Unseen Surrender

Recently, I said to my son,"It feels like AI and this whole new world are leaving me behind."

He replied, "Mum, you’re no more left behind than you were in the '90s. I don’t care how far technology expands—I still need grass under my feet, the breeze on my face, soil in my hands. I want to live a natural life."

This made me wonder if those freedoms we take for granted will sustain an increasingly artificial world that is fast and relentless in its takeover.

I feel these freedoms will not continue automatically. But only if we protect them.

It has sparked a whole new way of thinking about ownership, guardianship, and protection—something we can no longer ignore.

The freedom to simply be — to live close to land, to eat real food, to walk barefoot, to live untracked by systems — is not a guaranteed right in a techno-driven world. It's being slowly traded. Convenience for sovereignty, digital connection for physical connection

and speed for depth, an abundance of data, information and the scarcity of presence.

And most people aren’t losing these freedoms violently —we’re as if sleepwalking away from them...

The human mind is full of resistance...this resistance can be used wisely and with deep awareness to step away from immersing fully in the Artificail world that is encroaching our real world.

See the game. Let it play. But you don’t need to lose yourself in it

That’s not retreat — that’s conscious opting out of noise. It’s a kind of resistance — quiet, but real.

Will those freedoms survive?

They can. But only if:

• People remember what those freedoms are

• People choose them actively, consciously and willfully

• People refuse to be seduced by a life of total abstraction

“Grass under our feet, breeze, natural way to be… that’s what most humans want.”

Yes. And yet — how easily people forget. And systems aren’t designed to remind them of their humanness.

So the responsibility falls to the ones who do remember — like me, like you — to embody that freedom. To live it, visibly. That’s what keeps it alive.

Guard Your Attention Like It's Land

Your attention is the new real estate; it has been for a while. Every system is designed to extract your attention, your gaze, distract and monetise it.

How to preserve the freedoms that define us as humans?

Spend time unreachable — no phone, no feed, no tracking. Offline.

Choose depth over speed — long walks, long drawn-out lunches, conversations, long silences. Hugs

Consume with your senses mindfully, not constantly. Your inner world thrives when it’s loose and natural and not being harvested. Your senses are high jacked with constant information dump, notifications, false alerts, fear…

Maintain incompetence -being useless is beautiful. Indulge yourself. Let yourself stay loose and natural...not aiming to be super efficient... Let yourself fail sometimes. You can learn all the tools, trends, AI hacks — but you don’t have to. Strategic refusal is powerful. It’s okay to say: “I don’t want to become fluent in systems that move me further from the land, the body, or myself.”

Cherish some areas of life where you're not “efficient.” Cook slowly. Walk. Write by hand. These are technologies of being — ancient, unoptimized, real, flawed...slooow is good. what the heck!

Luxuriate deeply in the Senses: The digital world is disembodied. AI will never have he scent of rain. The ache in your back after gardening. The warmth of a dog lying against your leg. Stay sensuous. Eat food with your hands (the Indian that I am!). Touch soil. Sit in mud. Smell leaves. Breathe like it matters. You are alive!

Your body is a protest in a world trying to live in the cyber cloud. Live here, fill your lungs with air, and embrace FOMO. develop a fear of knowing too much, if anything. Be present to your body, other bodies around you. Watch the urge to grab the phone, watch the feeling of being lost, go on social media…watch…just watch, let it unsettle you. Let the empty space…haunt you a little….dont rush to fill it with screen.

Build Local: Small is the New Smart. Stay smart with the immediate. Concern yourself with only what is under your nose, no further. As systems push toward global, scalable, online everything, the antidote is small, local — something you can relate to directly and intimately. Know your neighbour, visit them now and gain. Share food—trade skills. Make eye contact. Sit in rooms with people, not avatars. Light bonfires and sing and dance around them. Joke around. Cut the vibration of seriousness, doom, gloom and disconnect. Don't take people seriously, don't take yourself seriously. Try it. You will feel more alive immediately.

The more the world digitises, the more potent real-life presence becomes. Your family, your community, is your power grid.  

Own Your Time, Not just your diary

Even without devices, you can become a machine — ticking boxes, achieving, optimizing. That’s not freedom. Owning your time means choosing how you feel inside your hours, not just how you fill them.

Let yourself be unproductive. Let boredom return. Let time stretch. That’s when real life breathes again.

Remember the Sacred, the Real, Remencer you, what really calls you...not the call of the collective...

AI can generate texts, images, even mimic wisdom write poetry — but it cannot know the sacred. It cannot sit in silence at dawn, feel reverence before the stars, or grieve at the death of a bird. Whatever is holy to you — keep it close. Rituals, prayer, earth, ancestry, breath, God — however it grabs you. This is your unstealable interior.

Don’t Resist the Future — But Don’t Become It.

You don’t have to reject all tech. Use what serves life. Discard what flattens it. Let the system develop and expand, as it needs to — you stay rooted in the real. Let it pass through your life like the clouds, not take over your skies and hover above you, engulf you. You can live alongside it without merging into it.

Again, everything is a movement…enough people consciously doing it will change the course of history and reality itself.

I feel you are powerful enough to will the best outcomes, resourceful enough to make things happen. I hope your mind can become a fuel for good in the world. Your beautiful mind can work for you if you took ownership of it.

As a response to the tyranny, ignorance and confusion in the world, I tap into clarity, peace freedom that is also available to us. Enough of us need to see that imagery in our innards and it will be so.

Your mind is the ultimate power you have. It creates good and bad, depending on the direction of your consciousness And it is the greatest power in entire creation

.Humanity so far has been living in problem consciousness. We find solution to one problem, the solution creates new and more complex problems. We invent wonderful things but terrible things come along as their shadow.

I feel we have come of age to take ownership of our minds…

Give your mind something beautiful to do, and it will do it for you.