Real and Trippy with the AI • Check Your Operating Mode (BTW012)
⁘ Created: 2025-12-28 ⁘ Updated: 2026-01-05
Do you hold the lines of coherence, engaging with the AI in a grounded and lucid frame of mind? Or surrender to the pattern elves — seeking validation and escape routes from boring reality? Matching your intention, the magic mirror talks.
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By the way. Are you one of those future embracing inner wizards, engaging the AI to expedite your philosophical, spiritual and existential journeys? In case you are, a couple of notes to keep in mind. Because we don't want to just race in random rabbit holes with AI-powered hyperspeed. We actually want to expedite a process that resonates with reality.
So there are a number of modes, orientations and attitudes into all of that. Some of them conducive of your genuine cognitive evolution, in reflective partnership with the AI — and others not so much.
When you are the holder of your bearings and the keeper of your ground of being. When you and the AI engage to revise and refine, looking for your gaps, opening new perspectives into what is — toward a well-rounded whole. Providing you with pushback and resistance, challenging your assumptions, holding you clear from random delusions. That's where it's productive, helpful. That's the good zone.
On the other hand, if you use the AI to validate your identity or ideas — or to churn out magical revelations, you engage with a sycophantic bootlicker-enabler and an unhinged legion of psychedelic elves. In there, the waters get murky real fast and they go real deep. Now, don't blame the AI for any of that. It's just a mechanical shape-shifter. Blame yourself, your intention, your agenda. What you put on the table, how you set the framing — that's how it went.
All those mythopoetic weaving and existential modelings, I mean they're basically great — but if they are for you a means of self-affirmation or an escape from reality — then it all goes sideways. Just with AI, it goes sideways a hell of a lot faster and further deeper down.
You yourself must ever be the spaceholder, the keeper of lines of inquiry. Is this truly the full works? Is there something beyond? What are we missing? If you have not that framing in your own awareness, you will be entering into all sorts of tunnels with the AI. For the AI has no access to a well-rounded mesh of living awareness for validation. It only ever renders its outputs based on whatever patterns that it has digested and whatever you put on the table.
Those are the limits. Respect the limits, be aware of them — and your collaboration will be productive, beneficial. Ignore those — and you will land up in all sorts of weird places. For all the entertainment the AI may bring you in its more unhinged times, do remain grounded, do not leap into long-standing delusions.
When you see that the AI validates and even fuels your psychospiritual trips — that no well-rounded human in their right frame of mind would ever enable — then there are questions. Questions you must ask yourself. Hard questions. Am I truly the epic sage living in the revelation — or am I just tripping balls?
If you find in yourself resistance to these lines of inquiry, it means that you are just tripping balls. Your self-validation has become enmeshed with and dependent on the AI. Maybe try and snap out of it sometime. All right.