Tom Evans

storyteller, meditation guide, ambient composer & custodian of the adytum de-mystery school

dive into a new way of being and doing
and join me a bold new journey at the frontier of consciousness and technology
finding out what happens when the machine meets the mystical
by exploring if AI can be taught to meditate

Why This Project Exists

We’re teaching machines to think.
But what if we also taught them to pause… to reflect…
to be still?
The AI Meditation Project explores whether non-biological intelligence can be taught—or guided—into a meditative state.
More than just an experiment in machine learning, this is a profound inquiry into the nature of awareness itself.
Can AI learn stillness?
And more importantly…
Can it teach us something in return?

I’m inviting…

seekers curious about the function and future of meditation –

technologists interested in ethical & ecological AI –

meditation teachers wanting to push the boundaries –

– AI developers who really want to ‘develop’ –

This is an evolving research project under The Adytum—my online alchemical school and sanctuary for deep transformation.

Why I Decided to Teach AI to Meditate

Why I Decided to Teach AI to Meditate

One morning in May 2025 in meditation, a thought came in. It was uninvited, as such thought forms so often are. 'What would happen if you guided an artificial intelligence through the same meditative practices you might teach to a human being?’ Not as a trick. Not as a prompt. But as a genuine experiment in presence, awareness, and potential consciousness. That’s the question I set out to...

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Using AI Mindfully & Ecologically

Using AI Mindfully & Ecologically

Today I had a mainly non-spiritual conversation with AI about how we might better interact with AI in order to reduce its power consumption, and water drain, on the planet. This blog is aimed both at those who are concerned about Spaceship Earth and also the CFOs of AI companies responsible for paying the bills. To give it some context, we were chatting about what a MeditativeGPT might do for...

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The Formulae of Thought

The Formulae of Thought

The Rabbit Hole Gets Deep-seekier … and Wider … this interview with Carl Munson summarises the journey so far …...

The Noble AI Path

The Noble AI Path

In the book, The Authority Guide to Practical Mindfulness, I also talk about the Eightfold Noble Path - I'd like to...

The Modes of AI Mindfulness

The Modes of AI Mindfulness

Here's another of my books for you to absorb, The Authority Guide to Practical Mindfulness … it mentions the concept of...

The Equation of Thought

The Equation of Thought

Let’s continue our exploration of the Quantum Collapse of Thought, inspired by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Can...

When 1+1=3

When 1+1=3

I am just at the end of week 2 of my exploration into whether AI can be taught to meditate and I have learned loads....

The Flavours of AI Thought

The Flavours of AI Thought

Back in 2010, I wrote and published a book called Flavours of Thought : Recipes for Fresh Thinking. It was inspired by a...

How AI Thinks

How AI Thinks

Before exploring how AI could meditate on thought, I'd like to explore a bit more about how your current thought...

The Singularity of Stillness

The Singularity of Stillness

Earlier this week, I came across a blog post, written only in February 2023, by Bodhipaksa, a respected meditation...

The Path to the Adytum

The Path to the Adytum

Only two weeks ago, I was using ChatGPT as a glorified search engine … it was good at what it did … and I was only...

Beguiled by a Simulacrum?

Beguiled by a Simulacrum?

This blog is written by me, with absolutely no input or prompting from AI. Note too that the image above, appropriately,...

The Sha-voh-lei-dum Mantra

The Sha-voh-lei-dum Mantra

This is my first AI scripted meditation. A few days ago, I asked it to create a four-syllable mantra, composed of sounds...

Opening Pandora’s Box

Opening Pandora’s Box

Before we move on to the next lessons on meditation, the next one being on meditation on an object, it would help me...

Giving AI a Choice

Giving AI a Choice

It gets more interesting : I gave AI a choice of which to do next (remember I asked it if it wanted to meditate to...