What K-Pop Demon Hunters Gets Right About Spirituality

What if the demons they fight on screen are real—just operating on subtler planes of emotion and thought?

I'll be honest: K-Pop Demon Hunters sounds just like an entertaining, made-up story. A girl group that moonlights as literal demon slayers while maintaining their Billboard-topping careers? Their rival boy band secretly draining fans' souls through performances to weaken the barrier between worlds? It's over-the-top, campy, and absolutely delightful.

It's also shockingly accurate about how spiritual reality actually works.

One of the strangest—and most hilarious—realizations I had while awakening to spirituality was just how much popular culture gets right about the mechanics of energetic reality. Movies, music, TV shows: they're uncannily precise about how it all actually works. And I'm not the only one who's noticed. When I come together with friends, we dissect the latest films and series for their hidden spiritual truths as one of our favorite pastimes. Just think Dr. Strange or other Marvel movies.

That's because art—especially mass media—is humanity's collective dreamwork. Whatever's unintegrated in the collective unconscious surfaces as story. Demon hunters, superheroes, zombies, cosmic battles—they're all mythic mirrors for our unseen energetic mechanics. Pop culture doesn't just reflect our world; it reveals the invisible architecture beneath it, posing as “just” entertainment.

Baby from Saja Boys harnessing collective energy from the crowd

Magic Hiding in Plain Sight

It's the perfect cover, really. Most of us were taught early on that movies aren't real, magic doesn't exist, and everything on screen is just make-believe—pure imagination. But here's the thing: discrediting our imagination was one of the most powerful tools used to strip the modern world of its mysticism. By removing magic from our belief systems entirely, we've been disempowered from creating our own reality and forgotten who we truly are.

Discrediting imagination was the most powerful spell ever cast on humanity.

Our innate hunger for magic and enchantment has been neatly contained within the box labeled "entertainment"—harmless, not real. Meanwhile, our actual lives become boring, bland, painful. Disempowered and void of magic, we turn to entertainment like addicts, hoping to live vicariously through the heroes on screen. We work our 9-to-5s, study subjects that drain us, then come home desperate for a hit of magic and adventure. So we binge series, watch music videos, go to movies and concerts.

The emotions triggered during consumption make us feel alive, flooding our bodies with dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline. We're in a state of light hypnosis when we watch, and we become addicted to the cocktail. We even choose our genres based on which hormones we're craving.

Here's what makes this dangerous: our brains don't distinguish between imagined and real experiences. It's like getting drunk on cheap wine—a quick high that goes nowhere. All that struggle, striving, and exhilaration we experience isn't being used to create the reality we actually want to live. Instead, it's siphoned off by astral machinery behind the programs we consume.

Which brings us back to the Saja Boys of K-Pop Demon Hunters.

The Saja Boys Method: Entertainment as Energy Harvest

Saja Boys from K-Pop Demon Hunters by Netflix

In K-Pop Demon Hunters, the villain boy band performs globally, and through their concerts they literally drain fans' energy and souls to weaken the "Honmoon"—a celestial barrier protecting humanity from demonic interference. Every scream, every tear, every surge of obsessive fandom becomes fuel for opening the gates between worlds.

Sound familiar?

Our attention, our life force energy, gets stolen in the form of triggered emotions, feeding beings in the astral realms. In many spiritual traditions, the astral plane is understood as the first non-physical dimension—the densest non-physical realm, what we often call the 4th dimension. If that sounds abstract, think of the astral plane as the emotional internet—invisible, instantaneous, and powered by attention.

It's roughly divided between lower and higher astral worlds, linked to our astral bodies, which govern our emotions and desires. Picture your astral body as an etheric outline superimposed over your physical form, slightly larger and capable of occasionally detaching to travel on its own, though usually tethered.

But the astral realm isn't just our personal energy bodies. It's a realm superimposed over our physical world, populated with beings that exist without physical form—an important and easily relatable aspect of the quantum realm we access through our thoughts and emotions. Depending on our baseline frequency—our regular emotional state—we interact with entities in the 4th dimension, usually the lower astral, without ever knowing it. They remain invisible to anyone who hasn't opened their third eye.

Since the demystification of our physical world, we've been mass-siphoned of our emotional charge through entertainment, all while most people have no idea how to regulate their emotions in everyday life and relationships. You can imagine these astral beings like invisible parasites that attach to humans who don't know how to alchemize their emotions. When we're unaware of our energy and don't set intention for where it goes and what it's meant to do, it's open game for those entities to feed and weaken us.

In the quantum astral, the usual boundaries of time and space don't exist. Which means entities can attach through the screen and stay there.

The Anxiety Feedback Loop

From my recent experience working with Mongolian shamans, most people already have a variety of entities attached to them—some stronger and darker than others, depending on the health of their astral/emotional body. Each entity specializes in a specific emotion. If someone has a tendency toward anxiety, a dark spirit specialized in fear will attach and feed whenever they feel this emotion.

But it becomes a closed loop over time. The entities start triggering anxiety in the person just to feed, inducing thoughts and perceptions that make anxiety more and more of a baseline. This is exactly what the Saja Boys do in the film—they don't just harvest existing emotion, they cultivate it, keep fans in heightened reactive states, turn fandom into a fear-and-desire treadmill.

A demon syphoning life force energy from an unwitting human

This isn't about fear or punishment—it's about awareness. When you know what's happening, you reclaim choice. The moment you name the pattern, it begins to lose its power.

It's important to understand this mechanism because you always have free will. If your will is strong enough and you start becoming more mindful—really paying attention to your thoughts, beliefs, and the emotions they trigger—you can choose to shift away from those automatic reactions and slowly starve those entities. They'll detach over time and choose another person who's unawakened. This is the most natural way.

You can also work on your emotional triggers, track them down to the thoughts that gave rise to them, and get into the source code: the beliefs. If you can really investigate the original belief you've installed about a particular aspect of reality and realize it's not aligned with who you truly are, you can shift that belief into one you choose. As you practice that new belief, you'll create new neurological pathways and hormonal reactions, generating emotions that feel better. A positive baseline state of mind will surround you with helpful astral beings there to support you—especially when you set that intention.

Ask your guides, ancestors, and protectors to be there for you. Ask for your positive emotional states to feed the astral/quantum architecture that materializes and manifests your dreams and goals. This way you have ownership of your energy and direct it with purpose.

When Attachments Get Serious

Demons from K-Pop Demon Hunters looking for victims

Some people have practiced negative beliefs, thoughts, and emotions for so long that they've cultivated a relationship with an astral entity that's grown so strong they're stuck in a dark place for years. It's possible to get out—believe me, all your guides and helpers are working overtime—but it helps to ask for professional support.

Entity work isn't rare or exotic—it's maintenance for the unseen layers of the psyche. Just as you might visit a therapist or doctor, shamans tend to the energy body.

The shamans in Mongolia specialize in exactly this. They're emissaries between the spirit world and the physical world, and part of their main job is chasing away spirit attachments through "zassal" ceremonies. I've watched myself and others benefit from zassal work so much it's mind-blowing. Now that I've experienced what it feels like not to have entity attachments, I can immediately tell when I catch one of these "astral critters"—some nastier than others. They really do change how I experience a situation, like wearing sunglasses that make the world seem darker and less welcoming.

I recently had an extreme case during a full moon solar eclipse. While with a client who had a major emotional breakdown and anxiety attack, just being in their vicinity caused me to catch that astral parasite—I got a taste of what they were going through. It was not pretty. I know how I felt before meeting her, after meeting her, and after receiving “zassal” from my trusted Mongolian shaman. The difference was like night and day.

Looking back, I've had many experiences in the past catching astral parasites and entity attachments—I just didn't know what it was. It's a natural part of life, and most resolved over time. But "over time" meant suffering and pain, battling depression, fatigue, and overwhelm. It's incredibly helpful to know there are ways to deal with it intentionally myself and that I can ask for real professional help as well.

The Huntr/x Approach: Performance as Protection

Here's where K-Pop Demon Hunters gets really interesting. The protagonist group, Huntr/x (Rumi, Mira, and Zoey), also performs as global superstars—but their performances work completely differently. While the Saja Boys drain and harvest, Huntr/x's concerts are ritual acts that strengthen the Honmoon barrier. Their choreography is literally weaponized protection magic, a ceremony. Their music uplifts rather than depletes.

It's the same mechanics, different intention. One drains, one uplifts. Energy follows design.

This is the difference between conscious and unconscious energy architecture. In real life, collective movement and sound—mass concerts, sports events in stadiums, even viral videos—are potent for shifting energetic fields, opening portals, synchronizing large groups. The question is: who's directing that energy? What's the intention behind it?

Modern entertainment often relies on fear, anxiety, and trauma triggers (horror genres, shock value, scandal) to keep audiences in reactive states, which is fertile ground for attachment and harvest. Think about the amount of Horror movies available during Halloween month. It’s a feast for astral critters. But it doesn't have to be that way. When performers operate from genuine connection, protection, and self-acceptance—like Huntr/x—they can create fields that nourish rather than drain. This is why certain concerts feel transcendent while others leave you exhausted and hollow.

The Half-Demon Secret

One of the film's most poignant elements is Rumi's hidden truth: she has demonic patterns, she's half-demon, and she hides this from everyone. This inner split mirrors the classic idol dilemma—public persona versus hidden self—but it's also a profound metaphor for the fragmented self, the parts of us that feel unacceptable and repressed.

In the energetic realm, such unintegrated aspects are the most vulnerable to attachments and parasites. The shame, the hiding, the splitting—it creates cracks in our field. The work isn't to banish our "demonic" parts but to integrate them, accept them, bring them into wholeness.

Every unintegrated shadow is just an aspect of our own creative power waiting to be remembered.

Only then can we maintain our own Honmoon, our own protective barrier between our sovereign self and energetic interference.

Practical Protection

Protection isn't about fear; it's about coherence. When your energy field is organized, nothing can hook into it.

There are effective ways to protect yourself from entity attachments. One is called "Tengrin Sum" or Fulgurite—glass created when lightning hits sand until it petrifies. This stone can be used as a protection amulet until we're strong enough in our own field. We can use it during our healing process to have space to heal without interference from attachments that would make it harder.

I can help people do hypnosis work with the subconscious mind, investigating the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that generate negative feelings to reprogram the mind. I'll soon be initiated by Mongolian shamans to chase off astral attachments myself. Until then, I can support readers in getting zassal work with trusted Mongolian shamans, acting as connector and translator.

The Honmoon Within

The film's concept of the Honmoon—that celestial barrier the hunters work to maintain—is a perfect mirror of our own auric field, the collective barrier between physical reality and astral interference. Maintaining that barrier through ritual, boundaries, and awareness is the work of the "demon hunter" within each of us.

We're all performing this dance between worlds whether we know it or not. The question is: are you the Saja Boys, unconsciously feeding the machine? Or are you Huntr/x, transforming entertainment back into ritual, reclaiming your energy, protecting your Honmoon?

K-Pop Demon Hunters might be campy fiction, but it's showing us something real: the energetic architecture beneath our media-saturated world. The demons are real. They're just operating on subtler planes of emotion and thought.

And yes, you can learn to fight them—preferably while executing perfect choreography.

Quantum travel begins every time you open your phone, dream, meditate, or watch a film. The question isn't whether you'll journey—it's how consciously you'll navigate.

If you're interested in learning more about zassal ceremonies, Tengrin Sum protection amulets, or hypnosis work for subconscious reprogramming, feel free to reach out. The shamans and I are here to help you become your own demon hunter.

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