The idea that you can ‘manifest’ your soulmate by ‘raising your vibration’, once the domain of New Age spirituality, is common among gen Z social media users. Juliana Piskorz wonders whether to give it a go
No!!!! ur soulmate is coming, you just need to write your list and raise your vibration.
She wasn’t referring to my ringtone or propensity to fidget.
In the rhetoric of New Age spirituality, every person, object or emotion has its own unique “frequency” and in order to manifest something you must alter your own frequency to match the thing you want.
Two years ago, this kind of jargon was limited to the eccentric colleague who, after undergoing a toad venom cleanse in Ibiza, decided to retrain as a yoga instructor, grow a rat-tail and extol the anti-ageing properties of snail slime. But since the pandemic, I would be hard pushed to find a friend who doesn’t check their vibrations
