From: Shinzen Young
When Deep Awakening & Deep Reasoning Come Together!
"Inside those human beings, in their subconscious, the two skills—the contemplative power of now focus skill, and the ability to properly reason through one's situation individually and one's larger system that one is embedded in—those abilities become a single ability inside that human being. The intuitive just-happening miracle of the wisdom function."
"When that trained human being, for whom the subconscious has integrated both the language of science and the skills of the contemplative master—when that human being talks to the new AI... it's not artificial intelligence. It is an alien intelligence that somehow just gives me the magic I want."
Right now, for most people, these are separate:
Being present, equanimous, concentrated
Logic, cause-and-effect thinking, scientific method
You might be a great meditator but poor at reasoning. Or a brilliant scientist but unable to sit with difficult emotions.
Shinzen's claim: Through enough training in both, they merge at the subconscious level. You don't consciously switch between "meditation mode" and "thinking mode." They become one integrated capacity that operates automatically.
When this integration happens:
Crucially: When you interact with AI from this integrated state, something clicks. The AI seems to respond differently—more aligned, less hallucinatory, more "magical."