A Field Guide to the Unseen: Exploring energy, spirit, and the science of sensitivity with Tonya
EP 46

A Field Guide to the Unseen: Exploring energy, spirit, and the science of sensitivity with Tonya

Show Notes: 

Tonya recounts a night in Japan that transformed from a peaceful evening into an unforgettable—and initiatory experience. In this solo episode, she shares a “haunting” and transformative experience at the base of Mount Fuji that took her from fear to remembrance. What seems like a ghost story unravelled into a deep energetic initiation - one that reminded her of the power of sensitivity, the intelligence of the land, and the reality of unseen forces. Through her personal story, Tonya reflects on how sensitivity can be a gift rather than a flaw and why fear is often the very thing that fuels darkness.

Weaving together spirituality, science, consciousness studies, and animist worldviews, Tonya explores what it means to be a highly sensitive person in a world that doesn't always understand subtle perception. She offers frameworks to make sense of psychic experiences, shares lessons on how to protect your energy, and reminds us that we are never truly alone in the mystery. This episode is an invitation to trust your knowing, honor the wisdom of the land, and reconnect with the light that lives within us all.

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Topics Covered:

  • Tonya’s spiritual and energetic encounter in a haunted Japanese forest
  • Learning to trust your sensitivity as a superpower, not a flaw
  • How fear feeds darkness—and how light can reclaim our power
  • What is consciousness, really? Exploring quantum mind theory & morphic fields
  • Neurodivergence and heightened perception: why “too much” might actually be a gift
  • The reality of psychic phenomena (or “psi”) - from clairvoyance to mediumship
  • Animist worldviews and the sacred intelligence of land
  • Protecting your energy as a sensitive person while traveling
  • Honoring ritual, intention, and prayer as energetic technologies
  • An invitation to cultivate your own unseen senses

 

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Show Transcript:

 

Hello, dear humans. Welcome back. Today's episode is a bit of a doozy. I'm going to share another personal story, and this is an experience I had earlier this year in Japan that has stayed with me ever since, and I have sat with it. I've meditated on it, I've researched it, I've spoken to my teachers about it. I've tried to make sense of it from multiple angles. Spiritual, energetic, historical, even scientific. And still there's a part of it that just lives beyond explanation in the mythic, in the metaphorical, in the non-logical felt experience of being a human. And so I am sharing this with you because I want this podcast to be a place where we speak the unspeakable, and I love leaning into the mystery, and I try to find meaning and experiences that don't fit inside neat and tidy boxes. And also because for most of my life I've been told that I am too sensitive, too emotional, too much, all phrases I've heard. At varying points in my life. And I used to believe that being sensitive was a weakness and that these things that I sensed and I felt so deeply couldn't possibly be real, that something was wrong with me. And so of course, moving through the world as a sensitively wired person brings its nuance. But over time and through doing work and deepening spiritual connection. I've come to see all of these sensitivities as gifts and not as flaws, but as superpowers. And I think that, and I feel that way because when we're sensitive, we have this ability to touch the unseen and to perceive what others don't, and to feel life happening in dimensions beyond the physical. So being sensitive is kind of like being a bridge between worlds and. It's also something that I believe everyone can cultivate more of. I love liminal spaces. I love exploring and going to the edges, and the more I've leaned into this sensitivity, just sitting in meditation or cultivating intuition, I. Just listening, witnessing the more Life has showed me that it is a gift to have a fine tuned perception, and I also know that I'm not alone. And that is also a really key message for anybody listening. I know many people can relate. I think there's also a big collective shift in consciousness and that many people have these sensitivities and everybody can develop them, and so this. Podcast is also for people who are sensitively wired or highly sensitive. People who have felt that their sensitivity is a weakness, and I just wanna share a different perspective to anyone who feels that way. And so this story is not just a strange out there paranormal ghost story, but it is really an invitation and I share some lessons with you that I took from the experience as well. So this is an invitation to really trust what you feel to honor. The inner knowing inside of you and to continue to develop your sensitivity. I also wanna clarify that there were no psychedelics involved in this experience. I'm gonna share with you, I've actually in fact, been kind of turning away from them lately and just, you know, I always approach it with reverence, but the sensitivity I've been cultivating has just become strong and there's less of a need for them in accessing altered states. So just putting that out there as well. There was no psychedelics involved. And so before we go to Japan, I wanna offer this framework to set the story. So throughout human history, the descent into darkness and the journey to the underworld has not been viewed as a misfortune. It's been viewed as an initiation and many. Many mythic stories that we may be familiar with. Persephone's abduction. These are stories that all echo the same truth, that transformation is born in darkness and that remembering is often catalyzed by forgetting. And so what you are about to hear is a story for sure. Yes, but it's also. A mythic moment, and that was lived out in modern, linear time and in the animist and indigenous worldviews that are still alive in so many parts of the world. The land is not passive and the forest is not empty. They're alive, they're spirit filled, and when we enter without introduction, without reverence, the spirits sometimes speak. And so with that. Let's go to Japan. It was early February of this year. I was on a trip with close friends. The best kind of trip really. It was just, it was so much fun. It was filled with so much delicious food and snowy landscapes and ENSs and so much laughter. And midway through the trip we arrived in Fuji, Mount Fuji, and this was two days after the New Moon as well. And we were staying at a small. Quiet house at the edge of a forest at the base of Mount Fuji. It was like almost felt like a, not an abandoned town, it was just, it wasn't in the wintertime, Mount Fuji is just not as many people are there because it's the winter and a lot of the activities on Mount Fuji are closed due to the ice. I hadn't done any research on the mountain, but I knew from the moment we booked it that for some reason this was the part of the journey that I was the most excited about. It felt special and charged and. Somebody had asked what we were most looking forward to, and my response was Fuji. And I was like, why am I saying that? Like I really couldn't explain it. It was, it was just this feeling. And so on the first night after dinner, I decided to take some alone time. Everyone was, um, hanging out and I felt this inward call. So the house had this traditional Japanese bathroom set up with a bathtub in a separate, enclosed wet room. It looked. Just like a cozy place to drop in. I filled the bath up, I put a candle on, I stepped in, and really that's when everything changed. The moment my body touched the water, I was hit with this overwhelming wave of panic. And it wasn't just discomfort, it was not just anxiety. It was. This visceral panic. It was like primal. My nervous system was just telling me like, I am not safe in this moment. And I felt my heart kind of like float to my throat. My breath was caught, my chest tightened. It really felt like I was about to have a panic attack, and suddenly these images started flooding my mind. There were visions of like drowning and struggling to breathe, not being able to. Breathe essentially was just, just coming up. And so I kind of was like, alright. I had a moment with myself. I was like, take a deep breath. You are okay. You are not gonna have a panic attack. Deep breaths. And I kind of looked over to the window that was beside the bathtub and I felt I. This darkness kind of coming from the forest. And I kind of had this moment of shuddering and I was like, alright, you gotta get out of here. Leave the bathtub. And so I did that. I also wanna say, I take baths all the time. They're one of my favorite things to do, to chill and relax. And I've never once had a thought like this. This is not my usual inner dialogue. So this was a very unusual kind of, these were unusual feelings for me to be feeling. I. Got out of the water very quickly and dried off. And I went into my bedroom and I just sat in a meditation to clear the space. I was like, okay, maybe there's some entities, wayward spirits. I'm just gonna sit in meditation and clear myself and clear the space. And I did that with two of my friends that were sharing the room with. And after the meditation, I felt good. I felt grounded. And shortly after I went to bed. At some point in the middle of the night, and I wasn't sure what time it was because I didn't check my phone, but I checked my aura ring the day after, and it was around 2:00 AM when I woke up and I was in this state of confusion and disorientation where I thought people were awake in the house because there was commotion, like maybe somebody was in the kitchen or getting water. And eventually I realized. Know that, you know, we had two friends sleeping beside us in the bed next to us. They were there. I could see the bedroom door to the other room and the hallway was closed, and I had this sinking feeling. And then I started to feel this sentient presence all around me, and I was. They're in bed and hyper attuned to every sound and movement in the house. And I could feel every person's energy and I could mentally feel myself self starting to move into everybody's room to check on them, making sure everybody was okay. And I felt this. Kind of strange responsibility to be aware and to protect them. And that's when the fiasco really started. I basically spent the next two hours in a state of, maybe it was an hour, hour and a half in a state of terror, and I heard the. Bathroom door, the one that had the bath in it that I had just been in earlier that night. The handle started shaking. The door started rattling. We were in the, there was only one wall separating us in that bathroom wall, so we were kind of the bed that was closest to it. The front door of the house opened and closed, and then there was silence and there was more knocking and commotion, and really just this intense presence, this darkness that was behind me. Not visible, but really. Unmistakable black and dense and heavy. And no matter how I moved or shifted in bed, I could feel it behind me and I would hear just these really wild sounds in the house. And I wanna say that I was genuinely terrified. I could barely move. I had adrenaline coursing into my fingertips. I was genuinely heart racing, terrified. And. I got to a point where I was just so tired that I think I like almost would pass out from fear or something, and I was just, I would try to drift off into asleep in the moments of just stillness and then some loud, obnoxious noise or door opening would jolt me back awake, like a bang or a knock. And I eventually could start to tune into the direction that the energy was coming from. And it was coming from the forest beside the house, and I felt this. Pull of energy from that forest. And I started in my mind just calling it the black forest and I don't know how to describe it other than to say that it was the darkest force of energy I've ever come into contact with. And for a while I was really paralyzed by that fear and I actually had to go pee so badly and I'd really come to terms with the fact that I was probably going to pee the bed that night. And Simon is going to have a stark awakening. And so for the first hour or so, I was, you know, genuinely in this, also in this state of disbelief where I was like, am I making this all up? Am I okay? Am I crazy? Is my energy weak? Why is this happening? But slowly, after about an hour or so, I started to realize that I. The more fear I felt, the more I was feeding the energy, I was feeding the darkness. And the more fear I felt in my body, the more the darkness grew and the stronger it got and the more energy I gave it. And that's really when it all clicked. And I realized I was in an energetic realm and in a psychic realm, and I was experiencing it through my body. And that's when I remembered my sensitivity, and that's when I remembered and started to reason with myself that you're not crazy, you are sensitive, you're in Mount Fuji. This is a place with deep, historical, energetic significance. There were likely battles on this land. This could be a burial site or a portal of vortex, a negative lay line. It started to click and I really just started to remember my training, my tools, all of the knowledge I have about how to work through this. And I had this aha moment of remembering like, oh, you know what to do. And so I visualized a sacred geometric field of light surrounding my body. I called in light. I surrounded myself in light. I called on the higher guides. The higher ancestors, protectors, angels, great masters to come in and help me, and I really, I just kept repeating their names over and over out loud in this whisper and just visualizing the room being flooded with light and visualizing everything, entering this light field. And I can't describe the sensation of peace that I felt. It was all encompassing. It was really wild to me that the fear was. So blinding before that, I forgot who I was and that I was, that I am this light being that knows how to do this. And almost instantly the energy shifted and peace returned to my knee and to the room and the darkness that I felt began to dissipate. And there were still some sounds happening in the house, but I had the way that I had been feeding it with my fear. The moment I kind of stood in my light, it lost its grip. And for me that was the teaching that fear gives our power away and that connecting with light and peace and love reclaims it and that we can, and we should ask for help when we need it, when we're in these states and. It was remarkable. I almost felt a bit embarrassed to be like, how did you forget this? But fear is so real, and to be really truly in that place of like very conscious, coursing adrenaline level, fear is rare. Those moments are truly not that often that we get into those kinds of states and there's a physiological reaction, like the brain changes when we are in a state of fear. When we are in a state of stress, we forget things. We get shifted into another mode. I. And so the next morning I woke up and was so incredibly grateful that it was first and foremost daytime. And Simon casually turned to me and was like, how did you sleep? And I kind of laughed and I was like, honestly, I had the wildest night of my life. I was in ceremony and I told him the story, not expecting to tell any of my other friends we're so close. It was just, I honestly didn't wanna bring down the vibe for the group, and I still wasn't a hundred percent sure of my experience. I, I genuinely wasn't. So either way, that morning at breakfast, Simon mentioned to everybody that I'd had this wild night, and my friends were obviously very curious and open and so supportive, and we talked about it that afternoon. We had been planning to visit this forest for a hike to see the lava caves. And our dear, dear friend Harry started to do some research about the forest we were going to visit and. We were all eventually blown away by what he found and what he shared with us. The forest that we were heading to was the same forest that the house was at the base of, and it's called, actually not going to likely pronounce this right. The forest is called. Ra and it is a very well known suicide forest that sits at the base of Mount Fuji, which is exactly where we were staying. And this forest is infamous for being the site of tragic deaths and also for being home to the Yuri in Japanese folklore. And the Yuri is analogous to ghost in Western culture. The Yuri are these spirits of those who've died. Violently or tragically, or they have unfinished business. They're trapped, stuck between worlds. They're lost. They're searching. They're known to be very dark and vengeful, and they are known for their huntings. And in fact, some stories I found even actually called this forest. The black forest, which is what I was calling it the night before. And. The Yuri exists on Earth, essentially, or in the 40 or wherever until they can be laid to rest, either by performing missing rituals that are, that were missing in their death, or by resolving the emotional conflict that still ties them to the physical plane. And according to mythology, they most often appear for hauntings at. 2:00 AM. 2:00 AM is the hour when the veil is the thinnest, and that is exactly when I woke up. Whew. I still have shivers. I honestly in that moment felt relief that what I experienced was real, because up to that moment I did not know yet, and I felt relief that I wasn't imagining it. I felt, I felt like so much trust in myself. I knew I wasn't crazy. I was just tuning into the field and into the environment. And that afternoon we walked through this beautiful forest with reverence and curiosity and a sense of airiness and sorrow and beauty. And just knowing how much the trees have seen and the secrets they've held was very humbling. And that evening, while we were all playing a game of fishbowl, we all heard a very loud knock at the door and. We answered it, we ran to the balcony quickly to get answer it from the top floor. And when we went, there was nobody there. And our friends joke saying that the URI were coming back looking for me. And we laughed and I obviously felt quite the unease about going to bed that night. But later that night, we sat around a fire and I led a short ritual and I spoke to the Yuri and apologized for what they had endured and invited them to rest. And I offered them passage to the light. I thankfully slept peacefully that night, but in the morning I woke up very, very sick and basically spent the next two days purging from both ends, and I really knew and felt that it was very energetic. I've sat in medicine ceremonies before. I know that some kind of transmutation was moving through me and purging in a spiritual context is. Usually associated with negative energies moving through us, energetic cleansing, emotional release trauma, those kinds of things. And I don't really believe in coincidences. I really believe everything happens for a reason. And so this really deepened the whole experience for me, and I still sit with it just being like, wow. What an experience. It has been something I've been sitting with for a couple months now, and I've learned and taken so much from it, and this taught me a lot about consciousness and sensitivity and the science of the unseen, and it left me with so many questions like what actually happened that night? You know, not just spiritual questions, but scientific questions. What is consciousness? Where does it live? How do the dead communicate with the living? What happens when we tune into energies that don't belong to us? Was I visited by a ghost? Was I overwhelmed by the grief that the land that lives in the land, was it a psychological projection? It was something else entirely. And the truth is I do not know for certain, but what I do know and trust is that it was very real. And I've come to believe that just because something is subjective doesn't make it not true. And I found through my research that there's a growing body of research that explores exactly this. Phenomenons that sit just outside the edges of what we call normal. And these have been reported across cultures for centuries by individuals, by groups, and. I now want to take you through some of the frameworks for understanding these kinds of experiences when they happen to us. And I am gonna take you this through various lenses, through the lens of science, through the lens of mysticism, through various consciousness studies. And I think that these various lenses are beneficial, at the very least, opening our mind and considering them from multiple angles. And so first and foremost, consciousness is not just in our head. There is a dominant western materialist worldview where we have been taught that consciousness lives in the brain and that it's essentially this property of neurons firing. Or a byproduct of biochemical activity. And in this view, the mind is locked inside the skull and reality is made of matter. And that's one perspective, one lens, and I believe a very outdated one. I. There's also another frame of reality that asks and says, what if consciousness is not produced by the brain, but it's rather received by it like a radio tuning into a signal that already exists. And this is a view that is held by many in emerging fields of quantum consciousness, non-local mind theory, that consciousness may. Instead be the fundamental fabric of reality, not just a human experience, which intuitively through my lived experience feels very, very accurate. I've been really intrigued by the work of Rupert Shel Drake, who's this British biologist and researcher who proposes the idea of morphic resonance that memories, behaviors, patterns are not stored in the brain, but they're stored in fields, invisible resonant structures and shapes. That form habits in both nature and in the mind. And so from this perspective, the brain doesn't generate thought. It tunes into it, and consciousness becomes something that we can tap into and something that lives in a vast field, something that connects all of us. And in that same vein, the mind is also in this vast field. And this view aligns with ancient spiritual traditions, indigenous knowledge systems, and. The findings of new age science, everything from near death experiences to entangled particles to measurable effects of intention and prayer. And all of this is to say that consciousness is not bound by the body and that we are very interconnected. And so this means that we can feel into energies that aren't ours. It means that we can receive messages from beyond. Time and space. It means that time is non-linear. It means that we can connect to a field of information that we all exist within, and that everything in this field carries a frequency or a vibration and contains information. And so the next thing I did was look into something called SI phenomenon. And. What I experience in Japan basically belongs to this category of phenomena that are often referred to as si, which is short for psychic, but more accurately kind of understood as the natural extension of human perception into the realm of. Areas that we don't fully understand yet, and so si includes abilities and experiences such as precognition, which is sensing or knowing something before it happens. Clairvoyance perceiving information beyond the five physical senses. Mediumship, which is communicating with those who have passed beyond the veil telepathy, receiving the thoughts, the feelings, the intentions of others without verbal communication. And these are essentially mental events and experiences that transcend the known limits of the central nervous system processes. But they are very, very, very real. And I know many of you have likely had these kinds of experiences before. These experiences have been reported for thousands of years across traditions and time periods, spiritual lineages, continents. They appear in ancient texts, indigenous cultures, mystical traditions, and also ordinary people's lives. While they've often been dismissed as fantasy or superstition, and of course there's a lot of people who don't believe that there is true science happening around this, and it's completely dismissed. Many of them have also been studied under controlled scientific conditions, and I. The research kind of builds upon work from various parapsychologists like Dean Radden, who has spent decades studying telepathy and intention and mind matter interaction. He has a book called Real Magic that outlines how these phenomena are not only repeatable under lab conditions, but also aligned with what quantum mechanics is revealing. Which is what I stated earlier, that consciousness may be non-local and that the universe is not made of separate parts, but rather entangled holes. I. And so what does that mean? It means that when you suddenly know something, before it happens, when you feel someone's energy before they walk into a room, when you feel a sense of telepathy between hearts, when you dream of someone and wake up with a message from them, well, it just straight up means that all of that is real and. I have this feeling that it's all going to get more and more real as well in the future as humans, as humanity, as all of us continue to wake up and expand our awareness of everything beyond the 3D. And so when these sigh events happen, you are actually in touch with a part of your awareness that we've been conditioned to suppress. But that is an ancient and natural and very real. Part of our awareness, and so SI isn't paranormal. It is perhaps just a part of the full spectrum of consciousness, and that is a spectrum that we are only beginning to discover or rediscover. I also wanna pause to talk a little bit about Neurodivergence because this is also another lens that. May offer some insight into experiences like the one I had in Japan, and I really have only just begun to really understand the term neurodivergence and study it and look it up. And so Neurodivergence is essentially this umbrella term that describes variations in brain function and cognitive processing that differs from what is considered. Typical or neurotypical. This includes people with autism, A DHD, dyslexia, sensory processing sensitivity, and many other cognitive profiles. But the thing is, is that neurodivergence is in no way, shape, or form a disorder. It is simply a difference. And that is a different way of sensing, interpreting, and relating to the world. And. Research in recent years is beginning to show what many neurodivergent people have always known that these brain differences also come with heightened sensory awareness, emotional depth pattern recognition, and what some would call intuitive intelligence. There is a 2023 study published in Frontiers in Psychology that explores how individuals with autism may process sensory input through non-linear neural pathways, allowing for heightened. Perceptual sensitivity. Other studies show that people with A DHD may have enhanced creativity and divergent thinking, and that certain neurodivergent traits may correlate with intuitive and empathic abilities. And so, in other words, this is. Also really provided an interesting lens, which is that neurodivergent people may just be wired to pick up signals that others miss, and whether that's an emotional nuance or subtle shifts in the energy, or even pre-conscious information or psychic events, that might just be the way that a neurodivergent person picks up information. Some theorists are also beginning to explore the idea that Neurodivergence might be a kind of evolutionary edge or a way of adapting to a rapidly changing world by expanding the range of perception, which I find so fascinating. And so of course these traits also come with challenges in a world that is not built for them. And the invitation I wanna invite. You two is to consider that what if the very thing that makes you feel too much or too different is actually a gift Aun, a sensitivity to the unseen and a form of perception that we are only beginning to understand. And so when we talk about experiences like the one I shared about what happened in Japan, it's not necessarily about. Believing in ghosts or needing to prove anything. And I reckon that with myself, or I was grappling with that with myself because I do have this, you know, desire to understand it from many angles and there is just a part of me that knows, and that feels the inherent truth. But I also wanna share this process for people who are just more logically oriented, who need to know why this is happening, or somebody who would quickly dismiss it. And when I look at these from these various angles, it helps broaden perspective. And it has helped me recognize that consciousness expresses itself differently in different bodies, and that some of us are simply more porous and more attuned to liminal spaces, and that none of it is pathology. It is all possibility. And so the other angle is just kind of like this indigenous angle and tuning into the land. And so. That night in Mount Fuji wasn't just an imagining of something scary. It was a tuning into an energy, a field of energy with information, with emotion, with memory that is still very much alive today and in many indigenous and spiritual traditions. There is an understanding. A way of speaking to the aspect that places hold memory, that land can be imprinted by what happens on it. And this forest that is so well known for its density, both physically and energetically, is a place where people have experienced great levels of despair and grief and loss. And that is a frequency that lingers. Those are those hold vibrational energies and frequencies. And if we understand consciousness as a field, then certain places become hotspots. They become portals. They can become echo chambers. And I believe that I tapped into that field and my fear allowed it to enter even deeper, but that the light that I was able to call in allowed it to shift. And perhaps even that transmutation. And the purging was something more, was something more moving through. I don't know exactly, and it's fun to not know. These are all fun mysteries to think about, I think. Anyways, I. There is also the animist worldview, which was and still is, the primary cosmology of the vast majority of human history, that places are not empty, they are inhabited, they are alive, they are spirit filled. And so in that frame of reference, Mount Fuji is not just a mountain. The forest is not just trees. They are ancestors, they're witnesses. And when we as modern humans, often uninitiated and unpracticed walk into these places, we do so without the ceremonies that were once meant to introduce us to these spirits. And so. The Yuri are perhaps not ghosts in the way that the west imagines ghosts, but they're spirits that are at unrest. They're spirits of unrest and they're fragments of souls that haven't been properly integrated into the afterlife. And so it's not evil spirits. They are just lost. And when we also look at it from this animist worldview, we can also understand. That where we move our bodies in physical space as sensitive people requires a level of responsibility. And what I mean by that is if you are a highly sensitive person or a sensitively wired person, it means that we don't just walk through. The world or walk into spaces without some element of practice, without some ability to, you know, close our energy field off, or to protect ourselves or to be aware of what the land holds to. Be an initiate of something means that we bring a certain level of intention to the places that we go. It means that we bring reverence to those places. It means that we introduce ourselves to the land, we introduce ourselves to the spirits that may inhabit that land. We are in a dynamic conversation with, with those parts of life and the experience of being a multidimensional human, and so. My takeaways from this experience are many, and I've shared many of them with you already. The main ones are that fear gives our power away and that connecting to light can reclaim it, and that darkness feeds on fear and. It can't survive in the presence of true inner light, and we all have that true inner light. Takeaway number two, I am sensitive. You are sensitive and to trust what you feel and to trust your knowing and the invisible ate world is very, very real. And sensitivity is a map. It is not given to you by mistake. It is a gift and we can cultivate it and we can all cultivate it. It's not a gift that some special people have. It is something that we can all continue to cultivate. Number three, consciousness is not produced by the brain. It is received by it. We are antennas for a vast field of intelligence, of memory and energy, and we are not separate from this mystery that we are living within. Four is you can transmute energy with your intention, ritual and prayer and visualization and sound and presence all have the power to shift energy, full stop, and that you are not helpless in the face of darkness. Even when you are in some relation with a force of darkness, you are not helpless. You can always, always call on. Masters and any higher powers that you feel connected to. Neurodivergence is a gift. Those who are wired differently may be more attuned to the subtle realms, and it's really just our job to learn how to work with it rather than suppress it or pathologize it. Number six, places hold memory, and landscapes are alive. The earth remembers the forest is listening. Be humble when you travel. Ask for permission, offer prayers, and move with reverence, especially if you are a sensitive person moving through the world. Protect yourself. Protect your energy. This one is just really hits really deep for me. Number seven, we are so much more than just physical beings. What we call paranormal is often just normal perception that is expanded. It is possibly just an expanded nervous system. And so my closing invitation for you is that. If you've ever felt something that couldn't be explained, if you were ever told that you were too much or too sensitive or too emotional, if you've ever had a strange dream or a moment of deep knowing that came out of nowhere, that this is your reminder that you are in the process of remembering we are all waking up from. A heavy slumber from deep layers of our consciousness and the world is so much more magical and mysterious and interconnected than we have been led to believe. So trust your senses wherever they take you. Honor and cultivate the light, the bright light that is within you. And don't forget that you're not alone. We are not alone. There are so many on this path and on this inner journey. Thank you for listening to this episode with the ears in your heart, and I would love to. Here. If this resonated, I'd love to hear your stories. Feel free to leave them as comments on this episode. DM me, email me. I would love to hear your stories be well, and until next time.


Keywords: 

Spiritual awakening, highly sensitive person, consciousness and energy, haunted forest Japan, animist worldview, Mount Fuji ghost story, neurodivergence and intuition, energy protection practices, psychic experience, light versus fear

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