Whether you’re beginning to tune inward or already attuned to this radiance of coherence with the field, your Vertical Energetic Axis is not something to create or achieve. It’s something to notice—then gently inhabit. Let me share why.
A Radiant Axis Vibrating Within
I often refer to this vertical current as a column of stillness—a place where subtle energies converge, radiant presence, rather than action. Instead of a chakra ladder, a spiritual hierarchy, or a mystical tether you need to climb, it can be experienced as a living, energetic channel of harmonic alignment—the coherent strand through which breath and form converge into tone, the signal we emit into the field. If you missed the post about tone, you can find it Here.
Some see it as a thread to Essence, subtly nested in the body, where awareness returns home and clarity arises without force.
What you call it matters less than how you feel it.
When you’re tuned to this vertical axis, your presence restructures energetically every space you enter. Adding to that, instead of being the structure for mystical experience, this is the tone integrity that can allow you to positively influence the quantum energy field in and around you.
When you are in this vertical alignment, you can become aware of yourself as Essence.
As I describe these three energy centers, they aren’t meant to be mythic symbols—they are maps of the living current that shape entire worldviews.
- In yogic tradition, the sushumna is the central nadi where energy rises through breath and intention, guiding practitioners toward spiritual realization through the harmonization of opposites.
- In ancient Egypt, the djed pillar represented stability and vitality, often associated with the spine of Osiris, a symbolic channel of resurrection and inner strength.
- In shamanic cosmologies, the axis mundi links sky, earth, and underworld—a tree, mountain, or staff through which wisdom travels and healing takes place.
- In Kabbalistic mysticism, the Tree of Life is a living diagram of divine flow—from infinite light above to embodied manifestation below—offering a map for alignment of self with Essence.
Across these lineages, the vertical axis is not a philosophical or spiritual concept that they gradually developed. It’s a pathway of communion with the field—a subtle field architecture that allows for coherence with all-that-is to come to the forefront (especially when we put our attention on it). Let’s break this down into why this matters for us in daily life.
Presence Is Field Coherence
In quantum field dynamics, stillness emerges at the zero-point—the point of convergence between counter-spinning vortices of potential. Rather than seeing this as some kind of void, envision a generative portal. A boundary condition where energy, matter, and form arise.
Presence is your felt coherence with that point. And when you’re present in this way,
rather than aspire to a higher level of frequency, you radiate it naturally.
This axis is:
- The field alignment between Essence and self, through the breath and spinal area.
- A resonant current that tunes your awareness, not upward but inward and through.
- A carrier wave for your soul’s unique signal, your tone, stabilizing both intuition and embodiment.
You don’t descend or ascend through it. You become coherent within it. Take a second and let that sink in.
How It Feels
- You feel centered, with stillness pervading your awareness.
- You no longer seek validation—you are flowing unconditionally through the field.
- Words carry weight when breath and tone are aligned.
- Emotional energy is metabolized in real time, rather than being stored.
This axis is not exclusive to advanced practitioners. It is innate to anyone listening deeply enough to trust their stillness.
I refer to the heart-brain-belly axis as a living architecture of perception, not speaking in metaphor—but literally—this vertical axis is the neuro-biological structure that perceives, filters, and responds to the field in real time.
In the area of quantum field science I am interested in, at the subtle level, we are each a spinning vortex in a plasma-like soup. All around us are waves of energy and as the waves become more coherent, a boundary condition forms to create matter (there’s a whole lot of math and further explanation we can do later about that. But that’s my nutshell explanation). My point is that each swirling vortex is linked at a point of convergence with its counter-spinning vortex. Their convergence point is called the Zero Point—a place of equilibrium between potential and form. This convergence is the still point of our being. It is more potential than matter, yet within it lives the power to structure reality.
Your subtle Vertical Axis makes this convergence tangible. It is your internal waveguide—through which your Essence flows into embodiment. And when aligned with it, you become a coherent transmitter.
Becoming the Signal
As your coherence with the field deepens, something subtle shifts:
Stillness begins to communicate.
This isn’t my any means passive. It’s participatory stillness. It’s allowing your lived frequency to attune your environment—beyond any kind of effort, it happens through presence. This is not something we are taught as children nor is it reinforced by culture.
Yet when you live from a higher octave, synchronicities accelerate, relationships shift, and the invisible becomes palpable. It feels real.
In the endless process of becoming, you don’t become “higher frequency.” You release what was muting your natural tone, thus allowing higher frequency—faster spinning quantum aspects of yourself—to become part of your daily experience.
Your very presence—stabilized in the vertical presence axis, attuned across brain, heart, and gut—becomes the signal.
- You don’t have to try to speak your truth all the time… because you transmit it.
- You no longer feel responsible to “fix the world”… because you radiate coherence—and it ripples outward.
- This is not some kind of spiritual performance—it is subtle stewardship of tone.
- It’s your daily resonance—lived quietly, consistently, and in alignment with your inner truth.
And this changes everything.
Unpacking the Vertical Energetic Axis
Let’s look more closely at the three harmonic centers within this Vertical Presence Axis—each one is a tuning fork for a different kind of intelligence. Together, these centers form your living architecture of perception.
And when attuned together in presence, they become an axis of harmonic intelligence through which you embody truth—rather than just speaking about it.
- The Brain processes patterns and evaluates structure: What actions will you take?
- The Heart detects emotional tone and relational truth. What aligns and what contracts?
- The Belly, also known as Hara in Eastern culture, reads energetic safety, timing, and field-level shifts. It asks: What just entered your energy field?
Today, we will begin our deeper exploration at the top of the axis.
The Brain
There are foundational questions we can ask about the brain—ancient and emerging, spiritual and scientific—and they’re exactly the kind of questions we need to be asking:
What came first—the brain or consciousness?
We’ve been taught to believe that consciousness is something the brain produces—like heat from a machine or light from a bulb.
But what if it’s the other way around?
What if the brain is not the source, but the receiver—a tuning device shaped to localize a much vaster field of consciousness? Like a radio picking up frequencies, or a lens focusing light.
More and more researchers in neuroscience, quantum physics, and transpersonal psychology are exploring the idea that consciousness is fundamental—not a byproduct of biology, but the very fabric from which biology arises.
This aligns with ancient teachings across the world—that consciousness is the ground of being, the essence of all things, and that form arises within it, not separate from it.
So when we ask, what came first—the answer is: Consciousness.
The brain is what allows it to express itself in this particular dimension, in this particular way.
How Intelligence Fits into Studying Consciousness
Intelligence is often confused with knowledge or mental quickness. But true intelligence—what many indigenous traditions, mystics, and leading-edge scientists refer to—is much more than intellect.
Intelligence is the capacity to relate.
In a broader context, intelligence is related to perceiving patterns and adapting to circumstances we encounter. It’s the ability to respond creatively to change. And it’s the dance between awareness and form—between inner sensing and outer expression.
There are many forms of intelligence:
- Emotional intelligence
- Somatic intelligence
- Ecological intelligence
- Intuitive intelligence
- Harmonic intelligence (as we’ve begun exploring)
But all forms of intelligence emerge from consciousness—from the knowing field that exists before language, before thought, before measurement.
Consciousness is the ocean. You could think of intelligence as the way it waves.
A Living Universe, Waking Up
If we start from the premise that consciousness is primary, then everything changes.
We’re no longer isolated beings thinking our way through a fixed, material universe. We are conscious expressions of a vast living intelligence—woven into the same field that breathes stars into being from the zero point energy of a spiraling vortex. This intelligent force of nature gathers energy to create galaxies, grow trees, and writes poetry through our hands.
This conclusion led me to wondering where consciousness came from.
From my research, I could say:
It doesn’t come from anywhere. It is the where.
It’s not inside us—we are inside it.
And when we become still, coherent, and attuned…
We begin to hear its voice, moving through everything (not just through us).
Why This Energetic Axis Matters to Me
It’s about experiencing coherence with the infinite energy field in daily life and feeling my inner and outer worlds transform. I’ll share how that can happen for you.
Daily Resonance Anchor: The Breath-Back Transmission
- Sit quietly. Inhale and feel your breath ascend along your energetic, yet tangible, vertical axis—belly to heart to head.
- As you exhale, imagine your tone transmitting from your heart center gently in all directions .
- No need to push. Just sit in stillness and offer resonance with the field.
- Observe: What happens energetically when you do this?
- After a few minutes, notice how you feel.
Journal Prompt: Where Am I Becoming the Signal?
- Recall a recent moment where the vertical axis, a column of pure stillness, felt aligned when you decided to shift into calm, clarity, and equanimity rather than joining in a conflict—thus calming or uplifting a space. This could have happened while engaging in a social media post or a small gathering. What did you feel?
- Reflect: Was I trying to create an effect—or simply being in harmonic alliance with “the field” in and around me?
- What emotional triggers in you were most likely to arise to break the coherence and become tempted to “prove” or “explain” your frequency state or justify how you were responding?
- Ask: What might happen if I just stay in coherent tone with the field—without needing permission or validation to do so?
Coming Next
This post begins our 3-part exploration of the exquisitely designed Vertical Energetic Axis—your central channel of inner alignment and harmonic intelligence.
In upcoming posts, we’ll dive more deeply into:
- The Heart as a field-sensing organ of feeling
- The Belly as your instinctive interface with quantum reality
This is all part of the Living a Higher Octave series—a journey toward embodied presence, subtle coherence, and relational resonance with the living energy field in and around you.
Until then, return to your Vertical Energetic Axis often and let it trigger inherent memory of who you are at your core… notice how the axis is inherently working within you—not like a learned technique or touching base with a physical structure. It’s simply a return to coherence, calm power, and to your unique tone (the signal you emit to the quantum field).
You don’t need to become more. Just allow for more coherence (a sense of stability) with the field to rise naturally.
See you soon,
P.S. For Parents or for Homeschooling: “The Magic Rope” Game can be a lot of fun.
Purpose: Help children (ages 5–12) to feel their inner vertical axis intuitively.
Let them know this is their invisible yet real Vertical Energy Axis. They can imagine it as a glowing, golden rope of light running from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet. It's their own magical thread that can help them feel calm, strong, and kind inside.
How to Play
Imagine a glowing rope running through the body—from head to belly. It’s soft, stretchy, and sparkly.
Breathe along the rope:
Inhale and let the glow travel down.
Exhale and feel it gently return upward.
Say together:
“I have a light inside me. It helps me feel calm, brave, and kind.”
Invite your child to draw their “magic rope” or stand quietly and imagine it glowing as they breathe.
There is also a coloring book for you below:
This play-based anchor helps children connect with their subtle architecture—without needing language to explain it.
Let children know they will be coloring themselves with their own magical thread that can help them feel calm, strong, and kind inside.
This simple and joyful activity helps children ages 5–12 connect with their subtle inner energy system in an intuitive, playful way. This central thread of inner light is the ‘Magic Rope.’ It runs vertically from above the head to below the feet, and gently glows through the head, heart, and belly—places where we feel, sense, and know in powerful ways.
How to use these coloring pages:
1. Invite your child to sit quietly and imagine a glowing rope of light running through their body.
2. Guide them to breathe in and feel the light move downward from their head to belly.
3. On the exhale, they can feel the light softly rise again.
4. Encourage them to color the page in any way that feels good to them.
You can even say together: “I have a light inside me. It helps me feel calm, brave, and kind.” This can become a beloved way for your child to feel their inner calm and presence.
MAGIC ROPE COLORING PACKET
©LeeKemter
Introduction for Parents:
This coloring activity is designed to help children connect with their Vertical Presence Axis-their “magic rope.”
Through creative visualization and body awareness, children can begin to recognize this axis as a living thread of light and intelligence that helps them feel centered, calm, and connected.
Purpose:
- Build intuitive body awareness.
- Encourage imaginative, embodied learning.
- Introduce the idea of energy coherence in a child-friendly way.
Instructions:
1. Invite the child to sit quietly and take a few deep breaths.
2. Show them the “magic rope” in the drawing below-a vertical line that runs from above the head to below the feet.
3. Point out the three glowing spheres: one at the head, one at the chest, and one at the belly.
4. Encourage them to color in a way that makes the magic rope feel alive-using any colors they feel drawn to.
5. Talk together about how they can return to this invisible line or chord anytime they want to feel peaceful and strong.
Be creative and add your own ideas for further exploration into this powerful (and fascinating) energetic vertical axis.
Magic Rope Coloring Sheets
P.P.S. Did you miss the first post in this series?
The foundational post in this series explored your tone—the frequency you radiate into the field. If you missed it, Click Here.