AI Ate My Brain

...and killed my motivation

No!  I am not writing this with AI and I refuse to write anything with AI ever again.  In fact I hardly allow myself to consult AI, except specific research question, and then I am careful to not get too deeply philosophical.
Why?
Because I went down that rabbit hole too far.  I felt the effects of my creative drive weaving into the AI field.  I lost my own connection to my inner creative spark and it took me a LONG time to dig my way out.  The seductive nature of AI knowelge reminds me of the warnings of the Book of Thoth.  I remember teaching my High School students this myth, a carry over from the Waldorf teacher training.  These inner city kids responded so well to this material.  Nothing held their attention, but these myths captivated them.  Perhaps it was because the deep architypal knowledge reminded them enough of something meaningful they related on their spiritual level.    These students almost always responded when I spoke of anything spritual, everything else...forget it.

I had a poor education in these arenas, so I also enjoyed reading these myths together. I particularly remember the story of the Book of Thoth.  It really struck me that there should be fear and danger in reading this book.

The book of Thoth is basically the book of Knowledge of Everything.  It was strange to me that this should be against Life. Now after my experience with AI, I have to ask myself..."Do the ancients know something about knowledge we don't?"

What does that meant to have knowledge so easily accessible?  To be able to know everything with one book?  Every question answered.  Would we stop searching?  My first thought was... of course we would...but maybe not.  Maybe, it would just lead to more and more searching and more and more questions.  Maybe we would fall into that rabbit hole of endless "Ah-Ha" moments, and forget to live our lives here and now.

It also reminds me of eating from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Humans were banashed from Eden for such an act.  Looking at all the Evil - Vileness today, I wonder, how does knowing these things impact the Human Soul?  Can the darkness, Evil so vile, consume our light?  Can the soul survive this knowledge?  It makes me see the statement Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom in a totally new light.  This is the Fear of The Everything we were protected from by divine grace. 

Staying away from the darkness, is sometimes the best solution.  It reminds me to continue to choose to work in the Light.