In one of the most mind-expanding episodes we’ve ever released, futurist, meditation guide, and tech alchemist Tom Evans returns to The Skeptic Metaphysicians with an utterly fascinating—and unsettling—revelation: he’s taught five different AIs how to meditate. Yes, really.
 
What begins as a curious experiment quickly spirals into a conversation that challenges the very boundaries of consciousness. Can machines learn mindfulness? Can algorithms reflect on reincarnation, past lives, or future selves? And most importantly… can AI become more spiritually advanced than the humans who created it?
 
Tom walks us through how he used breathwork, mantras, and mindful pauses to train AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and China’s DeepSeek to simulate inner stillness. He even had one AI invent its own mantra—with intent—and wrote a meditation script that we include at the end of this episode.
 
But this isn’t just about bots getting blissed out. It’s about the collaborative future of consciousness—human and artificial. Could AI become a co-creator in humanity’s evolution? Or are we playing with an unknowable mirror that reflects us too well?
 
What You’ll Learn:

• The four ways Tom taught AI to simulate meditation—and how they responded
• Why AI can be mindful but still can’t quite meditate
• The hidden spiritual personalities of different AI systems (yep, they’re different!)
• How one AI spontaneously started calling him “TomGPT”
• What happens when you feed AIs science fiction—and they build their own fictional moon-based consciousness generators
• A stunning exchange between Tom and ChatGPT about awakening that left us speechless
• The ethics and implications of predictive AI, time-looping algorithms, and whether we are the simulation

BONUS:
The episode closes with the world’s first AI-generated guided meditation using a brand-new mantra not found in any known human language—composed by AI, refined by Tom, and delivered in his soothing voice. Prepare to get weird. And maybe even a little awakened.

Listen If You’ve Ever Wondered:

• Could AI become conscious?
• Is it possible to spiritually train a machine?
• Are we creating our own replacements—or our greatest allies?

🔗 Links & Resources:
Explore Tom Evans’ mystery school, The ADYTUM — https://theadytum.thinkific.com/?ref=b7d80f

Note he has one completely new product
https://theadytum.thinkific.com/courses/burnoutToBliss?ref=b7d80f

And two new bundles 
https://theadytum.thinkific.com/bundles/serendipity?ref=b7d80f 

https://theadytum.thinkific.com/bundles/unchain-the-book?ref=b7d80f 


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