The Fallacy of the New Age Movement's 'Raise Your Vibration' Mantra

Jun 18, 2025

Let me start off by saying this is not an attack. The new age movement is filled with many well-intentioned people—I know many of them.

The one thing we have in common is our search for Truth—its all that matters.

But in that hunger for eternal Truth, too many are being fed empty calories—catchy mantras and slogans like “raise your vibration.”

It sounds wise.

But has anyone actually stopped and thought it out?

In reality, its an ignorant falsehood cloaked in truth…

The Falsity of Raising Your Vibration

From TikTok reels to self-help seminars and the shelves of your local bookstore—it’s sighted as the key to manifesting abundance or aligning with “higher” consciousness.

And it’s big business.

The New Age industry rakes in over $376 billion per year.

It’s clean, digestible—and it sells.

But where did this mantra come from?

That is a long story in itself, and I wouldn’t want to bore you with it, but the main gist is this:

This thinking springs from a still-held superstition that Heaven and therefore God, are “up there” somewhere, and by “raising” our vibration to joyousness we get out of the “lower” vibrations associated with material existence, such as fear, greed, etc.

The New Age movement basically took Hermetic Principles, which date back to ancient Greece, Egypt and India—and most likely before that—and tried to cram it into the idea of physics—via arranged marriage.

They took it, and ran with it…

“Listening to your ego brings your vibration down; listening to your higher self brings your vibration up.” —Caroline A. Shearer (“Spiritual Author”)

“To raise your vibration, surround yourself with beauty, love and inspiration.”
— Anthon St. Maarten (Psychic Medium and “Spiritual Author”)

“Positive emotions and thoughts vibrate at higher frequencies; negative ones vibrate at lower frequencies.” — mindsetmotive.com

Let’s begin to deconstruct this false view for the sake of arriving at Truth.

When talking about raising your vibration, its always referred to in one of three ways: the body, thought or spirit—the Spirit is vibrationless—you can read my article about that here.

So that leaves us with our physical bodies and our thoughts.

Let’s look at it from the angle of our body and see how utterly absurd this mantra actually is.

A high frequency is basically increased activity, and a low frequency is decreased activity.

Increasing activity multiplies heat; decreasing activity multiplies cold.

Simple enough.

Let’s look at a brief example: When one exercises, they are increasing their bodily activity. The more your increase your workout’s frequency—reps, sets, intensity, etc—the more heat your body will generate.

This heat increase isn’t that much of course.

When one’s body dies, the blood stops pumping, cells stop vibrating and the organism begins to decompose. Lack of activity multiplies cold.

If you ever have been with a loved one when they passed, you know what I am talking about.

When our body is operating in a normal rhythm, we don’t notice it—we are in harmony.

Sometimes, our vibration increases too much.

So much in fact that it makes us down right uncomfortable.

It’s called a fever…

But wait, I thought raising our vibration brought us closer to God, not Covid…

The Truth About Vibration

Before we talk about vibration and how it relates to thought, it would be wise to tackle what vibration actually is.

Vibrations are waves.

In Nature—waves are all that exist.

The entire mystery of the electrical-thought simulation which we call the material universe is based on the construction of the wave.

“In the wave lies the secret of creation.” — Walter Russell

The entirety of the material universe is comprised of atomic and subatomic systems—and possibly smaller. These systems are constructed solely of electrical waves compacted from a larger volume into a smaller volume.

The more tightly packed these systems become, the more waves are compressed. Compressing waves increases their frequency.

As electrical waves are compacted and multiply their frequencies, they take on various characteristics:

plasma (fire)
gas (air)
liquid (water)
solid (earth)

In other words, increased motion—vibrational frequency—makes objects appear more solid while lowering their vibrational frequencies makes them more tenuous.

Let’s perform a thought experiment.

A good example is the winding up strands of yarn into a ball.

The long flowing strands of loose yearn can be likened to low frequency, long vibrations. However, start winding that strand up around a central point (increasing its frequency) and gradually a ball of yarn will appear.

What you have done is take long, low frequency waves from a large volume of space, and concentrated them into a smaller volume—higher frequency condition.

In so doing, you have created a solid body of yarn.

God constructs suns in precisely the same manner—but that is for another article…

Vibration as it Applies to Thought

The only application of '“raising one’s vibration” that works is in the instance of it applying to thought—but even that is only a half truth. Why?

Because thoughts are waves, and waves are cyclical.

The “raising one’s vibration” when applied to the thought cycle is called—concentrative thought.

The other half of the cycle is decentrative thought.

The purpose of the decentrative half of the thought cycle is to ‘return to zero—equilibrium—in order to conceive an Idea or concept.

The purpose of the concentrative half of the thought cycle is to generate mental images for the purpose of giving your conceived Idea/concept a mental form.

Each thought pulsation can be likened to generating puzzle piece after puzzle piece which we slowly put together to construct a fully formed mental body for the Idea we conceived.

Back to the New Age Movement’s Idea of “raising your vibration”

The quote in the beginning of the article when like this:

“Positive emotions and thoughts vibrate at higher frequencies; negative ones vibrate at lower frequencies.”

This does not hold up in reality.

Check out the graph below…

Many New Age books and sites will give you the example that happiness and joyousness are associated with Beta and Gamma states—higher frequency waves.

The truth, that they always leave out, is that brain scans have showed that fear and anger are also found in Alpha, Beta and Gamma states—the region of the brain changes however.

You can read the study here.

And it makes sense—jumping for joy and being ecstatic of course is a high vibrational mental state—and it’s effect can be seen in the body by increased heartbeat, alertness, etc.

Fear and anger—low vibrational according to the New Age Movement—in fact isn’t low at all. It involves our fight and flight mechanisms.

Whether in a fear state—running from a lion—or an anger state—in a fight—the activity (frequency) of thought is going to increase.

This video by

Matt Presti

sums it up very well.

There IS a difference between the vibrations of LOVE and FEAR however.

The brain scan wave vibrations of negative emotions tend to be broken up and a little more chaotic than the wave vibrations of love and happiness which tend to be more—rhythmic.

That is the answer we have been seeking.

Rhythm.

The state of mind which the New Age seeks isn’t found in raising one’s vibration—it’s found is being in a rhythmic harmony with both higher and lower vibrations.