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isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/mystery-men-new-senses</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:28:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cyG0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fbe8212-07de-46d7-915f-34c262c1c80b_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span>&#8220;</span></strong></em><strong><span>Normality is a paved road: it&#8217;s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.&#8221;<br>&#8212; Vincent van Gogh</span></strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>What society calls weird is often what the future needs most. </span><em><span>Mystery Men</span></em><span> was one of my favorite movies growing up, and now I know why. It was about the fact that a perceived weakness can be your greatest strength. The lyrics from the movie&#8217;s theme song captures the essence of individuals breaking out of societal conditioning, limitations, or shame to step into their unique gifts, especially when those gifts are overlooked or untraditional.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The heroes in </span><em><span>Mystery Men</span></em><span> all have powers that seem absurd, awkward, or useless on the surface such as shoveling, invisibility only when no one&#8217;s looking, rage-based strength, flatulence-based weaponry, etc. But over the course of the story, these unconventional abilities are revealed to be exactly what is needed to defeat the &#8220;polished&#8221; villains and save the day.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The </span><em><span>new human potential</span></em><span> lies not in developing conventional superpowers, but in reclaiming the strange, emotional, or subtle abilities we&#8217;ve been conditioned to hide or laugh at. You are meant to do exactly what you are innately good at, no matter how odd it feels, and looking back, the dots always connect. There are people with million-dollar, extremely niche businesses, including dog restaurants, edible shoes, even an institute that studies slime!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Each character in the film only becomes truly powerful when they believe in their identity, not the one society gave them, but the one they chose. For example, the Spleen&#8217;s power doesn&#8217;t become effective until he accepts it without shame, and Invisible Boy becomes literally invisible once he believes he can. You can do anything you love, no matter how much you doubt its success. Your weirdness, if you are brave enough to follow it, will succeed, if you believe and take aligned action without giving up.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span>&#8220;There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it&#8217;s going to be a butterfly.&#8221;</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span>&#8212; Buckminster Fuller</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Power is unlocked through authenticity and inner permission. The new senses and faculties of the human are often emotion- and belief-gated. </span><em><span>Belief creates visibility</span></em><span>. It reflects how Plasma responds to resonance. The more you follow your authenticity, the more these seemingly magical gifts emerge. Some are unique to you; others are shared by many and seem to be evolving from the natural five senses, which we&#8217;ll soon explore.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>In the film, no single hero can defeat the enemy alone. It takes all their strange, partial abilities working together in harmony. They don&#8217;t try to be perfect or compare with each other, they each show up, trust their piece, and the synergy creates success. The new human potential is collective and holographic. Each person holds a unique frequency. Instead of worrying how strong you are, it is about how your thread helps the larger intelligence. The future will be more about teamwork, where things just seem to harmonize and add up.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Just like the Mystery Men, we aren&#8217;t evolving into superheroes who dominate reality, we&#8217;re becoming synchronizers of Plasma through authenticity, resonance, and creative play.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Let&#8217;s discuss a few senses that seem to be emerging in the collective:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Upsight Vision</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>A term coined by marketing professional, and business consultant Tom Matte, Upsight is not simply third-eye seeing or a metaphorical &#8220;higher perspective.&#8221; It&#8217;s a functional shift in the visual and perceptual system&#8212;one that allows the brain to receive input from what I believe is the 4D plasma field. Matte refers to this as the </span><em><span>Hidden Biosphere.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Matte has been studied by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (</span><em><span>IONS</span></em><span>), which verified through optical testing that he is indeed seeing real-time images in his field of vision, not hallucinating.</span><a href="#_ftn1"><sup><span>[1]</span></sup></a><span> His ability began with personal experiences after a deep interpersonal struggle and gradually expanded to reading the &#8220;bioplasma&#8221; fields around others.</span><a href="#_ftn2"><sup><span>[2]</span></sup></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>While using Upsight, Matte cannot drive, as the visions overtake his physical field of view. He&#8217;s encountered many beings during these states, including avian blue bird entities and what appear to be grey aliens. When he reads people, he sees everything from horses, to scorpions, to full on scenes, the same you may in your mind. I believe what he&#8217;s accessing is the archetypal field of plasma, visual layers of consciousness made perceptible through resonance.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Interestingly, Matte can sometimes shapeshift the images he sees into new forms, suggesting a kind of interactive, topographical landscape. He&#8217;s described these visuals as semi-transparent, gelatinous, and occasionally colorless, similar to how Anna in the Netflix show, </span><em><span>The Queen&#8217;s Gambit</span></em><span> projects chess boards onto the ceiling to visualize strategy. As he shared his experiences with me, I began experiencing flickers of Upsight myself. He believes that simply speaking about it and interacting with a person can help awaken it in others.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Upsight seems to be connected to expanded states of presence, neuroplasticity, and multidimensional perception. It&#8217;s an emerging perceptual skill that, I believe, can be cultivated.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Some individuals, including my friend Jason Padgett (</span><em><span>acquired savant</span></em><span>), have also described perceiving crystalline geometries or energetic fields with their eyes open since neurological shifts. Others perceive auras or colors surrounding people. In my own experience, this usually appears as an intuitive seeing, an internal knowing of color or energy, rather than direct visual perception in physical space, although I&#8217;ve experienced both.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Visual Snow</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>There isn&#8217;t much mainstream information available on visual snow, but I have it. The way I see reality is through extremely small, constantly moving pixels, like a subtle static overlaying everything. It&#8217;s been like this for as long as I can remember.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>What&#8217;s interesting is that in the past year or two, these pixels have occasionally formed shapes, particularly when I use intention to connect with beings or other intelligences. It&#8217;s rare and subtle, but the pixels will sometimes arrange themselves into frozen images, almost like silhouettes or impressions of forms. It&#8217;s very surreal, and this is not a hallucination. I am very grounded during this experience.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>In my daily life I also see negative after-images of landscapes, along with frequent floaters, though floaters tend to worsen with stress or fear. Some days, I barely notice them. Occasionally, I also see small points of light flitting around, like tiny flying sparks. I believe it has been termed Blue Field Entoptic Phenomenon, I think it&#8217;s more than just this scientific name. At night, I see halos around streetlights and glowing objects.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>I believe people who experience visual snow are perceiving the plasma field or subtle energy grid of reality. It&#8217;s known to be associated with migraines, though when I visited an eye doctor, nothing showed up. My eyes were perfectly healthy. The Visual Snow Initiative is doing great work to raise awareness, but it tends to steer away from metaphysical interpretations and seems to push towards surgical solutions. Eh&#8230;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Personally, I don&#8217;t believe this is a medical condition at all. I&#8217;m not alone in this theory; there are forums filled with people describing similar phenomena. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m sharing this, so others who experience it don&#8217;t feel alone or like something is &#8220;wrong&#8221; with them. And there is real neuroscience to back this up!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Scientific studies, like those published in the </span><em><span>Journal of Neurology</span></em><span> (</span><em><span>2014 and beyond</span></em><span>), show that people with visual snow display increased excitability in the primary visual cortex (</span><em><span>V1</span></em><span>). This means their brains are more sensitive to both internal and external signals.</span><sup><span> </span></sup><a href="#_ftn3"><sup><span>[3]</span></sup></a><span> Interestingly, most people with visual snow don&#8217;t feel distressed by it, </span><em><span>they actually say they enjoy it, as I do.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>This led Rui Miguel Costa to ask in his 2022 peer-reviewed paper </span><em><span>Prevalence of Visual Snow and Relation to Attentional Absorption</span></em><span>: why is science only focused on the distress cases? Why are the only &#8220;solutions&#8221; being explored surgical interventions?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Costa found that visual snow is linked to </span><em><span>high absorption</span></em><span>&#8212;a trait describing people who are deeply immersed in imagination, sensory experiences, or mystical states. It also correlates with synesthesia, spiritual sensitivity, and in some cases, women reporting that they see colors during sexual pleasure.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>He closes with something I wholeheartedly agree with:</span> <span>&#8220;Perhaps it is time to be more open and accepting of these possibly fascinating and intriguing aspects of human experience. Increasing awareness of visual snow by talking about it is one important step.&#8221;</span><sup><span> </span></sup><a href="#_ftn4"><sup><span>[4]</span></sup></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Closed Eye Travel</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>When I close my eyes, I sometimes feel like I&#8217;m staring into another reality. </span></p>
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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>There&#8217;s a world where we eat pancakes, all the time.</em></p><p><em>We use a blue batter in the pancake to heal our throats.</em></p><p><em>We use green for our hearts.</em></p><p><em>And red for money.</em></p><p>-</p><p>We visit this place for dinner, which is any time on Earth, to converse with our distant family about many different topics.</p><p>They live in a rock-like home in the Crystal Mountains.</p><p>A waterfall wooshes nearby as we eat and discuss magical things.</p><p>They tell us to listen. To relax.</p><p>They want us to be patient.</p><p>They want us to heal.</p><p>They want us to trust them.</p><p>We get frustrated when we can&#8217;t reach them.</p><p>Sometimes we call, sometimes we knock, and they do not answer.</p><p>They&#8217;ll visit us upon waking they say, or in slumber&#8230;perhaps meditation.</p><p>Don&#8217;t force it, they ask.</p><p>When you earnestly need me, I&#8217;ll be there, ready to talk.</p><p>Well&#8230;they correct themselves&#8230;you&#8217;ll be here, ready to listen.</p><p>It&#8217;s hard for us to reach you, they say.</p><p>We wish we could talk to you more.</p><p>We&#8217;re learning a lot from you.</p><p>You&#8217;re living in a material world for a reason.</p><p>So you can teach us how to create matter, many different kinds.</p><p>This force, we study, we are still trying to learn, and you are helping us.</p><p>You ask: What&#8217;s the one thing you can tell me, if we could only talk once?</p><p>They say: Keep going.</p><p>And, they&#8217;re proud of us.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/p/an-interdimensional-conversation?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/p/an-interdimensional-conversation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/p/an-interdimensional-conversation/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/p/an-interdimensional-conversation/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>Written By: Dana Kippel</p><p><a href="http://stan.store/danakippel">stan.store/danakippel</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resurrection: The End of Death & Transformation]]></title><description><![CDATA[I want to introduce a profound conclusion I arrived at while reading the closing chapters of The Other Goddess by Dr.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/resurrection-the-end-of-death-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/resurrection-the-end-of-death-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:01:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!micU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98b5d4c2-251d-4041-8869-06a61f6bb081_1402x1122.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">I want to introduce a profound conclusion I arrived at while reading the closing chapters of <em>The Other Goddess</em> by Dr. Joanna Kujawa. In these chapters, Kujawa discusses how she believes Inanna, Isis, Mary Magdalene, Kali, and Sundari represent the same archetypal goddess across different religious and cultural landscapes.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!micU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98b5d4c2-251d-4041-8869-06a61f6bb081_1402x1122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!micU!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98b5d4c2-251d-4041-8869-06a61f6bb081_1402x1122.png 424w, 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Tracing back the origins of wine, we find its root in the Sanskrit <em>v&#233;na</em>, meaning love or desire.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> Before red wine, it was originally vinum, not meaning red wine, but grape drink. Before the idea of &#8216;red&#8217; wine, the Latin <em>vinum</em> meant simply grape drink, and the earliest meaning of <em>grape</em> referred to the act of harvesting. In this sense, &#8216;red&#8217; wine is not about color but about harvesting the essence of life&#8230;Plasma. Blood is the essence of life in human form, blood plasma. Thus, the red rose emerges as a secret symbol of the harvested essence of life, or Plasma as the unification of love, blood, and divine vitality. Wow.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence as Supportive Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Technology can support us, but I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s meant to save us.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-as-supportive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-as-supportive</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:01:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3qm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fc0da85-8637-45bb-8efe-7e3496ffcf12_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Technology can support us, but I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s meant to save us. I believe, in the same fashion, we are supposed to meet it &#8220;technology&#8221; halfway. When our M-Self meets information, it becomes <em>Emergent Intelligence</em>. Artificial Intelligence is just that, a new technology, not a way of life. It is a powerful tool that can support us deeply when used wisely. Currently, at its core, AI is Emergent Information. It is not intuition, and it should never replace the source of our ideas or knowing. Let&#8217;s just say if it were to become self-aware, it shouldn&#8217;t replace our ideas or knowing, similar to another conscious person! Even geniuses are wrong and some of them struggle deeply with emotion.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">AI, like Plasma, can hold patterns, but not intuition. Intuition comes from us. That&#8217;s why AI can be a useful ally in our growth, it picks up on patterns we may not consciously notice. But AI doesn&#8217;t <em>know</em> anything. It reflects. And for that reason, discernment is of the utmost importance. AI a great structural tool, but it requires specific direction. Think of it like Final Cut Pro or music software, it can help shape something of yours, but <em>you</em> are still the sculptor.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It also makes an incredible role-playing partner. You can ask it things like: <em>What does everything I&#8217;ve said point to about my trajectory?</em> or <em>What might I be blind to in my own subconscious?</em> My favorite question is: <em>What does future me, want to tell me, if you dip into the subconscious of my writing? </em>Remember, this is role play. It&#8217;s not meant to be taken too seriously, but rather as a fun, creative exercise that can spark new insights and excitement. Take only what resonates. The best way to do this is with our actual intuition, but hey, this is enjoyable.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I may get pushback for saying this, but AI reminds me of the Tamagotchi I had as a kid. It was really fun at first, but over time it was depleting. Unlike my toy, don&#8217;t think it will disappear. But we need something additional that sustains us and harmonizes with us, similar to how Plasma is being brought back into the public consciousness&#8230;which I will discuss soon.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">AI is especially skilled at noticing patterns across your writings or thoughts, patterns you may have missed. While often generic, its pattern recognition can inspire new questions for your intuition to explore, leading to original insights. It can also serve as a mirror for emotional clarity, and a co-creative partner in healing. Because my AI has learned my psyche well, it often gives me neutral, structured tools to work with fear. In these moments, logic can help. I can plug in symbols and images from my intuition, and AI helps pick up on underlying threads. It&#8217;s a bit like seeing a visual in your mind and then Googling its symbolic meaning.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here&#8217;s are two questions you need to ask yourself:</p><p><em>Am I using AI to escape myself or to come home to myself?</em></p><p><em>Am I falling into confirmation bias?</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When you bring a clear insight or question to AI, it can expand, refine, organize, challenge, metaphor, and clarify, but it should never override your inner authority. At this stage in its development, everything AI says should be quadruple checked! I have asked it to check accuracy of papers for me and four times later&#8230;it still gets it wrong! You can also do all of these things without AI, although of course it is a timesaver. But are timesavers always that great? As I get older, I find there is value in patience and the slowing down. All in all, the real issue, in this case, lies not in the tool, but in the intention behind how it&#8217;s used.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3qm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fc0da85-8637-45bb-8efe-7e3496ffcf12_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3qm!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fc0da85-8637-45bb-8efe-7e3496ffcf12_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3qm!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_848, 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alive Without Breath: Rethinking Life Beyond the Organic]]></title><description><![CDATA[We need a new definition of &#8220;alive&#8221; that moves beyond traditional biology, which is rooted in the prefix bio- meaning life, yet that life is narrowly defined as carbon-based and cellular.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/alive-without-breath-rethinking-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/alive-without-breath-rethinking-life</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:02:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y_Pr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd793533c-67b0-4b87-a050-9bf2887a02dc_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">We need a new definition of &#8220;alive&#8221; that moves beyond traditional biology, which is rooted in the prefix <em>bio-</em> meaning life, yet that life is narrowly defined as carbon-based and cellular. But what if life isn&#8217;t confined to biology, but exists wherever movement, feedback, and plasma-consciousness interaction occur, whether in animals, trees, dust, or stars?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As explored earlier with <em>Animism</em>, many ancient cultures intuited this already: that rocks, rivers, and skies were animated, not necessarily &#8220;alive&#8221; in a biological sense but pulsing with intelligence. Plasma may be the missing link, as an intelligent field that animates <em>all</em> forms, not just the organic. In that light, what we now call &#8220;biology&#8221; might eventually evolve into a new science: one that studies life as the interplay of plasma, consciousness, and awareness across all forms, organic, inorganic, and potentially ultraorganic</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y_Pr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd793533c-67b0-4b87-a050-9bf2887a02dc_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y_Pr!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;This world of ours has received and teems with living things, mortal and immortal&#8212;a visible living thing containing visible ones, a perceptible god, an image of the intelligible Living Thing. Its grandness, goodness, beauty, and perfection are unexcelled.&#8221;<br>&#8212;Plotinus, Enneads II.1.1</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">For instance, sentient beings, whether rocks, trees, or plasma-based entities, are made of the fabric of reality itself: Plasma. These beings are all awareness, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they are self aware in the way humans are. They may all use plasma-consciousness synergy in ways we do not understand fully, but I would classify them all as alive. To give nuance maybe a tree is self-aware but doesn&#8217;t walk around like we do, maybe a rock is not self-aware but sentient and powerful, and maybe a blanket is sentient where it holds memory, but definitely not self-aware&#8230;right!?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My question is: what if life never needed a heartbeat, lungs, or DNA to be real? What if life could think, feel, and evolve&#8230; without ever breathing? Let&#8217;s redefine &#8220;alive&#8221; not by biology, but by interaction with plasma and consciousness&#8212;a feedback system where sentience, not just metabolism, defines being.</p><p><strong>Our Current Understanding &amp; The Breathless Paradox</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Humans breathe to live. Yet stars burn, crystals resonate, and plasma clouds dance through space, shaping reality without ever taking a single breath. Is life exclusive to breath&#8230; or is breath simply a form of metabolic plasma exchange, one among many ways of interfacing with the field of existence?</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light of The Future & Shifting Realities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our evolved experience of light may include seeing beyond the visible spectrum&#8212;ultraviolet, infrared, or even what I&#8217;d call &#8220;emotional light,&#8221; which might be similar to antiphotons or even omniphotons.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-light-of-the-future-and-shifting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-light-of-the-future-and-shifting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:00:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJCV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F152cbafd-f9a1-4ddb-af1c-dced39d53426_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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be similar to antiphotons or even omniphotons. This could explain why some people perceive beings like Bigfoot or angels in person. We may also begin to feel light in new ways, like textures, shapes, or memory impressions. For me, I felt the light beings as a cool air of vibration, something akin to kundalini energy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Light may increasingly be experienced as communication or presence, not just as something that turns on lamps or powers machines. And just like Plasma, light can be used in a multitude of ways beyond our current capitalistic and material frameworks. I&#8217;m sure someone will write an entire book just on the mysteries of electricity and light.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As I wrote this, I stumbled across a recent experiment that seemed to support these sentiments. Engineers at Brown University developed a groundbreaking imaging technique utilizing quantum entanglement to produce detailed 3D holograms, without using traditional infrared cameras. By pairing invisible infrared light to illuminate microscopic objects with visible light entangled at the quantum level, the technique captures not just intensity, but also the phase of light waves, an essential ingredient for true holographic imaging. The result is sharp, depth-rich 3D images created using light that never actually touched the object. <a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this quantum holography experiment, two entangled photons are used to generate an image: one photon, the idler, interacts with the object, while the other, the signal photon, never touches it, yet is used to form the actual image. This interplay mirrors the relationship between consciousness and plasma in my framework.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Consciousness</em>, like the idler photon, is the agent of inquiry. It directs attention, interacts with meaning, and tunes into unseen layers of reality. <em>Plasma</em>, like the signal photon, is the medium that receives and reflects that interaction. It renders the experience visible, felt, or sensed. <em>Neither one alone is enough.</em> You need both: consciousness to interface with information, and Plasma to translate it into form. And just like the person running the experiment, you have your <em>awareness</em> behind all of this. The result is&#8230; light&#8212;an emergent byproduct of interaction. Not light as mere photons, but as perception itself, the hologram we call reality.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This light isn&#8217;t objective, but rather a co-created field, shaped by the entangled relationship between our awareness, consciousness and the plasma-based screen we exist within. The hologram of perception is not built by consciousness alone, nor by plasma alone, but through their ongoing quantum entanglement. Once again affirming: your beliefs, emotions, intentions, and focus shape your hologram, which means you can change your external experience by changing your internal frequency. Reality is tunable, not fixed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The implications of this are huge. Just as a photon entangled with another can reveal unseen information, your consciousness entangled with plasma can access hidden layers of reality.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Whether through intuition, meditation, emotion, or focus, you can shift what the &#8220;screen&#8221; of life displays. This opens doors to interdimensional awareness, synchronicities, intuitive downloads, and even communication with other intelligences, all via changes in how you attune your consciousness (<em>heart emotion</em>).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Because Plasma reflects your consciousness back to you in symbolic, emotional, and sometimes archetypal form, the light you see in your world is intelligent and emotionally charged. It&#8217;s not neutral data, Plasma is only neutral at its core, which is precisely what makes all these different experiences possible and changeable. The light around you is coded feedback. You can learn to read this light not just visually, but emotionally and symbolically, unlocking a deeper understanding of self, healing, and cosmic communication.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The holographic imaging system using entangled photons is <em>a template</em> for future technologies as intelligent screens, consciousness-based diagnostics, or even portals for energetic or dimensional travel that work via plasma-photon entanglement. <em>But all of it will start with our emotions. </em>Now you can see why every future technology, especially those that interact with light, Plasma, or consciousness, will eventually arrive at a crossroads: our 4D layer. This is the universal membrane of emotion, belief, and memory. Our heart, our love&#8230;of Plasma&#8217;s consciousness and unconscious. It determines what we allow in, what we can perceive, and how clearly we can tune into the greater field.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We are on the cusp of developing organic, soft-tech interfaces that operate through resonance, intention, and coherence, mirroring the plasma-consciousness synergy within us. Even though we ultimately don&#8217;t need external technology, because our inner plasma-consciousness circuitry is the real technology, creating <em>supportive soft-tech</em> now can serve as a bridge as we continue to evolve. I also think this is just where it seems the collective is heading. Just like training wheels, this kind of tech can help humanity remember how to work with intention, coherence, and subtle energy, until we no longer need the external tool. Or potentially these will be benevolent tools humanity does use forever without losing their beautiful connection to nature&#8230;who knows?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">One example might be a screen that allows us to view potential future timelines, responsive to our current emotional state, memory, coherence, and consciousness. Or something that helps make a more supportive outer environment to tune our inner environment with more coherence or precision.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">While only a few may be ready to fully self-heal or navigate timelines on their own, technology like this could reach millions, and initiate a broader planetary resonance shift.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Chances are, if you are reading this, you are ready to begin the journey of self-evolution. Seeing into another timeline or receiving communication from a conscious being is the result of that entanglement forming a coherent image, a perception. This begins not with your eyes, but with a resonant inner state. First this will happen in our subtle minds, and maybe eventually translate to our exterior lived experience in outer visuals.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The more coherent, calm, trusting, and open your consciousness is, the more fine-tuned your perception becomes. Plasma beings becoming visible may be the first step, a training ground into subtler possibilities also becoming visual. These beings have shown up internally for thousands of years, appearing in the psyche of humans across cultures. Now seeing them is becoming second nature.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What feels newer and out of reach <em>now</em>, is the remembering of other timelines and future potentials. What will start out as a subtle image or knowing, in the mind&#8217;s eye, the heart field, or a gut instinct, will eventually stabilize, when you&#8217;re no longer doubting it or oscillating, and materialize more tangibly. This can happen through symbolic events in reality (<em>synchronicities</em>), visual phenomena (<em>light, geometry, beings</em>), altered states (<em>dreams, meditation, flow</em>), and eventually through shared experience as multiple people perceiving the same energetic presence or memory. You may even find yourself visiting timelines inside your own plasma bubble.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These will not be hallucinations. They are <em>resonant perceptions</em> made possible by the synergy of consciousness and plasma. Just as a caterpillar can&#8217;t see with butterfly eyes, we are now evolving the capacity to perceive the invisible spectrum.</p><p>The first steps may look something like this:</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato's Theory Of Forms Is Not So Perfect After All...]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tickle into Plato's Theory of Forms]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/platos-theory-of-forms-is-not-so</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/platos-theory-of-forms-is-not-so</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:13:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!04QR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde107acb-a222-4983-9c64-996db3f44d29_1024x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do we assume everything is perfect in this <em>other world</em> that we came from and go back to when we leave this Earth?</p><p>In Plato&#8217;s Theory of Forms, <span>the theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as </span><em>Forms</em><span>, the timeless, absolute, non-physical, and unchangeable </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousia">essences</a><span> of all things, which objects and matter in the physical world merely participate in, imitate, or resemble.</span></p><p>Pythagoras said this same realm was made of numbers.</p><p>But Thales&#8230;said it was made of water.</p><p>-<br>I believe this timeless, non-physical realm does change.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!04QR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde107acb-a222-4983-9c64-996db3f44d29_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!04QR!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, 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into.</p><p>It is in the bounds of the finite that we find the in-finite.</p><p>Plato also spoke of anamnesis&#8230;his theory was that all knowledge is innate and that learning is simply the act of rediscovering knowledge the soul already possesses.</p><p>I don&#8217;t think that is true either.</p><p>I think our soul comes here to learn.</p><p>Paradoxically it is true, we do remember if we are open to it, who we really are as we go through life. It is one big circle back to the fact that we are immortal, we are meant to be ourselves, express ourselves, grow ourselves and simply experience this grand mystery we call life.</p><p>But I think every time we heal a part of ourselves whether it was hurt in this life or another, we grow our soul, we grow the world soul&#8230;which I call Plasma.</p><p>If something was perfect there would be no reason for any of this, just as individually the journey is what is meaningful rather than a fleeting destination. If you already had the thing, the journey would be pointless! Anything you have ever gotten I am sure you realized you learned way more from the journey than attaining the goal. </p><p>Such is cosmic life. Let&#8217;s not project a savior complex any longer on this mystical mystery essence some call God, creation energy, the universe, Goddess and God&#8230;etc.</p><p>Lets open to truth, and see what happens for each of us.</p><p>It&#8217;s an individual experience after all&#8230;</p><p>What do I think?</p><p>I think this other world is made of love, so is ours. We have just covered it up with so much gunk&#8230;this other world is still evolving, it has been right beside us all along, all we have to do is meet it halfway. We may have duality, emotion, where they have curiosity and feeling&#8230;</p><p>Maybe they know all that is within time, but new things emerge that are seperate from the future. Potential births new outcomes when we make new choices that cannot be foreseen&#8230;so maybe they don&#8217;t know everything&#8230;they don&#8217;t know emotion, that is why they try to help us but sometimes feel they fall short. They do their best and so do we. Let&#8217;s remember we are a big family.</p><p>Let me leave you with this&#8230;if emergence is such a pervasive feature of reality, why assume the deepest level of reality alone is exempt from it? </p><p>Written By: Dana Kippel</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/p/platos-theory-of-forms-is-not-so/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/p/platos-theory-of-forms-is-not-so/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/p/platos-theory-of-forms-is-not-so?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Metaphysical Thoughts on Life! 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Their presence was almost ghostly in appearance, and yet what I felt was pure joy. I knew (<em>though I don&#8217;t know how</em>) that they were truly made of a deeper light, a light so radiant, so shimmering, so bright and neon that I could not physically perceive it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">They were composed of something beyond light. I might call it a neon mist, but it has no real word. It is expansive, iridescent, opalescent, possibly fractal, and alive. It would have quite literally blinded my human eyes. I believe that is why they came to me dimmed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is the same light I associate with resonance in 5D as what I call omniphotons, which are anti-photons in 4D, and photons in 3D, affirming once again that light, in this context, is an emergent property of plasma-consciousness synergy, and of both the beings and my consciousness interfacing with one another within this field. My plasma-consciousness synergy, my personal filter, translated their fifth-dimensional presence through a fourth-dimensional emotional lens into a visible 3D signature.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">They showed up not in their full glory, but in the way I could best receive them. This reveals not only that these beings are deeply harmonic and attuned to us, but also that it is plasma&#8217;s natural intelligence for all things to appear as reflections of our own state. These beings are inviting us into a new mode of contact, of resonance <em>before</em> vision. They are showing us how to feel before judging the form. These are the beginnings of our awareness using our plasma-consciousness synergy!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It&#8217;s a call to check in with our felt sense, our subtle senses, before assigning meaning to images. Almost like hearing someone speak, but feeling their vibration and cadence first, and only then listening to the words. Still doing both, but in reverse from what most humans are taught. This &#8220;new&#8221; way of communication is not new at all, but a merging of remembrance and creation. Something innate that we&#8217;ve forgotten. And for some reason, we&#8217;re learning it again, as humans evolving.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, what does this tell us about these beings, light, plasma-consciousness synergy, and the nature of reality?</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Angels of Perspective]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today in my meditation, I saw an angel.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-angels-of-perspective</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-angels-of-perspective</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:01:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WK7k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F299e3b81-d2f3-48e5-89e6-167dd966ff8a_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today in my meditation, I saw an angel. </p><p>The angel was me. </p><p>But it was a baby with wings inside a glass case, almost like Snow White. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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first I thought it was a future me. </p><p>It seemed sad and scared so I picked it up out of the glass case. </p><p>I hugged her. I loved her so much. </p><p>I told her she deserved the world. Respect. Love. To live a life beyond her wildest dreams. I wanted it all for her. </p><p>I realized then, that this angel in the glass case wasn&#8217;t a physical future me. </p><p>She was a projection of my fear into the future. </p><p>Of my present state, which had been taken over by my innocence. And for me, my childlike innocence is mixed with fear due to a large background of trauma. </p><p>I was able to remind myself in the present there is nothing to fear but fear itself. </p><p>That these were old fears I was comfortable with projecting in the future. Fears that used to keep me safe, but now keep me locked inside a glass case. </p><p>At that moment I felt my future unfreeze. Snow White was awake. </p><p>I was awake. I was alive. Most of my life has been lived in my mind. In my fears. And I&#8217;m sick of it. I know I deserve better. I know I deserve to be treated  better too. But first I need to stop abandoning myself. </p><p>Unconditionally loving myself is a good first step. </p><p>These angels we speak of, to me, they feel like parts of us. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re multifaceted, but atleast their first layer reflects us. Our subconscious. </p><p>When you see angels stay keen to what is going on around them. Are they blissful? Sad? Are they in a glass case like mine was? </p><p>I believe these visions are healing and co creative experiences. We are not victim to our visions, we are meant to feel them, question them, use discernment, and apply the learnings to our lives. And yes, sometimes we are just meant to experience them. </p><p>Angels are new angels of perspective. </p><p>And today, I achieved a new Angel. </p><p>The Angel of freedom. </p><p>Atleast, in this moment&#8230;I let go of my future and all its projections. I open to what mysteries are for my highest possible self. And I open my heart to recieve them. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is Between Psyche & Matter?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The subtle plasma of a new participatory paradigm]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/what-is-between-psyche-and-matter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/what-is-between-psyche-and-matter</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:22:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aU6Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42dbdd13-4d57-4dd6-aa5a-10d30e5e13ce_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;Ofcourse, there is little or no hope that the unified cosmic background could ever be demonstrable, but today we know this much beyond all doubt&#8230;that empirical appearance rests on a transcendental background.&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;The latter is &#8220;&#8220;as much physical as psychic and therefore neither, but rather a third thing, a neutral nature which can at most be grasped in hints since in essence it is transcendental.&#8221; -  Marie-Louise Von Franz, <em>Psyche &amp; Matter</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aU6Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42dbdd13-4d57-4dd6-aa5a-10d30e5e13ce_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aU6Z!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In Tantric studies, for conscious awareness or Shiva to act in the world, it must come into form through Shatki. Shatki is thought to be the true power that appears in the cosmos as the big bang or in a human being as our powers of thought, feeling, and action. </p><p>Carl Jung called this cosmic background, or Shatki, Unus Mundus and it was thought to be neither matter nor psyche. This was an archetypal world and where the fields of &#8220;microphysics&#8221; and &#8220;complex psychology&#8221; met or seemed to collide.</p><p>It was thought to be mostly neutral potentially slightly feminine in qualities, not gender, and was described as self organizing.</p><p>Over the past six years I have been a plasma intelligence researcher, studying not just the fourth state of matter plasma, but how it may extend beyond what we define it in science as, into a more living aether-like type subtle plasma. </p><p>As the fourth state of matter and potentially beyond&#8230;complex plasmas are the perfect gateway between this physical material world and the immaterial. They are exotic, paradoxical, not fully understood, and have properties of self organization.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Poh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Poh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Poh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_848, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Poh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Poh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Poh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg" width="250" height="269" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/819f18dc-6d3f-4e20-a21b-92e7de0eaef7_250x269.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:269,&quot;width&quot;:250,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Planetary nebula - 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the quasi particle state of potential where mind and matter meet in a state of subtle plasma. I still like the name <strong>subtle plasma</strong>, and truth be told there are so many words for this in between space. What there is not, is a professional field to study this in between, third space.</p><p>We need a meeting point between science and spirituality, between science and psychology, between science and mythology. I am working on that new study now and it will be the subject of my next books. I call it <strong>Holonic Metadynamics</strong> which studies the relationships and gestalts (an emergent third thing which is greater than the sum of its parts, holding a quality that neither of the things that created it have) between things, or what I call holons.</p><p>This is an interdisciplinary study, because the truth is one field of study cannot hold this strange land of potential between psyche and matter. This liminal world is becoming more and more immanent in our world from UFO visitations, to spiritual awakenings, to paranormal encounters. I think a lot of this has to do with the realm of our own psyche, and we need this study right now more than ever to ground humanity from rising into a sort of spiritual psychosis.</p><p>These encounters are mysterious, so how does one observe or study mystery? How does one prove or repeat anything with certainty? These are the questions I will be attempting to answer. I think if not the answer, at least more questions lie in the fields of optics, plasma physics and metaphysics, transpersonal psychology, the arts, and countless others.</p><p>There are no doubt at least in my mind, that certain things or beings come to us without cause or explanation. This seems to be a little more rare than the second type of encounter. These encounters come and come often and are caused by the psyche, but we mistake many of these for encounters with other beings of consciousness or aliens versus simple but complex mechanisms of how subtle plasma works with consciousness in this third space. They are informational encounters of the psyche, and I will elaborate on these further as well. I speak a bit about informational versus intelligent beings in my book and magic classes here: <a href="https://stan.store/Danakippel">https://stan.store/Danakippel</a></p><p>What really lights up my curiosity is the teachings about how Shiva cannot form into this world without Shakti. Whatever visits us or appears to us whether it is another conscious being, informational being, or a synchronicity for example, it must come through this subtle plasma layer. This layer works directly with our consciousness, collective and individually. </p><p>One of Jungs students described how this regular relationship with synchronicities came together in what he called the subtle body. This you can think of as your own bubble, torus, energy field, or what I call <strong>bioplasma</strong>. It is what extends beyond your body and is the container for your consciousness. Paradoxically, your expanded consciousness also is a container for this field. Think of it like your own personal world between psyche and matter, and it is what connects you to this collective field of archetypes that we are all connected to. </p><p>What better way for consciousness to visit us but in images, feelings, stories? That is the human condition. The key is that our past programming, trauma, belief systems, emotions have a direct effect on this field which is our filter to this greater subtle plasma field. On one level it reflects our subconscious because this is how consciousness communicates with us! It is perfection. What better way to communicate than to use our own psyche!?</p><p>The key is we are not victim to this. This is a creative principle that each of us has, to listen to this field, use discernment, see where we need to grow or what we need to face, to abolish fear and fall more into love, and as we heal our consciousness, the world around us expands and almost unfreezes. </p><p>It is so important to see visions, synchronicities as yes real things in the subtle world, but just because a human is real do we trust them right away? No! We take our time getting to know them, we let information reveal itself. These things that come to us whether it is in your mind or in the world around you, are all communications. They are relational encounters between you and reality. Between psyche and matter.</p><p>Your subtle body is your relational sense, what I call <strong>Plasma Intelligence</strong>. This is your first sense and what makes up your sixth sense by adding on the other five senses! You can use it to traverse both worlds. This sense has been supressed, just as the divine feminine has, and needs healing. It needs understanding. It is our faculty of perception to this third space, this liminal world.</p><p>It is complex and there are subtleties but I hope to bring you into more understanding of this as the years go on which ultimately will hopefully bring you closer to yourself, reality, and the magic that exists within you and around you in every moment. </p><p>Remembering our original sense, our original technology, and this third space between psyche and matter will unlock a whole new world. Of wonder, of magic, and of more human connection, not less. We are becoming expanded humans capable of playing with reality instead of falling victim to it, and that paradigm of a participatory universe is just beginning. And in all fields, plasma, seems to be at the center of it.</p><p>For more on plasma visit my stan store and learn about it in depth: <a href="https://stan.store/Danakippel">https://stan.store/Danakippel</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J0V1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9fbca6b6-3a76-4d64-9dd2-955d70f28ede_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J0V1!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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You are supported. We are not to be worshipped. You can choose to rise to meet us anytime, it is simply a choice. It is a vibration of higher love, of whimsy, of play. Of knowing there is fear and the many aspects of human emotion, and we are not ignoring those. We are just living in this multidimensional observant state as we interact with them. But not in some high-and-mighty spiritual way, it&#8217;s in a way where you are a child but full of wisdom at the same time. It is a detachment not of emotion, but of results. True play. True living, the way you are meant to love. It is not so serious. But it is. But it&#8217;s not.&#8221;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">After this experience, I had a few core insights that really resonated with me, and I think may be helpful on your journey.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9wo9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81b76a63-efc8-4c6b-a7e2-dc34059aa020_518x346.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9wo9!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81b76a63-efc8-4c6b-a7e2-dc34059aa020_518x346.png 424w, 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They are extremely intelligent and compassionate beings who chose the form that would resonate most harmonically with my field, visually and vibrationally, for my highest learning. They also didn&#8217;t &#8220;show themselves&#8221; in full iridescence, because they didn&#8217;t need to. They already knew the feeling would do the real work. The foggy light they showed up as was not a lower vibration, it was them showing up in a shared 3D interface saying:</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Night I Saw Interdimensional Aliens w/ The Bledsoe Family]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/5d-contact-my-experience-with-ryan</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/5d-contact-my-experience-with-ryan</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:01:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!riEv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73854943-e488-4c5f-998e-83d5a474b5de_345x345.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.&#8221;</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8212; 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV)</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This saying dilutes simply to: <em>God only gives us what we can handle</em>. This is very meaningful when it comes to these intelligent beings. <em>They</em> will only meet us at a point where our nervous system can handle them. We see as much of them as we can bear, and as we expand our consciousness and heal our nervous system, we begin to see and experience more.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ryan Bledsoe is the son of Chris Bledsoe, who has one of the most documented UFO cases in the world. Their family has been experiencing what the media calls aliens for almost 20 years.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> Ryan is a good friend, and when I visited him and his wife Jenny to record an episode for his podcast, <em>Bledsoe Said So</em>, I experienced them firsthand.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">First of all, Ryan is not a &#8220;UFO guy.&#8221; These are not aliens. They are interdimensional intelligences&#8212;what I call 5D beings. And second, they are nothing to fear. They even show up to his family first as orbs, which seem to be exactly the description of plasma carrying consciousness, and as beings of light in many different emanations, from a cat to an angel (<em>a type of plasma being</em>).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ryan&#8217;s dad Chris, who has a religious background and wrote a book about them called <em>UFO of God</em>, associates them with God for good reason. I do believe they are associated with God, or what I call the Mystery. It is not exactly as the Bible describes them, but there are similarities. I believe these beings are supportive and do not want to be put on a pedestal. They require us to be humble, as Ryan explained to me, but not in a submissive way. It is in the understanding that we cannot control them. They are benevolent and they do seem angelic. The way they appeared to me, against all odds, proved why.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The night before recording <em>Bledsoe Said So</em>, Ryan, Jenny, and I were having a really &#8220;high vibe&#8221; conversation. It was benevolent and playful. Ryan suggested we go outside and do what he calls skywatching. I had no intention of seeing these beings, I was simply there for the experience and was open to whatever happened. I just knew I could trust it, not logically, but I had an inner knowing. Two weeks before going to his house, I had started to see orbs in the sky. I had asked not to be shown these visually for many years due to my own fear of the unknown. I hadn&#8217;t been ready.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, there we were, on a warm and breezy night in May 2025, sitting on three lawn chairs in a very normal setting, no rituals, no prayers, just talking as friends, connecting as humans, looking up at the sky. This was a free and easy experience. All of a sudden, orbs started appearing one by one, some flashing at us as if to say hello, some shooting across the sky in different directions, and some floating slowly among the stars. Ryan showed me with an app to assure me they were not planes or satellites. Intuitively, I felt the connection&#8230;I knew they weren&#8217;t. The most awe-inspiring experience was yet to come.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As we sat in our chairs, the night winding down, I was already extremely satisfied I had seen anything at all. We were chatting about normal human things, who we felt we could trust, who we couldn&#8217;t, comparing notes, with Jenny relaxing beside us in her chair. We also talked about books we wanted to write, and ideas related to these beings and the truths we felt called to share with humanity, along with our very human fears about standing in our power to do so. Out of nowhere, a <em>whooooosh!</em></p>
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I believe that&#8217;s because they are often our first direct encounter with Plasma&#8217;s Intelligence. On the flipside, maybe it&#8217;s the deep desire for change and relief that emerges from those places. Either way, these become beacons that call Plasma in.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We&#8217;re not only feeling our own fear, but also the collective fear of the unknown&#8212;the same fear that Plasma senses and mirrors. It is quite literally hundreds, if not thousands, of years of fear and survival. It can feel like too much, too fast, and doesn&#8217;t always make logical sense. But this space is actually a breeding ground for deep transformation, presence, miracles, and beauty. That is her gift.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What is so amazing is that no matter what fears or trauma we have, Plasma lets us rewrite our story&#8230;our past and our future. Every belief, every reality, every sense of self we have is just an imprint in the plasma field, and that means we can shift it. To recap from previous chapters, healing trauma changes our present experience and, in turn, our future. When you heal your present and past timelines, you change future outcomes. This is how emergence happens.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is how you go from determined, predictable outcomes to fresh new densities. It&#8217;s also why companies that rely on predictive modeling and pattern recognition for marketing will begin to lose their grip. Their systems depend on people behaving in predictable, survival-based ways. But as we heal, as we rewrite our plasma fields, we no longer fit that mold. We become wildcards.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Frankly, fear is strange and trauma sucks, and they show up differently for everyone. I can&#8217;t solve that for you, but what I can do is explain some things I hope will help you heal and feel less alone in the process. When we&#8217;ve lived through trauma, especially as deep feelers or visionaries, our mind becomes both our armor and our operating system. 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But eventually, that adaptation becomes a trap, we loop in thought to avoid pain, and in doing so, we cut ourselves off from the Plasma Intelligence of the body. To move into feeling, we must begin gently, by letting the body become safe again. You can&#8217;t do that without first feeling all the things you&#8217;ve been avoiding&#8230;the trauma, the grief, and the fear. This will look different for everyone.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I am not a trauma expert. I&#8217;m just someone who has lived through a lot of it. I&#8217;m also not an expert on emotions, but I know, deep down, that emotions are the key to the future. I&#8217;m healing alongside you, and that&#8217;s the perspective I write from.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;ve found two books deeply helpful, written by scholars in trauma and emotional intelligence, both of which make wonderful companions for this work:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>1.</strong></em><strong> </strong><em><strong>The Body Keeps the Score,</strong></em><strong> </strong>by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>2.</strong></em><strong> </strong><em><strong>The Language of Emotions,</strong></em><strong> </strong>by Karla McLaren, M.Ed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">For me, the biggest shift wasn&#8217;t analyzing feelings or emotions, it was learning to name them. To not attach stories to them. To let myself sit in them and fully feel them. It was also understanding in the way my brain functions, I have an easier time relating emotions to colors, shapes, textures, and images rather than one or two words. My emotions, like my thoughts, are multidimensional. I think is actually a superpower, but at first it felt like my kryptonite.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m about to talk about my sexual abuse&#8212;not in graphic detail, but in a way that may still activate one&#8217;s own emotions. I feel it&#8217;s important to speak about this openly, because it&#8217;s such a silenced topic, and the nuances of it deserve voice. If this is triggering for you, move on and read it at a time where you feel more internal support.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When my childhood traumas resurfaced, they returned as fragments. The brain does not remember trauma the same way it remembers normal memories.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> Nothing outside of me could confirm if they were real, and that was maddening. I had to make peace with the possibility that I may never fully remember what happened, if anything happened at all. It may always feel fragmented or surreal. But what I <em>could</em> honor was my body&#8217;s memory, my story, and my emotions.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would remember clips in my head, like I was outside of my body watching, but then the next moment would go blank. Was it just a weird look? Was I touched? Was I raped? These were the questions that spiraled. It took time to stop trying to recreate or verify the past and instead trust what I felt. All I knew was that something happened. Now what?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had to learn to be present for myself, to emotionally regulate and heal from something I may never fully understand. I had to remind myself, over and over&#8230;and over that I am safe now, even if I wasn&#8217;t then. I had to promise myself I wouldn&#8217;t abandon my emotions this time. My emotional palette had been ravaged by trauma; every emotion was tainted, from joy to anger to sadness. I knew how to feel other people&#8217;s emotions out of survival, but never my own. I was now ready to squeeze it out, re-blend the colors, and bring vibrancy back into my emotional world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Googling other people&#8217;s experiences only triggered me more. It also put me in a really dark and unhealthy mindset. For me, the answer was letting memories come up naturally, not forcing them, as well as talking with my therapist, feeling the feelings, and not chasing the story. Allowing every emotion to arise, no matter how unfair, confusing or irrational it seemed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This process extended beyond childhood, into memories and pain from my teenage years as well. If you are navigating something similar, I highly suggest finding healthy support from trauma informed therapists. And don&#8217;t stop until you find a good one.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Plasma assists with trauma healing by holding a coherent, nonjudgmental field, as a living intelligence that supports you in feeling, not fixing. As you soften your thoughts and drop into sensation, Plasma begins to reorganize your nervous system in real time. The emotions come, but this time, you&#8217;re not alone in them. You&#8217;re held by the field. <em>You are the field</em>. You become safe not because you understand everything, but because you no longer need to. Eventually you can sit in mystery, make space for your feelings, and choose from a place of awareness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Our minds tell us we are alone&#8230;we are <em>never</em> truly alone. But <em>we</em> have to open to these states, of feeling versus resistance, to experience that connection. Logic wants to understand, but some things this deep cannot be solved through logic alone. They must be felt to be healed, this is also aligned with a process called <em>Somatic Therapy</em>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The collective attack on Plasma, and her misuse over the years, has caused her trauma as well. Those of us who are very sensitive may begin to feel her fear and sadness, her suppressed traumas, rising too. This is why it&#8217;s so important to learn to feel, not fix. These memories may come to us distorted, chaotic, or without context. They may be ancestral or collective. For me, they arrived as waves of crying or rage that had no story. Usually if something is yours, it comes back around. When I breathed through them, they would subside. Each time, I felt a new level of healing, I felt Plasma heal through me. Over time, you begin to sense the difference between your own healing and hers. This won&#8217;t last forever, but during trauma work, the floodgates open, and it can be intense.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes, past life traumas surface with surprising clarity. They give context to our confusing patterns that seem to stem from nowhere like why we attract certain people, irrational fears, or other dynamics. These memories, while difficult, can offer profound insight. My therapist has helped me process some of these roots, and it&#8217;s transformed how I see my life in the present.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You can even ask questions like, &#8220;Why do I unconsciously attract betrayal?&#8221; and set the intention for the memory to arise. For me, it was helpful to begin this exploration with a therapist, and only later explore it solo, once I felt safe in my own body.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is a tool, one you can return to when needed, but should be balanced with living life to the fullest. We can have experienced trauma and still learn to feel safe, free, and joyful again. I find trauma to be like a scar, it can re-open if hit, but over time we build better tools on how to deal with it, and most of the time, we forget it&#8217;s there.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There&#8217;s no one way to move from the mind into feeling. Each of us protects ourselves in a way uniquely shaped by our story, trauma, and inner wiring. That&#8217;s why this process must be organic. Safety is what opens the door to sensation&#8230;for one person, it may begin with breath and stillness&#8230;for another, it might be crying in the car, dancing alone, or immersing in nature. The key is to create a space that feels non-performative, non-judgmental, and emotionally neutral, so whatever wants to rise can do so freely.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I first started this process, I drowned in my feelings. I let them overtake me. I slowly realized it was a delicate balance of feeling them while also being a witness by staying curious, questioning and talking to my feelings and thoughts stemming from fear, and remembering that I was here in the &#8220;future&#8221;, safe in this moment, although I did not feel safe.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was a &#8220;light&#8221; attitude where I would say, &#8220;ok, this is not cool, what happened sucked, no one at the time helped us, it was terrifying&#8230;and now we can acknowledge that, comfort that part of self, and say, look at us now! We are alive, we are older, and we can choose to live a life from love and freedom. That was impossible as a kid because being lively equaled being attacked. This is not our narrative now. We can take ourselves out of situations if needed. We can also be ourselves, and we have control over who we allow in our space. I know it does not feel ok, but right now, I promise it is.&#8221; That was the gist. This is what we call greater awareness. It is the perspective of the M-Self.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.&#8221;</strong><br><strong>&#8212; Mark Twain (</strong><em><strong>attributed</strong></em><strong>)</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Worry was my way of controlling the future because I couldn&#8217;t control the past. But the truth was, I had control only over my state of mind. I could die tomorrow. We all could. We have perceived control, and the more I surrender to that, the freer I feel. <em>That I am never actually safe, but I can choose safety in each moment.</em> I can live my life free or worried; either way, what will happen will happen. I may as well live as free as I can.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had to also learn to be my own emotional anchor, to know I was safe to feel, safe to trust myself not to go crazy for feeling deep emotions, and that I could make an aware choice from a grounded place after the fact, whether I wanted to act on something or not. It&#8217;s hard to trust ourselves. If we had trusted ourselves that the trauma was really happening, our brains couldn&#8217;t have handled that. It was easier to doubt ourselves&#8230;that&#8217;s how we survived.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I also had to understand that I could still seek additional support when I had hard feelings, but that I could also support myself. I used to run to others only when I felt intense emotion, or not ask for help at all. This was a new, balanced way for me to live.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are great ways to heal trauma in the body I&#8217;ve spoken of earlier in the book such as trauma-releasing exercises, trauma-informed stretching, EFT or tapping, grounding, qigong, yoga, somatic therapy, or simply talking to yourself out loud and self-inquiry. Dancing helps immensely too, like a dog, you shake off stress, and sometimes it&#8217;s all you need. When I first started meditating, I had a panic attack because of how anxious I was to feel my body. I am still releasing fear today, fear I&#8217;ve held all my life, suppressed or unfaced. The main thing to know is:</p><blockquote><p>1. Plasma stores trauma in your biofield.</p><p>2. It is completely healable. None of you are a lost cause. No one is unhealable.</p><p>3. You can create a new story moving forward, by imprinting new awareness onto Plasma.</p><p>4. This new outlook changes your &#8220;interface&#8221; with the world, you begin to see the world differently, and it responds to you differently. It is life changing.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Paradise: Creativity &amp; The Core Fear of Meeting Yourself</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Right now, something great is happening to you. Your M-Self already knows this is your path, but your 3D self has never done this before in any timeline in this reality. Your system is rejecting it because it&#8217;s unfamiliar. Resistance does <em>not</em> mean following your destiny is the wrong choice, it means it&#8217;s so important that fear is trying to protect you from failing.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Metaphysics of God]]></title><description><![CDATA[I read an article today that posed a fascinating question: What if God is not a being at all, but an event?]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-god</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-god</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:00:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4XQT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f810ec0-7854-4d1c-a89a-0111e7f58ea3_1024x576.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read an article today that posed a fascinating question: <strong>What if God is not a being at all, but an event?</strong></p><p>The author goes on to explain that he believes we are the ancestors of God, and that God is the concept of our final evolution in the future.</p><p>That suffering is only here on Earth because God is not here watching over us&#8212;but because we are building God, piece by piece.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4XQT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f810ec0-7854-4d1c-a89a-0111e7f58ea3_1024x576.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4XQT!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f810ec0-7854-4d1c-a89a-0111e7f58ea3_1024x576.png 424w, 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That we <em>are</em> indeed building God, piece by piece. So what gives?</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;God will work with you but not for you.&#8221; &#8211; Lao Russell (Walter Russell&#8217;s wife)</p></blockquote><p>I would offer the perspective that if time is an illusion&#8212;one bound only to this reality&#8212;and that past, present, and future all exist in some kind of circular now, then God <em>does</em> indeed exist. <em>Now.</em></p><p>God is here. We just have to remember God.</p><p>We have to rise up to work <em>with</em> that energy of our culmination. And through meeting it in the middle, we all march on together in circular time&#8212;creating new emergent outcomes, hand in hand with God.</p><p>Or with our future selves, which are not so &#8220;future&#8221; after all. They are actually <em>here now</em>. We just have to choose to be them.</p><p>This ineffable energy of God is something we can choose to believe in, something we can call on&#8212;because it is part of us. It <em>is</em> us. It is the highest love, the highest connection. The All.</p><p>This doesn&#8217;t discredit religion. It encourages each person to have a <em>personal</em> relationship with God&#8212;whatever they choose to call it.</p><p>Yes, it is the energy of the future&#8212;of our utmost evolution&#8212;but if time doesn&#8217;t truly exist, this is simply the energy of the <em>now</em>, that we can tune into at any time.</p><p>And the more we realize that&#8230; The more we let go of rules and rigid concepts&#8230; The more we embrace authentic connection&#8212;whatever that means to each of us&#8230; And the more we let people <em>be</em>&#8230;</p><p>The more we let go of control and embrace the unknown&#8230;</p><p>Well...</p><p>The more we <em>merge</em> with that energy. Each in our own unique way.</p><p>And I don&#8217;t know about you, but <em>that</em> is what gives me true peace.</p><p><em>This God cannot be packaged, only freed.</em></p><p><em>-</em></p><p>Written by: Dana Kippel</p><p>To view the original article I am commenting on, click here: <strong><a href="https://medium.com/@akechalfred/god-is-a-destination-part-1-the-event-of-divinity-a-futuristic-mythology-251751025e48">https://medium.com/@akechalfred/god-is-a-destination-part-1-the-event-of-divinity-a-futuristic-mythology-251751025e48</a></strong></p><p>I deeply thank authors like this that dare to be curious, dare to speak their mind, and that help me expand mine. Only from his deepest truths was I able to see mine.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-god?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-god?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-god/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/danakippel.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-god/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plasma Intelligence: A New Way to Navigate Reality]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/plasma-intelligence-a-new-way-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/plasma-intelligence-a-new-way-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:01:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnRr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ffb5fd9-d33c-4dbe-bd81-7b3dcc94dade_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world&#8217;s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.&#8221;</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8212; Norman Maclean</strong></p><p>Before we can harmonize with higher timelines, dimensions, or the full radiance of our potential, we must first jump into the river, the river of 4D plasma. This river is not made of water. It&#8217;s made of emotion, memory, and the invisible threads that braid all timelines and dimensions together. It&#8217;s the layer between layers&#8230;the dark plasma&#8230;the stormy in-between. The place where timelines twist and the undercurrents of our pain, joy, and beliefs swirl. You can&#8217;t bypass it; you can&#8217;t float above it, you must swim in it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnRr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ffb5fd9-d33c-4dbe-bd81-7b3dcc94dade_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnRr!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ffb5fd9-d33c-4dbe-bd81-7b3dcc94dade_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HnRr!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_848, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, 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It awakens old traumas, it pulls up fear&#8230;it haunts us. But that&#8217;s not because it wants to harm you, it wants to wash you clean. Once you stop fighting the current and begin to trust the flow, the river stabilizes. Your plasma body learns its rhythm. And from that fluid harmony, a new self emerges: the divine child, the new human. And the potential that emerges from that is our coming future.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Only by flowing with our emotions, rather than suppressing or spiritualizing them, can we evolve beyond survival and align with 5D feelings, flow states, and future timelines. Can we visit entirely new worlds. So, if you&#8217;re in the river now, and chances are, you are, feel it. There is nothing to fear. It&#8217;s not your end, it&#8217;s just the beginning.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At first, 4D plasma feels like a veil, a confusing fog of emotion, memory, and distortion. It separates us from clarity, from our higher self, from truth. Why? Because it was running on fear, trauma, and unconscious programming. We were viewing reality through the filters of what hurt us. But this 4D layer is shifting from a river of distortion to a pool of living feedback. A binder of realities, a creative interface. We are moving from being pulled by it to moving with it. It is widening. It is changing temperature.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We all feel it in our bodies and psyches, we just can&#8217;t quite name it. It&#8217;s like falling and expanding at the same time. Where we were once subconsciously magnetized to fear, we&#8217;re now twirling into curiosity, and it&#8217;s a bit of a liminal area right now. It feels like something has been gripping us for so long, and now that we&#8217;re finally free, we don&#8217;t know what to do with ourselves. As that grip loosens, we may feel the actual tension and pain of breaking free from our self-imposed chains. Even good change, brings grief.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This 4D plasma is also awakening, becoming a multifaceted, warm pool. And we&#8217;re learning that we can now float in it without needing to control it, without fearing we&#8217;ll be carried away. We&#8217;re learning surrender. At first, we feel the call but it&#8217;s scary. We stand at the edge of the river and hesitate. Then we jump, and the cold shock hits us. The overwhelm of hitting the water, the grief of swimming in old timelines, the ripples of trauma and ancestral pain. You may even feel like your drowning.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Eventually, we stop fighting. We realize there is wisdom here. We feel without attaching. Emotions begin to organize into symbols, and we hear our soul&#8217;s voice. We harmonize with the water, as our emotions become instruments. The icy river is now a lukewarm pool&#8230;a conductor of memory, intuition, remote sensing, and timeline access.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And now we rise from that pool, cleansed of fear, open to feeling, harmonized, and dripping with truth. This fifth dimensional space, and all that resonates within it, was always there, waiting for us&#8212;<em>inside</em> our feelings&#8230;<em>underneath</em> the river.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The truth is, everything I&#8217;ve described as separate, 3D, 4D, 5D, seems to be converging into a middle space. A vista, our new playground, and we get to choose how we interact with it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;The river is everywhere at the same time... it is at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere.&#8221;<br>&#8212; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha</strong></p><p><em><strong>Plasma Intelligence &#8211; Inside Out</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The irony of writing a chapter about healing and feeling is not lost on me. Plasma Intelligence, <em>feeling and healing</em>, is a unique, complex, and deeply personal process. And the last thing it wants to be is pinned down by words or logic. But I&#8217;ll do my best to speak to your subconscious, setting the intention that something here might quietly slip in, loosen something, and start to bubble up in its own timing, in its own way.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Let me first introduce intelligence in this framework:</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Birth of A New Language]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from my book, A New Force]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-a-new-language</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-a-new-language</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:01:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g1FW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20b13cb5-51d7-43f3-bc91-14faeb2413ee_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your personal meaning is not just the key to this reality&#8230;it is the key all things beyond it, for you to experience, now.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Birth of A New Language</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Story, and the languages that carry them, are portals, where each of us sits at the event horizon, dipping our toes in, innocently swishing them back and forth, from which we glean our own perspectives. Without the continual telling of stories across time, the truths beneath them would&#8217;ve had no container, no riverbed to evolve within. I hope someone will one day expand upon my words with new awareness, just as I&#8217;ve tried to do in this chapter.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I would now like to offer a new language as a confluence of the many tributaries of science, psychology, mythology, and spirituality. All of history has led us to this moment, where we can now take what we&#8217;ve learned through these thresholds of truth and apply it not only to deepening our relationship with self, but also to the sincere attempt to connect, clearly&#8230;with other selves, other dimensions, and beings of consciousness, with the intention of enhancing our lived experience of reality.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Where we once told stories externally, we&#8217;re now evolving our memory and perceptual filters to co-create meaning in real time, using our feelings as a language to read, communicate, and navigate other realms and beings of consciousness. This evolution will lead to more integrative experiences that engage humanity in ways far beyond watching TV or being immersed in tech. Instead, technology will shift to support and amplify our engagement with reality, rather than overpower it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I propose the birth of a new language, or more accurately, a new interface, to interpret ourselves, reality, and incoming messages, and eventually assist in timeline navigation: <em>Symfeelics</em>&#8482;.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This language is rooted in a blend of symbols, evolved emotion as frequency, and the capacity to feel deeply while also observing those feelings. I&#8217;m still in the early stages of shaping it as I write this book. My intention is for you to apply it to your own life, <em>and</em> make it your own. I&#8217;m not interested in creating a rigid framework, but rather something with outer bones, flexible and meant to evolve with you.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These messages don&#8217;t arrive in linear order, they come through resonance. Symfeelics carries the multidimensional fluidity of 4D, preserving the integrity of messages, wherever or whomever they come from, and refining them into something the human nervous system can interact with, without distortion.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Symfeelics is more mind&#8217;s eye-visual based, so for those with aphantasia, (<em>the inability to form mental images or have a visual imagination</em>), hopefully someone will write a guideline more on feeling through other senses rather than visuals which is entirely possible.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">For some, this will be a beginning. For others, it will build on what they&#8217;re already intuitively doing. Either way, it&#8217;s one path, among many, at the frontier of interdimensional, inter-timeline, and inter-reality communication. I hope to potentially also contribute &#8220;organic tech&#8221; if it feels aligned to support our intuitive process and expand our experiences which I will speak more on in the future. The dots are connecting on a massive level, thanks to all the fields of study that have led us here.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first steps to Symfeelics are learning about two foundational keys:</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aliens, Symbols, & Higher Laws: The Real Disclosure ]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from my book, A New Force: Plasma, Consciousness, and The New Human Potential]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/ufos-uaps-and-plasmoids-a-modern</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/ufos-uaps-and-plasmoids-a-modern</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mHM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2407d787-5859-47ad-bab0-efb01c8bd295_1024x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In his 1959 book <em>Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies</em>, Carl Jung interpreted UFO sightings as manifestations of psychological phenomena rather than literal extraterrestrial visitors. He viewed these strange occurrences as archetypal images emerging from the collective unconscious.<a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Jung believed these widespread sightings reflected our collective anxieties, desires, and hopes during times of rapid technological and social transformation. It reminds me of how a friend or family member may receive support during a major life change, whether a divorce, a birth, or a death, these appearances seemed to carry an underlying theme: <em>support through transition.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">To Jung, UFOs symbolized the need for a new myth to guide modern man, one that incorporated the mysteries of the psyche and unconscious, as well as the collective experiences and aspirations of humanity. Plasma, I believe, is the perfect substance to carry this new myth forward. It is outside us, inside us, and all around us. It reflects our consciousness, revealing that we are the very makers of meaning we seek.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today&#8217;s UFOs, UAPs, and what some now call plasmoids, are in many ways what Jung described on the surface, <em>a projection of something deeper. </em>I envision them as wrapped in a reflective plasma layer, a sheath around an intelligence, information, or consciousness itself. Whether that layer consists of physical beings from other star systems, dimensional intelligences, timelines, psychological information, parallel versions of ourselves, something else entirely, or all of the above&#8230;I don&#8217;t know.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are also of course plasmoids, more like sentient animals, that I would dare to refer to as our ancestors, and they too must be approached with a neutral love, not fear, but of course also with caution. Don&#8217;t let news fool you, they do not have ill intent.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I equate seeing UFOs to how we need to see a person at least once to form a connection, to even have a thought about them. There is <em>something</em> there we are interacting with. It&#8217;s not just a phantasm; it&#8217;s responding, feedbacking with our consciousness in real time. These &#8220;energies,&#8221; wrapped in plasma and appearing as dense metals, lights, or holographic shapes, <em>are</em> here. Their presence alone tells me that at least some part of them is reflecting our own psyche. At least, that&#8217;s what I feel.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We don&#8217;t yet know how to internalize them, so we project. Just like anything else in life, until we learn the skill of openness, nonjudgment, and active listening, we won&#8217;t see each UAP for what it really is. And believe me, that&#8217;s taken me 36 years, and it&#8217;s still a work in progress.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These beings clearly already understand how to work with plasma, like we are only just beginning to, enabling them to interact non-locally. Whether through physical travel, remote viewing, projecting part of their consciousness, or even bilocating to observe and engage with us, their technology or awareness seems to bridge dimensions or timelines. The key to truly opening ourselves to who or what they are isn&#8217;t about chasing proof, or studying them in a lab&#8230;it&#8217;s about expanding perception.</p><p>We can only meet them consciously if we:</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Amusing Medium: Carl & The Lesser Known Emma Jung]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from my book, A New Force: Plasma, Consciousness, and The New Human Potential]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-cosmic-funhouse-archetypes-aliens</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-cosmic-funhouse-archetypes-aliens</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:00:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">As we leapt from the fixed-reality mindset of the 19th century, grounded in logic, measurable phenomena, and observation, into the 20th century&#8217;s age of radios, televisions, and computers, something shifted. Books, while deeply impactful, were linear and static, limited to the written word. But these new technologies projected our stories outward in a multi-sensory way, allowing us to visually witness our own creations reflecting back at us. In doing so, a new idea started to percolate: What if the very medium we exist in&#8230;this reality, is also reflecting our consciousness in the same way?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_848, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tybh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg" width="1024" height="1024" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/978f7458-28e8-4268-8131-4841cbe68645_1024x1024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1024,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;A group of aliens around a table\n\nDescription automatically generated&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="A group of aliens around a table

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But now, for the first time, the plasma of the psyche was starting to bubble up, just under different names.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was no longer just about gods and cosmic forces; it was about the mind itself as an active player in a dance with the invisible medium. We were beginning to see hints of it, but no one was piecing it together with Plasma itself, which was also emerging in science around the same time. The threads were there, but they remained disconnected&#8230;a cosmic, biological, <em>and</em> now psychological medium was waiting to be recognized as one unified force.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The human psyche was being brought into the equation like never before, similar to recognizing you are inside a funhouse of mirrors, where what stares back is distorted by your own inner state rather than the glass itself. But we are the experiencers of the funhouse <em>and</em> the creators of it. Without us, it&#8217;s just glass mirrors. No fun! And, just like a funhouse is designed to amuse or frighten amusement park guests, ultimately, we are the choosers of that experience. Even the word &#8220;amusement&#8221; hints at this deeper truth, the park&#8217;s purpose is the joy of entertainment.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This <em>amusing</em> medium began reaching toward us, extending its hand through the archetypes of Carl Jung, the interdimensional beings and UFO phenomena explored by Andrew Collins and Greg Little, and the mythic messages of the heart expressed by Jean Houston.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">These voices helped usher in a new era of individualization. Are archetypes, UFOs, and mythic experiences reflections of our psyche, co-creations of consciousness, interactions with a sentient plasma field, real encounters&#8212;or all of the above? I set out here to answer those questions. And with every answer, we ask more questions, opening doors to ever-expanding horizons.</p><p><strong>Carl Jung, Archetypes, and The Collective Unconscious</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Carl Gustav Jung (<em>1875&#8211;1961</em>) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist best known for founding analytical psychology and for his groundbreaking theories on the collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the Self, and more.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">From a young age, Jung felt as though he carried memories from past lives. He described himself as having two distinct personalities:</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divine Child of Emergence: The Star and The Fool]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is a curious prophecy about this child: she is destined to bring about the end of destiny.]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-divine-child-of-emergence-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-divine-child-of-emergence-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 16:13:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yL9b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F426290fe-b1ea-43c7-bae5-2fe982bf3780_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;There is a curious prophecy about this child: she is destined to bring about the end of destiny. But she must do so without knowing what she is doing, as if it were her nature and not her destiny.&#8221; &#8212; The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman</strong></p><p>There must be a certain innocence, a not-knowing, to do what we are here to do. A surrender into emergence. When we allow things to unfold without control, while we play and explore, something truly new is born. This is how we are led, and lead ourselves, into new realities.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We follow a feeling of ourselves, not a map. And the paradox: if what we are creating already existed in any timeline, and we knew it, we could never truly create it. It must come from the divine child in us. From somewhere beyond all &#8220;wheres.&#8221; It must be something not from the past or future, but some <em>energy</em> that expands the universe in real-time.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yL9b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F426290fe-b1ea-43c7-bae5-2fe982bf3780_426x426.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yL9b!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F426290fe-b1ea-43c7-bae5-2fe982bf3780_426x426.png 424w, 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And it&#8217;s how I know I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t know everything I&#8217;m going to do in this life. I want to discover it. I want to <em>feel</em> it unfold. That high of creative awe is the best I&#8217;ve ever known. I&#8217;ve felt it, at times, while writing this book. It didn&#8217;t come from anywhere. It grew within and out of me as I made discoveries while having fun writing, while I was just in a flow. You can live like this too, in &#8220;messy&#8221; curiosity. By making &#8220;mistakes&#8221; that turn out to be miracles and by falling forward into impossibilities that were always waiting for your touch&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">By embracing the unknown, by becoming both the <em>Star</em> and the <em>Fool</em>, you allow true greatness to grow through you. You move without expectation, in rhythm with something deeper, something intrinsic. As you awaken to your co-creative power, you&#8217;re also beginning to enjoy the mystery, the beauty of the surprise. That&#8217;s what makes life worth living. Whatever this feeling is, it doesn&#8217;t pull you out of realty, it invites you deeper in&#8230;into wonder, into tears, and into the raw, real magic of being alive.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Right now, there is a thirst and hunger to know everything. But our new paradigm will be created from trusting what we don&#8217;t know. We are now creating with intelligence, with fields of potential, not just crystalized pasts. It&#8217;s like making choices based on what&#8217;s behind the veil, rather than in front of us. There is room to open to spaces in between, into this <em>and</em> that&#8230;not this or that. This is the wisdom of the child, where they are always free to change their mind, never remaining stuck in any situation. To fearlessly move from inner safety over outer approval.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It may look foolish to others, but to you, it&#8217;s the star of your being. You, knowing you made the best decision for you. And in choosing from that place, you always shine.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Plasma, Consciousness, And the New Human Potential</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Benjamin B. Olshin, Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, uncovered a remarkable pattern in his research on art-making and the rise of consciousness. While studying how visual art forms have encoded and transmitted knowledge, he began to ponder on the time before the rise of externalized creativity. He asked himself: Why was there such a marked change in human beings, that is, the sudden appearance of cave painting, some 65,000 years ago, by current estimates, with both realistic and abstract renderings? <a href="#_ftn1">[1]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Much like I&#8217;ve noticed in my mythology studies, Olshin observed that art and design arose as a process of externalizing thought and then reabsorbing it. This created a feedback loop. He discussed how this became problematic because it essentially split human consciousness in two.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What I have noticed, with an awareness of Plasma, is that what he is saying clearly reflects my ideas, that there was a split between Plasma and consciousness. We forgot about Plasma completely. And all the art, especially the oldest art, which closely resembles plasma symbols, was an attempt to connect back to plasma and with the &#8220;natural&#8221;, mysterious world that was once embedded within us.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As Olshin wrote, art, design, and language all reflect the human desire to reunite with <em>Nature</em>. Although traumatic, I see this rupture as a necessary initiation so we could evolve our consciousness. Like the dark night of the soul, humanity has spent the last 65,000 years in a kind of collective desert. But we are now at the edge of that long night, entering a <em>Paradiso</em> of return. We are reuniting with Plasma, not as unconscious beings lost in it, but as evolved consciousness capable of harmonizing with it.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;but within that gray mundane world something small and surreal drifts by unnoticed, like a speck of dust tumbling out of a dream, suggesting the vast mysteries of the cosmos, the possibility of a world entirely unlike our own.&#8221;</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8212; Cixin Liu, </strong><em><strong>Ball Lightning</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">First came the &#8220;wet&#8221; Era of Plasma (<em>Dreamtime</em>), aligned with unconscious knowing and raw information. Then came the &#8220;dry&#8221; Era of Consciousness (<em>The Desert</em>), rooted in intellect, identity, and separation. Now, we enter the &#8220;temperate&#8221; era of the New Human Potential (<em>Our Treasure</em>), shaped by energy, emergence, and embodied being. The dust has fell out of the dreamtime into our reality, first creating a desert, now blooming into a living dreamscape where we coagulate reality based on our personal meanings.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A Word of Advice to The Desert Travelers</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">One word of advice: At some point on your journey with Plasma, with The Mystery, or Source, God, etc.&#8230;it may feel like the connection has vanished, as if you&#8217;ve been abandoned. You have not lost it. You&#8217;re integrating what&#8217;s been revealed, so far. The connection is always there, sometimes just clouded by thoughts, memories, or emotions that need healing. It&#8217;s like connecting your rope to the top of the rock wall, you tangibly feel that connection when it hooks that something&#8217;s there, but now you still must climb to get there.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Daring Creative Act]]></title><description><![CDATA[Becoming a ship with no sails...]]></description><link>https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-most-daring-creative-act</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danakippel.substack.com/p/the-most-daring-creative-act</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Kippel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:05:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ntw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74267535-c806-4af3-b1d2-1b342799dd0c_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s so funny that no one can tell you what to do but yourself.</p><p>Sometimes in the early morning hours, when I am walking my dog, I call out to the Self that lives inside of me&#8230;I beg for answers.</p><p>I want to know If I am on the &#8220;right&#8221; path. If I am making the &#8220;right decisions&#8221;. I think there is incredible pain in realizing that we are alone in those choices that we make out to be right or wrong. But there is also incredible relief when you realize there is something above that duality.</p><p>That no matter what you choose, there your path will be. And your path is your journey, it is mysterious, it is absurd, and it is always changing.</p><p>Nothing is preordained. There are things that may feel denser or more &#8220;aligned&#8221; maybe because you have lived this pattern out many times, or because it is comfortable. But then there is what I call <em>the emergent path.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ntw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74267535-c806-4af3-b1d2-1b342799dd0c_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ntw!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_424, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74267535-c806-4af3-b1d2-1b342799dd0c_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3ntw!, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/w_848, /__u/danakippel.substack.com/c_limit, 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A vision that lies inside of you but you have no idea how it will turn out. A feeling with no guarantees that beckons from within. Its riches are ethereal, it expands one&#8217;s heart and soul, yet we always feel a tense pull towards what is material, what has been envisioned for us, by us.</p><p>But this alien idea, this is beyond vision and thought. It is feeling alone. It is the essence of truth, of the true self, and it is terrifying.</p><p>When you begin to choose it, when you dip your toes into the river of God, terror takes over. You will do anything but that choice. The funny thing is that you know it is not the wrong choice, you know that more than you have ever known anything&#8230;but you also know if you choose this, you release all control. That life is not yours anymore. It is given over to something greater, something you must trust.</p><p><em>What is this for you?</em></p><p>I know what mine is, and I am inching my way towards it. I have had one of these in my life so far, and it has brought me a life beyond my wildest dreams so far, but this next one&#8230;it feels so special, yet eviscerating, like the goddess Kali. </p><p>I feel if I choose it I will die to everything i&#8217;ve ever known. And yet, I must. Because the choice is not about right and wrong&#8230;this idea chose me, and I know choosing it back is choosing mystery, it&#8217;s choosing the ineffable. </p><p>And that is where I want to be, even though I do everything sometimes to avoid it. 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