This is my first time requesting & spearheading a thread on Tattle, so hopefully I am doing this right. Thank you to the mods for creating the thread, I am hoping to create a space to talk about Heather, since there isn't much to be found online.
I came across her from this video by Philion, in which he reacts to Sky Life's mini "documentary" about Heather. I don't think I want to refer to her as "Activation Vibration" very much because it's just too cringey. She clearly wants to be viewed as a guru with this monicker - bordering close on cult leader - although you could probably argue that she's already there because she leads seminars along with her (ex?) boyfriend Aaron Doughty, another fraudster (literally, you can read complaints about his manifestation/self help courses on his Better Business Bureau profile -
Awareness Mastery LLC)
Sky claims to be approaching the meeting with Heather as a "skeptic", but that's really not the case when she admits to have been listening to Heather's meditation/mantra music for about a year and completely gushes over her like she's a celebrity. Eventually Sky humors Heather by doing some "light language".
I think my issue with "light language" is the same as with people who claim to speak in "tongues" - it sounds like they are trying to replicate sounds of an African or maybe southeast Asian language, because it sounds "mystical" and "exotic". To me, it really doesn't sound any different from someone doing a racist impression by pretending to speak Chinese/Japanese. The light- or tongues speakers may not be doing it to intentionally invoke racist stereotypes, but overall it just doesn't sit right with me.
Prior to making this thread, the most I can find about Heather is an article on Yahoo from last summer titled:
"Why Does Everyone Talk Like They’re In A Cult?"
Here's an excerpt:
I was eyeballs deep in the peculiar universe of shady social media gurus, when I thumbed past the perfect case study in contemporary cult language: an account called
@activationvibration.
The voice behind the account is Heather Hoffman, a blue-eyed 20-something with a look that reads part beauty influencer, part religious prophet—picture ornate gold piercings and appropriative face jewels, juxtaposed with eyelash extensions and trendy tie-dye bralettes. Heather’s ultra-produced images, featuring rainbow lens flares and jewel-tone lotus flowers, accompany affirmations just vague enough to sound profound: “As you advance, you assist the collective.” “Choose to be ‘in peace’ In order: to experience peace.” “Dimensions: are Universal Constants which are separated by maintaining an individual constant vibration—It is us, who change in frequency.” (Her punctuation alone is a cosmic mystery.) In one IGTV video, Heather lounges before a mandala tapestry sermonizing that COVID-19 was caused by government “fear propaganda” and that protecting yourself means “deactivating” your “matrix grid of fear” so as not to pollute the “divine order.” Heather attests she has been reincarnated precisely to cure us lowly humans of such ailments through her ability to access “Source” (God) and other spiritual “realms” available only to her, since everyone else has fallen victim to a “program.” To tap into her transcendent knowhow, just sign up for one of her online programs, like the “Cellular Activation Course—Upgrade Your DNA” for $144.44, or, for her most exclusive wisdom, pony up $4,444 for private coaching.
Heather’s lengthy, convoluted captions are written in a dialect of New Age–speak so cryptic that insiders want to like, comment, and share, while outsiders can’t help but keep scrolling to find out what her beliefs actually are: “integrating potent codes,” “quantum transformation,” “divine alignment,” “energy matrices, grids, and frequencies.”
Here's what Heather has to say about herself:
She is expressing her "spiritual divinity" without limitation, which, if you can imagine, means that she is deep down the conspiracy rabbit hole. Her content is so full of word salad that it's hard to sit through, but following her on IG I have caught some stories where she talks about how she doesn't believe in COVID and doesn't wear a mask (not surprising with these types). Her association with Aaron Doughty (not sure if they are still dating, but earlier this year they were) makes me think she also probably believes in some QAnon stuff.
I don't watch Aaron's videos, but I came to know of him through another YouTube influencer I used to follow who has since become a "conspiritualist" (to use a term from the Conspirituality podcast), Zoey Arielle. During the early days of the pandemic, Zoey began posting content very similar in structure to Aaron's, and
she even had him on her podcast "The Lo and Zo Show", which she hosts with fellow life coach Lauren Saunders.
When he was a guest on Zoey's podcast he was saying "I'm not denying COVID is real, BUT the media is exaggerating the numbers and they say masks aren't really that effective. They were faking hospitals being full in Italy. It's obvious to me that there's some kind of agenda there. People are easier to control when they are separated by fear"
He goes on to say "The media is controlled by six major corporations... There's an old power dynamic of people who I believe have had control for a very long period of time."
Just come out and say it's the Jews, already, we all know that that kind of language is just walking on eggshells around your antisemitism... From there he complains about taxes being high, he doesn't believe that taxes are actually funding public works (probably thinks they're being used to cover up aliens, another thing he touches on).
Funnily enough, I managed to find out that Heather was once featured on the Dr. Phil show in which she was seeking help for her mom's alcoholism.
So, essentially, she's another rich white woman appropriating East/Southern Asian mysticism in order to make money off of insecure people while also fanning the flames of conspiracy and anti-science beliefs on social media.
ETA:
Apart from Philion, there's only one other video I can easily find that is critical of Heather, but that YouTuber himself seems to be into the same spiritual crap, so I don't feel comfortable sharing it here. He says Heather's eyes make her look like "no one is home", which I agree with, but then he says her gaze is "very blank, vacant. There must be something else running the show, maybe reptilian..."
