— I’ve gathered the most popular questions about spiritual energy practices that people usually ask. Some of the questions may seem absurd or perhaps irrelevant, but this is what people are curious about. I’d like to know your opinion. Can you harm yourself by practicing spiritual energy techniques?
— When we talk about spiritual energy practices, it’s a very broad concept. It’s like asking: can you build a house for one dollar? Yes — you can draw it on paper or mold it out of clay. But there’s also a real skyscraper of one hundred floors. It’s the same here: what a person understands as spiritual practices can be completely different. And yes, in this variety there really are practices that can cause harm. People today often fantasize about what spirituality means.
If we look at spiritual practices as part of the material world, then within this set there will certainly be practices capable of causing harm. For example, the use of substances that someone once called a spiritual experience. But if we look from the position that there is a spiritual world, and within it the material one, then we encounter processes that go beyond ordinary consciousness and cannot be controlled. In such processes, it’s also possible to enter into a state of harm. That’s why it’s important to understand what your practices are based on and whether you are aware of what’s happening to you during them.
In reality, you can harm yourself with anything. Even our conversation is already a spiritual practice, it’s a form of living. A person sits at lunch, “switches off” for a few minutes — is that meditation or not? Must meditation only happen in a special room, and in a store or kitchen it no longer counts? If a friend touches you and energy runs through your body — that doesn’t count, but if it’s the Dalai Lama — then it does? What do we mean by the word “practice”? A person can harm themselves anywhere, even just by opening a fridge: they might pull it wrong. They could choke on coffee. Or accidentally bite off a piece of glass. The range of situations is huge.
— Does the “third eye” exist? How do you open it? Is it possible? This topic is very popular in esotericism. They say that in the center of the forehead there is the Ajna area, responsible for clairvoyance and intuition. The internet is full of courses on this subject. From here people also develop fears: isn’t this dangerous?
— First of all, you must ask yourself: why do you want to “open the third eye”? For expanded vision? For broader perception? Then it’s worth clarifying: what exactly influences our vision? Only the “third eye”? What do we mean by this vision? What are its pros, cons, consequences?
It’s like if a person suddenly began to see with their eyes but didn’t understand what they were seeing. They might encounter things they are not ready for. For example, you live next door to an apartment that seems perfectly fine, the neighbors greet you, smile. And then it turns out there’s a drug den inside or crimes are being committed. Your attitude changes immediately. It’s the same here: expanded vision will reveal ranges you had no idea about. And you need to be ready for what you will see.
💡 There is an important principle of spiritual science: the more you see the spiritual world, the less fear there should be. In spiritual reality you cannot be afraid. If you go deep into spiritual perception, you must be ready to see things that an ordinary person doesn’t perceive. For example, events in your life or your children’s lives, including death. The question is: are you ready for such knowledge? Do you want to know all the details now — age, circumstances, sensations?
On the other hand, it’s important to consider what the development of perception means. It’s not just about “opening an eye” for clairvoyance. It’s a process of knowing yourself, of connecting with your spiritual essence. There are different worldviews. In one, a person places the material world at the center and wants to “acquire” the ability to see into the spiritual. In another, it is acknowledged: the spiritual world is primary, within it exists the material, and a person is a spiritual being. In this second position, the task is not to strengthen the personality and gain more knowledge for personal gain — for example, to predict the future and buy stocks. The true goal is to connect with your spiritual being. And then the expansion of perception will happen automatically. It will affect intuition, imagination, clairvoyance, different forms of knowledge and understanding. But not to forecast and control, rather to know your spiritual development.
Think about it: why do people want to know the future? Most often for profit or pleasant news. But once they hear about unpleasant things — illness, bankruptcy, the death of children — they no longer want to know. So the question is different: do you want to see events or do you want to understand how you will live through these events? After all, what matters more is not the number of children, money, or trips, but the inner state — fullness, joy, wholeness, or on the contrary, fear and emptiness. If you try to know everything down to the smallest detail, you’ll drown in endless information. You will never manage to see the whole picture. To live twenty years, you need twenty years, and to perceive them all at once — you need another level of perception. But when will you live?
Here it’s important to understand what a person means by this “third eye.” Usually around this topic — there is an enormous, literally insane amount of manipulation. Just unbelievable. Yes, there really are certain areas of the body that reflect special states. You can press them, direct energy to them, use lasers or something else, but the result may be not improvement but deterioration. At the same time, another fact exists: a huge number of people do nothing specific, yet still perceive both the past and the future. They don’t practice, they don’t “open the third eye” — and yet they have perception. Moreover, many of them don’t even tell anyone about it.
So why does the majority always want some kind of “special” energy or support they don’t understand? Let’s take an example: people have heard a lot about the third eye. But if asked about its structure and nature, how it worked before, what its essence is — most likely the person will immediately say: “I don’t know.” What is it really? An organ? An energy center? In which structure of the body does it exist? In the physical, etheric, astral body? What exactly “awakens” — the physical part, the etheric, or is some kind of energy line being formed? Does every person have this organ? Is it always asleep, or can it be partially awakened? And what does “fully awakened” mean?
Vision, for example, has many states. There is absolute blindness, but even a blind person retains other forms of perception. There are different degrees of vision. It’s the same here: if someone says their “third eye opened” — it means their perception changed. But in what form? Black and white or in color? Can the person see the future, the past? And if they saw it, can they change what they saw? Or is it just knowledge without the possibility of intervention? And if what was seen never happened in reality, then what impact does it have on life? These are all important questions. But people want fairy tales, impressive stories, incredible promises. And here it’s important to emphasize again: we live in the material world, within which exists the spiritual. And in the spiritual world — 99.9999% of what truly defines our being.
— And is there a multiverse?
— Yes. But the very concept of the multiverse is much deeper than people usually understand. The human mind is able to perceive only a small part. Many things our brain is simply not capable of processing. Yes, science makes discoveries, registers flashes in space, finds new black holes, reveals patterns. Computers create complex models that were impossible before. But all of this is only superficial reflections. In reality, things are much more complicated.
If the spiritual world were only part of the material and subject to the laws of physics, then everything could have been described long ago. But that’s impossible. That’s why every hundred years people look back and say: “Look how naive our ancestors were.” We consider ourselves smarter, and then in a few decades our descendants will say the same about us. It’s enough to wait until 2050 and see how thirty-year-old scientists will talk about the 2000s or the 1980s. A hundred years later they will evaluate today’s views the same way we evaluate medicine from 150 years ago. Doctors back then seem like complete amateurs to us. But today’s medicine, despite all progress, still allows a colossal number of mistakes and rests on a huge portion of the unknown. Yes, much has improved. But the question arises: why? Why did this particular person at this particular moment receive knowledge, and not 300 years ago? Why not earlier? We say: “genes,” “ancestral programs.” But if they existed then, why didn’t they manifest? Why didn’t the program realize itself?
— Some believe that if they grow long hair, they will become more spiritual and energetically stronger. In different traditions, even in orthodox circles, there are such beliefs — about hair, evil spirits, haircuts.
— Here in California, you can often meet people of different cultures and religions. Among them there are whole movements that came from India, where men never cut their hair and wear them in special wraps. But it’s important to ask yourself: where did this come from? It’s part of the tradition of a specific time and place.
Now — the main thing. It’s important to understand: how relevant is this today? Once upon a time, having a good horse was vital to get from point A to point B. If you didn’t have one — you lost. Three hundred years ago, cows were a matter of survival: without milk and food you could die. Today everything has changed. There are stores, there’s transport. Today a cow or horse is not help, but more of a burden.
It’s the same with rituals. You need to understand: do they work now, or are they just tradition? A person changes over tens of thousands of years, his body, soul, spiritual system change. The planet Earth itself changes — 30 thousand years ago it looked different, 300 thousand years ago different again, and in 30 thousand years it will be another. Scientists like to model millions of years into the past, but often it’s absurd. They cannot accurately predict even an earthquake or the weather. And at the same time they confidently say what happened hundreds of thousands of years ago. People make mistakes, sometimes catastrophic. Let’s recall the COVID-19 situation: doctors, politicians, economists made loud statements, but it turned out the system wasn’t ready. A huge number of decisions turned out false, and the consequences destructive.
So, returning to rituals, the main question is one: do they work today? If it’s just a marketing image or social status — that’s one thing. If it’s a real spiritual practice — that’s another. But you need to understand where convention is, and where the essence is. On one planet, completely different norms can exist. In some countries it’s normal to have ten wives, in others — it’s prison. Somewhere you’ll be judged for short hair, somewhere for long hair. Somewhere people take off their shoes at home, somewhere they don’t. Somewhere brushing teeth is a must, somewhere it’s not considered important.
Why am I saying this? Because many judge a person by appearance: long hair — means spiritual; short — means not. But that’s an illusion. If I went bald, would that make me less spiritual? No. Just like baldness doesn’t stop a person from making money or having children. Appearance is not an indicator of spiritual strength. Moreover, it’s important to understand that even a spiritually developed person can kill. A highly developed person, able to see past and future lives, living in a hierarchy of values and truths, can consciously take the life of one or two hundred people. The problem is that we confuse concepts. For some, spiritually developed always means kind, humble, and “righteous.” But there are people who possess incredible energy, able to read minds, change the future, enter deep meditative states — and at the same time don’t correspond to any commonly accepted “truths.”
Therefore, it’s important to define for yourself: what exactly do you call spiritual development? If you consider it to be following certain truths — then okay. But if you’re talking about real power, energies, abilities — that’s different. Just admit it to yourself and describe it with certain parameters. It will become much easier to exist.
— Do crystals or pyramids help to amplify energy?
— When we talk about crystals, pyramids, different magical rituals, or special drawings, it’s the same story as with hair, which I mentioned earlier. Essentially, it belongs to the same category. There are things that can amplify something.
Imagine: a person is walking from one village to another. One person uses a horse, another uses a helicopter, and someone else simply moves to another city altogether. And one spends energy choosing the right horseshoe, while the other just moves away and solves the problem entirely. The point is that some things really do help. But there are also a huge number of things that don’t help at all. Moreover, there are many practices and objects that can even cause harm. That’s why it’s always important to understand the level of their real influence.
Take a simple example: a coffee shop. Will the right light bulb help? It seems so, because light is needed. But if the café already has 80 bulbs, and you add one more — a bit brighter or a bit dimmer — it won’t affect the overall result. So you always need to see: what is really worth your attention, and what is not.
This is especially important for people trying to figure out the subject of spiritual development. There are countless possibilities, but each has a different level of effectiveness. And this difference is enormous. Compare: I want to have lunch. I can sit and meditate on food, I can read books about how to eat, I can watch YouTube videos about how to eat… or I can just open the fridge and eat. Even if the food is tasteless or doesn’t look nice, the task is solved: you nourished your body. Everything else is extra knowledge on how to make the process more pleasant, but it doesn’t bring you closer to the essence of the task. And in food the difference is easy to see, but in spiritual development it’s incredibly difficult. There it’s very hard to catch what is a real action and what is just an imitation. Sometimes a person doesn’t understand what they’re dealing with at all. It’s like opening the fridge and eating the bag instead of the food. A child or a dog might make such a mistake and get poisoned. It’s the same with spiritual practices: if you don’t understand what you’re doing, you can harm yourself.
That’s why most rituals — like crystals, candles, pyramids — in reality don’t give anything. Sometimes they may create a small effect, but most often nothing at all. And the reason is that people don’t even understand what exactly they are doing. If they knew what really lies behind a given ritual, they would never do it. But people like magic. They like ritual. Even those who don’t believe in religion at all walk into a church and start copying others — standing, crossing themselves, watching the priest’s actions — without understanding why they do it.
This is especially clear when Russian-speaking people go into another culture: Hinduism, Buddhism, Eastern temples. Everything there seems mysterious and fascinating to them. But they don’t even understand the language, they don’t understand what is being read to them. The texts might say: “Prepare me for imminent death so I may be reborn faster.” And the person participates in the ritual without realizing its essence. And when you ask them: “Do you even understand where you are? Do you understand what you’re participating in?” — it turns out, no. But people like the feeling of belonging to something mysterious: they put dots on their foreheads — they think the third eye will open. They wear ritual clothes, make strange movements… In reality, this is complete self-deception.
— Some people have a fear: won’t meditation turn me into an “emotionless vegetable”? After all, it teaches imperturbability and detachment. What if a person loses the ability to feel joy, love, emotions?
— This is one of the biggest misconceptions. Moreover, it was invented entirely by the material world. Let’s figure it out. There is the material world — “pleasure” — what we perceive. And some say: a person plunges into a narrow theme created by the material world. Then they conclude: the spiritual world is an emotionless, soulless reality. But if you think this way, the question arises: why are you going there at all? If, in your opinion, spiritual development turns you into a “vegetable,” then why are you heading exactly into that point of material perception? People are searching for power, new possibilities, the expansion of ego, but the very idea that meditation takes away emotions is just a projection of the material approach.
Now, what is meditation? Many reduce it to sitting with eyes closed on a chair — two, ten, or fifteen minutes. Someone writes: “I’ve done fourteen thousand meditations.” But the question is: how long was each? A minute? Two? Are you measuring quality in hours? That’s strange. Because you can sit for thirty thousand hours, but if nothing happened inside, it’s not meditation. It’s like standing ten hours at the stove and cooking nothing. Or sitting fifteen hours with an open book and reading nothing. Or standing in the shower for hundreds of hours, but the stain that only comes off with special cleaner is still there. Time itself changes nothing. So if you perceive meditation as yoga, physical exercise, a material practice in a certain posture, then yes, you might become hardened, emotionless. But in exactly the same way, you can become hardened from any other mechanical actions in life.
If you consider meditation as a state of expanded perception, as awareness at any moment — whether you’re sitting, walking, eating, standing in the shower, planting flowers, working with a client, talking with a colleague — then it’s completely different. It’s a state of listening to the spiritual world, of going beyond the “bubble” of material perception. In such a meditative state, how can you lose emotions? Where exactly would they disappear? Why does a person fear losing emotions? Because they think they control them. But let’s test this. Set a timer: in two and a half hours, you must turn on negativity. And in three — positivity. Can you do it? No. Try right now to “generate” negativity. It won’t work. You can trigger emotion only through specific actions: for example, hurting yourself, feeling pain. But simply by willpower, you won’t create either negativity or positivity. Likewise, the opposite happens: a person is in positivity, but then negativity arrives. I tell the person: “Bring positivity back right now.” And they can’t. So who controls the emotions?
That’s why if someone says meditation “takes away” emotions, it means they initially believe emotions are fully controllable. But that’s not true, that’s an illusion and distortion of understanding life.
— Can meditation replace a psychologist or antidepressants?
— This is a question of the same series: can buying a new house replace earning money? Or can getting married replace brushing your teeth in the morning? The construction is exactly the same.
If a person goes to a psychologist just to talk to another person, then meditation with oneself won’t replace that. Because his goal is precisely communication. It’s simple: I came to a psychologist to talk. But if I sat alone on a chair — there’s no one to talk to. Just like with food: no amount of coaching on cooking will replace the actual process of eating lunch. You can watch as many recipe videos as you want, but that won’t make me eat soup.
So the key question is — why are you doing it? Why are you taking antidepressants? Why are you going to a psychologist? What is your true goal?
For example, you go to a psychologist to talk to someone. Great, then consider: what other ways are there to communicate? You can call a friend, go to a café, meet someone on the street, talk in any social situation. Options are endless. Or a person goes to a psychologist because they want to figure out: “Why is my eye twitching,” “why do I snap and yell at my children,” “why does my side hurt.” Then ask yourself: how else can I figure this out? For example, every time you yell at your kids, note it — just mark it. Or every time you yell, say the word “yelling.” This will work, 100%. You can read a book, you can watch a video.
And what does meditation have to do with it? How is it connected? Some say: “Meditation calms me down.” Are you sure? I remember: about 15 years ago I went boxing. And someone told me: “Listen, boxing relaxes your partner, but makes you more aggressive. After boxing, he is calm, and you become more irritated for several days.” That is, the same action can relax one person and make another more aggressive. The same goes for silence, for meditation, for any state. For some, it’s relaxation, for others — on the contrary, increased tension.
So you need to look at what exactly you are doing and in what awareness. It’s important to understand that when you compare psychotherapy, meditation, and antidepressants, you often don’t even understand what you’re talking about. Look: who do you go to for teeth? A dentist. And who do you go to for energy in the etheric body? Who will analyze the state when I get irritated with my children? When there are too many people around me and it’s heavy? What sphere of psychotherapy covers this? You won’t even be able to name it. Inside, there are directions, but most people don’t know them.
And if we’re talking about spiritual practitioners or meditation — that’s an entirely different reality. For many people, meditation is perceived as a procedure: “I popped a pill.” Only the pill is prescribed by a doctor, but who prescribes meditation? Most often the person themselves. They look: “Oh, Joe Dispenza is cool, I’ll put on headphones and meditate with him. They also said it’s scientific. And Masha and Katya go there, so I’ll go too. Petya has a lot of money — he goes there too. And this guru works with Tony Robbins. And that one — with Bezos. And over there, they say, even Elon Musk goes sometimes. Or this person is the spiritual advisor of the president. So at least I’ll look at the temple he visits once every six months.”
That’s how it works. People act not out of understanding, but out of imitation and superficial knowledge. And the problem is that even with pills, most people don’t understand how they actually work. Ask anyone about an antidepressant — they don’t even know the basics of the mechanism. Ask a doctor: “Why exactly statins for high cholesterol? And global practice speaks about other approaches. Why are you prescribing me this?” The doctor will most often brush it off.
And this is the important point: what is your goal, what are you doing, and how is it connected to meditation?