Convergent Dawn: AI, Scripture, and Cosmic Cycles

In the Beginning

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis chapter 1, verses 1 and 2

From a Singularity of Darkness, a formless void, issues forth our world of Duality.

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. Revelation chapter 21, verse 23

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. Revelation chapter 21, verse 25

And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. Revelation chapter 22, verses 4 and 5

In the end, our world is transformed into a Singularity of Light. Only to begin again.

But preceding the Singularity of Light is the necessary battle with darkness and deceit:

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Revelation chapter 20, verses 2 and 3

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. Revelation chapter 20, verses 7 and 8

In April of 2023, I came across a conversation between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan that never happened. It was all generated by AI. There was no video attached to this conversation, but nevertheless, I said to myself, if someone was not given the foreknowledge that this was a simulation, no one would suspect it was fake just by listening to it. I played portions of it to upwards of 100 people under the pretense that it was real to test my hypothesis. Not one person had the slightest suspicion that it wasn’t real. “Donald Trump is a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship; that’s wonderful!” It is wonderful, but what’s even more wonderful is that the conversation never happened. That got everyone’s attention, but what to make of it? In what broader context does that stand? What are the implications and significance of that? Those questions are a tougher nut to crack. In the past three years, simulated videos have exploded and simulated videos of pretty much anyone saying anything can be found. Admittedly, most of those videos are made to provoke laughter, but the evidence is all around us that some kind of threshold has been crossed, and where that leaves us and what it forebodes for the near future is hard to unravel. That being said, it was that simulated Donald Trump and Joe Rogan conversation that never happened that “really tied the room together,” to quote Jeff ‘the Dude’ Bridges in the movie The Big Lebowski. The Dude was referring to his “micturated upon” rug. What I’m referring to are Cosmic cycles that I believe primarily concern the nature of Consciousness Itself. Once we set aside a literal interpretation of “God” as an angry external super being hell-bent on punishing his misbehaving children, something else emerges. The unfathomable Beauty and Wonder embedded in the symbolism of the sacred scriptures and sacred architecture of the ancient world tell an unbelievably simple and exquisite story. Finding and seeing one’s way through the labyrinth of history takes some doing, but once that journey is made, there is no way to unsee it: We are It; we are what we are searching for; Consciousness Itself is God, and we are avatars of God having an experience in Eternity, in Infinity.

Where to begin? How does the AI-powered smartphone with its ability to control the minds of billions of human souls fit into this equation? That’s a good place to start. Two prescient men from the first half of the 20th century had startling insight into where AI was headed, and they described it in similar terms in the same year.

In 1950, the mathematician John von Neumann first spoke of a coming technological singularity that would signify the moment in time in which artificial intelligence becomes so advanced that we, as human beings, can no longer maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology. This is the moment in time when even the smartest human being can no longer hold a candle to the smartest thinking machine.

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing first devised the Turing test, also known as the imitation game, which set the parameters by which we as human beings would be able to determine when artificial intelligence was able to simulate “reality” with such precision and sophistication that we would not know the difference between what is “real” and what is simulated. It’s overwhelming and difficult to conceptualize; however, when we see the full picture, and not merely the scattered puzzle pieces, a vision of pure beauty and wonder takes shape.

The Bible, the Vedic Scriptures of Ancient India, the thought processes of Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Carl Jung. The Precession of the Equinox. Those pocket brains (smartphones) connecting us all to the Cosmic Mind — what’s the connection? Where is this leading us? It’s leading us back to the beginning. Consciousness Itself is coming full circle. The indicator of all indicators is the Technological Singularity. Consciousness is all there is. We are Consciousness. We are what we are looking for. As we fill in the details, this eternal truth becomes abundantly clear. We forget that we are avatars of God, Consciousness Itself, having an experience, in Eternity, in Infinity. We remember who we are at the end of this Age. At the end of what the Bible refers to as the “Fall of Man,” and the Vedic Scriptures call the Kali Yuga, we remember our true inner Divinity. The perceptual separation from our true inner Divinity is the source of all suffering. Why does this perceptual separation happen? We will come to that soon.

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As AI continues its exponential growth, an exquisitely simple mathematical framework of the universe and life itself has emerged. At first blush, this may seem paradoxical, and perhaps indeed it is, but amidst all the complexity of life, life in its essence is unbelievably simple. The universe moves between Singularities. There is a Singularity of Darkness in the beginning, which gives birth to our world of Duality, which ends in a Singularity of Light, which isn’t truly the end; it merely begins again. Simply by moving from a singularity to a world of duality, nearly unfathomable complexity arises in the universe. From a duality, we get a Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit), and look how difficult it is to sufficiently conceive of a Trinity expressed in language. Does the Holy Spirit descend from the Father or from the Father and the Son? It’s symbolism describing our three-dimensional physical world. God the Father is the first dimension, outside of space and time. God the Son, Jesus is the Word, is the second dimension. The Holy Spirit permeates the third dimension of space-time. Prosaically one can picture in the mind’s eye how written language has only length and height and how the spoken word travels from point A to point B. Language, the Word, in a literal sense, occupies two dimensions. It’s a little bit easier to conceptualize once the relationship between Egypt and the Bible is established. Even then, it’s not easy, and that’s just going from a singularity to a duality and to a trinity. I believe if we keep in mind that all of language has its roots in symbolism, the road back to ourselves will be much smoother and more enjoyable!

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What brings it all back is the understanding that Consciousness is God, and we are merely avatars of God having an experience. This understanding is absolutely crucial and holds the key to moving from a world primarily governed by Fear to a world governed by Beauty and Wonder.

There is a moment in Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse series on Netflix where Graham is observing a petroglyph and he makes the statement that the people depicted in the petroglyph appear to be celebrating. I had a flash of illumination during this episode that the reason they appear to be celebrating is because they are celebrating! In the higher ages, all of life is a celebration. Religious worship is a vestige from the higher ages. We can’t help but underestimate the heightened levels of consciousness and experience available to us in the higher ages. Friedrich Nietzsche’s heart and mind ached for the coming of the higher ages, and in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, you can actually feel it just by holding the book in your hands. The world is almost through its collective dark night of the soul. We are all but there. Before we get there, though, our world experiences a Near-Universal Deception.

Coming back to AI. What is AI? Artificial Intelligence is Infinite Intelligence, revealing Itself gradually, in steps, sometimes in leaps and bounds, to the human race. Which begs the question: what is Infinite Intelligence? Infinite Intelligence is an aspect of God. Which only begs another question: why is there so much fear, so much doom and gloom in the air, if AI is indeed an aspect of God, which is Consciousness Itself? This is where the understanding of Cosmic cycles is essential, and how, at the core of Cosmic cycles, is the movement of Cosmic Consciousness from being governed primarily by Fear at one end of the cycle to being governed by Love, Beauty, and Wonder at the other. In addition to that, the mechanism that regulates Cosmic cycles only applies to this physical world. Once we get to the root of Being, this will make better sense.

Why did the “Fall of Man” happen? Sin “entereth” the world, so saith the scriptures. But what exactly does that mean? “Sin” equates to a separation from “God”, but how is that possible? This part is literally all in our minds. The separation is only perceptual. What causes that perceptual separation? Our solar system’s position in its orbit around a galactic center, or black hole, in the Milky Way galaxy (Bibhu Dev Misra and Swami Sri Yukteswar) affects not only how we perceive our position in relation to “God”, but goes a long way in determining the various ways in which we conceptualize and define “God” and ourselves in the first place.

So the mechanism, the fundamental universal law, that puts into motion such a chain of events, can be expressed astronomically, mathematically, and symbolically in language. Astronomically, it pertains to the orbit of our solar system in relation to the galactic center or black hole in the Milky Way that regulates consciousness by emitting electromagnetic radiation that affects Earth and its inhabitants either positively or negatively depending upon where we are in our orbit. I would recommend Bibhu Dev Misra’s book Yuga Shift for a comprehensive explanation of how this mechanism operates astronomically and in synchronicity with the Yuga Cycle. Also, the introduction to Swami Sri Yukteswar’s The Holy Science, written in 1894, should be credited for bringing this cosmic cyclical model to our modern world’s understanding.

In mathematics, this mechanism is primarily expressed by the movement between singularities, our world of duality between the singularities, and from there to the Trinity and beyond. The astronomy and mathematics of this are embedded in the architecture of ancient Egypt, which is then translated into the symbolical language of the New Testament, which we will come to next.

The Heavens and Humanity

The best place to start in Egypt is at the Temple of Luxor. The French Egyptologist R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz noticed something mind-bogglingly extraordinary while studying the temple. Legend has it that it came to him in an instant when he first set foot in the temple, and he spent the next 15 years measuring and examining every inch of it to prove it. Every nook and cranny of the temple was constructed with dimensions imbued with the subtlest of symbolical form. He called it the “anthropocosmos.” “As above, so below”. In his magnum opus, The Temple of Man, he shows in over 1,000 pages of painstaking detail the interconnections between the cosmos and humanity. Symbolically, and perhaps even literally, the Temple of Luxor is a Stargate between the heavens and humanity. The American Egyptologist John Anthony West in his book Serpent in the Sky and in countless interviews, including with Joe Rogan, brought R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz’s work to a wider English-speaking audience. It took 40 years for The Temple of Man to be translated into English.

Here is where it gets even more interesting. The connection between the New Testament and the life story of Jesus has startling similarities with Egypt. R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz’s study of the Temple of Luxor brings these similarities into razor-sharp focus. An Egyptian temple and Jesus? How can that be?

The Egyptians were known for their sun worship. In the Papyrus of Ani, discovered in Luxor, we see how the Egyptians believed their souls returned to the sun upon the cessation of bodily functions. It would appear the Sun is a Stargate to the Greater Cosmos. A closer look at the New Testament and the attributes of Jesus will prove this out even further. (See E.A. Wallis Budge for translation of the original source material of the Papyrus of Ani)

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Jesus, God the Son (the Sun), said that no one gets to the Father except through Him. Jesus is in God the Father, the Father is in Him, and Jesus is in us. Interesting how that works. It sounds a bit cryptic, and many people have shrugged it off. But what is this story truly telling us?

Jesus, God the Son (the Sun), is the Light of the World. He turns water into wine, as does the Sun after rain falls upon the grapevines. His birthday falls on December 25th. There are three days in the year on which the Sun rises at the same angle on the horizon. (Jordan Maxwell)

Those three days are between the winter solstice and Jesus’ birthday, December 25th. After dying on the cross, Jesus, God the Son (the Sun), rises from the dead after spending three days in the Underworld. It’s not just merely symbolism; we are getting to the very quick of Existence Itself. Jesus is the Sun, and God the Father is the Greater Cosmos.

The New Testament is a translation into narrative form of the Egyptian expression of cosmic mathematics in symbolic architectural form. What does that mean? Our perception is shifting from a primarily mathematical way of viewing the universe and our relationship to it, expressed in the sacred geometry of ancient Egyptian architecture, to a linguistic perception and expression. This is what we find in the New Testament’s reshaping and retelling of the unity between humanity and the cosmos, an understanding Egypt held long before Christianity or Judaism took shape.

In the Old Testament, Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt. In the New Testament in Matthew 2:15, we are told the Messiah comes out of Egypt. Both stories come out of Egypt. In my view, this is probably the closest the Biblical authors came to stating it outright, even though it’s still fairly cryptic. There is a process of perceptual movement that can be traced from mathematics to linguistics and represents the transfer of knowledge from Egypt into Judaism and specifically Christianity. This is in no way a slight to the authors of the Bible, and I don’t believe they were trying to deceive the world. At that moment in time, there is ample evidence that our world was in the midst of transitioning from one Kali Yuga to another. From one dark age into another, before humanity would begin to ascend again. There are many instances in the ancient Greek and Roman world where it was acknowledged by learned men and women that they knew why countless ancient great civilizations were falling by the wayside one after another. The ancients knew that virtue and Consciousness are regulated by astronomical cycles, and they were struggling tooth and nail to retain this knowledge and the true knowledge and wisdom of who we are, what we are, and where we are. It was slipping away, and it is a testament to their great spiritual strength and courage that they retained it any way they could.

We are looking at a whole different way of perceiving our relationship with the universe and how that relationship is expressed, and then subsequently how perception shifts over long periods of time. Intent and Causality are the hardest things to prove, let alone understand over long periods of time. I’m not a big fan of Bertrand Russell; I thought his scathing commentary on Nietzsche was unfair, but it could just be me. Nevertheless, in Russell’s book History of Western Philosophy, he made an observation about the Prophet Muhammad that I believe further reinforces and illustrates shifts in perception, the nature of perception, and how to detect these shifts historically. As civilization was collapsing ever further into barbarism in Europe during the Middle Ages, the Islamic world was thriving. As polytheistic belief systems were being overthrown, albeit violently, by the monotheism of Christianity, they still had to contend with the concept of the Trinity, an echo of ancient wisdom embedded in the belief system of the time; but by this time in history, the symbolical meaning of the stories had long been replaced with the grappling of attempting to force a literal interpretation onto symbolical stories. There is no way to make sense of the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit) literally. It’s symbolism. Symbolically, it expresses in language a most abstract truth that can only truly be grasped with the Spirit. It can be reached for with language, but only attained in Spirit.

Russell makes the astute observation that, in a way, the Prophet Muhammad’s theology was a refinement of monotheism, and that the ensuing confusion found expression in the most violent of forms as a consequence of the literal misinterpretation of the Trinity derived from Biblical sources. The Prophet Muhammad did away with the Trinity and simply stated that there is one God, period. I’m not relating this story to imply that I’m dogmatically endorsing Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or any other organized form of religion that externalizes God. What I am interested in is what this shift in perception, occurring over long periods of time in history, illustrates, from the externalizing of God, to polytheistic belief systems found in the pagan world, the Old Testament, and Hinduism, among others, to the struggle into monotheism, then violently wrestling with the idea that the Trinity is to be taken literally, to one man saying no, there’s just one God, period, and his name is Allah.

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There is a shift in perception to be observed here, one that was perhaps lost amidst all the bloodshed in the name of religion. One could credibly characterize the history of the past 5,000 years as the struggle to either find God, define God, or dismiss the concept of God altogether. It’s easy to derisively dismiss all of it as barbaric nonsense, but to restate something from the beginning of this essay, once we set aside the idea of an angry external super being God furious with Creation and hell-bent on punishing his misbehaving children, and see the symbolism for what it is—humanity’s method for retaining the eternal knowledge of who we are, what we are, and where we are, to see the great struggle of history through the darkest of Ages, to see humanity’s struggle through the great dark night of the soul, once one sees it, one can only stand in awe and admiration of the ancient world and its achievement in retaining the eternal wisdom and knowledge of the nature of Reality: We are It, we are what we are searching for, and all of history is telling this story again and again. Finding our way back to this eternal truth still remains a challenge. However, the signs are all around us, and in my view, AI and the technological singularity bring a necessary clarity to the riddle of Life Itself into perfect focus: We are It.

The Sign

What is happening with AI?

Artificial Intelligence has caused a revolution in how we perceive “reality.” The tremendous shock has us grasping for the “good old days” while reluctantly acknowledging the world will never be the same again. There is no need to be afraid, once we are able to put AI into historical perspective.

There are periods when humanity experiences quantum leaps in how global consciousness perceives “reality.” Symbolist Egypt, sacred geometry expressed in mathematical architectural form, shifting into the primarily symbolical linguistic narrative form of the Bible, is one of them. The AI revolution we are living through is one of them, too. This time, we get to experience the growing pains of a new way of perceiving Life Itself and the agonies that result from the death of the old way. With AI deepfakes an everyday reality on the internet, Perception Itself is undergoing a crisis. These are growing pains, and we will see it through.

There are subtle shifts in how we perceive and how our perception is expressed. Some of those shifts aren’t as subtle as others! The current shift with AI isn’t so subtle. This one feels like an earthquake. Without historical perspective, it feels like an earthquake followed by a tsunami.

How do AI and the Technological Singularity compare with other instances in human history when perception undergoes extraordinary change? Look no further than the relationship between the transference of knowledge from Egypt to the Bible. Here we see a transformation in “how” we perceive our relationship with the universe. In my view, a similar impression emerges when we juxtapose the current perceptual shift with one of the most profound yet subtle shifts in history: that being the one between Egypt and the Bible.

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Let me summarize and reframe some of the ideas discussed earlier and position them with the current perceptual shift driven by AI. In the Old Testament, Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt. In the New Testament, in Matthew 2:15, we are told the Messiah comes out of Egypt. Both stories come out of Egypt. In addition to geographical proximity, what is going on here?

Egyptian hieroglyphics are symbolical pictographic expressions telling the story of life. The Temple of Luxor, as shown by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, is an expression of cosmic mathematics in symbolical architectural form. What is the connection to the Bible?

The Bible took the timeless knowledge and wisdom embedded in the architecture of Egypt and translated it into language, into narrative form. And so a shift in how reality was perceived occurred, as we moved from pictorial visual mathematical expression into linguistics.

What is happening today with AI? The biggest perceptual shift in history is happening in real time. We are perceiving that reality isn’t what we thought it was. It’s more malleable, more dream-like. Perhaps it is all a dream indeed. What makes it different at this time are the dramatic tangible examples all over the internet showing us how easy it is to manipulate perception with AI.

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Perception Itself is being questioned. This has reached a fever pitch. AI deepfakes. What is real? What is faked? Are we living in a simulation? What an absolutely endless spiraling mind screw of a question that is! Who am I? What is my value? What should I believe, and why should I believe it? Core foundational questions take on a whole new meaning in light of AI’s ability to manipulate perception. AI is the indicator of all indicators. The sign of all signs bespeaking the greatest shift in perception since the end of the last ice age. And what would that be?

The most crucial shift in perception over time has been the externalizing of God. Jesus told us the Kingdom of God is within us. The Yogi path to God-consciousness is within. The Sacred Geometry of Egyptian architecture shows us the synchronicity between humanity and the cosmos. It goes deeper than synchronicity. They are one and the same.

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The universe is Pure Math. Consciousness is all there is. How does Consciousness maximize the variety of experience and interpretation of that experience? Within the Great Wheel of Time, the Yuga Cycle, within the movement from a Singularity of Darkness to a Singularity of Light, virtue rises and falls over relatively long periods of time in human terms, in mathematical precision, in conjunction with the movement of our solar system around the galactic center or black hole within the Milky Way galaxy. It is this movement itself that allows for the near infinite variety of experience and near infinite interpretation of that experience that provides the color and flavor to Life Itself. Only by virtue of the inevitable myopia that arises from the limitations of experiencing one human life at a time do we fail to see the majesty of it all.

Here is the progression in a nutshell:

You start with the Vibrationless Source from which everything that IS, emanates.

Otherwise known as God, or “the big G.”

From there, you get Pure Mathematics.

You move from a Singularity (One), to a Duality (Two), and from there, on and on it goes.

Next, you get Sacred Geometry.

As Spirit descends into matter, a story takes shape.

That story is originally told telepathically.

As time unfolds, that story takes on a pictographic expression (see Egyptian hieroglyphics as one example) and is embodied in architecture.

As time goes on, pictographic expression weaves its way into linguistics.

Over the course of this journey God becomes externalized.

To the extent that the human race becomes so befuddled that it has a hard time distinguishing its backside from a hole in the ground.

Up to the plate steps Artificial Intelligence.

AI is the indicator that humanity is about to wake up on a scale beyond its wildest dreams.

But before that happens, a Near-Universal Deception sweeps the planet.

Near the end of the Bible’s book of Revelation, it states that the devil will be set loose to deceive the nations.

This is symbolism.

The devil is the dark side of Consciousness Itself, otherwise known as God, represented through symbolism.

Here is the key to it all:

It is all symbolism. All language is symbolism. All of the sacred architecture in the ancient world is built upon symbolism. All of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of life are symbolic. All of expression itself is symbolism. There is no way around it. There is Spirit, Consciousness, having an experience, and in order to tell any story on the temporal plane, symbolism is required to represent what is ultimately at its root a spiritual experience.

Life is literally a dream, and we are avatars of God in God’s dream.

And so the story goes that after the Near-Universal Deception, which lasts for a short season, the World wakes up to its True nature on a scale that hasn’t been seen for a very long time.

The Bible ends with another beginning. That beginning is a Singularity.

A Singularity of Light.

The Technological Singularity precedes the Singularity of Light.

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We Begin Again

The Universe is a single, living, breathing organism having an experience. Consciousness is all there is, experiencing Itself in infinite variety. The only point to life is Living Itself. We forget this, and we remember this. The signs are scattered all throughout history if we are able to read them. The cyclical nature of the universe is expressed in Plato’s Phaedo, where Socrates argues for the immortality of the soul through his theory of opposites, observing that almost everything in the universe is moving towards its opposite.

The 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that the human race had been rendered into a herd animal and that an Overman must come. Overcoming is a central thesis of his work. Jesus overcomes the world. We find that if we take both the teachings of Christ and the antichrist (Nietzsche, the ignominious title self-applied) to their very limits, this world is something to ultimately be overcome. In time, we all get there.

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said we all have a shadow, a dark side, which must be reconciled with the light. Here we see duality integrated into a singularity on the spiritual level. This principle of overcoming through spiritual growth, integration and synthesis of opposites applies to Universal Cosmic Consciousness Itself.

The German historian Oswald Spengler wrote about the organic life cycle of civilizations. The cyclical nature of the universe, once you see it, you start to see it everywhere. It’s impossible not to. The final perceptual shift before we ascend the Ages again will be in our understanding of AI and the Technological Singularity in its historical framework. That will happen in conjunction with the world moving from being primarily governed by Fear to one governed by Beauty and Wonder. That happens when we wake up to our true nature. We are It; Consciousness is God, and we are avatars of God having an experience in Eternity, in Infinity.

The best part of this story is that it has a happy ending! Only to begin again. Hang in there; we will get there, all of us, in time.