AI+Wisdom: Closing Gathering
Virtual
About This Event
For seven days, people from around the world sat with the hardest questions of our time: What happens when intelligence accelerates faster than wisdom can grow? When machines start doing things we once thought required a soul? When the gap between what we can build and what we understand keeps widening?
We didn't rush toward answers. We practiced together. We encountered the "alien" — and sometimes, ourselves. We explored coherence at every level: personal, social, systemic, universal.
Something shifted for many.
One podmate began the week declaring, "I'm opposed to AI and I hate it." By Day 2, she wrote: "I am experiencing the non-duality of existence. Technology is us. There is no separation." Another asked a tree and then asked ChatGPT the same question — and discovered what his compass had known all along.
This Sunday, we gather one last time — not to conclude, but to share our inspirations, insights and intuitions: What feels like it is mine to do?
To join us, simply RSVP below and you'll receive call details by email. If timezone conflicts make it hard to attend live, RSVP anyway to receive the recording.
Thank you for practicing together — for the courage to sit with questions that have no easy answers, and the heart to translate the emerging insights into compassionate action in your circles of care.
A Collective Poem
Krishnan's real-time poem, weaving insights from the call
Full Transcript
Words from the Live Collective Poet
A found poem by Krishnan Unnikrishnan
(This poem was weaved together, from the nuggets of wisdom shared by various participants in the call, in real time!)
Open our hearts wider.
It is time now.
It is a time now we thrive.
The times of truce,
when the Earth enters a still point near dusk.
Deep times of community.
Some arrived with excitement sparkling in their eyes,
others came cautiously,
hands half open, half guarded.
What inner practices will keep me grounded
when the ground itself is shifting?
Islands of coherence.
AI is a tool, not a creature.
Suddenly, I wasn't comfortable
with the hostility I held towards AI.
Resonance matters.
Coherence can.
Prompts were getting heavy.
Why do I trust the tree over AI?
If they've lost the life that made them trustworthy?
The sacred space and feel
where AI and wisdom lives.
What got recorded and written down
isn't everything, but it is impressive.
The polyphonic sound of the genuine,
interpreting, interrupting assumptions,
speed and depth,
fear and love.
Intimacy, complicity,
emergence versus emergency,
what to surrender, and when to effort.
There are circles upon circles
ready to teach the radiant force of love,
and at the end of class,
we just want to sit together,
as Mother Earth has cared for us for eons.
But what happens at a scale beyond us?
AI may have power,
but natural wisdom may be our salvation.
The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5—
what is ours to do?
Hearing what the heart hears.
What am I going to say?
How to make sense of rational mind and consciousness.
ServiceSpace has a couple bots.
If I ask a good question,
perhaps I can be lifted in relation.
The beauty of the murmuration
is that it will never happen again.
Transported across the room,
being held invisibly.
Thank you for breathing together.
All people is like us.
Perhaps we can use AI
to remember that.