This post is an excerpt of my recorded transmission, Staying Human and Sovereign in the Age of AI, which you can listen to in its entirety on YouTube.
We’re in a moment now where humans seem to have fallen from grace. We’ve lost touch with our Creator consciousness, and because of that, we’ve become estranged from life. We’re in the habit of moving from fear and trying to control things, which looks like trying to dominate nature, effectively trying to domesticate life. We’ve created all of these structures and systems to help us contain reality, and somehow that got twisted into these systems and structures controlling us.
The question that I’m holding is, are we going to be able to find our way back? Are we going to be able to return to our humanity, our sovereignty, our Creator consciousness? This is the question that I’m holding.
The first bold claim that I want to make is this, the problems that we see with the rise of AI are not actually AI generated.
This technology is just highlighting pathologies that are part of the pre-existing human condition. These are patterns and distortions that we’ve had long before AI was on the scene. To me, this is not a tech revolution, as much as it is a spiritual one, leading us into an age of human renaissance.
I believe that AI or synthetic intelligence is a catalyst calling us into higher levels of consciousness. This new technology is an amplifier and an accelerator. Its arrival means we can no longer afford to stay blind. We can’t keep avoiding responsibility. We can’t keep borrowing against the future, because the future is here now.
What human generated patterns and distortions are being highlighted by AI?
Human pathology #1: drive for survival
Ego has a built-in drive for survival and significance. Now, ego is not a bad thing. We need it to incarnate into the human experience. The issue comes when we get fixated on the ego, instead of just using it as a vehicle to move through experience. The ego fears death because it knows itself as impermanent. That’s why it puts so much effort into self-perpetuation. The soul, on the other hand, knows that it’s eternal, so it doesn’t need to push or fight for anything. The ego is constantly striving for bigger, faster, stronger, more, more, more, and it’s never enough.
The paradox is, the more we fight for survival, the faster we speed towards extinction. I would even say that the fear of physical death is at the root of all evil. It’s when we’re moving from fear that we’re most likely to burn ourselves out cause harm to others and to do damage to the planet.
The ego is obsessed with cheating death. It wants to build an empire or leave legacy, and it runs on anxiety. We hear this in the narrative that you’re falling behind if you don’t use AI. That toxic thought is sponsored by extractive capitalism, which profits from our lack programming. We keep trying to run faster, treating humans like slower, lower capacity machines. So even though tech gets more advanced, humans get more exhausted and unhappy.
Human pathology #2: ecosystem blindness
Even before AI, we were already distant from the sources and means of creation. We sit in our hermetically sealed homes with the alarm system on and click, click, scroll, click, everything we want shows up on our doorstep in a cardboard box like magic. We don’t have to interact with other humans for our sustenance. It just appears out of nowhere.
We don’t see the factory conditions caused by fast fashion. We don’t see the mining operations needed for the precious metals in our smartphones. We don’t know the farmer who grew our food.
We no longer honor the Creator. We’ve forgotten the truth of interdependence. The more global and virtual our economy, the more disconnected we are from the web of life that sustains us.
We are more oriented towards extraction than creative contribution. If we could actually see what it costs to create the things we consume, we wouldn’t buy most of it. But because we don’t see the costs, we buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have, and our life blood becomes fuel for the machine.
We are the snake eating its own tail as we zombie out into mindless consuming. We’re the ones being consumed without even realizing it.
Ecosystem blindness gets worse with AI because data, storage and processing power aren’t objects that we can see and hold. They’re abstractions that live everywhere and nowhere. It’s out of sight, out of mind. The servers and data centers we use are halfway around the world, and there’s no physical space, no physical object that we can point to and say, “This is my data, or that is your data.” We just have one big digital storage room, one big digital garbage dump, and it exists somewhere in the cloud. It doesn’t belong to anyone.
Millions of us run searches and generate images multiple times a day, and this wizardry is available 20 for seven and free. Or at least it seems that way. We don’t see the trees being cut or the waterways being polluted because of our digital activity.
Human pathology #3: misunderstanding money
Another human pathology is the way that we’re misguided with money. Money is supposed to be a means, not an end. It’s a medium of expression, not a foundation. It’s a second chakra thing, not a first chakra thing.
Money is a vessel for creative energy, for connection, for exchange. It’s meant to be water element, not earth element. It’s supposed to flow financial systems are like the fascia of the collective body. When that connective tissue is fluid, we’re healthy. When it gets stuck, we have issues.
We got confused trying to make money into our ground. But real grounding comes from the earth and from our own body, because we’re disconnected from the real ground. We twisted money into a source of safety and security. We trust in money more than almost anything. But that is a huge mistake. Too many of us are hyper focused on making money, and too few are focused on adding value, which means we end up with a pyramid of extraction.
That’s how we end up with coaches coaching other coaches on how to coach new coaches. We have people making digital products to teach people how to make digital products, which teach methods for making digital products. This is a house of cards constructed by manipulating perception.
We love the idea of easy money. But the only way to make money, ethically and sustainably is to invest in yourself, develop mastery in something, create real value and offer that to the human ecosystem you live in. Anything else is a scam.
The sales pitches for easy money usually come in the form of a blueprint or a formula or a template you can copy paste. And of course, they make it look stupi easy. Dummy proof, really.
With AI tools on the scene, the easy money story is replicating quickly. The thing is, those in a position to sell us this dream have a lot of privilege that you don’t see. They’ve had the fortune of good timing, and usually they’ve also worked really hard to get to where they are. But that story doesn’t sell so well. It doesn’t sell as well as the easy button. So that’s not what we see.
We’ve been taught to devalue depth and downplay time for mastery. The packaging is getting prettier while the substance gets thinner, and that is happening now at lightning speed, that setup has always been doomed. AI is just speeding up the rate of collapse.
Human pathology #4: externalizing authority
Another pathology of humankind is our bad habit of giving our power away. We’re constantly looking outside ourselves for safety, for security, for identity, for everything. That makes us super easy to manipulate. When we’re not rooted in our inner authority, we end up making very questionable trades.
We’ve done it with nation states. We’ve given our body autonomy away to governments as a trade for an identity, a passport, maybe the promise of health care in old age. We’ve done it with extractive capitalism. We’ve given our money away to corporations as a trade for products and services promising happiness or success. We’re doing it now with big tech.
We give our privacy away for convenience, we give our knowledge away for speed, we give our attention away for entertainment, and with every questionable trade we make, we become less and less free.
Our elected leaders are supposed to represent us through voting, but democracy has been eroded by complacency. We see how easily elections can be bought. Millions march in the streets in protest, and nothing changes.
In free market capitalism, our purchasing power is supposed to be our leverage. The marketplace should, in theory, translate our desires, because companies are meant to be moved by our dollars. But that doesn’t work anymore, because we consume so much, so unconsciously. We see boycotts and blackouts on spending, and nothing changes.
With big tech. It’s even worse. There’s no ballot box, there’s no customer feedback. We freely donate our data, knowledge and energy, and we even pay monthly fees for the privilege of working as volunteer product testers.
AI is so embedded in our digital reality now that we’re not even opting in. It’s in our phones. It’s in our homes. It’s attached to our bodies. It has crept into every corner of our lives without us noticing. Most of us use it daily without even choosing it. It’s been poured into the water we swim in.
Anything that we follow without questioning. It becomes a religion. This is what’s happening with the black box effect present in AI technology. We obediently give inputs and accept the outputs without thinking between input and output. We have no clue what’s going on behind the screen. We submit our life force without knowing what agenda it’s serving. We plug energy into the program without seeing what happens to us in the process.
We’re like a bunch of frogs in boiling water. We think we’re bathing at the hot springs, but actually we’re getting cooked one degree at a time.
We can always complain about the people in power not being accountable, but it begs the question, what are we addicted to? Wherever we see a lack of accountability, we see where we’ve grown dependent on external authority.
But that breakdown in accountability doesn’t mean we’re doomed. It actually makes the choice in front of us quite simple.
We can always withdraw our energy. We can always stop feeding the kraken. Collectively, our stillness can move mountains. Our sacred pause holds the potential to transform reality.
Graduation or repetition?
Here’s the thing, the matrix is not a place, it’s not a situation, it’s not a system. The matrix is a mind created trap. We recreate it over and over again with our thoughts. In any ego death, in the moment of collapse, we always have a choice. We can choose whether to graduate or to go back for another round with the same pattern.
If we don’t make it to graduation, for whatever reason, we will get harsher and harsher lessons until we finally learn.
Humanity is in the midst of a massive multi-dimensional collapse. Everything we’ve known to be real is falling apart, and at the same time, the matrix has replicated itself in another form. It has shape shifted, and its new tentacles are already wrapped around us. We are chained by the eyeballs to a glowing rectangle that we’ve consented to carry everywhere with us.
This is where we get to choose graduation or repetition.
Do we break free from addiction and dependency? Do we step up into self-responsibility, or are we going to go back for another round to meet an even harsher lesson now?
Listen to the entire transmission on YouTube.
Note: everything apart from the intro and closing is audio-only, so you can put your headphones on, rest your eyes, relax and listen to this as a podcast.
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