Burn the Lie: The Truth About Vibration, Manifestation, and Righteous Rage
Not all high vibrations come with a smile. Why your authentic fire is more powerful than forced positivity. A love letter to the sacred power of being real.
For decades now, we’ve been told that if you want to manifest the life of your dreams - if you want to attract good things - you have to hold a high vibration.
That’s the gospel according to the wisdom of Abraham Hicks (who changed my life, thank-you Esther), echoed by voices like Dr. Joe Dispenza and Gabby Bernstein (both whom I admire greatly), championed in books like The Secret, and shouted across Instagram by influencers reminding us to “raise your frequency” and “focus on the good” while we click, like, and subscribe.
These teachings have helped me enormously in my life, as I know they have for countless others.
Joy and love are high vibe.
Gratitude is the holy grail.
But what about sadness?
What about anger, or even rage?
I’ve heard some say those emotions are low vibe.
Maybe even dangerous.
Better shift them - fast - unless you want to attract more chaos into your life.
But somehow, I don’t think that’s the full transmission.
Sidelining certain emotions as they rise doesn’t sound like divine wisdom to me.
I don’t think blissing out is the only path to bliss.
And I don’t think bypassing will let you pass by.
Somewhere along the way, we’ve watered down divine wisdom into wishy-wash.
A simplistic message: “Think good thoughts, and good things will come”.
Now that’s not untrue, but it’s not the whole story either, because that statement alone doesn’t quite hold up under the weight of the full human experience.
It doesn’t stack up in an age where peaceful people are being bombed in their homes, innocent immigrants are being raided and imprisoned, and governments are being overthrown by madmen.
If you’ve just lost your family in a missile blast, surely divine wisdom has something more to offer than, “Just think good thoughts and it will all be okay.”
What if we’ve been missing a vital part of the equation?
What if, in our eagerness to manifest, we’ve been overlooking something essential?
What if the highest vibration isn’t just joy?
What if it’s not just love - at least not the polished kind with hearts and smiles and skittles and rainbows?
What if the highest frequency a human can emit is something deeper?
Sometimes joy, and sometimes love…..but sometimes something else entirely.
Something wilder.
Something truer.
And what if, right now, as the world stands on the brink, we need to harness that frequency more than ever?
The Experiment That Changed Everything
Recently, I heard Dr. Zach Bush tell a story on The Way Forward podcast about a study that was conducted to test the theory that the emotions which generate the highest vibrational frequency in the human body are those of love or joy.
Participants were placed inside a Faraday cage - an isolated electromagnetic environment - so researchers could track their energetic output during emotional recall.
At first, the theory seemed to hold. When people spoke about their family, their grandparents, their cherished memories, their energy spiked. Huge bursts lit up the chart.
But then something strange happened.
Similar (or even higher) energy spikes occurred when people shared stories of grief, rage, depression, or despair. Sometimes those spikes were forty times more intense.
The researchers were confounded……until they noticed a pattern.
The biggest spikes happened when the stories caused goosebumps, not just for the participant, but for everyone in the room. So they revised the study. And what they found was that it wasn’t love or joy that created the most energy - it was authenticity.
When someone spoke from their soul - when they were real, raw and unfiltered - that’s when the energy surged.
Not just when they were feeling love or joy.
But when they were feeling deep truth.
The Lie We’ve Been Living
Hearing about that experiment changed everything for me. It cast a whole new light on the manifestation culture that’s spread like wildfire over the last decade with the message, “If you want to attract good things, you have to hold a high vibration.”
For many, that message was interpreted as a call to “just be happy all the time”, like we’re supposed to maintain a constant state of joy and gratitude, no matter what, or risk repelling our blessings.
Now, I don’t know about you, but right now, I’m not always feeling super joyful about a world where bombs are falling, and convicted criminals are getting elected, and innocents are vanishing from the streets, and institutions are collapsing left, right, and centre.
And I have to be honest….I’m not very grateful for all that either.
Sure, I can try to mentally reframe it.
I can reach for the silver linings and whisper to myself, “At least the sun’s still shining.”
But none of that feels particularly authentic.
What is authentic most days is my deep anguish about the state of the world.
My guilt that this is the planet I’m sending my children into.
My grief for all that’s being trampled.
And my holy, furious rage that this Earth that I love - this home we all share - is being desecrated by madmen and man-babies in expensive suits.
That’s just the truth of how I often feel, and I know I’m not alone.
Are we supposed to push all that aside and just be grateful for the flowers?
I don’t think so.
Not anymore.
The Cost of Bypassing Truth
I’ve talked to so many of you lately who feel the same way I do.
Trying to stay positive while deeply despairing for all that’s crumbling.
Righteously raging about the injustice and casual cruelty in our world,
while desperately trying to hold on to hope and love.
And some of you feel bad for feeling bad that things are bad.
Like your grief, your rage, your exhaustion is “too low vibe”.
Like the Universe is going to punish you for not staying positive.
So you suck it up and push it down.
Try to reach for a better thought, a higher feeling, anything to get back to joy,
because that’s what we’ve been told opens the gates of heaven on Earth.
Because heaven forbid we should feel bad when things are actually bad.
It’s an absolute truth that joy does create heaven on Earth.
Real, true, authentic joy is the ultimate place of divine creation.
Let us never attempt to create from a place of fear or hatred or vindictiveness.
That will never serve us, and will only ever lead to more of the same.
But if the Universe responds to authenticity (and I believe it does) then faking your way into joy is a waste of sacred energy.
If what’s true in you right now is sadness, then that sadness is holy.
If what’s real is rage, then that rage is sacred.
No amount of fake love, plastic kindness, or Instagrammable gratitude can outshine what is authentically true for you in this moment.
We have to learn to honour the feelings that are rising within us,
Not categorize them as good or bad, and then only acknowledge the good ones.
All feelings are valid when they’re real.
And if we keep bypassing what hurts,
If we keep pretending it’s all okay,
We will not survive what comes next.
Because there’s nothing high vibe about being inauthentic.
Faking joy doesn’t move the energetic needle.
But your grief, if it’s real, sends the vibe sky high.
Your rage, if it’s true, spikes the frequency like a lightning strike.
The Frequency of Fire
If you want to raise your vibration, then allow yourself to feel what’s real.
That’s what moves energy.
That’s what shifts the air.
Not faking it, not forcing it, but feeling it truthfully.
We’re not living in calm times, and this is no time for pretending.
The world is in a phase of collapse, and the most powerful thing we can do right now is get real.
If joy is what’s true for you, then ride that wave and let it shine.
But if what’s rising is rage, or grief, or heartbreak, then let it burn clean through.
Because nothing lifts your frequency higher than truth.
And the truth right now is wild, raw, and uncomfortable, yet still sacred.
This isn’t about staying stuck in anger.
It’s about letting truth move through you like fire….
Cleansing. Refining. Alchemising.
Grief held to the fire of truth becomes compassion.
Rage held to the fire of truth becomes sacred clarity.
Sorrow held to the fire of truth becomes strength.
All feelings are valid, but it’s what we do with them that determines their frequency. Just like that Faraday cage experiment proved - it’s not the emotion itself, but the truth behind it and within it that sends our energy off the charts.
When we hold our feelings to the fire of truth and love, everything false burns away. Only what is real survives, and vibrates off the scale.
That’s the holy alchemy.
Because truth and love aren’t separate.
Truth is love on fire.
So let your rage meet the flame.
Let your sadness rise and burn.
Let your heartbreak be offered up like kindling.
And what emerges will be sacred.
Bypassing sadness, rage, or despair blocks the very thing trying to rebirth us.
This moment on Earth is not a glittery growth workshop - it’s a furnace.
Truth doesn’t always come in peace.
Sometimes it comes with a blaze.
Sometimes truth is heartbreak.
Sometimes it’s fury.
But always, truth is love.
And real love burns through illusion like wildfire.
Love doesn’t always whisper.
Sometimes love roars.
Sometimes it strikes.
Sometimes it stands defiant.
And sometimes love sets your whole heart on fire.
When I look at our world these days, righteous rage rises in me.
Not because I’m out of alignment, but because I’m deeply in it.
I love freedom, so I rage at oppression.
I love justice, so I recoil at lies.
I love truth, so I refuse to fake “good vibes” while the world crumbles.
My rage isn’t the opposite of my love.
My rage is my love, standing in defense of what matters.
And right now, righteous rage might be the holiest thing we’ve got.
Because when we numb our anger in the name of positivity,
We make room for injustice to flourish, unchallenged.
Rage, when rooted in love, doesn’t destroy - it clarifies and refines.
So let your feelings rise.
Hold them to the flame.
Expose them to the fire of truth and love.
That’s how we alchemise.
That’s how we transmute.
And that is how we rise.
Phoenix Protocol
Our world right now is much like a phoenix at the end of a cycle, ready to be reborn.
But before the rebirth, it first must burn.
Not literally. (Don’t go lighting things on fire and say I said so.)
I’m talking metaphorically.
The phoenix doesn’t wait for someone to come along and strike a match.
She combusts - on her own, in her own time - in a burst of fire and magic.
So what if our grief, our holy rage, our deep heartbreak, and our authentic response to the times we are living in, is actually the ignition?
What if Earth needs our truth to spike the frequency off the charts?
What if the phoenix won’t rise until the truth burns through first?
You don’t get a phoenix just by meditating under moonlight.
You get a phoenix when the old self combusts from the inside out.
Not from a match, but from pressure. From truth rising within.
From the moment we stop pretending and start feeling what’s really there.
The phoenix doesn’t rise because she smiles.
She rises because she burns.
Right now, we are the ignition.
Our truth is the flame.
Our rage, our grief, our sadness - holy, heart-rooted and righteous - is the catalyst for rebirth.
This old world becomes new when we let our love burn so bright it turns to fire.
And that fire burns through all the lies, till all that’s left is blazing truth.
And that truth - that authentic love - is the portal to a new world.
What the World Needs Now
Let me be clear: This is NOT a call to arms.
Not to violence. Not to hate.
You know me - I’m all about love.
I’ve always been about love.
And that will never change.
But we need to get clear on what love actually is.
We’ve been told for years that love and joy are the highest vibration.
And that’s not untrue when they’re real.
Authentic love and authentic joy, when they rise from truth, are holy and potent.
But, ultimately, it’s not love or joy that makes something high vibe.
It’s truth.
Truth is the highest frequency.
Truth is the real portal.
And love and joy are only holy because they are built from it.
Truth is love and truth is fire.
And when we hold our grief, our rage, our heartbreak to that fire, we don’t get punished - we get alchemised.
Because love doesn’t flinch from the truth.
Love wants the truth to burn off everything that isn’t real.
When we’re anchored in real love we don’t have to run from hard feelings.
We can feel the rage, without acting out.
We can feel the grief, without losing ourselves.
We can feel everything, because we’re held by something stronger.
That’s the frequency we need now.
Not fake smiles, and not bypassed pain.
Just truth, burning through.
Held in love.
Transforming us from the inside out.
So let the truth rise in you.
Let it crack you open.
Let it purify what isn’t real.
Let it turn your pain into power.
Your grief into grace.
Let it turn your righteous rage into sacred fuel for change.
Because the world doesn’t need more polished positivity.
It needs your real heart, and your untamed truth.
It needs your holy fire.
This is the path now:
Not perfection, not performance, but presence.
Not pretending, but burning true.
You are not here to numb out.
You are not here to fake light.
You are here to be a lighthouse lit by the flame of your own unfiltered truth.
And when enough of us burn like that,
Not in violence, but in radical authenticity,
That is when the new world begins.
My intention in my writing is to lessen the climate of fear around world events by offering clarity and cosmic context for what’s unfolding; to bring context to the chaos. I believe our highest calling right now is to anchor in the vibration of love & truth and call in a more beautiful world, and to do that, we must lean out of fear. I hope you read this with an open, uplifted heart.
I've been saying this for a while too and it's really interesting how must resistance people have to sitting with the "other" emotions, or even listening to me talk about it ! They can be quick to shut it down
"Love wants the truth to burn off everything that isn’t real." Yes! It is time to be real about everything...that is the only way things have the chance to really be seen and change. This is not a time for positivity contests. It's a time for deep reflection, allowing clarity to rise and, responsive action.