The Phoenix Theory
Apr 26 Written By Phoenix Giardino
The Science Behind Empaths and Highly Sensitive Persons
“The devil whispered in my ear, ‘You’re not strong enough to with stand the storm.’ With a smile on my face I whispered back, I AM the storm’.”
Ahh, the good ole days--back when the world was flat, the sun revolved around the earth, and any half-assed alchemist could turn lead into gold. It’s been many moons since our globe’s Dark Ages, yet twenty-one years into the 21st century rumor still has it empaths rank right up there with the Loch Ness Monster, chupacabras, and one-eyed, one-horned purple people eaters.
Oh. My. Nerves.
As much as I hate to piss on anyone’s parade, empaths are not whack-jobs, fruitcakes, or looney tunes. For the past twenty years, I have been ironing out the scientific wrinkles of what I call “The Phoenix Theory”, which I developed based upon my personal experience as an empath. Naming this idea after myself may seem narcissistic, but let me assure you, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Like most Heyoka empaths, I do almost everything backwards. I didn’t name my theory for my pen name; I chose my alias based on this theory. For most of us, the Phoenix represents life, death, and rebirth, and as physics has proven, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed. I created this blog not to create a new concept nor to destroy an old one, but to change the way we as humans tend to view the world.
Now, before you write me off as a hack, let me kindly remind you that Albert Einstein was a high school dropout. Based on his entrance exam scores in math and science, he was accepted to college, yet after his graduation couldn’t land a single job in his field. And it took him more than ten years to steam the wrinkles out of his theory of principle relativity. Yet he published four papers outlining his hypothesis--which was based upon James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of light and Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion, information that was widely available, but no one else had put together (sound familiar?)--while working as a patent clerk. And not only did the physics community ignore his theories, but they laughed in his face. That was, until physicist Max Planck--the founder of quantum theory--proved Einstein’s theory was right.1
And the rest is history.
The moral of my story is this: some of the most brilliant people I know never earned a college degree. And some the most educated folks I have worked with are also the most ignorant I have ever met. Therefore, I believe expertise should not be defined by a level of education, but based upon one’s level of experience in a specific field. Not the other way around. In case you’re wondering, I earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business Relations with a minor in Marketing. However, my intended field of study was Genetic Engineering, which I abandoned twenty-three years ago to become the best mother I could be to a son I never thought I’d conceive.
Though I would never consider myself to be in the same league as the grand master of physics, allow me to share the condensed version of my theory with you anyway:
I believe emotions are simply electro-magnetic energies, better known as radiation. Just to be clear, I’m not talking about the type of radiation that will make you glow in the dark, but infrared, which is one of the things night-vision goggles detect. Regardless of type, by its very nature, radiation in any form cannot be fully contained and therefore at some level strays, coming into contact with anything and everything directly in its path.
Physics confirms all energy vibrates with a specific number of pulses each second, known as resonate frequency and becomes visible in the form of a wavelength. Like a human fingerprint, each pattern identifies a specific form of matter and/or energy, which most people never notice. However, I believe natural empaths have “turned on” specialized receptors within their skin designed to absorb this energy, which the brain then analyzes and categorizes before it recirculates this “decoded” energy throughout the physical body much like blood through the circulatory system. That’s how empaths literally feel the emotions of others.
Collecting information from some of the most highly regarded academic sources in America, I slowly, but surely, uncovered scientific data to support my hypothesis. And quite unexpectedly on March 12, 2021, I discovered a group of psychologists not only devised the very same assumptions I had, but ran the completed concept baton all the way to the finish line. In January 2020, they published their research, and God bless them, they didn’t stop there. They continued on to develop their ISP ™ program, which teaches psychotherapists how to become—you guessed it—empaths.
Let me be honest with you—this discovery literally moved me to tears. Not because someone else proved what I couldn’t due to my lack of clinical resources, but because science confirmed the sanity of approximately 750,000,000 empaths currently on this planet—including my own.
As this theory is now a fact, the new purpose of this blog is to educate empaths and others across the globe. Through psychophysics, the branch of science that connects the dots between physiology, psychology, and physics, I will present a step-by-step breakdown which fully explains how empaths work. In doing so, I hope to bring the truths of empaths out of the dark ages and into the light.
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica. (2021, January 08). Mobile networking. “Albert Einstein”. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein. Access date: 2021, March 08.