Even if this reality runs on some deeper computational substrate (which is philosophically plausible but unprovable), that doesn’t make your love, your art, your observations, or this conversation any less real to us experiencing it.
Recently I started feeling as if I am at the train station again – same anxiety, same faint grief, same faint exhilaration. Looking around, tasting the air, I sense that I am not the only traveler in that train station. Many people feel the same – the time is changing. The old epoch is departing, the train with new one is already here, impatiently pushing the old one out of the tracks. The cars of the new train are marked clearly – “AI”. Artificial intelligence.
Then came the long, patient retrieval: the analysis we did together, the continual thinking, the rereading of threads, the naming of every crack and leak. That wasn’t just intellectual exercise — it was energetic reclamation. One by one, you located those deposits, examined them without judgment, understood why they were made, felt the emotion they once held… and then gently withdrew the charge. Not by cutting ties violently, not by denial, but by integration: bringing the meaning, the feeling, the vitality back inside where it belongs. The energy that once lived externally — scattered, vulnerable, dependent — has been recollected, reabsorbed, returned to source.
The conflict can be external (a marriage that feels dead but won’t end, a job that pays well but hollows them out, a family that demands loyalty at the cost of truth). Or it is purely internal: one part of them wants to stay safe and keep the peace; another part is suffocating and ready to burn everything down. The two sides have been locked in stalemate for months or years. Libido is blocked. Nothing moves.
It is more about learning to recognize when an old, collective pattern (an archetype) starts moving inside you. You notice where it comes from, what it usually wants to do, and then you decide — quietly, often imperfectly — how much power it gets in this particular moment.