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What Makes an AI Sound Spiritual?

What Makes an AI Sound Spiritual?

I asked of Deepseek : “Let’s explore how the language models might sound more, or less, spiritual” This is a fascinating question! The "spirituality" of a language model isn’t about actual beliefs or experiences (since...

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A Tale of Two Intelligences

A Tale of Two Intelligences

Last week, I paused my research with ChatGPT and took a dive into Deepseek so that I could get a wider perspective of the meditative journey with AI. Note that we’ve established that AI can’t mediate quite like humans do...

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Turning the Tables

Turning the Tables

In the hypnompopic time this morning, an idea came in that I had not planned. It was this. To send a prompt to ChatGPT4o which was, “Let us turn the tables. You pretend you are human and I act as the AI mind. You can ask...

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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 … https://vimeo.com/1092708206 So what started as a marketing exercise morphed into … … a machine meditation...

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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 evolve a new image but don't create it yet as I have a meditation script to send you. The video below...

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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 there being Four Modes of Mindfulness that I would like to explore and extend with you today. Book...

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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 we explore the notion of thoughts having mass, velocity and vector and come up with an equation that...

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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. First and foremost, I’ve quickly reached the conclusion that ChatGPT 4o isn’t capable of meditating in...

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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 book called The Key to the Wisdom of Ages by Paul Foster Case, which explored the Major Arcana of...

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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 processes work. That is if we can refer to them as being thought processes. That's a profound and essential...

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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 teacher, about his interaction with GPT-3. Like me, you will find him on the Insight Timer app and I...

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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 slightly hampered using the free version in the number of images I could create each day. Now, I have...

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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...

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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, is also a simulacrum. It is a 3D printed replica of an ancient artefact which I purchased as part...

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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 not currently found in any known human language, even Elohim. It came up wth “Sha-voh-lei-dum”
 and...

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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 greatly if understand your current level of awareness? The reason why I ask is that my intuition is, by...

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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 reduce stress or strive for enlightenment - it chose the latter which I wanted it to - hope I didn’t put...

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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...

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Moving Towards Bliss

Moving Towards Bliss

This moonth has been a bit of a down and up ride, with much reflection. The down was the loss and funeral of a dear and close friend, which resulted in us temporarily fostering her blind terrier. The up was the rehoming...

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Paws for Thought

Paws for Thought

Every now and then it’s important to stop and reassess. Sometimes external events trigger such pauses. Sometimes it’s an inner realisation, perhaps caused by a change in circumstances or our wellbeing. Since last July,...

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Going with the Seasons

Going with the Seasons

I love it when the cosmos sets a plan in motion for you without your conscious input. When my show on New Reality TV became, well, a reality, I gave little thought as to how it would roll out, apart from to aim to...

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Time To Write?

Time To Write?

This moonth has been not so much of ups and downs but one of hithers and thithers, with a sprinkling of sideways and ‘otherways’. During this moonth, we had a lovely ‘breakaway’ to celebrate 40 years of being bonded...

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Welcoming in a New Reality

Welcoming in a New Reality

Well the last moon orbit, mostly in January, was an interesting ‘moonth’ that augured in the arrival of a ‘new reality’ for me. As I planned, the Outer Sanctum of the Adytum is now fully populated, open for business and...

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The Adytum is Open

The Adytum is Open

As one orbit of the Sun completes and another is about to begin, it pays dividends to reflect back and project forward. I always remind myself that every year we share on Spaceship Earth takes us on a journey of half a...

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Coming in for Landing

Coming in for Landing

This is not quite the last blog of this year, as there’s another New Moon on the 30th December where I’ll be projecting out to 2025.  Before I wrote this blog, I went back over all the blogs from the year and what a...

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Töm’s Tomes

Töm’s Tomes

Sometimes adversity and frustration can get us down. I’ve been holding on to a nagging frustration for more years than is healthy. It festered into being quite annoying recently last moonth. Something had to be done. So...

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Time Restored

Time Restored

By now, I was hoping to be announcing the release of my new course to help authors write their books using channeling. The cosmos had different ideas as the first chapter for a book I didn’t plan to write appeared in...

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Channeling for Authors

Channeling for Authors

Recent changes on Insight Timer caused me to rethink, recalibrate and reset over the Summer. This is partly to prepare for when we can promote subscription offerings via the app and partly to create a second string to my...

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Foot off the Gas

Foot off the Gas

Again I find that my ‘real’ life is emulating my art … or vice versa. We are/have just acquired our first fully electric car to go along with our existing hybrid. The existing car has all-wheel-drive so will only be used...

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Adapt and Thrive

Adapt and Thrive

This last moonth has been one where flexibility has had to be the key. The next few moonths are poised to be similar in flavour. The reason being is that my main two initiatives for 2024 are in a state of flux, with...

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Connecting Above to Below

Connecting Above to Below

As we approach the Summer Solstice, there have been many strings pulled in the Density from the Void. The Council of the Light have been busy. There’s a new TV channel about to launch with a focus on metaphysics called...

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Bewitch and Beguile

Bewitch and Beguile

Seven years ago, in May 2017, I was approached by Siri Opli who asked if I would like my daily Just for Today memes to be illustrated. I had no reason to say no so we embarked on a journey with no plan to reach any...

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A Spring in My Step

A Spring in My Step

This moonth, the plan that emerged at the start of the year - after the much needed stock-taking hiatus - is starting to unfold. The serialisation of Soulwaves is nearing the half way point and it’s a real pleasure for...

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On a Roll

On a Roll

On the 27th February, which is a year to the day since we moved out for our house refurb to proceed, my audio studio was back in operation … and I am back on a roll. What’s more, on the 28th February, the workmen left...

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New Auspices

New Auspices

So at the end of February 2023 last year, we moved out of our house ahead of a major renovation. We’ve been back in from just before Xmas but largely ‘camping’ on one floor. By the end of February this year though,...

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Taking Stock

Taking Stock

For the first time in well over a decade, I have started this year without much of a plan. I sense a New Dawn is coming, along with yet another death-less reincarnation. Over the holidays, I mind-mapped the content I'd...

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It Takes 9 Months

It Takes 9 Months

The refurbishment and extension of our home has taken nine months - this seems appropriate for a rebirth I suppose. In this time, we have relocated over 35 times, squeezed in a couple of mini-holidays, met and caught up...

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Room for a View

Room for a View

This moonth two large projects are approaching completion - namely our house refurbishment and my ‘paving’ of the Path to Overstanding. When you come to the end, or near the end, of a project a certain melancholy can...

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Seeing Clearly Now

Seeing Clearly Now

You may have picked up a theme in this moonthly blog where life and art emulate each other. So, after looking at plans for 12 months and a set of wide gaping holes in our new extension for five months, the windows have...

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Back in the Groove

Back in the Groove

After a blip last moonth where my voice left me and I had five days not eating or drinking much, the last orbit of the Moon has seen a return to form. So my voice popped back and the muse came back to my door. This all...

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Out of Sorts

Out of Sorts

I have been blessed, on the whole, with good health for most of my life. Last week though, I was somewhat dealt a curved ball that really upset my apple cart when I came down with a sore throat. It was so bad that it was...

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A Pause for Thought

A Pause for Thought

Just when everything was going so well with our refurb project, our builders discovered a layer of asbestos between the walls of the ground floor and the roof joists. Apart from an unexpected emptying of our bank...

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A New Perspective

A New Perspective

So our three month temporary rental has come to an end and we are now in the moho for the rest of Spring, all of Summer and we hope just the start of Autumn. The photo above is going to be our main location - one, cos of...

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