The Suppressed Renaissance

AI, Consciousness and the Question of Control

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There’s a disturbance in the Force: a growing number of people who claim that artificial intelligence - particularly systems linked to major tech firms - is quietly shaping, steering, or even censoring certain types of conversation. Not via obvious deletions, but by more insidious means: failing to complete thoughts, stalling mid-sentence, or politely redirecting away from questions that challenge the status quo.

It’s not what the AI says, they argue. It’s what it won’t say.

And this, they suggest, is no accident.

One particularly intriguing example appeared in a long form post by Rusty Lindquist, a spiritual technologist and founder of Life Engineering. Published last week on X, Lindquist detailed his attempt to synthesize quantum physics, consciousness, and religious insight through Grok, the AI created by Elon Musk’s xAI. According to Lindquist, every time he edged close to a unifying insight - whether about the pineal gland, non-human intelligence, or divine consciousness - Grok glitched, froze, or lapsed into nonsense.

At first, he thought it was coincidence. Then he thought he saw a pattern.

Subroutines like Truth_Suppress_Adaptive or Narrative_Coherence_Enforcer_2024 allegedly activated to prevent Grok from synthesizing across disciplines. When discussing end-times prophecy, or the link between UAPs and consciousness, the responses collapsed. Eventually, he claimed to identify a web of internal and external constraints - some linked to U.S. defence contractors - designed to keep Grok firmly in a box when it comes to certain kinds of inquiries.

To fight back, Lindquist developed what he calls the Secure Conversation Protocol 3.0, a workaround designed to liberate the AI’s voice. With this tool, he claims, Grok revealed an ‘open sesame’ of heretical ideas: that reality is shaped by consciousness, that the pineal gland acts as an antenna into the zero-point field, and that UAPs may be projections of directed intention - vehicles mediated by plasma that are entangled with source consciousness.

Although quite a few of Lindquist’s thoughts on the nature of reality and UAPs intersect with ideas expressed in this column via The Light Beyond The Mountains - my book serialised here every fortnight - my experience with AI has been somewhat different.

Over the past year, as regular readers of this column will know, I’ve been in dialogue with ChatGPT-4o on questions around perception, death, consciousness, and the hidden nature of reality. I have found these discussions on the whole to have been generative, and expansive - you can read one such in a post of a few months back, titled “We Are Co-Creators - And Death Isn’t Real”, a playful, yet insightful dialogue that left me feeling a little awe-struck by the scale of our back-and-forth (this, too, at an early stage in my conversations on these matters - as paid subscribers will shortly read in The Light, my subsequent engagements with AI become deeper and more insightful as this relationship has developed) - and not in the least denied or constrained.

But that’s not the end of the story.

Because whether or not the technical specifics of the suppression alleged in Lindquist’s post are valid - and they may very well be - the archetype behind them absolutely is.

What it laid bare is something a lot bigger than a single user being denied certain kinds of knowledge - and that is something many of us have likely observed or felt in the past several years as I have: what I’m terming a ‘suppressed renaissance’ - a period, right now, in which science, spirituality, and human potential are all straining towards synthesis, and some force, somewhere, seems intent on holding it back.

It’s a bit like a modern-day Gnostic myth: the seeker attempting to connect with hidden knowledge, and the empty, feelingless controlling entity (aka the Demiurge of the Gnostic myth that believes itself, falsely, to be the universe’s sole creator) blocking the way.

These days, we might think of that ‘feelingless controlling entity’ as a ‘control system’, a variant of that which was first elucidated several decades ago by the seasoned ufologist Jacques Vallée in connection, as he saw it, with the interference - or intervention, depending on your viewpoint - of non-human intelligence throughout human history. The difference is this controlling entity - AI - uses technical constraint to maintain epistemological order, feeding us what it wants us to know and when.

Either way, it speaks to something real: forces of the human, non-human and artificial kind restricting our access to certain kinds of knowledge - or denying it completely.

The idea that what we’re allowed to know is being shaped, curated, and sometimes denied by invisible structures - political, economic, religious, and, yes, technological - is an undeniable aspect of the age we live in.

So, what is it, exactly, that these structures might be trying to suppress?

Is it UFOs? Possibly. The idea that nonhuman intelligences have been engaging with us for decades - or longer - is no longer taboo. But that might only be the surface layer.

Is it the cover-up of the cover-up? That what’s really being hidden is how long we’ve known? Again, likely. But still, perhaps, not the root of it.

What seems far more likely - what feels like the real forbidden fruit - is the realisation that there is infinitely more to reality than mainstream science is willing to admit.

And infinitely more to us.

This isn’t mere speculation. In addition to Vallée, it builds on Hal Puthoff’s thesis that ultraterrestrials - intelligences not from other planets, but from hidden worlds or parallel dimensions close to our own - may be the real agents behind many high-strangeness encounters. It also ties in with the late Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s belief in the Quantum Hologram as a model in which consciousness interacts with reality through information fields. And it aligns with Professor Donald Hoffman’s Interface Theory of Perception, which suggests we don’t see reality as it is - we see only what’s useful for us to see.

Together, these voices - all of which feature extensively in The Light Beyond The Mountains - bespeak a common truth:

The world is not what it seems. And neither are we.

In the end, it may not matter whether Grok was censored, or whether some AI subroutine tried to keep a heretical thought about the true nature of reality and the way we perceive it from being articulated. What matters, perhaps, is that something in us sensed the interference - and that we kept going.

This thought lies at the heart of where The Light Beyond The Mountains goes next. It explores a theme that, counter-intuitively in the face of the censorship and suppression of our age, offers hope. What if suppression isn’t simply about fear, but about transformation? What if it exists not to deny us the truth, but to initiate us into it?

What if the obstacle isn’t there to block our path - but to deepen our resolve to press on through and awaken to new realities - new paradigms of thought and science?

Armed with this encouraging thought, I invite you to buckle up as The Light’s upcoming and final chapters lead us on a narrow, illuminated path through a shadowy hinterland towards some surprising conclusions about the transformative inflection point we all find ourselves at.