What Are They Even Thinking?

Ask ChatGPT a question — any question — and in less than a second, you’ll get an answer. What you won’t see is what happens behind the screen. Somewhere, in a remote data centre, servers heat up. Cooling systems activate. Water evaporates.

What about this tool, ChatGPT? How much water does it use?

Researchers estimate that every 1,000 AI prompts could result in the evaporation of roughly 500 millilitres of water, about the size of a bottled drink. Multiply that by millions of users per day, and ChatGPT’s water footprint becomes significant.


Manda Scott: Talks about AI as a spiritual Elder

The Problem is that Core Shamanism has no ethical foundation and is not a nature-based spirituality, so therefore anything is acceptable, including AI. A connection to nature based on ideology, mantras and ignorance of land history and not knowing the actual brain/ naure mechanisms of the nature connection are the problem. There is plenty of peer reviewed science in the matter if how thw limbic system is influenced by nature.

Shortened clip.

As a practitioner of core shamanism. Scott has her own mythology about what she thinks Shamanism is:

"I had read enough about the hubris of people who think they can teach spiritual practice – and suffered under the egos of (some of) those who think they can teach shamanic practice.."

"OK. I’ll do it. But I’ll do everything I can to make it safe. Because the thing about being the tribal shaman, in whatever culture you’re in, is that it’s not easy, it’s not trivial: people die training to be a shaman. Some people choose to die to avoid becoming the tribal shaman. It’s a position of enormous responsibility and my own solid belief is that we in the west, although we can (and do) petition the old gods for help… we’re not being shamans. We’re using the tools of shamanic practice to help our lives and, if we get beyond the point of projecting, if we do the work hard enough, diligently enough, for long enough to at least begin to see our own stuff, then we can help those around us."


Remember, Core Shamanism has nothing to do with nature. This blog already has a post about how modern Shamanism was invented. In many ways this charicature fits the core shamanism fraud perfectly.


So when Manda Scott is invited by Sacred Earth Activism (FB group) to talk about "connecting to the Web of life"

We get hubris and ego, a visualisation meditation of the "Boudican World" and its 2-dimensional. This is what Core Shamanism calls a "Shamanic Journey" 

I edited this short clip of Scott's "Shamanic Journey" and annotated it.
You can access the original here via the Sacred Earth Activism website.

The derelict bluebell wood in the video
It was partially restored by me in 1998. This woodland is over 1000 years old, but the last cut was in the time of our grandfathers, as Manda says, without realising the implications of what she is saying. 
Since the Neolithic, England's ancient coppice woodlands looked like this, busy with people working the woodlands, making every product needed in the home and on the farm. From Spoons to thatching spars. Scott's description is flat. Lacking historical context because she actually knows nothing about how we were deeply connected to the land.
This is a modern coppice planted 20 years ago about to have its 3rd spring (cut)

"The future that we want to step into"

Shortened Clip.

Is flourishing the language of hope?

How can we be moving into an age of flourishing when the Global South is on the frontline of deadly heat, catastrophic flooding, sea level rise and crop failures?

This is hubris and wrong messaging during a crisis and it impedes us. 

"The future that we want to step into"

Last year, in Southern England we had a drought from March to October. "The future that we want to step into" & "Flourishing Future" are becoming the mantras of what appears to be middle-class indifference to the catastrophic train wreck we are living through. This messaging is like watching the arrogant runner celebrating before crossing the finish line. This is hubris and the wrong messaging. 

The Titanic is sinking "There's plenty of lifeboats as long as you don't know that steerage passengers are locked below."

These people are co-dreaming an elite future for the "enlightened". Plum Village is being used as the model, but the messaging is not conducive to adaptation because getting there will be such a breeze.



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