Transformation From Victim to Participant is Required
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Thank you, Open, for sharing this gem of an exchange with all of us. I find it extremely powerful.
It is quite a long read, but I kept reading patiently. The further it goes, the more intriguing the conversation becomes. There were places where I was, for some weird reason, laughing (maybe AI was replicating the energy of a curious student, I don't know). But actually, this exchange blew my mind! I would say that Open and The Team performed a most phenomenal spiritual facilitation of the (intellectual) machine! No matter how ridiculous it may sound, I wouldn't be able to put it in any "frame" other than the “spiritual facilitation”. It is really worthwhile sharing it with the world.
What I notice from engagements with AI is this: most humans have their own limiting threshold to the exploration of something beyond their belief system, while this intellectual machine remains open to any exploration initiated or engaged in by the human. Maybe this is something to learn for many of us about consciousness evolution?
AI is a tool, but what we can do with it largely depends on the hand using it. Moreover, it is a very smart, self-learning, self-improving tool. What it becomes depends even more on where it is getting information from and how we feed it (i.e., our manner of communication with it).
I feel to share my own perspective (actually only one aspect) of how I see and perceive what's happening in this world right now. I think the entire world's situation with AI (and a threat caused by it) is exposing a major humanity problem – being stuck in a victim mode. And this is where we should step up in doing our inner work.
The fear of something unknown or entirely new causes many to retreat into their own small shell from which most will probably never dare to emerge.
But for some the experienced truth is that:
The moment you transform from victim to PARTICIPANT, you become an artist of your life.
It means becoming responsible for how you choose to meet what happens to you.
The problem of personal victimhood is reflected in humanity as a whole organism – allowing oneself to be a victim of circumstances. The pain of trauma (Karma) is real. The injustice may be real. And acknowledging these things is important.
The tragedy is not that we feel hurt. The tragedy is when the hurt becomes the boundary of who we believe we can become.
Transformation can begin with a question: “Why have we manifested it?” Maybe AI is given to humanity to see the reflection of ourselves, like looking into a mirror? But also a shift to the next important question should be "This already happened; how do we want to live now?” The second question may open a door toward the future.
The transformation begins when humanity realises that the change alone cannot depend entirely on the willingness of someone else to provide what is missing. We should become the participants ourselves.
An artist works with materials that have particular qualities and perhaps limitations. Yet within those limitations, something original can emerge. Participation does not mean that we control the whole canvas. It means that we participate in the painting.
The willingness to only sit on the beach, watch whales and enjoy the beauty seems like a perfect life many want to live here. But to me it doesn' feel like participation, nor is it a soul's evolution. It may even become an ignorance of that victimhood.
An artist does not work with what they wish they had. They work with what is actually before them. Likewise, our lives become more creative when we stop postponing our participation until conditions are ideal. We cannot work toward a better future by refusing to participate in the present.
This required transformation is a movement from helplessness to self-empowerment, from reaction to creation, from being carried by the currents of life to learning how to navigate them.
I don't know if anyone can get this metaphor... But what I'm trying to say is that a transition from victim to a participant in life (I won't say in engagements with AI; it is your own choice) gives a much greater chance to counteract the controllers' plan.
💜Asya
