Preface and disclaimer:

On September 24, 2025, I posted a piece about the cult and its leader — both named IKYA — centered around the incident where one of his closest inner circle members was suddenly expelled and exiled without warning. This is a follow-up to that post. I suggest reading the post of September 24 called "What happened to Nina" before reading this. Read it here:

https://www.kanarifuglen.com/l/what-happened-to-nina/

What follows is entirely my own perspective — based on my thoughts, assumptions, and reflections.

… So who is the person behind IKYA, really?

Let's take a step back. In 2013, John (that's his name) published a book called Supermat, which means Superfood. Yes, he tried being a businessman before launching his IKYA project. He was the man behind the brand Supernature, selling "superfood" products at ridiculous prices. Supernature has since been bought by Midsona — yet another shady company. Stay away. (Speaking from personal experience. I once called Midsona to ask for traceability info on a sea salt product I was considering buying, and they refused to tell me where it came from or who made it. They just said it was a trade secret. I told them, "Traceability means quality." They had no answer to that, and we hung up, and I did not buy their salt.)

On the first couple of pages in his book I read something very revealing about who he is, and why he has grown to be an unhealthy masculine cult leader, allowing his community to be influenced by fear culture, gaslighting and silence. In the foreword, he writes something that, to me, puts the puzzle together:

"I was a highly sensitive child. (...) Vulnerable and without protection, I was pulled into the role of observer. That helped me create distance from everything that affected me."
(Supermat – Healing Foods from the Heart of Nature, John Opsahl, 2013, p. 3.)

Those lines tell me everything. Vulnerable and without protection, he created distance from everything that affected him. And later, throughout the lengthy foreword, he repeats that distancing himself has been his lifelong strategy… (!) To me, that explains his strange, removed presence. He is, quite literally, disconnected. Distanced.

He talks as if he's deeply connected — and yes, he is definitely tuned into something. The way I read him, his crown chakra is somehow open. He can meditate. But when it comes to the root? Closed.

He's not grounded. He has no connection to the Earth. He looks down on the Earth itself — on life down here, on the human sides of the humans, and on his own inner child. He hasn't transformed the difficult experiences from his childhood as a sensitive and wide-open child. He's simply distanced himself from them.

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Earth represents the feminine. The sky, the masculine.

He has a twitch in his right shoulder, and his nose, and even his posture in this picture, leans to the right. He won't acknowledge his own humanity. He claims he is not human. But he won't explain what he then is either. Questions about what he is are left unanswered, leaving the person who asked gaslit and shamed for asking such low-vibration, human-like questions. Only humans that speak from a survival point of view would bother to use their energy to wonder about such irrelevant questions, he would answer — totally nonchalant, cold in his eyes, stoned in his heart, empty in his root — and with no further care, moving on to the next person like an arrogant superstar, clearly bothered by all the fans hoping to get an autograph.

If he were a true spiritual master, he would warmly embrace and answer all the dumb human questions that people trying to survive would want to ask — and he would make them feel empowered and seen instead of guilty and stupid.

It's not just his humanity he rejects — he also denies his feminine side, his vulnerability, his Earth, his Mother, his Inner Child. His body is his closest connection to the Earth. Sure, he trains it, probably thinks he's taking good care of it. But he hasn't brought it along on his "transformation journey." His body is just an empty shell — abandoned, inflated, lacking real wisdom and authentic connection. And that's really just sad. I feel for the child in him.

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He is not in true contact. You can't be connected in just one direction. A connection that only goes upward and not downward as well, isn't real connection. That's fragmentation. His favorite word. Defragmentalization — he loves using that one. He claims that everything on Earth, in our perception, is fragmented. And to evolve into our full potential, we must move in the opposite direction — de‑fragmentalization. Which is just a clunky, unnecessarily complicated, patronizing, and intellectually domineering way of saying "putting things back together."

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Mirror. Everything is a mirror — even for him. He talks about that a lot. Because yes, it applies to him, too. Even though he claims he's passed it.

But this, right here — this is where it all went wrong for Mr. John, if you ask me. Because you can't just pass and skip over things. You can't bypass or meditate your way out of trauma. You have to take your body with you — let the process move through you.

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Your body. That twitch in your right shoulder, Ikya, bro — it shows something's stuck. That's why you're not in true contact. That's why you expelled your closest feminine representative. She was your most loyal soldier. But she refused to become your blinded racehorse. She was unwavering and dedicated to keeping her autonomy. She became too wise. Too competent. Too clairvoyant. Too confronting. She became a threat.

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Here's what I believe:

I don't think John IKYA is a bad person. I believe he has certain abilities — and that he can access a higher state of awareness. As can anyone. I also think he has mostly good intentions. And I definitely believe he's a 100% human being. I don't believe he's more enlightened than you or me. I also think he has shadow sides, just like the rest of us. I don't think he's fully healed from his own traumas, and to me, this becomes pretty clear based on the things I mentioned above.

I'm not afraid of him. And I don't believe he has more power than you or I are willing to give him — or more than what you and I already hold within ourselves.

But in the end, I actually do agree with John IKYA on one thing:

Do not be a follower 😉

What did you guys think of this reflections? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please comment, can't wait to read your respons.

May your eye stay sharp, your heart stay wild, and your root remain grounded.

With love and fire,

Frøya🦋🔥