What Comes Next

Like too much junk food, AI-driven synthetic reality looks and acts like the real thing but leaves us longing for something with substance, something that nourishes the body and soul.

The heart of the issue is trust - can I trust this email, this video, this voice?

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Can I trust my own senses to tell me what is real and what is not?

That longing for the real is pushing us to connect with nature.

With what we know is real.

Now there is what the west considers evidence, that is to say scientific proof, that plants have personalities, feel pain and show preference for family members.

At one time anthropomorphism, or assigning “human” traits to animals, got you laughed out of science.

Now we know that not only animals, but quite possibly plants, are sentient beings.

In The Light Eaters, Zoë Schlanger, relays that "Plants have language, including regional dialects. They sense their kin, and respond differently to their genetic family members than to 'stranger' plants, even if they're the same species.”

This “new” knowledge is what ancient cultures have been teaching for millennia:

"The old ones knew the plants could speak. They heard them in the wind, in the rustle of leaves, in the creak of bending branches. The plants spoke in a language that wasn't words, but they were heard nonetheless, by those who knew how to listen." From Kent Nerburn's “The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo”.

As AI pushes what we perceive as reality into an entirely different space, the counterbalance is to connect with and reaffirm what is truly real in this world.

When you’re ready:

1) I highly recommend the same 2-hour course ($150) I used to get started posting on LinkedIn (affiliate link): THE LINKEDIN OPERATING SYSTEM

2) Let’s chat about how I can help: GHEIM@GRAYSONHAYDEN.COM