Tinnitus. When the soul gets loud
Conventional medicine and psychology offer explanations and relief, but at the level behind matter and psyche, ringing in the ears tells a completely different, deeper story.
What conventional medicine says
From a medical point of view, tinnitus is a symptom caused by damage to the inner ear, circulatory disorders, noise exposure or diseases of the auditory nerve. Treatment is aimed at the cause: hearing protection, medication, sometimes hearing aids. There is rarely a cure, the main thing is to learn to live with the noise.
Psychology adds stress factors to this picture. Chronic tinnitus is often associated with anxiety disorders, burnout and suppressed emotions. Cognitive behavioral therapy and relaxation techniques can reduce the intensity of perception, but here too the work usually remains on the surface, on the symptom and the reaction to it.
The level behind matter
If you look deeper, you come across another question: What do people no longer want to hear? And what do they hear instead – incessantly, compulsively, turned inwards?
On a mental and emotional level, tinnitus is an indication that a person has locked themselves away in their own inner world of thoughts. It is as if the door to the outside world, to real encounters, to vivid perception, to joy, has been locked from the inside.
Without anyone noticing – especially not the person concerned. After all, he functions in the world, he performs, he manages his workload. They don’t know any different because it’s always been that way.
Not just since “yesterday”. It’s often been with us all our lives, sometimes even before birth. Because the patterns that lead to it were brought into this life or adopted at a very early age.
The noise that he then hears at some point is not random noise but the echo of a mindset that has unnoticed and unconsciously focused on the dark, the mistrustful, the controlling.
The ear noise is therefore not an enemy but a messenger, one of the most persistent that the soul can send. This messenger will not kill you, but it will not give up until you have heard it.
Trapped in your own head
The psychological core of tinnitus often lies in a kind of mental stubbornness. The firm belief that you have already judged the world and the people in it correctly. This attitude is nourished by unconscious fear. Fear of being open, fear of hearing one’s own deepest self, which may speak softly and clearly, but would say completely different things from one’s usual beliefs.
Instead of listening to this inner voice, the person concerned fixates on the negative. On grievances, on the mistakes of others, on the evil in the world. What disguises itself as critical thinking is actually a void filled with dark expectations and pessimistic beliefs that are often deeply rooted in upbringing, religion, ancestral systems or social conditioning.
Resistance to your own heart
The spiritual observation that tinnitus is related to a resistance to one’s own heart truth is particularly revealing. Basically, people know what would be good for them. Openness, trust, joy, genuine encounters, but he blocks them. Perhaps out of false pride, perhaps because they have been persuaded that the world is dangerous and people are bad, perhaps because they have never learned how to be open.
Although “persuaded” doesn’t quite cover it either. Such deep patterns are adopted long before words and language become relevant. Sometimes they have been part of the ancestral system or the collective social system for centuries, or they are practically absorbed with the mother’s milk. And internalized in such a way that they do not stand out as “foreign” patterns. They are “normal” and even feel rational.
Anyone who thinks like this is constantly on guard and cannot really arrive in the here and now.
The inner noise thus becomes a symbol of this split. The mind circles and circles while the heart waits. Mentally, the person is everywhere and nowhere, but emotionally isolated, cold, fixated on the controlling.
The path to silence, from within
Mental and spiritual healing does not begin with a remedy for the noise, but with honest introspection. The crucial questions are: “Where do I focus my attention? Which inner convictions do I blindly believe? Am I building my life on fear or on trust?”
It is about processing and releasing this energy of stubbornness, this rigid certainty of knowing best anyway and instead allowing flexibility, curiosity and warmth of heart. This means recognizing your own pessimistic view of the world for what it is. A habit, not a truth. And certainly not your own truth.
In concrete terms, this means freeing yourself from destructive influences and narrow-minded systems of thought, becoming open to the diversity of people and life stories and, above all, trusting your own deepest self, your inner wisdom, again. The quiet, clear voice within.
Those who learn to really see the beauty in life, in themselves and in others, begin to experience the inner stillness that no medication can provide.
Light as medicine
At this deepest level, tinnitus is an invitation. Out of the narrowness of your own circle of thoughts, into the vastness of life. Those who allow joy, who dare to trust, who stop looking at the world through the prism of fear and mistrust, create an inner resonance that is healing, and not just for the ears.
It is not an easy path, but it is the only one that really leads into the depths. Because silence, real, living silence, does not come about by turning off the noise. It arises when people stop fighting against themselves.
The way
This is a path that leads away from the usual approaches. It is not about alleviating the symptom, but finding the cause. Deep in the ancestral system, in our own energy system, in collective patterns, in unconsciously adopted systems that are not our own.
One of the main aspects of this path is learning to differentiate between the thought systems adopted from outside and one’s own perception. To clarify the responsibilities between thinking and feeling.
To reconnect with your own life energy, your own perception and your own truth. And to develop a deep trust in your own energy system. Then the old and foreign patterns lose their significance and power.
And in the end, it becomes quiet when trust takes over and you arrive at your own energetic base.
Let me accompany you on this journey: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com
Sinusitis from a spiritual and psychological perspective
Sinusitis, or inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, is one of the most common illnesses of all. Almost every adult is familiar with it, many even know it very well, because it keeps recurring and there seems to be no permanent solution.
The body speaks a language that we have forgotten to hear
Conventional medicine explains this extensively and in great detail. However, in most cases it only explains the “how”, but not the “why”. Why does this person, of all people, get this inflammation again and again, chronically? Why does it not heal permanently, despite medication or surgery? Why does it hardly affect some people and others time and time again?
This article operates on two levels: Very briefly on the medical level and much more extensively on the spiritual level, which goes deeper and holds the real answers.
What conventional medicine says and what it can (or cannot) do
The paranasal sinuses are air-filled cavities in the skull bone. Frontal sinus, maxillary sinus, ethmoid bone and sphenoid sinus. They are connected to the nasal cavity and are lined with a fine mucous membrane. If this mucous membrane swells, for example due to a cold, the small openings become blocked, the mucus cannot drain away, pathogens settle and inflammation occurs.
Typical symptoms are a feeling of pressure in the face (especially when leaning forward), dull or throbbing headaches, blocked nose, yellowish-green secretions, loss of sense of smell, fatigue.
A distinction is made between acute sinusitis, which occurs suddenly but usually heals within 1-2 weeks, and chronic sinusitis with symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks. Often insidious, persistent, recurring.
According to conventional medicine, sinusitis is triggered by viruses (often as a result of a cold), less frequently by bacteria as a secondary infection. Allergies, anatomical constrictions such as a crooked nasal septum, nasal polyps, a weakened immune system, smoking and environmental pollution are considered to be favorable factors. In the chronic form, chronic inflammatory processes, allergies or a disturbed microbiome often play a role and it is not uncommon for no tangible physical cause to be found.
What medicine does
Decongestant nasal sprays, saline rinses, cortisone sprays, antibiotics in persistent cases. In severe chronic cases, surgical interventions or biologics may be considered.
This all makes sense when symptoms need to be relieved acutely. But if you keep getting sick anyway, the nasal spray or the operation won’t be enough. Something else is missing.
The real question: What is this disease trying to say?
Every recurring illness carries a message. The body does not lie, it expresses in physical symptoms what is not expressed, not lived, not heard in the mental-emotional space. This is not esotericism, it is an observation that even doctors, psychosomatics and body therapists around the world make, even if it has so far been rather rudimentary and often limited to the psyche, which is ultimately only physical.
In the case of sinusitis, the message is particularly precise if you leave the level of the body and the psyche and look at the core cause at the level behind it.
The symbolic language: head, nose and breathing space
Let’s start with the symbolic, because the body is a master of metaphors.
The nose is the first organ that touches the outside world. It filters, it smells, it senses atmospheres. In the most literal sense, a blocked nose is the inability to take in and breathe out the fresh air (and energy) around you. Breathing in stands for receiving life, breathing out for letting go. Those who are chronically congested can neither receive properly nor really let go.
The sinuses are located in the head, in the area of the forehead, jaw and eyes. The forehead stands for thinking, the jaw for biting through, holding on. The inflammation is located where we struggle internally, where we move through life with clenched teeth. Incidentally, this is often accompanied by teeth grinding, i.e. actually clenching our teeth.
Inflammation is always a sign that something is “burning” in the body. It reacts with energy, but in a destructive way because the energy cannot find a healthy outlet.
The inner image: Man in armor
People who are prone to sinusitis often wear a kind of inner armor. A steel armor that is supposed to protect your inner self, but also imprisons you. And this has been the case for so long, often since birth, that it is no longer noticeable because it seems normal.
Silence about the essentials
First of all, there is the silence. Not the calm silence of peace, but the tense, convulsive silence of those who feel too much and still don’t say it. You feel “grabbed by the throat”, in the truest sense of the word, emotionally pressured, under pressure, and yet you say nothing. You function, you keep the form, you leave the façade standing.
The feeling of pressure in your head, which increases when you lean forward, as if your own weight is about to tip forward, is not accidental. It is the physical image of emotional pressure that has no outlet.
The iron structure
There are people who organize their lives in a corset of rules, duties, roles and expectations, both externally and internally. They live in a controlled, sensible manner. Life should be safe, calculable. Intuition? Spontaneity? Feelings that come from the depths? These are risks you don’t take.
These people often work very well. They are reliable, performance-oriented, often even admired. But deep down, beneath the steel armor, something is burning. A fire that cannot escape. And so it ignites whatever it finds, which is often the mucous membranes in the sinuses.
The pent-up aggression
The word “aggression” has a bad connotation in our culture, although it is originally neutral. “Aggredere” means to move towards something, to move, to become active. Healthy aggression is vital energy that pushes forward. It is the drive to assert oneself, to live one’s own truth, to draw boundaries.
If this energy doesn’t find expression because you don’t dare, because you’ve learned to be good, because the relationship, the role, the image demand too much, it builds up. And at some point it discharges. Sometimes onto your partner, onto your children, onto whoever happens to be within reach. But that’s not the real address. The real address is your own inability to live yourself.
Sinusitis often breaks out precisely when these tensions exceed a critical threshold and they are directed against you instead of outwards. Nobody notices, except the body. It screams.
The pattern behind the mask
There is a recurring psychological pattern in people who frequently suffer from sinusitis.
Dependence on the outside: Self-esteem is not fed from within, but from the outside, from parents, partners, children, profession, status, social role. You need confirmation from outside because you don’t trust yourself enough. So you become dependent on things and people outside yourself.
Self-denial out of fear. You give in too much, agree too often, make too many concessions, not out of genuine generosity, but out of fear. Fear of rejection, of conflict, of the loss of security. You sacrifice your own being in order to maintain external stability. And the inner self, the real, spontaneous, living one, cries out at some point.
Silent mourning. It is often not a loud, dramatic grief. It is a silent, powerless grief. The grief of not really being allowed to be yourself. Not really being heard, or not listening to yourself. Not being able to live, even though you exist. We like to suppress this grief because it is so difficult to grasp. But the body inevitably expresses it.
The fear of one’s own depths. There is a deep fear of what is waiting inside. Of your own wishes, desires and impulses. You have learned to distrust yourself. That’s why you build your armor. That’s why we cling so tightly to structures, control and reason. Not because life is so beautiful, but because you are afraid of what will happen if you let go.
What sinusitis really wants
Sinusitis is therefore not an enemy but a messenger.
She says, “There’s too much pressure here. Something is burning here that needs air. Something is blocked here that wants to flow.” She invites us, urgently, sometimes painfully, to take stock of ourselves:
– Where am I not expressing what really moves me?
– Where am I living a role that is not really me?
– What am I suppressing inside me because it seems too risky?
– Whose approval do I need and why do I trust myself so little?
– What do I really want to live from the bottom of my heart, and what is really holding me back?
These are not easy questions, but they are the right ones. The answers don’t come from the mind, because it wants to maintain the status quo. The answers come from a much deeper level.
The path to healing from the inside out
1. speaking what is silent
The first and most immediate step is to give voice to what is burning inside you. Don’t walk around with it in silence. Don’t think in circles in your head. Talk it out with a trusted person, in a diary, with an experienced helper. What is spoken loses its condensed power. It can flow.
It sounds simple, but it’s not. Because there are often good reasons for silence, old, deep reasons. It is worth examining them.
2. accept the aggression, don’t judge it
The pent-up energy, the inner tension that is sometimes released as anger or impatience, is not a weakness. It is a sign of vitality. The key is not to suppress it, but to understand it. What am I actually angry about? What inside me is rebelling? Against what or whom?
If the answer is honest, it almost always points to a form of self-denial.
3. out of the armor and into feeling
A controlled, rational life can seem very secure. But security that is bought by suppressing one’s own being is not real security. It is a cage with a velvet lining.
The way out is through feelings, not through more reason. It’s about feeling again. What feels right? What do I really want? What makes my heart lighter and what makes it heavier? And to trust this voice, even if it is unfamiliar at first.
4. set boundaries, lovingly and clearly
Those who always give in, who always make concessions, who are always conformist and well-behaved are living at their own expense. This has nothing to do with selfishness. On the contrary. Those who know themselves and stand up for themselves have more honest and deeper connections with others. Setting boundaries is an act of self-love and the respect you give yourself returns.
5. discover the deepest self as home
Perhaps the most beautiful thing is waiting at the end of this path. You don’t have to look outside for what already belongs to you inside. The imperishable core of who you really are, beyond all roles and functions, is the most secure basis there is. No partner, no position, no image can provide this security. Only trust in your own inner wisdom can.
When this ground can be felt, the body relaxes, the inflammation has less reason to exist and the air can flow again.
What the shaman can do
Now it’s time to get down to business. Everything that happens in the body and also in the psyche is an expression of your life energy or the blockages in your life energy. And this goes much deeper than just the psyche.
The causes for your inner armor, for your “taking yourself back”, for the patterns that forced you to deny yourself from an early age without you being able to recognize it at the time, they all lie much deeper than a “psyche” could explain.
Often there are energetic connections that have been working in your family system for tens of generations and have been passed on from one generation to the next and have developed a life of their own. This can be centuries old and even skip generations.
Sometimes it is unconsciously adopted energetic patterns that force you to be who you are not really. And by the time you realize it, it is already too late, the patterns are already too deeply integrated.
This is exactly where shamanic work can come in, because it goes deeper than therapy ever could. It looks behind the “engine room”, so to speak, it sees the energy behind the processes. The true cause behind the many layers of apparent causes.
For practice: An inner compass
If the sinusitis recurs, it is worth asking inside as well as using a nasal spray:
– What have I been suppressing lately?
– Where was I not honest with myself or with others?
– What do I want to express, but don’t dare?
– Where do I wear a mask and why?
Physical treatment remains important. But it is more complete if it is accompanied by deep inner work. Such a path is never easy or quick, but it is certainly easier than hanging on to a nasal spray for the rest of your life or undergoing unsuccessful surgery.
Conclusion: Breathe deeply, you’ve earned it
Sinusitis is, in its own uncomfortable way, an invitation to liberation. It indicates that something inside you needs more space. More expression. More air.
And that is good news. Because you can answer this call. You can open up. You can speak, feel, let go. You can stop cutting yourself down and start being yourself.
Complete. Whole. Breathing. Feel free to write to me if I can accompany you on this journey: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com
Psyche and soul two different levels
That sounds harmless, but it is not. This conceptual vagueness means that we are working on the wrong level.
Even in spiritual circles, it is often not clearly defined what we are talking about, and when religious currents enter into the discussion, it gets really confusing.
The origin of the word “psyche”
On the one hand, this is understandable; after all, the word “psyche” comes from ancient Greek and actually means “soul” or “butterfly”. But the question is what the ancient Greeks understood by soul back then. Perhaps not what we have access to today.
In addition, feelings and emotions are also counted as part of the psyche. This is where many misunderstandings arise. Because “feeling” in the sense of the psyche is not feeling in the sense of contact with the overall context, i.e. not the feeling that a shaman speaks of, for example.
Many terms are used more than once and so automatically that it is no longer noticeable at first.
But those who confuse cause and effect can strive for a long time without ever reaching the point where real change is possible.
What is actually meant by “psyche”
The psyche describes processes in the brain. It includes thinking, feeling, remembering, processing stimuli, emotional reactions and behavioral patterns. All of this is based on neuronal circuits, biochemical processes and energetic states in the nervous system. This can now be researched very well.
As complex as these processes are: They belong to the material level. The psyche is measurable, observable and changeable. This is precisely why it is the field of work of psychology, neuroscience, psychotherapy, coaching and medicine.
A helpful image is that of the computer:
The hardware corresponds to the body and the brain.
The software corresponds to the psyche.
Both are part of the same system. Highly developed, fascinating, but material. The software is always part of the computer, never part of its creator.
The soul is not a function of the brain
The soul is not “the psyche with depth”. The soul is the spiritual and mental being that you are beyond your material appearance. It is not localized in the brain, but is the level from which the brain, psyche and matter emerge in the first place. It is the level behind it, the basis of everything. The level of the Creator (this term explicitly does not refer to the religious concept of the Creator).
Let’s stay with the image of the computer:
The psyche is the software and therefore part of the computer. The soul, on the other hand, is the intention, the idea, the purpose for which the computer was built in the first place.
The soul is not a reaction, a pattern, a process or a concept. It is the origin.
A question of level, not a question of faith
This is where the misunderstandings arise. This is not about faith, esotericism or devaluing scientific work. It is about a clear distinction between levels.
A psychologist works where symptoms, thoughts, emotions and behaviors occur. This is legitimate, necessary and often helpful. But it remains work within the impact level.
If someone says: “My anxiety comes from childhood experiences” or “My burnout is stress-related”, then these are explanations within the psyche system.
The crucial question, however, is:
Why exactly this psyche? Why exactly this structure? Why exactly this experience? What is the origin of all this? Where is the beginning, where is the cause? And above all: What can a truly sustainable solution look like at the root cause level?
These questions cannot be answered on a psychological level. This requires a change of level.
Example 1: The recurring conflict
Someone repeatedly gets into similar relationship conflicts. Different partners, same dynamics.
This can be explained psychologically:
Bonding patterns
Embossing
Protection mechanisms
All of this is correct. But it does not explain why exactly these patterns exist in this person’s life in the first place. And often for tens of generations. Where does this originate?
On a spiritual and mental level:
What basic vibration is this person living?
What inner attitude towards the universe is at work here?
Which unconscious identity is confirmed again and again and is it your own or have the patterns been adopted?
It is not behavior that creates reality, but the mental structure and the connection to one’s own life-energetic basis that creates behavior. The approach to the solution is at the energy level, at the cause level.
Example 2: Illness without a clear cause
Many people experience physical symptoms for which there is no clear medical explanation. Psychosomatics is then often the final label.
Here, too, you often get stuck on the psyche:
Stress
Overload
emotional stress
But this does not explain why the body reacts in exactly the same way and not differently. Why it reacts in one person and not in another. Why one person suffers terribly and the other hardly notices anything. And above all, it does not show the cause behind the apparent psychological cause. After all, this imbalance must have started somewhere.
On a spiritual and emotional level, there is often a deeper break:
Alienation from one’s own nature
Living against your own inner truth
Permanent self-denial
Lack of connection to one’s own life energy base
Matter follows energy. The body follows the soul. Not the other way around. Because the spiritual-soul level is the origin of all matter and all its functions. At all times, every second.
Why thinking alone is not enough
The psyche works by thinking, analyzing and understanding. The soul, however, is not conceivable, but tangible.
This is why many people reach an invisible limit despite years of therapy. They understand more and more, but nothing fundamental changes.
Understanding is a function of the psyche.
Transformation happens on a spiritual level.
The role of the shaman
A shaman does not work on symptoms, thoughts or explanations. He does not work with methods and concepts. He works with the level behind the psyche.
Not through analysis and understanding, but through perception. Not through concepts, but through experience.
A shaman does not explain why something is the way it is. He creates a space in which you recognize for yourself who you are beyond your patterns and in which you find solutions that address the cause, not the effect.
Conclusion
Psyche and soul are not two words for the same thing.
Psyche: Material level. Brain, thinking, behavior, patterns.
Soul: Spiritual-soul level. Origin, consciousness, creative source.
Psychotherapy works within the material. Shamanic work starts at the source.
Both have their place and both can work wonderfully hand in hand as long as it is clear on which level you are operating.
The limit of thought is not the end of reality. It is the entrance to a deeper reality.
There is no more gray area
You’re still working, somehow. You get up, carry on, tell yourself: “Still this project. Still this phase. Hang in there. Still pay off the house.” Just don’t move too much, everything is hanging by a thread anyway. Hang in there, you’ll be fine.
But that is self-deception
It just won’t come back. Not on its own. Not if you carry on as before. You either live and work in harmony with your soul-energetic life base or you suffer. Not because you are weak. But because your system can no longer stand the lie.
“It used to work somehow. You were younger then, you can say now. But that’s only half the truth. The energy of the world is changing. Not by chance, it’s the way things have been going for a really long time. And now you can feel it too.
No matter how “esoteric” you think it is. Reality is showing you just how “esoteric” it actually is. Suddenly this “esoteric” shows up in your wallet, in your job, in your family, in your whole life. It quite literally “cuts you off”.
There is no more gray area. No more “I can do it”. No more “I’ll stick it out for another year”. No more overplaying it, no more putting up with it. No more “I’ll drink it away”.
The old concept is dead. Only you are pretending to save it. But nothing works anymore and you know it.
The new is invisible?
The old stinks, but it’s familiar. The shit you’ve gotten used to. As a good friend once said: “even shit can be cozy and warm”. Until it gets cold. And tough.
There are people who have been sitting in their own inner misery for years and call it “stability”. A job that makes them empty (and blah blah you “need” it, don’t tell me the story about the dog, you’ve been underpaid for a long time).
A relationship that has long functioned like a calendar. A body that has been screaming for years, but they call it “stress”. “I’m not ill, I’ve got it under control with tablets”. Really? Not ill, but tablets? Just caught a cold five times a year? The cancer is “gone” and depression is for whiners?
You’ve known for a long time that this is not your life. You know it deep down in your body, not in your head. But you do what millions do: You tell yourself that it’s “still possible somehow”.
Spoiler: It does not work!
You have only numbed the truth with work, distraction, alcohol, pills, performance or spiritual patches that heal nothing.
The man who was “just tired”
He came to me and said, “I need energy. I’m just tired.” Not true. The body wasn’t tired. His life was tired.
He was 52, successful, respected and hadn’t been inside himself for 20 years. His body had pulled the plug because he was no longer prepared to carry a system that was living against him.
We didn’t “build up energy” We first removed the energy leaks, the lies, the adjustments, the dead commitments. After six months, he looked like a different person and no longer even thought about suicide.
He didn’t have “new energy”. He had his own back.
The woman who was never ill until she was
She was 45, fit as a fiddle, disciplined, functional, rational. Until suddenly she could hardly stand up. Doctors found nothing. Psychologists found nothing. She thought she was going crazy.
What had really happened? Her perception had refused to be ignored any longer. She had sensed for years that her life was a mistake, but she was too good at ignoring it. Filling her role. Very successfully, in fact.
The collapse was not an illness. It was a wake-up call.
Today she lives differently. More genuine, more honest, clearer. Not symptom-free, but FREE. The symptoms disappeared when the lie disappeared. She is still successful and even more so than before. Financially too. Especially financially. With less effort. Because she lives WITH her energy instead of against it.
The way out is dark
The reason why you’re still sitting where you are? Because the way out is invisible. And you’d have to get up first. You don’t get it served up to you “bit by bit”.
You don’t see the first step. You don’t know how to do it. You only suspect that if you don’t, you’ll break your own life. You ask me: “How are we going to work?” or “How are you going to get me ahead?”. “Tell me clearly what’s in it for me?”. And I don’t have an answer.
That scares you. It makes you insecure. Every coach tells you exactly how to do it, doesn’t he? But the shaman doesn’t say that? That scares you.
But it also sets you free. Free from expectations that only arise from your old life, from your old way of thinking.
This path is YOURS. No one has ever walked it before you. No one can tell you what it looks like. Not even me. No expectations, no “goal”, no structure.
But I know the space in which it is created. I know HOW it is created.
And that is exactly where I will accompany you. Not with methods, not with techniques, not with promises, but with real shamanic work that leads you back to your own base.
This is not “unfolding your potential”. This is “you becoming you again”.
Do you have to go that way?
No.
Of course you can stay where you are. Many people do. Until the body gives up completely. Until life forces them to. Until the price becomes so high that nothing can be saved. Or until it’s just been a big mess for a long time and then you die.
But then – please – don’t moan. Not about tiredness. Not about symptoms. Not about unhappiness. Not about pointlessness. Not about not having enough money. Don’t tell me all the things you can’t do and all the things you can’t do. I don’t want to hear it.
Because the symptoms are not the problem. They are the clue.
Does the path heal all this?
No.
The path itself doesn’t heal anything. Neither do I. YOU heal. When you are ready to live from your own base again. You live WITH your energy or you just exist.
There is no promise of a cure, no “studies”, no “data”. I am not the pharmaceutical industry.
There is only YOU and a path that emerges when you walk it. And there is me, who knows the space in which your path will emerge.
If you are ready to take the first step, I will accompany you. Not because I know what your path looks like. But because I know how to find it.
Here is the entry point: www.gerhard-zirkel.com/dein-einstieg
Dementia from a mental and emotional perspective
From a mental and emotional point of view, dementia is far more than a medical condition, more than symptoms (as is the case with all “diseases”). It is not a defect of the brain, not a mere loss of memory, not a “loss of personality”. It is a movement of the soul. Slowly, consistently and deeply.
A retreat movement
“From a mental and emotional point of view, dementia or Alzheimer’s is a withdrawal from life.”
The spirit gradually withdraws from the material world, like a stream that breaks free from its riverbed. It no longer flows where it was previously forced to flow, in routines, in responsibility, in adaptation. Instead, it seeks its own way back to that which lies beyond thought: the spiritual home.
When functioning has replaced life
Dementia often manifests itself where a person has functioned for decades. Where duty, control, reason and responsibility have shaped life, but not the living self. Where the wild, creative, free being has never really been given space.
Many of these people led a life that was outwardly “right”: they were reliable, hard-working and decent. And that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, it can be a very successful and seemingly fulfilling life. With everything you could wish for.
But inwardly, much remained unlived. Desires (which can be completely unconscious) were postponed, feelings suppressed, dreams rationalized. The soul carried all this until at some point it said: “I don’t want this anymore.”
Then the consciousness begins to unburden itself. People do not withdraw suddenly, but gradually, first from conversations, then from obligations, and finally from themselves. In this sense, forgetting is neither a failure nor a “falling ill”, but an unconscious withdrawal from a role that has been too narrow for too long.
Forgetting as an escape from the burden of decision
Deep down, dementia means: “I don’t want to have to decide anything anymore.” No more responsibility, no more expectations to fulfill, no more direction to seek.
The ego-consciousness, which has been bound to norms and control for decades, dissolves and with it the feeling of being an independent being with tasks, goals and boundaries.
People become permeable again. Although they lose their bearings, they gain freedom on a spiritual level.
But therein lies the tragedy: this withdrawal does not happen out of conscious choice, but out of exhaustion. The soul withdraws because the person has never learned in life to be free in full consciousness.
Sneaking out alive
In contrast to physical illnesses, where the soul leaves the body while the person dies, something different happens here: the body remains, but the soul slowly departs. It is as if someone leaves the room in full consciousness while their body remains seated.
Sometimes you can sense this when you look into the eyes of someone with dementia. There is something “no longer here”, but at the same time something that is deep and peaceful somewhere else.
In many traditional cultures, dementia is therefore not seen as an illness, but as a transitional phase. As a gradual gliding of the soul into another reality. The body remains as a vessel, while the spirit is already preparing for the next state.
What we see and what really happens
This process is painful for relatives. They see a person who no longer recognizes them, who is confused, who loses themselves. But what they actually see is a soul leaving a world in which it has been too overwhelmed, too narrow or too conformist for too long.
Dementia is not an act of chance. It is an inner cry for relief, expressed through the silencing of thought.
When you meet a person with dementia, you are not meeting someone who is “lost”. Rather, someone who consciously or unconsciously leaves the structure of this world because it has become too narrow for their soul. A person who no longer thinks, but “just is”.
The silent call back to life
But before this process becomes irreversible, there is a threshold. A time when the person still feels that “something is wrong”. They realize that their thoughts are no longer working, that they are withdrawing, that they are less and less present and at the same time feel a deep sense of relief.
This is the moment when change is possible. Because as long as there is awareness, you can stop the inner retreat, not through medication or memory training, but through real mental work. By seeing the person on a spiritual and emotional level, so to speak. By reconnecting with this level.
This means:
* bring back the repressed parts of the self
* connect with your own inner foundation, your own pain and your own longing
* recognize the reasons why you were never really allowed to live
* and learn to be present again
An example from my practice
A woman came to see me in her early sixties with incipient forgetfulness. Medically, everything was still “normal”. But she felt that something inside her was “stopping”. She had cared for others all her life, was reliable, hardworking and never a burden. She herself never felt this was a burden or unnatural.
It was her life and she was happy with it. She was fine, she managed everything. Raised children, grandchildren. Everything was always fine the way it was. But now she realizes that something is wrong.
The shamanic work revealed that she had unconsciously decided to “slowly disappear” because she no longer had the energy to make an effort. Deep inside her, patterns were at work that made her “function”. She had a “job” in this life from the very beginning.
She never realized this because this “job” was never really difficult for her. It always corresponded to “what you just do”. What she never really realized was that she wasn’t just this “job”. That this “job” is not everything.
She is a spiritual being who came here to earth with a whole bundle of energies, abilities, tasks, desires and her very own life path. Like every human being. But she only lived a very small part of it. This went unnoticed for a long time.
In the course of our work, she has learned to differentiate between “what you do”, her “job” so to speak, and what SHE IS. She has rediscovered parts of herself that she was never aware of. She has found her own energetic basis.
She has found herself. Which does not mean that she now regrets her life. It has been a good life so far, but she is now moving on with her full, very own life energy. Into a whole new life, a more fulfilling life. Full of joy, strength and energy. And fully conscious.
Her memory became clearer again, she began to make decisions again. But above all, she was completely “there” again.
What you can and cannot do
Dementia cannot be “cured” like the flu, and certainly not from the outside. It is not a “disease”. But you can understand why it comes, what it wants to say.
As long as the person is still “there”, be it mentally, emotionally or energetically, they can begin to stop the retreat. Not by fighting, but by becoming aware.
* Recognize where you have already withdrawn from your life. You may still be functioning, but you have long been tired inside.
* Feel what you no longer wanted to feel. The fear, the anger, the sadness, the disappointment. Everything you have suppressed binds your strength.
* Find the courage to be yourself again. Even if that means giving up control, showing yourself, becoming uncomfortable.
These steps are not intellectual, they are not based on methods or lists or active ingredients. They happen at the level of the soul. And it is there, in the depths, that all healing begins.
The return to conscious life
Dementia is not a fate that simply “happens”. It is a sign. An invitation to wake up in time before the mind decides to retreat.
If you feel that you are drifting away from yourself, from the world, from life, then now is the time to return. As long as you can still ask yourself what is happening to you, you are still there. And that is exactly where you can start: on a spiritual level, with deep, shamanic work.
Because the way back to life is not through memory, but through the heart, through feeling, through connecting to your own soul and energy base. By rediscovering the parts that you thought you had lost and that are just waiting for you to finally bring them home. Let’s walk this path together for a while: info@gerhard-zirkel.com
Overweight? Losing weight? What’s really behind it
Diets, recipes, tables, plans … a billion-dollar industry by now.
In fact, being overweight is not a nutritional problem at all, but a silent/unconscious cry for security. One that arises completely unconsciously on a mental and emotional level and manifests itself in matter. Through too much matter.
If you want to solve this, you will have to tackle the cause, not the symptom.
Many people who are struggling with their weight believe they just need to pull themselves together. More discipline, better nutrition, a stronger will, then it would work. Another diet, buy a bike, get over it a bit, maybe book some coaching …
But deep down, they sense: “Something is wrong. It’s about something more.”
It’s about more
n my shamanic work, I repeatedly encounter people who have struggled for decades. With programs, prohibitions, control strategies. And yet nothing has changed permanently.
On the contrary: the inner pressure became greater, the self-hatred louder, the hope smaller. What you may not know is that your body is not trying to sabotage you. It is trying to protect you.
Not a sign of excess
Being overweight is not a sign of excess, but of vulnerability.
When the body puts on weight, even though we actually know what would be “right”, it shows us something that we don’t want to see: An inner need that has never been considered. Or one that has been ignored. It doesn’t even have to be your own distress.
Is the child crying? Put food in, then it’s quiet …
Perhaps there was no real security in your childhood. Maybe there was emotional coldness, constant pressure or the feeling of not really being welcome. Maybe you learned that you are only loved when you function. Or if you are as inconspicuous as possible.
All of this leaves its mark. Not just in your behavior, but deep in your nervous system, in your body structure, in the way you feel. And it is inherited, perhaps this insecurity is not even yours. What if it’s your parents’, or your grandparents’ or great-grandparents’?
At some point, the body finds a way to deal with this. It eats. It stores. It cushions. It protects.
The hunger
Hunger does not come from the stomach, but from the soul. Many people believe they are “emotional eaters”. But in truth, they are people with a deep, old deficiency that has never been seen.
A lack of support. A loving presence. Of honest affection. A hunger for recognition. For belonging. For “I’m okay the way I am.”
If this mental hunger is not satisfied, the body looks for a substitute. It reaches for what is available: Food. Not because it tastes good, but because it soothes. Because it briefly relaxes the nervous system. Because it gives you the feeling, at least for a moment: “I exist. I am allowed to be here.” … “I AM here”.
But then often comes the shame. The guilty conscience. The self-condemnation. “I didn’t make it again”. And that makes the inner lack even greater.
Discipline does not help
Discipline does not help if the problem lies deeper. Most anti-obesity programs are based on control. They rely on rules, calories, bans and training plans.
But control does not heal wounds. On the contrary, it only reinforces the feeling: “I’m wrong. I need to be in control of myself. I’m not okay the way I am.”
And this is the true core: many overweight people carry an old, silent message inside them: “I’m not okay”. They try to change, not out of love, but out of rejection.
But change that comes from rejection never leads to peace. It leads to new struggles. To new disappointments. And often to even more weight.
The body is not an opponent
The body is not an opponent, it is the wisest witness to our history. What if your body is not working against you? What if it is not sabotaging you, but wants to show you something?
In my work, I see time and again that the body remembers everything that the mind has forgotten.
The moments when you were alone. The tears you suppressed. The anger that was never allowed to come out. The conforming, the silence, the withdrawal, all for fear of no longer being loved.
These experiences are stored in the body. Not as a conscious memory, but as tension. As holding on. As armor. And sometimes: as weight.
Obesity as an expression
Being overweight is the expression of a silent longing for security. If you keep putting on weight even though you’re “doing everything right”, then perhaps it’s not about food. It’s about something deeper.
The desire to finally let go. Not in the sense of losing control, but in the sense of: “I no longer have to protect myself. I can feel safe.”
This security cannot be achieved through diets. It can only be achieved by turning inwards. By meeting the part of you that has felt alone for so long. The part that used food as comfort because there was no one else around. The part that needs the weight in order not to go under.
When this part is seen, with compassion instead of judgment, something starts to move. Very slowly. Very quietly. And very real. And then you can make peace with the struggle and the vulnerability. Wherever it originally came from.
Not in the fridge
What really fills you up is not in the fridge. You don’t need a new diet. You don’t need a better willpower either. You need connection. To yourself. To your true feelings. To your story. And to what was really missing.
You don’t get full through control, but through contact. With your body. With your soul. With your own inner truth.
In my shamanic work, I accompany people to this point. Not to take something from them. But to connect them with the part of themselves that has never really been satisfied and that still has to carry too much today for this very reason.
If you feel that your weight is telling you a story that you haven’t heard before, then you are not alone. And maybe now is the time to hear that story. Not to control it. But to give it peace.
You are not wrong
You may just have been fed in the wrong place. But it’s never too late to feed yourself in the right place. When you’re ready, write to me. I can’t take your path away from you, but I can accompany you: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com
AI has no life energy … your chance
The development of artificial intelligence is breathtaking. What was considered a futuristic vision just a few years ago is now reality: programs write poetry, talk to customers, analyze complex amounts of data in seconds and design entire cities in virtual models. Robots build houses, print furniture and perform surgical procedures with precision. In this new world, humans often seem to exist only as spectators.
Between fascination and fear
It is understandable that many people are unsettled. “What is actually left for me?”, ask not only creative minds, but also managers, craftsmen, teachers and doctors. The thought of being replaced by machines hits a raw nerve: the fear of being meaningless.
But precisely in this uncertainty lies a gateway. A way back, or rather: a way in. Because where the AI ends, the space in which you are irreplaceable begins.
What is AI and what can it really do?
AI, or artificial intelligence, is a branch of computer science that enables machines to perform tasks that originally required human intelligence. These include learning, problem solving, language comprehension and pattern recognition.
An AI like ChatGPT processes billions of data records, analyzes probabilities, combines language elements and generates meaningful responses. It recognizes patterns, but does not sense them. It evaluates, but it does not live. It cannot create anything new.
Let’s take an example: an AI system can analyze thousands of romantic poems and generate a new poem that reads “romantic”. But the AI knows no longing. No silent tears. No beating heart when you see someone you love.
She can describe grief, but she has never experienced loss.
She can explain friendship, but never feel trust.
She can express gratitude but never have been saved.
And that is the difference. And your opportunity.
The invisible dimension
We live in a world that places the visible, measurable and calculable above all else. Facts, figures, performance – these are the currencies of our time. So it’s no wonder that AI shines where these principles count.
But people don’t just live by numbers. People live from meaning.
It lives from the encounter with oneself on a deeper level. Of inner truth. Of moments when it becomes quiet and in this silence something suddenly speaks that has no voice.
Maybe you know moments like this: You’re sitting alone in the woods (or at home at the kitchen table) and suddenly you realize that your life has moved in a direction that feels empty. Or you wake up in the middle of the night and know that things can’t go on like this. This feeling is not “logical”. It is real. And it belongs to you alone.
This is the dimension that no machine can ever enter. Because it is not programmed, but sensed. Not understood, but experienced. Not made, but received.
Why AI will never reach your soul, the creator level
An AI can recognize depression, but it has never cried.
An AI can analyze spiritual texts, but it knows no longing for the big picture.
An AI can help you improve your time management, but it doesn’t know anything about being torn between duty and inner call. It doesn’t even know what time really is.
AI is brilliant, but soulless. Fast, but empty. Functional, but without essence.
You, on the other hand, are alive. Permeated by something that cannot be measured. Whether you call it soul, spirit, essence, source, spiritual-soul level or creator level, it is there. And it makes you irreplaceable.
The creation level of the universe
Everything we can see, grasp and think is on the level of matter. Our body, all its functions and also our psyche. All of this is the material level and this is also where AI operates. This is where mathematics is located, where the analysis of relationships is at home.
But this material level does not exist in “nothing”. It arises from the level behind it, from the level of pure energy, from the spiritual-soul level of the Creator.
And unlike a machine, we humans also exist on this creator level. We are spiritual beings who are at home right there. We are spiritual beings who create matter, who create our bodies, who create our entire material existence. Including all machines.
WE humans are the creators of all this
You may be familiar with this: you’re working on a text, a picture, a project and suddenly it’s flowing. You no longer think. You are flooded. You are no longer the doer of the material, you are drawing from a much deeper source.
This is not a psychological state. It is a spiritual event. It has its origin not in thinking, not in neurological processes, not in matter. But on the level behind it.
Poems that touch souls are created in this room. Solutions that were not calculated. Visions that come from another source.
And that is your true power. Because no machine can ever replace that, because YOU are the creator of the machines. A machine can never recognize its creator.
A little story:
A man came to a shaman and complained: “I have achieved everything. Money, prestige, power. But I am empty inside.”
The shaman said nothing. He handed him a drum. The man didn’t know what to do. So he began to beat. Slowly. Then faster. At some point, his expression changed. He was sweating. Wept. Sang. Fallen silent.
After hours he stood up, changed.
The shaman said: “You have felt your soul again.”
No AI in the world can do that. It can say it, sure, but it can’t DO it. Only a human can. A human who reconnects, who remembers that they themselves are the creation. Only a human can recognize the creator level because they are the creator.
Your invitation
Perhaps you are reading this text because something is awakening in you too. A quiet feeling: “There is more.” Maybe your life is fine on the outside and yet something is wrong. Maybe you are functioning, but you are no longer living.
Maybe you are also afraid. Maybe you are “sick”. Maybe you’re just “different” from the people around you. Then that’s not a mistake. It’s the call.
Not back to technology. But back to you.
To a place where you don’t analyze, but feel.
Where you don’t explain, but listen.
Where you don’t control, but receive.
No AI can follow you into this space, and no AI can bring you into this space. It lies behind matter. And it belongs to you alone.
The silent revolution
Our world does not need louder technology. It needs more alert people. People who remember that they are more than bodies and brains. More than roles and status. People who regain access to their inner voice, to the “divine” dimension within them.
These people change the world not through algorithms, but through their presence.
Not through speed, but through depth.
Not through knowledge, but through wisdom.
Conclusion: Why you are irreplaceable
AI will take over many things, but never you.
Because you are not code.
You are not a system.
You are not a product.
You are the spiritual being behind everything.
You are creative power.
You are alive.
And that’s exactly why you can beat any AI. Not with technology. But with energy. With who you are.
What can I do for you?
I can’t take the realization of the connections away from you. But I can lead you to the point where you can recognize. Where you can see who you are. Where you feel what you are. Where you take back your power over your life. For the good of all and for YOUR good.
Feel free to write to me at any time: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME/CFS
This is the official medical description of a disease that is still barely understood today. In most cases, those affected find no effective help. They are not even guaranteed sympathy. Because you can’t “see” any of it.
When deep exhaustion speaks a different language
Imagine waking up in the morning and feeling exhausted as soon as you open your eyes. Your body seems empty, your mind dull. Everything you used to find easy is now difficult. Every step becomes a challenge. It feels as if your inner light has been dimmed. As if your access to yourself has been blocked.
But it’s not depression, it’s something fundamentally different. It’s difficult to explain. You can’t “see” anything.
If this doesn’t just last for a few days, but for many months or even years, the whole thing gets a name: Chronic fatigue syndrome. But the term hardly explains anything. Your lab results are unremarkable. Doctors shrug their shoulders. And you yourself wonder what’s actually going on.
What if your exhaustion is not a mistake? Not a medical defect, but an expression of something deeper?
What if it is a wake-up call from your soul? From your being that originally came here with a purpose. Into a world that perhaps never really saw you. A society that has bent you from the start, conformed you, pressed you into shape.
Perhaps you are now at a point where there is no more bending. Your entire system is saying: stop. And that is not a failure, but an invitation to return to yourself.
Nobody can take that away from you, nobody can “diagnose” it, and there is no medication.
It’s not your fault. You can understand.
Perhaps you are now asking yourself the question: “So did I cause this myself?”, “Am I to blame?” The answer is a resounding no.
Blame is the wrong concept. It’s not about blaming anyone, including yourself. It’s about recognizing connections. At your own pace. With room for doubt, fear and hope.
You don’t have to find quick solutions. It’s not about speed. It’s about truthfulness. It’s about being willing to look. And then, at your own pace, to take new steps. One at a time.
When functioning becomes a trap
You may have learned to take responsibility. To be strong. To have your everyday life under control. Maybe even to appear perfect.
But somewhere along the way, you lost yourself. Your inner voice became quieter. Maybe it was never loud. Perhaps you internalized “functioning” so early on that you never got to know your true self.
Many people live successfully on the outside and feel a creeping emptiness on the inside. They work for others. For recognition. For an image of life that was never really their own.
And at some point the body can no longer take it. It rebels. And that feels like a deep, existential exhaustion.
The last kick over the edge
And at some point it becomes too much. This can happen gradually, but also very suddenly. Sometimes seemingly triggered by an event. An accident, an illness, a stroke of fate, a “vaccination”, something from outside.
But that is only the trigger, not the cause. Because the exhaustion was already there. You just held out for a long time. You had to persevere. There was no other way.
Your exhaustion is not a deficit, it is a call
What if this exhaustion is a message? A last attempt by your true self to bring you back?
Perhaps you have been on a path for a long time that no longer corresponds to your nature. Perhaps you have repeatedly suppressed needs, dreams or feelings. Out of a sense of duty, out of fear, out of reason.
Perhaps you have suppressed your inner knowledge, denied it. You kept silent where you should have spoken, stayed seated where you should have stood up.
But you are neither too much nor wrong. You’ve just been on a path that doesn’t nourish you for too long. Now is the time to ask yourself: Am I really living my life? Or just a role on the outside?
When life no longer makes sense and how you can find it again
Many people who suffer from chronic fatigue have lost themselves at some point. Not abruptly, but gradually. Through adaptation. Through expectations. Through an image that was never their own.
Healing begins where you stop judging yourself. Where you recognize: This exhaustion is not a sign of weakness , but of depth. Proof that something is still alive in you. That your inner being has not given up on you.
The first step: end the inner struggle
Do you know these thoughts?
“I’m too sensitive.”
“I’m doing everything wrong.”
“I’m not enough.”
These sentences are old. They come from your past, not from your truth. They gnaw at your strength. But they are not you.
And perhaps you’ve been projecting this onto the outside world for a long time:
“The world is wrong.”
“The others don’t understand anything.”
“Everything is too much.”
The first step towards change is not to do more. It is to stop fighting yourself and the world. It’s not easy, but it’s a start.
The second step: feel your inner guide again
A voice lives deep inside you. Perhaps it has become quiet. But it is still there.
Your intuition, your feeling for authenticity, for coherence. You don’t need new methods or clever concepts. What you need is you. Real. True. With everything you feel, including tiredness. You don’t need medicine, you need understanding. Your own.
Start listening to yourself. Not with your head, but with your whole being. It’s not about understanding with your mind. It’s about feeling. And about trust. In yourself. And in life.
The third step: realign your life from your innermost being
When your body goes on strike, it doesn’t want to “paralyze” you. It wants to protect you. From a path that destroys you. From a life that leaves you empty.
This exhaustion is not the end. It is the transition. The threshold to something new. Perhaps still unclear. But real. And this change does not begin with big decisions. But with small ones:
An honest no. A silent pause. A walk alone, without a destination. Less thinking, more feeling. Less conformity, more you. And at some point: a new course. One that feels right.
Trust is the silent power of your healing
Healing is not a goal. It is not a state that you have to achieve. It is a path that unfolds. Within you. You don’t have to fight anymore. You don’t have to be strong. You can be tired. And still go on. Not against you, but with you.
Perhaps slowly. Perhaps groping. But alive. And honest. If you feel that your old life no longer fits, then it’s not about trying harder. It’s about becoming still. And to meet yourself.
Your exhaustion is not a sign of failure. It is the call of your life: Come back. To yourself.
My help with this?
Often the causes lie so deep, so far back in the past, in the ancestral line, in transgenerational traumas, that you cannot get to them on your own. Too much lies above it. And you no longer have the strength.
Too many mechanisms of repression, of protection. Everything seems too confused, too little of your connection can be felt.
Then I come into play. Because I can look, I can understand, I can see how everything is connected. And guide you through the process like a mountain guide. The process that untangles everything, that creates clarity and that ultimately leads you to who YOU really are.
This is a process that requires strength and courage and takes time. But you don’t have to go it alone. Feel free to write to me at any time if you have any questions: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com
Vaccination from a spiritual and shamanic perspective
The criticism of vaccination as such is just as old as the idea of vaccination itself and it comes both from the camp of conventional medicine and from outside. But what is behind it from a spiritual and emotional perspective?
It is not only matter and conventional medicine that exist and operate within it. There are other levels that have a far greater horizon of experience but are sometimes drowned out by the clamor of gross matter. This article is about these levels.
The idea behind it is tempting
Basically, the idea of vaccination is tempting and even I say that as a tendentious critic of vaccination. You get an injection and then you are immune to a certain disease. You might think that’s a good thing. At least at first glance.
The idea of vaccination has fascinated mankind for centuries. It is based on the concept of specifically “training” the immune system to prevent serious infectious diseases. This strategy seems particularly appealing because it is preventative in nature; instead of treating a disease once it breaks out, the body is prepared so that, in the best case scenario, it does not fall ill in the first place or only develops mild symptoms.
And at first glance, this even seems to work; vaccination advocates repeatedly cite the example of smallpox, which has actually been almost eradicated.
Another argument that is often put forward is the protection of society as a whole. The theory is plausible: if you don’t contract a disease, you can’t infect anyone. And so those who cannot protect themselves are also protected. A nice game with feelings of guilt that works extremely well.
Psychologically speaking, being vaccinated gives you a sense of security. After all, you are now protected from a disease AND you are also morally high up because you are protecting others.
But is this even true from an overall perspective – i.e. beyond the limited material point of view? Or is this story flawed, even a huge fallacy?
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, made several statements on the subject of vaccination, particularly in the context of his spiritual world view. His statements come mainly from lectures he gave between 1904 and 1924, as well as from various writings on medicine and education. Here are a few of his most important thoughts on vaccination:
1. vaccination and spiritual awareness
Steiner regarded vaccinations as an intervention in the spiritual development of human beings. He believed that although vaccines could protect against illness, they could also impair a person’s spiritual consciousness. In an often quoted lecture from 1917 (in the Complete Edition GA 177, “Spiritual Scientific Reflections on World and Life Questions”), he stated that a materialism could emerge in the future that aimed to immunize people against “spiritual susceptibility” from childhood.
2. karma and illness
Steiner saw illnesses not only as biological phenomena, but as part of a karmic development process. He argued that certain childhood illnesses such as measles or scarlet fever could contribute to a person’s mental and spiritual maturation. Vaccinations could disrupt this process and therefore also have an impact on future incarnations.
3. medicine and materialism
In several lectures (e.g. GA 314, “Spiritual Science and Medicine”), Steiner criticized the materialistic approach to medicine that was emerging at the time. He feared that an exclusively biochemical view of health and illness neglected the spiritual aspect of the human being.
What I say as a shaman
Steiner already said it back then: vaccination interferes with people’s spiritual and mental development. But how is this to be understood?
Let’s expand on this a little:
From the perspective of the great connection between matter and energy, all matter is created from life energy plus ideas. We are basically spiritual beings who create a material world and a body to incarnate in it.
The matter that we see, touch, eat and where we can hit is nothing other than very dense energy. So dense that it appears solid. But it is nevertheless energy that is in a continuous process of change.
We humans are also condensed energy and we ourselves, i.e. the spiritual being behind us, have condensed this energy and control the life that results from it.
What sounds complicated to the mind – which is also just condensed energy – becomes completely clear to anyone who has (re)established contact with the spiritual level. These connections cannot be grasped with rational thinking, they can be felt, experienced, accessible to those who can sense.
Diseases
An “illness” is always a sign that something is not right in the emotional-energetic balance, or that a developmental process is taking place that manifests itself physically and must also be lived through physically.
What happens if I deprive my body of the opportunity to do this by “vaccinating” it?
Then I either block the development process or I suppress the symptom of an imbalance. On the one hand, this is good because I don’t get the illness, but it’s also bad because this expression would have had a purpose.
Assume that something is not going according to the spiritual being that you are in your incarnation. You are developing in an unfavorable direction, you are not developing at all or you are “overlooking” parts of yourself.
Then the spiritual beingthat you are, your “higher self”, will try to communicate this to you. And it does this through physical symptoms. These can be minor things or potentially fatal illnesses. Mostly combinations of these, which build on each other until you understand what it is all about.
But what if you prevent this possibility of expression from the outset by preventing the illness? Doesn’t your higher self then have to look for another expression? Don’t you then simply fall ill with something else?
If you vaccinate against it again, this game will continue until your body no longer plays along. Because every sign that you ignore or suppress will result in a clearer sign.
Or – and perhaps this is even worse – your material existence loses its connection to the spiritual plane because you suppress any possibility of interaction.
Zombies
And then you are what the movie industry called zombies ages ago. You are an empty shell with no connection to the primordial ground of your being. Controllable by everything but yourself, your higher self.
Zombies are very practical for anyone who wants to exercise power. Because people who are no longer connected to themselves, or only in a muted way, are controllable. They can be manipulated by any form of indoctrination, they believe any lie, they even defend it.
They have to, because they no longer have access to their truth, which comes from the spiritual side. In some cases, the simplest connections no longer work, people become radicalized, fight each other and no longer recognize what is actually at stake.
Two pieces of good news
a) If you have found this article and read this far, you are not completely separated from everything, immunized or not. Then there is still a resonance within you, you still get something from the world and you are concerned with the basic connections. Not everyone is equally susceptible to vaccinations, for some they don’t work at all.
b) No matter how deep the vaccinations are in you, they can always be transformed on a spiritual level. And yes, this also applies to today’s mRNA vaccines. Here, too, matter follows energy, even if the transformation requires much more energy than conventional vaccines.
Perhaps this is the reason why so few colleagues dare to tackle the subject? But there are some who do.
Remedy
I have been offering vaccine transformations since I started working as a shaman and I have carried out hundreds of them since Corona. I transform the vaccines not on a material but on a spiritual level. This enables the body to excrete them.
This is the first step in a process, because as long as the substance is in the body as a cause and acts there, there can be no improvement in your connection to your spiritual and mental base.
Such an inoculation transformation will not solve all your problems and it will not automatically reconnect you to your energetic base. But it is the basis for this to happen.
Important
Whatever you do, whether vaccinated or not, the important thing is to recognize the connections on a spiritual and mental level. This is exactly what I mean by “access to your truth”. Your contact with the spiritual level, whether conscious or unconscious, can tell you how best to behave in the material world you have created.
You have this access, it may just be buried or muffled. You feel that you have it and you can uncover it. The decision to do so is always yours.
If you have any questions or would like my help, please write to me at any time: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com
When victims (have to) care for the perpetrators
But what if not? What if your parents were narcissistic and/or abusive towards you? Either openly, in the form of physical or sexual violence or – and this is extremely more common – in the form of conscious or unconscious emotional abuse?
Then the issue becomes highly complex and often doesn’t end well. Not for either side. This is exactly what the following article is mainly about.
Because when the burden of caregiving itself is compounded by unconscious dependencies, narcissistic behavior and mutual pressure, then the whole construct becomes dangerous to the point of the caregiver giving up on themselves.
Such dependency relationships are by no means limited to care. Often enough, parents exercise power in a much more subtle way. They make their long-grown children dance like puppets. Make them do things that they would never have done on their own. Sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously.
But there are ways out if you are prepared to start with yourself – there is no other approach anyway – and resolve the underlying patterns. Because unlike in your childhood, you are no longer at the mercy of others. It still feels like that, but it’s no longer like that. Only the old programs are still running, but programs can be changed or deleted.
Such a path is exhausting, but much less exhausting than driving your own life into self-abandonment.
Example “it’s already working”
Ines, 58 years old, single, cares for her 83-year-old mother. As always, names are fictitious, the story behind them is not.
Ines has two more siblings, but they don’t care. They have families of their own and don’t have time. More like they don’t want to, but of course they don’t say that. Ines is alone, so she has time. She can be there for her mother.
She doesn’t need full care, but she can no longer get to the shops on her own and she can no longer clean her apartment. Ines does all that. Even though she works full-time, but otherwise she has time, doesn’t she? “I can manage,” she says to herself again and again.
Her mother is not easy. She never was. She would be called “narcissistic” today, but Ines still defends her. “She never had it easy”.
Is that an excuse for the fact that she keeps calling Ines nasty names? For the fact that Ines really can’t do anything to please her? For slandering her own daughter to the neighbors, shouting at her, throwing objects at her head?
Ines ignores all that. She has to, otherwise she couldn’t care. And she has to, doesn’t she? Her mother isn’t that bad … she’s never had it easy.
Ines has always been the unloved child. Always the child that her mother beat up. Psychologically and then also physically. Even as a child, Ines could never be right, she was always wrong, always ‘at fault’. She desperately tried to finally get it right, to finally be seen, to finally be loved. She is still trying today. She doesn’t even realize it anymore, she doesn’t know any different.
And so Ines doesn’t even realize how quickly she herself is deteriorating. How bad her health is. “I’ll be fine”. Sure, she was always “fine”, somehow. But she can’t let up, what would her mother say? What would the neighbors say? Then it would be her fault. Once again. She MUST be loved at some point! She can’t, so she carries on.
She actually came to me for something completely different, her health had been failing for some time. But the issue with her mother quickly came to the fore. This toxic dependency on a person who had always treated her like dirt. From childhood onwards. This sense of responsibility, coupled with a perpetual feeling of guilt.
Ines didn’t want to see this for a long time, there was always the hope that it would stop at some point … a hope that was never fulfilled. Not until death and beyond.
Solving this huge issue was not easy – especially not the guilt issue – but in the end Ines got her zest for life back. And her health. And her mother is no worse off than before, the solution just looks completely different now.
General
This example is not ONE story, it is many stories. This topic is huge but hardly visible in society. Who talks about it? And who should you talk to about it? Most people are not even aware of it.
Especially when it’s not about obvious dependency relationships but very subtle ones. Parents who are not in need of care, but still keep their adult children “on a tight leash” against their will.
Coercing them into unhealthy behavior, belittling them, controlling and bullying them. Emotionally blackmail them. Binding them to themselves against the will and needs of their partners or children.
What worked for you as a child will still work when you are an adult. Until you actively end these patterns. This requires courage and determination and is a big step.
You may feel “guilty” and you may be misunderstood, even attacked. But only at the beginning of the process.
Feelings of guilt
Consciously or unconsciously creating feelings of guilt in other people is an extremely effective strategy for getting what you want. If you manage to convince the other person that they are to blame if you are not doing well, then you have them in the palm of your hand.
Especially if it’s a person who is dependent on you. Your child, for example. If you as a parent manage – and this is not difficult – to give your child the “job” of making you happy, then they will do everything, really EVERYTHING to achieve this.
Because it depends on you. It MUST make you happy. A direct hit for narcissistic parents. Once they’ve got this pattern down, they can do practically anything with their children without fear of consequences.
This goes as far as physically abused children who nevertheless protect the perpetrators, their parents. Often well into adulthood. This leads to people who, even as adults, even in old age, still do everything they can to live up to the expectations or presumed expectations of their parents. Even when their parents are long dead.
In extreme cases, such patterns can lead to complete self-abandonment, but in most cases they lead to a subtle, latent pattern of suffering. And without the parents ever feeling any better as a result.
Help
There are hardly any people who can help, because the causes of such dependencies lie beyond what most people can perceive, let alone solve. You have to look specifically and want to see what you see.
And then draw the consequences. That’s hard at first. But how many people die from something like that? How many people care for their parents until they die, only to realize that they are still unloved and that the pattern of dependency continues to torment them even after their parents have died? Even worse than before.
How many people ruin themselves, always hoping that they will be loved for it at some point?
Spoiler: This will never happen!
The love that you should have experienced as a child but didn’t get, you can ‘t get from the outside later on. You simply can’t. Even if your parents were to develop into angels, it wouldn’t work.
You have to get it from a completely different source and you can get it with the right guidance. But you have to go deep to do this. You have to get to the root cause, to your energetic basis, which lies much deeper than your parents. Such patterns build up over very long periods of time and pass from one generation to the next (or the next but one).
You can’t solve a pattern like this at the level at which it originated. But together we can get to the point where you can solve it. Sustainably and forever. Taking the first step is entirely up to you.
Feel free to write to me at any time if you have any questions: mail@gerhard-zirkel.com