Nick Sweeney

Heal your Nervous System. Vortex your Focus.
Founder @coherencebreath 🌎 @purestelectroo ⚡️
Regulate and Heal with The Vortex Method™

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝟮𝟭, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆.

Doctors said my injury was incurable, and that my D1 ski racing career was over.

Here's how I healed myself from the inside out:

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

@SolBrah 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

[⚡️🌞 Sol Brah 🌞🐬 @SolBrah]

HE’S RIGHT!

I only need 6 hours of sleep at this point in retention.

Highly efficient!

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

Check out "Sexual Energy Transmutation" by Nick Sweeney on Coherence! https://t.co/ISch8M853n

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

Semen retention/transmutation will shave 2-3hrs off your sleep needs. Fact.

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

@jackfsweeney Let’s go!!!!

[JACK SWEENEY @jackfsweeney]

🎉 COHERENCE 5.2 IS OUT 🎉

This is the biggest update we’ve made to Sync. The room is now always on, so you can breathe together with people around the world, anytime.

I’ve always wanted Sync to feel like a global consciousness network that anyone could plug into, from anywhere, at any time. A place to breathe together and create a global field of coherence.

This release is a step toward that vision.

Here’s what’s new:

🧘 Sync anytime
You no longer have to wait for a scheduled Sync. Open the room and tap Sync to start breathing together.

📻 Coherence Radio
Four musical stations tuned to 432 Hz, with synchronized playback so everyone hears the same music at the same time.

🌎 Explore the Earth
By popular request, you can now pinch, zoom, and tap the green location dots on the 3D Earth to see who else is syncing, including people in your own city.

Since we launched Sync in August 2025, more than 2,300 people across 55 countries have joined us, sharing over 82,000 minutes of collective coherence.

Nick and I are so grateful for your support and feedback. Everything we build comes back to our mission: helping people relax, de-stress, and feel better while raising collective consciousness. 🌎

I’m excited for you to experience it.

Download or update:
https://t.co/SnVq2JU65J

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

@ArkLight67 Just switch with meditation

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

@yoginapassler 😏

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

@NoahRyanCo Aura

[john milinovich @jmilinovich]

# Black October

For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books.

You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles.

We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out.

In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses.

Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time.

In red-pilled AI circles, we've been sharing and reading papers called things like "Situational Awareness" and "AI 2027" for the last year or so, which at the time felt a bit like near-term speculative fiction. They laid out the case for why Artificial General Intelligence (AI smarter than any human at any knowledge task) and Recursive Self-Improvement (models that are able to use themselves to get better) weren't half-baked future ideas anymore, but instead an inevitable outcome of the linear progress that's happening.

These papers would then talk about things like "takeoff scenarios," trying to envision how that moment would come to be and what it would be like when it happened. It would either be a "slow takeoff" that would play out over the course of months and quarters, happening subtly and only obvious to a few. Or, it would be a "fast takeoff" where it would pretty much happen instantly, like a bit flipping from 0 to 1.

From everything that I can see and am feeling, we are currently experiencing the fast takeoff scenario. Beyond the crazy security vulnerabilities that have come out recently, there have also been massive breakthroughs in life sciences, fundamental computer science, materials science, and pure mathematics that have all landed in the same time frame. While I still firmly believe that AI will be a net positive for humanity, it's more clear to me than ever that the societal and individual risk is very real, and is playing out NOW.

For as much conviction as I have that this is happening, the thing that's caused me to lose sleep is that I don't really know what to do about it, or more importantly, what to tell you, reader, to do about it. So, the best I can do is make a few suggestions that have always been a good idea but are more timely now than ever:

Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo.
Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password.
Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta.
Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this.

And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php."

This is an unprecedented time for humanity, but as we've done with many things before, we will prevail so long as we are kind, loving, and open-minded to the world.

Much love.

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

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[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

4 years ago I started posting on X

I had no idea what I was doing, but I posted about nervous system regulation as I had regained my ability to walk after an accident through breathwork.

Slowly I began to see a pattern.

High achieving men absolutely frying their nervous systems in pursuit of greatness.

And I was one of them. After I quit my job in Oil and Gas I went all in on Entrepreneurship. 6 months of not eating enough, working too hard, and burning out.

I spent 2 years getting myself back to baseline. TWO.

This is why I created the Resonance Retreat.

A 5 day reset for the men and women who are burning the candle with a flamethrower.

5 days to upgrade your toolkit and change the trajectory of your health and business forever.

Breathwork, Hypnosis, Fascia, Yoga, and more.

Nervous system regulation decides whether you have a heart attack at 50 or live abundantly until 100.

This retreat is exactly what I wish I had before I threw my health in the trash for the sake of business.

Click the link below to join us Nov 4-9!

[🏹 Ina 🪽 @yoginapassler]

Everything you think you deserve is yours!

[🏹 Ina 🪽 @yoginapassler]

I deserve to have and be everything I ever wanted!

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

HOW TO ENTER A MEDITATIVE STATE INSTANTLY:

The Vortex Breath™️

Inhale 13s Exhale 13s

Inhale 8s Exhale 8s

Inhale 5s Exhale 5s

Inhale 3s Exhale 3s

Inhale 2s Exhale 2s

Inhale 1s Exhale 1s

This cadence creates a phi ratio vortex, or caduceus. It will instantly center you.

[AJ Karlovich @DrAJKarlovich]

@basedethos Agreed. After I saw you share this like 6 months ago, I bought a red light and do my breathwork first thing in the morning under it. No going back.

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

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[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

Billions.

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

HOW TO ENTER A MEDITATIVE STATE INSTANTLY:

The Vortex Breath™️

Inhale 13s Exhale 13s

Inhale 8s Exhale 8s

Inhale 5s Exhale 5s

Inhale 3s Exhale 3s

Inhale 2s Exhale 2s

Inhale 1s Exhale 1s

This cadence creates a phi ratio vortex, or caduceus. It will instantly center you.

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

Billions.

[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

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[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

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[Nick Sweeney @basedethos]

This red light was the best purchase for my health I ever made.

Breathwork + meditation no clothes every morning.

Absolute game changer.

U can get my discount code below

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

RED LIGHT ON THE STOMACH

Aside from providing noticeable improvements in digestion, motility, etc, the stomach is an ideal area for targets Red/NIR light therapy, because of simply how much stuff is going on there:

- Red light therapy improves mitochondrial function across all cells, regardless where targeted, but focusing on areas with substantial blood flow (ie abdomen, carotid artery) can expose circulating red blood cells)
- Red/NIR increases serotonin-triggered contractions in stomach muscle, physically supporting motility
- Bowel inflammation is pervasive, red light can help inflamed tissue recover/return to normal functioning
- Researchers irradiated mouse abdomens with red/NIR light and found changes in gut microbial composition. Similar effects have been noted with red light therapy in the mouth (where a substantial portion of your microbiome live)
- Near-infrared light increases melatonin inside cells, offering a potent antioxidant effect (particularly in mitochondria)

I could go on, but you should just try it after your next meal and on an empty stomach at night.