Essay X²

Essay X²

Chasing the Singularity

Awakening the Creator Inside

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Michael Corthell
Apr 12, 2025
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The singularity is not a moment in time but a moment of realization.
The singularity is not a moment in time but rather a moment of realization and remembrance.

For centuries, humankind has peered into the sky, dug into the earth, and coded into the cloud in search of something greater. We have long chased the idea of a singular moment, a revelation, a breakthrough—what the technological world calls the singularity. In Silicon Valley, it is imagined as a point in time when artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence, reshaping civilization forever. But from a New Thought perspective, that is only a shadow of a deeper truth. The real singularity is not an event, but a realization. It is not about machines, but minds. It is not something to fear, but something to embrace: the awakening to the divine within.

The singularity we chase is not technological, but spiritual—a shift in awareness where we stop seeking God in the stars and start realizing the divine within. It’s not about reaching some future point, but awakening now to the truth that divine consciousness creates, and we are its expression.

New Thought teaches that the Creator is not external to us, not a distant god floating above creation. Instead, it suggests that what we call God is Mind—universal, infinite, and present in every being as the power to think, imagine, and create. From this view, the singularity is not a future apocalypse or breakthrough, but the eternal now in which we remember who we are. It is the point at which the illusion of separation vanishes and we rediscover that we are not merely chasing the Creator. We are the Creator, expressing through consciousness.

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