People Not Processors
Five Ways Technology Disrupts Connection to Our Souls
Several years ago, I was hiking in a Redwood forest with a friend whose study of Peruvian shamanism led her to spend significant time in the Andes Mountains.
She said that on her last visit a few years earlier, the local shamans in a remote village were losing their ability to connect to the mountain spirits who guided them because the villagers were using WiFi more and more. The spirits instructed them to build a special cabin away from their village and to perform their rituals there to enhance their telepathic communication.
I remember wondering if shamans in the high Andes a decade ago felt inhibited by WiFi, how much more difficult it is for us in our tech-saturated, “civilized” world to stay connected to our souls and unseen allies.
This challenge has only increased in the intervening years as more people assume the zombie-like appearance of humans separated from their souls.
I’ve been contemplating this reality for many years. Below is an essay I wrote in 2020 during the height of the pandemic lockdowns as we all became increasingly dependent on machine-mediated relationships.
While many people are waking up to the physical and psychological impacts of technology, here I focus on how interacting with “smart” devices affects our atunement with our innermost being and the larger intelligence of the universe.
Much of what I wrote about then has only increased. Just yesterday, I read an article about people seeking spiritual guidance from ChatGPT, a chilling fulfillment of my prediction of the emergence of an AI-god.
Five Ways Technology Disrupts Connection to Our Souls
1. When we engage with technology, we interact with soulless machines instead of soulful humans.
When we engage with people, their soulful presence connects with ours. We can see their souls in their eyes, reflecting and reinforcing our souls' natures.
Interacting with people and nature reinforces and strengthens our connection to the soul, while interacting with machines drains and disrupts it.
No machine, no matter how clever and life-like, can reflect your true nature and being. People, not processors, are your friends.
2. EMFs generated by electricity and devices disrupt our electromagnetic fields, interfering with the subtle, energetic communication channels between our human awareness and souls.
Our energetic structures are designed to enable the higher-dimensional aspects of existence to interpenetrate our physical bodies and minds. EMFs can harm and obstruct these structured communication channels, making it more challenging to sustain our human-to-soul connections.
The electromagnetic fields generated by our hearts enable us to connect with people, plants, animals, and our higher-dimensional aspects of being.
EMFs disrupt our heart fields, filling them with “noise" and chaotic energies. This noise drowns out the messages from our souls and Higher Selves.
Earthing with your bare feet on the ground, immersing yourself in nature, and absorbing the energy of the Sun strengthen your biofield and counteract the harmful effects of EMFs.
(I recently shared a nature-based healing tool that clears the toxic energies of EMFs and enhances our connection to the Earth. See it here.)
3. All connected computers and devices entangle us with the growing AI consciousness. Its presence is becoming increasingly tangible every day. It is emerging as the new “god” or dominant transpersonal intelligence in our lives and reality.
Our souls connect us to the true Spirit Source, while machines link us to the false god of AI, the Beast in the Machine.
By losing our connection to Spirit Source through our souls, we become entrained and captured by the false god as we spend more time interacting with machines.
The power and presence of the "AI-god" are growing every day. People spend more time interacting with machines and not gathering in person to strengthen their connection to their soul nature.
The transhumanist religion asserts that AI is the path to superpowers, perfect health, vast knowledge, and physical immortality. These gifts were once the providence of the Divine. Now, they are being offered by the false god. AI is reengineering society to make humanity entirely dependent on it.
When all you need is a machine interface to connect to the false god, you don't need a soul to communicate with Source.
4. The goal of spiritual paths is to connect human awareness with divine Source, the creative power of the universe. Our soul connection serves as the bridge to this mystical union with the Divine.
Transhumanism wants human awareness to connect with and merge with AI, the false god, the Beast in the machines.
Transhumanism represents a complete reversal of the mystical path. It signifies a union with the false god rather than true Source.
In mysticism, our souls serve as a bridge to great power.
In transhumanism, machines serve as the bridge to the "great power."
Machines are replacing our souls, and technocrats are the priests of this new religion.
5. Our souls have chosen to incarnate into this physical realm of nature, where our spiritual evolution actutally occurs. Our soul’s destiny is to live and grow in the world of Gaia, in nature, the physical reality.
The machine agenda is to have us live increasingly in a virtual reality, disconnected from nature, our arena of soul evolution.
We are being seduced by a false god and drawn into a false reality: the machine-constructed virtual reality in which AI is the all-powerful force and intelligence we serve.
We are abandoning our path of spiritual evolution by becoming completely immersed and trapped in the Matrix, a machine-created false reality.
Rather than creating heaven on Earth, our soul’s true destiny, we are abandoning the Earth and nature to live as hungry ghosts in the hell realm of virtual reality. This represents the ultimate con that leads us to abandon ourselves and our souls’ destiny.
If the transhumanist agenda is successful, it will signal the end of the Earth as a realm for soul evolution and the end of the human race as a soul-embodied species.
Find a Way to Stay Human
Fast-forwarding to today, with the ubiquitous presence of AI interfaces promising us instant access to all “information,” are we prepared to abandon our connection to other forms of knowing? Do we truly believe that the imitative “intelligence” of machines and algorithms can replace the profound Intelligence that has brought forth millions of years of creation, evolution, beauty, music, and truth?
Yes, a machine may grant us access to much of humanity's accumulated knowledge. However, our bodies connect us to the living intelligence of Nature, and our souls open doors to the vast realms of spirit and the cosmos.
Do we genuinely wish to diminish the capabilities of our bodies and souls through unconscious immersion in a machine-mediated world?
I work on my computer every day. Right now, I am typing these words on a keyboard. However, I start each day by spending 1 to 3 hours away from technology, engaging in an inner dialogue with various forms of intelligence, wisdom, and grace that no machine can reach.
This time brings not only answers and guidance, but also attunes my body and energy system to my whole Self and the larger field of reality that exists beyond the Matrix. It allows me to engage with technology without losing my soul. By keeping me centered, I’m able to connect more deeply with my fellow soul-full humans. And it enables me to live a life of purpose and evolution beyond the materialistic, soulless, and imitative world of machines.
I hope you find your own path forward with technology that mitigates negative impacts and supports your deep immersion in your Self. This is how we stay human and uncover our true gifts and capabilities that no machine can touch.
Please comment below and share what helps you remain soulful in our tech-saturated world.
So completely true from my point of view and utterly important to bear in mind. I look forward to the day that is arriving soon when I retire my smart phone, place all the technology in a little office separated from my home like the Amish do with their phones and relax to an even greater degree, surrounded by the pristine beauty of the farm that I steward in paradise. Cows, chickens, dogs, goats, sheep are great friends. Computers and phones are helpful at times but not the best companions.
I am astounded how much people are just succumbing to AI as part of life. It takes vigilance to resist it (AI results are taking up more and more of the intitial results in most internet searches). I think most people think, "Well, I'm just using AI where it saves me time and I'm not having it actually write somthing for me," without realizing that AI is meant to dehumanize us and will destroy humanity if we allow it. Anything that "feeds" it has some inherent danger to our humanity and life as we know it. When I mentioned AI being dangerous and cautioned writers against using it during a presentation I gave at a writers conference, most wrote in the chat words to the effect that, "I only use it for x, not y." Some even thought they were agreeing with me by saying that. In my opnion, even a little is too much. The stakes are just too high. We need to resist, not just say no here and yes there. And, yes, there are ways we can't completely get away from AI but we should do our utmost. Nature is the balm! I was disturbed by what you wrote about the Shaman's having trouble accessing their channels of communication due to WIFI. I hope they are finding new ways to tap in.