We've all been experiencing a large cultural shift in the form of Artificial Intelligence. The advent of this new technology raises serious questions about what it means to be human.
In today's message, we explore the deeper spiritual implications of AI, and how to have a healthy relationship with these rapidly evolving technologies.
Quotes:
“AI is not one thing—it is a sprawling field of interlocking techniques, tools, and capabilities, developing and deploying across domains and specific applications” —Brookings
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” —John Culkin
“Vulnerability is the precondition to contact…You can form no intimacy without vulnerability.” —Junot Diaz
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” — Alan
"If there is one theme that emerged again and again—from our questions, from the answers, from the vast troves of sacred data the AI was analyzing—it was this: love. The meaning of everything is love. That is what the entire record of humanity drills down to. It’s all about love. Love is everything. It is the most divine giftvwe have. When we give it away, we are given more of it. When we come back to it in the present moment, we are in heaven."— Iain S. Thomas; Jasmine Wang; GPT-3
“The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
4 Oct 2026
The New Story (Part 3) | Jake Haber (10.4.26)
As we concluded our series "The New Story", we took a brave look at our own stories of the Divine. How have these stories been shaped by others and our own values?
Regardless of what you believe, this message is an encouragement to live out a story of interconnectedness rather than a story of separation.
Quotes:
Quotes:
Anne Lamott:
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Richard Rohr:
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living; we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
David Korten:
“When we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong.”
Charles Eisenstein:
“The essence of the Story of Separation is the separate self in a world of other…It is the story that holds us as separate individuals and holds humanity separate from nature.”
Thomas Merton:
“We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity.”
1 Oct 2026
Meditation | Judith Balian (9.27.26)
Enjoy Judith's meditation from the services on September 27, 2026.
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