The Divine Feminine lives in us like a heartbeat that never abandons us or a song that calls every wandering spark back to center.

The Divine Masculine burns within us as a bold, initiating Light, both creative and free enough to venture into the vast unknown.

Our original design is whole, holy and profoundly powerful.

The Divine Feminine and Masculine do not compete. They complete. In a world hungry for belonging and direction, these ancient truths remind us that the Light and the Womb have never left us. They are us. And in their unified embrace, we are finally free to create, to love, and to come home to ourselves.

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References:

Hill, James, (April 8, 2026). [Polarian Consciousness]. https://substack.com/@blackbirdbear/note/c-239357989

and James Hill left a comment on Dr. Lee’s post below, which contains many of the quotes I used in my writing:

Lee, Dr. Samuel B. (April 7, 2026). {She Was Never Gone: The Truth of the Divine Mother, the Dark Feminine, and the Return]. (https://thespiritualpsychiatrist.substack.com/p/she-was-never-gone-the-truth-of-the

Nabu. (June 4, 2026). [They Mistranslated the First Word of the Bible]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-200592517

It has been freeing to understand that whatever comes up in my imagination is real to my own mind, end of story. I’m super intrigued with how ideas, words, visions, bolts out the blue, and intuitive suggestions form and then enter into our lives, or not.

What entices us to pay attention to some of those thoughts more than others and even more interestingly, what causes us to follow up on some of them and ignore others?

It was not until later in life that I began to practice active dreaming. My experiences helped me frame imagination as a threshold between the seen and unseen worlds, including both my conscious and subconscious mind. In this view, imagination isn’t just mental play; it’s a vehicle for deep knowing.

Imagination is a force that transcends the boundaries of the known, acting as a conduit for ideas that seem to arrive from beyond the self, sparked by a mysterious alchemy of neurons and intuition.

If our brains treat our imagined experiences very similarly to our real ones, then it follows that we could use our imagination to enhance skills and confidence and also shift our emotional states.

According to an article on neuroba.com, when we daydream or think creatively, our brains Default Mode Network or (DMN) lights up and begins connecting our past experiences, intuition, abstract ideas and insights to deliver what can occur as a “bolt out of the blue.”

The next step seems to be one of resonance. An article by Chip and Dan Heath suggests that the more an idea aligns with an inner longing, or stirs up our curiosity, the more likely we are to follow it. They call this emotional salience.

Emotionally resonant ideas are more likely to be encoded in long-term memory due to enhanced attentional mechanisms regulated by brain regions like the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. Novelty also stimulates curiosity, making ideas more memorable.

Far more than idle fancy, imagination is a cognitive superpower rooted in our brain’s ability to forge novel connections, surprising us with insights that sometimes feel otherworldly.

This dynamic interplay of science and serendipity allows imagination to birth groundbreaking innovation and act as a portal to truths and possibilities that lie just beyond our grasp.

Don’t Quit Your DayDream

I brought the emotion of the feeling that all things are possible into the song, “I Wonder.” I was able to more deeply understand how my songs seemed to already exist in a deeper part of me. If I took them into my imagination and allowed them to take flight, they were then free to explore and bring back messages. I urged them to “fly through the wonders and bring them to life.”

I experienced a true freedom in singing the words, “I wonder, I wonder, I dream,” almost as an antidote to all of those times I had been told to “quit dreaming” as if it were a terrible thing to do.

In the bridge of the song, I explained how the words fell like rain to land soft on the pages. They seemed to come from a distant place and their entry into my own realm was subtle and soft. But the power underneath them was palpable. I could feel the truth of the words that followed, “I know dreams are more than just my imagination.”

So, this is my direct reclamation of my right and your right to dream and a counter spell to the conditioning that tells us to dismiss the unseen.

I’m fascinated by the world of imagination. I really do wonder what lies beyond the bend in the river and what it’s like on the moon when it’s only a sliver.

I Wonder

I found a song under my wings
It had been there for some time
As soon as I heard the sweet melody
I knew the song could be mine
Covered in feathers, it longed to take flight
To fly through the wonders and bring them to life

I wonder what lies beyond the bend in the river
What it’s like on the moon when it’s only a sliver
And what if the takers all became givers?
I wonder how good life could be 
I wonder, I wonder, I dream
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I dream
I wonder, I wonder, I dream

I found a song inside my soul
Next to a note from my heart
It had journeyed through magical realms
With only the light from the stars
Covered in feathers, still warm from the flight
It flew through the wonders and brought them to life

I wonder what lies beyond the bend in the river
What it’s like on the moon when it’s only a sliver
And what if the takers all became givers
I wonder how good life could be. I wonder, I wonder, I dream
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I dream
I wonder, I wonder, I dream

When words fall like rain to land soft on the pages
I know dreams are more than just my imagination

I wonder what lies beyond the bend in the river
What it’s like on the moon when it’s only a sliver
And what if the takers all became givers?
I wonder how good life could be. I wonder, I wonder, I dream
I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I dream
I wonder, I wonder, I dream

In my songwriting, I usually have a specific mission, a deep inquiry or a puzzling exploration calling me. Perhaps we should celebrate that our minds can’t really distinguish between imagined thinking and reflecting on real life situations. This song has become a favorite of many children, which is not surprising as it is the world they still live in.

Can you remember a time when you received a sudden idea, vision, or intuitive insight that felt like it came from a "distant place?" What was it about this moment that caught your attention and made you consider it meaningful? What dreams or questions spark the most curiosity or joy for you?

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References:

Heath, Chip, and Dan Heath. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Random House, 2007.

Neuroba. "The Role of the Default Mode Network in Daydreaming and Creativity." Neuroba, 22 Mar. 2024, www.neuroba.com/post/the-role-of-the-default-mode-network-in-daydreaming-and-creativity. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

Our minds and hearts were never separate from the greater whole. From the moment we arrived in this world of solid ground and ticking clocks, a subtle yet unbreakable thread of light remained tethered to that ancient origin.

Every atom in our bodies still connects with this primordial entanglement. At the center of our being, the heart pulses as a living sun, generating a swirling, protective, dynamic energy field that wraps around us like a personal biosphere.

When this torus moves into coherence through gratitude, calm, or intention, it phase-locks with the brain, widening our inner aperture to the deeper harmonies of existence. A quote from a post by Shaun Higgins, PhD. explains it this way:

“The fragment and the entirety were never opposing truths… instead they were the same note heard from an infinite number of perspectives.

I am the solitary observer moving through the current, believing myself carried by the river.

And as I am carried along, so too am I the river itself, endlessly and ceaselessly carving out a new course, sustaining the many, and guiding the way…”

My love of music and all things “frequency” combined with my deep appreciation for those who contribute to my knowledge of the quantum world continues to inform and deepen my understanding and fascination with entanglement.

I can embrace the idea that we are the product of an ancient entanglement that continues to unfold in fractals, assisted by our hearts and minds. We are unique and yet we are connected for a reason. Shaun Higgins writes:

We begin to recognize that our trajectories were never isolated lines cast into emptiness. They are expressions of a deeper grammar, variations within a single primordial structure, the Universe unfolding its own symmetry into countless forms so that it may encounter itself from an infinity of unrepeatable viewpoints.

We are each solo travelers who have journeyed far from the trunk of the great tree that grew from the primordial seed. The best part of being on Earth is that we are able to continue dipping our light into the shimmering, high-density informational field of the 5th dimension. Higgins explains why:

Because the Universe is fractal, the same laws that govern the collapse of that original singularity also whirl in the energy field around your beating heart and your brain has the astonishing ability to weave patterns, foresee futures, and feel profound wonder.

The Workings of the Unseen World

It was primarily through my training with Dr. Ibrahim Karim’s foundational and advanced BioGeometry courses that I began to embrace the unseen world from this perspective, through an entirely different view of physics.

In Hidden Reality: The BioGeometry Physics of Quality, Dr. Ibrahim Karim explains his concept of a “Physics of Quality” using qualitative scales such as color, sound, musical notes, shapes, and angles that transcend the specific sensory ranges we have as humans.

These unseen scales operate on universal harmonic principles, similar to octaves in music, allowing qualities to resonate and translate across domains like color, sound, frequency, and angles. In his own words:

“To understand the properties of this qualitative scale, we look at the musical notes and their relationship to the quantitative frequency of sound or the length of the musical chord. ... Do such qualitative scales exist? They actually do exist within our brain: We have musical scales, color scales, and in a less obvious way, also scent and touch scales.”

If these qualitative scales exist within our brains, what are they actually perceiving beyond what can be measured quantitively? According to Shaun Higgins, PhD., our brains are much more than the proud inventors of our thoughts. Our brains are capable of pulling down glimpses of pattern, intuition, and sudden knowing from a greater whole.

An example would be when you have an “Aha!” moment. You are exercising your brain’s capacity to be a transceiver that is capable of catching a signal that feels stronger than usual. Your brain is forever listening and speaking to you from across dimensions.

And then your heart joins in to increase your access to those realms. The heart and brain assist each other to expand like a camera lens. The aperture between worlds widens. Instead of just having a narrow slit through which we usually peek into the 5th dimension, the iris of our inner camera opens to reveal deeper layers of what Higgins calls the “primordial seed.”

Our hearts are like living suns that generate a swirling torus of energy that many call the “human biosphere.” This glowing field wraps around each of us like a protective atmosphere. Those mini living suns stabilize and anchor us.

When hearts pulse with gratitude, love, or deep calm, they beat in high coherence which allows them to phase-lock with our brains. In my own lyrically oriented heart and brain, this translates into each of us being a blossom on a great tree or a petal on an infinite flower of life.

We each grew out of this “primordial seed” along with everything else that exists in the universe. Higgins calls this unseen force that guides us a “hidden conductor.”

The heart, the mind, memory, emotion and awareness seem to move towards a condition of increasing coherence, as though separate rhythms gradually discover they were following the same hidden conductor all along…

Shaun Higgins would also remind us that this is much more than a mystical escape. He describes it as a “biological upshift.” When we nurture our inner energy through breath, intention and coherence, we increase the density and harmony of our personal torus.

We become like flowers finally turning our faces full toward the sun after years in the shade. We resonate directly with the source. The grand cosmic drama plays out in miniature within us.

As I was preparing to publish this, I was intrigued by another metaphor for this “connection back to source” theme that was published in a post from Jade Teta of Next Level Human. It was so resonant with this conversation that I’m choosing to include it.

“Imagine the universe is one giant octopus. I know. It is a strange image. Stay with me.

The whole thing is one nervous system. The tentacles move in every direction at once, exploring, reaching, sensing. The skin is covered in bumps of every imaginable size, from microscopic to large enough to grip and manipulate. Each bump is a sensor. Each one is in contact with the world, gathering information, feeding it back.

Now imagine you are a small bump. Tentacle six. Just to the left of suction cup nine trillion. You occupy a unique location. No other bump occupies it. No other bump ever will. You are picking up information that only you, from your exact position in space and time, can pick up.

You may feel small. You may feel like one of countless. But the octopus needs you to be exactly where you are, sensing exactly what you sense, because without your data the whole animal is missing a piece of its understanding. That is what you are. A piece of how Source understands itself.”

If we are each a facet of how creation unfolds then we are not random specks of dust thrown up by blind evolution. We are the aperture through which the cosmos knows itself. We are the sacred meeting place where 5th-dimensional intent flows into 3D experience. We are walking, breathing, localized iterations of the primordial rupture.

In this way, we are not solitary travelers lost in a random current. We are unique expressions of a single primordial note unfolding through infinite perspectives.

We are both the observer and the river, fragments and the entirety at the same time. We are forever connected through our fractal connection to the Whole.

Our minds and hearts were never separate from the primordial seed and they continue to dance in the light of an eternal place that the world cannot contain.

Have you personally experienced feeling tethered to something primordial? Does your mind ever feel like a radio tuned to a distant star? Does your heart ever feel like a great protector? Have you ever experienced a heart-brain phase lock that led to a profound “Aha?”

I leave you with lyrics from a song I wrote long ago when I understood far less but had an inner knowing about being connected and tied to something greater:

We’re all made of light, we’re interconnected

Invisible ties intersect us

Exploding light scatters stardust to earth

To add to the beauty of the universe

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Higgins, Shaun. ( May 7, 2026). [A Universe Born of the Fifth Dimension]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-196827142

Higgins, Shaun. ( May 24, 2026). [Are We One or Are We All…?] https://substack.com/@physicsvsmetaphysics/note/c-264461707

Karim, I. (2022). Hidden reality: The BioGeometry physics of quality. Self-published (or BioGeometry Energy Systems).

Teta, Jade. (May 23m 2026). [How to Know When God is Talking to You]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-198967266

How do we re-awaken our body’s innate perception in a world that is making it harder to separate from the cultural overlay and remain sovereign? What happens when our mass culture begins to write over or over-ride our own body’s signals and what does this mean for our lives?

Our bodies are resonant receivers. Different parts of our body encode specific resonant capacities. Trauma, repetition and field history are stored in our fascia. Our various organs transduce emotional signal into physical response. Our skin interfaces with the field socially, energetically, and environmentally. Our breath regulates our frequency bandwidth.

Our bodies don’t only interpret signals. They are shaped by them. The culture that we exist in provides more than just the beliefs we adhere to. The culture also modulates the waveforms in the subtle and invisible fields around us.

Substack writer Mark Davey makes the case that our bodies are not just vehicles. He states that our bodies are structurally responsive. An example of this would be how our posture and breath can shift before we know why.

Our bodies are also spatially intelligent in that they automatically map geometry and rhythm. Tuning in to energetic coherence gives our bodies the ability to detect truth in the field. All of these processes happen before any words are spoken making these powers pre-linguistic. Davey professes:

“The body enacts consciousness.”

What is Signal?

Signal is the living interface where recursion meets resonance. The body, long treated as a passive vessel, is revealed as the processor of signal. This post endeavors to explore how the body becomes the first architecture to collapse when that signal is overwritten by mass culture.

Cultural waveforms can modulate the body’s resonance field to match the mass signal. They have the ability to lock in place the subconscious agreement: “Do not deviate. Do not feel. Do not move outside the form.” Davey explains the workings of the cultural waveforms this way:

“When the waveform shapes the body, ideology is unnecessary. The field does the work. You feel what the system wants you to feel. You move only in pre-approved ranges. You respond within the limits of the broadcast. The control is not only in the content. It is in the rhythm of its delivery.”

One simple example is that our daily lives have become inundated with sounds that cause the “startle response.” Phone notifications interrupt flow. We have sirens, bells and alarms going off randomly along with the perpetual “notifications.”

Our bodies then flinch into attention and predictability, leaving flow behind. This sound entrainment has been so normalized, we barely notice the reactive loops that are constantly being constantly on our bodies.

What is cognition and how does it get patterned?

Cognition is the dynamic process by which the mind acquires, processes, and interprets information including perception, attention, memory, reasoning, and decision-making.

It becomes patterned through repeated experiences, cultural conditioning, emotional habits, and neural pathways through the brain and nervous system that automate responses. Reality then gets filtered through familiar lenses and fresh and new insights can be limited.

The fascia and nervous system remember pattern by storing every trauma, repetition, and suppression as electrical imprint. What this means is that our bodies could actually know more than our minds.

Our minds interpret information, but our bodies receive it directly according to Davey in a “knowing” that is “pre-linguistic” but “deeply accurate.” Our bodies also register changes in our environment before our minds get involved. Davey writes:

“The body does not speak in words. It speaks in movement, charge, pressure, and orientation. The body is not downstream of thought. It is a parallel processor working at signal speed. When the body shivers, something is true. When the gut tightens, the field is disrupted. When breath returns, the pattern unlocks.”

The Hidden Architecture Beneath Reality, Identity, And Perception

Kelly Dillons’s Substack post titled What Humanity Is Actually Living Inside-The Hidden Architecture Beneath Reality, Identity, And Perception looks at this cultural conditioning through an interesting lens.

Inundated with social media, streaming platforms, and entertainment loops in addition to increased emotional conflicts and hectic work cycles, the lives of humans have changed.

“People increasingly struggle to sit quietly without stimulation because the nervous system itself has become conditioned to oscillatory participation.”

Oscillatory means rhythmic, cyclical, or back-and-forth movement/activation which means that the nervous system has been trained to expect and thrive on constant fluctuation, switching, and repetitive stimulation rather than stillness or steady calm.

All of this acceleration weakens coherence. We have political polarity, non-stop news cycles full of crisis, increased dependence on technology and videos and reports of intensified emotional reactions all adding to our information overload. The over- stimulation floods our nervous systems and keeps us locked in interpretive engagement.

The human mind attempts to organize all of this instability into what Dillon labels “emotionally comprehensible stories.” In other words, we do our best to convince ourselves that we are transcending the effects of a world in which we are constantly and externally rerouted through cultural concepts of liberation, spirituality, awakening, healing, and truth.

What most people don’t realize is that those same concepts were largely formed inside the same participation architecture they are attempting to transcend. In Dillon’s words:

“This becomes difficult for many people to initially grasp because humans have been conditioned to treat perception itself as trustworthy and self-evident. If something can be seen, touched, emotionally felt, socially reinforced, historically recorded, or collectively agreed upon, the human mind automatically categorizes it as fundamentally real. But perception inside the external architecture does not function as direct recognition. It functions as translation.”

The deeper issue is not that humans categorize these false stories as being fundamentally real. It is that humans very rarely even recognize the narratives running them from external sources.

Is Liberation Possible?

To liberate the capacity for open, unbiased, present-moment awareness or true perception the body must be unpatterned. This happens by releasing ingrained muscular, respiratory, and postural holdings through practices like mindful movement, breath work, or somatic therapies.

The rigid and embodied foundations of cognition can then loosen and dissolve habitual filters. Perception can once again flow more freely and directly with raw experience.

We can re-pattern cognition by interrupting our habitual gestures, reactivating our breath and trusting the information that arrives as bodily sensations. We can also use silence and stillness as de-patterning mechanisms.

What is embodied signal processing?

The resonance in our bodies is the key that unlocks the field around us through coherence and communicates through direct sensation and response. We might get a feeling of warmth in our chest, a tightening in our solar plexus or a wave of goosebumps in the presence of deep truth.

To listen to the body is to receive high-fidelity feedback from the environment, memory field, and relational web. Davey gives some examples of what he labels as “cognitive architecture”:

“When the body is: Collapsed: it signals defeat or withdrawal Overextended: it mirrors performance or protection Centered: it aligns with present truth”

What this means is that changing our posture is not just musculoskeletal. It is informational reconfiguration. Realigning also requires inhibiting our human reflex to translate our body’s knowing into language instead of trusting the direct signal we’re feeling without needing mental validation. Davey calls this moving from “interpretation to inhabitation.”

When the waveform of a culture imposes a single or dominant rhythm such as productivity or obedience, the body begins to conform in what Davey labels “suppression architecture.”

Examples of this are:

Our shoulders curl inwards when we feel the pressure of shame or criticism as our spine slightly collapses under the gaze of the person delivering the message and we no longer focus on the horizon, but perhaps begin to look at the floor.

We breath shallowly from our chests, not our bellies, skipping long exhalations and sighing.

Fidgeting is seen as a pathology and being able to sit still as discipline. Fluid expression, dance, and play are marginalized or only allowed in very limited frames.

Our neuromuscular pathways adapt to these repeated inhibitions. Electrical potential in fascia and cellular matrix lowers. The signal bandwidth of the body becomes narrow, repetitive, and externally triggered. This is bioelectric formatting. The body no longer acts as a resonant translator. It becomes a containment device. It becomes a conduit for pattern compliance.

Reclaiming the architecture of liberation

We can begin to liberate the cultural waveforms affecting our biofields by bringing awareness to and releasing the structural tension in our bodies when it shows up in our shoulders, back and jaw. We can breathe deeply into the tension, extend our exhale and sigh or release with other sounds. We can move with intention and reclaim intuitive, erratic, spiraling motion. We can sing. We can dance.

We can consciously expand our cognitive flexibility, allowing new insights to emerge. We can expand our emotional literacy to deeply feel. We can extend and expand our spatial awareness outward instead of collapsing inward.

Every environment, system, and social structure emits signals. These signals shape the somatic field and they regulate movement, They format nervous system rhythms. They constrain energetic expression.

Your body still remembers what the culture forgot. It knows how to feel without flinching, how to breathe without performing, and how to stand without shrinking. Every time you soften your shoulders, lengthen your exhale, or let your spine remember its full vertical truth, you interrupt the broadcast and reclaim the original signal.

The architecture of liberation is a posture, a breath, a shiver of recognition that says “this is mine.” So here is a good question:

Will you keep lending your nervous system to the cultural waveform that wants to keep you predictable or will you finally let your body speak the truth it has been holding since before words were ever spoken?

What is your body been trying to tell you?

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References:

Davey, Mark. (July 19,2025). Harmonic One: ΔNon-Linearity: Time fracture, spiral cognition, and the collapse of narrative control]. (https://whowhatwhere.substack.com/p/harmonic-one-non-linearity

Dillon, Kelly. (May 10, 2026). [What Humanity Is Actually Living Inside — The Hidden Architecture Beneath Reality, Identity, And Perception]. https://kellydillon.substack.com/p/what-humanity-is-actually-living

Do words shape our probability landscape? Do the patterns we generate through the language we use shape our behavior? Do the words we repeat change our perception and decision making?

According to Shaun Higgins, in a post titled “The Worded Truth as an Architect of Physical Reality,” the answer would be “Yes,” to all of the above.

I find it interesting that when the context around concepts we’ve lived with all of our lives changes, rearranging our understanding might be called for.

What recently inspired this urge for “rearranging” my own understanding was a new context for something we all use every day.

Words.

I speak them, write with them and I also have put them into songs for decades. I also love looking at life from a quantum perspective so I was quite delighted to read by Shaun Higgins’ post that explores words from a quantum perspective.

This quantum look at language reveals that every word you speak or sing literally reconfigures your inner state before it ever leaves your mouth.

Beyond Words as Description

I would surmise that most of us think of words as “descriptors.” They describe things. They have meaning. Higgins takes the definition of words beyond that writing:

“Strip a word down far enough and what remains is not meaning, but motion.”

In Shaun Higgins’ view, words aren’t just abstract carriers of “meaning.” At their most fundamental physical level, they’re vibrations in the air. From Higgin’s perspective, the “motion” beyond just “meaning” is made up of “pressure waves, frequency bands and harmonics moving through a compressible medium.”

Words are pressure waves of specific frequencies and harmonics that physically disturb and interact with the compressible medium around us which includes both the atmosphere and our bodies.

When we speak or hear a word, the sound waves enter our ears, tissues, and fluids. Our bodies don’t just decode or interpret. Our bodies entrain or sync up to the rhythm of the words.

When words are viewed through the lens of structured motion, they have the power to tune your body’s coherence like an instrument. Over time, the patterns you speak or hear reinforce certain states in you.

The states you revisit (including the words you repeat) subtly shape how you interact with the world and it isn’t just in the context of something magical or mysterious. It is through measurable physics of oscillation, resonance, and feedback loops. It’s language that participates in reality, rather than just describing it.

Higgins suggests that words represent something beyond simple commentary and that our voices are far more instrumental in creating our realities than we might realize.

From inside of my own head it occurs that my voice, both inner and outer, is simply reporting on the world. Higgins adds a whole new layer of understanding about how the voice participates in creating our reality.

“The voice is not reporting on the world. It is entering it, modifying boundary conditions in small, cumulative ways that we have never properly measured because we never thought to look.”

Our voices are modifying our experience through resonance and coherence which are both also of interest to me, having chosen Resonance: The Music Within as the title of my newsletter.

The Voice and Coherence

As a songwriter, I translate ideas, notes, melody, and rhythm into a structure that can be repeated, so the following sentence from Higgins is very resonant:

“The vocal apparatus converts internal state into structured acoustic output.”

I’ve often experienced how I’m reorganized or restructured when I sing. The meaning of the words and the emotions and thoughts shift me in a noticeable way.

Higgins explains this from a perspective I hadn’t considered before:

“Language, then, is not just something we send outward, but something that reorganizes the sender before it ever leaves the mouth.”

Even as we form the thoughts that preceed the words we speak or write, we’re being transformed, somehow.

What is Entrainment?

Entrainment in the context of sound is the process by which an external rhythmic sound affects the world around it. So, a beat, tone, or vibration causes another oscillating system like brainwaves or another sound source or physical object to synchronize its rhythm to match the frequency or timing of the driving sound.

Transfer this idea to the truth that our bodies do not only receive sound passively. They entrain to the sound.

“Every sound has structure, every structure has constraints, and every constraint shapes how energy moves through a system. This is essentially geometric in nature, whether we name it or not.” Shaun Higgins, PhD.

We Either Align or We Don’t

As I find deeper resonance with both the words I write and the words I speak or sing, it truly helps to understand the power of conscious wording. Higgins says it best:

“The words themselves are not magical, however the alignment they produce can be.”

When we speak, we introduce a patterned disturbance into a layered system, and that disturbance either aligns with the system’s existing dynamics or it does not.

If you’ve ever said something that immediately felt “beyond true” or deeply aligned, you’ll know what I’m referring to. When it aligns, resistance drops, the system feels ordered, responsive, almost effortless.

Under the suface, our body’s entrainment is taking place in our neurology, our cardiac rhythms, our fascia and our cells in what Higgins calls “micro-movements.” All of these “micro-movements” together contribute to the whole system re-configuring itself.

This re-configuring that is based on resonance can then be measured in our brainwaves and vagal tone.

Do Our Words Shift Our Reality?

Shaun Higgins presents interesting possibilities that suggest that our intentional speech can measurably alter our physiological coherence through our use of words.

“Language becomes an instrument you can tune which holds benefits far beyond practical communication or artistic expression.

Language can become a functional tool which can help us avoid confusion, fatigue, and dissonance by bringing in coherence.”

Our language, then, is never neutral. Every sentence we utter re-configures something within us and every repeated phrase becomes a reinforcement loop. I would agree completely with Higgins that words are much more than a mirror. He calls them a “tuning mechanism.”

We are constantly training our own systems through the patterns we generate, stabilizing certain states while eroding others. Over time, those states shape behavior, perception, decision-making. They shape the probability landscape we move through.

This exploration is quite meaningful to me in the context of songwriting and singing. I have sung certain songs repeatedly sung for decades and I honestly feel that the melodies and lyrics stay alive with an unexplainable power.

Although many of the songs were written long ago, repetition brings the words to life in the moment in a way that is both current and very tranformational.

I’m now more aware of those moments where my voice takes the journey from my own internal coherence and travels out to an external world. I can picture both worlds being changed by what is spoken or sung. The words I use are shaping myneurology, my resonance, and the probability landscape I call my “daily life.”

As I sit with Higgins’ ideas, the line between my inner monologue and the songs I’ve written for decades dissolves into something far more alive. Every lyric I once thought was simply “describing” an emotion now feels like a deliberate act of acoustic architecture.

I’ve been building coherence in real time, both within my body and in the shared air between me and anyone who listens.

So, here’s an invitation that is quietly radical.

Speak, write, and sing as though your words are instruments of creation rather than echoes of what already exists. It’s a small, cumulative shift that can take us from simply reporting on the world to participating in its making, one intentional sentence at a time.

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Mom,

Thank you for shaping me, loving me, and giving me the best of yourself for so many years. I feel you still guiding me, and I promise to carry your light forward. You can pass the baton. I’ll take it from here.

To every soul missing their mother today, just know her love lives on through you. We stand on the shoulders of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters and we bless the endless cycles with strength, gratitude, and grace.

Happy Mother’s Day in heaven, Mom.
And to all who share this ache… you are not alone.

We were never meant to be islands, yet the distance between us stretched wider than ever before. We stood six feet apart on little circles cropping up in the places we used to wander freely. The moon still cycled through its phases above us, a silent witness to our longing, our losses, and our slow unraveling.

Journey Back in Time

March 2020. Spring break with no return to school. No return to teaching.  The world paused, and we all held our breath in collective uncertainty. On Maui, beautiful beaches and parks emptied, voices quieted, and an invisible tide of fear pulled us into isolation. Masking and testing were required for almost anything. Temperatures were taken even when everyone felt fine.

Something felt really “off” about it all, but to mention that was to be ostracized and shamed for being a “conspiracy theorist.” Separated by six feet of space, masked in silence, and suspended in uncertainty, we became islands unto ourselves. Yet, like the moon above us, we were always meant to wax and wane and move through cycles of loss and renewal.

Two weeks in, I posed a very sincere question to the unseen worlds, asking for understanding, for words and melody that would help me make sense of my experience.

In the middle of the night something answered. Thoughts were scribbled on paper and words were assigned to invisible notes in a tumbling forth of energy which resulted in the song “Waxing and Waning”.

Although the song addressed the isolation, silence, and separation, it also named the transformation that would be required to get through this challenging time. Some deep reckoning seemed to be shifting beneath the surface, bringing all of us an opportunity for transformation.

We can and will move from doubt, blindness, and hopelessness to believing, seeing, and thriving by exploring within and bringing our gifts forward to rebuild the world together.

Many Years Later

It is now 2026, six years later, and though the world has reopened, the echoes of that time still ripple through us.

Division lingers, uncertainty remains, but so does the call to heal, to bridge, to become something new.

Fresh revelations continue to emerge about the events of early 2020 concerning the virus’s origins and the deliberate sidelining of dissenting scientific views. We are seeing more clearly how much of the official narrative diverged from the fuller truth.

What was once dismissed as conspiracy is now being examined in official inquiries and intelligence assessments as a credible possibility, confirming that key information was withheld or shaped in ways that deepened fear, division, and isolation rather than fostering open understanding.

This reckoning does not erase the very real losses or the genuine uncertainty we all lived through, but it echoes the song’s call: a shift from doubt to believing, from blindness to seeing, where truth gives us shivers and invites the deep inner transformation we sensed was always waiting beneath the surface.

Here are the song lyrics for Waxing and Waning

We were never meant to be islands						
But long ago someone buried the moon					
Along with our bodies and our feelings					
Now we isolate to stay immune						

From doubt to believing, from blindness to seeing 			
From hopeless to thriving, from black into white			
Let’s all become givers, Let truth give us shivers			
We’re all waxing and waning 						
From slivers to fullness, from empty to wholeness 			
We’re all waxing and waning 							

We were never meant to be silenced					
We’ve steeped in the quiet far too long					
Now we can speak ..our way ..back into being				
Relate the stories born out of our songs					

From doubt to believing, from blindness to seeing 			
From hopeless to thriving, from black into white			
Let’s all become givers, Let truth give us shivers			
We’re all waxing and waning 							
From slivers to fullness, from empty to wholeness 			
We’re all waxing and waning 							

Explore the sources of your own belonging 				
When you find your own gift, just give it   				
Seize this time for path finding and way showing			
This is your life now, so just live it   					

We were always meant to be connected					
And free to shape things into form						
So let’s take a deep breath and rebuild the world			
into a bold new dawn, after the storm					

From doubt to believing, from blindness to seeing 			
From hopeless to thriving, from black into white			
Let’s all become givers, Let truth give us shivers			
We’re all waxing and waning 							
From slivers to fullness, from empty to wholeness 			
We’re all waxing and waning 							
We’re all waxing and waning

Our lived experience continues to change from day to day as we find our way forward in a world in flux, surfing the ongoing extremes from chaos to calm and back to chaos.

It occurs to me that we are still navigating the distance between living as slivers of ourselves and bringing forth the full and confident expressions of the way-showers and pathfinders we long to be. We’re still waxing and waning, still finding our way toward wholeness.

The song “Waxing and Waning” was released on January 12, 2025 as the title song on a 12 song CD. I have included the audio only version and a video with audio version of the song below.

Audio only

Video

A midnight song answered isolation in 2020 and now new light invites us to move from slivers to fullness, silence to shared rebuilding. The song still stands as a reflection of that isolation, mapping a journey of how we each had to reckoning with transformation, and how we would answer the call to move from hopeless to thriving.

Questions remain.

How do we bridge the distance between who we were and who we are becoming? How do we reclaim our voices, our gifts, and our connection to each other?

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What if your body is not a container for consciousness, but a living interface where the Universe meets itself?

There is a question I return to often. Why do some experiences, insights, or creations land with such depth and staying power while others dissolve into the background noise of daily life?

I notice this mystery especially when applied to the writing of songs. Why do some land, take root and last for decades, while some fade away into silence?

It has always felt like the ones with the most staying power arrive with melodies that feel bigger than me and with lyrics that feel like they’ve been waiting in the quiet for someone to hear them and write them down.

In his recent post, Shaun Higgins once again provided a quantum explanation.

“What endures is not what exerts the greatest force, but what achieves the most stable organisation.”

There were nights when a song arrived whole, when the room felt electrically alive as if the boundary between “me” and everything else had thinned to a whisper. In those moments, my body felt like a tuning fork. Now, I have a new understanding that a “stable organization” was occuring in those moments!

Yes, my brain might have been busy refining, trying out different rhythms and lines in an endeavor to find the right melodies and metaphors, but the deeper feeling was in my heart which felt like the anchor for the whole exchange.

My heart was the place where time and space stabilized and localized long enough for something eternal to slip through and take form. And many of those song forms are still very vibrant and alive.

Higgins would describe my experience this way:

“The brain discriminates and refines, carving coherence from flux.

The heart steadies and synchronises, providing a temporal anchor against which experience can unfold.”

Perhaps what I find most resonant with my lived experience is that in those moments of deep communion I did not feel a separation between my body and the Universe or using Higgins’ words, a “vessel that contains consciousness.” I felt more like what Higgins describes as an “interface.”

And my interface decides at times to filter these non-local thought forms, finding the ones that I can stabilize and translate into songs. In those moments, I feel more like the Universe experiencing itself through me. Higgins, again:

“By maintaining a state of internal coherence, we stabilise local spacetime curvature, acting as living singularities that align the rhythm of the individual with the grand song of the stellar continuum.

We are not separate from the Universe, we are the points where the Universe becomes locally aware of its own beauty.”

Consciousness, if it is to persist, must conform to this principle. It requires structures capable of sustaining informational order and one of those structures is the heart, described by Higgins as:

“a toroidal modulator that generates the most powerful electromagnetic field in the human biosphere.”

Our field doesn’t end at our skin. It extends outward, coupling with the Earth’s own resonant pulse and brushes against the quantum vacuum itself. This invisible architecture that runs beneath our attention is where we meet what Higgins calls the “neutrino aether” or the “neutrino flow.”

These neutrinos stream are capable of streaming through us by the trillions every second. What is even more remarkable is the idea that they also carry the memory of the Universe. The memory of the Universe flows through us and our memory flows through the Universe.

So, is one of the purposes of our bodies to hold order long enough for meaning to arise?

When the heart enters a state of deep coherence in times when we choose love, or stillness, or the kind of open-hearted presence I’ve tried to chase in chorus after chorus, our toroidal field achieves a harmonic symmetry. It imprints itself upon that neutrino flow.

This perspective grants depth to our biology. It suggests in Higgins’ words that “evolution did not wander aimlessly into consciousness, but patiently assembled the conditions under which consciousness could endure.” I understand this to mean that the stable conditions needed for consciousness to arise and persist are critical to our evolution.

Each one of our heartbeats becomes a conversation with the infinite, especially in those deeply coherent moments where the informational structure of our emotion is written into the aether. That open-hearted presence travels into the deepest voids of the Universe and often returns (in my experience) with a more highly organized and stable form of what I sent out.

I feel this when I write. Not as abstract theory, but as lived texture. We are not isolated observers peering out at the world. We are the Universe finding form long enough to experience itself.

This is the quiet precision that I keep circling back to in my posts and in the songs I write. The body is the interface through which the non-local becomes intimate.

The heart is the stargate where we have the opportunity to put a personal signature on the cosmic ledger. We are not merely made of star-stuff. We are, each and every one of us, pulsing stars ourselves.

We are authors of a signal that never truly dies. We are modulators of light that began in distant galaxies and now moves through us as feeling, as memory, or as the next verse waiting to be sung. Many thanks to Shaun Higgins, PhD at The Meta-Rational Think Tank .

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References:

Higgins, Shaun PhD. (April 12, 2026). [At the Heart of a Human Star]. https://substack.com/@physicsvsmetaphysics/note/c-242330694

Higgins, Shaun PhD. (April 27, 2026). [The Subatomic Superfluid-Aether]. https://consciousphysics.substack.com/p/the-subatomic-superfluid-aether-phd

Higgins, Shaun PhD. (Nov 15, 2025). [Neutrinos, Consciousness, and the Hidden Architecture of Reality]. https://substack.com/home/post/p-178985864

I’m finding that quite often, another Substack writer will explain something clearly that I’ve been thinking about for years.

In this case, the writer is Shaun Higgins from his newsletter The Meta-Rational Think Tank, and the topic is the past, present and future. More specifically, the post explains the reason that most of us see “time” the way we do, which is usually linear. It occurs to us that some things happened back then, other things are happening now and new things will happen in the future. That’s the ocean we swim in.

So, this sentence from Higgins caused me to pause and really take in what was being explained:

“What I once called past, present, and future now feels more like a filtering artifact of a system that cannot withstand totality.

The brain does not move through time, it stabilizes a slice of it, compressing an otherwise simultaneous structure into a sequence I can survive.”

Would we come completely undone if we sensed all of our possibilities at once?

Are our brains just “stabilizing a slice of time” so that it is compressed just enough to narrow our choices which would otherwise overwhelm us? This is what Higgins suggests from a very quantum point of view.

The quantum description of this process involves biological processes with names like “neural phase-locking, electromagnetic coherence, and oscillatory dynamics” but the simple explanation is that these processes are constraints that hold open “a narrow corridor through an otherwise overwhelming field of possibility.”

And that information could change how you see yourself and your life, described brilliantly by Higgins:

“If reality is not unfolding, but already structured, then my life is not a path I am carving forward, it is a configuration I am resolving into awareness, a reality I am manifesting through the “future me”…

The future is not waiting to be created, it is waiting to be recognized.”

What unfolds for me from this understanding is something that I’ve previously noticed and experienced but didn’t quite have a name for.

I remember the feeling most clearly in deep moments of stillness and transformation. One of the most vivid, was in 1980, after landing on the island of Maui for a two week vacation and standing in the tiny airport which then partially opened to the sky under a large tree, and feeling a profound surge of timeless knowing, “This is home.”

I’ve now been on Maui for over 45 years. My explanation is that even though I hadn’t chosen yet, to turn in my return ticket and just stay in paradise, my expanded self sensed the outcome of the coming decades and every possibility was filled with the choice I would soon make.

Perhaps many of us would use the word “intuition.” Higgins names it “precognitive insight” and gives three solid examples of what contributes to maximizing this internal power.

1. The quality of alignment you can sustain in the “now.”

2. The degree to which you allow coherence to take precedence over fragmentation.

3. The degree to which you choose presence over delay.

What this means to me is that in the place of striving for a certain future, we would perhaps be more effective if we started a “quiet revolution” where we became “precise enough, honest enough, and still enough” to recognize that this future has already been created and that “it is your own advice you are following when trusting these instincts.”

To summarize, a state of coherent and honest stillness can help us tap into a version of ourselves that is perhaps a little wiser and more accomplished than the current character we are expressing. We are drawing those characters closer through the slice of time we’re tuning into.

As I stood under the stars all those years ago, I was drawing that Maui version of me closer and recognizing an alignment, even though I did’nt understand just how back then.

What is possible for us in a world where there’s no “later?”

Higgins describes “moments,” not as “passing” but as “revealing.” And he describes what those moments reveal as being “drawn from within.”

This adds yet, another point in the article where I recalled something very resonant. In a very lucid moment of presence I wrote the following song lyric:

“When the veil is made thin by the light from our within, only then will we begin to live as we truly are.”

Perhaps this being “drawn from within” when the “veil is made thin” explains living with the understanding that there is no “later.”

I’m not exactly sure how we could significantly shift our current perspective. The prevailing cultural view has us all living as if there is some kind of later in which:

“I will become who I am capable of being, or a distant horizon where clarity finally arrives…”

Can you feel the truth of any of this in your own life?

The veil is still strongest for me in the “noise” of thoughts like, “I’ll have time for that later.” Time feels likes it’s imposed on me and often requires a future to unfold in where I’m a more evolved version of myself.

How much of our lives are lived in that pattern of hesitation?

That’s such an interesting inquiry, especially when time is understood, not as something that “passes” but something that “reveals” patterns that are only visible when we’re present and still enough to see them.

The “distant horizon” view is challenged by Higgin’s description of an alternative version of reality that describes how we become who we become.

“That what I become is not assembled from nothing, but uncovered from a structure that already holds its highest form intact.”

That the mind, when it becomes still enough, does not invent meaning, but remembers it.

I really appreciate that I can now see my life as “a configuration I am resolving into awareness,” and that the future me is just a more true representation of the totality of me that already exists as a complete structure in time and space.

When the veil is made thin by the light from within, we can stop chasing a distant version of ourselves and begin resolving the complete configuration we already are. In a world with no “later,” every moment of presence becomes an act of recognition rather than creation.

What configuration of your own life is quietly waiting for you to become still enough to see it?

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References:

Higgins, Shaun (April 17, 2026). [Does Time Exist? PhD Physics]. https://substack.com/@physicsvsmetaphysics/note/c-245061337