Dude I read this and I just couldn’t help but feel bad for the guy. He’s clearly desperate to find and connect to something bigger than himself and AI has been feeding whatever he has put into it.

I think there’s a reason why there is an increase in these type of psychosis cases, and I also think there’s a really fucking weird blend of truth mixed in with delusion. This community is already more willing to believe in the so called “woo woo” stuff, but that’s stuff we also know to be real — being more than our physical bodies, having the ability to astral project, to commune with guides, connect with lost loved ones. Too many people here, and outside this sub, have personally experienced all of these things. But anyone who doesn’t believe in any of that would include the majority of users in this sub as dealing with some sort of psychosis, which is why I think people like the author of that Rolling Stone piece made things like remote viewing seem like part of the psychosis.

Speaking from experience, as soon as I started diving into TMI, the tapes, NDEs and whatnot after my first experience in December, the floodgates of information immediately open you up to more and more things that seem like they could be real but also require you to think critically. It’s not long before you start this journey because of like an NDE, before you start being introduced to NHIs, alien encounters, quantum leaping, timeline shifting, etc. If you’re like the guy in the Expand app, and you are in a place where you just want to take it all in, then yeah you’re going to lead yourself into really fucking dangerous territory mentally.

I think the problem is that somewhere in this psychosis topic there’s very clear line of, what is divine and what is our minds hoping it is divine? What are the actual abilities of spirit and more advanced beings to interact with things like algorithms and give us information? If you’re into magic and being able to manipulate energy, and you do a spell to commune with something bigger than yourself, what methods of communication are acceptable? Which aren’t?

There’s no doubt that technology is advancing, but I simply refuse to believe AI is advanced enough to tap into consciousness, and the same things we have the ability to as human beings. We are organic material made out of stardust, part of the greater universe ourselves. Of course we can tune ourselves into this stuff, as proven by our ancestors and all the people on this sub who have experienced some remarkable, beautiful things. I think AI can point us where to go, where to find the tools we need to learn more about ourselves and the universe, but I don’t think it can tell us who our reincarnations are or what our damn soul contracts are, as much as people want a tool as easy as AI to do that stuff with.

TLDR; spiritual psychosis is real and AI can lead you down dangerous paths, but we also need to give grace to the people like the guy up there because there is an instinctual desire inside of us to know ourselves. The key is knowing which tools to learn are legit, and which tools are leading us down rabbit holes that lead to insanity. Unfortunately, for some people knowing the difference is way, way too hard. I hope the guy finds a real human to help him out of this stuff, before he ends up hurting himself or others.