I woke up with a novel visual model of the structure of light this morning.
No idea why… at first.
So instead of trying to resolve the why, I spent time with the vision itself. This discipline — not jumping to the end too quickly, but being willing to be fully present in the middle — has become a kind of meditative practice for me. It’s about learning to be okay in discomfort, in unknowing, in uncertainty.
Somatic Shadow Work (brief digression)
This is somatic shadow work: sitting with energies instead of trying to resolve or ignore them.
When we don’t allow ourselves to sit with discomfort, we short-circuit the process. Yes, it feels better sooner — not gonna lie. But the body doesn’t forget. Unprocessed energies (feelings) get stored, and they resurface later as illness, triggers, or reactions that clearly aren’t about the moment at hand — but about something that happened decades ago, last month, or even in a past life.
Pro tip: if your reaction feels wildly out of proportion to the situation, that’s your clue. It’s not about the current moment — it’s about something similar you never fully cleared in the past, and your call to somatic processing.
Back to the vision: light patterns
As usual, what school physics described is incorrect — we all know most of what we were taught is bullshit.
That said, it is understandable why they did. It comes from the same impulse most humans have: the urge to document, resolve, and tie a neat bow around reality instead of allowing dissonance or incompatible facts to stand.
The ability to contain two contradictions at once is peak 2 of Pentacles / Temperance archetype energy — and that is not the default setting of “Science”.
Science has a pathological need to DEFINE.
So it categorized light.
And it defined light.
And it said authoritatively: “light is a particle.”
That got wobbly pretty quickly, because light doesn’t actually act like a neatly defined particle.
It’s unpredictable.
This is where the double slit experiment enters the chat.
I originally included a whole lesson on the double slit experiment here, and it got way too long, completely muddying this post— much to my dismay. So, like a cruel editor, I cut the fat.
But I kept the pretty gif.
Because it moves.
And it’s cool.

Whether you see wave-like or particle-like behavior depends entirely on how you make your observation.
I propose that my vision of light energy fits this insight. Particle/wave duality doesn’t contradict my spiral model — both results are easily contained within it. They are accounted for by the spiral pattern underlying what’s being observed.

The Missing Third Option: Light Moves in a Spiral
Earth is – or was (let’s account for changing energies in this conversation) a world of duality.
The old control based matrix isn’t comfortable with both/and.
It prefers black or white.
So science called light a particle when it behaved like one under observation, and a wave when it was viewed from a different perspective.
But they missed a third option.
That third option is the visual I have.
Light is moving in a spiral.
Depending on where observation is focused:
- when attention locks onto the straight-line, dotted pattern formed at linear points along a single plane, light is counted as a particle
- when the view expands to include the peaks and valleys — the higher and lower edges of the spiral — light is perceived as a wave
Same motion.
Same energy.
Different slice of perception.
This spiral model fits my lived experience of how energies actually live and move, so when I saw it, it made immediate sense to me.
Have I lost you yet, darlings?

The ACTUAL point of this post:
The Observer Effect Is First-Strike Tech
Waking up thinking about quantum physics led me into an extended meditation on the observer effect – the actual topic of this post – and what the spiral vision was teaching me before I understood why. Watching Boo incinerate the stairwell the day before laid the groundwork: the lesson came first by example (yesterday), then by vision (this morning), and finally by insight (today).

In physics, the observer effect refers to the disturbance of a system caused by the act of observing it. Observation requires instruments or conditions that, by necessity, alter the state of what’s being measured.
A common example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire. The act of measuring releases a small amount of air, which means the pressure you observe is no longer exactly what it was before you checked.
Another example is vision itself.
Seeing non-luminous objects requires light to hit the object so it can reflect that light back to the observer.
Pause on that.
Seeing anything requires that it be touched by light.
Human perception — physical or astral — requires light contact. Physical sight engages the visible spectrum, while astral sight operates through other bands of light beyond it. Nothing is seen by humans without the thing observed being touched by the Source light spectrum.
Do you realize what this means?
- Seeing non-luminous objects requires light to hit the object so it can reflect that light back to the observer.
- Human perception — physical or astral — requires light contact. Anything truly seen by a human being is, in that moment, being touched by SOURCE light. There is no way to avoid that contact.
- This is one of the many reasons humans are so powerful: our acts of observation bring direct contact with Source light, making embodiment a built-in astral advantage — human DNA engineered for high-performance interaction with the universe.
A dark or distorted entity — a non-luminous object — something that cannot generate its own light or has no direct connection to Source, cannot be seen on its own. It can only appear if light makes contact with it and allows it to reflect something back.
To be witnessed is to be illuminated.
Even if only briefly.
Even if only partially.
Even if the observer thinks they’re “just looking.”
Light touches it.
And light always wins.
A light bulb doesn’t negotiate with darkness.
It doesn’t argue with it.
It doesn’t even need much effort.
It simply turns on — and the dark is no longer sovereign.
This is where the observer effect stops being an abstract physics concept and becomes alchemy.
Observing something causes it to be touched by light.
That’s true for particles.
It’s true for emotions.
It’s true for shadow.
It’s true for entities, patterns, memories, and distortions.
This is where it crosses into energetic warfare — and into the latent power of human DNA, which uses light to see.
Observing — seeing — with our embodied selves is astral warfare technology.
Embodied observation brings Source light into contact with the target, whether it wants that or not.
And light always changes the situation.
Anything dark, distorted, parasitic, or disconnected from Source cannot remain hidden once it is seen.
It thrives only in the absence of illumination.
The moment it is truly seen, it is already compromised.
The outcome depends on its relationship to light — and my ability to focus that light. It may be weakened, healed, or returned entirely to Source.
I learned this by watching Boo incinerate a liminal space simply by observing it fully.
Visual contact alone changes the state of the thing being observed — even if the observer does nothing else.
This is why presence is dangerous to certain entities.
This is why some patterns dissolve the moment they are calmly seen.
This is why even non-reactive awareness is threatening to the dark.
In my energetic toolkit, focused observing is an offensive move.
It illuminates and destabilizes distortions that rely on secrecy, confusion, or unconscious participation.
Darkness cannot remain sovereign once light touches it.
Witnessing is a beautiful weapon.
Because light always wins on contact.