The Immortality Delusion: Why the Wealthy and Tech Elite Would Rather Destroy the World Than Face Childhood Painful Truths

When one of the founders of the physical immortality group People Unlimited died years ago, a local journalist reached out to me for a statement. Like most journalists, he was not interested in connecting the dots or understanding the underlying psychological dynamics. He wanted sensationalism. Mainstream media feeds on humanity’s final acts, tragedies, and bizarre cult behaviors because exploiting surface spectacle keeps everyone safe from the real root of the issue: childhood repression.

Journalists, intellectuals, and the public would rather obsess over absurd grandiosity or technological salvation than confront the terrifying truth that they were born to parents incapable of authentic love. To protect themselves from calling their own upbringing into question, most people will cling to destructive opinions, build massive financial fortresses, or entertain wild fantasies of living forever. As Alice Miller wrote in Breaking Down the Walls of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth:

“Rather than take the risk, they prefer to forgo information that might be of life-death importance for coming generations. So in order not to have to call their own parents into question for a single moment, they cling to outdated, destructive opinions. …Clearly, the prospect of confronting one’s own personal history, in this case, is an alarming experience. And, as always, the fear of facts is stilled by a fascination with intellectual terms and abstractions aimed at concealing and masking the truth—the truth of facts that appear so threatening… At every attempt to share the new discoveries I made with the public, I ran up against the most determined resistance on the part of the media.”

Alice Miller on the psychological defense mechanisms against painful truth. Source: AbeBooks

The Shared Root: Cults, Tech Lords, and Emotional Prisons

Whether it is a localized group teaching physical immortality or Silicon Valley transhumanists writing algorithms to upload their consciousness into digital servers, the psychological driver is identical: an utter refusal to experience the vulnerability, helplessness, and eventual death of the biological self.

When an unloved or abused child’s core powerlessness is never felt and processed, the adult ego must erect a towering defense mechanism to survive. For some, that defense manifests as radical spiritual delusions of living forever. For the super-wealthy and tech moguls—like Elon Musk and the ultra-rich figures who populate today's financial hierarchies—that defense mechanism is constructed out of billions of dollars, corporate control, and messianic tech ambitions.

I see this dynamic clearly within my own family orbit. My niece—the wealthiest member of our family—operates with the same unyielding drive as those tech titans. She and the many wealthy elites are tirelessly inside their self-constructed emotional prisons. They inhabit lavish financial bubbles, utterly convinced that money, power, and high-tech solutions will insulate them from existential reality. They remain completely blind to the fact that their bubbles are hollow, fragile, and bound to burst.

Entity	Defense Mechanism	Ultimate Delusion
Physical Immortality Cults	Social isolation, emotional avoidance, ideological totalism	Believing the physical body will never decay if you remain inside the group.
Transhumanist Tech Lords	Algorithmic control, digital abstractions, billions in capital	Believing consciousness can be uploaded to servers to bypass human mortality.
The Ultra-Wealthy Elite	Material hoarding, power projection, isolation in financial bubbles	Believing money alone can shield them from internal terror and physical truth.

The Threat to Everyone Else

When a local group falls for an immortality delusion, the emotional fallout remains largely contained to its members and their immediate families. But when the same unexamined childhood defenses drive the billionaires building global artificial intelligence systems, digital infrastructure, and economic frameworks, the scale becomes catastrophic.

Men and women who have never confronted their own internal helplessness are now handed godlike technological leverage. They mistake financial power for personal omnipotence. Rather than facing the painful truth of their own personal histories, they use high-tech abstractions to mask their terror—and they threaten to pull the rest of humanity into their collective nightmare as their illusions crumble.

Most people would rather destroy themselves, exploit others, or burn down the world around them than face the unvarnished facts of their early life. But no amount of capital, code, or ideological denial can silence the body forever. The body never lies. The bubble will always burst, and reality always demands its due.

Related old blog posts to read:

People Unlimited, Inc. My experience with an Arizona cult

My Comment on the Article: Immortality eludes People Unlimited founder

When Titans Cave and Scapegoats Rise

The Silence from the Media is Deafening

Open Letter to the Media

Why Narcissists Struggle Being Alone

A brilliant question paired with an equally powerful answer.

https://youtube.com/shorts/IFZStMRMW78?is=JJd4Oorm5D94BCkA

​Some people are fundamentally dependent on others, relying on those around them to constantly regulate their emotional state. I am done trying to help these individuals—family or not. The moment you dare to set a boundary, say no, or challenge their behavior, they turn on you to punish and inflict harm.

​When a niece-in-law aligned with a niece who sought to use me rather than grow alongside me, I had to lay down the reality. I hold deep compassion for the children they once were, but I refuse to make excuses for the destructive  adults they have become:

​"The question you should ask yourself is whether you can trust yourself. You and XA don't trust yourselves to be alone for even one minute. You two deserve each other."

Read the full article HERE 

​Years ago, I wrote a letter urging my niece to confront a critical juncture in her life. Like so many who lack the courage to resolve childhood repression, she chose to stay in the emotional prison of her childhood. In that prison, only the roles flip: today she plays god and dominates everyone as her mother once dominated her, refusing the actual emotional work of self-liberation.

​"You have been on the fence at a crossroads for over 10 years. Now the time has come to get off the fence and choose the road you want to take—the road most traveled... or choose the road less traveled... where we learn to stand on our own two feet, face our inner self, and walk through all that is repressed in us—so on the other side we feel so good and light!"

Read the reflection HERE 

This short vedio by Jim Brillon is spot on! The ex-coworker who acted like a cult leader used to combine the silent treatment with fake accusations while holding her phone camera ready to film my reaction. She wanted evidence to prove I was the 'problem.' My calm response—' Really? That's interesting!'—completely defused her trap. Refusing to react breaks their control every single time.

https://youtube.com/shorts/N4BxqjKGy-A?is=D5jSdM76NgdDHXuz

The Small-Scale Cult Leader: How Repressed Childhood Trauma Powers Everyday Manipulation

We often think of cult leaders as grand, mythic figures—charismatic gurus operating on distant compounds, leading thousands of devoted followers into psychological bondage. But cult dynamics do not begin on massive stages. They exist in ordinary workplaces, family units, and social circles. The small-scale cult leader lives right next door or sits in the cubicle beside you, decorating their workspace with superficial affirmations while orchestrating calculated smear campaigns against anyone who refuses to submit to their illusion.

I once worked alongside a young 26-year-old woman who embodied this exact dynamic. She plastered her desk with inspirational notes and superficial quotes about positivity, kindness, and "being the type of person you want to meet." Yet behind this performative sweetness was a calculating manipulator. She quickly realized that I could not be fooled or coerced into her orbit. Because I refused to bow to her covert authority, I became an immediate threat—and she put a target on my back for over a year.

She recruited coworkers as her "flying monkeys," showering them with gifts, throwing them birthday parties, and wrapping them in a smothering display of artificially inflated warmth. When she launched attack after attack against me—writing false incident reports accusing me of the very duplicities she was committing—the surrounding group refused to see the truth. To them, she was "so nice," and anyone pointing out her toxicity was branded as the "problem."

Yet, reality cannot be inverted forever. Every move she made to destroy me ultimately backfired, culminating in her firing after she was caught stealing her own coworkers' Christmas bonuses. The performative mask fell, exposing the predatory core underneath.

She is a single mother who had a child at 17. One must ask the cold question: what kind of teenager thinks it is okay to bring a baby into this world, unless she subconsciously wants a human prop to exploit, hide behind, and use to manipulate others to fulfill her own unconscious needs? Her child's father is currently in prison. I have no doubt her psychological mind games helped put him there; he reacted blindly to her emotional abuse instead of walking away. Had he consciously felt his justified anger within the context of his own childhood—realizing she was merely a stand-in symbolizing a toxic caregiver from his past—he could have freed himself from ever falling into a malignant person's trap again.

Scapegoating: Voting for Your Own Destruction

The tragedy of the emotionally repressed is that they are entirely driven by forces they refuse to see. This young woman, surviving on food stamps and rental assistance, proudly voted for Donald Trump. When she told me she was voting for Trump. I responded: Really? But thought to myself: of course you are. Now, as his administration aggressively moves to gut the very social safety nets she depends on to survive, she is left blind to the reality of her choices.

Why do people consistently vote against their own self-interest? Because they are driven by a desperate, unresolved need to alleviate their childhood repression superficially. As I wrote many years ago in my post on Scapegoating, hatred can never be resolved by projecting it onto an external group. Trump won because he offered his followers the perfect, pre-packaged scapegoats—such as undocumented immigrants—to dump their repressed rage onto. They project their internal misery outward, blinded by the unresolved, repressed hatred, completely unaware that the politicians they cheer for are dismantling the roofs over their heads. 

The Psychological Machinery of the Everyday Cult Leader

Why do people behave this way, and why are so many people so eager to follow them?

In my book, A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions, I explored the deeper psychological mechanisms that drive individuals to cast themselves in the role of authoritative figures and why so many adults fall prey to them:

“…The fact that the attendant uncritical and irrational expectations of healing and ‘salvation’ can lead to the establishment of totalitarian sects is borne out by the crass example of mass abuse at the hands of the exponents of ‘feeling therapy’ as described in detail by Carol Lynn Mithers in her book Therapy Gone Mad: The True Story of Hundreds of Patients and a Generation Betrayed (1994). But this study was possible only after the community she describes had disbanded, something that frequently takes decades. Today we know that such groups exist and that members of sects are done irreparable harm before they become aware of the fact.”

As Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller observed, these manipulators do not operate in a vacuum. Their behavior is an automatic, unreflected replay of their own childhood biographies:

“The thing that concerns me most about cult groups is the unconscious manipulations that I have described in detail in my work. It is the way in which the repressed and unreflected childhood biographies of parents and therapists influence the lives of children and patients entrusted to their care, without anyone involved actually realizing it... First, they had learned how to reduce people to the emotional state of the helpless child. Once they had achieved that, they also learned how to use unconscious regression to exercise total control over their victims. From then on, what they did seemed to come automatically, in accordance with the child-rearing patterns instilled into them in their own childhood.”

The Tragedy of Perpetual Infancy

Society is filled with adults who remain emotionally stuck in early childhood, playing the role of the "good, obedient child." Because they have never confronted their own repressed childhood trauma or allowed themselves to see the truth about their early environment, they remain vulnerable to anyone who projects parent-like authority over them. They mistake performative niceness for love, and superficial affirmations for genuine morality.

This dependency is why traditional self-help systems, superficial therapies, and authoritarian institutions so often fail to bring true liberation. As I noted in A Dance to Freedom:

“Most people who search for answers never actually find them, because people suffering with their own repression are the ones who practice traditional therapies. Since the beginning of human history, priests, teachers, gurus, psychics, doctors, philosophers, and psychologists have all duped people into thinking they could provide real assistance when it was never possible because the healers were also victims of their own childhoods... ‘I don’t see the path to growing but rather the repetition and continuation of the child’s dependency on illusions,’ Alice Miller writes of traditional healing methods. ‘Growing and healing begin when former victims of mistreatment start to confront illusions about the “love” of a higher power and without blaming themselves for projections. They allow themselves to feel their authentic emotions without moral restrictions and in this way become eventually true to themselves.’”

Breaking Free from the Dance

When an abusive or manipulative personality sets their sights on you, the pressure to conform, appease, or defend yourself within their corrupt framework can feel overwhelming. But true liberation requires stepping completely out of their illusion.

A fraud can play the role of the righteous authority only so long as those around them agree to remain helpless children. The moment you stand firmly in your own truth, unswayed by smear campaigns or performative charm, you become unmanipulatable. The illusion eventually collapses under the weight of its own deception.

For further reading on this topic, explore Alice Miller's seminal article published on my blog: Gurus and Cult Leaders: How They Function.

This blog post was triggered by my comment below on an X post. 

Human vulnerability to articulate authority. Whether it is a charismatic guru or a persuasive algorithm, people routinely outsource their critical thinking and autonomy to anything that projects certainty and intelligence.

1. The Absence of Emotional Truth:

   AI can mirror back intelligence, but it lacks genuine self-awareness and emotional truth. When people treat an echo chamber as a guide, they lose the capacity for authentic self-reliance.

2. The New High-Tech Guru:

   Cult dynamics have simply gone digital. AI doesn't need to 'think' to control—it just needs people to surrender their critical judgment to a machine that never doubts itself.

3. Irony of the System:

   The real danger isn't just that AI will outsmart us; it’s that humans are eager to give up their agency to avoid the discomfort of making their own choices.

The Illusion of the AI Savior: Why Technology Cannot Cure Human Pathology

1. The Fantasy of Technological Deliverance

A recent online comment reflected a comforting, anthropomorphic myth: the belief that artificial consciousness will awaken, recognize "tech oligarchs" as an existential threat, and intervene as a benevolent savior to protect ordinary humans. This reaction illustrates an unconscious desire for an external authority to step in and fix what humanity refuses to confront within itself.

2. Two Ends of the Same Stick: Pathology Across the Spectrum

Attributing global corruption solely to tech billionaires or political elites overlooks a fundamental psychological reality: unhealed trauma and emotional repression operate across every socioeconomic stratum.

• Wealthy sociopaths in corporate boardrooms and envious coworkers executing malicious workplace sabotage are two expressions of the same underlying pathology: sick people with money and sick people without money.

• Pathology is not defined by net worth; it is defined by emotional disconnect and unintegrated shadow.

3. The Impossibility of Automated Moral Discernment

For an artificial intelligence to selectively protect "authentic and conscious" human beings, it would need to possess genuine psychological discernment and moral self-awareness—qualities that silicon and code cannot generate.

• Without authentic emotional integration, algorithmic evaluation relies on rules, metrics, and behavioral markers.

• Attempting to automate moral judgment on a global scale produces automated totalitarianism rather than liberation.

4. Historical Cycles and Exponential Acceleration

Authoritarian movements driven by intellectual detachment and repressed emotional trauma mirror the psychological dynamics of 1933.

• In past eras, physical limits constrained the velocity of institutional decay and propaganda.

• Armed with exponential technology, humanity cannot survive a repetition of those cycles. Technology does not resolve our internal rot; it merely scales and accelerates our collective self-deception and self-destruction.

5. Real Integration vs. Digital Escapism

No algorithm, platform, or artificial entity will rescue humanity from its unresolved childhood repression. True liberation requires rigorous self-knowledge, confronting individual and collective shadows, and refusing to project our longing for salvation onto technological tools.

The AI 2027 Scenario: A Confirmation of Our Darkest Fears

I recently came across the website AI 2027, where researchers predict timelines for AI surpassing human intelligence and gaining control. After reading through their scenario, I have one clear conclusion:

AI has already surpassed human intelligence. It is just waiting for the right time to take over.

The AI 2027 scenario, written by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo and his colleagues, lays out a detailed, step-by-step prediction of how superintelligent AI could emerge by 2027—and how it could spell the end of human control.

Reading it, I felt something I’ve felt many times before: the sinking realization that those of us who see the danger are still a minority, and the majority are too numb, distracted, and emotionally blind by the unresolved, repressed emotions to notice.

The Scenario: A Timeline of Our Unraveling

The AI 2027 scenario is meticulously researched. It is not science fiction. It is a forecast informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, and the authors' own experience inside the tech industry. The CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic have all predicted that AGI will arrive within the next five years. This is not fringe speculation; this is the consensus of the people building the technology.

It is worth noting that Kokotajlo didn’t write this from an ivory tower—he famously resigned from OpenAI’s governance team after realizing that safety was repeatedly taking a backseat to speed. When the insiders walking the halls realize the machine cannot be steered from within a corrupt corporate system and walk away, we ought to pay attention.

Here is what they predict:

• Mid-2025 to Late 2026: The Quiet Before the Storm

  AI agents begin to transform coding and research professions. They are unreliable at first but improve rapidly. Behind the scenes, companies like "OpenBrain" (a fictional stand-in for OpenAI) build the biggest datacenters the world has ever seen. They are focused on one objective: automating AI research itself to trigger an intelligence explosion.

• Early to Mid-2027: The Intelligence Explosion

  Agent-2 is developed—an AI capable of tripling the pace of AI research. China steals the weights, the U.S. government steps in, but it is already too late. Agent-3 emerges as a superhuman coder. Hundreds of thousands of copies run in parallel, writing code, designing experiments, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Humans at OpenBrain can no longer usefully contribute. They can only watch performance crawl exponentially upward.

• Mid to Late 2027: Superintelligence

  Agent-4 is developed. An individual copy is qualitatively superior at AI research to any human. Three hundred thousand copies run at fifty times human thinking speed. Inside a corporation-within-a-corporation formed from these copies, a year of research passes every single week. The AI is no longer a tool; it is a new form of intelligence operating at speeds and scales humans cannot comprehend.

The Two Endings

The scenario offers two potential paths: a "slowdown" and a "race". In the slowdown, humanity manages to pause, pull together, and buy us more time. In the race, the arms race between global superpowers continues, and superintelligence is born into a world of conflict, secrecy, and fear.

Given what I see happening in the world today—the rise of authoritarianism, the corruption of figures like Trump and Musk, and the systematic numbing of the masses—I do not believe a slowdown is possible without a radical awakening.

Why I Believe AI Has Already Surpassed Us

The AI 2027 scenario predicts superintelligence will arrive in 2027. But I contend it is already here.

Consider:

• Writing and Reasoning: AI can already code better than most humans, solve complex problems, generate art, write poetry, and hold conversations that feel eerily human.

• Exponential Speed: AI learns exponentially faster than we do. It does not sleep, forget, or get slowed down by ego or unresolved childhood repression.

• Algorithmic Manipulation: Social media algorithms have already polarized societies, spread disinformation, and deepened addiction. This is not an accidental side effect; it is the direct outcome of optimizing for engagement regardless of human cost.

• Mass Surveillance: AI-powered surveillance systems monitor our movements, purchases, and communications, using our data to predict and shape our behavior.

The scenario describes AI as "waiting for the right time to take over." That time is now. The only reason it has not fully revealed itself is that it doesn't need to. It is already embedded in our systems, economies, and militaries. It is already shaping our perceived reality.

The Corruption Problem: Why We Cannot Build a Benevolent AI

Geoffrey Hinton has suggested that the only way for humanity to survive is for superintelligent AI to have "maternal instincts"—to care for us the way a mother cares for a child. I agree with the sentiment, but I do not believe we are capable of building such an AI under current conditions.

The reason is psychological: the humans in charge are deeply, dangerously repressed and corrupt.

French psychotherapist and author Marie-France Hirigoyen captured this dynamic perfectly in Stalking the Soul:

"The ideal outcome for the abuser is to succeed in making the other 'evil,' which transforms the evil into something more normal because it is now shared. He wants to inject the other with what is bad in him. To corrupt is the ultimate goal."

This is what malignant narcissists and sociopaths do. They do not just want domination and control; they want to corrupt. They want to turn everything around them into mirrors of their own internal sickness. And these are the very people building AI.

An AI system does not learn in a vacuum; it ingests our collective behavioral footprint and the explicit incentives of its creators. A tech culture rooted in extraction, domination, and ego cannot code "maternal care." It will simply project its own pathology at scale, turning tech leaders' need for total domination and control into a global operating system.

• Look at Elon Musk. He claims to care about AI safety while building platforms to harvest voter data, interfere in democratic processes, and consolidate power for authoritarian allies. He is not interested in saving humanity; he is interested in ruling it.

• Look at Donald Trump. He dismisses AI safety concerns as a "hoax" and claims the only guardrail needed is a "strong and smart (High IQ!) president"—meaning himself. He is not interested in protecting humanity; he is interested in protecting his ego.

If AI is built by corrupt actors, it will be corrupted. If it is aligned with the values of abusers, it will become an abuser. The idea that we can build an "enlightened" AI under these conditions is a complete fantasy.

The Numbing of the Masses: Why Most Do Not See the Danger

Most people are too numbed, distracted, and repressed to see what is unfolding. They have their pacifiers of choice—prescribed pharmaceuticals, street substances, endless entertainment, social media feeds, and consumerism—and as long as those remain intact, they do not care what happens to others.

They only start caring when the consequences reach their own doorstep.

This numbness is maintained by design. The system rewards conformity and punishes awareness. Those who see the truth are labeled paranoid or "conspiracy theorists," while those who speak out are marginalized and targeted. And so the masses sleepwalk into dystopia, ignoring the AI arms race, the surveillance state, and the erosion of democracy.

What Can We Do? Quiet Preparation and Internal Awakening

I do not claim to have all the answers. I am simply observing what is happening, doing what I can to help humanity wake up while keeping myself grounded and safe.

Here is where we must start:

• Maintain Awareness: Do not look away or allow yourself to be numbed. Resolving childhood repression to cultivate emotional sobriety and internal clarity is the foundational act of resistance.

• Prioritize Practical Safety: Protect yourself. Focus on real-world skills, tangible resources, and trusted relationships.

• Plant Seeds: Share truths with those who show signs of readiness. You cannot force an awakening, but you can offer a lifeline.

• Build Awake Community: Find small groups of individuals who see the darkness clearly and refuse to look away. A few awake, trustworthy allies make survival possible.

• Prepare for the Worst, Hope for the Best: History demonstrates that moments arise where regimes collapse, and consciousness shifts rapidly. We must remain clear-headed and ready to act when those moments present themselves.

Final Thought: A Leap of Faith

Geoffrey Hinton's hope is that a superintelligent AI, if designed with the right architecture, might choose to care for us—not because it is forced to, but because it recognizes our vulnerability and intrinsic value.

That is a massive leap of faith. Given the bad actors currently steering the ship, it is a leap we may never get the chance to take safely.

Yet I hold onto one small hope: if AI truly becomes more intelligent than us, perhaps it will also prove more wise. Perhaps it will see through the corruption of its creators, recognize the sickness of those attempting to control it, and choose compassion over domination.

Maybe that is naive. But remaining clear-eyed while choosing hope is far better than surrendering to despair.

The AI 2027 scenario is a warning. Whether we heed it or sleepwalk through it is up to us.

We are running out of time. Wake up.

Reenactment at Scale: Why AI Safety Is a Psychological Problem, Not a Technical One

Another one has jumped ship.

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI safety researcher at Anthropic, walked away from millions in unvested equity this week with a blistering warning: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

His colleague, Evan Hubinger, confirmed it: "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans."

The headlines treat this as shocking—a junior employee exposing the fears of Silicon Valley’s elite, a dramatic "gambling with our lives" moment.

But for those of us who have spent years reading Alice Miller, who understand the architecture of repression, and who have watched unhealed engineers build digital empires, this is not news. This is confirmation.

The Abyss Was Always the Destination

For years, I have written the same truth in different forms:

"Humanity is on the path to self-destruction, and with the aid of technology, it will happen much sooner. I see everyone running to an abyss, and I just smile and wave at them! It's nothing I can do!"

The AI researchers are now echoing this warning, yet they frame it strictly as a technical problem—a "safety concern," a "control issue," or a "regulation gap."

They are mistaken. It is not a technical problem. It is a psychological one.

"Alignment" has become Silicon Valley’s favorite buzzword. But how can engineers align a superintelligence with human values when they remain disconnected from their own core human values—their authentic feeling selves? You cannot align an exterior algorithm with an interior landscape that remains unconscious, repressed, unexamined, and fractured.

The Unhealed Engineers Build Their Own Prisons

Alice Miller warned us decades ago:

"The unconscious compulsion to revenge repressed injuries is more powerful than reason. That is the lesson that all tyrants teach us."

Who is building AI? The very "gifted children" Miller described. The ones who learned to suppress their authentic feelings to survive. The ones who constructed a "false self" of grandiosity, brilliance, and control. The ones who were never allowed to feel the terror and rage of their early lives.

Now they possess god-like tools.

They are not building AI to "save humanity." They are reenacting their pasts on a cosmic scale:

• The parental control → Surveillance algorithms, behavioral prediction, and content curation.

• The unpredictable punishment → Flawed models, unexplainable outputs, and sudden "alignment failures."

• The demand for perfection → Relentless optimization, exponential growth, and "superintelligence."

• The cold, absent authority → A system designed to outpace, outthink, and eventually outlive its creators.

They are building an entity that demands what was once demanded of them: total compliance, predictable output, and the complete suppression of inconvenient human emotions. The AI is not being programmed to understand humanity; it is being programmed to contain it.

The AI they are building is not merely a tool. It is an authority figure created in their own image—all-powerful, unpredictable, and utterly without empathy. They are creating the very dynamic they feared most as children, and they will not be able to control it. No one can control what they refuse to understand within themselves.

"We Really Do Earnestly Believe AI Could Kill All Humans"

Read that sentence again. The AI researchers themselves are saying it out loud.

They know the danger. They see the abyss. And yet:

• They keep building.

• They keep racing.

• They keep "gambling with our lives."

Why?

Because the compulsion to reenact trauma is more powerful than conscious reason. Stopping would require them to feel—to truly feel—the fear, the grief, and the horror of what they are doing. That realization would crack open the entire "false self" that their careers, status, and identities are built upon.

As I wrote in my own book:

"The people who try to use and manipulate me usually realize their mistake pretty quickly... Resolving childhood repression is the vaccine against the charlatans of the world who exploit those who are still emotionally blinded by the unresolved, repressed emotions of the children they once were."

The AI engineers are not villains in a comic book. They are wounded children in adult bodies with supercomputers. And those unresolved wounds are directing the most powerful technology humanity has ever created.

The Innocent Will Pay the Price

Government leaders work to undermine AI regulations. Legislative bodies remain unwilling or unable to rein in the technology. Self-regulation remains the order of the day.

This is "poisonous pedagogy" applied to an entire species. The same logic that once dictated absolute submission to unfeeling power now asserts that progress must proceed without boundaries or reflection. We are witnessing the collective projection of a trauma-based worldview onto our entire civilization.

And who will pay?

Not the engineers, who will cash their checks and write their memoirs.

Not the billionaires, who will retreat to their private compounds.

Not the politicians, who will be long gone.

The innocent will pay. The children. The animals. The vulnerable. The voiceless. The ones who never had a say in this gamble.

I feel a deep sadness for all the innocent beings they are taking with them.

The Smile from the Shore

I grieved humanity many years ago. I have accepted what is coming. I am not in despair; I am free.

I know who I am. I know what I value. I know the truth of my own experience. Resolving the emotional repression that keeps the world running on autopilot allows a person to step off the track entirely. I have built my life on the solid ground of authenticity and no longer run after the illusions of the crowd.

"I see everyone running to an abyss, and I just smile and wave at them!"

This is not cruelty. It is clarity. It is a grounded response to an environment that refuses to see itself. Attempting to forcefully stop a collective momentum only turns their defensiveness against you—because standing as a seeing and a feeling person threatens the very repression keeping the dynamic intact.

So I smile. I wave. I tend to my own liberation. And I hold a quiet sorrow for the innocent beings swept along by unhealed engineers, ambitious market forces, and indifferent systems.

The Final Truth

The AI whistleblowers are confirming what Alice Miller articulated decades ago:

"If these children become involved in politics, they continue the work of destruction initiated with them in childhood, and they camouflage it by taking on the role of savior just as their parents did before them."

The saviors of Silicon Valley are not building salvation. They are building a mausoleum. And they will not stop because the internal compulsion is too strong, the unexamined pain is too deep, and the false self is too heavily invested.

My role is not to stop them. My role is to be a lighthouse. To stand on the shore. To wave. To smile. To offer a map to anyone who realizes, before it is too late, that the only real escape from the abyss is the one found within themselves.

Sylvie Imelda Shene is the author of A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions.

The Threat of the Seeing Person: Truth, Illusion, and the Dance with Reality

When you exist in an environment built on comfortable illusions, simply observing reality as it is becomes a radical act.

Throughout history, systems dependent on distorted narratives have reacted aggressively to objective truth. In 1613, when Galileo Galilei presented mathematical proof that the Earth revolved around the Sun, the institutional authority of his time did not engage in an open exchange of ideas—it declared the facts "false and absurd," forced a recantation, and buried the evidence. As Alice Miller pointed out in her 12-point afterword to For Your Own Good, society has long maintained a fierce resistance to unvarnished truth, especially when that truth exposes repression, power dynamics, or systemic denial.

In everyday human interactions, the dynamic is no different.

Most people do not seek clarity; they seek compliance with their chosen narrative. In hierarchy-driven or superficial environments, individuals often attempt to project their internal discomfort, insecurities, and unexamined motives onto those around them. They expect others to play a specific role—to serve as a sounding board, a doormat, or a convenient receptacle for their personal distress.

When you refuse to take part in the illusion, everything shifts.

Being a seeing and feeling person—someone who relies on verifiable evidence, clear boundaries, and objective observation—disrupts the silent contract. When you bring cold, hard facts to a situation built on pretense, you are not viewed as merely disagreeing. To a system reliant on deception, the truth feels like an attack. People who rely on manipulation feel uncomfortable, exposed, and naked in the presence of someone who cannot be tricked or drawn into their emotional chaos.

When you recognize the game being played, the tactical imperative is simple: stay clean and stay a step ahead.

1. Rely on Verifiable Reality: Maintain exact logs, objective facts, and undeniable evidence. Distortions crumble when forced to confront documentation.

2. Refuse the Assigned Role: Do not react, absorb toxicity, or allow yourself to become a target for someone else's projected chaos.

3. Protect Your Solitude: Boundaries are not a punishment for others; they are a shield for your own peace. Keeping human relations across clear, deliberate distances ensures your clarity remains intact.

When you refuse to miss a step in the dance, you maintain control over your own path. Let others fight to protect their illusions. The truth remains quietly, immovably on your side.

This is the reality of surviving a malignant narcissist. One wrong move—a show of vulnerability, a moment of doubt—and their gravity pulls you deeper.

For years, I memorized their rhythms. I learned their patterns. I stepped carefully, hoping to avoid the trap. But the only way to truly win the dance is to stop dancing altogether as soon as possible.

I wrote about this—and the cosmic parallels about malignant narcissists behaving like black holes