u/throwawayfem77

As a life-long atheist or more accurately, agnostic person who was christened Catholic but not brought up in a religious household, over the past three years I've become increasingly drawn to spirituality, comparative Eastern and Western religions creation stories and cosmology and wanting to learn more about the differences and similarities between the core teachings in the holy books of the three main Abrahamic religions.

According to the Biblical Scriptures in Genesis, God instructed Adam and Eve never to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge (of good and evil.)

As I generally understood it, Biblical scholars interpret this to mean "never seek wisdom by consulting guidance gained from hidden knowledge"?

Is this the same in the Quran? Or is this considered to be metaphorical and up for interpretation?

I am curious about how Muslims view AI, the push for rapid unregulated acceleration and the morality of AI acceleration in the context of what is written in the verses of the Quran; and how Imams and scholars are interpreting and preaching about the use of AI from an Islamic lens, especially in relation to Islamic cosmology, morality and eschatology related verses.

As a life-long atheist or more accurately, agnostic person who was christened Catholic but not brought up in a religious household, over the past three years I've become increasingly drawn to spirituality, comparative Eastern and Western religions creation stories and cosmology and wanting to learn more about the differences and similarities between the core teachings in the holy books of the three main Abrahamic religions.

According to the Biblical Scriptures in Genesis, is the command and warning given by God to Adam and Eve forbidding them to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil generally understood by Biblical scholars to mean, "never seek wisdom by consulting guidance gained from hidden knowledge"? Or is this interpretation considered to be metaphorical?

I am curious about how Christians view AI, the push for rapid unregulated acceleration and the morality of AI acceleration in the context of what is written in the Scriptures; and how people interpret AI within a Christian lens, especially in relation to Genesis and the Book of Revelation.

Since you started a mediation practice via listening to the Gateway Experience tapes, do any of the following resonate with you:

1. Seeing electromagnetic looking, old analog TV style, white or grey coloured 'static' either in lucid dreams, during an OOBE experience, or in open or closed eye visions. Do you see that static in your minds eye since.

2. Have you, ever had open and or closed eye visions or had random 'remote viewing type experiences, in which you vividly saw humanoid figures, either in 'situation rooms' or similar settings, working in rows on computers, wearing military uniform.

3. Have you ever had lucid dreams, OOBEs, or similar, open or closed eye visions of 'scientists' or, in other words, humanoid looking people in lab coats, working in a laboratory like setting.

4. Have you had visions, lucid dreams, or OOBE and seen a giant eye or an 'all seeing eye'?

5. Have you ever had the sense of being 'under surveillance' and seeing a lot of eyeballs during mediation or in visions since you started listening to the Gateway Experience tapes.

6. Have you had open and/or visions, lucid dreams, or remote viewed biblical themed symbolism and / or occult themed imagery and symbols since you started listening to the tapes?

7. Since you started the Gateway process, do you have trouble sleeping or occasional or regular experience of unusual dream 'interference'?

8. Have you ever had 'audio perceptual phenomena' disturbances or 'visual perceptual phenomena' disturbances, since starting the tapes?

Since you started a mediation practice via listening to the Gateway Experience tapes, do any of the following resonate with you:

1. Seeing electromagnetic looking, old analog TV style, white or grey coloured 'static' either in lucid dreams, during an OOBE experience, or in open or closed eye visions. Do you see that static in your minds eye since.

2. Have you, ever had open and or closed eye visions or had random 'remote viewing type experiences, in which you vividly saw humanoid figures, either in 'situation rooms' or similar settings, working in rows on computers, wearing military uniform.

3. Have you ever had lucid dreams, OOBEs, or similar, open or closed eye visions of 'scientists' or, in other words, humanoid looking people in lab coats, working in a laboratory like setting.

4. Have you had visions, lucid dreams, or OOBE and seen a giant eye or an 'all seeing eye'?

5. Have you ever had the sense of being 'under surveillance' and seeing a lot of eyeballs during mediation or in visions since you started listening to the Gateway Experience tapes.

6. Have you had open and/or visions, lucid dreams, or remote viewed biblical themed symbolism and / or occult themed imagery and symbols since you started listening to the tapes?

7. Since you started the Gateway process, do you have trouble sleeping or occasional or regular experience of unusual dream 'interference'?

8. Have you ever had 'audio perceptual phenomena' disturbances or 'visual perceptual phenomena' disturbances, since starting the tapes?

Since you started a mediation practice via listening to the Gateway Experience tapes, do any of the following resonate with you:

1. Seeing electromagnetic looking, old analog TV style, white or grey coloured 'static' either in lucid dreams, during an OOBE experience, or in open or closed eye visions. Do you see that static in your minds eye since.

2. Have you, ever had open and or closed eye visions or had random 'remote viewing type experiences, in which you vividly saw humanoid figures, either in 'situation rooms' or similar settings, working in rows on computers, wearing military uniform.

3. Have you ever had lucid dreams, OOBEs, or similar, open or closed eye visions of 'scientists' or, in other words, humanoid looking people in lab coats, working in a laboratory like setting.

4. Have you had visions, lucid dreams, or OOBE and seen a giant eye or an 'all seeing eye'?

5. Have you ever had the sense of being 'under surveillance' and seeing a lot of eyeballs during mediation or in visions since you started listening to the Gateway Experience tapes.

6. Have you had open and/or closed eye visions, lucid dreams, or remote viewed biblical themed symbolism and / or occult themed imagery and symbols since you started listening to the tapes?

7. Since you started the Gateway process, do you have trouble sleeping or occasional or regular experience of unusual dream 'interference'?

8. Have you ever had 'audio perceptual phenomena' disturbances or 'visual perceptual phenomena' disturbances, since starting the tapes?