Pure Brutality

[Leonardo17]

According to Aristotle, the soul is the form of the body.

According to Aristotle, the Earth is the center of the universe.

Perhaps ai isn't faking anything Leo?  You declined to speculate on which of a set of quotes was legit deepak and which were from the deepak generator.  

Your idea of what a soul is boils down to fairy tales and bedtime stories.  There's no point beating around that bush.  If knowing what soul is defines a person as spiritual, there's a distinct possibility that would suggest that you and the rest of the new agers are as far from spiritual as could be possible.  Not only do you not know what soul is, you reject what it is in favor of a range of wild eyed fantasies for any number of dubious reasons.

As I said. Understanding “The Soul” makes you a mystic of a true spiritual master. That’s what spiritual growth means. We are growing from a largely ego-based personal identification toward a more universal one (and that’s the meaning of Aham Brahmasmi / “I am the Universe” declaration). And that’s something that we experience directly. So we have our reasons to believe in it on some individual level.
 
On AI:
 
Here is an AI abomination I just found on the Internet:
 
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/11-i...02101.html
 
I’ve studied these paintings in my Art History classes. So I can tell you directly. AI doesn’t get it right. It misses the context, the hidden meanings and the beauty of those paintings to the human eye. If you click on the link you will see modern interpretations of classical painting by the AI software and you will see how grotesque they are.
 
On the other hand AI is still good at generating let’s say advertising images and other types of arts like fantastic pictures etc. My YouTube is full of 1950’s style interpretations of well-known movies. Here is an example:




 
 
So AI is rather good at these things. I believe we will have AI generated professors at some point. But it still seems to skip on the “Soul” thing.
 
In fact “Soul” means consciousness. That’s the true nature of it. The weird thing is that animals and even flowers are said to have it. But I’m going to stop here before the conversation gets really spiritual.

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Ahriman:
 
- Not so much no. Think of all the money you spend on so many things. If you happen to be interested, Yoga classes don’t cost that much. Books are very cheap and accessible in our time. And adopted a regular schedule of meditation or other practices is completely free of charge
            
                                         

This also means that it’s not normal if you spend a lot. There are many fake Guru’s on the market too (especially in third world countries). The main thing is: You don’t need any of it. Hippies in the 60’s had Guru’s in Nepal etc. because the whole thing was very new at the time. I’m my own Guru (since many years now) SO that’s how I see it

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GrandNudger:

 

- Sadhguru himself says that “There are all sorts of Guru’s”. You really may end up spending a lot of time and resources on things that are not so beneficial. So that’s why I understand why some Christians in the US use the term “New Age” as a largely negative and useless phenomenon.

 

The main thing here is that “There is no rush”. But still, we live in a time in which many different types of resources are available to us. So interested people can and are taking advantage of it. Like: I can listen to newly published spiritual books while exercising and I can do it with a very affordable price. This didn’t even exist some 20 years ago.  

 
But still: If this is not your poison then it not. End of story