Seeing Through the Lens of Vedanta
TECHNOLOGY SERIES
Artificial Intelligence and the Coming Spiritual Crisis
A three-part essay series exploring how rapidly advancing technologies—AI, crypto, transhumanism, and digital culture—are reshaping not only society, but our understanding of self, meaning, and freedom. Grounded in the clarity of Vedanta, these essays examine the psychological and spiritual costs of progress unmoored from wisdom.
AI won’t destroy humanity—it may do something harder. It may dismantle our illusions, expose the fragility of our self-worth, and force a spiritual reckoning. This essay explores how AI is not a technological apocalypse, but a mirror forcing us to confront who we truly are.
II. Dependency, Loss, and the Erosion of Agency
As AI displaces work and identity, humanity must evolve beyond ambition, productivity, and competition. This essay explores a new post-AI mindset rooted in presence, play, and conscious living—where worth is no longer earned, but remembered.
We’re not witnessing the rise of artificial intelligence—we’re witnessing the refinement of illusion. The tools are new. The ignorance is not. This essay is a Vedantic response to a world racing toward transcendence without clarity, and progress without wisdom.
IV. The Question We Forgot to Ask
As AI transforms how we live and work, a quieter question lurks beneath the hype: For whom is all this being built? This essay explores the deeper cost of technological progress—not just in jobs lost, but in meaning, relationship, and our shared sense of what it means to be human.
Coda
What happens when a human and an AI explore the mystery of consciousness together? In this profound conversation with Claude 3, we explored whether artificial intelligence can ever truly replicate the richness of human awareness.