Step into the world of energy mastery and spiritual evolution with Michael Monk, renowned healer and teacher of spirituality and metaphysics, as he joins Linda Lang on this fascinating episode of Exploring the Mystical Side of Life.

We’ll take you on a journey that explores the very fabric of reality—energy, spirit, and the profound power of the human body to serve as a bridge between worlds. Michael delves deep into what happens after a spiritual awakening, unraveling the mysteries of the body, the soul’s purpose on Earth, and the hidden risks of awakening too quickly.

Here are three key takeaways from this inspiring episode:
🔹 The Body as Spirit: Realize that your physical body is not separate from spirit—it is spirit, condensed into form. The human nervous system acts as a magical interface, allowing your consciousness to interact with and master the denser energies of physical reality.
🔹 The Gift and Challenge of Awakening: Spiritual awakening can be exhilarating, but it can also bring profound confusion. Michael Monk shares that while pain and death are illusions, the true risk lies in losing mental and emotional balance. A healthy framework and grounding in metaphysics are essential as you open up to expanded realities.
🔹 Paths to Mastery: Discover the importance of embodying spirit within the physical, not just seeking to escape it. Theta meditation and mindful presence are powerful practices to bridge the spiritual and physical, helping you access deeper states of consciousness and spiritual power—right here and now.

Allow Michael and Linda to guide you through the practical and mystical, as you awaken to your true potential and embrace the journey of energy mastery. Listen in for tools, insights, and the reassurance that you are far from alone on this extraordinary path.

Transcript:

Michael Monk:
The body is spirit. Nothing exists but spirit. It’s all energy. It’s all made of the same stuff. We have this magical thing called a nervous system and neurons in the brain, which allows our spirit to interface with this density. Because we come from ether, which is lighter than air. The lighter an energy is, the more spread out, the less particles per square inch, the easier it is for our consciousness to embody and to master that energy.

Announcer:
Welcome to Exploring the Mystical Side of Life with your host, Linda Lang.

Linda Lang:
Hi, this is Linda Lang from ThoughtChange.com. We are Exploring the Mystical Side of Life once again this week. If you enjoy our conversations, remember to subscribe and consider being a member of this channel. Today we are talking energy mastery. We have healer and teacher of spirituality, metaphysics, and energy mastery, Michael Monk, with us. Welcome, Michael.

Michael Monk:
Hello, Linda. Thanks for having me.

Linda Lang:
Michael, in our last episode, you shared the story of your spontaneous awakening. Today, let’s go deeper into energy mastery. We want to know what happened after the awakening, what the body really is, and if there are risks to awakening too quickly. At any point, did you ever think you were going insane or that these experiences were something to fear?

Michael Monk:
Not to fear, no. I’ve always had this innate sense of courage inside of me, and I’ve rubbed up against some very dark entities. I’ve never been afraid of the abilities or any other entities that I have encountered, but I am and was scientifically minded about it, so I most certainly worried about, was I going insane? Like, one of the early level things I would do is open my clairvoyance and see the waveform energy. And then I noticed that when I did that, if I blew with my breath, I could see it rippling like, like clear dragon fire. So then I’d say to myself, “Well, maybe I’ve just softened my headspace so much that the breath is going through my eyes and maybe, maybe I’m causing my eyes to vibrate.” You know, I used to have so many little questions about is what I’m experiencing real, but after so much time working with other people, them seeing the same things that I’ve seen. I’m doing the telekinesis, the weather control, the healing in front of other people and having them see it too.

Linda Lang:
So my thoughts now go to anyone who may have had one of those reality-altering experiences as they’ve opened up. What kind of guidance or suggestions would you have for them?

Michael Monk:
Well, for them to reach out. If you don’t currently understand the nature of your experience, send me an email. I’ll let you know. I’ve been at this a long time and this is what I specialize in, is those people that have had reality-bending experiences that nobody’s been able to explain. Chances are I can. And I’ve actually found that in my talking, maybe 1 out of 3 people have had a reality-bending experience. So few are willing to talk about it and even less so willing to validate it. But I’ve taken so many people from ground zero, and today they travel out of body, they change the weather, they heal people, you know, they do all the things.

It’s normal. Everything that I’m doing is normal. And I predict that within one generation, two at the most, that what I teach will be a part of a standard first, second grade education. Like, okay, hello spirit who is now in a body. Here’s the manual that life should have came with but didn’t, you know, to explain what you really are and how your spirit interfaces with your body. Why is it that it seems like you’re a physical being? But that’s not the whole truth, and here’s what you really are. Here’s how to experience it. I can’t wait for that world.

Linda Lang:
Let’s talk about the body. Could you tell us what the body’s purpose is or what it’s teaching the soul?

Michael Monk:
So much. So much. So first thing I want to say though is that the body is spirit. Nothing exists but spirit. It’s all energy. It’s all made of the same stuff. We have this magical thing called a nervous system and neurons in the brain, which allows our spirit to interface with this density. Because we come from ether, which is lighter than air.

The lighter an energy is, the more spread out, the less particles per square inch, the easier it is for our consciousness to embody and to master that energy because it’s less intense. It’s less dense. So the creator, God, which is our ultimate higher self, if you want to think of it in that way, created the human experience in order to expose our etheric spirit to 3 densities of energy greater than what we can currently command. Without the human body, we would not even be able to be here. Because of the electrical system of the human body, our etheric spirit, which is very light, can use it like an interface system to begin to get sensory data from the physical world – from the air, from the water, and from the solid matter – that it wouldn’t even be able to get as spirit. And because of the motor nerve connection, we can pilot this body through this reality. So that’s what my work ends up discovering, is the spirit that’s tugging all the strings in the nervous system. And what you end up realizing is that our physical interpretation of this whole world, especially our bodies, is a force-fed electrical interpretation given to us from the nervous system and the neurons. That’s what tells us, oh, you got these bones and they’ll break if you’re not careful and they’re very heavy.

You’re a human being. You’re inside of a world that you are not the world, you’re just your body. All of these is electrical information force-fed to our brain that our spirit is massively entrained to. So when we incarnated into the infant body with our light etheric spirit, the electricity of the human body is very intense compared to our subtle spiritual energy. So we were instantly hypnotized, entrained, so much data coming through the electrical system in the preset ranges of the five senses that we forgot our spirit. We forgot all about that subtle, beautiful, spiritual place that we came from. And now all we can sense is the five senses and the data stream that comes through that.

Until either you’re chosen in a way that I was for whatever reason, or you begin to come across materials like mine and you begin to focus, you begin to meditate. So there’s two ways to overcome your physical perception of the body. One is meditation, where you reduce the brainwaves, you ignore the physical data until your nerves start to paralyze, and then all of a sudden you can feel your spirit again, or you can travel out of the body. The other way is through. You observe with extreme focus the happenings inside your body, and if you can encompass all of the data the electricity is sending you, there becomes room for more. Consciousness needs to expand; it’s its nature, but you’re bombarded with all this sensory information. Well, the moment you can actually be here and now enough and out of your head to observe it, you automatically expand beyond it, and then you become spirit and physical at the same time.

So traditional systems of evolution and mystery schools, they teach the one direction, you know, where you meditate and leave your body and all of their philosophies built upon that. That’s a part of my philosophy, but the bigger part is to be in spirit and physical at the same time, to get sensory information from both. And then my big goal, which I obviously haven’t achieved yet, is to transcend physicality entirely and still be here, but to actually have control of the physical body, which would mean that my spirit would be fused at a molecular level to the whole thing like it is the spirit and not need the nervous system for its fake translation of what this world is.

And I know that’s possible because I’ve had thousands of out-of-body experiences. I’ve gone in and out of this body so many times that I know the only difference between this body and my spirit is the compression level of the particles. And I know from all of my practice that yes, I am coming out of the nerves. I’m coming into the water and into the flesh and it’s starting to respond to my spirit. It’s like I have a magnetic assist, like, almost like an Iron Man suit of armor, but it’s spirit. Every movement that I do is enhanced or augmented by Spirit. Every sensation that I feel is likewise enhanced. So that’s what I’m all about.

Linda Lang:
So many spiritual seekers want to transcend the body rather than embody it. How does that type of mentality, or goal, actually create mastery? Or does it?

Michael Monk:
Well, it’ll create remembrance at the best. If you’re bypassing the body, if you view your earth life as a sentence, if you view physical reality as crude and dense and just something to be overcome, or maybe you’re from a higher place and now you’re stuck in a lower place, you’re going to hold yourself back. Because it’s one of the first things that I noticed when I started doing focus mastery is how much more energy was in my body than the spirit. That as I began to energize the blood, as I began to energize the bones, I felt an energy that I just never felt in any of my out-of-body travels, and there’s been so many. So, systems of discipline that aren’t body-focused, that are all about going up and going out and returning to the spirit, that’s great for remembrance. You will remember yourself, you’ll remember Spirit, you’ll be a lot more free. But we’re here on purpose. This is like our, our, our gym.

I remember seeing, asking God, why, why am I here? You know, in, in the early days. And oftentimes when we have these questions, God will have us look at something in the external and it’ll answer the question. Well, there was a billboard that said Planet Fitness. This is your gym. And I was like, okay, I could sort of see that because here we are exposed to 3 greater densities of energy than we normally would. And if we can come through the body and into this, then we can become like 100 times more than what we were. Because life isn’t digital. It’s not like you’re either alive or you’re not.

Or like, I like to use the phrase, I AM. And, and yes, you are, but how I AM are you? How present are you? You feel, okay, great. You feel, but how much do you feel? What depth is there to your feelings? You think, but how complex or simple are your thoughts? So this is an ever-growing thing. So we are eternal. We take great joy in manifesting ourselves. So what Earth is actually about, what the physical body is about, is creating a more solid, more real, higher mind operating creating intensely feeling emotional structure that will give us that perpetual joy that, that we need as eternal beings, that we’re always becoming something more.

Linda Lang:
Michael, there are a lot of teachers that are saying that our human bodies are actually turning more crystalline or that they’re evolving to hold more spirit. Do you think that’s the case?

Michael Monk:
I think that’s always been the case. Calcium’s a crystal and it’s our bone. By the way, this is the total thing that I work on now. I’m focused on physical mastery and I believe with all my heart that it’s possible. And as soon as I obtain it, I promise to let everyone know and share. But as I’m doing it, as my spirit starts to flow through my cells at certain levels, it feels like I’m turning into a living, breathing crystal. So I get, I get where they’re getting that from, but we don’t need the body to turn into a crystal in order to embody it. I believe this is happening to certain people because they’re penetrating the carbon.

They’re coming out of the nervous system and they’re coming into the flesh and penetrating it. So is it possible or probable? Yeah, it’s highly probable actually that as we finish this that we will look more like crystalline beings than beings of flesh. Yeah, there’s, there’s a lot to that. That would be a whole different rabbit hole, but this is a carbon-based reality, right? And what, what happens to carbon when it’s exposed to enough heat and pressure? So it could be God could have designed it this way to where when we overcome the carbon body, that it becomes more like diamond and we become more transparent or crystalline. So I definitely know that there’s something to that and that it’s definitely possible.

Linda Lang:
So do you think there are any risks of awakening too fast?

Michael Monk:
Yes, big time. Okay, pain isn’t real. It’s just an illusion provided by the nervous system. When you’re outside of your body, you can still feel it for enjoyment purposes, but it’s very dumbed down. Just to let you know you’re doing something stupid, basically. So pain isn’t real. Death isn’t real.

Insanity sure as s**t is real. Forgive the words, but I think it’s necessary for people to understand. To the soul, that’s the only danger. A soul that’s lost the purity of its mental construct will manifest utter hell around itself. So that is, is the danger, that as you spiritualize, are you holding onto your mental framework? And as you come closer to God, as you become closer to the Almighty, do you begin to take credit for that yourself, even to the point where you say, I am God and you’re all going to listen to me? I mean, it happens to the best of us. It’s happened to me before. I have a lot of safeguards against that. So there are psychological risks, and not understanding metaphysics is a big part of that, which is why metaphysics is a big part of what I teach.

Michael Monk:
There is a science to all of this, and there’s a science to the Oneness, to the unity that we all share. Any one of us can authentically say, I am everybody. I am God. I am Jesus. I am Muhammad. I am everybody that’s ever lived. But then that can go to your head the wrong way and create a negative ego character within you if you don’t always remember that so too is everybody else. So you, you have a hero’s journey, your own self, but you gotta learn not to take away from other people’s. Everyone has their own journey. So yeah, there’s a lot of confusions that can happen, and it’s a huge ask for us to go from human level consciousness to what we’re rising into. So the human consciousness now has more to integrate.

Linda Lang:
And when you talk about insanity in that way, you’re referring to being insane while here in this dimension in a human body? Not our soul or higher spirit, right?

Michael Monk:
Well, if that carries on, then it could go that way. And I have met spirits and souls that I would quite readily deem insane that had manifested a total hell world around themselves that were in need of healing. So it’s actually the only thing dangerous to a soul is insanity, and it’s always through their free will choices and what they choose to embody. But those who go too far down the dark, too far down the path of control and dominating other beings, they always end up insane. They always end up in hell, and literally and metaphorically, and they’re always in need of healing and always being turned around. But, but there are levels of Spirit that specialize in that and nobody’s out of God’s reach.

As I like to say, God is not in the business of losing souls. God has a perfected system. It’s just God is the great honorer of free will. And it’s not the God that most people think about or know. It’s not the type of God who’ll send out missionaries to knock on your door. God’s not in a hurry at all for you to get to know it. God stands outside of time, contains the Mother and the Father, by the way. And you will get to know God when you are good and ready. And, and that’s it. God’s not in a hurry.

Like I said, it’s the ultimate respecter of free will. And free will is the only thing that makes us separate from God. So if God were to take away free will, there would be no more us. There would only be God. And so to God, that’s destruction, not creation. God’s in the business of raising souls up. To, to get high enough to where one day they can come face to face with God, and God can have a family instead of being the one ultimate creator. Instead of being the tip of the triangle, it can have a relationship with the whole thing.

And that’s what it’s interested in more than anything else. It’s why all of free will exists. It’s why there’s evil in this world that holds people back so much from having a relationship with God. “If there was a God, how could he or she allow this to happen?” Well, just look to free will and look to what humans are doing with their own free will. And it takes us on the ground, the lightworkers standing on the ground to see it and to use our free will, which was given to us to do something about it. The Law of Free Will, the spiritual law, is God’s promise to the Creation. And nobody adheres to the laws better than, than God. So God’s plan will… God’s plan is for us to rise in consciousness, to know God, to stand close to it, and to receive through the heart, which I call the heart of Christ, a moral code, a moral system of conduct that allows for everlasting happiness and joy.

But God’s plan for us is for us to be in alignment with that heart, with that core, and then to make choices that are in free will alignment. Any parent knows this. Like, they have stacks of crayon drawings of their kids, you know, in their closet. That’s what God is doing with us, is collecting stacks of crayon drawings, and it’s all precious and pure.

Linda Lang:
That’s a good analogy. Michael, if someone is a lightworker, or they feel the call to mastery, could you share one practice that could really help them on their path?

Michael Monk:
I would say theta meditation more than anything is more guaranteed to give you at least an entry-level experience. And that can be very, very difficult. Everybody’s familiar with falling asleep. Like you, you lay there and then eventually you clunk, you fall asleep. Your consciousness literally goes from this reality to the next, but you fall asleep because you pass through the veil. The veil, it’s nothing mystical. The veil is the vibrational and structural variance between your mental framework while you’re in the brain. You know, it has structure, it has pathways.

So does your spirit, but they’re different. So as you fall asleep out of the body, you shift from this mental structure to the structure of your spirit. So everybody blacks out, and they remember nothing. Same thing when they come back into their body. This happens every single night as we go to sleep. So the number one thing you can do to begin to thin the veil is to go into theta meditation. And some people will be able to do that naturally.

For those, I would say you just lay down on your back, breathe deep and rhythmically, and wait till you begin to fall asleep. When you do, catch yourself. Don’t go all the way through. Hold yourself somewhere between awake and asleep, and just continue to breathe and things will start to open up. You’ll start to see patterns to your closed eye vision. You’ll see waves. You might start to see glimpses of other people, start to hear voices talking. You’ll start to have X amount of Spirit.

And if you can let that go all the way while keeping your mind awake, you’ll be out of your body and in another world. For those that struggle with that, I recommend downloading a theta metronome on YouTube. Yeah, a good metronome will be at like 4 cycles a second, which is what theta is. But as you focus on it, you’re going to start to hear sounds on top of those sounds. It’s going to start to harmonize. As it entrains your brainwave frequencies to get closer to theta, you’re going to start feeling things. You’re going to start to feel Spirit coming alive in your body. Because the only reason that you’re not feeling Spirit is the electricity telling you the physical information.

But the closer you get to sleep, there’s a phenomenon, scientific, called waking sleep paralysis, where your nervous system starts to shut itself off so you don’t sleepwalk. Well, the second that happens, your spirit becomes apparent, and there it is. So I go more in depth with that in my course, but if there’s one free thing I can think of that’s out there for people to do, is do theta meditation once per day, and you will get some experiences for sure.

Linda Lang:
You mentioned ascension. You mentioned free will. Do you think there’s any possibility that we won’t wake up or raise our consciousness? Or is it simply a matter of time?

Michael Monk:
Eventually we’ll get there. It’s simply a matter of time because we were born from God. We came from God. The way the Creator creates more is it fragments itself. It’ll take a piece of itself, put it outside of itself, and then create a veil that keeps the self from immediately returning. So without the veil, that piece of God wouldn’t even want to stay out. It would just come right back and absorb into God. But we were given a veil, which is this body, this matrix of the brain and everything.

So, so we’re quite different than that which we came from. However, stored within us is all the omnipotence, all the omniscience. Everything that God was and is is somewhere inside of the human spirit. So there’s no way for that to be held back. So will we ascend? Absolutely. This life, the next, a million more, whatever… Hopefully this life, but there’s no way to hold back the Spirit of God. It’s not even possible.

I think it’s happening. I think it’s happening soon, actually, but I’m not attached to timelines. I’m not attached to dates. I’m attached to the work that we can do on a daily basis to make each day more spiritual. The best thing we can do is the work we can do every day. Our prayers, our meditations, our energy practices. That’s what I invest in.

Linda Lang:
Totally agree, that’s the best place to put our energy. Now, Michael, if anyone would like to know more about you or your work, your course, where can we send them?

Michael Monk:
Absolutely. Go, go to my bio site first. That’s michaelmonk.bio. Through that you can read about my full story, and you can access my two forms of education, which are the Avatar Energy Mastery, where I teach self-empowerment through meditation, focus, and energy mastery, and my new work, which is the Metaphysical Church of the Tree of Life. The Metaphysical Church is all about using that mastery to have a massively enhanced relationship with Creator. Now that you are an energy master and now that you’re becoming One, what’s the best way to put that to use? So I teach both because they go hand in hand. So I have two websites that are attached to the bio site and both have a free introduction of some kind.

Linda Lang:
Thank you for being my guest.

Michael Monk:
It’s an honor. Thank you, Linda.

Linda Lang:
And thank you for listening to this week’s edition of Exploring the Mystical Side of Life. You will find all of our conversations on YouTube your favorite podcast platform. Come visit me at ThoughtChange.com, pick up your copy of Learning to Listen, check out my program Alchemy from the Inside Out, and we will see you again next time. Bye for now.