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Susanne Helgesen's avatar

Thank you! 🧡

Dea Devidas's avatar

Thank you for being here. Your presence is felt. 💎

TheoSpirit's avatar

I was considered “shy” according to my mom, she also told me stories about how I was when I was young and not always positive or necessarily negative but it made me feel odd, like there was something wrong with me. Little did I know of our extended family dynamics and so I have a terrific understanding of certain things, but yeah, all the crap I experienced didn’t exactly enhance my confidence 😬and it’s okay , just kind of weird. Thanks for sharing this 🤘🫶👍✨

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Shy" is almost never shy. It's a nervous system that learned early to read the room before breathing, scan for safety before speaking, and file "weird" under "probably my fault." Your body wasn't odd. It was accurate. Picking up frequencies nobody was naming out loud.

Extended family dynamics have a way of writing themselves into a kid's posture before anyone explains the plot. And then decades later you're unpacking a suitcase you didn't know you were carrying.

Confidence doesn't get "enhanced" by that kind of childhood. It gets excavated later. Slowly. Weirdly. With a lot of "oh, THAT'S why I do that."

Thanks for being here in the weird with the rest of us. 💛🙏

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Shy" is almost never shy. It's a nervous system that learned early to read the room before breathing, scan for safety before speaking, and file "weird" under "probably my fault." Your body wasn't odd. It was accurate. Picking up frequencies nobody was naming out loud.

Extended family dynamics have a way of writing themselves into a kid's posture before anyone explains the plot. And then decades later you're unpacking a suitcase you didn't know you were carrying.

Confidence doesn't get "enhanced" by that kind of childhood. It gets excavated later. Slowly. Weirdly. With a lot of "oh, THAT'S why I do that."

Thanks for being here in the weird with the rest of us. 💛🙏

TheoSpirit's avatar

I’m learning how to trust again but some of the dynamics are too complex, especially, the difference between here on Substack versus other systems like going places and observing what is happening. 🫶🤘🌟

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Shy" is almost never shy. It's a nervous system that learned early to read the room before breathing, scan for safety before speaking, and file "weird" under "probably my fault." Your body wasn't odd. It was accurate. Picking up frequencies nobody was naming out loud.

Extended family dynamics have a way of writing themselves into a kid's posture before anyone explains the plot. And then decades later you're unpacking a suitcase you didn't know you were carrying.

Confidence doesn't get "enhanced" by that kind of childhood. It gets excavated later. Slowly. Weirdly. With a lot of "oh, THAT'S why I do that."

Thanks for being here in the weird with the rest of us. 💛🙏

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Shy" is almost never shy. It's a nervous system that learned early to read the room before breathing, scan for safety before speaking, and file "weird" under "probably my fault." Your body wasn't odd. It was accurate. Picking up frequencies nobody was naming out loud.

Extended family dynamics have a way of writing themselves into a kid's posture before anyone explains the plot. And then decades later you're unpacking a suitcase you didn't know you were carrying.

Confidence doesn't get "enhanced" by that kind of childhood. It gets excavated later. Slowly. Weirdly. With a lot of "oh, THAT'S why I do that."

Thanks for being here in the weird with the rest of us. 💛🙏

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Shy" is almost never shy. It's a nervous system that learned early to read the room before breathing, scan for safety before speaking, and file "weird" under "probably my fault."

Your body wasn't odd. It was accurate. Picking up frequencies nobody was naming out loud.

Extended family dynamics have a way of writing themselves into a kid's posture before anyone explains the plot. And then decades later you're unpacking a suitcase you didn't know you were carrying.

Confidence doesn't get "enhanced" by that kind of childhood. It gets excavated later. Slowly. Weirdly. With a lot of "oh, THAT'S why I do that."

Thanks for being here in the weird with the rest of us. 💛🥁

TheoSpirit's avatar

Yes, I was angry that we moved away and then when I was bussed into a rough part of Tampa in 7th grade, well, I did learn how to scan and read nonverbal signs. I could write so much of why I can’t just “let it go”, lol, but I am trying my best to move forward and forgive myself and others, but I won’t forget it either!TY

Marina Juric's avatar

Love it 🥰 Can’t wait to get the book! Much love and respect to you 🙏😘

Dea Devidas's avatar

The book is already on its way to you and honestly? It's probably more excited than you are. First meetings between nervous systems and their new companions have that energy.

Much love and respect received, absorbed, and sent right back. 🌊💛

Adventures In Consciousness's avatar

This year is 100% about embodiment for me. I think after four decades of floating off in space the majority of the time, it’s time to reintroduce my head to my body 😂 Just ordered your book and so happy to have it for the new year!! 💛

Dea Devidas's avatar

Four decades of your head running solo reconnaissance missions while your body held down the entire operation without a single memo? That reunion is going to be awkward and beautiful. Like meeting a roommate you forgot you had who's been paying rent and doing all the dishes this whole time.

Your bones have been waiting. Patient as geology. They already know your name.

And listen... you just became the very first person to order the book. THE FIRST. The ink on that "available now" button was still wet and your nervous system said "yes, mine."

That landing matters more than you know. Your timing wasn't early. It was exactly right. Your hands were ready before your head caught up... which, given the theme of your year, is already the body leading.

I hope it becomes your companion, your mirror, your annoying friend who keeps pointing at things you already knew but hadn't let yourself know yet. May it sit on your nightstand, get dog-eared, collect tea stains, and whisper back when you need it.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for being first. Thank you for coming home to yourself this year.

The ground floor has been waiting for you. It's warmer down here. 🌊💛

Adventures In Consciousness's avatar

Ahhhhh Dea that’s so so cool!! ✨🧡 Am SO happy to be the first!!! 🙏💛 that’s so incredibly special 🥰 Your BEAUTIFUL book just arrived - of course on the perfect day at the perfect time with a train journey ahead of me this afternoon so I can get straight into it TODAY. Already had a flick through and brain was like… ummm yes to that… yes to that… yes to that…. ping ping ping 🙌 Can’t WAIT to dive in ♥️♥️♥️

Dea Devidas's avatar

First copy, perfect timing, train window. You can't make this stuff up. Those ping moments? That's mutual recognition. Enjoy the ride. 💎

Kirsty Dixon's avatar

Thank you once again for answering what I was thinking and asking about. You truly are a blessing!

Dea Devidas's avatar

The timing wasn't magic. Your body finally got quiet enough to hear what was already knocking.

Thank you for being here. Means everything. 🌊💛

TheoSpirit's avatar

You gno what I noticed recently? I gnew I had some anxiety but it feels different relaxing my stomach muscles. Maybe this is the first time I have relaxed them in a long time!🫶

Dea Devidas's avatar

Your stomach just clocked its first day off since... what, the pandemic? Earlier?

The belly is the body's original truth detector. When it finally softens, your gut brain goes "oh, we're safe now? Since when?"

Welcome back to your own stomach. She missed you. 🌊✨

Returning To Joy's avatar

I’ve just ordered a copy!

Dea Devidas's avatar

Yay! May she land exactly where you need her. 💎

Jules's avatar

Thank you , can’t wait to read this , delivery date 13 January 💞💞

Dea Devidas's avatar

Counting down with you. Let me know when she lands. 🩷

Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

It really feels like I want to deeply sit with it. Fully. With my antenna completely open lol. Because I do believe in some things you've dismantled here. But also, it's always felt like some puzzle pieces have been missing. Like something is off. Thank you for this gift, Dea!

P.S.: Hey, just checked the book on Amazon...and it's not available in Amazon India. Would you mind sharing a PDF or EPUB separately on another link? If it's ok?

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Puzzle pieces missing" and "something is off" is exactly where the real inquiry starts. That discomfort? That's your body knowing before your mind catches up. Take your time with it. No rush. The dismantling isn't going anywhere.

About the book: I hear you, and I'm sorry she's not on Amazon India. But I'm keeping her print-only, no digital versions. Wanted her to be something you hold, underline, argue with in the margins. Paper lands different than screen. I just checked and all territories are enabled on my end, including India. Sometimes Amazon takes a while to sync across marketplaces. Can you try searching on amazon.com (US site) instead? They ship internationally. If that doesn't work either, let me know the exact error you're seeing and I'll dig deeper. 💎

Kora Sevier's avatar

I was a super quiet kid, I rarely spoke, but I could detect bullshit long before I could spell the word. I often experienced a weird state, especially in crowds, as if there was a glass wall between me and everyone else, no doubt some form of soul protection kicking in. To this day I still have people tell me I'm wrong about something/someone; I know I'm not wrong, I can feel it in every fibre of my being. What's really going on is, someone else is lying.

I've been fortunate enough to have the good instincts to always trust my gut and my body, but I haven't been thinking so much about the nervous system, until lately, that is, with my discovery of you on Substack and also coming across other people talking about it. It really is running the show, isn't it?

Thank you Dea, you're a treasure!

I was going to order Mechanics of Mystic, but think I'm going to start with Regulation first - then I can move onto God!

Grateful that you're in the field.

Dea Devidas's avatar

Detecting bullshit before you could spell it. That's not a personality trait, that's factory settings nobody managed to override.

The glass wall in crowds? That was your nervous system putting up the velvet rope before you knew you were the VIP she was protecting.

"People tell me I'm wrong, I know I'm not wrong, I can feel it in every fibre" - this is exactly what happens when the soma has 40 years of receipts and the brain finally stops asking for a second opinion.

Your gut was never guessing. She was reading the field the whole time. You just didn't have the vocabulary until now.

Regulation first, then God. Smart order. Though spoiler: once you're regulated, you'll realize you were God incarnated the whole time. She was just too dysregulated to remember her own name.

Thank you for being here, for trusting the gut that brought you, and for ordering. She's going to feel like coming home.

Grateful right back. 💛

Kora Sevier's avatar

Thanks Dea, I love the way you frame things! Looking forward to getting your book in my hands.

Jean-marc Pierson's avatar

I love the passion and the no-nonsense attitude.

I disagree with: 'If you think it’s a past life, you have no agency. Your fate is etched somewhere you can’t reach, decided before you, without you.'

I believe past lifes are a thing and that there is momentum - in a similar way that our childhood has a strong influence on what comes next. However, why should this imply that there is nothing we can do?

Dea Devidas's avatar

You're right to push on this.

Momentum is real. The body carries patterns older than this biography. Ancestral, epigenetic, maybe even further back in the Field. I don't argue with that.

What I argue with is the autobiography. The "I was a healer in Egypt" story that your brain creates because it can't process raw pattern without a protagonist. The information is real. The "I was that person" is packaging.

If your past life model is about working with inherited patterns, we're close. If it's about verdicts you can't appeal, we're not.

Thank you for this. 💎

Meaghan Gallagher's avatar

I can’t wait to get myself a copy. I think I’ve been waiting for something like this to be released and out there. This might be the first physical book (ebook gremlin right here!) in a long time, but there’s something about EVERYTHING you wrote that spoke to me whether it was smacking me in the face or gut punching me or nudging me.

I can’t say I’m not one to be still be enamored by astrology and the moon cycles, but I also have a weird twisted spins on those concepts as well. A lot of spiritual concepts, techniques, and methods have fallen away over the last year. It’s almost like a detox. I’ve taken more of a psychospiritual approach.

Dea Devidas's avatar

An ebook gremlin choosing paper? That's the body voting before the brain finishes the sentence. She knows what she's doing.

Smacked, gut-punched, nudged. That's the three-course meal of a nervous system recognizing itself in words. She's been waiting for someone to say it out loud.

And listen, I'm not here to take your moon cycles away. Or your astrology. I have 40 years of tarot in my bones, still read the cards, still watch the transits. The difference is I stopped believing the map was the territory.

What you're calling detox? That's your body spitting out what was never hers to begin with. The falling away isn't loss. It's your system finally having permission to keep only what actually works.

Psychospiritual is exactly the right word. Keep going. The book will meet you wherever you are. Thank you for this. Truly. ✨

Meaghan Gallagher's avatar

I got your book! It should be here in a couple days.

Dea Devidas's avatar

Thank you! Let me know what lands. 💎

Amanda Saint's avatar

I do believe in some of the things you’re talking about here. But I’ve got questions and I’m very interested to see what you say about what you believe is the truth. Although I’m of a mind that nobody really knows for definite about anything. I know I don’t. I’m a nomad and can’t buy physical books so will it be available in ebook soon?

Dea Devidas's avatar

"Nobody really knows for definite about anything."

Honestly? Same. The book doesn't claim certainty. She claims mechanics. What I've tested in my own body. What I've watched work in others. That's it.

Questions are welcome. Skepticism even more so. The people who arrive already knowing everything are the hardest to reach. The ones who arrive curious? Those are my people.

As for ebook... not yet. She wanted a body first. But I hear you. Nomads deserve books too. I'm working on alternatives, no promises yet on timing.

Thank you for being honest about where you stand. That's rare and I appreciate it. 💎

Sara's avatar

Oh fuck yeah.

My entire spiritual framework collapsed when I had what is known as a spontaneous kundalini awakening. Once I began to research and hear others speak about it, my eyes were open.

I already had too much agency to believe I needed a guru or that some energy could destroy my body and mind against my will.

I also saw the bs that shakti is “uncontrollable” as if control is the goal. I realized it was another male made spiritual framework that completely missed the mark.

I can’t wait to read your book.

Dea Devidas's avatar

Oh, we're going to get along.

"Too much agency to believe I needed a guru." That sentence alone tells your nervous system already did the work your mind is just now catching up to.

Kundalini didn't break you. She broke the container that was never yours to begin with.

Here's the thing: Kundalini isn't a snake. Kundalini is your nervous system when it stops braking and lets the flow pass through. When it happens fast, they call it crisis. When it happens regulated, they call it enlightenment. Same energy. Different capacity to hold it.

And yes, the "shakti is dangerous and uncontrollable" narrative? That's what happens when embodied wisdom passes through centuries of institutions that feared it. The book has a whole section on how knowledge gets corrupted. What started as lived transmission became rules. What was felt in the body became controlled by doctrine. The original knowing was never about control. It was about capacity.

You didn't need to master her. You needed a body that could hold her. And yours figured that out without anyone's permission slip.

Can't wait for this book to land in your hands. She was written for nervous systems like yours. 💎

Sara's avatar

Exactly, I realized, kundalini was myself coming back online. The key to end the “suffering” was developing trust and relationship with her.

Dea Devidas's avatar

Yes. She was never a visitor. She was you, remembering how to move again.

Trust and relationship. Not conquering her. Not managing her. Just finally letting her breathe freely. 💎

Alison Dale's avatar

This is so well said and I can’t wait to read your books I’ve been on an Astro-somatic journey for many years now, and the pull to know with the mind is so strong yet so much less helpful than a simple breath session.

Dea Devidas's avatar

Astro-somatic. Looks like we walk the same road.

One breath doing what three years of chart analysis keeps promising... yeah. That's the whole thing.

Thank you for wanting to read them. And for already knowing what they're going to say before you open them. 🗝️

Lori PK's avatar

Is there anywhere else I can buy it besides %#^* Amazon?

Dea Devidas's avatar

I hear you on the %#^* Amazon.

Unfortunately, she's exclusive there for now. Paper only. The devil I know, etc…

Global distribution is a hostage situation and they're holding the keys. For now, it's the only way she reaches Egypt, Croatia, and everywhere else my readers somehow are.

Working on alternatives. No promises yet, but I hear you. ✨

Lori PK's avatar

Ok. I do occasionally still need to go to the dark side for certain things so…I will. Looking forward to reading it!

Dea Devidas's avatar

The dark side has better distribution. We work with what we've got.

Thank you. Hope she's worth the trip. 💎