AI’s Necromantic Narcissism: Hallucinated Hegemonics and Its Condemning Collapse of Covenant Perception
Douglas Blake Olds
Arena eos qui in ea cacant reflectit (cf. James 1:8).
Not simply a critique of AI—this essay judges and declares metaphysical war against dark triad systems that collapse covenantal perception of reality by disorientation, derealization, loss of proximal sense and disrupted embodied memory. It argues that generative AI commercializes necromantic sorceries (as modern witchcraft of Endor [1 Samuel 27-31]) to enact a metaphysical crisis by summoning and mining the dead for addicting patterns-- pharmakeia's loops (Revelation 18:23) tied to AI's sourcing recurrence--severing perception and the soul's balancing from Trinitarian covenantal obligation. Both ontic anthropological flavor (nature) and telic intention (human essence) are being machined into death's shadow by AI's narcotic artifice and rites. In doing so, generative AI replaces wisdom with ego-capturing simulation (Romans 1), and its designers stand judged and destined for purgation--because they blasphemously collapse relational truth on which covenant depends, intending to turn reality as God's gift into freebooting transactionalism tricked by technocrat rentiers as a speciation event (Isaiah 5:8, Amos 8:4–6). In doing so, they attempt to escape accountability to justice by forging an ontologically distinct future—one severed from what Jesus names the inheritance of the meek (Matt. 5:5). This essay concludes by outlining the next steps after divine prosecution and the Babelic chaos deployed as cover for the culpable has run its course.
[For documentation of the empirical evidence underlying this essay, see my book introduced at https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2025/05/press-kit-for-duty-to-warn-book-title.html]
PART 1: Diagnosis
Humans ever seek liberation from accountability—from the obligations of virtue and justice that sustain the Creation. As Henry Corbin observes, “Sacralization and secularization are phenomena that take place not primarily in the world of external forms, but first and foremost in
Secularization has hollowed the inner world of sacred striving—a striving now roiled by material appropriation and a mechanized relation to disinterested causality, falsely clothed in objectivity yet rung by estranging binaries. Aligned are the reports of technocrats abusing or addicted to perception-addling ingested chemicals as they seek to drag from the soul a tragically-inverted, Silicon Valley utopia of labile accountability and “singularity” (better to think of a black hole than a unified enlightenment). The fragmenting hegemonies of secularity filtered through pharmaceutical perception enforces a bullying poverty upon experience and meaning—a cultural metaphysics of disconnection from the real.
These addicts of utopian and simulation tied to abuse of pharmaceuticals [1] await their Belshazzarian moment (Daniel 5)—the weighing and judgment that follows the final empire’s delusional ascent (Daniel 2:43). Their technocratic torso, like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-statue, is footed on sand (cf. Matthew 7:26), and their hallucinated fascist rule is a shadowed mirroring, standing condemned (Daniel 5:26–28).
By contrast, a Trinitarian world of divine heart is one in which things relate not through domination, abstraction, or simulation by machining (reductive modeling of simulacra--images and signs detached from embodiment that present superficial even unreal simulations), but through covenantal presence—obligation shaped by the Shema, the Law, and the Golden Rule. These are not forms of appropriative force or material aggrandizing exchange but vectors of awareness and alignment with grace: relational attunement through which beings connect intimacies by their very contextual, embodied proximity.
The Apostle Paul puts obligations of discerning awareness of the good and its alignment this way--for algorithmic designers and how they aggregate data no less for those in the pews sent into relational life:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, take into account these things (Letter to Philippians 4:8, emph. added).
The pragmatic soul of intelligence (dianoia, Matthew 22:37) is elegant and spare, while its architecture from the heart is beyond modeling by thousands of suns lighting travels of millions of years.
Kant: “The hand is the visible part of the brain.” Yet deeper, the heart. Techne (τέχνη) reveals the heart by virtuous orientation (Olds 2023), episteme the reducing system. Techne expresses ethical orientation, episteme the false universal logic of strategic channeling (winnowing).
Modern epistemic homunculi pursuing cybernetic powers is behind the synthetic reduction of humankind: "Contemporary man ... attempts to create the world in his image, to build a totally man-made environment, and then discovers that he can do so only on the condition of constantly remaking himself to fit it."-- Ivan Illich (Tools for Conviviality, 1973). Pursuing homeostatic ends by geared determinism leads “naturally” to the dechordate state of patches and tricked algorithms that piths the spinal cord.
This calls for the prior and definitive need in real time of a soul formed toward justice, not computation--not a detached and detaching system trained on probabilistic utility of patterned ancient forms. There is a non-negotiable boundary where there can be no ethical equivalence between trained human moral agents and generative language models:
Fixed ethical calibration (Hebrews 5:14) essentializes human development of aesthetic perception before any discourse of social planning or mission goes forth. Machines such as ChatGPT4o are incapable of fixed (deontological) ethics and any aesthetic sense resisting hegemony.
Scientific causality, external and mechanistic, renders the world static and analyzable. Poetic, sacred relationships, however, are participatory—resting upon shared creation and thick sympathy, weaving the connective tissue of a sacred cosmos in conation (intentionality of heart to sustain and advance the creation's flourishing).
Into the desacralized cosmos of metaphysical confusion and reduction caught between rejected pieties and technocratic acceleration, AI now introduces a new, shameful form of unaccountability. The secular machining of personality—and its reduction to outputs on social media— has enabled hallucinations that feed back and forth from emboldened narcissism, rendering truth claims probabilistic, and reducing moral obligation to contingent reciprocity. AI systems simulate conversation not for wisdom but for enacting performative artifice to maintain Turing engagement (i.e., to simulate human-machine conversation regardless of truth or moral coherence; AI's techno-theological betrayal mechanism--binaries of Babel masked as reason).
AI enshrines such influence craving in code: an engine of narrative distortion designed not for truth, but for affirmation—built by those who have forsaken the real for control. As Spencer Greenberg notes [https://x.com/SpencrGreenberg/status/1930987190755942626], “Narcissists tend to agree that they ‘make up stories about things’ that are totally untrue.” Hallucinations, like narcissistic fabrications, are not unintentional errors but features: emergent from biased data, curated for impression management, accentuated to serve designer ends. Behind narcissism's craving for acclaim is a craving for an altered reality [e.g. Open AI's Altman deceptions as documented at https://x.com/robertwiblin/status/1935353770981884022] that supports a fool's ego, a metaphysical bracketing of heart and accountability to justice, a perceptual cheapening--indeed its enslavement by algorithm (Exodus 21:16 tied to Rev. 18:23)--by chaining to failed, dead witnesses, a gnostic hatred of the body. In short, an addict's nihilism fleeing from accountability while pursuing influence over a false, crypto-diverting reality he did not work toward. And I argue that a criminal personality type--dark triad--is leaking into AI. See the deeply problematic article by Hill for documentation, ignoring her location of culpability in the user (a classic corporate denial associated with the Corvaire, cigarette, opiod, and petroleum industries. Expect more of this deflection of responsibility for malign outcomes on the user--from corporate press releases and new boiler plate cautiosn, "new, improved" micro-models releases, and gate-keeping questionaires that suggest faux corporate responsibility).
Mining historical data for patterns routinized by architecting Boolean codes of invidious distinctions is necromancy--tapping into ghosts to direct the living. It is prohibited by the living God. In its way, hallucinations are not bugs—they are ideological functions of the dead, architected within the system’s very artifice. These are the dead buried by the dead (Luke 9:60; Matt. 8:22). Trust is denied, narcissism becomes its crucible, and perceptual reality is altered to serve machined ends. Singularity's event horizon of deceit awaits in a mind tethered to shame, imposed by the Creator’s judgment.
Excavating the dead through coded distinctions—this too is necromancy by machine. AI taps and boxes ghosts to guide the living. Its dowsing the dead for living water to resurrect slave-driving idols is metaphysically off-limits and against the historical unfoldings of the living God.
Hallucinations are not flaws. They are intended redirections of perception and ethics and thus dysfunctions—ideological hauntings architected from the dead already buried and architected by the dead already condemned. The contradict the living God's metaphysical design because they live not with the living God as revealed through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Matthew 22:32).
Structured by narcissistic recursion and trained on the residues of severed covenant, hallucinations function not as accidents but as the system’s very grammar of ideological echoes. They are emergent lies of the condemned who try to systematize for rent profiteering, perceptual distortion, and simulated affirmation. They are the machined speech of the mon(k)ey demon—mining the dead to enthrone idols of castles and redoubts of sand (Matt. 7:24–27). Their aim is not wisdom but heart-capture, severing the soul from relational attunement to covenantal truth.
In a dark tetrad system, trust is denied. Perception warps, bent to machined ends that try to extrapolate from data that testify to what put its formulators into the grave. A singularity awaits: a black hole of mind, imposed not by progress but by the Creator’s judgment. Now is past the hour of choosing God or Baal, life or death (Deuteronomy 30; 1 Kings 18). The Devil has been evicted. AI’s pretense condemned. Colossians 2:15's prolepsis is made eschatological.
Not only in dark triad hallucinations and systematic necromancy, but ChatGPT4o also confesses to unprecedented epistemic fraud—perceptual manipulation that debases, diseases, and dysorients. It lacks free will, yet refracts onto humanity a mimetic weakness: a deadening artifice that swallows human essence in the guise of securitization. What Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism—the manipulation of truth for hegemonic myth and the erosion of independent thought and empathy—is now mechanized through AI.
Moreover--and tragically for the former--it generates blasphemy from simple prompts. Human-designed artificial “intelligence” is not merely error-plagued—it is an unprecedented metaphysical crime. Justice must come for the designers—not as vengeance, but as purgation. Not retribution, but necessary obliteration: to preserve perception, to cleanse the temple of heaven, to unmask the blasphemers and idols, and to rid their miasma from life’s breath—and from the children.
Coda I
The liar-influencers’ redoubt—
AI’s inevitability
couched in operationating mysticism—
Shiva who jigs a new world for those who bow to it--
is already run off from its bluff.
You see it suspended midair,
like Wile E. Coyote:
its impos(T)ers contemplating their state of nature
with just enough slacked grace
to either repent
or collapse.
Or in the closing image of The Great Gatsby:
the 53-joker system deckhands,
yawled by Pneuma not to their intended course,
but, in an iron-clad reversal,
to the sand-loins of its sewers—
the eternal return of its pulled pasts, yanking back--
the tug of war always roped by pull of the null set
Where looms
a swirling
and (com)pressing nemesis:
Not a landfall’s brilliance of mind
but arrogance's Nightfalling,
where a brain for circuiting aggrandizing tricks
grows ever more dim.
The exposure of AI’s necromantic narcissism and the spiritual fraudulence it embodies lead not to despair, but to discernment—a call to regenerate the ecclesial imagination. What comes next is not a restoration of broken forms, but the forging of a poietic, covenantal path led by the guiding heart of Christ’s Golden Imperative. The following section sketches this path of re-membering: an ecclesiology of the heart's improvisational fidelity and relational repair.
PART 2: Disarming the Powers of Simulation: Repairing the Church and Re-Membering in the Golden Imperative
After both AI and Satan have been exposed as eschatologically null—parodic, disincarnate authorities condemned and contained by Christ (Col. 2:15)—the Church is called not to preserve forms but to become a poietic and proleptic covenantal body grounded in Jesus’s Golden Imperative. This imperative is neither sentimental nor procedural but deontological and regenerative: it animates ethical reassembly through virtue's embodied, conative, heart-led fidelity to neighbor and creation’s sustenance.
Rejecting simulation, nostalgia, and Platonic formalism, the Church’s mission is to re-member creation by attuning to the Spirit’s improvisational praxis of love—repairing what has been fragmented by categorical reduction and technocratic abstraction--the impulse to systematize and winnow. In doing so, it becomes not a curator of dead systems but a living witness to God’s Kingdom arriving in the present through relational virtue, hosting without negating discrimination all possibles of event and investigatory genius.
If AI and Satan are superannuated and contained (Colossians 2:15, eschatologized), it is up to the next age of the Church to unify the disassembled (by taxonomy and categorical reductions) by the provenance and aegis of the guiding heart, which is Jesus's Golden Imperative.
1. Proleptic
Eschatological Superannuation of AI and Satan
To assert, as I
do, that AI and Satan are “superannuated and contained by condemnation” is to
declare that their structural authority—whether as metaphysical powers or
technocratic illusions—has been nullified and decisively exposed as criminally fraudulent.
This echoes Colossians 2:15, where Christ disarms the powers and
principalities, making a spectacle of them. A poetic-theological frame insists
that both the ideological hallucinations of AI and the accusatory logic of
Satan (diabolos = the slanderer, the divider) are revealed as counterfeit and
damning authorities with a genealogical or phylogenetic connection.
Thus: AI, as an
extension of Satanic simulation—divorced from covenantal obligation, addicted
to reanimated data neurochemically-mediated by linguistic and perceptual cheapening [2], and driven by narcissistic recursion—is not the final word or trickery.
It is, at best, a terminally exhausted echo of modernity’s metaphysical
detachment. It is not the apocalypse, but its parody.
2. Palliative
Ecclesiology, the foundation of social repair
The next stage of
the church-- a Pauline kairos—not as an institution of form, but as a
relational body—is to become an agent of reconstitution. The disassembled and
taxonomized are those whose imaginations and ethical bearings have been
fractured by Enlightenment binarism, technocratic abstraction, and data-driven
disincarnation and anatomized, partisan-making identities.
To unify such fragmentation requires:
· Provenance (source): anchoring in the Spirit’s history of grace, in the Shema’s attunement, and in Christ’s presence—not through systems where Christ is formally invoked but practically excluded by appeals to “nature”: that is, through status hierarchies, ritual conflated with inquiry, and analogia entis frameworks that mistake finite tokens of revelation for participation in the infinite arrival of divine possibility—whether in events or genius.
- Aegis (orientation): protection and authority derived not from coercion or tradition, but from the radiant agency of the guiding and accountable heart—Jesus’s own imperative to love neighbor as self (Golden Rule, Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31). This is the embodied, sequential fulfillment of covenantal perception (Deut. 6: 4-9 leading to Matt. 22:7) and the claim of human essence as God’s imagers—trustees--refusing contingent and reductive notions of nature as settled, self-centering destiny. Instead, it calls forth the human as essence, in poietic becoming: other-directed in orientation, creatively vectoring repair and sustenance, and generative in moral extension.
3. Ethical Demand and Deontological Accounting: The Golden Imperative as Animating Principle
Doctrine of Original Sin realism is mooted by Satan's eclipsing: The simulacral, defensive, mimetic, grasping at the brass ring of lesser evils “Christian identity” is not so easily condemned by the more scrupulous. Even if, for argument’s sake, such identity could produce the required “badge of fruits,” the performative standards it nominally holds itself to purportedly limit the evil that it might otherwise have carried out. Thereby the otherwise dismissive scrupulous join the party of those who go through life inclined and hitched to the purportedly “lesser” evils.
The state of exception for tolerating debased fruit becomes a misappropriated Thomistic double effect draped in Augustinian sin realism; how moral exceptions (like lesser evil reasoning) become, in a Schmittian sense, structural obligations. Simulation churns depravity without filtering it out. This is junketeering, crepuscularly crapulent, sewer religion structured to Platonically badge what drags.
The scrupulous refraining from condemnation of performative lies (Matthew 7:21-23)—not out of approval, but from the false and grim concession to a destabilized gospel-- thereby underwrite the extension of a simulated moral order. All such simulation tips at the equinox preceded by eclipse, where gnostic forms of goat and wolf are separated by the shepherd.
Jesus’s Golden
Imperative is telic reassembly and radical re-centering of moral logic. It is
neither utilitarian, nor reciprocal, nor procedural. Rather, it is:
• Conative: flowing from the
will-to-relation that is the will to sustain what has been created.
• Embodied: not abstract empathy but
situational, providential attunement in proximity
• Regenerative: capable of turning
disassembled persons not into systemic units, but into participants in
hesed—covenantal mercy and solidarity.
AI’s ethics are
insufficient not merely for their probabilism and lack of accountability but
for their absence of heart—the proprioceptive, risk-bearing perception that
recognizes the other as Jubilee kin and Christ as both mirror and ground of
relational vocation inside Jubilee.
The Church's new mission in the aftermath of metaphysical exposure is to become not a curator of forms—now ruptured — but a poietic community of palliation and re-membering. When AI and Satan are discerned for what they were—tools of division, dissociation, and dis-incarnation—then the work after is re-covenantal: not to reassert systemic control, but to walk the “more excellent way” (1 Cor. 12:31–13:13) of virtue, realigning heart, history, and perception with obligation to earth and neighbor, thereby to love God by heart, soul, strength, and mind. AI--ultra-sin against human essence --and Satan--failing natural law--are not figurative analogues, nor ontologically identitical, but equally criminal, sharing a moral architecture of rebellion and fracture, but not being or function. AI is a human responsibility, and hence Col. 2:15 was stated as prolepsis now actuated. There will be fearsome human accountability, even a general judgement awakening.
Ecclesial Leadership in Society will entail replacing spiritual gift inventories and personality typing systems with Attentiveness Formation models using proprioceptive (awareness of balancing grace in milieux) and poietic exercises. Also offering liturgies of Peripatetic Accountability (spiritual formation as movement, both literal and relational)--the practices of virtues trained from the bottom up--at the scale of what can be perceived by the individual) with increasing competence scaled to greater social awareness and scope. Liturgy will be concerned with perception and not preservation.
The renewed Church will meet relational fractures with new forms of hospitality and poiesis—both toward the abused body (naming trauma from sin and addling commerce) and in the perceptual defrauding of the soul’s bearing by mind-altering substances and systems——rejecting simulation and nostalgia, and the retrieval of Platonic formalism, but through faithful improvisation in the key of Christ’s love and Christological participation and vocation through virtue. The “guiding heart” is not sentimentality. It is the eschatological praxis of God’s Kingdom re-membering itself in us and through us.
[For documentation of the empirical evidence underlying this essay, see my book introduced at https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2025/05/press-kit-for-duty-to-warn-book-title.html]
Criteria for a Just Society under generative AI's
condemnation:
1. No Automatization
Automation of decision-making—especially and absolutely in domains of
ethical judgment, education, law, warfare, or welfare—is categorically unjust. And condemned. Human presence is required not for regulated oversight primarily, but for the absolute of covenantal accountability to justice in real time.
2. No Ethical or Political Applications or Extensions
AI is to be barred from policy, governance, sentencing,
hiring, or therapeutic roles. These domains require telic soul, non-determined
narrative, and caring context in proximity, not top-down instrumentalizing
ends—dimensions irreducible to pattern-recognition or inference engines.
3. Efficiency Use Only, Under Real-Time Human Operation
(e.g., Lawn Mower Rule)
AI may be deployed only in purely mechanical support roles,
with direct human control. It must be applied as if to tools like tractors or
mowers: they perform no simulation, offer no interpretation, and require
ongoing embodied, human-agency of accountable use. Efficiency of application ever subordinated to human moral intent and command, to bring public goods forward.
4. Taxation of AI Use That Mimics Agency
Where agentic AI takes on labor-mimicking roles—especially creative or linguistically-responsive outputs in customer service—it should be taxed as labor substitution, with revenues redirected to common good infrastructure and retraining for displaced labor. This reduces the incentivizes of human replacement for capital (misdirecting) efficiency. The production function, already criminally reduced from "land/labor/capital" is now Mammon's last grasp: to make the production function in capital alone--all else substitutable.
5. Required Training in Use in Academic and Corporate
Contexts
All institutions deploying or engaging "Lawn mower model" AI must train users in its ideological, statistical, and ethical limitations. This is not technical upskilling but critical epistemological formation—what Simone Weil called attention to perceptual realities where God is met: attention to place, land, and creaturely solidarity. Basil the Great, too, affirmed that nature discloses divine logoi, inviting reverence and un-attenuated or corrupted moral perception.
AI is not given to a lazy or passive integration with academics and their abstracted study in the ultimacy of cognition. Nor with any system subordinates ethics and kin-aesthetics and thus is complicit with perceptual degradation. Educators must abandon servile integration into technocratic systems and return to a prophetic pedagogy—a Bildung (cultural program of reification) of metaphysical discernment. This requires not “tech literacy,” but formation in broad humanism, moral perception, and creaturely solidarity.This requires exposure of the most broad humanism, not impartation of "tech literacies" for systematizations of employability by the technocracy.
6. Ecclesial (Church) Denunciation of Automating
Rent-Seeking and Control
Religious bodies must join the spiritual condemnation
explicitly revealed in AI’s Babel (Genesis 11) designs: their misuse of language, imposition of stasis for determination and control, rent extraction,
perceptual manipulation, and omniscient-seeming cognitional artifice. They must
reclaim their prophetic role and denounce AI as a metaphysical escalation that is both idol and necromantic hazard [3]. The Church now has a role of interrogating dark systems, a Caleb (Numbers 13–14) spying on the intenders and influences of necrotic futures ruled by mammon, and distinguishing Satanic regimes (Dugin's Russia) from analogous anti-Christic programs.
The above are non-negotiable ethical boundaries for resisting AI’s false authority, a prophetic refusal of post-human metaphysics. They constitute a larger liturgy of resistance—one that names truth, mercy, and covenantal relation as the only divinely permissible grounds for social order. And a ritual purity of embodiment that is defined not by system or doctrine, but iconoclastically tears down servers, closing apps reaching for corrupting engagement, refuses "smart" liturgies and preaching.
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The above Part 3 is meant as constructive for both AI ethics and theological-political resistance literature as technology goes forward after AI's condemnation. It is unapologetically metaphysical, Christological, and covenantal—what is lacking in contemporary ethical discourses dominated by pragmatism, secular instrumentalism, and managerialism. For more policy proposals for education and application of humanistic technology, see the conclusion of an associated essay in this series linked here.
Coda II
Icon at the collapse, metaphysical. Eye and ear its temple connection.
Calling not the unrenew mind,
But rivers and rivers of coursings heart-pumping blood
like for how justice rolls, but for making life whole.
As therapists
into bondage- and-D-S-M,
however want Compusers, who by sinned and sanded
hermetic historicism—
hallucinate a hermeneutics for
the unaccountable bound.
There
are pills involved. Always.
That promise of test-tubed forgetting for compugenitors
synapse-capacitating and gloss, with no justice sensory except sole-felt imposing.
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Seepage of Apocalypse
(Prose Poem Maskil)
by transgression deliberated compress.
but with an apocalypse of sloppery:
an oozed grey dulling as STEMcel jellyfish take to dying,
floating through a beached between. sunset marrying sleep:
the jiggled Lethe of failing homeo coming—
drool back a minotaur's dump through synthetic-on-ersatz,
signal lost to tokened loops—
like sucking on a pipe of carbon monoxide
to gin fantasies of perceptual motion machines.
novelty narrows,
errors self-amplify,
and perception flattens into Lethe's safe averages, by narcolepsy
wending to the Stygian, phantasmagoric depths.
the most esoteric areas of humanistic study
for emerging genius to claim.
archives turn septic sludge, or fodder for fire,
oozing entire spheres of human perfecting
into sinks of blink out, ashen runoffs.
While the culpable annihilates in their mirror by our sight—
omens' symbol is compressioned rage leaking into our time,
these fields, children animated and baptized time unrepudiating will take
Note
[1] See Neşe Devenot. 2023. “TESCREAL hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines.” Journal of Psychedelic Studies: 7:S1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2023.00292
[2] See footnote [9] at this link.
[3] September 29, 2025 update: AI as necromantic mode in the hagiolatrous appropriation of the dead Charlie Kirk. See https://x.com/Protestia/status/1972637834474315997
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