How are you using AI for your devotional leadership work and marketing? I’m asking because I think there’s a place for it, but… when we’re stuck for ideas on what to write or create for offers, it can be too easy to reach for an AI app.
We want to create work that carries our wisdom, creativity and devotion. We want our work to have resonance and magnetism. But when we reach for AI first, we cut ourselves off from the natural creative process that gives our work those qualities.
This is a problem for humanity for several reasons, but mainly because it’s making us lazy and cuts us off from our ability to think. As with several other inventions throughout time, humanity gains a lot from it, but the price we pay is much bigger.
”The acceleration through the silicon minds is quite astonishing. As is the price paid in attention. Quite the Faustian pact – but technology has ever been thus – at least since Prometheus paid the liver price.
As McLuhan said, every extension is an amputation: foot-wheel, writing-memory, etc. The cutting off of the head is quite the thing. The headless rite.”
— Sy Tzu (Spiritual Teacher) referencing Marshall McLuhan’s theory of technological extension and autoamputation
There’s a severance of part of ourselves every time we get something that extends human capability enormously.
When the wheel was invented, the cost was that we stopped walking and got fat. When writing was invented, the cost was our memory and the imposed authority over what was deemed the one right and true version of events and information.
Now, with AI, if we’re not careful, we’re lining up to pay the price with our heads. We gain the capability to produce at lightning speed, and save time and energy, but the cost is our attention, memory, agency, and independent thought.
Can humanity really survive if we sacrifice our brain?
And the threat to the feminine is far greater, just as she is poised to make her big come back.
Let’s look at the qualities of the feminine so we can see what’s really at stake:
Firstly, the feminine is the portal that souls pass through as they enter life on Earth. Because we’re the portal we have a permanent connection to the divine. This allows us permanent access to higher wisdom, insight, creativity and intuition.
Because the portal for souls to pass through us is our womb, when we look at the position of where life is created, we notice it’s aligned with our creative sacral chakra. It becomes easy to understand why that area of our body is the epicentre of our creativity.
The feminine creative process begins in the body and moves upwards. She doesn’t begin with a fully formed explanation or a logical plan. She begins with a feeling, desire, instinct or creative impulse that she may not yet have words for. The meaning reveals itself as that energy moves through her.
Her creative energy starts in the lower chakras and moves upwards through the body as she brings something into being. This applies whether she’s creating physical life, an idea, a piece of art, an offer, or her devotional work.
💟 The process starts at the root, where the seed needs to feel safe enough to take root. It needs stability, grounding and the physical resources to survive.
💟 It then moves up into the sacral chakra (the creative womb) where the seed is conceived and begins to take form. This is where desire, imagination and creative energy turn possibility into something we can feel growing inside us.
💟 From there, it moves into the solar plexus, where it meets our will and self-worth. This is where we ask ourselves the same questions, whether consciously or unconsciously: do I believe in this idea, do I believe I’m capable of creating it, am I worthy of doing it well, am I willing to nurture it, protect it, and give it the energy it needs to see it through to completion?
💟 Next, it moves up into the heart chakra where we inspect it for truth, love and devotion. Here, we ask ourselves: Is this something that is meaningful, is it aligned with my values and what I’m devoted to, does it feel true and aligned for me, and is this actually mine to bring in?
💟 Then it moves through the throat chakra, where we find the words, expression and voice to communicate it. Something that previously existed only as a feeling or idea inside us can now be named, explained and shared with other people.
💟 From there, it moves into the third eye, where we can see the bigger picture. We recognise the patterns, understand what it will look like and see its full potential.
💟 Finally, it reaches the crown, where it reconnects with the universal and divine mind/higher wisdom. This is where we understand that the creation came forth from us, but didn’t necessarily begin with us. We received the divine seed, moved it through our bodies and brought it into a form to be gifted to the world.
When we reach for AI first, we cut ourselves off from our own wisdom and discernment of our body. And this is where we make the first Faustian bargain. We gain speed, ease, and unlimited output at the cost of connecting with our own divinity, and that’s not a price I’m willing to pay.
It gets all too easy to stop tuning in and listening to the quiet whisper of our hearts, the greatest compass that ever existed!
We also cut ourselves off from the magic that happens when we’re inspired and motivated through the tools the feminine has at her disposal that help her touch places AI just can’t go.
It’s a divine gift that we get to put some music on, dance, play, be sensual, experience pleasure and receive inspiration from our higher powers.
And this is where we encounter the greatest injustice of all if we’re using AI to do everything for us: because when we’re creating when in play, dance, pleasure, sensuality and even our pain (!) that’s where resonance and magnetism are found.
What most of us don’t realise is that WE ARE THE MAGIC!! Without our wisdom, creativity, pleasure, joy and even our pain… the resonance is just not there.
AI can ‘t create resonance and magnetism. And when AI starts creating our ideas, words, offers and marketing for us, it can create a version of us that doesn’t actually exist. Then when people meet us in real life they discover that something is different, and there’s a rupture of trust.
But the problem goes much deeper than our work no longer sounding like us. The more of our thinking and creating we hand over, the more we lose connection with our own creativity, intuition, discernment and ability to trust our own voice.
The feminine shouldn’t have to sacrifice her divine creative capacity in exchange for speed and unlimited output.
If we carry on handing our work over to AI, we become increasingly dependent on it. Our natural creative process weakens because we’re no longer using it, and we lose confidence in our ability to create without assistance.
Our work may contain information, but it loses resonance, magnetism and life. We become disconnected from our bodies, intuition, divine connection and unique voice.
And instead of the feminine making her big comeback, we end up surrendering her into eternal submission in exchange for a more aggressive version of masculine productivity and mass output without meaning or purpose.
Even in our flawed imperfection, human creativity and intuitive wisdom still offers more value than anything AI can produce.
And I firmly believe that there will be a split with humanity. Those who value human potential, and those who value mass output. I don’t think we need to be scared that AI will take over our jobs. Because what humanity offers: the marvel that an actual human being used their free will and talent to bring the world their medicine in all its perfect and imperfect glory.
There are more and more people who shut down as soon as they suspect AI has created something, and I am one of them. I want to see human skill, human wisdom, human talent. There’s a real miracle in what humanity is capable of and to me its sacred.
So, will we use AI as a tool that supports our creative power, or allow it to replace the process that connects us to that power?
Having said all this, do I use AI in my posts? YES. But this is how I choose to use it so I’m not sacrificing my creative power:
🖋️ I brain dump all my thoughts on either paper or in a Google doc. I’ll write the full post. If I’m struggling to put a thought into words but I’ve got the main premise, I’ll ask AI to help me figure out what I’m trying to say just in that one part.
🖋️ After I’ve finished writing the full post, I’ll ask AI to check my spelling and make sure my sentences are reading smoothly.
🖋️ And just like this post is already at 1400 words, everything else I write very easily reaches 2000 words. I was trained as a long form writer so go figure. I’m wired for depth and depth can’t be conveyed in 500 words.
🖋️ I post the full blog on my website and then I shorten it and structure it for social media.
🖋️ When it comes to my images, I create those too. The most I do with AI is ask it to give me feedback on how to enhance what I created, as if it were a magazine layout editor or graphic design expert. It’ll tell me to make text bigger, add a drop shadow, or change the colour, but the rest is all me.
When we use AI this way, our ideas continue to come from within us.
We strengthen our creativity, intuition, discernment and self-trust. Our work carries our lived experience, wisdom, pleasure, love and devotion.
People don’t only understand what we’re saying. They feel it.
We get to create magnetic work without sacrificing the sacred part of ourselves that makes it magnetic.
Intentionally connecting to the feminine technologies is also where I help my clients. So, if you’re feeling that the price of using AI is too high for you and what stands to be lost is more valuable output and volume, my ‘Mystical, Magical Content Creation with the Feminine’ programme might be just the medicine you need to remind and reconnect you with everything you’re capable of when you trust your sacred being.
Let me know how you’ve been doing with AI. Have you managed to use it without outsourcing parts of your work that need your intuition, creativity and feminine wisdom? Have you made any rules for yourself on when you’re allowed to use it and when? I’d also love to hear how you’ve got it to serve you rather than rule you.
With love,
Nicky
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