The Energy We Share

You can feel it the moment people come together—that hum of shared energy that fills a room before a word is spoken. Every group—whether it’s a family, a circle of friends, a collaborative project, or a business team—creates its own vibration. This is the group’s aura.

The quality of that energy depends on what the group identifies with. When a group becomes caught up in the surface level of things—the personalities, the problems, the material world—it plants little seeds of karma that keep it cycling through lessons of attachment and reaction. But when identification shifts to something deeper—when the group begins to recognize the soul that lives within it—the energy changes. It becomes radiant instead of reactive. The purpose isn’t about the form anymore, but to express unity through it.

And yet, every collective shift begins quietly, in the awareness of one person. Each awakening ripples outward, changing the tone of the whole. Spiritual unfoldment doesn’t happen unconsciously. It takes a certain dedication — an intention and attention — to expand awareness. Life may nudge us forward, but true unfoldment begins the moment we become conscious participants in our own evolution. We wake up, take the reins, and begin to work with ourselves. That’s when the soul’s energy starts to move through us with purpose rather than through circumstance.

The Path of Unfoldment

The path of expanding awareness is marked by a series of unfoldments. In truth, each unfoldment is also a letting go—a release of attachment to the material world and its forms. It’s the gradual detachment from the limited self, the personality, and all the patterns and conditions that are bound by time.

Our well-being, both individually and collectively, depends on understanding this. Every kind of suffering—pain, loss, fear, or conflict—arises when we identify with what can change. As awareness expands, we begin to see life more clearly, responding from presence instead of reaction. In that clarity, healing begins—not as something we do, but as something that naturally happens when we stop clinging to what is passing and align with what is true.

When I move from personality awareness, it often feels tight in my gut. There’s a pull to it—a gravity that draws me into old cycles of thought and emotion, experiences meant to reawaken me. These cycles aren’t pleasant, but they repeat until I remember to rise above them. That shift into awareness, into oneness, is always a conscious act. I remember to center myself, to release whatever I’ve been clinging to that keeps me small, and to lift my awareness back into wholeness. Sometimes, all it takes is a moment of observation from the centered self. The energy of the personality begins to transmute. I feel it in my gut like alchemy—something heavy turning to light.

Often, what results from this alchemy is expanded awareness. I simply begin to remember, and problems find solutions. I begin to live in the present moment, in the flow of uncanny experiences, where synchronicities become signposts toward a way of being. This way of being feels like a rhythm guided by awareness itself—alive, responsive, and whole.

Anyone can touch it. It begins with a breath, a pause, a willingness to see from center. From that still point, life unfolds differently—not as something to manage, but as something to move with. As the energy shifts, I feel lighter, more at ease. The energy within and around me becomes clearer, uplifted, and aligned again.

The energy we share begins within.

As awareness expands, I begin to see how everything that happens around me mirrors something within me. Circumstances that once felt unfair or painful reveal their meaning. I realize I am not separate from life at all—it’s all part of one movement of consciousness expressing itself. When we see this, we stop feeling like victims and begin to live symbolically, reading the outer world as a mirror of our inner being.

As we align with oneness, we begin to remember what has always been true: oneness is already free. We are already that. Yet most of us experience this truth gradually, in moments of recognition that grow stronger over time. With each glimpse, something within us relaxes. The suffering that seemed so real begins to dissolve—not because pain disappears, but because our identification with it fades.

In this awareness, compassion deepens. We feel unity, quiet peace, and a natural impulse toward love and service. There’s a spacious detachment, not from life, but from illusion. We recognize that when we speak to the soul within another, the soul responds. And in that exchange, we remember that we have never been alone on the path.

My Own Unfoldment Story

Loneliness drove me inward, and from that inward turning, resilience was born. In the shifting landscapes of my childhood and early adulthood, I learned to depend on an inner strength that carried me through uncertainty. Looking back, I can see that this was my first real training in meditation. Seeing the light on the path became a spiritual strength. I began to understand vibration—that some people shone more brightly for me, serving as mentors, teachers, friends, and family members who guided me forward.

As I learned to recognize that light and appreciate it, something in me deepened. I began to sense our eternal nature—that circumstances are temporary, that we’re not meant to get stuck in them, but to keep pressing toward what uplifts and renews us. Even when life felt unstable, I held to that inner knowing that something greater was guiding me toward a brighter future.

Then, in a moment I could never have anticipated, grace revealed itself. The first angelic encounter I can recall happened when I was sixteen. I was lying on the bed in my mother’s home, feeling deeply depressed and forgotten by the world. In that stillness, a radiant light descended—soft, intelligent, and filled with love. It wasn’t a blinding flash or a grand vision, but a living presence that enveloped me in warmth and knowing. I was lifted spiritually, surrounded by a peace that had no opposite. Every trace of sorrow faded as I felt held in an expanded awareness that seemed to recognize me completely.

That experience altered my sense of self forever. It wasn’t merely a this too shall pass moment; it was a quiet revelation of my own consciousness—aware, infinite, and alive. I saw that the life I was living—the people, places, and circumstances—were expressions of a much greater journey. Still, as a teenager growing up in the 80s, part of me could only think, “Oh my gawd!” I didn’t have the language for it then, but I knew something extraordinary had occurred. Before me stretched a path filled with opportunities to remember and express who I truly am: a being of light, temporarily housed in form, here to rediscover the joy of oneness made manifest through human experience.

Years later, in 1991, I joined a small meditation group that met in my professor’s living room in Chico, California. We ate vegetarian food, studied metaphysics, and spent long evenings in meditation and laughter. We stayed together for five years. When the group dissolved, I felt a heartbreak I hadn’t known was possible—yet even in that pain, something deeper stirred, reminding me that love never really leaves. All the love and exaltation I felt with that circle of souls was already within me. I carried it wherever I went.

The Yoga of Unfoldment

The next stage of my journey began when I was introduced to a meditation practice called Spiritual Reading—what I now think of as a kind of Yoga of Unfoldment. By that time, I had learned that no amount of study or philosophy could replace what comes through direct experience. Meditation wasn’t an escape from the world; it was a way of seeing into it. It was a way of meeting myself at deeper and deeper levels, until what I once thought of as “me” began to feel like a reflection of something much larger.

In those quiet hours of stillness, I learned to listen—not with my ears, but with awareness itself. Over time, I began to understand something profound: while we are all part of the same divine oneness, our individual energies remain distinct. We don’t merge with others in meditation or reading; we recognize the matching pictures that appear between us. These pictures—vibrations of shared experience—help us remember.

Sometimes these reflections are beautiful. Other times, they’re painful. When we’re triggered by someone, it’s easy to lash out, blame, or name the problem. But once we settle into the realization that nothing can truly trigger us when we are healed from within, something remarkable happens. We see that our reactions are simply reflections of our own inner work, asking for attention. Hence, we remind each other. Every interaction, whether peaceful or challenging, becomes an opportunity to heal and remember who we are.

The power, always, is in meditation—because that’s where attention meets intention. In spiritual work, intention directs, attention focuses, and awareness reveals. When we turn inward with focused awareness and a sincere desire to know truth, we begin to align with the level of consciousness we wish to know, remember, and be. It’s important to name that level—to state clearly within ourselves the vibration we seek to understand.

The personality often masquerades as knowing, fumbling its way through the dark, gathering opinions and half-truths. But the soul-identified self doesn’t need to “figure it out.” It remembers. It brings together past, present, and future knowing into a holistic now. From that place, life stops planting latent seeds of karma for some future unfolding in time and space. Instead, the energy becomes radiant—each breath a healing vibration that ripples outward, touching the whole.

Meditation becomes less about quieting the mind and more about listening from the soul, where truth is already known and love naturally restores balance. From there, our presence itself becomes a form of service—an emanation of remembrance in motion.

To Unfold Consciously

To unfold spiritually, we want to be working consciously. Life will tumble us along for as long as it takes—through circumstances, relationships, losses, and moments of grace—until we finally wake up and take the reins. The choice to work consciously is the turning point. It’s when we stop being shaped solely by the pressures of outer experience and begin to cooperate with the deeper current of inner truth.

When awareness takes the lead, everything changes. Karma becomes curriculum. Challenges become mirrors. And meditation becomes the meeting place between the human and the divine, where we begin to live with intention, attention, and presence.

This is the work of unfoldment: to remember what we are and live it, here and now. And as we do, the energy we share—within groups, families, and hearts—begins to shine with the light of remembrance.

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About Jennifer Lasell

Jennifer Lasell is a psychic medium, spiritual life coach, and energy healer dedicated to helping people connect with their intuition and inner wisdom. Through meditation, reflection, and spirit-guided practices, she offers guidance and tools to support emotional and spiritual well-being. Her work fosters a sense of community and belonging—inviting others to explore the unseen, trust their sensitivity, and remember that we awaken together.