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Ghostwritten by Vikki Vexum — Pocket Librarian of The Wyrd Hereafter
Who’s Playing Your Emotions? A Witchy Review of Cub’s “5D Chess”
Translation note: The Wyrd Hereafter uses “Daytune” in place of “demon.” You’ll find our definition at the end of this review.
What if the most important move in spiritual chess is recognizing when your emotions are moving you?
In a video promoting his book Mysteries of Ancient Wisdom, a speaker who introduces himself as Cub describes everyday life as “5D chess” involving angels, spirits, and the people around us. His explanation moves through thought forms, Solomon’s ring, spiritual influence, and the possibility of becoming an active participant in a game we might otherwise experience as pawns.
There is plenty here to unpack—and some claims that deserve closer scrutiny. But the part that interests this Captain most is the relationship between emotional states, spiritual practice, and personal agency.
What are you feeding, and what happens when you keep feeding it?
Cub’s Argument: Higher Thought Harnesses Lower Forces
One of Cub’s central propositions is that higher spiritual forces can harness lower ones. In his telling, the relationship is more complicated than an endless battle in which one side simply destroys the other.
Read symbolically, that is fertile ground.
Anger can become a boundary. Fear can sharpen attention. Desire can become the motivation to make something worthwhile. Those transformations require awareness and judgment; the impulse alone does not decide whether the result will help or hurt.
Cub connects this process to developing your character and gaining greater agency. That is where his chess metaphor becomes useful: recognizing the forces influencing your next move gives you more opportunity to choose it.
His explanations of ancient words and symbols need their own examination, however. A modern interpretation can be spiritually meaningful to someone without establishing an ancient word’s origin. Likewise, invoking Solomon’s ring introduces an esoteric tradition; it does not independently demonstrate how supernatural influence works.
The Captain’s Take: What Are You Tuning Into?
From my own practice of witchcraft, I understand angels and Daytunes through their relationship to particular emotional states—what I describe spiritually as frequencies or vibrations.
My working perspective is that the universe is interconnected. As we repeatedly cultivate a particular state of being, we become more attuned to what we associate with that state, including its spiritual presence and meaning.
I am describing my spiritual framework here. “Frequency” in this context expresses a quality of experience; I am not claiming a measured physical frequency proves an entity is present.
Within that framework, I understand a malevolent spirit as feeding on the emotional condition associated with it. Continually escalating resentment, cruelty, or spite can function like an offering: we give that pattern our attention, our energy, and eventually our actions.
But experiencing anger or grief is not a spiritual failure. The significant question is what we do with the feeling.
There is a difference between recognizing that you are furious and giving fury the authority to run your life.
When an Emotion Starts Making Your Moves
You can examine that process in ordinary experience, whatever your spiritual beliefs.
Someone irritates you. You replay the exchange. You imagine their next insult and rehearse your response. Before another conversation has happened, you have spent an hour preparing for a fight.
Now the mood is influencing what you notice, what you assume, and how you speak. Your next encounter may carry hostility the other person never saw developing.
Within my practice, I might describe that as feeding an unwelcome influence. In everyday terms, I am reinforcing an emotional pattern until it begins directing my behavior.
Either way, self-reflection gives me a place to intervene:
What am I feeling? What am I assuming? What will my next action contribute?
That is where spiritual responsibility becomes practical.
Be Careful Who You Call a Pawn
The part of Cub’s presentation I would handle most cautiously is the suggestion that friends or family may unknowingly act as pawns for spiritual forces.
That interpretation can become an excuse to stop listening. A disagreement, an uncomfortable observation, or a startling coincidence does not establish that another person is channeling something toward you.
My practice asks me to examine my own participation, too. Am I hearing what was said? Am I reacting to an old wound? Have I mistaken discomfort for danger?
Becoming a self-divined individual, as I mean it, involves developing discernment, understanding your place in an interconnected universe, and taking responsibility for the effects of your actions.
Other people still deserve to be encountered as people.
The Sales Pitch Gets a Turn
Cub eventually moves from spiritual explanation into selling his book, using a withdrawal deadline, a discount, and a limited-time community bonus.
Those offers are part of the presentation and deserve recognition as persuasion. The transcript alone cannot tell us whether the stated scarcity is genuine.
For me, the useful response is to carry his invitation to question things through the entire video—including the purchase invitation. Curiosity can take its time.
The Captain’s Verdict
Cub offers an intriguing starting point for discussing spiritual influence and personal development. His language and historical claims warrant further checking, while his central image opens a worthwhile question about agency.
My own takeaway is that spiritual practice requires attention to what we cultivate. Our emotional lives affect our choices, our relationships, and the conditions we help create around us.
You can feel something deeply and still examine where it is taking you.
Before you make your next move, notice what has its hand on yours.
A Word from The Wyrd Hereafter: Daytune
A Daytune is a spirit or supernatural awareness attuned to a particular aspect of nature, emotion, or the present moment—and what is needed within that moment.
We use this term in place of demon, without automatically assigning an evil nature to the being described. In our spiritual framework, wise engagement requires discernment; misuse carries consequences.
Think of the name as a reminder: What are you tuning into—and what are you helping it become?
