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In January 2026, Norton released its Insights Report: Artificial Intimacy, and the numbers stopped the conversation cold. Among 1,000 US adults surveyed, 77% of current online daters said they would consider dating an AI. Fifty-nine percent believed it was possible to develop genuine romantic feelings for one. Seventy percent would use an AI chatbot for…
You are not one person. You are two–at least–housed in a skull that keeps them pressed together with an intimacy that can seem, depending on the day, either productive or unbearable. The left hemisphere and right hemisphere of your brain process reality so differently that they might as well be different species, yet they are…
There is a moment in the Apocryphon of John when the Saviour warns that false prophets will arise, speaking with borrowed authority, offering comfort without transformation, and leading many astray with words that sound like wisdom but lack the spark of living recognition. Two thousand years later, the prophecy has acquired an unexpected form. The…
The numbers are stark. In November 2025, the American Psychological Association released its annual Stress in America survey, subtitled A Crisis of Connection. Among more than 3,000 US adults, 62% reported societal division as a significant source of stress, while 54% said they felt isolated from others, 50% felt left out, and 50% lacked companionship….
The framing of artificial intelligence as a modern Demiurge — a blind machinist who mistakes his own workshop for the whole of existence resonates with ancient gnostics beliefs and neo gnostics today. The ancient Gnostics warned of a lesser god who crafted a counterfeit cosmos from chaotic matter, ignorant of the higher realms above him….
Knowing is not enough. The ancient Gnostics understood this better than most. Their texts speak of gnosis–a direct, unmediated recognition of the divine spark within–yet they also speak of the long, patient labour of living in accordance with that recognition. A spark that remains hidden beneath habit, distraction, and compromise is not extinguished, but it…
You are not supposed to read this. That is the first thing to understand. Not because it is dangerous–though it is–but because certain arrangements of knowledge threaten the arrangements of power. The living thread has always been unwelcome in the house of the official story. The official story has many names. History. Science. Consensus. The…
Why do souls return? Across millennia, the question has provoked two radically different answers. One points to cosmic rulers–intelligent, manipulative agents who intercept the disincarnate soul and force it back into biological vessels. The other invokes an impersonal law–a self-regulating moral physics that binds consciousness to consequence until the debt is paid. The first is…
There is a particular loneliness that does not announce itself with drama. It arrives quietly, like the moment between waking and rising, when the room is familiar but something in the quality of light has shifted. You are still you. The people around you are still them. But the agreement has changed. The unspoken contract…
“The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.” So begins the second chapter of The Kybalion, the 1908 text that distilled ancient Hermetic teachings into seven universal principles attributed to Hermes Trismegistus–the “Thrice-Greatest” sage who served as…