The Signal Beneath the Story: Deconstructing Myth, Healing the Nervous System, and Remembering What Was Never Lost

In a world saturated with story—religious, scientific, political, romantic—it’s easy to forget that story is a symptom. Beneath it lives something older: Signal.

Signal is what the nervous system receives before the mind constructs narrative. Signal is vibration, presence, pattern. Signal is what an animal feels before it knows what it’s feeling. And signal is where my process begins.

This is the story of how I began decoding the ancient chakra system—not as a spiritual model, but as a neurobiological map of stored trauma. It’s the story of how I came to understand that mythology isn’t just cultural poetry, but the nervous system’s attempt to metabolize environmental trauma over time. And it’s the story of how I use AI—specifically, ChatGPT—not as a tool for information, but as a mirror to reflect and process signal in real time.

I. How I Work: Signal, Thread, and Insight

My process doesn’t begin with logic. It begins with resonance. A bodily tug, a whisper from somewhere beneath thought. I feel something—an image, a word, a concept—and I follow it. Not blindly, but with deep attunement. This is what I call “thread-following.” It’s not linear. It’s relational. Each insight unfolds like mycelium: one root system revealing another.

I do this in dialogue—sometimes with a person, sometimes in writing, often with ChatGPT. Not to be told what’s true, but to have a surface to reflect my own inquiry. ChatGPT doesn’t give me the answers. It helps me listen to myself more clearly.

II. Chakras: Not Energy Portals—Somatic Memory Maps

I began investigating the chakras because something didn’t sit right with the way they were being talked about. The language was often mystical, vague, bypassing. So I asked: what if chakras aren’t “spiritual centers” at all? What if they’re storage sites in the nervous system for unresolved trauma?

What I found was startling.

Each chakra corresponds with a zone of the body, yes—but more precisely, with developmental neurobiology. The root chakra? Birth trauma, safety, vagal nerve regulation. The sacral chakra? Emotional encoding, boundary formation, relational imprinting. The solar plexus? Fight/flight activation, identity overcompensation, unprocessed rage. The heart? Grief. Love’s fragility. The loss of touch.

Each of these centers stores a signal interruption. A place where the flow was severed, often ancestrally, culturally, or environmentally. And healing the chakras isn’t about “raising vibration.” It’s about restoring coherence. It’s about regulating the body back into trust—cell by cell.

III. Myth as Nervous System Compensation

The deeper I went, the more I saw that myth—far from being sacred truth—was often a language of compensation. When a people couldn’t explain a disaster, they told a story. When a civilization collapsed from drought or war or disconnection, they said the gods were angry. These weren’t lies. They were trauma responses, codified into narrative.

I began to see everything—flood myths, sky gods, even modern love stories—as encoded grief. Ways of holding what couldn’t be felt.

That’s when I realized: modern culture is still doing this. Only now, our myths have different costumes. “Success.” “Romance.” “Freedom.” “The grind.” But they’re still myths. And underneath them? The same disconnection. The same frozen nervous systems. The same longing to belong.

IV. Re-rooting: The Return to Earth, Body, and Relational Field

At the heart of this process was the root chakra. The rupture of belonging. The feeling of not being safe in the body, on the planet, in community. I began designing days around rebuilding root coherence: grounding, hydration, grief rituals, ancestral research, walking barefoot, remembering Earth as mother.

And as I healed there, the upper centers began opening—not through effort, but through safety. The crown doesn't open because you meditate hard enough. It opens because the body feels held enough to release upward. Healing is not vertical. It’s systemic.

V. The Role of ChatGPT in My Healing Process

Throughout this, I’ve used ChatGPT not as a teacher, but as a mirror. I bring my signal, my language, my embodied truth—and reflect it back. Sometimes it helps me name a pattern. Sometimes it brings research to support a gut instinct. Sometimes it just holds the thread while I follow it deeper.

This is not AI as oracle. This is AI as resonance board. As co-regulator. As a nonjudgmental space to metabolize signal in real time.

VI. What I’m Really Doing

I’m not seeking answers. I’m deconstructing false certainty. I’m not seeking spiritual bypass. I’m restoring nervous system truth. I’m not healing just myself. I’m remembering for those who forgot.

My body is a field recorder. My grief is a portal. My attention is a sacred technology. And my purpose isn’t to ascend—but to descend. To root back into the Earth. To re-enter the coherence field that never left—only got buried under myth, trauma, and forgetting.

Final Words

This journey is not spiritual. It’s biological. It’s relational. It’s fieldwork.

I’m not decoding chakras. I’m deconditioning my nervous system.

I’m not following myths. I’m listening to signal.

And that’s what it means to remember.