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Intelligence Was Never the Point: Interior to Interiority in the Age of AI

By Ilia Delio | August 5, 2026

From where I stand, we are having the wrong argument about artificial intelligence.The debate almost always runs along one axis. Can machines think? And if they can, what is left that belongs to us alone? For a long time, we did not have to ask the deeper question, because we had a comfortable answer to the surface one. We identified humanity with a set of distinctive capacities—reason, language, creativity, symbolic intelligence—and took these to define what it meant to be human. As long as those capacities remained uniquely ours, the question of personhood could stay politely closed. Intelligence seemed measure enough of human uniqueness.Artificial intelligence has unsettled that confidence. Machines now compose music, generate language, recognize patterns, and perform reasoning...

Session 2: Concerning the Search—Spirituality and Science

By Ridgeway Addison | October 14, 2021

Hello again, course participants. And welcome to Week 2 of our course! It was a pleasure to see and meet all of you during our initial live seminar session. Thank…

From the Christophany Groups – Australia and New Zealand

By WISR Institute | October 12, 2021

Our reflections on writings from Teilhard and those also who have written about his writings, has steadily opened my mind and heart to a new way of being. Most important…

Community Sharing: Seeing the World from Another Center

By WISR Institute | October 12, 2021

“I am glad you pointed out the difference between Teilhard’s mystical cosmological based on our new understanding of a dynamic and evolving universe and that of the early mystics who’s…

Session 1: Concerning the Search—Spirituality and Science

By Ridgeway Addison | October 6, 2021

Greetings, course participants—and Welcome! I have not met any of you yet. But I have been thinking about you and praying for you ever since I began creating this Howard…

Change is Costly: The Power of Sanctity

By Ilia Delio | October 5, 2021

Yesterday we celebrated the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi. The world knows him as the patron saint of ecology, the lover of birds and bees, and friend of the…

The Evolution of Consciousness and Modern Worship

By Rick Pidcock | September 27, 2021

The sound of a thousand people singing filled the room in perfect sync with the driving sound of the band. As we sang and played, my eyes looked around the…

“The Primacy of Love” by Ilia Delio

By WISR Institute | September 16, 2021

You can now order Ilia’s new book: The Primacy of Love Part of the My Theology series Given the primacy of love, if we have only one choice to…

Community Sharing: The Art of Un-Doing

By WISR Institute | September 13, 2021

From Jim B. “A few things struck me after I read your post: 1) YES, we need “enduring vacations”–I try to have a “mini vacation” every day–some call it prayer,…

Christophany Groups: Who Me? Why…Yes!

By WISR Institute | September 13, 2021

Who Me? Why…Yes! Who should facilitate a Christophany group? You. Why? by Marilyn from an online Christophany group in Duluth, MN Let’s start with why any of us might have…