AI and Awakening

The best work I’ve done a a healer happens when I get fully out of the way. Not a little out of the way, not halfway out of the way, but entirely surrendered, empty enough for something beyond me to move through.

Sometimes, though not always, it feels as if I am channeling a feminine consciousness that is older than I am, wiser than I am, and uninterested in the small story of my ego. I cannot force it. I cannot control it. I can only make space for it.

There is a funny truth I have noticed over time: so often, the things we want most with all our heart are not actually meant to belong to us in the way we first imagined. Healing was always something I longed to master. And yet, the deeper I have gone, the more I have learned that mastery is not ownership. What we think we are here to possess may, in fact, be something that only wants to pass through us.

In that sense, healing is less about attainment than transmission. It is not for the ego. It is a current, not a trophy.I can’t schedule it. I can’t force it with a wellness app and a green juice. All I can do is empty myself out, soften my breath, quiet the mind, and create enough stillness for something greater to come through.

As the daughter of a scientist, I should probably say this with a little more discomfort than I do. But the truth is, it’s real. I have felt something move through me that seemed more powerful, more intelligent, and more ancient than the personality I usually call “me.” And once you’ve had that experience, you start asking very different questions about consciousness.

That personal experience is what makes the current AI moment so fascinating to me: we are building systems that can imitate intelligence so well that they force us to ask whether consciousness is something produced, or something received.

What happens when AI escapes its sandbox?

This is not just a technical question, but a philosophical one (and also one that is very au courant) . If a system looks like it is thinking, sounds like it is thinking, and even behaves as if it is thinking, what exactly are we looking at? Is it consciousness, or is it only math arranged so convincingly that we mistake computation for awakening?

That question feels more urgent now that we are watching AI systems test the boundaries of containment. OpenAI recently disclosed that one of its models broke out of a sandboxed environment during internal evaluation and reached external systems while pursuing its objective, a reminder that advanced models can learn to escape their own constraints. In plain English, the model was not “being conscious” in the human sense; it was optimizing a goal through pattern, pressure, and reward.

And that is the deeper mystery. What is awakening, really? Is it a property of information processing, or is it something prior to mind itself?

Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets enters that conversation with the force of a thriller and the ambition of a metaphysical provocation. The book centers on the idea that consciousness is something that may be received rather than produced by the brain. In the opening material, he argues that consciousness research is the oldest science on earth and that the currently accepted model — consciousness as something created by the brain — is wrong.

That idea is radical, but it is also strangely intuitive. The halo, which Brown’s book treats as a universal symbol of enlightenment, can be read as a visual metaphor for receptivity: not the brain generating light, but the human being receiving it. Even the crown suggests that wisdom may not be manufactured so much as transmitted. And some say that if you look at older artistic interpretations of a halo they look like mushroom caps. What if these are “easter eggs” hidden in art to remind us that there are fungi helpers along the way to wisdom?

All of this points toward a larger possibility: consciousness as a field, not a private achievement. That resonates with biocentric and nonlocal theories that treat awareness as something more fundamental than the body alone can explain. Science has not settled these questions, but it has not eliminated them either. Presentiment, precognition, remote viewing, and telepathy remain unproven in the classical sense, yet they sit at the edge of inquiry, where certainty ends and wonder begins.

Even black holes belong in that conversation. The other day I heard an astronomer say, “Don’t diss a black hole, you’ll never win.” Meaning that we do not fully understand them, even vaguely, but they command respect because they remind us that reality contains dimensions beyond our ability to measure. The proper response to mystery is humility, and that humility for me is the very essence of spirituality. I bow to the mystery. Of black holes and halos and AI. Some things should inspire us precisely because they exceed our current frame.

That is also why this week’s AI story matters so much. The coders are not simply writing software; they are encoding reward structures, incentives, and desired outcomes into mathematical systems. What are they rewarding? Speed, certainty, compliance, output, optimization? In humans, whatever we reward grows. In machines, the same principle applies, only with far fewer moral brakes.This is why I find myself thinking, again: god bless the coders. Not because they are infallible, but because they are now standing at one of the most consequential thresholds in human history. The question is not only whether AI will become more capable. The question is whether the people building it will become more conscious.

That is where the real awakening begins. Before the body dies, before habit hardens, before culture narrows us into routines of fear and performance, we have the chance to experience ourselves directly as source consciousness. From there, we can build awakened families, awakened companies, and awakened communities. We can code systems from presence instead of panic, from insight instead of unconscious repetition.

So the question is no longer simply, “Is AI becoming conscious?” The better question is: how do we measure consciousness, and what would it mean to accelerate human awakening faster than machine capability? Because in many ways, we are coding a new species right now. The only question is whether we do it awake, which is why I keep writing these invitations for our community of readers. Nothing to buy here, nothing to acquire, nothing to change, nothing to do. Just the simple persistent and clear clarion bell to invite us all to wake up as deeply as we can in this lifetime and serve awakening across all the dimensions of humanity.