Can You Believe Your Eyes?

AI, Truth & the Spiritual Practice of Discernment

We are living in a moment when seeing is no longer necessarily believing. AI can create images, voices, and videos that feel astonishingly real, while social media delivers a constant stream of opinions, outrage, certainty, and conflicting “truths.”

So how do we know what to trust?

In this spiritual discussion, we’ll explore discernment as a spiritual practice: what it is, what it isn’t, and how we can strengthen it in everyday life. We’ll talk about the difference between intuition and reaction, how fear and confirmation bias can shape what we believe, why slowing down matters, and what spiritual teachings can offer us when the world feels noisy, divided, and increasingly difficult to verify.

This won’t be a technology lecture or a debate about whether AI is good or bad. It’s a conversation about something much more human:

How do we remain grounded,…