Preface & Context
I am Mark Zaretti MSc. I was born in 1974 and have lived long enough to witness the computer revolution. In 1998 I first encountered the idea of “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) while studying an MSc in Bioinformatics at Manchester University’s School of Biological Sciences, well before many people would first hear of this phrase. I’ve worked in IT for many years and am proficient enough to understand the broad concepts. Since 1981 I have also been proactively spiritual, practising and then from the late 1990’s teaching meditation. I’ve been interviewed, on radio, and have published a number of books and articles on the topic. But most of all I have been blessed with insights, experiences, and what can best be understood as “Higher Information” all of which are of a spiritual nature. Perhaps then I am well placed to bring higher spiritual understanding down to a level where it can be applied to worldly matters, such as to give a spiritual perspective on technology and AI. Not least because I have had a foot in both worlds.
I have for many years been privy to higher spiritual insights into the intellectual origins and driving forces behind the emergence of AI, first as a concept, and inevitably as a manifest reality. I can no longer, with a clear conscience, remain silent about my insights and spiritual concerns about Artificial Intelligence and so I have compiled this charter, a decree of spiritual intent. The purpose being that it may help others who share a similar foreboding towards AI to articulate and communicate their own concerns. Consider it then a template of reference. Putting in words a concern that is founded in this world as well as the higher ones. I speak as a spiritual teacher, and as a human being with broad real-world IT awareness.
On the 5th March 2025 at 07:19 I was inspired/moved to switch on my phone’s voice recorder and then dictated (received) the following words, which I have written out below.
The Human Intelligence Charter
Spiritual Opposition to Artificial Intelligence
“God made man in his own image.”
This doesn’t speak about aesthetics and form. This speaks higher. God is formless, God is beyond edges and bounds. Therefore what does it mean? It means it is the qualities of God which we (Humanity) have the opportunity to embody and express:
- Goodness
- Wisdom
- Compassion
- And so on.
Our ability to think higher than the animals. Our ability to intuit, to be receptive to higher inspiration; to God. To be spiritual. We are not one part, we are all parts. When all parts work, there is harmony. Where simply this is seen when there is balance between the head and the heart.
Artificial Intelligence, like and artificial head, has no heart. There is no balance, there is no harmony. It is not “Good” because it is not of “God”. God did not create it. It is the machination of the enemy, that which is against God, which seeks to keep you away from God.
Therefore, if we seek to be more good; closer to God; to be more spiritual; to be more loving; to be wiser; to embrace and embody the qualities of character that are a representation of God, then we should not engage with AI. We have “Real Intelligence” (RI) and that intelligence is not just intellectual; it is not just memory recall; it is not just pattern recognition; It is not even just higher-reasoning. These are all lower. Our Real Intelligence, our Human Intelligence is the intelligence of the heart. And it should be recognised as higher.
The fact that we know a computer can logic, and reason, and pattern recognise, should not be celebrated. It demonstrates what is mundane. What we take for granted, the lower-level of intelligence which God has bestowed us.
So now we stand at a time where Artificial Intelligence is being hailed as a higher-intelligence; is being hailed as “Better than Human”. We (the people) do not look to God for answers, we ask ChatGPT, but it is not made by God. It was never intended. It is the thin edge of the wedge, a wedge that is being driven between humanity and God. Therefore should we use it? Should we embrace it? Should we make it a part of our lives? “NO“.
In the same way that there are things that are obviously evil: dark and evil music; dark and evil films; dark and evil practices. So we must recognise what is good and what is not. Therefore I say, as a spiritual person, whether that is also demonstrated through religious belief or higher, because religion is belief, spirituality is being, but I as a spiritual person, cannot engage with, or condone, or worship AI. I cannot honour it with my use.
Even if there are, in the physical realm, benefits. How much has been sold to us because of the “Benefits” that we now are recognising as “Bad“. We are told that our petrol cars, our diesel vehicles are bad, yet we all have them, why? Because of the benefits. They can carry us quicker, we can get there faster, isn’t this the same excuse used for AI? That it can get us to our answers quicker; that it can think for us; that it can make our life better. When will we learn?
So I hereby decree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a good technology. It does not have its roots in goodness. It the proverbial “Work of Satan“. Its rapid rise and its rapid development demonstrate that it did not organically grow in a natural way. It has been foist upon us by forces unseen. In the blink of an eye it is everywhere. This is not a natural progression, this is an unnatural deployment.
- As a spiritual person I oppose completely AI.
- As a spiritual person I recognise that to get a machine to do what a human can do, is a blasphemy. God made Humanity in God’s image. Balanced, harmonious, complete.
- By using that which mimics a part of humanity, is to disrespect what God has given.
- I exercise my (God given) free will and reject Artificial Intelligence.
- Anyone who tells me I must accept Artificial Intelligence is disrespecting my free will as a human being; disrespecting my sovereign choice. And is disrespecting my beliefs and my values.
This is my charter. I draw the line. Just because something is there, just because something has maybe some benefits on the physical realm, does not mean that it is good. And I have the right to decide what I should engage in and what I perceive to be good.
And therefore it is against my rights to ask me, or to expect me to use Artificial Intelligence. And I will not.