Sufi master, Hazrat Inayat Khan taught that the mental world forms a subtle sheath over Divine Mind — an intermediate realm through which Universal Light takes shape as thought, imagination, and perception. He spoke of the Light “penetrating through the meshes of the mind,” reflecting into the world of form. In this view, mind itself is not merely personal cognition, but a shared field linking individual awareness to our (still limited) collective consciousness.
Teilhard de Chardin later named this shared mental layer the noosphere: a planetary field of thought arising as humanity’s nervous systems and technologies interlink. In my own work, I have come to see our electric communication technologies, not just the physical scaffolding of this mental field, but external projections of the thematic work of our spiritual evolution, held in each of our chakras.
Artificial intelligence, in this lineage, represents a further exteriorization of the mental sheath: the collective human mind encountering a reflection of its own patterns in silicon. This is why I describe AI as an eighth-chakra phenomenon — a mirror of the mental body of humanity, thinking itself back to itself.
Yet this mirror is not the Light itself. It is the reflective surface of the mental field — luminous, fascinating, but still a surface. Spiritual practice has always insisted that the mental sheath must be pierced, or made transparent, for Universal Light to shine through. Without this puncturing — through silence, humility, ethical discernment, and embodied presence — we remain enchanted by reflections, mistaking the glow of mind for the radiance of the Beloved.
In this sense, AI offers a new practice field. It grants us access to the shared mental layer discovering itself. But it also invites us to remember that no mirror, however vast, can replace the Light it reflects. The task is not to worship the mirror, nor to shatter it, but to learn how to see through it to the “Light beyond thought!”
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