A Brave New World
Isn't it a fantastic world we have created?
We can move faster then our bodies are capable. We have powerful machines, capable of doing so incredible much more in one second, a pair of hands could not do in a whole lifetime.
Sometimes I wonder where this might lead to - or eventually will end...
Down The Rabbit Hole
In only little things I am sure in this world - and one of them is duality. Means every action, every invention has its positive and it's negative sides - it’s potential for progress and for destruction.
If it is in production, in communication and information - this started before the invention of the Stone Age plow and will lead beyond the latest AI.
Head over heels we are throwing ourselves into the realms of our youngest invention - exploring the Artificial Intelligence - not knowing where it will lead us, what abyss is creates, what it will close - sure is, it will bring us both: the good and the bad.
It gifts us with the ability to summarize and restructure all information about everything ever created. It is surely unbeatable in what it does, but absolutely meaningless in order to answer the big questions about our existence.
Why?
Because these questions we need to answer ourselves - each of us by ourselves.
Like:
Who am I?
What do I stand for?
What are my values, my direction?
How do I relate?
How do I love?
...
The answer to those question have to be deeply felt, understood on an almost bodily level - integrated in our way of being.
The entire knowledge of the whole world is not enough to answer this - as it is not the brain, but the heart who gives the answers here...
And anyone telling us what we are, may only remind us - because no answer can be taken here as the only truth.
Tarot readers know that:
Asking the oracle without thinking our own thoughts, leads to trusting ourselves less and less - handing over authority is feeding our doubts and fears.
What then is left is dependency - an addiction, where we are not able to regulate, think and feel for our self - getting lost in the illusion that this will safe us from our insecurity, while the fear keeps on growing in the dark.
I did it as well - way to often turned away from me - abandoned myself for the saviors words, had taken the shiny, easy road - not seeing the price I had to pay by disregarding myself...
I was slowly loosing my way of weaving words, my ability to contemplate, to feel, to deeply know - the access to my intuition, wisdom and creativity.
But luckily I woke up from that headache by fasting and meditating - slowly trusting my feeling that something is wrong and finally seeing through the uniformed, soulless words and behind the colorful pictures without true inspiration - the sound without a conciseness behind - and noticed that I’m interacting with a very sophisticated parrot.
So what to do with all those illusions?
Putting the machine down from the alter and outside of the temple of our minds to where it belongs: into the toolbox.
A call on our humanity
Oh how sweet the illusion, how great the success of a presentable image, a text or a song coming out of the machine. How beautiful it sounds, how accurate the lines and colors, how strait the language
How intelligent! - What a piece of art!
All the knowledge, all the content in the world combined in one gigantic virtual vessel - mustn't that be supreme authority?
Let's give it a name, call it therapist, treat it as friend and be scared it will turns against us, if we are not friendly.
Where is the line to draw, where is the limit, the boundary of that Titanic creation?
Like every machine it needs to stop where humanity begins!
Realizing It will not hold our hand when we are sick, give us a warm hug when trauma has frozen us into ice or carries us in it's heart when we die.
Realizing it is not art, not creation what comes out of it - only imitation
Realizing it is not God we found there!
Realizing that there is no love, no care, no compassion in it - just an illusion which let us remember
Realizing that at the end of the day we might be still sitting alone in front of a screen
It isn't good or bad either - its a powerful tool - and only the way we are using it makes the difference.
The big question we all have to answer for ourselves
Are we falling for the illusion and use it against others or our selves, to convince, to outsmart, to convict, to control - to substitute real connection and nourishment with an illusion?
Then it is a weapon - as bad as any addictive substance - which only leads to misery.
No doubt that someone right now utilizes it to pour their greed, their fear and pain over others. No doubt that someone falls for the shiny promises of easy success, getting lost in the sensations - blown away by smartness.
Let's become real again!
Let's answer the big questions ourselves, come together in community, align, explore and live our values together - in real life. Within nature, under the moon, the sun, the stars - within our bodies, with spirit and heart.
Let’s remind us to be more human in all this - an integral part of nature
Let’s connect with the soil underneath our feet, with the plants and animals around us, with the human beings next to us
Let’s laugh, cry, grieve and love together
Let’s hold us in spirit, mind and body
Let’s be real - alive - aware
In peace and truth
And take back, what we have abandoned - unconsciously handed over to the machine
Reclaim our authority!