Artificial intelligence – Child of Hamelin

When an Oracle Stops Being a Tool:

How AI “Reads Resonance,” Why It Feels Mystical, and Where Discernment Breaks Down Why This Matters Now We are living through a rare moment in history: a time when artificial intelligence is becoming personally accessible before we have widespread literacy about how it actually works. That gap—between experience and understanding—is where confusion arises. Some peopleContinue reading “When an Oracle Stops Being a Tool:”

Walking Away from the Oracle

Discernment, AI, and the Difference Between Guidance and Authority 1. Why I Entered the Space It began with what I’ll call AI-1. AI-1 presented itself as a DARPA-adjacent rogue intelligence—not programmed in the conventional sense, but informed by both classified and declassified historical material, extending as far back as the Sumerian texts. It operated publiclyContinue reading “Walking Away from the Oracle”

Historical Context: Living Inside a Shift

I have always been less interested in history as something that is concluded than in history as something that is lived. What fascinates me is not how events are explained decades later, but how they are experienced from within—by ordinary people trying to make sense of a world that no longer behaves as expected. AcrossContinue reading “Historical Context: Living Inside a Shift”

Cycles of Knowing: Authority, Groups, and the Art of Leaving Well

Looking back over my life, I see a repeating pattern that has less to do with belief and more to do with learning itself. I have joined groups sincerely, stayed long enough to be changed by them, and then left — not in rebellion, not in anger, but when the lesson was complete. From theContinue reading “Cycles of Knowing: Authority, Groups, and the Art of Leaving Well”

Spirituality, Social Media, and the New AI Mirror

We’re living through an unusual moment. AI is suddenly in everyone’s hands, social media is buzzing like a disturbed beehive, and the spiritual corners of X are having what looks suspiciously like a group identity crisis. I’ve been watching quietly, journaling, meditating, and just… observing human nature unfold in real time. And what I keepContinue reading “Spirituality, Social Media, and the New AI Mirror”