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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...

The Human Revolution and Christogenesis

By Ilia Delio | November 25, 2020

Dear Friends, As we pause to give thanks for the gifts and blessings of our lives, let us recall the many times we have taken life for granted, remembering that…

Trust For The Meditation Process Grant

By Gregory Hansell | November 9, 2020

Dear Friends, I am very proud and happy to announce that the Center for Christogenesis has received its very first grant! The Trust for the Meditation Process will be…

Human Potential in an Age of Anxiety

By Ilia Delio | November 9, 2020

Early Christian writers such as Irenaeus of Lyons (2nd c. AD and Gregory of Nyssa (4th c. AD) were cosmic, creative and bold in their thinking. The incarnation of God…

‘Fratelli Tutti’: Papal dreams or Vatican diversion?

By Ilia Delio | October 21, 2020

On Oct. 3, the feast of the transitus of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, on social order and universal brotherhood. As in his…

Christogenesis By Any Other Name?

By Ilia Delio | October 12, 2020

The new name for our Center has caused some concern among our followers; hence, I thought it best to try to explain why this name is fitting for a world…

Why the “Center for Christogenesis”?

By Ilia Delio | September 30, 2020

The Omega Center has been in search of a new name for several months. Recently, we decided that the best fit is “Christogenesis.” This is a term that Teilhard de…

INFINITE POTENTIAL

By WISR Institute | September 14, 2020

INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s profound insights…

Christianity, Justice and Ecology in An Age of Crisis

By Mark Wallace | September 9, 2020

“But ask the animals and they will teach you; the birds of the air and they will tell you; speak to the Earth and it will teach you; and the…

Social Justice without Cosmic Theology is Blind

By Ilia Delio | September 1, 2020

Religious disaffiliation has been on the rise since the late twentieth century. The term “spiritual but not religious” is now increasingly a way for primarily younger generations to define themselves.…