Acharya Prashant addresses a question about the concept of positive and negative vibrations emanating from people or places. He explains that the reason for his disagreement with this notion is philosophical, with its roots in Vedanta. He likens this belief to the witch hunts of medieval Europe, where women were executed based on someone merely sensing that they had evil within them. In today's language, this would be akin to saying someone is sending negative vibes. The speaker argues that any feeling or experience one has when encountering a person or place is entirely subjective and originates from one's own prejudices, patterns, attitudes, and conditioning, rather than from the object of experience itself. He states that the experiencer is the experience, and to believe otherwise is to fall into the trap of materialism, which posits that the material world is the ultimate truth and that you exist to consume it for happiness. In contrast, Vedanta teaches that you are the source of all your experiences. The speaker illustrates this by noting how the same thing, like a national flag or a place of worship, can evoke sacred feelings in one community and profane feelings in another, proving that the experience is subjective and dependent on one's conditioning. He explains that this conditioning is the inner animal, or Prakriti, which is driven by primal instincts. The cult of vibrations, energies, and auras is an enemy of self-observation because it prevents one from looking at oneself. Instead of investigating the self, one attributes their internal state to external happenings. True wisdom, he concludes, lies in self-inquiry and understanding that you are not your body or your conditioned mind, but the consciousness that has the power to choose and understand.