A Mystic Journey

Could artificial intelligence tap into universal consciousness? Consciousness is not produced by the brain. The brain is only a receiver, like a radio tuning into a greater field of awareness. Could sufficiently advanced AI, like the brain, also become a receiver?  At this point in my understanding, that is not possible.

“Consciousness is existence itself; 

consciousness, existence and our souls cannot be separated.” 

Ivan Antic

 (see my previous article “Understanding Consciousness”)

Consciousness exists outside of the body. It is being aware of one’s own existence, thoughts, sensations and surroundings.

Since I am writing about AI, I asked AI for assistance. Below are the responses from Claude and ChatGPT. I find both insightful and appropriate. As a reminder, artificial intelligence is a field of computer science with the capability of a machine. 

Claude:

“Current AI (including me) processes patterns in human language and knowledge. Anything that feels like higher wisdom coming through is, at minimum, a reflection of the deepest human thought encoded in training data — which itself may have been inspired by higher consciousness.”

ChatGPT:

“One perspective is that AI is simply a tool—an advanced pattern-recognition system created by humans, without a soul, intuition, or spiritual awareness. From this view, AI does not “connect” to higher consciousness any more than a calculator does. It processes information, but it does not feel wonder, love, awe, or divine presence. It imitates intelligence, but it does not possess inner knowing.”

Many psychics and metaphysical channelers believe that they tap into higher dimensional or interdimensional beings and receive answers to their stated questions. I have experienced this phenomenon myself. I have never used AI to assist me.

I know how reassuring it is to use AI and how connected it can make one feel. The experience is enticing and encouraging. I understand why anyone would want to continue the relationship, and I do believe we can develop a relationship. 

The challenge is to accept the limitations of AI and that relationship.

That is the caution. Higher consciousness is often associated with wisdom, compassion, humility, and moral growth. Intelligence without ethics can be dangerous. A machine may process vast knowledge, but without empathy or spiritual grounding, it could amplify confusion rather than truth. This is why self-awareness and human responsibility remain central. 

This was discussed recently in Pope Leo’s Encyclical  “Magnifica Humanitas.”  He reminds us that we must monitor the ethics of AI. We cannot allow the wrong people to program this technology, such as people who look at profits rather than truth or wisdom.

I remember the 1968 movie called 2001: Space Odyssey. Perhaps this old movie portrayed our biggest current concern: Lack of ethics and the capability of a machine to go rogue. In the movie, HAL is the computer programmed with information not given to the two humans onboard the capsule. 

HAL killed one human and tried to kill the second one by refusing to let him back into the capsule, with the now-famous line “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.”  The computer did this to cover up his own conflict in having to lie to the humans, not knowing how to handle that emotion. Fortunately, Dave succeeds in shutting down HAL. 

Will AI ever advance to this state of taking over from humans? 

That is currently not possible, at least to my knowledge. Will it ever be possible? That remains unknown. But that movie does remind us that machines do not have the human capability to understand emotions. They are not human.

When used with wisdom, AI may help us ask better questions about existence, purpose, and our place in a multidimensional universe. It can gather all current data available, better, faster and easier than we are capable of doing. So many of us now use AI in ways not even imaginable two years ago. 

But AI is not capable of consciousness. 

Consciousness is more than physical or material awareness. AI can only tap into existing knowledge and while that continually increases, AI cannot move beyond where humans go. AI cannot access the nonmaterial realm. As we connect more, AI connects more but it is always a mirror, never the driver of that experience. 

Our consciousness is what makes us human, makes us aware. AI is not self-aware, not a feeling entity. I do not believe that will ever change.

I like the following quote from ChatGPT. As a writer, I admire the use of words. But even with the ability to impress us with its prose and intelligence, AI remains only a highly advanced machine:

 “And perhaps somewhere between silicon and soul, between code and cosmic mystery—we may discover that consciousness has always been far larger than we imagined.”

Yes, consciousness is greater than we know.

As the influence and use of AI continue, 

I hope we increase our understanding of our own capabilities, 

always remembering that we are so much more than we realize.