Myths & mysteries
Discover facts about myths & mysteries. Small discoveries that change the way you see familiar things.
Myths & mysteries
Walk-ins claim new souls hijacked their bodies
Having a midlife crisis is exhausting, so it is much easier to just claim a brand new soul took over your physical vessel. The 'walk-in' theory suggests that…
Discover more
Magnum opus consists of four distinct color stages
Achieving ultimate spiritual perfection is essentially a very aggressive color-by-numbers project. The 'Great Work' of alchemy must proceed exactly through…
Discover more
Rubedo represents achieving ultimate red perfection
The finish line of spiritual alchemy requires you to glow with an intense, bloody redness. Rubedo represents the final fusion of spirit and matter, completing…
Discover more
Spagyric tinctures combine salt sulfur and mercury
According to alchemists, everything in the universe can be broken down into exactly three things, none of which you want to drink. Spagyric medicine involves…
Discover more
Causal body stores every memory of past lifetimes
Think your phone is out of storage? The causal body supposedly acts as a permanent, immortal hard drive for your soul, retaining the memories and accumulated…
Discover more
Tensegrity movements redistribute human energy fields
Why stretch your muscles when you can stretch the invisible fibers of your luminous energy sphere? Carlos Castaneda introduced these highly specific, slightly…
Discover more
STACKY FOR IPHONEA bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.
Keep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Violet flame decrees supposedly burn away karma
Why spend years making amends for your past mistakes when you can just visualize a purple fire doing the heavy lifting? New Age practitioners use rapid-fire…
Discover more
Squaring the circle achieves the impossible
Leave it to mystics to take an unsolvable geometry homework problem and turn it into a metaphor for enlightenment. The classical challenge of constructing a…
Discover more
Nigredo is the putrefaction stage of alchemy
Every good self-improvement journey must start with complete and utter inner rotting. Nigredo, the blackening stage, requires the spiritual alchemist to…
Discover more
Lightworkers believe they raise global vibes
Some people volunteer at soup kitchens, others just sit on their couch and aggressively emit good vibes. Lightworkers identify as specialized souls tasked…
Discover more
Astral plane holds seven distinct vibrational levels
Even the afterlife has a strict class system based on how good your vibes are. The astral plane is divided into seven exact levels, ranging from dark, sludgy…
Discover more
Reality transurfing uses pendulums for energy debt
If you give too much attention to something you hate, you are literally feeding an invisible energy vampire called a pendulum. This Russian mystical system…
Discover more
Citrinitas turns consciousness into solar light
Just when you thought the soul was clean enough, alchemy demands you turn it neon yellow. Citrinitas is the awakening stage where the purified soul is…
Discover more
Alchemical transmutation targets spiritual flaws
Turning actual lead into literal gold was apparently just a cover story for massive personal development. Spiritual alchemists claim the real laboratory is…
Discover more
Bovis scale measures the life force of items
Ever wonder if your apple has a higher spiritual vibration than your toaster? The Bovis scale is a totally subjective measurement system used by mystics to…
Discover more
Albedo represents the purifying whitening stage
After you suffer through the dark, depressing black stage of spiritual alchemy, you get to be aggressively bleached. Albedo, the white stage, involves washing…
Discover more
Alchemical wedding unites opposing binary energies
Before you can become enlightened, your internal masculine and feminine energies have to tie the knot. This deeply metaphorical union represents the perfect…
Discover more
Spiritual downloading beams data straight to brains
Sometimes you just suddenly understand a complex concept, but rather than credit your own intellect, mystics call it a spiritual download. Practitioners claim…
Discover more
Fifth-dimensional ascension upgrades carbon bodies
According to modern mystics, humanity is currently undergoing a mandatory software update from a carbon-based structure to a crystalline one. This 5D…
Discover more
Quantum jumping steals talents from alternate selves
Why spend 10,000 hours mastering the piano when you can just meditate and steal the skill from a parallel universe version of yourself? This visualization…
Discover more
Numerology links master number 22 to people who build huge movements
This elevated digit is allegedly responsible for people who cannot just have a hobby and must instead build global movements. It is a very exhausting…
Discover more
In numerology, the number eight is associated with wealth and ambition
For a mystical discipline, it is hilarious that one of its core digits is entirely dedicated to becoming incredibly wealthy. It is the capitalist dream…
Discover more
Tantric practices weave mundane acts into exercises
Instead of treating daily chores as boring, this philosophy pretends that literally everything you do is a deeply spiritual ritual. Sweeping the floor…
Discover more
Compassion energy hubs demand unconditional love
This incredibly demanding center expects you to forgive everyone who has ever wronged you. It is arguably the most annoying energetic requirement in the…
Discover more