“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
— Popularly attributed to Nikola Tesla
Introduction
Expanding the Material Concept of Energy into the Spiritual
Energy allows matter to move.
In a materialistic conception of the cosmos, energy is not living. It provides dead matter with the force to move in a particular direction.
In psychology, we often talk about concepts such as psychic energy.
Hence, in Freudian psychology, repressed sexual energy can affect future socio-psychological development in individuals.
Jungian psychology states that we all harbor a repressed shadow element of ourselves. The less it manifests in life, the more repressed it becomes, leading to pent-up psychic energy that can result in potentially negative behaviors.[1]
Hence, psychic energy can be seen as a force that drives or shapes our behavior.
We can now reconceptualize and expand the notion of energy beyond a materialistic and psychological paradigm into the spiritual realm.
According to afterlife research, energy in the spirit world is living and conscious. Its base nature is a form of divine will or volition.
This “will” manifests as thought patterns, emotions, or actions in the spiritual or physical planes.
According to Theosophy, all humans carry a spiritual aura that has many complex layers.[2]
Some layers correspond to violet or indigo, the energy of love or spiritual thought. Orange may correspond to creativity, while gold corresponds to intelligence.
Every energetic layer that a soul has is the result of many lifetimes of accumulated abilities throughout its entire existence.
The more types of energies that the soul carries, the more diverse its range of talents, skills, and means of expression or manifestation.
Therefore, intention or will is the prime mover that may eventually propel the soul toward actions, made manifest in the physical world. This is spiritual energy.
Hence, spiritual energy, or consciousness, is simply what moves the world, empowering many thoughts, feelings, and physical actions.
The materialist conception that we are simply the sum of our material parts is imprecise.
If it were the case, we would simply be mere inorganic and dead matter with no inner feelings, thoughts, or consciousness.
Imagine the philosophical zombie concept, as described by David Chalmers. It is the idea that we are all material beings without a soul. Therefore, we can only manifest behavior but have no inner conscious experience.[3]
Imagine seeing the color red. Any conscious being can feel, perceive, and experience red. If one has no inner consciousness, it would be pure nothingness, not even pure black.
This radical reconceptualization of energy may repel certain readers who adhere to a purely materialistic framework.
However, I remind the reader that scientific progress does not simply occur through the accumulation of data.
Instead, it occurs through the upheaval of a previous paradigm’s (worldview, model, or framework) limitations and the creation of a more expansive perspective that can account for phenomena the previous paradigm could not explain.
These include the idea that consciousness can exist after physical death and other paranormal phenomena.
In a world that is increasingly open and accepting of new spiritual findings, the concept of energy must move beyond the material.
The Impact of Spiritual Energy on the World
When we realize we are powerful spiritual beings with a rich inner world, our lives change.
We realize intentions are real, energetic, and spiritual influences. We can call upon these to empower our actions. I do not mean this in a supernatural sense.
The external world is almost always a reflection of the inner world.
When we empower our actions with a desire for destruction, the world would be all wars and strife.
If we empower it with positivity and love, the external world will become a manifestation and expression of heaven.
This is why some sages often say that heaven and hell are not places that we go to in the afterlife.
They are the physical manifestations of your inner spiritual energetic state.
This is the law of energy (sometimes called the law of intention).
Tetris as an Analogy
In Tetris, this law is illustrated by one very simple manifestation: misdrops.
Misdrops are unintended placements of tetrominoes in the wrong places that disrupt the game’s flow.
| Diagram Set 24-1 |
| A misdrop with the T and I pieces. |
The above diagram shows a misdrop.
Misdrops happen to everyone, even the most skilled Tetris players. One cannot entirely prevent them. However, how one reacts to misdrops is controllable, and it determines one’s proficiency.
Many Tetris players blow up in anger after a misdrop, forfeiting many games. They can become even more frustrated and anxious, leading to more misdrops.
Instead, calmer, cooler heads can sometimes treat the misdrop as if it were nothing. They continue playing at maximum speed to recover.
Hence, a skilled player can do this:
| Diagram Set 24-2 | |
| 1 | 2 |
| The starting field. | The player placed an I piece incorrectly, creating this unfavorable shape with a cavity beneath it. |
| 3 | 4 |
| The player uses a J piece to skim through the top layers, clearing the top row. | After the line clear, the field below is exposed cleanly. |
Here, the player faces a misdrop but skims off the overhanging and dirty layer.
A player can also carry out the following repair method, which involves filling cavities:
| Diagram Set 24-3 | |
| 1 | 2 |
| The starting field. | The player misdrops the I and O pieces. The field is messed up, creating an ugly overhanging roof. |
| 3 | 4 |
| The player tucks the O piece under the cavity to fill it. | He places the L and S pieces this way. |
| 5 | 6 |
| He then inserts an I piece into the hole on the far left, scoring a Tetris and clearing 4 lines. | The ugly, overhanging roof has been removed, and the field is exposed cleanly! |
Here, a player tucks an O piece into the cavity and skims off the ugly layers cleanly.
In the best situations, a very skilled Tetris player can turn misfortune into opportunity. They can, as in the following, turn a misdrop into a T-spin chance:
| Diagram Set 24-4 | |
| 1 | 2 |
| The starting field. | The player misdrops the J piece. The field is messed up. |
| 3 | 4 |
| The player places L, O, and I this way. Sounds crazy, right? | But it is not crazy! Once the player places the S piece, it creates a suspended T-spin! |
Hence, what was a misfortune became an opportunity.
Sometimes, easily angered and frustrated players embody the intention and energy of wrath. This can manifest as more misdrops and game forfeitures in the physical world.
A more stoic, resilient player who forgives themselves for mistakes will maintain the intention and energy of inner peace.
This, in turn, translates into fewer misdrops and better mid-game recovery in the physical world.
We each carry forth a particular set of energetic frequencies. In the afterlife, consciousness empowers reality. What one thinks immediately becomes conjured in one’s surroundings.[4]
Hence, in many near-death experiences, people who used to be evil are often surrounded by other similar and harmful souls.[5]
If a soul strongly believes in the doctrine of soul sleep in Christian beliefs, they would materialize in a realm in the afterlife where they would sleep. This continues until they realize it is an illusion.[6]
Suppose a soul who is distressed by suicide arrives on the other side. In that case, they may be drawn towards gray realms filled with other suicidal souls until they decide to rise to other, more joyful realms.[7]
A soul that has been loving and caring throughout one’s life can gravitate towards realms of pure bliss and universal acceptance.
This is the whole idea of Robert Monroe’s study of consciousness. In his studies of the afterlife through induced out-of-body experiences, he discovered that souls gravitate towards their spiritual development or belief systems after death.[8]
Souls whose beliefs are strongly influenced by religious teachings may experience realms populated by figures familiar from their tradition, such as angels or other spiritual beings.
I had several out-of-body experiences while using Monroe’s Gateway Experience method.
I once went to another oceanic planet and saw blue-skinned beings and other massive sea creatures. It was not an ordinary dream, as the awareness expanded beyond the waking state. I was in spirit form.
I also had clear glimpses of a prior, highly advanced civilization that sank into the ocean when their energy crystals exploded. I cannot verify if it was on Earth or another planet.
These happened when my mental state was neutral. However, if my energy is disturbed, I sometimes get terrifying OBEs of passing through a tunnel of horrors and screaming voices.
Hence, one’s internal state or intention manifests as one’s external reality.
Personal Applications
The Outer World Reflects Your Inner Reality
To apply this law of energy, change what you are inside, and your external world will reflect what you want to be or have.
It is that simple.
However, to do so, one can be honest about what one is and what one is not. One can introspect and be truthful to oneself to discover this.
In Theosophy, one’s thoughts and personality manifest as a colored aura that some spiritual mediums or psychics can read.
Theosophical findings have discovered that more experienced souls have larger, more intense, and multicolored layers, reflecting their inner complexities.[9]
While many afterlife and spiritual studies consider auras real, this may be off-putting to some people with a more materialistic mindset.
So, you can see the concept of auras as a secular, non-paranormal visual mnemonic for linking your inner state to your external being. Treat visualizing them as a form of visualization meditation.
Imagine your personality projecting outward as an aura around you.
If you are a natural healer and can be composed and supportive, it can surface as a green aura.
If you are filled with negativity and past trauma, it can color your aura a dirty beige or black.
If you have an auric overlay of dirty brown or beige, it could imply addiction or self-destructive coping methods.
Once you equate your personality and inner spiritual nature with an outwardly manifestable auric form, it is easier to be truthful with yourself.
Introspect to identify your strengths and weaknesses, and imagine them radiating outward as auras.
Once identified, you will realize that this intention or energy sometimes manifests materially as negative coping strategies like drinking, binge-drinking, or doomscrolling.
Then keep what you wish to keep, and reflect on the negative aspects of yourself that you want to change.
For instance, if you have positive energies, such as creativity, artistry, high intelligence, or diligence, you may wish to keep those.
But if you have negative energies, such as proneness to spite or anger, over-judgmentalness, or the desire to do harm to others, you may consider discarding them.
When you change for the better, by incorporating the intention and energy of love and peace, your worldly form will manifest accordingly.
In psychology, people with similar values or traits attract each other. When you change positively, you will then be more likely to attract similar people.[10]
These can be business partners, romantic ideals, or teachers. Your social life and career will then blossom more easily.
Even if you do not believe in the concept of actual human or spiritual auras, what is real is simply realized in tangible effects.
After all, it is not superstition to say that if one is angry, one’s behavior will be aggressive, causing others to retaliate.
If one is vengeful, one’s actions may lead to revenge and a cycle of violence begetting more violence.
However, if one is peaceful within, it can have a serene effect on others. You can then befriend people easily.[11]
Ultimately, you are what you are until you change yourself.
Cultivating Stillness
Cultivating an energy of stillness does wonders for the mind and body.
Nothing hinders the flow of masterful Tetris gameplay more than an anxious mind.
I used to be an easily frustrated Tetris player in my earlier years. While streaming Tetris, I occasionally got frustrated with my lack of performance. This, in conjunction with my anxiety from streaming before a live audience, got me into a deadly spiral.
I would get anxious and urgently want to play better, which pushed me to deliberately try harder.
However, the more I pushed myself, the more anxious I became, and my mind would go blank.
I then grew more frustrated and irritable, which made my fingers tremble and led to more mistakes. Sometimes, this led me to stop a stream out of pure frustration.
This was a persistent problem I encountered in many situations in life.
I am a workaholic and often turn to writing to ease my jitters. However, my best ideas sometimes come only when I am near water.
I conceived many of this book’s ideas while visiting East Coast Park, a sunny beach in my country.
While not a trained meditator, I would often sit before the beach, clearing my mind entirely to simply listen to the gurgling, frothing, bubbling, and roaring of the ocean and the chirping of cicadas, crickets, and birds in the nearby rainforest.
According to the Blue Mind Theory, this sequence induces deep stillness in the mind, opening us to unheard ideas incubating in our subconscious.[12]
Returning to Tetris, I would now incorporate a breathing exercise to fully still my mind before streaming on Twitch.
I would inhale, then exhale twice as long, several times. Scientifically, this slows your heart rate. I have found that doing this for just a minute or two gives me mental clarity before streaming or playing Tetris.
Often, if my mind could not be stilled, I would pause all creative work or Tetris play.
Unraveling Subconscious Psychic Energies through Dreams
Dreams are often a gateway into one’s subconscious, which shows many repressed thoughts and motives.
In Jungian terms, these repressed psychic energies can manifest as the shadow personality in our daily lives, prompting psychological defense mechanisms.
We could, for instance, project anger at someone involuntarily because of repressed envy or indignation.
Sigmund Freud stated that dreams may carry messages of our repressed needs, and that heeding them could heal us more fully.[13]
Carl Jung highlighted that dreams could signal a broader cultural collective unconscious, conveying themes and symbols that offer clues to our problems and their resolutions.[14]
Hence, when we heed and interpret these dreams, we gain insight into our repressed psychic energy, which we can resolve to improve our lives.
I began to keep a dream journal from late 2025 onward because of the anxiety of getting uncontrollable out-of-body experiences (OBEs).
Some were traumatic and involved the separation process between the soul and my body. I felt my soul literally “pounding” on my body before leaving. Sometimes, I would pass through a dark tunnel of horrors.
I bought a dream interpretation kit and started writing down my dreams, which occurred once every two to four days immediately after waking up.
Once I had collected enough, I organized the dream’s major themes, such as traveling, escaping, going on an adventure, and seeing certain buildings and gates.
Some also involved more OBEs, during which I mysteriously found myself on planets with strange vegetation (mostly blue) or deserts.
Using a dream dictionary, I interpreted my dreams of various adventures as an urgent health warning that my mind needed an actual vacation or time in nature.[15]
My dream interpretation also suggested that I hoped to seek a community of spiritually like-minded people to confide in. I also needed a creative outlet to counterbalance my overly rational mind.
So, I visited the beach and Singapore’s many outdoor gardens, such as the Botanic Gardens and Gardens by the Bay, to suspend my ego and adopt a purely observational state. I also began seeking spiritual people on Meetup.com.
Hence, I recommend dream interpretation to expand your awareness beyond mere daily wakefulness and rationality into the subconscious and intuitive faculties, thereby unraveling repressed psychic energies.
As with all methods, your mileage may vary, and one should rely on self-validation to assess this method’s efficacy.
To conclude, dreams may offer clues to repressed energies we harbor that may need to surface to foster a more holistic psychological profile, leading to healthier actions in real life.
[1] Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1959), CW Vol. 9, Part 1.
[2] C.W. Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible (1902); Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, Thought-Forms (1905).
[3] David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind (1996). Chalmers introduced the philosophical zombie thought experiment to argue that consciousness cannot be reduced to physical processes alone.
[4] Robert Monroe, Far Journeys (1985). Monroe’s out-of-body research described astral “afterlife” environments where consciousness directly shapes surroundings.
[5] Kenneth Ring, Heading Toward Omega (1984); Raymond Moody, Life After Life (1975). Both document NDE accounts of souls gravitating toward environments matching their spiritual evolution.
[6] Kevin Williams, Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife, http://www.near-death.com. Documents NDE accounts of souls materializing belief-generated afterlife environments, including cases where souls expecting soul sleep found themselves in such a state until guided beyond it.
[7] Pamela Rae Heath and Jon Klimo, Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife? (2006). Documents NDE and regression accounts of suicidal souls drawn to gray, melancholic realms until choosing to move beyond.
[8] Robert Monroe, Far Journeys (1985); Ultimate Journey (1994). Monroe’s Focus Level system mapped non-physical environments where souls gravitate after death, according to their beliefs, emotional states, and spiritual development.
[9] C.W. Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible (1902).
[10] Donn Byrne, The Attraction Paradigm (1971). People are drawn to others who share their values, beliefs, and personality traits.
[11] Barbara L. Fredrickson, “Positive Emotion, Personality, and Outcomes,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 80, no. 1 (2001): 113–124. The study shows how positive emotions can promote social Interaction, cooperation, and stronger bonds are associated with positive social outcomes, while hostility is linked to negative social outcomes.
[12] Wallace J. Nichols, Blue Mind: The Surprising Science Showing How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do (2014).
[13] Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
[14] Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols (1964).
[15] Hinkler Pty Ltd, Elevate Dreams Kit (2024), available at http://www.hinkler.com.au/elevate-dreams-kit.
