kimberlysteele | Etheric Starvation

The western industrialized world has a problem with etheric starvation. Though it is probably the most dismissed phenomenon of our time, etheric starvation affects every aspect of our lives and is the secret to understanding our most dreaded diseases, especially addiction and auto-immune disorders.

Etheric starvation easily goes unrecognized in an era when it is downright unfashionable to acknowledge the etheric plane. Beyond atheist-materialist delusions that only one plane exists, Meatworld, we have already been introduced to the subtle planes. They include the etheric, the astral plane of the imagination and dreams, the mental plane of abstract concepts, and the spiritual plane which is the domain of forces much smarter than humans. The etheric, to my mind, is one level more subtle than smell, that is to say it is nearly physical. People who have a good sense of the etheric can read a room by walking into it. They know how the weather will be tomorrow by the color of the air today. They can walk into an empty house that is for sale and sense what kind of family lived in the house a few weeks before. They are often good at mundane tasks that give comfort to others, such as arranging furniture, construction, sewing, cooking, and/or cleaning.

Etheric Energy Transfer

Human life is a constant set of etheric energy transfers. For instance, last Sunday I went to a small Easter celebration at my parents’ house. Holiday gatherings are etheric pyramids. The host becomes the head of the pyramid and must make an etheric sacrifice, usually in the form of cooking food, to the guests. The guests in turn rev up the etheric energy in the place where the party is thrown and send it back up the pyramid in the form of imagination and memory (astral plane forms). In order for the etheric pyramid to become strong, people must physically be present and around each other, which is a huge part of the reason food is so important. When the host cooks, much of his or her etheric power is transferred to the food, and that power comes back when the guests sit around enjoying the food. An Easter gathering on Zoom cannot by its nature facilitate the transfer of etheric energy because the physical component is missing. This is why social distancing wrecked so many families, businesses, and churches — take away the etheric transfer and you no longer have a bond. To add insult to injury, when the etheric transfers are subtracted, you get rampant etheric starvation.

Etheric starvation was already a huge predicament because of the hideous disfigurement modernity has wrought upon the land. Every ugly highway, brutalist office high-rise, asymmetrical McMansion, chain link fence, and casually-discarded cigarette butt poisons the etheric plane and drains it of the energy we need to replenish ourselves. Our ancestors may have lacked indoor plumbing and transcontinental air travel, but in comparison they seldom dealt with etheric starvation. Our forbears were surrounded by sources of etheric wealth such as close knit communities, beautiful and pragmatic architecture built on the human scale, and easy access to wilderness and semi-wilderness. Us? Not so much.

What It Feels Like

We are all familiar with etheric starvation, I think. Etheric starvation feels a great deal like hunger but it cannot be satisfied by eating. It has the same hollow, tired feeling. If you've ever laid in bed, unable to sleep because your mind is racing yet you have yet to think of anything important or meaningful, that's probably etheric starvation. If you've been bored yet too tired or lazy to do anything about it, that is probably etheric starvation. Listlessness in general points to etheric starvation. The urge to eat far too much, to binge drink, or to spend hours in front of a screen when you don't have to is often etheric starvation. Being drawn to people you cannot have or who treat you badly is often a condition of etheric starvation. You don't want them so much as you want their energy to fill you, whether you realize it or not.

Etheric deprivation manifests as depression, excessive fear, anger, hopelessness, and anxiety, but by far the most common symptom of etheric deprivation is addiction. Addiction is the most instinctive remedy when you have an etheric deficiency; it seeks to fill the void of etheric energy with food, alcohol, drugs, shopping, sex, you name it. The etheric plane is a plane of satiety: to be etherically fulfilled is to have a sense of well-being and comfort like the kind that comes from eating a lovely meal or getting a good night’s sleep. Addicts destroy their ability to feel satisfied, that is to say they zap their etheric bodies. Food addicts abuse food until their bodies cannot handle the glut and begin to shut down because of the strain of excess fat tissue. Drug addicts raise their threshold for happiness until the only thing that can facilitate the semblance of joy is ever-increasing amounts of drugs. Sex addicts pour their energies out until their etheric body is a hazy, compromised, torn up mess.

Repair of the Etheric Body

Like most people, I have problems with etheric starvation. In my case, it likes to manifest in the form of depression because I don’t have issues with addiction. The best fix-it strategy I have found is a daily banishing ritual: in my case, that is the Sphere of Protection. The reason this seems to work is that it cleans the aura while repelling future etheric and astral attacks.

For those who do not or cannot do a daily banishing ritual, a combination of prayer and daily hoodoo baths is the next best thing. Any hoodoo type bath seems to be better than none, whether that is a cool shower or a full-on river baptism. By prayer, I don’t mean incessant begging, meaningless rote memorization, and masochistic self-deprecation that has become endemic when praying to an Abrahamic deity. Prayer, at least in my case, only seems to work when I express genuine gratitude as a foundation of the relationship. Gratitude sublimates where begging for more goodies degrades.

Pinterest = Evil

When I have etheric depletion, I tend to turn to Pinterest. For those of you who are like “What is Pinterest?” it is a digital bulletin board where you can save snapshots of web pages that interest you. Mostly, it is a waste of valuable time, though every now and then I stumble across a great recipe or a craft project I actually end up turning into a real-life item instead of leaving it to languish as a pipe dream. Pinterest reminds me of a marijuana high: relaxed, colorful, and full of delicious recipes I’ll never attempt to make and craft projects that I’ll never do. There are certainly worse ways to soothe the pangs of etheric starvation, but Pinterest is unfortunately a gateway to all kinds of toxicity, for instance, this race-hustler masquerading as wellness guru who popped up on my feed.

Other Methods of Etheric Repair

Remember that etheric deprivation arises from not spending enough time in the sunlight — if scientists ever manage to pull their heads from their rectums and study the etheric body, they’ll likely find it can be fortified with daily Vitamin D supplements — so if you have etheric deprivation and it’s sunny outside, for heaven’s sake just GO OUTSIDE.

The main thing is to get away from the computer, and I savor the irony of typing that sentence as it is a sunny day with perfect weather, yet look what I’m doing!

Think of cooking a well-crafted meal, even if the meal is made by you and for you, as a way of replenishing the etheric body via alchemy. By transmuting the ingredients of your dish by a labor of love, you create a potent etheric fuel.

Cleaning a room, thanking it for its gifts on a daily basis, and adding a decorative touch will amp up its etheric power and boost your etheric health.

Turning on music you like, seeing a live performer, or performing music yourself is a great remedy for etheric starvation. Music is "painting the air with sound waves" to paraphrase composer Kim Carcone. To add to the effect, burn incense as an offering to the gods, light candles, or heat scented oil in a diffuser. This will charge the air with another dimension of pleasure.

Getting rid of the television is probably the greatest thing that you can do to improve the etheric quality of your living space. The television, even when off, radiates foulness. Anything that functions as a prosthetic for the imagination will act as a vortex of dissatisfaction and confusion. Televisions create noise pollution and they cause people to be distracted and rude. Many Americans find it normal to have the television on in a room when they are having a conversation, and it's no big deal to completely derail one's train of thought to comment on an item that flashed across the screen. The larger the television screen and the sound system that goes with it, the worse the etheric drain on the room. I would sooner put a lidless toilet in the middle of my living room wall than a television. If I ran the world, televisions would not be allowed in hospitals, doctors offices, or any place healing was supposed to occur.

Playing with your kids (not video games) or pets provides etheric nourishment for you and them. If you are sensitive, make a note of the vibe of a room before and after you’ve played with your pet in there. I think you’ll find it improves.

Picking up trash at the forest preserve or anywhere else will give you a huge etheric boost, as it is a form of gratitude to the land and a service the gods smile upon.

Overall, to heal etheric deprivation, one must "earth out" the frenzied "tired and wired" energy that etheric deprivation causes. Cooking, playing with kids and pets, or heavy-exertion activities such as gardening or scrubbing floors will do the job. All too often, the etherically starved will seek to remedy their starvation by bingeing on food, sex, or chemical stimulants and tranquilizers. Such a strategy is doomed to failure. Food, sex, and drugs in moderation are fine -- if you're not etherically imbalanced, you are unlikely to want to over-consume.

There's a common trope of envy for the Italians and the French. I will call this the Mediterranean Lifestyle trope. In the Mediterranean Lifestyle, everyone eats beautiful, healthy, handcrafted meals while sharing wine with friends. The men are hardworking and suntanned and the women are effortlessly slim and chic in the Mediterranean Lifestyle trope. They can be seen in the flesh if you can manage a flight to Provence, and then maybe you can partake in their semi-rustic sun-drenched utopia. Etheric richness is what we envy about the Mediterranean Lifestyle trope. I'm here to tell you that you too can have the trope even if you cannot replicate the lifestyle. Etheric richness is not unique to Italians, the French, the lucky, or the wealthy. Every one of us has the ability to repair our etheric bodies and spaces, but it is up to us to figure out which methods will serve us best as individuals.