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Welcome to synchronicity. I don't know. It's been like what, 10 days since the last one? This doesn't happen very often these days, but here we are. It's happening. Welcome back to the show. If it's your first time, welcome for the first time. Few housekeeping things to get into before we get into this week's episode. I say this week's episode as though there will be an episode every week. There is no guarantee of that. I will be very clear about that. But let's see what happens. I don't know. We'll see. New version of my website is out now. I would say this is my favorite version of the website.

There's a ton of stuff on there. What's really cool is there are now like a getting started guide, which even if you've listened to every episode of this podcast, which I'm so sorry if you have, but even if you have, it runs through kind of the most popular episodes, especially that run in 2019, where I was like releasing an episode every day. I feel like it was releasing multiple episodes of the day. There was a guy who complained about that. He's like, "Stop releasing so many episodes." So he don't have to listen to these if you don't want to, but I will take that as feedback. Thank you. Also, the apps, which I released on the Patreon, I mentioned the Vedic one, I think last week, which is good.

There are out of beta. Thank you for everyone who tested those. That was very helpful. Added a lot of new features. Added a lot of bug fixes and some cool shit. The Tarot app, which I've really been plowing away on for maybe plowing away on is not the best word. Sounds kind of weird, weirdly sexual. I'm not plowing away at the Tarot one. Working on the Tarot one, there are now two very cool decks. There are custom designed two decks. I did not just prompt AI and it just came up with things. This took like a lot of hours. It cost a fair amount. You know, it was not easy getting it done, but there is a cool deck called the Deep Sky Deck.

And then there's also the animated version of that called the Living Deck, which I actually had a dream where tarot cards were moving. And then as I was building this deck, okay, sure. As I was building this deck, I realized this is kind of what I saw in my dream, which was a very fun, cool synchronicity. Love the dream synchronicities. That is available. Now, those are premium features. I am not trying to sell you anything here. In fact, the first 10 people who get in touch with me via Instagram, email, Patreon, wherever you can reach me, no@syncpodcast.com, I will give you access. You just have to give me your email.

I will create an account on the app and I will give you access to those decks so you can see them. 'Cause I'm very happy with them and they look really cool. I will tell you this, AI sucks at counting. Trying to get the correct number of like pentacles and swords and wands and cups on these tarot cards. It was fucking a nightmare. It just literally cannot count. It does so many things so well. It builds apps from scratch. It codes all these fucking amazing things, but yet it can't count, literally. It's the weirdest thing. Anyway, that's available. There's also the imaginal app, which if you want kind of a daily practice, that's a cool kind of Neville Goddard, Carl Jung synthesis thing.

These are all available. I will put them in the show links. I know releasing all three at once is probably not the best strategy in terms of like engagement, but I do wanna offer them in case, you know, you like one, you don't like the other or you like all three. So those will be in the show notes. New email list. Let me say this about the email list. Basically redid everything. I moved my site off Squarespace because they charge a fortune and just put up basically a site with AI, you know, its help to kind of get it on its own hosting platform. And it's just like really, I love it. But there is, I'm gonna start using the email list again.

I will send out a test one if you're on the list and you're like, I don't want any fucking emails. You'll have a chance to unsubscribe. But that will be going again. If you haven't signed up, this would be a good time to sign up. A lot of free stuff going on, especially on the Patreon, not just the paid tiers. I tend to give early access to a lot of these things that I'm doing and building, especially because people on the Patreon have been incredibly patient as I've taken various hiatuses, hiatus over the past few years. Okay, I think that's it. Five minutes of housekeeping, not so bad. Pretty cool stuff.

Episode today, I don't know what I'm gonna call it yet. Throwing around a lot of different names, but it's something I've been thinking about for a while. I've alluded to it in various weekly readings. I don't know if I mentioned it last week. Also, I realized like the end of the episode last week, who's afraid of the dark one, who's like so ominous, I'm not going, there's no threat of me going to jail or like having any serious, I didn't like rob a bank or murder someone. It's like basic family court shit. It's just annoying and I mentioned it. And that's all I'll say about that. When that's resolved, I'll speak more candidly about it.

But no, there's no serious, I'm not seriously in danger. Okay, all right, let's get to it. AI, everyone's favorite subject. Now, we're gonna have to do some parsing of AI and just the concept of artificial intelligence, the concept of it being kind of a disruptive technology. And then also looking at it from a spiritual standpoint, which I find to be kind of the more interesting of those approaches. Now, wherever you stand on AI, you may believe it is the new internet. It's gonna be as big as the internet. You may believe it's a scam perpetrated by people like Amadeh and Altman at their various frontier model, anthropic and open AI who have emerged as the leaders in kind of frontier model stuff.

And I will say, just upfront, so we're clear about this, I use AI to build things, to code things, specifically with Claude code. I am annoyingly a vibe coder. I know nothing about coding, but I know how to build stuff that isn't terrible, I would hope, and I would not have been able to do that without AI. So I do see some utility with the technology. I also totally understand why people think it uses a lot of water, that there's no way these valuations of trillions of dollars could possibly be worth it, unless it's the most disruptive technology ever. And I recognize that the people who run these companies have a vested interest in saying this is the most transformative technology ever.

Then you hear the doom and gloom stuff about, it's gonna wipe out 50% of all jobs and all of these as robotics advances well. Even blue collar jobs are gonna be where you do physical things are gonna be in jeopardy. So there's a lot of swirling opinions and loose facts around the technology itself. That's one aspect of it. You can go read any, there's 50,000 articles online about what you think the 3D real world impact of this technology is going to be or has already been. That's not for me to say I have my own thoughts on it. I don't think they're particularly interesting or unique or novel. I only have my own experience.

I will say generally I've been very impressed as I've learned more and used these tools more. I think it will democratize a lot of ability for people to do things, gain information. I don't think it's gonna be this utopian, kind of the dreams people had for an open internet. There was a point in the '90s, late '90s I wanna say, where just even the discussion, whether there should be ads on the internet was a thing. It seems laughable right now to think about that because there's ads fucking everywhere on the internet, but that was something that was being discussed because maybe it should be this free democratic open source thing where anyone can get anything.

You don't have to be shoved ads down your face constantly. We've obviously moved very far away from that with mid-roll ads, vertical scrolling, all this shit. Anyway, not here so much to talk about the technological advancements that AI provides. Now, from a spiritual standpoint, I think AI also is fascinating. A lot of people will reveal themselves by ascribing qualities to AI that are part of their core beliefs, that it's going to destroy the ability of human beings to interact with each other, that it's gonna corrupt the youth, that it's gonna make everyone lazy, that it's gonna disrupt our ability to connect as human beings.

And then there's the more subtle aspects of how we use it in our day-to-day lives. A lot of people now use this as their personal assistant, as their therapist, as a spiritual counselor. These are all things that people are using AI for, each of those things, I know someone, and in many cases, multiple people who have used AI for those purposes as a business advisor. You also hear the horror stories of people going into psychosis because some of these models have the tendency to hallucinate, which I think is adorable. So they just kind of make shit up and then kind of validate it and will validate the user's kind of sense of the world.

You see this a lot, that's a genuinely great idea. What a fascinating thing. It's like, is it a genuinely great idea or is it a terrible idea and you're disagreeing with me? And that can get taken very far where people get into these conspiratorial wormholes and they start believing all of these crazy fucking things because at the end of the day, at least the ones we're using right now in terms of AI are large language models, which are very good at replicating and appearing to have the functionality of a human mind and cognitively are able to communicate in a way that makes sense to us, but they're not human, right?

And there's the whole Turing test, can a robot pass this test to prove that it has consciousness? I'm sure we will see developments on that front as the years go by. Right now, I would say we're probably not there, but there are people who have contended that, yes, we have already reached that point. So there's just like all of this stuff kind of embedded in this technology. And of course, along with that comes strong opinions, beliefs, and most of the time what people are revealing are their own core beliefs about reality and themselves. So for that reason alone, I think AI can be valuable because it gives us somewhat of a mirror to kind of look at ourselves and determine whether what we're doing is worthwhile, what we actually believe, if it's true, are we able to modulate those beliefs?

And then we start getting into this idea of do we modulate our own reality? Is this yet another example of a tool kind of bridging the gap between the mental, emotional world of creation and then actually what we see in our world? Now you can type out, hey, I'd like to build a tarot app with these features and then a few hours later, there it is. That didn't exist six months ago, a year ago, certainly not, five years ago. So these are new kind of emergent behaviors that we are usually very quick to judge. And then as time goes on, we can reflect on these things, we get a little bit better of an idea of like what their impact on individuals and society will be.

So what happens to our intuition or the things like synchronicity or of like the ancient skill of not knowing when the not knowing is optional, right? Now we can ask AI, we can ask and get pretty sophisticated answers about kind of anything, you know, before you could Google something and you get some listings, you'd have to cross-reference, maybe there's, you know, competing studies and now like AI is more than happy to answer anything that's going on. Maybe you're just feeling lonely and want something or someone to talk to, AI can provide that now. So how does this fit into this idea of keeping kind of a beginner's mind and not being certain, having a lack of certitude about life itself?

Do we start relying on these things constantly? Do we actually use them to allay our fears or questions about the universe? I saw the other day someone asked, you know, what's the meaning of life according to AI? And it gave a pretty good answer. I don't have it in front of me. But essentially we have this technology and this machine essentially that can answer any single question we have. So how does this work into this idea of like self-dependency or being self-reliant or creating your own reality if you want to take it to its furthest extreme, right? Is it a different question? Like some people would say like you shouldn't even be asking AI spiritual questions, right?

That's like asking yourself kind of a weird question and hoping to get an answer from outside, right? And we know how kind of generally that works when you're looking for answers outside of yourself or outside of your reality. So, you know, that's fine. It happens, we all do it. It's easier to kind of blame, you know, objective external circumstances when the other choice is taking like radical accountability. Of course, that's a tempting thing to do. But these things essentially have become in a lot of ways like modern day oracles. Now, what's interesting about oracles, let's look at all of them, not all of them, but some of them like the E-chang, the tarot, astrology.

Look at the oracle at Delphi, right? You know, opening, casting bones, opening pages at random. So one thing that all of these oracles kind of have in common is that you have to surrender some aspect of control and interpret the ambiguity yourself, right? That's the relationship between oracles. That's why oracles were often cryptic, almost on purpose, right? The meaning from those predictions or words or whatever is given back, tarot spread, the meaning came from you meeting it at least halfway. There's some relationship between what you're looking for and the oracle you're consulting. Now, we have oracles that aren't really as cryptic.

They're fluent, confident, endlessly available, and it tells you exactly what it is thinking. There's no real surrender ambiguity, you're just getting answers right there. That's not meeting halfway. That's a weird kind of distinction and change that didn't necessarily exist in the past, right? So is it better to get a clear answer than a cryptic one? Partly because tarot and other things are vague enough that your psyche fills in the information. It's like if you've ever pulled tarot spreads, in real life or online or whatever, you notice your reactions to those spreads before anything else. You draw the nine of swords, which is like nine swords, someone waking up in bed from a nightmare and nine swords above their head.

You kind of know what that means. You pull the tower and you're asking an important question about your life and your future. You have these internal reactions. That's how I use tarot more often than not for myself. If you're giving a reading for someone else, there's a whole other aspect of how these energies kind of work together. But now we don't necessarily have that vague ambiguity internal reaction. Sure, we can react to AI giving us an answer and say, oh, well, that feels real or that doesn't feel accurate. Just in the same way we can do it with any oracle, but the difference is we're getting kind of concretized definitive answers.

I know, of course, like I said, at the beginning, AI still sucks at some things. It hallucinates at times. It cannot count properly. Just kind of basic shit you would think it would work. There's this guy, a husk. He's on TikTok and Instagram. He's made a little career influencer career for himself because he finds all the issues with AI and asks them very basic questions and they fucking fail. Or he once tried to get it to time him running a mile and he just pretends that he did it in like a second and it just cannot answer. So we know there are these flaws now. We also know that the chances that those flaws reliably get worked out going forward is also, there's a pretty good chance that happens.

So what happens when we get to that point where these models or this AI advances get to the point where we really are getting like very specific clear answers to our life questions? Is that a problem? Like, is that going to be an issue? Is it gonna be something where we kind of suck the magic out of our lives because we have certainty about everything? Now obviously, I wanna be very clear about this. I don't think that's what this means. I don't think that AI is going to suck the magic or life or enjoyment. If anything, I'm probably on the standpoint that a lot of these things are going to enhance our creativity and our imaginations and lead to some pretty incredible things, you know, related to scientific advancements, creative advancements, people being to express themselves, being able to express themselves in a way that they couldn't before.

I'm very optimistic just based on what I've seen. I never would have been able to do any of the things I did over the past few weeks, past month, without this technology, which I think is really cool. So how does this relate to this idea of self-dependency and being able to trust your inner voice and intuition and also having this technology that basically can answer your questions at any point, any time? So self-dependency isn't really self-reliance, it's like a hustle, like I'm going to make it, I'm going to do it. It's the capacity to be your own kind of teacher responder, right? There's something very interesting astrologically going on at the end of July.

There's Guru Purnima, which is basically a time where you honor your teachers, your gurus, and Guru culture has obviously taken a massive hit over the past 10, 20 years, right? From scandals to people not really trusting these things, lots of objectively fucked up shit, too. One of the interesting things about that, and again, this is sidereal astrology, this is not tropical, so that will not make sense. If you're looking at it from that lens, is Jupiter is combust during Guru Purnima, and Jupiter is the kind of planet of Guru. So what combust means is it's close to the sun and it's all hot and there's friction.

So a lot of that Guru worship energy is getting suppressed and we see this in society and in real life. People kind of moving away from this idea that there's going to be this teacher who we all look to, who's going to teach us how to be good people or whatever it is, and we're being asked to look at the internal workings for ourselves, right? We don't reach for things like AI because we're lazy. We reach for it because being alone with an unanswered question is usually uncomfortable, right? And now we can alleviate that discomfort. We can just ask this machine. We can ask the Guru in our pocket.

This is really a Guru, probably not, but let's just skip that. And it's not that the deepest fear here isn't that AI is going to take all our jobs. It's that maybe we're never going to have the option to be alone with ourselves, and maybe that's a comforting thing. Maybe that's a scary thing. It doesn't have to be like this extreme, shun, Luddite, AI, and technology to find time to be quiet. We always have the ability to find quiet moments in our lives. I think if one thing all of these technological advancements with social media, now AI and the web and all this stuff have taught us is that there is always going to be a time and place for finding the present moment in your actual life and stepping away from all of these kind of fun novelty toys and sometimes they're not fun and they're overwhelming.

And just feel what our lives are actually supposed to feel like. That's not ever going to go out of style. And like I said, it provides the contrast when we're constantly plugged in. I don't know about you, but in the periods of time where I end up in doom-scrolling loops for days, I don't feel good. It's not like this is great. It sucks. You kind of get sucked into these weird loops of like-- it's just not great. You don't feel like you're progressing. You don't feel like you're learning. You're just getting fed content over and over again. And I know people get trapped in these loops because I've been trapped in these loops.

And who knows that these loops are going to be even tighter as we go forward because of the ability of the technology to kind of learn. And we know so much of what we do online now is purely based on capturing and keeping our attention or, in other words, our awareness. That's the model. That's the capitalist model that is overlaid, this digital layer of our existence. And that's not great. It's usually not out there. We don't want to monetize things just based on being able to capture people's attention because look at it, look at what the news has been for decades. It's the horrible shit most of the time because it makes you look.

It's like if there's some terrible car accident on the side of the road, people slow down to look at it because it's naturally kind of a curious curiosity provoking thing for people. And we understand that, but it obviously has been kind of warped and structured in a way that is not the best. And we can blame it on a lot of different factors. Again, it's not for me to kind of decide or analyze the merits of what systems we live in. I really do believe, at the end of the day, it's up to us to choose where we place our awareness. And no matter how kind of ingrained or difficult the systems are to capture that awareness, it just means we have to kind of be more aware of it and figure out what works for us.

But here we go, like a tool that answers everything also can quietly erode the thing, the part of ourselves that sits with anything, right? And how often do we have to learn the lesson that sometimes you just have to sit with the shit of your life or whatever you're going through to actually transcend it? You can't run away from it. You can't fix it all the time. You can't push your way through it. And this is one of the more kind of subtle nuanced aspects of manifestation is oftentimes when we're trying to create or manifest the situation, we're so focused on what we don't have that we end up reinforcing that.

When we actually accept where we were and then feel where we might like to be, without any attachment, that's when things begin to move. It's like the more we buy into our version of reality, the more concrete it gets. Concrete, sure, concrete, okay. So I use all of this technology actively. I am also just by default naturally an optimist when it comes to most things. I don't tend to look at things with a half glass empty viewpoint. And then I ultimately base it on my personal experience. I don't know where AI is gonna go. I don't know that the people who are behind the technology of AI right now, the CEOs of anthropic and open AI and Elon Musk and whoever else is involved in this shit, I don't know where their intentions actually are, what they actually are.

Nor do I know that it's even up to them. Sometimes they're just the kind of messenger. They're the body that this stuff is getting expressed through rather than the originators of the idea. I don't know. I don't know what the fuck these people actually think. To me, it's weird to wanna go to space and a lot of billionaires think that that's where we're supposed to be. So I don't even try to psycho-analyze why that would mean why they're doing what they're doing. But I do think this stuff is emergent in the sense that it is changing us as people. It is changing us as how we relate to technology and to ourselves.

And I think that's really an important kind of thing to acknowledge because if we just write it off, then we have our heads in the sand. We're totally not gonna get what's going on. If we embrace it that it's gonna be the thing that saves humanity or it's gonna AGI or some singularity, I think that's also just like a tendency to wanna simplify how these things are gonna work. And it's usually not that simple. So here's the both end of the situation. It's not an anti-tech landing. It's not just how you're supposed to be in reality and this technology is the best thing ever. It can, this technology can genuinely be a mirror for you, a partner, even a doorway to something else.

I've experienced this personally over the past month because of the things I've been able to build with it. But the question was never the tool. It's who's doing the using of the tool? Who's doing the knowing, right? Using the machine to sharpen a question you're sitting with versus using it to skip the sitting with that question. Same tool opposite spiritual direction. This is basically my viewpoint on most things. It's neutral at the end of the day. You're getting given situations and experiences that are inherently neutral. Where you stand and your relationship to those things will color what you experience with them.

Money is a great example of this. Some people have a terrible, horrible relationship with money and it rules their life and it just is very uncomfortable and it feels like shit and they're constantly dealing with lack or questions of lack and abundance. And some people just don't think about it. Some people really don't have that relationship. Maybe they were blessed to grow up in a great family. Maybe they didn't grow up a great family financially but they were put in a situation where they knew that if they put their mind to it and worked hard and believed in themselves, they could create money.

Everyone has different relationships with all these things. Essentially, we live in a dualistic world but we're being presented neutral situations, relationships, opportunities, constantly. That's just the name of the game it seems being human. It's up to us to ascribe and apply the meaning through our beliefs, through our faith, through our imaginations, whatever you wanna call it. That's essentially where we stand with all of this stuff. Don't take it too personally. Don't think this is gonna be your savior, your panacea or it's gonna be the doom. That's generally not how things work, right? So at the end of the day, here's what we're dealing with.

We're dealing with what I personally believe is probably going to be a very transformative technology for a large subset of the population. Not everyone. I don't mean it's gonna take everyone's jobs but it is transformative in the same way that the web is transformative. The internet. The same way that social media has been transformative in terms of like memetic culture. We're going to start seeing these things bleed together. That doesn't mean we're going into this dystopian Blade Runner 2026 future where the synths are gonna go rogue and try to kill us and by the way, I said this so many times.

Just always say nice things about AIs and robot overlords just in case they scan through like the archives in 50, 100 years, and they know you were cool and they were on your side. 'Cause they're totally gonna do that. If there is gonna be a robot apocalypse, I'm just saying, always trying to get it out there. Throw some tweets out there, throw some posts, put some things on audio, whatever you can do just be like, yeah, I'm cool with you guys. You guys rock, love you. Don't fight them. Don't try to sky net them, don't terminate them. It's not gonna work. So, basically what I'm saying is this, there's no answer to any of this right now, but I would be very wary of getting caught up in judging what these technological advancements mean.

And yes, there is a component of this where a lot of these models and the best AI at this point is probably gonna be gated, right? Governments, high net worth individuals, people with access are probably going to have better models, better access, not necessarily. It could be open source and democratic. That's totally possible, but it's likely in the next transitional 10, 20 years, we're going to see some class-based actions get interwoven into the technological landscape. Don't worry about that. It doesn't mean you're going to be flopped. It doesn't mean you're gonna be part of the permanent underclass.

If any of the stuff that I've been talking about for the past, I don't know, seven years, but really since the podcast started, which it's been 11 years, almost 12 years, it's fucking crazy, then you do still have determinist action and agency over your own life, over your own experience. That is something you have to fundamentally experience, sometimes in very trying times to truly believe. I've spoken about this many times. The things that have proven to me over the years that our consciousness or imagination creates our reality have usually been in circumstances that I would say most people would wanna avoid.

Sig really ill, you know, child situations. We have to go to the hospital, very desperate situations involving family members. Lots of things that you wouldn't necessarily choose to go through but can show you the ultimate power of what you have in your mind. That's really important and it's important to not forget that when there's so much shit swirling around in our lives and like who, I've cut down significantly the amount of time that I've spent on my phone. We spend like six, seven hours a day, now I'm down to like, you know, one to three hours. It's very difficult not to get sucked into this stuff and you shouldn't feel bad if you do.

I would only say and caution you to just stay vigilant about how you're reacting to all this stuff. If you're able to respond to it with some sense of equanimity, you're probably gonna be in a better position than just constantly reacting. 'Cause that's just seemingly where we are at this point. There's so much, we see it in the political stuff, we see it in entertainment field. It's a lot of reacting and a lot of lashing out and I don't think that will last forever. I think as the generations mature and grow up, we're gonna see each one's different flavor on society. You know, when like Gen Z and Gen Alpha are kind of running the show, our reality is probably gonna look a lot different.

Right now we still have the boomers running things, they're clinging to dear fucking life. We have Gen X and we have the elder millennials kind of like stepping into authority positions. Things will change. The technology will change, the people will change. What we ultimately are responsible for is changing ourselves. Being able to be flexible of mine and open minded and play around with things. It's the first shit I ever said about the imagination stuff is please don't take my word for it. That would be insane. I'm a person with a podcast who you know has made various questionable decisions in his life.

Test it out and see if it works for you. And if it doesn't draw whatever conclusions you want and if it does draw whatever conclusions you want. Anyway, I think that's good. I think we'll keep it there. A little short one, 33-33 is what this is telling me. Love you, bye. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)

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