What Monsters, Inc. Taught Us About Spiritual Alchemy
Do you remember the movie Monsters Inc.?
At first, the monsters powered their entire world with screams. Fear was the currency. It was effective, but heavy, limited, and destructive.
And then came the revelation at the end of the film: laughter generated ten times the energy. Joy, not fear, was the real source of power.
This, to me, is the perfect metaphor for where we are in our collective spiritual path.
Most of us begin our journey in victim or victimizer consciousness. We enter spirituality or “healing” through the doorway of shadow work.
And shadow work is powerful. It teaches us to face what we’ve avoided. It clears distortions. It shows us how to stop running from our fears.
But shadow work is scream-energy. It’s survival-level alchemy. It moves things, but slowly, heavily, with strain.
There’s a checkpoint you reach in your inner alchemy—a kind of level-up in the video game of life—where the tools of shadow work stop being the main power source.
You discover that pleasure, joy, bliss, ecstasy, play—these generate exponentially more transformation.
Pleasure is not indulgence. It is fuel.
It accelerates growth.
It rewires the nervous system.
It magnetizes future realities into the now.
Just as the monsters learned, laughter creates far more energy than screams.
The reason most people don’t discover this is because they’re still trapped in victim consciousness. They think the only way to “heal” is to dig deeper into the pain.
But sovereign consciousness knows: pleasure itself can metabolize trauma, re-pattern belief systems, and expand us into the future.
That doesn’t mean distortions stop surfacing. They do. But now, instead of being dragged back into the scream, you can use pleasure itself as the tool to move through them.
We are sitting on the same secret the monsters discovered.
Laughter—joy, bliss, ecstasy, pleasure—is the real fuel.
This is the alchemy no one told us was possible: that you can fuck, laugh, play, and pleasure your way into your sovereignty.
It’s lighter. It’s faster. It’s more powerful.
And it changes everything.
In sovereign pleasure,
-Sharon Marie Scott
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