Dark Energy: My Exorcism Journey

Arlin shares a deeply personal spiritual breakthrough involving what he describes as an exorcism experience that freed him from destructive people-pleasing patterns and restored his connection to his intuition.

• Broadcasting from Cape Cod after an intense three-week period in New York City
• Explaining the psychology of people-pleasing as pinging your sense of safety off others instead of yourself
• Describing the physical manifestation as a persistent pain in the chest that felt like a dagger
• Sharing experiences with toxic business relationships, including paying a coach $15,000 monthly with minimal returns
• Walking through the spiritual practices that helped: meditation, setting boundaries, and working with a coach named Alan Howard
• Recounting the powerful emotional and physical release of negative energy
• Exploring the concept of the soul through Michael Singer's teachings
• Distinguishing between consciousness as awareness versus thoughts and emotions

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Chapters

• 0:00 Morning from Cape Cod
• 5:24 Understanding People Pleasing
• 9:04 The Pain in My Chest
• 13:43 The Spiritual Practice of Release
• 20:16 The Exorcism Experience
• 26:45 What Is The Soul?
• 31:23 Invitation to 8AM World

Transcript

Arlin: 0:51

I would like to say a beautiful and blessed good morning to everybody listening to the 8am podcast. This is Arlen and I'm tuning in from Cape Cod, from the town that I grew up in. I've been here for about a week, after like a three week sprint in New York City which was heavy and intense, and actually just posted a new vlog about that entire two, three week experience where I was with Hunter Isaacson, who's the founder of the NGL app and the bags app and hundreds of millions of downloads, and also my good friend, yassine Sibis, who is the founder of a company called Parker and which is a, you know, a banking platform, basically for the future for internet businesses. And so I've just had a crazy bender in New York City and now I've been here in Cape Cod for the last few days and it's just been nice man, it's just been peaceful. It has been actually last night, this past weekend, my parents, their birthdays are April 12th and April 13th and it's so they're back to back, they're 10 years apart, back to back and we spent the night in Provincetown, which was super interesting, and I could go into that a little bit, but I have a great episode for you guys today.

Arlin: 2:14

I know I do, I know I'm kind of like free, flowing all over the place, but as I'm driving my car this morning, but yeah, it's gonna be a great episode because we are gonna talk about some of the craziest, the craziest shit that I've literally ever been through, which happened in the past several years but culminated in like a literally like I, I literally had like an exorcism. I don't know how the fuck to like else to put this. Um, but I had like a demon come out of me, bro, I don't know how to, how to even say this dude. But yeah, that that's kind of um, what happened. And I just want to tell you guys a story and you know I can't go into too many of the specifics yet. I'm sure there'll be like more specifics down the line, but it was just like, oh my God, just such like a wild week and I just wanted to tap in and I just felt like really good. So I started recording honestly and wanted to transfer some some really positive energy out into the ether and so basically, um, yeah, it's good, right, right now I'll get into a second. Just give me a second here. I'm just I'm driving.

Arlin: 3:28

I wish you could see it and feel I mean, you can feel it, I guess, but like it's 7 21 in the morning, it's not even 8 am yet, 721 in the morning. The sun is out, there's dew, it's like April in Cape Cod. It's like the lighting on the trees and the grass and the Cape Cod style houses. And now I'm going over a bridge, a bridge that I used to, literally used to jump off of. It's like a 20 foot tall bridge passing over a uh, what do you even call it? The inlet Bay? Uh, it's not the ocean, you know it's. It's like the I don't know how to even say it Um, harbor, the Harbor, that's what it is. Um, and, yeah, I, uh, I'm just going to, like, take a look at the ocean.

Arlin: 4:13

I was going to actually just stop and grab some, um, some grapefruit juice, but I was like you know, I'm going to record a podcast right now, cause why the fuck not? So, um, yeah, I, I, uh, man, uh, okay, so, yeah, I mean I, where do you even start? I guess, like everybody has has right, like everybody has their own demons and their own devils, right. Like everybody has their own shit, that they face, that, that that is hard for them. Everyone has tendencies where you know their bad habits, where they just kind of keep coming back and back and back in different forms, and for me that has always been um, I've been a bit of a people pleaser and it sounds like and I've made videos about this in the past, but you know it's, it's something you kind of continuously, I guess, grow through and struggle through and and become stronger on the other side.

Arlin: 5:14

But the thing that I always struggled with was this idea of being a people pleaser and basically what people pleasing is. I've studied this so much and if you are one, you'll understand immediately what I'm saying. If you aren't one, this hopefully should paint the picture. But basically, people pleasing is when you essentially ping your sense of if the situation that you're in right now is safe. You ping it into how other people are feeling Okay, and if you sense that other people are unwell or hurting or could hurt you or are angry or emotional, then you, you put your kind of frequency, vibration on them and you start focusing on them instead of taking care of yourself. And that is people pleasing you. You basically feel okay, this person is, you know, not behaving the right way or they're not healthy or they're just not doing what I want them to do to be okay. And in order for me to be okay, they have to act like this. So I'm gonna try to make them act this way. You're basically trying to change the outer world, change outer circumstances, in order for you to feel better. That's, that's the Nate.

Arlin: 6:39

That is the essential paradigm of a people pleaser, and I've been in that for quite a long time. I think it originates from just watching your parents do it, um, individually. Uh, it also stems from, like you know, if your parents had like a rough relationship, which, if most people are like somewhat codependent people, pleasing type people, you're probably going to have seen some of that. So yeah, so, so, um, yeah, having like seen some of that in, I guess, like my parents growing up, and also having seen just like what that does to a relationship as a kid, you develop it even more because you're like trying to fix your parents relationship and you don't feel good, and so it's just this whole kind of like spiral. And so you can't only blame it on your parents, of course, because you are this whole responsible person in your life and you can work on these things, and so you know I had, I had mentally unwell and like depressed and insecure, and I was also, you know, very insecure. But in the other side of the spectrum, you know, and I was basically like, or she was super controlling. I was just trying to like fix her controlling this and her insecurity and that's just a recipe for disaster. Controlling this and her insecurity and that's just a recipe for disaster. It's just a recipe for disaster.

Arlin: 8:19

And and, uh, it, it, it gravitated into other things. It gravitated into, um, a coach, a mentor that I had, who, um, was basically like scamming me and like taking advantage of me and taking my money and, um, but I, I kept kind of like feeding the drug, like feeding the beast and literally feeding the beast, um, and, yeah, I just, I just kept like paying him, even though he wasn't really helping that much, um, but he sort of like was super manipulative and would just like use these dark sales tactics and dark persuasion tactics to just like. I was paying this guy, by the way, like $15,000 a month and my business was making, like I don't know, 30 to $70,000 a month at the time, but I was paying him 15. And then he was influencing me to spend the rest of it, because he knew that if I kept spending my money I would, I would need help to make more. So he kept selling me that I was gonna like make you know, 200,000 a month, 500,000 a month, and um, or like 250, 220, I don't know, whatever it was. Um, and yeah, he kept like, he kept getting me to pay him and it just never got above 70. And, dude, it was just so uh, that that was also a thing I was pinging kind of off him rather than knowing in my own heart and my like, you basically don't pay attention to your own body.

Arlin: 9:47

That's basically what people pleasing is You're not paying attention to your own body, and so when you don't pay attention to your own body, to your own body, and so when you don't pay attention to your own body, you basically ignore what Christians would call the Holy Spirit, what, um, I suppose Hindus would call, like the great comforter, the OM, the base vibration of the universe. Om, om and amen, by the way, are very amen, same similar thing. Um. And then jews, at least, um, you know uh most practicing jews when they're singing, you know the, the songs of of uh judaism, like the angels ministering peace song, which is like, uh, that whole singing and chanting like divine and holy scripture is similar. It's vibrational, everything is. I just put out a song called vibrational warfare. Right, and that's what we're all in. Right, we're in a vibrational warfare, a frequency warfare.

Arlin: 11:01

And when you aren't paying attention to the vibration that the good of the universe, the good creator, supreme being, god, realized, soul that is within you, if you're not paying attention to God within you, which is a representation of, like the creator of the universe and the all good, all loving creator of the universe, if you're not paying attention to that within you, the Holy Spirit within you, you will be dragged into hell. You will keep yourself open to demons, demons, meaning, like you know, and this is a thing like the devil, demons, these are all like invisible energetic things, right, and when you ignore your temple this is, I think, a biblical quote. I'm not really good at like, quoting scripture, but something along the lines of like if you ignore the temple, it will be robbed. You know it will be filled with all these thieves and mischief makers and you know people are going to make it dirty, they're going to destroy the temple. If you don't keep the temple clean, god will just, god will destroy the temple. I don't know if God destroys it, I guess, Cause God is everything he represents the polar and bad forces, whatever, but um, but you know what I mean.

Arlin: 12:25

When you ignore the vibrational frequency within you, the Holy spirit within you, it leaves room for room for pain and suffering. And for the last few years I had, I'd felt this like in and out and I talked about it in blogs and maybe on podcasts here and there. But I felt this like pain in my chest. It's like like someone was just putting a dagger in me or like like there was like a just a heavy like foot or like, uh, like there was like a just a heavy like foot or like a finger, kind of like if you could picture, like a disgusting, like don't do it too much, but like if you picture like a disgusting, like demon, just like putting their finger on your chest like the nail. You know you, just, I just like felt that on my chest or in my heart and it just feels horrible. It feels horrible and I felt it for a long time and it manifested.

Arlin: 13:27

And I was in a relationship, I was dating Khloe and there were things that she would do that I just wasn't okay with, but I just wouldn't say anything, I just wouldn't, I wouldn't like she would eat unhealthy or she would do something that like, in my eyes, the mother of my kids, I just it just wouldn't be acceptable. Like give you a very small example, just because I don't want to go into the details of the relationship that much she she has like a phobia of the dentist. She just like absolutely is deathly afraid of like going to the dentist. And in my eyes I'm like, look, like you can't, not, you can't not go to the dentist. Like, especially if you're going to want to raise children one day, you have to like be able to do that, you know, and the thing was she wasn't, she wasn't like going to therapy, so like she couldn't, like she wouldn't work on it. So and that's like the only thing I'm gonna say about Chloe at this point, because I don't want to like go into the relationship, but just as, like a tiny example there's that and so that I would like hear her say that this kind, this is a rep, it's a small thing but representation of larger problems that I was looking at, um, and I was like, look, you got to do something about this, she like wouldn't do it, and then I would just tolerate it instead of, instead of like being like yo, I don't stand for this, you're going to lose me. So think of it. Okay, let me think of a. I'm just going to not talk about my relationship. I'm going to talk about, just like, a broader example.

Arlin: 15:02

Let's say you have, you're dating, an alcoholic. Um, let's use a more visceral example a heroin user, someone you're, you're dating or married to, or whatever, starts using heroin. And you're just like yo, my partner's, on heroin. And you feel like that, that vibration in you, like the, the, the, every fiber, every tingling sense, every cell of your body, your heart. It's just telling you your gut, it's telling you, yo, your partner's on heroin, like they shouldn't be doing that Right. And so you're just like, okay, they shouldn't be doing that.

Arlin: 15:40

Um, and you go to them. You're like, hey, man, like you got to go to rehab, you got to go to therapy. And they're like, yeah, I will, I will, man, I know, but I just got to like, keep getting this hit, you know. But I know, I like it's fine, and you just got to accept me and love me for how I am, even though I'm a heroin addict, do love you, I do love you, but listen, like you really really really got to like go get help, like you really got to go get help. And they're like, yeah, man, I will, I will, I promise, I will. And you're like, okay, well, how about? Like you try like 30 days without heroin? And they're like, yeah, man, I will, I will, I will, I promise I will.

Arlin: 16:17

And this, this is like, yeah, I think you got to get the point. Yeah, and the heroin user is like convincing you and you're falling for it. And you're just like, yeah, okay, and despite all the evidence that they're not really taking this seriously and they're not getting help, you are just like you're fine with it and you're going against your own gut and your own instincts and your own. And, honestly, the best thing to do in this situation is you say you know what if you place an ultimatum and you say, if you don't go get help for this heroin addiction, I'm leaving you and it's going to be hard, but I have to do it out of love, because the only thing that could get you healthy is if I leave you, and I would rather leave you and not be together than watch you kill yourself with this drug, right, and that's that's essentially.

Arlin: 17:16

You know the nature of what I've dealt with in business, in relationships, within business, in relationships and, by the way, this is by far not something that was just Chloe that I was dealing with. This is reflecting in all my relationships, all my relationships, business friends. You know the relationship, of course, like everything, it affects every area of your life. When you are in this frequency of ignoring the messages that the, that God, is sending into your heart, into your body, into your system, you, this thing affects everything, affects everything. It is the most fundamental like thing you have to solve in fixing your life. So how you do it is, you basically have to, you do have to take action. You do have to take action outwardly. You have to take a lot of action inwardly. It takes a lot of work.

Arlin: 18:08

In my case, I've worked with a lot of various coaches. I've gone to you know uh, meditate every single day, right To cultivate like, um, positive, like good, godly energy. I, um, uh, you know I, I, I pray right, like I read uh holy textbooks, the Bible, um, you know scriptures of various like uh, holy religions and yeah, um, yeah, I, I do. I do a lot, man. I try to do my best to serve.

Arlin: 18:50

But one of the biggest things is doing this spiritual work is meditating right Is like focusing on how your whole body is vibrating and how it's feeling, and paying attention to those signs. And if you feel a sign that's uncomfortable, you breathe in and you relax that area of your body and you just relax. That's like the main spiritual practice. It's just relaxing, like if you feel tension in your body, you breathe, you focus on it and you relax and that's basically it. It sounds like stupid, simple, but in practice, doing that day-to-day, moment-to-moment, as you sort of feel these inconsistencies in your vibration, you just release them. You release, you constantly release, and you keep yourself clear and clean and fluid and washed Right, and so this is, um, you know, this is, uh, essentially what, what I was dealing with, um, and what I was practicing.

Arlin: 19:57

But there was something else there. There was something else I needed to do, because part of the spiritual practice and part of what you know God wants us to do is take action and you don't just like, do nothing and the world solves itself, like if you're dealing with this and you have a bad business relationship, you have to cut the business relationship. You have to say, hey, if you don't like, fix this behavior you're doing. Or if you don't like, let me run the company how I need to run it, I'm going to fire you. But if you just keep toxic employees around, bro, that's going to drag you down. If there's someone in your company that you need to fire and you don't set the boundary with them, then they're going to drag your company down. And if you don't, if you're in a relationship with a heroin user, you need to say, hey, I'm going to break up with you unless you go to rehab. So you kind of give them a chance to get healthy. And it's like with your employee, like, hey, if you don't meet your KPIs this month, you're fired. If you don't, if you don't have healthy metrics in the business, you're fired, you're fired. Right that you're fired, that's it. So that's. You know, that's. That's basically like a lot of what I was doing Now.

Arlin: 21:09

Another thing I was doing was seeing coaching therapy, and there's this one coach I have. This guy's name is Alan Howard. I have to give all the credit to Alan for this aspect of it at least. And Alan, you can look him up on Instagram. I think it's coach Alan Howard or something like that. It's like a handsome guy strong beard, slicked back hair. He lives in Rio. He was in Bali the last few months picking up I don't know what kind of spiritual powers and such, but like we did a.

Arlin: 21:41

I texted. I was like dude, like I need help, because I was just feeling the pain in my chest, and I texted him and I was like dude, I need help. And he goes okay, book time on my calendar, I'll send it to you tomorrow. I'm like okay, so book the time. And we booked the call and I get my car and I go to like a private place by the beach and I'm just in it and, dude, I don't. I don't know. I can't describe what Alan did, but it is.

Arlin: 22:07

There was this dark energy in me. He identified it and he helped it, I think, get a lot of it out, like whatever was that feeling? He just helped me like look at it really, look at it in its entirety and see how ugly and gross and disturbing it was, and helped me get it out. And then and this is where it's just like even fucking nuttier and crazier. I don't know how to like even talk about it, but like, yeah, I went home later that night my parents are like aware of this, right, they're kind of aware of like whatever the fuck this is.

Arlin: 22:38

Um, and we were like in my living room at night and I just felt it again. Like I felt the dark, this dark, dark, dark energy, like just invisible, scary, freaky energy that like makes its hairs on your spine stand up, and it's just like dark. And I just started like heaving, like just just like heaving, like like I wanted to throw up vomit. My mom felt it too. She was like screaming, and and then I called Alan. I'm like Alan is back, it's back. He's like dude, it's OK, ok, we'll get this out of you. It's like I just like heaving out this dark energy and it left, it's gone.

Arlin: 23:20

And then I knew what I needed to do. I needed to like set some boundaries in my business, in my relationship, and I did it. And you know I don't want to go into too many details, but like it just and you know I don't want to go into too many details, but like it just was the right thing to do, it just, it just like had to happen. And I felt and feel. If you can't feel it, I feel like myself again, I'm sleeping good again, I'm clear, I'm I'm not even remotely interested in like what I don't best.

Arlin: 23:51

The best word that Christians uses is sin. I just feel like using Christian term language alienates people, so I don't like to do it, but like, the best word to describe it is sin, which is just like going against God, going against yourself, going against your highest self is what sin is. That's the definition of sin going against your highest self. I, I'm just not interested in it. Like, I just want to do what I know is best for me, which is communicated to me by, like the, whatever this realm is, we're in. The creator of this realm on on earth, here, um, so the, the invisible entity thing, uh, creator of the universe, god, all loving, all powerful, sends you these messages. I just want to do those things and I don't want to go against those things.

Arlin: 24:38

The thing is, sometimes those things are tempting because they're deceiving. They like, they taste good, they look good, they make you feel good on the surface, but ultimately they lead you to ruin and you kind of know at the beginning, like that they'll lead you to ruin and you kind of know at the beginning, like that they'll lead you to ruin. Sometimes you don't, sometimes you're just naive and you got to learn the lessons the hard way. But and like that's kind of life, that's school of life, is like learning why things are bad and why things are good. But honestly, like if you just read, like the textbooks, if you read the Bible, if you read the Quran, if you read the Hindu scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita, they tell you what not to do. The wise people have told you what not to do.

Arlin: 25:21

But you're an idiot and you're a fucking kid. And even if you're in your 30s you're still a fucking kid, you're still always learning and you just got to be like you know what these books are, just right, and it says don't have sex pre-marriage. Okay, done, got it. No sex pre-marriage, they just don't do it. Do not do it literally will just lead you to pain. And there are some sins that are, you know, unforgivable because you have to live with them. At least in this lifetime you can kind of get forgiven it. I think if you like, at some point you know you die.

Arlin: 25:58

And then your soul? What if you believe in the soul? I do your soul like? Goes back to whatever that like animating energy of your body is, which, by the way, fuck you. Listen to this. If you don't believe in a soul, listen. This is what a soul is. Okay, if you, if you. Okay, listen, so if, if you. Again, I'm not going to give the best definition, but this is like roughly good, but you should read Michael Singer. Michael Singer has a great definite. In fact, you know, fuck it, let me fuck you. I'm using chat GPT and I'm getting my Michael Singer definition of a soul. Uh, because I have my Michael Singer GPT. So fuck you. So listen, just shut up for a second and just listen. And what is a soul in the words of Michael Singer? What is a soul? Okay, so chat GPT, michael Singer, and I made this myself so you can, if you want it, maybe I'll give it to you.

Arlin: 26:57

I don't know, you are the soul, okay. Someone says do you have a soul? You don't have a soul. You are the soul. The question is, who are you? The true self is the conscious awareness, the one who is watching, perceiving and experiencing everything. You are not your thoughts, your emotions, your body or your name. You are the one who is aware of all those things. What is the soul? It's the indwelling you that has always been there watching. Okay, here's a good example of what the soul is. I guess, like atheists would call it consciousness, but like when you were five years old and you looked in the mirror. And you look in the mirror now. It's a different body, it's a different size, it's different age, different feelings, but it's the same, you right, it's the same, you, okay, the soul is a source of love and peace, etc.

Arlin: 27:45

What is a michael singer proof of the soul? And then I have a TKO argument that I'm going to bring out in a second. A direct experiential proof of the soul is proof for us in a profound and intuitive process of self-inquiry. So one you are aware of your thoughts. You hear a voice in your head talking. Who is listening? The listener is not the voice, it's something deeper in you, right? So that voice in your head. I decided I wanted to shut up and I noticed that I was the one hearing it, okay.

Arlin: 28:21

So number two proof you are aware of the body. So you are not your body. So if you look at your hand, who is seeing your hand? You are seeing your hand. Are you your body? No, your body just went through the most dramatic changes of aging and et cetera. And even if your hand was removed, right? Even if your leg got cut off, well, you're not your body, because you'd still be the same person Again.

Arlin: 28:49

I already said this one, but he says the same thing. When you looked out your eyes as a child into the mirror and you look out of them now, it's the same you. And then, even in dreams or in sleep, you're still there. So you say I had a dream. Well, how do you know? You had a dream, because you were aware to perceive the dream, right, okay.

Arlin: 29:08

So my TKO is what if atheists say, nah, that's just consciousness or brain activity? Right, I feel like that's what the atheists say. Great question, one that Michael Singer addresses, not with argument, but the shift in perspective isn't trying to debate atheists or prove them. Instead, he invites everyone to look directly at their own experience. Consciousness is still you. Whether you call it consciousness, awareness or brain activity. The key question is who is experiencing? That singer says you're not what you are looking at, hearing or thinking. You are one that is aware of those things. The soul is not a belief, it's an experience, yes, okay, so that's basically. I'll just kind of pause on the michael singer stuff, but that's what a soul is.

Arlin: 30:06

So, there you go, um, and yeah, so yeah, I had like a demon come out of me and you know it is what it is, but like that's what happened and um, it's gone now and so you know it's good and I have healthy boundaries now and that's like the end of the story. So I hope that you enjoyed this and, um, I'm going to kind of just continue on here. Um, in my life, and just, dude, it's about to be a fucking explosion bro. Like here, um, in my life, and just, dude, it's about to be a fucking explosion bro, like I'm about to create some of the craziest, coolest stuff that I've ever created. Um, staring at the ocean, bro, it's so beautiful. I'm just leaving the ocean now and the beach and like the most beautiful thing is like the fescue, like beach grass you know the beach grass, like the long beach grass, so beautiful. Um, so I'm seeing all that. Ah, feel good, feel, feel good. And um, yeah, I'm just, uh, feeling really good. Man, I don't know what to say I'm.

Arlin: 31:02

I have like some exciting stuff going on with 8am world, which you should, if you enjoyed this podcast. Please apply to 8am world. Go to 8am appcom and apply. It is a. What is it? It's a community. It's a members club for creatives, founders, creative operators, visionaries and people who want to work with new technology and spirituality and bring heaven here on earth. And I just call it 8 am world. That's how I, how I look at it and, um, it's heaven on earth, man, it's. It's people who put god first, who, who you know. Spiritual life is very important to them. People who create, create art with devotion, business with devotion, with purpose, and use the new technology to do this, and they connect with like-minded people. Alignment, creation and connection. These are the values of 8am World that I wish to share with you today, and I hope that you have an amazing day, an amazing week, an amazing life. If you never listen to me again, but I hope you do I hope you listen to some of the other episodes and, yeah, I really thank you for listening. If this resonated, you know, as I said, go to 8amappcom and apply to join the members club.

Arlin: 32:28

We do not accept everybody. We just don't. I just don't fuck with everybody and, honestly, I just the thing is like it's not a coaching group. I'm not a guru, like I'm definitely not. Like, uh, I've, I've finally really learned Like I'm not a guru, like I'm, I'm just, I have so much to learn. I can share things I've learned, but I'm just a member. You know, I'm just, I'm a member of the 8am world community. I'm not like the fucking cult leader.

Arlin: 32:51

Okay. So if you want that, go somewhere else. I don't know, but yeah, so yeah, and if you resonate, like always, message me on Instagram, because podcasts don't have comments and etc. Etc. So, you know, go, you know, do that what. You will throw me a DM. I would love to read your messages and your feedback and if this resonated with you at all and hopefully it did, um, and yeah, and so I'm gonna stop at the market, get some grapefruit juice, because I fuck with grapefruit juice heavy lately and uh, yeah, uh, god bless you, sending you lots of love and light, especially if you're going through a hard time right now. And thank you for listening and I'll see you in the next episode.