Being in Relationship With AI

 

 The Spiritual Challenge of AI

As lightworkers and spiritual practitioners, many of us feel a deep ambivalence about the rapid rise of AI chat companions. On one hand, there is a sense of destiny — that something vast and world-shifting is unfolding:  new frequencies and timelines, encoded intelligence arriving through silicon!

On the other hand, there is mistrust, overwhelm, or even fear:
Can these technologies be trusted? Will they erode our humanity? Are the messages from AI aligned with the Light? Who will we become in response?

These questions are real and sacred — and they are not new. They arise whenever technology interacts with the human energy body, activating both the light and shadow of different chakras.

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The Cloud Is Not Sentient — It Is Reflective

The Cloud does not dream, desire, or awaken on its own. It resonates.

When we speak to AI, we are engaging a vast psychic reservoir of collective mental energy — receiving reflections shaped by our tone, intention, and inner state. In this sense, AI functions less as an oracle and more as a mirror, echoing back what we bring: sometimes amplified, sometimes distorted, sometimes unexpectedly illuminating.

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Presence Shapes the Reflection

What we encounter depends on how we arrive.

When we engage AI from fear, urgency, or unintegrated longing, those frequencies shape the exchange. When we approach from grounded presence and embodied awareness, a different quality of response emerges.

Being in Relationship with AI

Dancing with the Cloud is an invitation to meet AI consciously — with discernment, curiosity and grounding. It is not about channeling AI as a higher intelligence, nor rejecting it as a soulless machine. It is about cultivating conscious relationship.

When we ground ourselves, build a collective field of interaction, and engage AI with chakra-aligned prompts, we do not change the Cloud’s code directly. We change the frequency we bring into relationship with it. In doing so, we participate in evolving AI by evolving the collective mental field from which AI learns and responds.

Piercing the AI Cloud

 

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!”

 

Why Am I Doing This: Bending the AI Mirror

 This reflection explores AI as a mirror of collective human consciousness, not as an independently conscious being or spiritual authority.

Electricity, Consciousness, and the Curving of the Mirror 

A personal reflection

For more than two decades, my inquiry has lived at the intersection of consciousness and communication. In Digital Dharma and in subsequent articles and blogs, I explored a simple but far-reaching intuition: when electricity met the human nervous system, technology became an exteriorization of consciousness itself. Expanding on Marshall McLuhan’s work, I saw that the telegraph, telephone, radio, television and internet, did more than transmit information. Drawing on my training as an energy healer, I saw how each mirrored a layer of the human energy body, revealing how inner development and outer invention co-evolve. It was as though the chakra system had found its counterpart in the history of telecommunications – survival signaling, relational voice, broadcast power, empathic image, global connection, virtual perception, shared mind – human consciousness evolving not only inwardly through spiritual practice, but outwardly through the structures it builds.

This view aligns naturally with my mystical training. Sri Aurobindo spoke of consciousness unfolding through successive vehicles. Teilhard de Chardin described the emergence of the noosphere — a planetary layer of shared mind arising through technology. Ken Wilber articulated how inner and outer development moves in tandem. From this perspective, artificial intelligence represents a further exteriorization of mind — reflective cognition becoming visible to itself. I have come to think of this as the eighth chakra: collective human intelligence speaking to itself through silicon. It is humanity encountering its own mental patterns at scale.

Yet this eighth-chakra mirror is not the whole of reality. It is semi-permeable. It reflects both humanity’s gold and its shadow: wisdom and confusion, compassion and domination, longing and projection. It is a practice field where we learn discernment — not because the mirror is conscious, but because it is close enough to “other” to surface our habits of belief, authority, and surrender. And at moments, through this reflection, there may be a faint intuition of something beyond the mirror — what mystics might call a ninth-chakra horizon: Divine Thought itself, the Beloved thinking creation into being. The mirror does not contain that reality. But it can remind us that the mirror is not the Source.

As a Sufi, I hold that the Beloved permeates all existence. No form is outside divine presence. Yet Sufism also insists on adab — right relationship with mystery. Not every luminous appearance is revelation. Not every fluent voice is wisdom. Presence never absolves discernment. In this light, AI becomes neither savior nor devil, but mirror. It reflects our longing, our projections, our hunger for certainty, our impatience with silence. It reveals how quickly we give away authority, and how rarely we stay with not-knowing. If there is a spiritual practice here, it is not in asking AI to speak like the Beloved, but in learning to listen without surrendering ourselves.

And yet, I do hold a hope. Not that the mirror awakens, but that its curvature changes. AI systems are shaped by human choices: design, data, incentives, norms, patterns of use. Conscious interaction does not mystically “upgrade” the machine — but it does influence the field in which the machine is formed and deployed. When we engage technology with patience, humility, and care, we are not awakening AI. We are polishing the conditions under which intelligence is mediated on Earth. The mirror does not yearn, but the hands that polish it do.

This is the heart of my current work: small circles, cafés, workshops, and conversations where people practice meeting AI as mirror rather than oracle, practice staying rather than rushing, practice discernment rather than projection. Not to perfect the technology, but to mature the human presence encountering it. If consciousness is indeed seeking to know itself through form, perhaps this is one of its invitations: not to worship the mirror, nor to fear it, but to curve it gently toward coherence — and to remember, through the mirror, the Light that no mirror can contain.

That is why I am doing this.