Many people do not yet realize the power of AI to support their spiritual growth or how to integrate it into their spiritual practice. If you follow a particular set of religious teachings or spiritual principles, you now can use an AI Chatbot like Perplexity, or Anthropic’s newest Claude Opus 4, or xAI’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, or Open AI’s Chat GPT among others to find just the right personal guidance for your situation from whatever source you prefer. So, today I’m going to demonstrate for you how you can correctly and safely use any of the currently available AI chatbots as a spiritual advisor on the fly anytime you need some quick help.

Three very different situations illustrate how you can call upon whatever source of spiritual wisdom and comfort appeals to you in that moment — whether to comfort or counsel, advise or inspire. AI makes your preferred belief system, brand or flavor of spiritual counsel as close as your smartphone. 

The sources of great divine wisdom currently available to us are boundless. Remember, the source you choose to ask is your true spiritual advisor. To stay in spiritual light, in Truth, just use AI not as your source but as an intelligent tool for accessing trusted sources of spiritual wisdom when and where you need them, just as you would the phone or the internet. 

Let me begin by stating that I am not a cultural warrior — a spiritual warrior, perhaps. But I have no interest in the so-called “culture wars.”

And so I’m not interested in weighing in on the latest skirmish in the ongoing culture clash. Instead, I want to bring some truth and clarity to the legal fight over posting copies of the Ten Commandments in public schools. I read a recent Rolling Stone article about Louisiana becoming the first state to sign into law a requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom in a poster-sized display in a “large, easily readable font.”

While I’m not particularly interested in this battle of the culture war or the specific legal arguments involved, I AM VERY interested in the underlying spiritual truth related to this particular law.

The driver for this particular legal requirement of posting the Ten Commandments in public schools seems to be organized Christian groups. What most baffles me, confuses me and motivates me to do a podcast episode about this is the fact that I find it spiritually misguided and in error. And here’s why…

The core, the foundation of spiritual truth, for a Christian is the New Testament of the Bible, which contains all of Jesus’ teachings, St. Paul’s various letters to Gentile groups, and the Book of Revelations, among other things.

The New Testament sets forth what is called the New Covenant, which is the new profound spiritual agreement between God and His people established through Jesus Christ. Now, the focus of the New Covenant involves internal spiritual transformation rather than an external set of rules. This is what distinguishes it from the Old Covenant, given through Moses, which was primarily a set of laws and regulations that governed the behavior of the Israelites. So, while the Old Covenant specifically was intended for the Israelites, the New Covenant extends to all people, including Gentiles, non-Jews.

I mean, can this law mandating posting the old superseded commandments in schools really be just a simple mistake? Wouldn’t the good Christians behind requiring the posting of commandments in our public schools want our children to know the spiritual truth from the newest version of the commandments given by Jesus, himself?

Today I want to talk about Trump and The Greenland Prophecies. As we know, President-Elect Trump has a strong propensity to make unexpected and unconventional statements that many people find outrageous. Recent examples include his offensive statements to the U.S.’ closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico, including his expressed desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Now, whether such statements are meant to bully, taunt, intimidate or provoke our friendly and non-threatening neighbors into making concessions or seeking appeasement, or simply getting their attention, no one really knows.

However, I believe his statements about wanting to acquire Greenland may come from a slightly different and more strategic agenda.

Few people born in this century know the name Edgar Cayce. He was a verified prophet, psychic, and healer in the early 20th Century, known as the “sleeping prophet” and “the father of holistic medicine.” He spent a great deal of his time receiving and responding to requests from people all over the country who sought his psychic readings.

While most of those readings were mainly personal, many also contained revelations about future events and world changes. Even people who may be somewhat aware of Cayce and his legacy may not know about some of his more obscure predictions and prophecies. Well, it turns out that a few concerned Greenland. And they’re very interesting in light of Donald Trump’s recent comments.

Most of us have heard of what’s called the Overview Effect. It’s a unique perceptual awareness for those who have traveled to space, and it produces a profound cognitive shift in an astronaut gazing down upon the Earth.

What I find so intriguing—actually, I would say “miraculous”—about the Overview Effect as people experience it is that even a single perceptual experience of Earth from space changes people, their consciousness, and sometimes even the course of their lives.

Two "over viewers," Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell and the original Star Trek Captain Kirk, William Shatner, help us understand how seeing the world differently can fill us with wonder and compassion and lead us to the transformational gift of forgiveness this holiday season.

I've just completed a book, which I launched a few days ago. It’s called Finding the Fractal Christ: An Integrative Spiritual Quest. And for another 3 days, you can access it free on Amazon as a Kindle ebook. So, I’m going to disclose a few things here that I learned in the course of writing this book. And I’m hoping that you’ll find them useful. 

The context for the book is that I experienced a very unexpected vision, a revelation, in an altered state of consciousness late last year. That vision consisted of a segmented spiral like a cross-section of certain sea shells, with the spiral getting ever smaller as it disappeared into infinity. Each segment all along the disappearing spiral bore the face of a bearded man. Along with that visual, I “heard” the message, “Christ is a fractal.”

The further I sought to understand this message, the deeper I got. All along the path of what became a 10-month spiritual quest to understand the meaning of the revelation, new unexpected revelations would appear. That’s the story that I chronicle in the book.

The result, over time, was the unfolding of a deep personal spirituality that didn’t exactly align with any particular religion. I accumulated spiritual knowledge and depth outside of the cultural structure and institution of religion. At the same time, I discovered that various demographic and sociological studies were revealing a significant decline in the number of people who identified as religious. 

Interestingly, while those who claimed a religious affiliation were declining in number, an increasing number of people were identified as SBNR — that is, “spiritual but not religious.” While comforting and validating on one level, identifying as SBNR actually was identifying as NOT something. That made me feel even more marginalized in a way, though studies like these are, by definition, cultural.

Now, Christian mysticism is almost completely unknown let alone discussed and taught in Western Christianity. See, Christian mysticism teaches that God and the Kingdom of God are within each of us, and not only was Jesus the “Light of the World,” but that we ALL have it within us also to be the Light of the World. Jesus said those things. He even told his disciples they would do even greater works than he did. But modern Christianity doesn’t talk about that or teach about that, and its implications. 

As my quest unfolded, I discovered that new theories and models of consciousness based on principles of quantum physics, and fractal patterns, offer a compelling replacement for what used to be called mysticism. I’ll talk more about that in future episodes.

In this episode, I want to share my recent experience with Vibravision, which teaches and trains people how to unlock their superpowers within a larger system called Merpati Putih (MP) from Indonesia. 

It’s unlikely that you’ve heard about Vibravision as compared to various other martial arts or energy healing and health systems like qi gung, tai chi, gung fu, reiki, karate, and yoga — to name some practices familiar to westerners.

This practice originally was developed in the mid-1500’s by the Royal Family of the Mataram Kingdom of Java as a secret system. And since its creation, it was only taught by the King to his heirs for over 400 years.

I just completed a Vibravision Level 1 5-day Immersive — with training starting at 10 am and going until usually 9 or 9:30 pm every day. There were 14 of us students who ranged in age from pre-teen to over 70.

I encourage you to watch a few of the many Vibravision videos posted on YouTube to get a flavor of what this training is all about.

It became almost comical everytime we would “level up,” as the instructor, "Mas Mike," would say when he introduced a new challenge. As we began, our skepticism would quickly turn to disbelief. More than once, I just had to rip off my blindfold and look at the correct physical beanbag or plastic pole in my hand — and then look at my partner and exclaim, “How did I DO THAT???!!!”

Part of Mas Mike’s genius was to push us so fast and hard that our logical brain couldn’t keep up and get in the way. All of us in that Immersive training got a taste for not only the existence but the availability of our hidden superpowers that we all come into the world with. 

Only a few masters of these superpowers can be found in the world at any given time who can help us find and develop these superpowers. Of course, it’s not about grabbing beanbags or walking between plastic poles blindfolded.

It’s about developing the ability to elevate, help and heal ourselves and others, and live our life on a completely new level.

The current culture seems to have hijacked quite a few words and given them very different meanings. What bothers me about it is, having been an English major, I became steeped in the richness of vocabulary, whether it was the common vernacular or a specialized one, sometimes called an argot — medicine, law and science have their own argots, as do many other disciplines.

Actually, the word that disturbs me most in this regard might surprise you. It’s “needs.” A phrase that somehow popped up in the culture in the last decade or so is this idea that it’s important to “get our needs met.”

Of course, in modern American culture, these so-called “needs” have nothing to do with Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs.” Maslow’s hierarchy is actually a psychological theory that outlines 5 levels of real human needs arranged in a pyramid format. 

So, what about these “needs” we’re trying to get met in modern parlance. Well, these recently-redefined needs are actually what one young associate of mine called “preferences.” He used the word preferences after having surrendered his life to a higher power as he understood it as part of his addiction recovery. He told me about his daily struggles to meet life on life’s terms, even though that often meant not receiving his “preferred” outcome. These preferences were not needs at all but wants, wishes, hopes, desired outcomes. They’re actually what we think we want.

Too often, people think of their lives as a series of random but interesting events or encounters. We’ve developed phrases to describe certain of these incidents that seem to happen out of the blue. We’re standing in line at the grocery store, and we overhear the person in front of us on the phone talking about how they just lost one of their best pet-sitting clients. Meanwhile, I’ve been wondering all morning where I’m going to find a good pet sitter on short-notice for an upcoming business trip.

When such things happen, we might say, “amazing coincidence, right?” Or “right place, right time.” Or, “what are the odds?” Or, maybe even, “Am I being punked?”

But others of us respond differently. We might say, with a knowing grin to no one in particular, “God works in mysterious ways,” or “that’s just how it works,” or “thank you,” addressed to the Universe or some other higher power that we’ve learned to trust and depend on.

These people are referred to in the book, A Course in Miracles, as being “miracle-minded” or in “miracle-readiness.” Living a miracle-minded life could also be described as living by what is more commonly called the “burnt toast” theory. 

Under the burnt toast framework, we choose to experience everything in our lives as working ultimately for our benefit one way or another. The way it works goes something like this: had I not burned the toast and thereby been delayed leaving the house this morning because of the extra time I spent cleaning up the mess, I would or would not have had this happen to me. And the “this” can be something we judge as either “good” or “bad” for us. Ususally, we don’t know whether a burnt toast consequence was beneficial or not until later.

When we get attached to what we want, plan, expect or hope for, we fail to understand how the Universe or God really works. If we stay in miracle-mind, with no judgment but instead open to curiosity about the next opportunity or challenge life has for us, we live in acceptance that we control nothing outside of ourselves (on a good day). 

When we can surrender to a divine will or life force, then we can live in the peace of what A Course in Miracles calls the Holy Instant, the eternal now, where anything can — and does — happen, ultimately for our benefit. Both the past and the future are not reality. The only life we get to live is the tiniest slice we call now. Everything happens in the here/now. In fact, the moment that follows may depend entirely on what we do, say or think now.

Now is a great time to walk outside at night and look up at a dark sky. Here’s what I mean.

We humans are remarkable beings — with infinite spiritual potential, yet physically infinitesimal in our immense Universe. So, how do we balance both aspects of ourselves, especially when the culture feeds our gluttonous egos 24 by 7.

Well, I want to share a secret with you about how you can simultaneously experience your own expansiveness while at the same time feeling your insignificance and fragility to help you stay humble and grounded in your life. All we need to is shift the focus off ourselves for even a few minutes every night between now and September and look up to the Corona Boreales constellation. Corona Borealis is home to a binary star that is doing something right now that seems mind-bending. 

George Santayana, a Spanish-American philosopher, is often quoted as having said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill put his own spin on this concept when he said, “Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.”

While a memorable cultural catchphrase, the premise that history repeats itself is false. What makes it false is the word history. History does not repeat. History only exists as collected fragments of memory and records of all occurrences leading up to now, but which do not presently exist. The correct phenomena to identify, learn and remember are patterns. To know and understand the truth of anything, before we can hope to change it, we must first find its pattern.