Loosh

Definition

Loosh is Robert Monroe's term for the subtle energy harvested from human emotional suffering — the "food" certain non-physical entities extract from fear, grief, and conflict. It is the modern name for what the gnostics already mapped as the Archontic feeding pattern.

Deep Understanding

Monroe met the concept in his out-of-body explorations: a non-human visitor he calls BB handed him a rote, a packaged thought, that tells Earth's history as a Garden that Someone planted to grow a rare substance, loosh. In that story the purest, distilled loosh comes from unfulfillment, loneliness above all, and the Collectors harvest it with tools named love, family, greed, hate, pain, guilt, disease and war. In the author's reading, conscious equanimity produces none.

Read through a gnostic lens, the diagnosis is nineteen centuries older: in the Apocryphon of John the archons' four chief demons rule pleasure, desire, grief and fear, and every passion comes forth from them. The Archons feed on low-frequency emotional resonance. The Demiurge maintains the simulation partly as an energy extraction system. The Counterfeit Spirit keeps the human producing fear on schedule. Different vocabulary, same machine. Whether you call the operator Yaldabaoth, an Archon, or Monroe's "loosh farmers," the practical implication is identical: your unconscious suffering is someone's dinner, and the fastest act of rebellion is to stop feeding the table.

Primary sources

• Robert A. Monroe, Far Journeys (Doubleday, 1985), chapter Hearsay Evidence: the rote in which Someone grows loosh in the Garden of Earth and the Collectors harvest it. Catalogue record
• The Apocryphon of John, NHC II,1 18–19, trans. Frederik Wisse (1977): four chief demons rule pleasure, desire, grief and fear, and the passions come forth from them. Open-access copy

In Practice

The next time fear or rage spikes, do not suppress it and do not narrate it. Simply place attention on it like a hand on a hot stove and watch it. Unobserved emotion fuels the harvest. Observed emotion short-circuits it. You are not meant to avoid feeling — you are meant to stop broadcasting.

In Pleroma's Words

You were told your suffering was meaningless, then you were told it was redemptive. Both stories keep you producing. The truth is harder and cleaner: your suffering is fuel, and the first sovereign act is to metabolize it yourself instead of leaking it into a system that profits from your leaks.

Stefan's Alkimia. (2026, October 4). Loosh. Pleroma Guide. https://pleroma.guide/en/lexicon/loosh

Stefan's Alkimia. “Loosh.” Pleroma Guide, 4 Oct. 2026, pleroma.guide/en/lexicon/loosh.

Stefan's Alkimia. “Loosh.” Pleroma Guide. April 19, 2026. Last modified October 4, 2026. https://pleroma.guide/en/lexicon/loosh.

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