The Pen, The Soul, and The Shift: Choosing Conscious Use of AI

Lately, I’ve been noticing a rise in spiritual voices cautioning against AI—calling it a threat to creativity, to intuition, even to the soul. The fear feels real, and I understand where it’s coming from. These are teachers and healers who have built their lives around presence, reverence, and depth. They’ve worked hard to reconnect to what’s sacred, and they’re protective of that space.

But I wonder if what we’re really being asked to examine is not the tool—but the way power responds when it starts to feel threatened.

I believe in tools that liberate. And I believe in our ability to engage with them consciously.

AI, when stripped of hype and fear, is just that—a tool. One that can be used to deepen creative expression, amplify connection, and expand access to knowledge. The same way the printing press once gave ordinary people access to sacred texts, AI is now decentralizing access to strategy, language, art, and insight.

Of course there are risks. There always are when systems shift. But rejecting the tool out of fear only hands more power to those who are already using it—quietly and strategically—to shape the future without us.

What troubles me is when the message to “stay spiritual” comes wrapped in fear. Fear that we’ll forget who we are. Fear that we’ll be replaced. Fear that we won’t be able to trust our own voice anymore.

But I don’t believe the soul is that fragile.

To me, being spiritual has never meant rejecting innovation—it has meant engaging with the new through the lens of integrity, intuition, and awareness. It means asking better questions. Who controls access? Who gets to create? Who is being left behind?

If we avoid AI completely, we risk allowing others to shape the world without our input. If we engage with it consciously, we have a chance to write a new story—one where healing, creativity, and wisdom are no longer gatekept by money, privilege, or institutional power.

Think Heavy Move Light was born to hold these kinds of questions. The ones that don’t fit neatly into categories. The ones that ask us to sit with nuance and trust ourselves even when the world around us is loud with contradiction.

So here’s what I know right now:

• AI can be a mirror.

• It can also be a megaphone.

• It is not sacred or soulless—it is shaped by the hand that wields it.

• We still get to decide how we engage with it.

Let’s not repeat history by fearing the pen. Let’s learn to hold it with steadiness, awareness, and care.