Rev. (Dr.) Swati Prakash Alt. Med.

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  • Ethical Spiritual Guidance for Holistic Mind, Body & Soul Therapy

    Ethical Spiritual Guidance for Holistic Mind, Body & Soul Therapy

    What You Can Expect From Me

    By Rev. (Dr.) Swati Prakash (Alt. Med.)

    Some people seek spiritual healing only when life becomes difficult. Yet, these are the things that do not work:

    • Answers through tarot or astrology only in times of uncertainty
    • A healing reiki session only during illness
    • Instant psychic predictions or spirit messages just for fun
    • Miraculous solutions or spells for love or financial gain

    For more than two decades as a spiritual teacher, counsellor, and guide, I have always taught that spiritual healing or sessions are not meant for the above.

    Why? Because if for 99 percent of your life you are living in negative ways with negative energy, diet, lifestyle, behaviour, relationships, work, and negative spiritual or religious beliefs, you simply cannot expect one healing session, spell or reading to take it all away at one go.

    Spirituality is not a quick fix

    This is why I do not offer one-off sessions of tarot, astrology, or healing, that you just take once in every few years. I offer regular coaching calls and training sessions for clients, students and followers as a Spiritual Guide and Mind Body Soul Therapist, over the long term.

    Spirituality Is a Way of Living

    Spirituality is not defined by the crystals we own or the techniques we practise. It is defined by the person we gradually become.

    Spirituality is the continual process of aligning the body, mind and soul with our Higher Self through conscious living.

    Spirituality is about learning how to live your entire life with deep wisdom. A lifelong path of inner development that influences every thought, every action, every relationship, every decision, and every habit.

    True spirituality begins with one timeless principle: 

    Know Thyself to Heal Thyself.

    The Foundations of My Teachings

    Everything I teach is built upon a small number of guiding principles that support long-term transformation. This is what the path looks like when you work with me.

    1. Ethical Living

    Every journey begins with the right set of ethics.

    As a Wiccan High Priestess, I have always taught the principle of Non-Harming as the foundation of spiritual development. Ethics are not rules imposed through fear, but conscious choices that create harmony within ourselves and with the world around us. 

    To live intuitively, in alignment with nature, not through scriptures, commandments, or rules imposed from outside is is essential. We do not wilfully harm others or ourselves simply because we are good humans. We are Vegan and deeply positive beings who do not exploit the vulnerable for pleasure, taste, or money.

    As an ethical expert I help you practice this ethical philosophy and live it out One Hundred Percent.

    2. Self-Realization

    Real spiritual growth begins by looking within through the right ways of meditation.

    Spirituality is not about finding a God as a separate external entity. It is about knowing yourself as an Infinite Soul (your Higher Self within you), and then aligning your mind, body and soul with this power. The magickal and powerful Higher Self is a frequency found deep within, not a person outside you.

    Our every conscious or sub-conscious belief, intention, thought, emotion and habit has the potential to manifest outwards. Self-realization techniques allow us to recognize our vibrations so that we can choose to either amplify or transform them.

    I am here to help you discover your energy patterns and heal them through and through.

    3. Conscious Lifestyle

    Our spiritual life cannot be separated from our daily life. The food we eat, the way we speak, the environment we create in our home and workplaces, the relationships we choose, our work, our habits,  – all directly influence our wellbeing and our manifestation.

    Healing is not something we do for one hour each week. It is something we practise every day.

    By saying no to to anything toxic, whether unhealthy relationships, unhealthy food, drugs, alcohol, unclean habits, negative language, or clutter we begin cleansing our vibrations inside-out.

    With my support you will receive a complete lifestyle overhaul. This is real healing.  

    4. A Healthier Diet

    The human body is of a primate (frugivore great ape) species – yet most people live off a tangent and suffer as a result. If you look around, you see people are used to, or even addicted to eating things that are not at all natural for us, because their parents, education systems, and society did not know any better.

    To live in alignment with nature is the key to health. I advocate a Vegan ethical lifestyle, with primarily a fruitarian, raw plant-based (Sattvik) diet as an important element of wellbeing and spirituality. Just being Vegan is not enough, you also need to be healthier in your consciousness levels.

    With my coaching and support you receive only the best in health and wellbeing support.

    5. Life-Purpose and Meaning

    Some of us work in jobs and businesses that are not our own conscious choice, but based on fulfilling a purpose that is given to us by others, often mainly for money. These include business and work which involve exploitation or harm to nature or various animals (as we have lived in a non-vegan dominated world so far). Many of us also do things that are out of sync with who we are and what we took this incarnation for.

    Healing includes creating your own soul’s mission, life-purpose, and fulfilling your own highest potential, so that we can all now make this world a better place for all beings. I can also analyse your vedic astrology birthchart to discover your patterns of karma and destiny, and help you align with your higher calling.

    I am here to help you fulfil your soul’s destiny and to help you create your own purpose.

    6. Spiritual Practice

    Meditation, grounding, shielding, energy work, intuitive development, divination and positive rituals are essential to spiritual development. This is how we can see our energy patterns, stop manifesting negative things and make more positive things appear in life. Some people call this Magick, but it is simply a higher science or truth.

    With my support and vast experience you can learn these skills meticulously, and also be protected against the pitfalls and dangers of religious or spiritual confusions that often harm seekers who continue to suffer without the right stable long-term guide or guru.

    With me you have a guide who is stable, experienced, and reliable, with no negative energy or distractions creeping in from outside.

    7. Long Term Approach

    Spiritual healing is not possible in just one session. It is about grounding yourself in positive energy and rejecting negative energy in every aspect of your life 24×7, 365 days of the year – for all your life.

    With me you receive holistic healing advise and support every month, not just a one-off reading or healing session.

    I am with you to make this healing journey a pleasant, fulfilling, and deeply liberating one.

    My Own Journey

    My public work began many years ago in India, where I became widely known through television, newspapers, magazines and public teaching as a Wiccan healing teacher and and intuitive spiritual guide since 2004. During my lifetime I have deeply healed though my own past trauma and challenges in ways that can only be described as extraordinary.

    Over the years I have taught these skills to thousands of students through lectures, classes, festivals, counselling sessions and educational programmes. That experience has strengthened one conviction above all others: 

    “The universe, with the past, present, and future, are all found within each individual soul – only if they are ready for it.”

    While predictions or one off healing sessions help you a little bit, knowing yourself as a magickal creator, and living in the right ways will help you create your future, and heal your past – continuously.

    Who My Work Is For

    After helping hundreds of clients and students in India each year since 2004, today my work continues from the United Kingdom. I offer guidance internationally through online sessions worldwide.

    My work is intended for individuals who genuinely wish to understand themselves and commit to their spiritual liberation.

    It is for those who are prepared to learn, reflect, practise and gradually transform the way they live in all aspects of their mind, body and soul.

    It is suitable for people seeking guidance in improving their life with ethical living, meditation, conscious lifestyle, spiritual education, energy healing skills, and ongoing personal development.

    What My Work Is Not

    My work is not based upon dependency or instant solutions.

    • It is not about psychic exact predictions or fortunetelling.
    • It is not an emergency service.
    • It is not centred upon quick fixes or magical shortcuts
    • It is not for those who are not able to understand, appreciate or learn truth.
    • It is not for those who lack will power or personal responsibility for their life.

    My work is suitable only for those who are 100% ready to receive nothing but the very best in Mind, Body and Soul Healing, Training and Coaching for long-term.

    My Purpose

    After more than two decades of healing, counselling and spiritual empowerment, my commitment remains unwavering. I am here to help with expert guidance, and to teach you the things that society did not. Things that will transform your body, mind and soul permanently.

    My purpose is to help you understand yourself more deeply so that you are empowered to create wiser, healthier and more balanced lives permanently.

    Real healing is not something another person can give us. It is something we gradually create through awareness, discipline, ethical living and conscious daily practice.

    If you are seeking an intuitive and spiritual life-coach who will support your long-term development of mind, body and soul, I warmly invite you to explore my work further.

    The path begins, as it always has, with one simple invitation:

    Know Thyself – Heal Thyself.

  • Ten Ways to Prevent Parasites and Germs, and to Enhance Immunity

    Ten Ways to Prevent Parasites and Germs, and to Enhance Immunity

    We have often heard the phrase: ‘Cleanliness is Godliness’.

    God or divine self is not outside of us. It is from within that we need to cleanse and consecrate our temple of our body-mind-spirit, through our thoughts, feelings, actions and behaviour.

    Parasites are either people who live off your energy, or certain microscopic organisms and worms who live off your body to hive away your nutrients, and put you at risk of severe illnesses or death at times.

    Your diet, hygiene and habits are essential for healing and cleansing your body, mind and spirit. Here are some starting tips:

    1) Eat only a Whole-Food and Raw Vegan Diet

    A well-planned whole-food vegan diet with main focus on raw plants such as fruit, vegetable salads, raw seeds and nuts is the base of your health and well-being, both physical, mental and spiritual.

    • Avoid all animal dead bodies or secretions, such as chicken, beef, lamb, fish, shellfish, dairy and eggs, which are common sources of food-borne bacteria and parasites, and also harms the soul with negative energy and immoral acts of exploitation.
    • Wash all fresh fruit and vegetables thoroughly before eating to remove infectious germs and parasites.
    • Do not use any other animal products or services such as leather, fur, animal hide, zoos, aquariums, pets or pet food, etc.
    • Store food correctly and avoid cross-contamination during food preparation or storage. Also avoid unhygienic restaurants, especially those that serve animal products including dairy or animal meat.
    • Satvik Diet and Lifestyle: Do not consume spoilt food, stale, over-processed or over-kept items. Eat food as soon as it is prepared. Refrigerate when required and eat promptly instead of keeping it in the fridge too long. Avoid canned, frozen, processed, fried, junk, toxic, and highly cooked items. Always stay away from animal products and services.

    2) Avoid Animal Manure

    • Use Veganic gardening items and gloves to avoid soil pathogens. Organic items use animal manure, blood, bones, etc., which are exploitative, pathogenic and parasitical.
    • Use plant compost, leaf mould and other veganic methods. Animal manure can contain bacteria, viruses and parasites that contaminate vegetables and groundwater.  
    • Obtain Vitamin B12 from fortified foods or supplements rather than relying on manure-contaminated organic produce or animal based products of exploitation such as animal meats, dairy, eggs, etc.

    3) Practise Excellent Personal Hygiene and use good Footwear

    • Wash hands properly especially before and after eating and after touching others including non-human animals or humans if they are likely to carry germs.
    • Keep fingernails short and clean: Food waste and other dirt stays inside nail growth. Pinworms or threadworms spread through itching at night to multiply eggs that can live in nails and spread around. Many other germs spread through nails.
    • Sweat can create an environment for infections to thrive in, for sweat rash, follicularitis, contact dermatitis, often worsening eczema, or bartholin cysts from blocked glands and pores. Shower regularly or take baths with hot water to get rid of sweat and germs picked up during the course of the day.
    • Wash hair regularly to avoid dandruff, lice and other infections.
    • Brush teeth twice daily as bacteria can infect the mouth, throat, and also pass to others and create dental cavities, gum infections and pain.
    • Change towels regularly as well as undergarments and any pillowcases, sheets, etc. to prevent bugs, germs. and parasites.
    • Wash clothes, bedding, mats, throws, rugs, curtains, or upholstery and keep clean all carpets from dust, pests, and mites.
    • Use only Vegan homecare, personal care and cleaning products.

    Wear clean and good quality vegan footwear outdoors, to reduce exposure to parasites, sharp objects and contaminated soil. Some worms, viruses, fungi, and bacteria infect the feet, especially hookworms (creeping eruptions from ground contaminated with animal faeces), athlete’s foot (fungal infection), and HPV (verruca infection). Walking barefoot is not essential for spirituality, in imitation of any culture or guru.

    4) Keep Your Home Clean

    • Kitchen worktops and utensils
    • Chopping boards and equipment
    • Door handles or knobs
    • Phones
    • Computer keyboards
    • Gym equipment
    • Toilet seats and floor
    • Bathroom surfaces
    • Bins
    • Furnitures and fixtures

    Prevent mould growth by:

    • fixing leaks
    • ventilating bathrooms and all rooms
    • reducing dampness

    Pest Control: Reduce exposure to rodents, spiders, and insects

    • Cleaning the home, utensils and fridges, and keeping them dry
    • Avoiding all clutter and useless items from piling up where they may hide
    • Using only minimal, lightweight and easy to move furniture
    • Avoiding thick curtains, rugs or carpets to enable them to hide in
    • Using herbs such as peppermint spray, conker shells, garlic and cloves to repel them.

    5) Safe Water Tips

    Not just food or pests but water can transmit diseases.

    Cholera, E-coli, Hepatitis, Salmonella, Noravirus, and flus can spread through water.

    Cryptosporidium: A microscopic parasite found in human and animal feces. It is notoriously resistant to chlorine disinfection.

    Brain-Eating Amoeba (Naegleria fowleri): Thrives in warm fresh water. If it enters the nose, it travels to the brain and causes meningoencephalitis, an infection with a fatality rate approaching 100%. 

    Blood Flukes (Schistosoma): These flatworms burrow through human skin in contaminated water. They mature in the bloodstream and cause schistosomiasis, leading to severe organ damage, internal bleeding, and kidney failure. 

    • Use suitable filtration or bottled water where appropriate.
    • Boil water if contamination is suspected (not all germs die from boiling).
    • Avoid drinking from rivers and streams without purification.
    • Use clean pools as swimming can transmit infections from water at times
    • Shower and bathe before and after swimming

    6) Use Herbs and Spices for cleansing the body as natural medicines

    Many herbs contain compounds with antimicrobial and anti-parasitic properties, for e.g.:

    • Clove (eugenol)
    • Garlic (allicin)
    • Oregano (carvacrol)
    • Thyme (thymol)
    • Cinnamon (cinnamaldehyde)
    • Ginger (gingerols)
    • Turmeric (curcumin)
    • Rosemary (phenolic and carnosic acids)
    • Sage (eucalyptols)
    • Wormwood (in small doses as recommended)

    7) Avoid Animal Exploitation Contact

    Animal exploitation such as animal farms, domesticated pets, horses or other uses of animals, causes diseases and harm to us as well as the victim animals. Be Vegan in not just diet but rejecting all exploitation. Take appropriate care as activists when visiting animal farms, slaughterhouses, or sanctuaries even for rescue and rehabilitation.

    • Avoid contact with domesticated or farmed animals
    • Avoid unnecessary contact with animal faeces.
    • Take precautions when around wildlife.
    • Wash hands after unavoidable animal contact.
    • Focus on awareness building and education on Veganism to end exploitation as rescue does not address demand by itself.

    8) Sensible Social and Sexual Boundaries

    • Stay home when ill.
    • Avoid close contact and sitting next to people who have contagious infections
    • Avoid interactions with those who seem to lack hygiene.
    • Wash  hands and face after being in crowded public places.
    • Cover coughs and sneezes and avoid people from talking upon or sneezing over your food to avoid saliva droplets.
    • Use a vegan disinfectant for home and personal use for safety
    • Wear a mask in high-risk situations if appropriate (for example, during respiratory virus outbreaks or when caring for someone infectious).
    • Mutual monogamy or limiting partners reduces exposure to sexually transmitted infections.
    • Partners must practice good personal hygiene, and a healthy vegan diet too.  
    • Barrier protection and sexual health screening where relevant are advisable.
    • Avoid sexual intimacy when either partner has symptoms of infections.

    A single 10-second kiss can transfer an estimated 80 million bacteria between partners. Frequent kissing actually causes couples to share similar oral microbes and possible gut contamination. Herpes, kissing disease or glandular fever, cold and flu, tooth bacteria/ decay, H.pylori and several other germs and parasites can be transmitted. Several pathogens may be transmitted. Spiritual people prefer to stay celibate or monogamous with only compatible healthy partners, for a reason. We value personal wellbeing, as well as focus on our life-purpose of spiritual liberation, raising awareness and enhancing consciousness.

    9) Stay Informed and Use Preventive Healthcare when essential.

    1. Only use antibiotics when prescribed as misuse contributes to antimicrobial resistance. 
    2. Vaccines are sometimes prescribed to manage certain risks of infections and it is a good idea to research on ingredients before you decide to use them. Some of them use pig gelatin, egg based mediums, cow based serums, animal testing, and contribute to exploitation as well as to spread of germs in the bargain.
    3. Please note that a plant based healthy diet was noted to reduce risks of developing serious corona-virus symptoms by as much as 75%. Plant-based food prevent several animal caused diseases, and infections. For more details read: Detailed Article on Infectious Diseases Due to Animal Exploitation

    10. Build a Strong Immune System

    • Plenty of colourful vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds for phytonutrients and vitamins.
    • Regular exercise and healthy body weight/ BMI control
    • Avoid smoking, alchohol, and narcotics
    • Limit tea and coffee
    • Sleep well: Poor sleep can disrupt the balance of the gut microbiome and lower immunity.
    • Stress management: Prolonged psychological stress such as due to care-giving responsibilities, major life events, abuse, trauma, or ongoing workplace stress can reduce immunity.

    Stress management: Prolonged psychological stress such as care-giving responsibilities, major life events, abuse, trauma, or ongoing workplace stress can reduce immunity. Take deep meditative regression or hypno-therapies and spiritual healing sessions to recover from past events of trauma, abuse, and stress. Predict and prevent or cut-cords from current ongoing abuse or risk factors and people through an intuitive counselling session with meditation, tarot and astrological guidance to clarify events and feelings.

    The goddess of health was termed Hygiea in ancient Greece for a reason. Health cannot exist without hygiene. Spiritual peace and growth cannot be attained without wellbeing. When you open your body to contamination through animal products, germs, and abuse or exploitation of yourself or others, you can attract negative energy that takes over your life over the course of years. Manifesting a better life begins with a strong grounding in basic health and wellbeing.

    Blessed Be!

  • The Best Advice for Complete Healing

    The Best Advice for Complete Healing

    The best advice you will ever receive is to align with your true self or nature in mind body and soul. Please follow these guidelines:

    –  Love your body, mind and soul by adopting the right ways of meditation, thinking, behaviour, intuition, nutrition and lifestyle.

    – The essence of Healing is about
    1. Physical health (Earth energy),
    2. Emotional health (Water energy)
    3. Moral health or good karma/ actions (Fire energy)
    4. Mental health/ peace (Air energy)
    5. Spiritual health/ right beliefs (Soul energy).
    All 5 elements of nature/ Vedic philosophy need to be in harmony with your highest good.

    – Your food as a frugivore ape *(humans are a type of great ape) – is colourful fresh fruit and raw vegetables. Schools and medicos are wrong in teaching us lies that humans need animal products as omnivores. We are not biological omnivores who eat animals raw. Animal products harm us hugely.
    *** I am Vegan and whole plant based for over 12 years. I always prefer to eat mainly raw plants for optimal health.

    – No drugs, toxic things, alcohol, clutter, stress, unhygenic things, or unhealthy junk food. Never things that disturb your chakras. Keep your chakras aligned with your highest good. I help with deep chakra healing and therapy.

    – Wiccan Rede: ‘If it Harms None Do What Ye Will’. Don’t harm yourself or other sentient beings is the only guideline. No other religious commandments are necessary. Completely reject any religious beliefs that are fabrications of lower consciousness and mess up your mind, body and soul by way of fear and obedience. No external individual called God/ Allah or person has created the infinite natural universe. Nature is the Goddess or Creator. Energy creates reality.

    – Peace, abundance and happiness are within you and not something to search for everywhere else. Stay safe from meaningless and useless relationships or abuse that take away your time and energy. No sexual relationships, friendship and dating with multiple lower vibrational or unconscious people who do not know what self love ❤️ is. Value yourself. Love yourself.
    ** I am celibate for over 7 years and free of abuse, narcissistic people, psychopaths, machiavillians, energy vampires and demonic beings who give you trauma.
    I am well trained and can help heal your trauma through hypnotherapy, regression and inner child therapy.

    – You are Magickal. Your subconscious and conscious vibrations create reality. Never let anyone else tell you otherwise or harm you. Learn and practice magical skills, else you are uneducated about one of the most essential skills of all. Use your natural inner powers. Learn how to work with energy from within.
    ** I am magical since I was 10 years old when I cast my first Wiccan Ritual circle and spell. I train worthy students and initiate those who pass the training in divination, intuition, meditation, reiki, Wiccan spells, and vedic astrology remedies.

    – The world will tell you many things that are wrong. Stay away from media and society’s brainwashing from TV and news which pollutes your mind. Only follow wise masters.
    ** I do not watch TV news and dull programs since 20 plus years (only magical and consciousness based energy is welcome).

    Blessed be!!

    (*)

    Rev. (Dr.) Swati Prakash (AltMed Therapist)


    AskSwati.com

    http://www.swatiprakash.com

  • Beltane: Start of Summer to Awaken Light, Power, and Joy

    Beltane: Start of Summer to Awaken Light, Power, and Joy

    As the wheel of the year turns, Beltane arrives as a radiant threshold — a celebration of fire, fertility, and the full awakening of life. In the Northern Hemisphere, it marks the beginning of summer, while in the Southern Hemisphere, it signals the descent into winter’s introspection. Yet in both, it is a powerful pivot — a moment of transformation in Earth’s living cycle.

    Today’s Flower Full Moon amplifies this energy to extraordinary levels. Blossoms are not only blooming in the physical world as flowers will soon turn to fruits, but energetically, possibilities are opening, intentions are ripening, and the veil between thought and manifestation feels thinner. This is a day of phenomenal power.

    The Turning of the Earth Cycle

    Beltane is not merely seasonal but energetically powerful.

    The Earth shifts from potential into expression. What was seeded in stillness begins to rise into form. Light expands. Warmth grows. Movement replaces dormancy. This is the triumph of life force energy.

    In this moment, we align ourselves with the same rhythm: From hesitation into action, from shadows of doubt into illumination, and from limitation into expansion of abundance and success.

    Light Over Shadow

    Beltane is a fire festival, and fire is both creator and purifier. It burns away what no longer serves us. Today’s energy clears away all lingering doubts, negative thought patterns, or stagnant emotional energy. We replace this with clarity, courage, and vitality.

    This is why Beltane has long been a time for spells of success, health, empowerment, and forward movement. The growing light of the sun becomes a mirror of our own inner fire.

    The Energy of Joy and Celebration

    Unlike more introspective festivals, Beltane is alive with happiness, sensuality, and playfulness. It invites us not just to reflect but to celebrate existence itself.

    Dance, laughter, connection, colour and the experience of joy without guilt or fear is liberating. Maypole dances and the May or Summer king and queen as divine symbols of nature when animals celebrate, and enjoy outdoors with good cheer. It is a social festival too with dance, music and playful exuberance.

    Wicca as a Global Path of Nature and Wisdom

    Wicca, in its modern global expression, is not bound by geography but rooted in a universal truth: Nature is sacred, and we are part of it.

    The word “witch” itself carries the essence of wit and wisdom — one who understands energy, cycles, and balance, and works with energy practically in a way that does not harm self or others, but heals, inspires and transforms our life and our planet.

    Global Wicca embraces a fusion of traditions, recognising that symbols across cultures reflect shared archetypal truths.

    Sacred Symbols of Beltane Across East and West

    Beltane’s solar fire and fertile energy appear in many forms across traditions:

    • In Western symbolism, the May Queen embodies beauty, growth, and the blossoming Earth alongside the Green Man who becomes the Oak or summer King.
    • The Maypole dance, with its intertwining red and white ribbons, represents the sacred union of energies — life force weaving into creation.

    In Eastern traditions, we find parallel expressions:

    • Mata Rani Durga, radiant and powerful, represents divine feminine strength — a force that destroys negativity and restores balance. She is a union of all the powers and positive energies of various masculine deities collectively in order to defeat the most unvanquishable demons.
    • The sacred pairing of Ram and Sita, comes to mind, supported by Hanuman, who reflects devotion, righteousness, and the victory of light over darkness with Hanuman eating up the sun as a symbol of power.
    • The colour red, so prominent both in Western and Eastern rituals, mirrors Beltane’s fire — passion, protection, and life energy. Red candles, and flowers are sacred today as offerings to the sun and the full moon, and to the deities.

    This East–West resonance forms the essence of Vedic Wicca — a unified understanding that spiritual truths transcend cultural boundaries which is represented in the Global Wicca Tradition.

    Beltane Ritual: Banish and Manifest

    This is an ideal day to actively work with energy with the Earth Healing Temple of Global Wicca.

    Simple Earth Healing Practice:

    1. Step outside and enjoy time in a place of nature, or stand near an open window.
    2. Visualise golden sunlight pouring into your body.
    3. Feel it expanding through your chest, your mind, your entire being.
    4. Then imagine this light pushing outward — dissolving all negativity within and around you.
    5. Speak (aloud or within):
      “I release all that no longer feels right. I welcome light, power, and success in me. I heal and bless with love and light. Myself, my home, family, nature, and humanity. By the powers of earth, fire, wind and sea. As I will so will it be!!”
    6. Visualise your intention already alive — not as hope, but as reality.

    Stepping Into Your Power for Earth Healing

    Beltane reminds us that we are not passive observers of life but co-creators.

    The same force that blooms flowers, fuels the sun, and turns the seasons lives within us. Let this day and season, be one of brightness, movement, and intention to heal our planet.

    Thank the earth, sun and moon today for the radiance and life energy provided and channel some of the life force energy from the higher self or the universe into the earth using your hands of light. Visualise the Earth’s shadows or darkness being erased and replaced with a bright and warm aura of beauty, love, and healing for all animals and plants on earth. This is not possible unless we are Vegan first and then also choose to be a force of good.

    Today I also present www.govegan.earth as an offering of Earth Healing Network to the world. Please Take the Vegan Pledge and sign up the Animal Rights Declaration.

    Thank you and Blessed Be!

    Rev. Swati Prakash, High Priestess Earth Healing Temple, and Head Global Wicca Tradition/ Magick School.

  • Make a New Beginning this Ostara Spring Equinox

    Make a New Beginning this Ostara Spring Equinox

    Blessed Spring Equinox *Ostara
    An Important Article For Awareness

    Why is Easter so close to Equinox with similar symbols of flowers, baby chicks, rabbits, or eggs and with Mothering Sunday before that as well as Passover?

    Why do monotheistic religious festivals such as Eid also use the moon or lunar system around such times?

    Hindu New Year and associated festivals of various names such as Gudi padwa, Ugadi and Cheti chand, Chaitra Navratri of goddess, Holi of colours etc are around the new moon of this vernal equinox. Parsi New Year or Navroz and Sindhi new year too.

    Western and middle eastern Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths also have similar timings and symbolisms…because we all originally celebrated nature. We kept track of all seasons due to all families relying on nature for plant food supply and comfort or warmth, and used the moon phases and stars or astrology to count days and guide us before the modern calendar.

    Sadly some religions have tried to break our bond with mother nature and have instead introduced other deities and myths into our life. We were all told about this one ‘person’ being the only creator of everything around and to obey ‘Him’ and to punish those who believe in nature or various natural powers.

    The idea was to scare us into submission and to make us lose focus on how we must respect our true mother Nature…its various manifestations…such as our planet and its life.

    This led to materialism and consumerism and a blatant disregard or lack of empathy for nature. This also led to disrespect for magic amd witches and a deep fear of our own inner power. And a disrespect for non-human animals based on their beliefs in strange voices and commands.

    Because the Matrix does not want us awake

    …it wants us obedient as slaves and shopping for unnecessary things
    … and doing jobs to sell those unnecessary things
    …not doing magic and spiritual work that makes people want less of those unnecessary things
    …not self Realisation of inner power that makes us peaceful and self-content.

    Instead… it wants us stressed, lonely, ashamed, wanting others, fearing …but never truly happy.

    I urge you all to reconnect with the original true or natural self and to love nature. See the truth of how divine energy creates reality and is omnipresent as nature in many forms.

    Our destruction of nature and disrespect to life by killing innocent beings and their exploitation or by cutting trees and ruining earth is demonic not divine.

    Our wars for power and religious domination, terror and discrimination against pagans, astrologers, witches, psychics and nature worshippers is also demonic not divine.

    Do not believe that creator is a man or a person who asked someone to kill a human or non-human such as lamb, or to kill a son…. or use animals as our slaves. We must reject those demonic beliefs and return to nature. To the True Inner Self. To our inner magick.

    Suggested Spells and Rituals

    Direction: East and Sunrise *set up altar

    Colours: Yellow *candles, flowers, altar cloth, clothing, and crystals

    Deities: Maiden goddess, Ostara, Radha

    Symbols: Rabbits, Clovers, Rainbows, Flowers, Birds

    Energise your life with the words of power.

    ‘A New Beginning, a rebirth,

    Within this life and on this Earth.

    I rise again and now return

    To truth awaken, live and learn

    I activate success and prosperity

    By the Goddess Nature, Earth, Fire, Wind and Sea

    As I will so it will be

    May all beings now be free’

    Blessed be!!
    (*)
    Rev. Swati Prakash
    High Priestess

  • Imbolc: A Pagan Festival of Seeds not Dairy

    Imbolc: A Pagan Festival of Seeds not Dairy

    Greetings of the Season of Imbolc!!

    Derived from the word Imbolg or ‘in the belly’, Imbolc is celebrated ritually at the start of February in the northern hemisphere (and the beginning of August in the southern hemisphere). This festival of earth, brings an end to the dark phase of very short days and less light, to provide an opportunity for earth to awaken again and bear seeds in her ‘belly’.

    It is time for Earth mother’s quickening and for us to be preparing seedbeds for plantation. The return of light to earth is illustrated with a symbolism of a young goddess (maiden or bride called Brigid) and a ritual of Candlemas (to crown the goddess with candles or light to pair her with God (solar deity) who brings the warmth necessary for the upcoming days of germination. Incidentally Christian symbolism has borrowed this festival of the Earth mother to create a festival around blessing of Virgin Mary who is a young lady selected to be impregnated by the seed of God, and called it Candlemas. (Just like Easter is borrowed from Ostara and Christmas from Yule).

    IS IT IMBOLG OR OIMELC?

    Imbolc is often wrongly described in modern explanations as a festival involving humans using animal milk/ dairy, or the lactation of ewes because some people pronounce it as Oimelc or Ewe’s milk (sheep lactation). While this interpretation has become common, it reflects a narrow and later overlay rather than the deeper spiritual and earth-based meaning of the sabbat. At its heart, Imbolc is not about consuming animal products, but about the subtle yet powerful moment when the Earth herself begins to stir again after the long dark in order for us to prepare soil for planting seeds in her ‘belly’. Even if sheep lactate at this time or any other, it is only for the purpose of producing milk for their own children, and never for human exploitation. Sheep or any other animal would lactate only when they produce a baby and not necessarily at a specific time of the year.

    WHY DAIRY MUST BE AVOIDED

    From a Wiccan perspective rooted in non-harming and reverence for life, the modern emphasis on dairy at Imbolc deserves careful reconsideration. Dairy is not a neutral or benign substance. It is a product of exploitation, involving the control of animal reproduction, separation of mothers and offspring, and ongoing physical harm. To include such products in a festival dedicated to renewal, purity, and alignment with the Goddess creates a spiritual contradiction.

    Wicca teaches respect for all living beings and seeks harmony rather than domination. Consuming products rooted in suffering and exploitation, does not align with the principle of non-harming, nor does it support spiritual clarity or attunement to the higher self. Explotation is harm.

    When honouring the Goddess as Earth Mother, it is more consistent to celebrate her through plant life, seeds, grains, herbs, and simple offerings that reflect cooperation with nature rather than extraction from it. The correct way of understanding this festival is described below.

    BLESSING THE SEEDS

    Imbolc actually is about blessing new seeds, for new beginnings, and preparing the soil, before planting them into the earth, as it marks the turning point where the light, once at its weakest, begins its return and days start growing. The days are still cold, the land may appear lifeless, and growth is not yet visible, but something profound has shifted beneath the surface. The Earth has entered a phase of quickening. Life is no longer fully dormant. Energy is moving again, quietly and inwardly, preparing for what is to come.

    Rather than focusing on milk or animal reproduction, Imbolc is more accurately understood as the time when Mother Earth once again carries seeds in her belly. These seeds, both literal and symbolic, are held within the soil, nurtured in darkness, awaiting the strengthening light of spring. This is not a time of birth or abundance, but of preparation, intention, and potential. The Goddess is present not as the giver of harvest, but as the bearer of possibility.

    Traditionally, this season was associated with cleansing, readiness, and quiet work. Tools were repaired, land was tended, and seedbeds were prepared. Nothing dramatic was expected to happen yet as it is still very cold in olaces further from the equator. The wisdom of Imbolc lies in recognising that true growth begins unseen. Roots form before shoots appear, just as inner transformation precedes outer change.

    WICCAN MAGICK FOR IMBOLC

    In Wiccan spirituality, this mirrors the inner path. Imbolc invites reflection, purification, and alignment. It is a time to release what has grown stagnant during the dark months and to make space for new intentions to take root. The returning light is gentle rather than overwhelming, like a candle flame rather than a blaze, reminding us that transformation does not need force to be powerful.

    Spells for Imbolc: Try candle magic, using brightly coloured candles to manifest your positive wishes, especially if dressed in herbal potions or magickal oils. This time Imbolc also falls on the full moon and is especially powerful. You may also use seeds for spells, by blessing the seeds with powerful intentions using the candle, and plant them for germination. How about a spell with seeds to bless the earth with positive energy and healing for our planet, and then planting these seeds in the soil with this powerful intent? You could also try to bless crystals or stones and plant them with written spells or intentions into the earth for fruition energetically.

    The association of Imbolc with Brigid reinforces this understanding. Brigid is a goddess of fire, healing, inspiration, and renewal. Her fire is not destructive but illuminating, warming the frozen ground and awakening life. This sacred fire represents consciousness returning after dormancy, creativity re-emerging, and the soul remembering its connection to the living Earth.

    Imbolc belongs to the land, the light, and the unseen work of becoming. It reminds us that life renews itself quietly and that the Earth is not a resource to be taken from, but a living presence to be honoured. As the light returns, so does our responsibility to walk gently, act consciously, and align our practices with the values we claim to uphold.

    Imbolc is the whisper before the green, the breath before the sprout, the moment when the Goddess carries the future within her once again. To honour this sabbat is to honour potential, purity of intention, and the sacred rhythm of life awakening from within.

    May you have a peaceful and positive festivity of the growth of light within and spreading of the seeds of knowledge. Bless the seeds of love and light and may the Goddess as the Higher Self always shine radiantly in you to spread positive energy and awareness of truth all around.

    Blessed Imbolc

    (*)

    Rev. Swati Prakash

  • The Right Application of Wiccan Wisdom in Daily Life

    Is it just about Positive Thinking?
    No
    Will just sound healing or frequency be enough?
    No
    Will just candles work?
    No
    Is it just about being compassionate?
    No
    Is it just belief?
    No

    There is plenty of misinformation out there on the Internet because AI, chatbots and new age influencers do not have the vast actual experience and enlightenment that I do. So please understand this well.

    Wicca works with all five elements:

    1) Spirit (Inner beliefs and subconscious energy)
    To keep your spiritual state Positive 🙏
    Holding on to lower quality beliefs, religious brainwashing, dogma, belief in exploitation, abuse, demonic alignment, evil deities, evil people, evil traditions, evil scriptures, and lower consciousness is unuseful.

    2) Air (Thoughts)
    Your words, your affirmations and spells, mantras, frequency resonance, mental programming, mental energy work, must be focused on good and to cut out all unwanted interferences

    3) Fire (Will and Action)
    Just belief and mind is not enough. We also need to send the energy out into life by acting on it. Set intentions. Project your will outwards. Do the energy work. Take concrete steps to welcome change. Work on your daily routine.

    4) Water (Emotion)
    Negative feelings, anger, rage, fear, selfishness, being unkind, jealousy, desperation, gloom, these take away your energy and leave you drained and unhappy. Transform your emotional charge. Walk in love and light. Visualise and feel the power.

    5) Earth (Physicality)
    Your body, your Home or workspace, your surroundings area, environment, clothing, decor, and food, all matter. Clean, positive food, clean spaces, herbs, crystals, aromas, symbols, colors, sunshine, and nature, clothing, jewelry, all connect with the earth element. Bring your positive energy into actual physical life too.

    Only 100 percent positive energy inside out.

    Blessed Be
    (*)
    Rev. Swati Prakash
    AskSwati.com Swati Prakash Tarot and Wiccan Healer

    A Holistic Path
  • Free Vedic Astrology Forecast 2026: Blue Moon, Red Moon & Celestial Magic

    Free Vedic Astrology Forecast 2026: Blue Moon, Red Moon & Celestial Magic

    Magickal Greetings of the New Year of 2026!

    This will be no ordinary year in the skies. It carries an extra full moon – that ‘once in a’ Blue Moon, plus powerful eclipses including a blood Red Full Moon, and rare planetary movements that invite us to slow down, tune in, and work with cosmic timing rather than against it.

    This is a year that rewards intuition, patience, and conscious intention especially for those who work with lunar cycles, spiritual practices, or magickal timing. 2026 is not about constant forward motion. This is a year to work with lunar cycles, honour rest as much as action, protect your energy during eclipses and trust intuition over impulse. Those who move gently, listen deeply, and align with the rhythms of the year are likely to find 2026 quietly liberating.

    I cannot overemphasize that Vedic or Sidereal astrology is much more accurate with respect to the actual positions of planets as seen from earth, in contrast with western astrological data which has fallen out of line. Moreover Vedic astrology is quite magically potent with remedies available for every issue in the form of gems, mantras and rituals.

    Therefore , I highly recommend that readers who enjoy precise dates, planetary tables, and monthly predictions with more detailed explanations, download my FREE detailed ephemeris and forecast in PDF format (available at the end of this article.)

    A Rare Gift: The Blue Moon Year

    One of the standout features of 2026 is the presence of 13 full moons instead of the usual 12, thanks to a Blue Moon in May — when two full moons fall in the same calendar month. Traditionally, full moons represent culmination, fulfillment, and manifestation.
    An extra full moon is therefore seen as a symbolic bonus. It is a chance to make a special heartfelt wish with amplified power. If you work with moon rituals, this year offers extra opportunities to reflect on the past, realign with the present, and consciously manifest the best possible future.

    Eclipse Times: Pause, Protect, and Recalibrate

    The year 2026 also brings four eclipses, which act as energetic checkpoints in the year. February and March open the year with a solar eclipse followed by a dramatic lunar Red Moon eclipse, while August brings a second eclipse season, including a total solar eclipse and a partial lunar eclipse within the same month.

    Eclipses are traditionally viewed as times of heightened sensitivity and unpredictability. Rather than pushing forward aggressively, they encourage rest and reflection, spiritual protection and grounding, clearing negative patterns, especially avoiding risky new ventures during the peak eclipse window. These are powerful moments for inner work rather than outward action.

    The Annual Forecast

    The year begins with strong ancestral and reflective energy, combined with two powerful eclipses. This is a powerful time for spiritual cleansing and intention-setting rather than bold action.

    A progress into the year reveals gentler, more supportive energy. Creative ideas begin to flow while relationships soften and heal. The Blue Moon amplifies manifestation work for growth, beauty, and rebuilding confidence.

    The heart of the year carries intensity as retrogrades deepen and eclipse energy returns. Emotions may feel heightened too. Rather than resisting, this phase rewards patience, emotional intelligence, and conscious boundary-setting. Spiritual protection practices are especially beneficial here.

    The final months of the year focus on relationship reassessment, karmic closures and spiritual rebirths. The year ends by preparing you to step forward more visibly and confidently in the cycle ahead.

    Want the Full Astrological Table and Forecast for 2026?

    For readers who enjoy exact dates, planetary transits, retrogrades calendars and month-by-month breakdowns and forecasts:

    Download the FREE 2026 Astrology Ephemeris PDF (perfect for Astrologers and witches for magickal and Wiccan ritual timings):

    2026 Astro by SwatiDownload

    To request a personalized reading and advise on your year ahead through your unique Vedic birth chart and Tarot, contact me via www.askswati.com

  • Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out (Final Part)

    Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out (Final Part)

    So far in the previous Part 1 and Part 2 of this fascinating series, we examined the four types of possibilities of Why we were placed in a simulation and How, with four models based on popular science fiction and films such as The Truman Show, The Matrix, Inception and Charmed. These hinted that we might be victims placed in a computer simulation that is exploiting us against our consent, just as the majority of humans go on exploiting victim non human animals for various selfish non-vegan purposes. (I hope you do not and are Vegan)

    However there might be other possibilities too, especially if you do not deserve such a treatment. What if we are not meant to be victims but somehow entered such a simulation design at our will? Or what if there is a Divine Creator or Higher Self who placed us here? Certain science fiction, spiritual and religious therotical models are examined below in a comprehensive way.

    E) Total Recall – Voluntary Simulation Model

                  

    1. Environment

    A simulation in which you have placed yourself into voluntarily, and one of a design that is agreed upon by you might also be so realistic and thrilling that one can be lost in it and forget if you are in a simulation or reality. This would be like a gameplay which is very advanced in Virtual Reality.

    As an example, in the Total Recall film, a protagonist (Arnold Shwarzenneger) chooses to be given a false memory implant of visiting Mars as a secret agent and becoming a hero. When prompted to take a ‘red pill’ to wake up by someone from outside, he gets confused about whether he was actually an agent who had already been there and now being hunted down, or genuinely being guided to awaken, and decides not to take the red pill. (Interestingly this could also bewhere the Matrix filmmakers received the ‘red pill’ idea from).

    2. Architecture

    A world in such a high level simulation, is generated digitally by a computer program into which you are plugged in and given a false memory, depending on what story you selected. It could be adaptive with people or characters being generated based on your own mental desires, interests, and subconscious choices or likes and dislikes.

    3. Characters

    NPCs or scripted entities might be generated by the program based on your wishes, hopes and fears (such as the woman who was selected as per the protagonist’s desires as the one he rescued). Others might be present as a background or the storyline you chose. Real people might enter the world, if they need to give you a message, warning, or awaken you if required.

    4. Objective

    In Total Recall the simulation was an experience of travel to a hostile world, with a false memory implant issued in place of actual travel which was stated to be both expensive, inconvenient, and dangerous.

    However in our case a simulation could also be:

    • A voluntary training program to enhance skills, consciousness, courage, or abilities
    • A stasis simulation for entertainment or passing time in-situ for example during space travel or cryogenic suspension, or
    • A recreational or therapeutic experience designed for healing or psychological exploration

    5. Way Out

    In case it is a game of advancing in awareness until you transcend the adaptive simulation, one might need to complete the “level” as in the case of a training program, with levels becoming progressively more difficult just like in a computer game.

    Or it may be a case of awaiting the time on the clock to be completed so you can wake up when ready, once the story or artificially implanted memory plays out. Alternatively one might be guided to choose awakening in case of an emergency.

    F) Intergalactic Simulation Model — Ascension Theory

    1. Environment

    Such a theoretic model is based on a New Age concept that we are living in a multi-verse with various dimensions within nature. While we exist upon ‘earth-shan’, which is a simulation of 3D nature, space-faring beings or galactic masters of advanced spiritual and technological nature, exist in higher dimensions of 4D, 5D and above. Star Trek and Star Wars style scenarios involving alien beings from various races are what come to mind from popular fiction as an example to picturise what this might look like.

    2. Architecture

    A tiered cosmology starting wit a 3 Dimensional or 3D ‘earth-shan’ which we believe to be a physical earth but is a simulation and a training lab, that opens up into higher dimensions of 4D, 5D and above for those who evolve and ‘graduate’ from earth-school.

    3. Characters

    Galactic beings of various species, as well as Ascended masters who are enlightened spiritual beings are on the planes above earth. Descriptions include Intergalactic or space-faring multidimensional spiritual races such as:

    • Pleiedian (spiritually advanced feline) who traverse space and teach spiritual truths and magic,
    • Arcturian (spiritually advanced insectoid light beings) who work with sacred patterns and geometry, and
    • Alderbaran (spiritually advanced draconian), who might be giving spiritual guidance and opening some portals.

    On what seems to be earth or on abroad a ship we might come across

    • Lyran felines,
    • Avians,
    • Insectoid Greys,
    • Arachnids,
    • Draconians,
    • Reptilians,
    • Sirians (Canines or Undines/ Chlodigans from Sirius A or B respectively),
    • or Others and/ or their Hybrids

    Controlling demonic entities who are Draco-repto coiled manipulative beings and shapeshifters may also mislead humans.

    These might may present themselves in human form initially before they reveal their true form.

    4. Objective

    The objective could be a Mission such as,

    • Learning and raising personal frequency or mastery
    • Supporting other humans or non humans as light-workers, or
    • Raising planetary frequency or healing the planet and its beings.

    5. Way Out

    Learning and raising own vibrations through ethical and moral lessons that aid spiritual progression or help in ‘graduation’ from the world-school are saught. Ascension on completing some ‘missions, resulting in returning ‘Home’ or to be back in a place where we belong and fit in based on our frequency or spiritual DNA is usually indicated as the goal. Reuniting with our species or star family, twin-flame, discovering our soul origin, timeline, destiny or career is associated with leaving the simulation.

    The way out may be enhanced by genuine star beings, ascended masters or real guides, alongside a need for discernment and protection from negative, misleading, and confusing entities.

    G) Creationism Model – Conventional Religious Ideology

    1. Environment

    This popular ideology is followed by masses of monotheistic public which make up the majority of humans on earth. According to them, one being (or vaguely a group of beings) has or have created a reality in the form of this world. This earth created by this person, is populated by various beings such as plants and animals of millions of species including humans who are given dominion over other beings and issued commandments or rules for their own behaviour too with the Supreme creator person remaining in-charge.

    2. Architecture

    A fixed base reality governed by divine rules is set as the place where we all live. Magic or supernatural ability may exist but is often forbidden to general public and restricted to prophets, messiahs, or divine agents (such as the only child of the creator person, or angels deputed by them). After death, souls enter a judgement system leading to:

    • Heaven (reward of eternal life in a better or more comfortable world)
    • Hell or Purgatory (punishment of eternal torment)

    There is generally no reincarnation unless specific traditions include it, such as Hinduism in which the Creator is also depicted taking several other forms from time to time both on earth and cosmically. In the monotheistic faiths, instead of reincarnation, the dead human soul lies asleep in their coffins inside earth upon burial, until they are raised by the judging deity on a final judgement day and then taken onwards.

    3. Characters

    Humans being seem to have been designed in an ‘image and likeness’ of the supreme creator of the simulation (indicating that he is possibly in the semblance of a male human being). Humans created were a masculine being and a female counterpart created to give him company. Humans were then bestowed with powers over all other beings in the name of ‘Dominion’. Other animals are usually exploited, domesticated, herded, bred or killed except for some who are in the wild.

    4. Objective

    To express the mysterious will or purpose of the unknown Creator(s), Creation unfolds according to divine plan, with the creators intervening only occasionally (miracles, revelations). The Creator’s own origin and motivations remains unexplained.

    5. Way Out

    Humans have some level of free will but not absolute and are limited in consciousness, being made totally dependent upon the will of the Creator.  Rebellious ones are treated firmly. They are expected to be obedient to the creator or religious commandments. These commandments are written in books or scriptures that are accepted on blind faith in-spite of several inconsistencies. There is no way out in such a model of simulaltion, but only reward and punishment, as per the commandments or obedience levels. Perhaps not the best situation to be in for those who wish for free will and to reject any negative commandments or beliefs which are aplenty.

    H) Spiritual Model — The Self as the Creator Who Forgot

    1. Environment

    The world is seen as a manifestation of the higher self or soul acting as the original ‘programmer’. This is in alignment with the mystical views based in Upanishads of Hinduism that the entire cosmos is within the self as the dreamer (Aham Brahmasmi). The soul (Atman) is equated with the truth (Brahman) upon self realization.

    2. Architecture

    A thought-responsive dream-world (macrocosm or the universe), is all around – one which shifts according to beliefs, emotions, and subconscious patterns (microcosm) of the individual. This is explained as all your own lucid dream and therefore a projection of one’s own consciousness in the form of duality (maya or illusion of many beings instead of one, just like a dream where several beings are present but all in the mind of the dreamer). The universe is a manifestation of Shakti or Energy, which is spiritual and manifests all Vedic five elements and all things brought forth in combination with one’s consciousness. Shakti or the cosmic Goddess is manifest as Earth or Laxmi in the form of a physical world that gives us all things, wherein the dreamer also incarnates in various forms.

    3. Characters

    Archetypes and projections representing aspects of the dreamer, populate the environment, including:

    • Higher beings (angels, ascended masters, devas, divine guides) = Higher Consciousness
    • Demons, shadows, evil spirits, and toxic people = Unresolved subconscious patterns

    The dreamer is the Creator, appearing in three Vedic archetypes or Trinity:

    i) Brahma — The Creator Aspect
    The dreamer’s personality-self, projecting outward in this dream, with observation creating reality in each direction, resulting in shaping experiences from moment to moment. (Creator of the dream setting).

    ii) Vishnu — The Preserver Aspect
    The heroic or enlightened version of the Self, incarnating through ages as avatars to maintain continuity and stability across cycles of the dream. Often ‘he’ would be visualised as a male deity in Hinduisim, who stops apocalyses in order to save the earth who is his female counterpart or ‘Laxmi’ as an incarnation of earth to be saved from demons. These avatars are progressively evolving forms of non human and human animals, such as Matsya (fish), Kurma (tortoise), Varaha (boar), Vamana (dwarf man), Parsurama (axe man),  Rama (human), Krishna (magical human), Buddha (enlightened human) and the tenth awaited Kalki (superhuman who ends corruption). These avatars appear from one yuga or moral time-quarter of the wheel, to another, cyclically.

    iii) Shiva — The Dissolver Aspect
    The non-dual Self capable of ending or transcending the entire dream is our Super-Consciousness which is cosmic and unending and present eternally.

    4. Objective

    The Creator-Self has entered a dreamlike state with the purpose unknown, and the world appears within this cosmic dream that keeps going on in time. The “real” Self and the reality beyond this dream, both remain a mystery while the creator (Vishnu) is visualized as being asleep upon a giant world snake floating in waters, with the Brahma and Shiva being his own creative and transformational aspects within. It is said that the world would end if he awakened.

    5. Way Out

    Self-realization:
    Knowing the Self as the Creator.
    Recognizing the world as one’s own dream or projection.
    Following sattvic living, meditation, and the eightfold path to achieve Enlightenment.

    Final goal: Moksha (liberation from the reincarnation cycle)
    Without self-realization, the soul continues learning through successive lifetimes and remains in the duality or illusion of the dream-world.

    Conclusion

    These eight models — drawn from science fiction, metaphysics, religion, and spirituality — provide different ways to explore the Simulation Argument. Each gives a unique answer to the question of why reality exists and how it operates.

    Whether we feel trapped, tested, guided, or awakening, these frameworks help decode our reality and help seekers in our quest for truth.

    As we question the fabric of existence, these models offer tools to interpret the deeper patterns shaping both our inner and outer reality.

    Please remember that whether or not any of these appeal to you or make you feel better, or whether or not you believe in any of these ideas based on your spiritual or religious thinking or upbringing, they still may or may not be the truth unless you actually find out for yourself, one day. I hope I certainly do!!

    Let me know what you think.

  • Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out: Part 2

    Deep Inside the Rabbit Hole: Eight Possible Types of Simulation and Possible Ways Out: Part 2

    In the previous article, three possible answers to the question of Why we are in a Simulation and its evidence to support the famous Simulation Argument were detailed. The first of these theories was that of ‘Victims’ placed in an alternate reality against one’s will by a perpetrator, with the intention to exploit or use the victim for personal gain. To illustrate this there are four different models of Simulation based on four very popular fictional stories from Hollywood. Hope you enjoy pondering over the same in order to deliberate over the hypothesis of the Simulation Argument.

    A) The Truman Show — A Closed Physical Set Controlled Externally by Show Creators

    1. Environment

    A limited, physical 3D world disguised as a full reality; essentially a stage set with boundaries. In this film there is a giant dome with an entire town within it enclosed by water around and a false sky above, with image projections of stars, clouds, sunlight, wind, thunder, rain,  just like a 4D film.

    2. Architecture

    Man-made, mechanical, and fully scripted with improvisations; the town is controlled and monitored from outside with cameras, microphones, actors, and invisible ear implants through which the show creators or organizers talk to the actors and guide them, except for the victim who is addressed by the ‘Creator’ only upon escape.

    3. Characters

    Actors populate the town (set), with one central victim being observed since birth and completely unaware of being in a show, until he begins to find some evidence on receiving a hint from an extra on the set and exploring further.

    4. Objective

    Entertainment and financial gain; exploitation of the protagonist for the purpose of making a show and gaining advertising revenues through it for the personal gain of the show’s makers. All items are on sale including houses on the show.

    5. Way Out

    Locating the physical boundary of the dome, breaking through and discovering the external world, required the ‘true’ man to conquer his fear of water or drowning and set sail alone. Also by emotional detachment and assertiveness, the protagonist refused to be part of his (false) family drama by realizing that his wife, friends and relatives around are not ‘real’. He notices the patterns and evidence of ‘un-reality’ in event sequences and chose to break free by physical travel or movement outside.

    B) The Matrix — A Full Digital Simulation Run by Energy Hungry AI

    1. Environment

    While the Truman Show depicted an ordinary brick and mortar world, The Matrix opened our eyes to the possibility of a digitally rendered world with procedural algorithms that mimic infinite space. The world appears vast but is ultimately limited. Outside the globe of earth no civilizations exist (Fermi Paradox, one we can relate with), while upon earth corporate giants have taken over land with tall glassy towers, animal meat in restaurants, and other big industries post industrial revolution and capitalism much like our own world.

    2. Architecture

    Computer programs, code loops, glitches, limited by processing power keep the victim engrossed and controlled by putting Neo back on the treadmill (psychological reset mechanisms) as soon as he is shot or if he tries jumping off the building, thereby maintaining continuity of memories and experience. Strong ‘deja-vu’ moments indicate that the AI made a change in reality by superimposing an alternate timeline.

    There can also be an adaptive simulation model in such a computer generated simulation, one in which situations shift, depending on one’s own inner state of consciousness as it is a mind linked simulation.

    3. Characters

    A mix of:

    AI programs (Oracle, Smith, Merovingian, either help or hinder the victims by carefully putting them on to a path they have designed in order to keep the plan going in a desired way).

    Human victims plugged into the system are unaware they are victims and seem to either enjoy or struggle. They range from copper-tops, to super rich icons such as Cypher who had chosen to be put back to sleep.

    Awakened rebels (Morpheus, Neo, Trinity) have chosen to be free by realizing that they are in a programmed reality and not the real world. They try to break free themselves, and returned to help others who are real victims if those they help do choose to be free and take the ‘red pill’ and not the ‘blue pill’ (as a symbol of choice, thereby respecting free will).

    In an adaptive model, characters may also change and adapt based on one’s own mental energy shifts to become positive or negative, helpful or hindering, spiritually calming or stressful and materialistic, in case we are in one such Matrix.

    4. Objective

    Energy harvesting or extraction in order to keep the machines in power. Humans were farmed just like non human animals, as machines could not harvest the sun for power due to humans polluting the sky. In order to extract energy from humans, the machines needed to establish mind control of most victims, and keep them stressed with nightmares and unfulfilled desires. As long as there was systemic stability and continuity or a reset of the Matrix a parallel world was allowed to operate by letting the anomaly of an unresolved equation in the program (Neo) become ‘The One’ with a certain function, in order to maintain a certain level of survival for the machines.

    5. Way Out

    Awakening from within; red-pill moments are when someone who is free is offered a choice. Then disconnecting them from the central program by unplugging the cables manually upon tracing one’s real trapped body in the human farm which are similar to the intensive animal farming systems we know of.

    C) Inception — A Manipulated Dream With Subconscious Projections

    1. Environment

    Dream layers which are nested dreams within dreams, resembling multiple pocket dimensions stacked within each other, all existing within the overall bigger overall ‘real’ world reality. There is an experience of time dilation with the original time having hardly passed by a few minutes, while all dreamers in the shared dreams, have more time while inside a well architectured dream level, and could even reach old age, in the lowest limbo layer of the raw unconscious.

    2. Architecture

    Built by dream architects; the dream setup in each level of the nested dream, mimics real life spaces, although not exactly, so that the creators who enter the dream remain in control and are not lost in the dream themselves. Paradoxical geometry such as Penrose steps, opposite mirrors, and Labyrinth architectures, attempt to provide an illusion of infinity within the limited structure. The scenario is crafted by the imagination of the dreamer who puts the victim in this shared dream. The subconscious conflicts of the victim under intervention are visible to all shared dreamers, so that their secrets become known to the perpetrators. Similarly suggestions could be made to them in this state in order to make them behave a certain way upon waking up.

    3. Characters

    Mostly subconscious projections populate the dream and appear out of the mind of the victim. Only a few conscious co-dreamers exist as humans apart from these projections, and these usually are the dream team sharing the dream together voluntarily and foes who aim to manipulate the dreamer.  The dreamers subconscious may include helpers who could even protect the dreamer especially in case they have been previously trained on how to protect their subconscious or even militarize the subconscious to find and attack or destroy intruders or extractors and implanters.

    4. Objective

    Extraction of information from the mind of the victim, or implantation of ideas into their mind, without the victim’s conscious awareness. The victim is manipulated or drugged into relaxing, thereby being made susceptible to subconscious mental intervention. In case the sub-conscious resists the perpetrators might try to overrule that by winning the victim’s confidence, or even make them fear and harm their own subconscious, for example the ‘Charles gambit’ to masquerade as the victim’s subconscious security person.

    5. Way Out

    Dying or killing oneself makes the dreamer wake up in upper level dreams but not in deeper layers when death could send them even deeper into a limbo state where they either live out their life span becoming old, or die to wake up. Realizing you are dreaming and using the militarized subconscious to fight off the perpetrators is a possibility in order to resist the manipulations, but the victim usually remains asleep until the drug wears off or until the time span of the dream runs out.  In case of the perpetrators they awaken using totems which are objects they carry all the time which behave differently in a dream, in order to test if they are dreaming. They might also use triggers designed carefully such as hearing synchronized music or falling off which jerks them up, due to inner ear being unaffected by the drug, thereby waking up to a higher layer. 

    D) Charmed— An Alternate Timeline Generated Magically

    1. Environment

    A magically or energetically generated alternate reality that is essentially an alternate time-line that diverges from a key historical moment, in order to create a new version of reality aimed at dis-empowering or controlling the victim. Cole (the invincible ex demon perpetrator) went into the past as an ‘Avatar’ (ascended master beyond time and space) upon being recruited and bestowed with new powers of manipulating time by the Avatar leaders. He changed the timeline, from the point around the death of Prue (the first sister) in-order to trap Phoebe (who was trying to break free from his control) back into a marriage and isolated her from the rest of her family and friends, taking away her career success so that she depends fully on him and lives with him out of fear. He also ensured that the Power of Three was wiped out with the fourth new sister being dead and the older sister not allowed to talk to Phoebe.

    2. Architecture

    Constructed by entities (Avatars paired with the demon), with unstable access points between timelines that are accessible or breached magically or by timeline slips, the architecture mimicked the original reality. The property of The Manor and landscape remained similar but control went into the hands of Cole who was successful and powerful as a leader of the underworld with demonic colleagues who feared and obeyed him.

    3. Characters

    Mostly non-human beings or demons in human forms who chiefly populated the simulation designed by Cole. Only the creator-entity Cole along with the Avatars were fully aware of the construction. The only aware victim had made a slip through by accident.

    4. Objective

    Entrapment, manipulation and hijacking of the victim’s timeline or destiny in order to entrap her within a narcissistic relationship for the perpetrator’s own romantic aspirations, as well as to win power, authority, and control upon the timeline.

    5. Way Out

    Recognizing the illusion by listening to the sister who had full awareness and memory of the real world, and breaking free from the spell or timeline overlay by fighting off and vanquishing the perpetrator.

    These four extremely vivid descriptions from these feature films or series are based on the idea that we might be placed in the simulation on purpose by someone other than the self for a malicious or manipulative purpose. In the next and final part of this article, I will examine alternate theories drawn from an idea that we might not be victims at all, based on popular exoteric and esoteric spiritual ideologies and science fiction. Stay tuned and please feel free to comment and discuss further.