We kick off our next evolve salon season with a new issue. For Summer we have a topic that’s all about Landmarks of a Culture of Consciousness.

It is easy to wish for a new culture in which awareness and depth play a leading role. But how do we achieve such a culture? Our sense of wholeness plays an essential role when we try to leave the fragmentation of our time behind us. It is not without reason that many spiritual activists today speak of our ability to interbeing. Interbeing means a new aliveness in inseparability for which there are no blueprints yet.

This is precisely why our imagination is particularly in demand here. What can our life on this planet look like if we bring powerful images of togetherness into the world?

Topic: On the brink - from us Humans to Artificial Intelligence (Auf der KIppe – von uns Menschen zur künstlichen Intelligenz)

Artificial Intelligence will shape our future. But how it will do this also depends on us. Will it take over our minds or will we succeed in forging a new partnership? The world is on the brink and it is not technology, but our understanding of wisdom that will give us the key to dealing with this challenge. Therefore investigating the potentials and possible threats of AI brings us also to the question of how we manage to keep the sacred alive in a world that’s driven more and more by technology. These are big questions that we would like to explore together with you in the upcoming evolve Salons.

Salon July 18
‍The next two articles from our issue on Artificial Intelligence are confronting ones. Daniel Schmachtenberger has intensively analyzed the meta-crisis in which we find ourselves. In his eyes, the rapid development of artificial intelligence could exacerbate the complex interactions of ecological, social, political and spiritual crises. Despite the increasing risk of catastrophic events, he also sees hope that the use of AI does not have to culminate in self-destruction and external control. Elizabeth Debold expands on these hopes in her article on Moloch, an ancient Phoenician deity to whom children were sacrificed. She says: "Moloch is a way of raising awareness of the destructive forces in which we humans are trapped." Moloch is the great antithesis of human love and care. What if we were to place these more strongly at the centre of our interactions again?

Salon August 15
The last articles from our issue on Artificial Intelligence open the horizon by some really surprising insights. Why not simply meet artificial intelligence with human consciousness for real? Srinija Srinivasan and Soryu Forall both appreciate the possibilities of AI and are looking for ways in which we can work constructively with it. With the members of his Monastic Academy, Forall is attempting nothing more and nothing less than to offer AI a space in which it can mature spiritually. He believes that ultimately it can be our attention that makes the difference in how our future coexistence with artificial intelligence will look.