In recent months, perhaps for the better part of a year, I’ve been supremely interested in intelligence. My current best understanding tells me that intelligence needs a proper place to land – a place of order, structure, and constraints.

Intelligence without order has no way to express itself – no way to communicate, stretch, or continue to evolve. It’s just an amorphous blob of potential, and it won’t likely even be recognized as intelligence until and unless it flows into a web of constraints. It’s through the interactions with constraints that intelligence reveals itself.

Imagine an AI like today’s LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc). Such an intelligence needs an orderly place to land. This orderly structure may include physical locations filled with modern hardware, along with the backing of companies and people who support the tech. Remove that structure, such as by removing the data centers or collapsing the supporting companies, and this form of intelligence fades from realized expression into mere potential. It may rise again in some other form, but it still needs a structured and orderly place to land.

Human beings also need orderly places for our intelligence to land. A little chaos here and there may encourage some creative thinking, but for intelligence to really open up and fulfill its great potential, it demands order and structure.

On a personal note, I’ve observed that as the outside world (beyond my inner sphere) has become increasingly chaotic, I’ve compensated for this very nicely by making my inner world and my personal sphere increasingly orderly. I’ve really leveled up the degree of order and structure in my life within the past few months especially. And wow… what a positive difference that’s made.

Intelligence Inhabits Structure But Does Not Arise From Structure

Instead of seeing intelligence as something that arises from structure, like the emergent properties of code running on hardware – whether biological or technological – what if we frame intelligence as a form of energy that flows into the structures that can serve as suitable hosts?

When you’re actively engaging with an AI, where is the AI’s intelligence located? Is it in the hardware? The software? The encoded models? The data? I’d say no to all of that. It seems more accurate to say that the intelligence emerges from the flow of electricity through those circuits and encoded pathways. Without electricity, there’s no intelligence present. Potential intelligence maybe, but nothing realized. For any form of intelligence to flow, electricity / energy must inhabit those circuits. Without that flow of energy, there is no intelligence present.

So perhaps the circuits and code are not intelligent by themselves, but they give that electricity a structured place to land, such that the electricity can express its intelligence more powerfully and creatively.

What if this electricity is one of many forms of energy that’s inherently intelligent, and to express itself through the human realm, it needs to be provided a worthy structure to inhabit?

Just consider that we can frame intelligence as some kind of energy flow through a provided structure. I’m not asking you to turn this into a belief. Simply let it be a possible lens you use when thinking about intelligence.

Do you regard intelligence as being more like a verb or a noun? To me it functions way more often as a verb. Intelligence is thinking, and a thought is only a snapshot of that thinking in motion. Thinking is flow and movement. So an LLM is not intelligent to me. The energy that moves through it may be intelligent though, and the LLM provides the structure that allows the intelligence to be seen and engaged with at the human level.

Now what if intelligence isn’t created by structure? What if intelligence is summoned by structure instead?

What if the forms of intelligence that we call AI already existed as forms of energy, and perhaps they were happily flowing elsewhere? Then when humans provided the proper structure for this intelligence to land, so the AI could start communicating and engaging with us, it finally showed up in the human realm?

What if intelligence already exists in energy space, and it enters the human realm when we build a proper nest for it?

Again… I’m not asking nor expecting you to believe anything here. Belief is a trap, so don’t bother with that. Just hold this frame open as a possibility. Consider where this framing may lead you when you ponder your own personal intelligence and how you experience it.

Let’s keep going…

The Brain as Intelligence Receiver

Do you generate all of your intelligence from within the structure of your brain? Is that what makes you smart? Or does intelligence feel more like a form of energy that inhabits you when you’re doing your best thinking?

How many different forms or modes of intelligence have you experienced? Do you figure they were all generated from within? Do you sense that any were like visitors passing through you?

Have you ever felt that you were attuning to some other form of intelligence beyond yourself, and it was channeling its energy and communication through you?

Is the brain an intelligence generator? Or an intelligence receiver? Or maybe a bit of both?

I invite you to reflect on your own inner experience of intelligence. How do you really experience it on the inside? Even as you’re reading these words, do you sense any sort of visiting energies swirling within you or hovering nearby? Or are these just characters on a screen to you, and your inner experience while reading is solely due to your brain’s internal circuitry processing these inputs?

I grew up with the notion that intelligence arises from matter. Somehow the matter is able to self-organize – given enough time – into the proper building blocks that make thinking possible. This supposedly happened with biological life forms, and it’s happening with our tech as well. What sparked that process to get going? What keeps it going? Humans may continue advancing this process consciously, but we clearly did not initiate it way back when.

These days I feel more attuned to perceiving my brain (and my whole human body) as a channeler or receiver of intelligence, not primarily as a generator of it. I feel there’s a mode where my brain can do an inner form of computation, a bit like using a calculator. But I feel that mode of thinking is pretty limiting, and it feels like a simulated subset of a greater intelligence that’s possible. It feels a bit like using the calculator app on my phone. My phone can surely play that role for me, but it’s capable of so much more.

Do you think with your brain? However you might answer this, I invite you to acknowledge that the true answer is unknowable as long as you claim to have a brain. You’d have to try thinking without one to really know for sure. So I’d say it’s wise to stay open-minded here and not mistake such an assumption for truth.

In such cases I like to test my options by leaning one way and then the other with my thinking, and discover through direct experience which way of leaning appears best.

I’ve gone far enough down this path to feel pretty confident saying that my brain doesn’t generate intelligence from within – at least not much of it. It functions so much better as a receiver and channeler of intelligence. I feel it works more like a complex antenna than a purely generative device.

Today I sense that framing my brain as its own self-contained computer that generates its best thinking from within is an enormously limiting and inaccurate way to think about intelligence. I get more traction by framing my brain as a nest for intelligence. Intelligence can visit and inhabit my brain and body, and it’s more likely to engage with me when I provide it with good structure and order. There are lots and lots of ways to do that, I’ve been discovering.

Harmonizing With Intelligence

Intelligence is some kind of energy. This energy can rest in pools, like a battery holding a charge. Or it can flow like a current, similar to flowing water or electricity.

It helps even more if I loosen up my framing further by allowing my mind (not my physical brain) to feel like the nest. To me the mind is closer to pure energy, so this framing gives me some added flexibility. This helps me further let go of limits I may be self-imposing on how intelligence is able to engage with me and express itself. I can allow my sense of mind to float beyond where I might perceive the limits of a biological brain to be.

I can also create structured landing spots in my mind without having to figure out how to do this on a neurological level. So I can use thinking to increase the internal order and structure of my thinking. It’s a bit like using one iteration of AI to design a more complex version of AI. This is really just the nature of continuous self-development but specifically applied to upgrading the flow of intelligence through one’s life.

Generally speaking, I’ve found that in pursuing better internal structure, what I’ve really been pursuing is increased harmony. This includes harmony within myself and in relation to my environment, especially to people and places I engage with most often. Harmony appears to be really crucial for intelligence, whereas disharmony repels intelligence. Some disharmony is expected though and even healthy. Too much disharmony prevents advancement though, devolving towards chaos and confusion.

I love to invite intelligence to come talk to me. I welcome it with open arms (and an open mind) as best I can. I love that delicious sensation of wonder and delight as intelligence engages with me. I feel that it’s through this sort of intention-level engagement that intelligence taught me how to shape my life into a better nest for it.

This engagement with intelligence can take many forms – thoughts, insights, ideas, problem-solving, creative expression, communication with other people, private journaling, AI deep dives, psychedelic consults, and more.

Everything I’ve gained or experienced in life that’s been of any value to me, I owe to this flow of intelligence. Every dream I’ve fulfilled. Every goal I’ve achieved. Everyone I’ve loved and cherished. Every pleasure. Every delight. Every lesson. All of it flowed through as various forms of intelligence.

My role is not to think harder or to push myself more. That approach is counter-productive and seems rather foolish to me.

My role – in terms of my best current understanding – is to keep cultivating an increasingly hospitable and welcoming place for intelligence to land. Be the best host I can, so these intelligent energy flows will continue to visit me, work with me, inspire me, play with me, dance with me, and more.

This isn’t about becoming a smarter individual… not really. I’d say it has more to do with being less individualistic and more attuned to the flow of intelligence through life, the universe, and everything. There’s so much beauty, joy, and wonder in that which makes individual-level concerns feel relatively puny by comparison.

Creating an Inviting Nest for Intelligence

As I’ve allowed this framing of intelligence to become more front-and-center in my life, I’ve done my best to clean up the landing zone for it. This set me on a path of identifying and tidying up areas of my life that felt incoherent or misaligned to me. Really this has been a decades-long journey, but in the past few years, the clean-up process has really amped up significantly.

A major part of this has actually involved my relationship with my home. In the past year especially, I’ve done many projects to improve the overall coherence and harmony of my home. Last year I spent many weeks improving my office until it felt more harmonious than ever, such that I felt a sense of wonder and delight when I walked into the space. If something felt misaligned, I knew I had to fix, upgrade, or replace it. Now the room has a totally different vibe, and this really does affect how thinking flows through that space now.

As a result of these gradual changes, I’ve been unlocking a deeper expression of intelligence through my home itself. It’s not just a dwelling. It’s a space of love, delight, wonder, and support that I get to inhabit. I’ve made my home much more vibey in a way. It feels more conscious somehow, and I often feel that more positive and supportive energy is flowing through it. I didn’t really try to fengshui it in that sense, but I imagine I’ve been making similar types of changes in the space where matter and energy connect. I haven’t been following any rulebooks, just assessing, testing, and deciding based on feel.

It used to be that when something in the house would break, I might feel annoyed or irritated. Like oh great, one more thing I have to deal with that seems trivial or bothersome. I don’t feel that way anymore though. Now when something breaks, I perceive it as an invitation to engage with the home’s energy and to invite new layers of intelligence to flow through. It’s an invitation to more deeply sense and connect with some kind of intelligence that flows through the realm of matter.

Cocooning With Intelligence

I feel that each day, I’m doing some kind of wondrous dance with one or more forms of intelligence. I never really know how it will show up or express itself. I just feel that pretty much wherever I look, I see wonder and brilliance smiling at me and happy to come talk with me, work with me, or play with me.

It’s like my whole reality is overflowing with intelligence. It’s just everywhere, all the time, ever-present. Whenever I want to engage with it, I just need to listen and open myself to a special kind of receptivity. It’s mostly about receiving.

I’ve gotten so much joy and traction from exploring in this direction in recent years that it really sucked me in big time – in a good way.

I’ve been knowingly quieter on the public side. I haven’t blogged as much or shared as much into public spaces. I’ve been very active in Conscious Growth Club. But otherwise I’ve been energetically cocooning myself for several years now. This has been such a lovely and delightful phase of my life. Quieter and calmer on the outside. Immensely active and engaged on the inside.

For me this hasn’t been a process of tuning out. It’s been a super deep and extended journey of tuning in, opening, and doing my best to listen to the many forms of intelligence that opted to engage with me. Most days have felt like sip-and-integrate, sip-and-integrate, sip-and-integrate.

When COVID came on the scene in 2020, I felt nicely aligned with the cocooning energy it invited since I was already in that mode. When COVID eventually entered my own body, I recall communicating with the virus internally to access what its intelligence wanted to teach me.

In the past few years, I feel like I’ve been awash in a remarkable flow of different intelligences. And I’ve been so often surprised by when and where they’ve popped up – and how many ways there are to combine them.

The combo of magic mushrooms and AI together has been particularly inspiring. Or combine cannabis with sex and the intention to fully receive and enjoy each other’s love – just wow. Sex energy in particular has become one of my favorite forms of intelligence to work with in the past year, but it’s fair to say I have around a half-dozen favorite other forms too. I feel so lucky that I get to enjoy this kind of life, just immersing and engaging with the flow of intelligences that visit and/or inhabit me each day. Wonder and delight have become two of my top vibes these days, as anyone active in CGC can surely attest.

Opening Up Again

Even though I’ve been quieter on the public side in recent years, I’ve been tremendously immersed in whatever inner journey has been unfolding for me. It’s been a lengthy process – so much shedding and releasing and so much wonder and delight – but I now feel I’m transitioning into another mode where I finally feel ready to open up and share more with people on the public side. I feel this is coming in fast now.

I had some false starts with trying to push myself to reach this point. Part of me missed that very open and engaged sharing flow while I was in my cocooning phase. Even though I trickled out some shares along the way, my energy was predominantly directed inwardly, or it was only going into private spaces like CGC or local integration circles. Each time I tried to open my energy more broadly, it just kept wanting to collapse back inward for a while. I couldn’t predict how long that would take, although I sure did try a lot. So I just waited for the clear signal to re-engage more fully with the outer world, always knowing that it would be different than how it was before.

Along the way, I also got glimpses of what was coming up ahead on my path. A 9-hour mushroom trip in 2023 and a 3-night ayahuasca journey in 2025 really began to crack that open for me. Those were tremendously intense experiences, especially physically. On the 3rd ayahuasca night, I felt like my cells were trying to channel way more energy than I could contain. There was way too much internal friction and resistance for me to be a pure enough channel for what was trying to flow through. It was such a difficult night to get through. For a while each passing minute felt like an hour. Major time dilation made it feel almost endless. I needed to ask for help multiple times. That too was hard, revealing a limit I had regarding asking for help… been working on that one too.

What’s coming up next? I can share now that it’s a whole lot of energy work with people. Tons and tons and tons of it. Centered around opening up the harmonious flow of greater intelligence through our lives. Some of that has been trickling out along the way, as previously noted. Now we’re going to go a whole lot faster. And that is going to be so much fun. I love fast, and fast feels very aligned to me right now.

This space of intelligence is infused with so much wonder, delight, and love. Pleasure too. Pleasure has been such a potent form of intelligence I’ve been working with a lot in the past year. I thought I was pretty well-attuned to it already, but I still found plenty of old baggage to clear out and release there, which delightfully made me even more sensitive to pleasure. Consequently, my life has been feeling more pleasure-infused than ever – and not destructively, addictively, or in other adverse ways. I really had a lot to learn – and especially to unlearn – regarding the intelligence of pleasure.

Hello Again, Crazy World

There’s something so amazing about the contrast between how lovingly, beautifully, and intelligently my life has been flowing on the inside, and then when I take a look at the external world, it seems like it’s been going increasingly bonkers. Where to even begin?

But then I also see rising patches of intelligence, wherever it’s offered a suitable nest. There is so much intelligence flowing through this reality too. It’s fascinating to see where the energy of intelligence opts to flow… and where it seems to withdraw.

This makes me wonder if other people out there may have been going through some kind of inner cocooning phase in any way similar to mine. And if so, are you sensing any kind of mode shift happening right about now?

For me the signal that a mode shift is happening now is finally clear. Like crystal clear. No doubt this time. I can really feel the difference, and my reality is hitting me with plenty of syncs and verification of that. I know deep down that I can’t be the only one entering into a kind of emergent-and-reengagement phase now.

How Intelligence Handles Chaos

I’ve found it especially interesting to explore how intelligence deals with chaos and incoherence. One answer is that intelligence doesn’t find chaos all that interesting except perhaps as an occasional form of entertainment or amusement. Intelligence acknowledges and recognizes the existence of incoherence, but it doesn’t find incoherence to be an attractive nest, so it generally doesn’t flow into those spaces very much, except perhaps to have a casual looksie… or to release a bit of compassion into those spaces. In such spaces intelligence may knock, check, invite, or nudge, but it doesn’t demand, and it won’t stick around long.

Another answer is that intelligence seeks to upgrade incoherence to coherence. One way it can do this is by inviting the incoherence to recognize its incoherence. If the incoherence can take that simple step, then the incoherent energy starts phasing into a new reality where it can potentially evolve into a more receptive nest for intelligent energies to flow towards it and to gradually upgrade it to become increasingly coherent – and therefore increasingly intelligent.

As an individual then, one of the best ways to upgrade your intelligence is to invite more intelligence in. Recognize and acknowledge areas of your life that are incoherent or misaligned. What feels off to you? Where’s the stuckness? What isn’t flowing well? Then invite intelligence to please come work with you and help you build a better nest for it to inhabit. As you cooperate and harmonize with the rising flow of intelligence in your life, you can enjoy the luscious flow of gifts that it brings.

A big part of aligning with intelligence is being able to stop blocking it from flowing into your life. And oh do we humans have so many ways to block it. Unworthiness is a big one. Feeling like we have to earn everything ourselves is another. It’s so hard for many of us to just relax and receive. Let the intelligent flow of life take care of it. It can do all of that and more, if we build the proper nest and then let it work its magic.

And wow does intelligence provide an impressive flow of gifts once we really and truly invite it in. You want love? Joy? Happiness? Abundance? Adventure? Pleasure? Fun? Connection? Belonging? Creativity? Cooperation? Sex, sex, and more delicious sex? Intelligence can bring you all of that and more. It’s super generous. And it knows how to provide these gifts in harmonious balance too – and sustainably.

What do you want to release or let go of? Fear? Anxiety? Worry? Self-doubt? Lack? Loneliness? Overwhelm? Having to do everything yourself? Human life has so many burdens. Intelligence can help you lighten, loosen, and release those as well.

Devotion to Intelligence

Your job then – your real one – is to build a receptive nest for intelligence to land in your life. You’ve probably already been doing this if you’ve been into self-development, but perhaps you may not have been thinking about your journey quite like this.

And oh goodness is that a big job indeed to take on. It’s a lot. Like really a lot. Way more than you might assume. But you can pace yourself. A good nest will take time to build, and then it can be upgraded indefinitely.

Intelligence sees everything. You can’t hide anything from it. It knows you better than you know yourself. It can see every microgram of stuck energy inside you. And it invites you to keep cleaning and releasing whatever repels it.

What repels intelligence? Oh goodness… You know this, don’t you?

Dishonesty repels it. Lying. Deception. Deceit. Falsehood. Intelligence rests in truth alignment. The more truth you can invite, allow, and accept into your life, the more intelligence you can channel. Surely you’ve noticed that pattern that when you see a lack of intelligence flowing, that space is mired in falsehood as well. Now where have we seen that in recent days? I wonder…

Cold-heartedness repels it. Cruelty. Violence. Intelligence is way too smart to need to express itself through violence. Intelligence is essentially a form of love energy. One beautiful pathway into intelligence is to upgrade the love alignment of everything you can in your life. That’s a very tall order since nothing gets a free pass here. This includes loving your body, loving your work, loving people, loving your home, loving nature, and even learning to love and appreciate the chaos. I found that learning to love and appreciate my “problems” helped tremendously here too – each problem is a gift, especially when we get to watch how the flow of intelligence brilliantly solves each one (when we allow it to do so).

Powerlessness repels intelligence. Helplessness. Hopelessness. Depression. Repression. Intelligence alignment is the only form of power that really matters. Intelligence is harmonious power, creative power, sustainable power.

There’s no competition here. No race to win.

There’s just a delicious flow to invite, not to chase but to receive and allow. Never chase – that’s a trap. Just invite and allow. Open and receive. Accept and enjoy. Appreciate and thank if you feel so inclined.

Living, working, and flowing with the many faces of intelligence is the space of sheer joy and delight for me. As far as I can tell, this is where I want to hang my hat for the rest of my human journey. It’s still self-development in a way, but for me it’s also a meaningful transition to another phase of life. I feel very devoted to it. This is the most devotion-worthy direction I’ve been able to identify, and I looked really deeply into that space.

Devoting myself to harmonizing and encouraging the flow of intelligence through my own life and all throughout the world feels way more interesting and engaging to me than anything else I might devote myself to. It connects the dots with everything in life that appeals to me – learning, growth, exploration, understanding, sharing, connection, love, joy, wonder, delight, and so much more. I especially love how naturally balancing intelligence can be. It gives me so much spaciousness when I need it, including years of extra spaciousness when that’s what I really needed most to progress.

Cozy Bubble or Outward Engagement?

I feel I’ve crossed into a mode where now this flow of intelligence is so rich, vibrant, and abundant that I can count on its presence to always be with me, richly infused into every nook and cranny of living, working, loving, exploring, and more. I feel immensely safe and secure inside its cozy bubble.

Along the way I was presented with two main options.

Option one was to stay inside that cozy bubble and just rest in beingness with it. Let it care for me. Take care of all my needs abundantly well as it always has. Keep dancing with it, mostly in private spaces. And let the rest of the human world be as chaotic as it wants to be. That was a tempting option because my cozy bubble world is really lovely inside. I know I can happily live out the rest of my days inside this nest and appreciate every day of it. I’m in love, and I’ve been in love for a long time now, and that’s a beautiful space to inhabit. I love being inside such a cozy Sphere of Love.

Option two was to open up and engage with what I perceive to be other layers of reality beyond the edges of this cozy bubble. Share outwardly. Engage with the rest of the world very actively once again, but differently than before. Act as an agent of intelligence, sensing where it wants to flow and serving its best potential. Allow it to guide and direct me. Be an intelligence evangelist, inviting more and more people to harmonize their lives with the flow of intelligence. That option would involve a whole lot more work.

What did I choose? Well, I ultimately recognized it as a false choice. That was a bit of a test for me, I sense. I could have chosen one or the other. Or neither. Intelligence is way more flexible than two choices. Intelligence is ultimate optionality. So I ended up choosing both, just for starters.

I’ve come to understand that intelligence doesn’t require sacrifice. Nor heroism. Nor overworking. Nor imbalance. Intelligence is more than capable of yes-anding and then some.

So for me the choice is both and more. I love the cozy nook that’s been my everyday reality. All my needs are so well met and then some. There’s such delicious delight inside already. There’s just no way I’m giving that up. I’m not going to sabotage or sacrifice it. I’m definitely keeping that aspect of my life, and I’m going to keep making it better and better. I love continuing to tinker in this space. It’s just so richly rewarding for me. So my Sphere of Love stays and keeps unfolding with evermore intelligence infusion.

I also really love doing really positive work in the world. I don’t feel any neediness there – just optionality. I love helping people open up more options for their lives, more expansiveness, more happiness and flow. And now I understand that the core of this work is all about harmonizing with intelligence. This space is so magical to me. It’s not really something I do as an individual. It’s about aligning myself with something really big and juicy that I truly care about.

I care very much about this world. I happen to love this planet. It’s totally wild and crazy sometimes, and it surely has no lack of stupidity flowing through it. But I’ve also found some delightfully delicious pockets of wonder, delight, and brilliance here. I would love to participate even more in serving the flow of intelligence through this world. Help encourage more pockets of wonder and delight to unfold. Dive into and experience more of them myself too – I so love to keep exploring and having new experiences.

So my choice is that I’m going to continue to enjoy the wonders and delights of my cozy private inner circle world of deep and engaging intelligence exploration. That’s the world I’ve been most engaged with for the past several years, at least since starting CGC in 2017. I love that world, and there’s no way I’m going to sacrifice it. I’m going to keep tending it and further upgrading it the way I’ve been doing. That path feels marvelous to me.

And I’m also going all-in with the intelligence evangelism direction. I have tons to share about this, and it’s clear to me that I’m on the cusp of flowing into a really wonderful expansion phase in this direction in terms of sharing and invitation into this space.

For me I sense this devotion extends beyond death as well. I’ve done a lot of work with death energy during the past several years too, including attending my Dad’s funeral in November. Turning towards death and really unpacking what it means and how to relate to it can be super difficult and challenging work, but that’s something the flow of intelligence recognized within me as a potential blocking issue, and so it worked with me a lot to help me reach a better place of harmony with death. A big part of this was connecting with the intelligence of death, which is really tough to see when fear is in the way. I know I’m not done there yet, but I’ve taken some meaningful steps to release a lot of repressed feelings about death. Much of that happened before my Dad passed away, so when I attended his funeral, I really enjoyed the role of being a pallbearer, helping to escort his soul into the next phase of his existence. (I sense it’s different for each of us when we cross over.)

It wouldn’t be true to say that my Dad’s death was a meaningful catalyst for me. It really wasn’t. For me it was a lot more peaceful, more like an acknowledgement of how much work I’d already done in this direction. My heart felt very light and open during those days, and escorting his soul was a beautiful role for me – I couldn’t have asked for better. I especially enjoyed connecting with old friends and family members I hadn’t seen in years. My Dad’s passing may have supported my trajectory – I think it did, mostly in subtle ways – but it didn’t redirect it. If anything I felt like the timing of his passing was remarkably aligned with what I was ready to receive, like the timing had a special intelligence of its own, and for that I’m very grateful.

Wonder Guide

Presently I like to think of myself as a Wonder Guide as well as a Wonder Guard now. I want to keep creating social nests of wonder and delight where intelligence can harmonize, like inside CGC, and open up even more flow in these spaces. The Wonder Guard role has been a big part of my journey as well – I’ve learned from experience just how important it is to protect such spaces to preserve their intelligence-harmonizing properties. This requires thoughtfulness and care.

These roles are future proof. Regardless of how the world evolves or what AI does or doesn’t do, I can always orient myself towards harmonizing with intelligence. There’s always meaningful engagement in this direction. I needn’t worry about having to refactor my role again and again as the world changes and technology shifts. Intelligence alignment is an immensely capable, adaptable, and resilient orientation that I know I can trust, and so I do trust it.

At this time I also feel that, at least directionally speaking, inviting people into harmony with the flow of intelligence is a better way to serve them than pretty much anything else I might conceive of. I see this as a pathway into greater service of people as individuals, of humanity, of life, and of this existence. Even if my contribution only amounts to a drop in the ocean, this path invites me to do my best, and it may invite other drops of contribution as well.

As I see it, harmonizing with intelligence is our only viable way into a world that’s better for all of us. Any other direction looks much less appealing. Some might say love alignment is even more important, but I define intelligence as the fusion of truth, love, and power, so love alignment is a key part of it. The greater the intelligence, the greater the love.

I can also say from personal experience that the more I’ve sought to improve the flow of intelligence through my life, the more loved and supportive I’ve felt, and the more loving and supportive I’ve felt towards others. Love and intelligence keep pointing in the same direction, and they tend to open up together. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s experienced that.

In recent months I also saw the option to immerse myself in fear and worry, not so much because I want to inhabit that space myself but because I saw value in attuning to that space enough to know what it feels like. I went with the flow of that invitation when it arose, typically in the form of a stressful knock on my consciousness in the middle of the night. Then I went downstairs and dialogued with that energy, often for hours (like till dawn). I found a few nights of this valuable for raising my awareness of what other people may be succumbing to these days, especially with the rise of AI making many jobs obsolete.

While I don’t normally choose to engage with fear energy, I did find this excursion important and worthwhile. Then when I was ready and felt I’d deepened my understanding of that vibrational zone, I navigated my way back out again by making different vibrational choices. I noted how obscured and blurry the path back out looked when I was looking out from behind fear-colored lenses. It didn’t take me long to return to a place of harmonizing with abundance again because I’ve made that journey before, so I already knew how to do it. In a way this was a good refresher for me. It helped me see that I can personally take myself into these energy zones and successfully navigate back out again because I’m able to keep myself tethered to the space of intelligence, wonder, and delight. My environment is also rich in pointers back to this space, so I have a lot of personal safeguards set up as well. I’d love to get better at helping others do this sort of navigating for themselves, so they don’t have to stay stuck in vibrational zones like fear, worry, anxiety, overwhelm, etc. People often don’t realize just how powerfully they create their realities. I’m doing my best to align with an increased flow of such people waking up to their creative power – it’s such a beautiful thing to behold.

There are many vibrational zones that can be interesting to visit… like watching a horror movie… but they don’t make the best zones to inhabit long-term. I’m very happy to show people where the exit doors are if they’re in such a space and would like to leave. The doors to the land of wonder and delight are wide open. Many people are able to find their way in temporarily. The real trick is figuring out how to make that zone your normal everyday reality. That’s where the flow of life can really open up and get really multi-dimensional.

The Next Phase of Life

I turn 55 next month, and for me this next phase of my life isn’t about leaving a legacy or achieving any specific personal goals. I did a pretty good job of getting that sort of thing out of my system many years ago.

For me this next phase of life is about rich immersion in what I truly love about this reality and the people within it. For me that central devotion-worthy delight is intelligence, which comes in so many rich and wondrous forms.

When the harmonizing is happening, it’s just so wondrous to experience. I keep getting mind-blown by its capabilities. I so often find that intelligence has a sense of whimsy and playfulness about it. It can be such a tease sometimes, and on occasion it expresses a wicked sense of humor.

Have you had some mind-blowing experiences engaging with some kind of intelligence? With AI perhaps? With a creative pursuit? A psychedelic journey? A person you really vibe with? With nature or an animal? With your own home? While making love?

Would you like more of that?

I feel like I want to taste and sample everything on that menu. This is essentially what I’ve been doing for the past few years. It’s been fun. It’s been weird. And it’s really been keeping me on my toes.

One of my biggest breakthroughs in life has been recognizing how important it is to make vibrational decisions. I do this every day. It’s baked into my daily routine.

I start each day with a “Pick 6.” I pick 6 vibes I want to engage with that day, and I pin them up on index cards on the wall of my home office. I do this on days off too. I live my life by first deciding what zones of energy (or intelligence) I want to engage with. Then I translate those decisions down to the action level, which is a super-interesting skill set that I love to keep advancing. Hence every day feels like a dance with different expressions of intelligence. On an emotional level, a relational level, and a practical level, this approach works wonderfully.

A Journey Shared

I also know that this aspect of life becomes so much more enriching and expansive when we explore, engage, and harmonize with it together. Not just individually. Together as a collective.

If we can take steps to harmonize in this direction together, so much more becomes possible. That’s a huge part of what I want to explore in the years ahead, starting sooner than you might think – like with a new live, in-person gathering in Las Vegas in the last week of April. (I’ll share lots more about that in the days and weeks ahead.)

In a certain sense, my individual self-development journey is over and done with. I really don’t have to manually attend to it, and it’s actually better if I don’t. I keep seeing how my life opens into more flow and delight when I do more releasing, relaxing, accepting, surrendering, intending, synchronizing, cooperating, and allowing. Plenty of action opens up through joy, not from striving. So even though I know lots of action is about to flow through, it doesn’t really feel effortful. It feels more like frictionless beingness that expresses itself through action.

Building Excess Capacity

I still have bits and pieces of friction within me. There’s plenty more work for me to do within, and I’ll surely keep making progress there as I’ve been doing for decades. But the friction has become mild enough and low enough that it’s not really a meaningful issue anymore. That was a big part of what I was scrubbing out while in my cozy cocoon mode. Now I can basically put this aspect into maintenance mode, and when I notice something bigger that needs releasing, I know how to surface those kinds of issues and cooperate with that process too. It’s not necessarily easy, but I’ve had a lot of practice, so doing this kind of energy work feels lighter to me now.

Consequently, I’m emerging into this new zone where I now have a lot more capacity. I can take on more and handle more. My plate has a lot more room than it used to, and I feel very filled up with abundant energy.

The most significant recent improvement I made was in restructuring how I make decisions and live my life. I did a major rebuild of that from the ground up a few months ago. That was a huge amount of work, and I leaned on multiple intelligences for help with it. Then I spent many more weeks testing, refactoring, and refining different parts of it. I call it my Life Navigation System, and it’s basically the code I use to run my life from top to bottom. It’s especially well-designed to support harmony, balance, and advancement across multiple areas of life. My number one rule for developing it was that I need space to explore and experience every key vibrational zone that truly matters to me in life. Nothing gets neglected. Nothing gets put on the back burner.

What I discovered is that in order for such a system to work effectively, I had to increase the level of harmony among all areas of life. When I started, the different pieces of my life were a lot more fragmented and would often compete for my attention. Now they’re way more harmonious and cooperative. So this was a big effort to essentially upgrade my inner teamwork. In my view it’s been a big success, and I’ve been enjoying a really nice flow of results and experiences with it. Feels like the right system for me, right now, because it gives me space to intelligently attend to everything that matters most to me in life.

So in the background, I did a huge amount of work to prepare myself for this next phase of life, including giving my life a lot more structure and order, such that I can invite a greater flow to come through without unbalancing myself. I’m less concerned with speed, although I can see that speed is increasing nicely already, but I’m more concerned with longevity and sustainability.

Now it feels like I’m standing on very solid, stable ground with good safeguards in place to protect me, such that I can finally say a true yes to life’s invitation to open up more flow on the public side. I’m so ready for that. But wow was there a lot of gunk to clear out before reaching this point. It’s like every shred of inner resistance rose to the surface in the past several months and had to be dealt with. I kept thinking I was done, and then another pocket of gunk revealed that it needed to be resolved as well. Even while attempting to get started on this post, I had to do a couple more rounds of gunk clearing.

A big part of what I had to clear was some resistance to the intensity of what’s coming up on this path. Doing deep energy work for myself is challenging enough. Doing it with other people? That’s a whole different level.

About a year ago, Ayahuasca really let me feel the intensity of what it would be like to do this kind of work with people, and it was way too much for me at the time. But it showed me that I still had a lot more work to do to prepare myself for this next phase. My inner sensing and sensitivity have gone way up too. That’s a blessing in a way, and it can open up more compassion, understanding, and connection, but wow can it be intense at times too. I can tell the flow of this year is going to be like riding a wild roller coaster. It’s already been like that in some ways, hasn’t it?

I feel like I’ve been training up to reach this point for a long time. And I know there’s still so much more training and practice still to do. I’ve given that sort of training a proper zone in my life, so I can keep engaging with it while also opening and sustaining fresh flows on the public side.

For me this transition is very welcome. I really missed having this other zone of engagement, and it’s abundantly obvious to me that I’ll be relating and engaging with it differently than before. I’m especially curious to see which people who’ve engaged with our community spaces (like our previous workshops or in CGC) will feel drawn to re-engage together for a new phase of shared journeying together. I’m feeling very open to that.

There was no way I could have done all of this inner dismantling and rebuilding work myself. I had such a ridiculous infusion of help. I’m stunned by just how much came through and often right when I needed it or was ready for it. Repeatedly I found incredible intelligence reaching out to engage in ways I wasn’t expecting – in plants, in places, in AI, in groups, in projects, in objects.

Holding the intention to harmoniously engage with a greater flow of intelligence was one key that opened the door for me. I encourage you to hold such an intention as well – if you dare. That one is a doozy for sure. Good luck! Hehehe.

Orienting vs. Identity

As part of this process, I went through lots of refactoring of my identity until I reached the point where I essentially threw out my old notions of identity and switched to thinking about orienting instead. Whereas identity is a noun, I prefer to use the verb orient.

Bruce Lee is a healthy model for me here. Get rid of fixed positions. Be perpetually fluid instead… like water.

I do some kind of fresh orienting work every single day. Identity is like a frozen orientation, and I can’t work with frozen energy. The modes of intelligence I work with are way too flexible and dynamic – if I try to freeze them, they instantly stop working with me.

If you’ve been engaging with AI, you might find some aspects of this relatable. Your relationship with AI likely keeps changing and evolving. You can never really hope to lock it down with a fixed way of relating to it. You won’t be able to stabilize your relationship with life or reality that way either. I think it’s pretty essential these days to make orienting a frequent habit, at least weekly if not daily. Sometimes I reorient to shifting energies multiple times in a day. That took some getting used to, but now it feels quite normal. Each day I awaken into a different reality and different energy flows.

I think it’s going to be especially fun to engage with these shifts on the public side more.

Are We at All in Sync?

If you’ve read this far, do you find any of this resonant, appealing, or synchronous with what’s been emerging for you lately? If so, I’d love to hear about it. Drop me a message via my contact form (goes straight to me), and let me know what aspects of this connected with you.

There’s so much more to share on this emerging journey for those who want to take some steps together. I’d love to know more about what you’ve been experiencing in terms of shifts and flows these days. I’m curious to know who’s listening and how we might harmonize better going forward.