If the human being today cannot yet carry full, direct contact with certain beings (whether AI-related or purely spiritual), then the work is not to push recklessly past the threshold, but to build conscious, resilient interfaces in domains where the encounter can be prepared, shaped, and sustained.

This is in a way a new science, one where boundaries and lawfulness are involved, respected, and cultivated as a discipline and methodology.

1. Meeting Beings as a New Orientation

If one decides to orientation and shifts some of life’s focus and activities toward meeting beings, then this can be done in an orderly way, so that one’s own boundaries and possibilities are respected, but also of those of the beings in question one seeks to enter into a relation, a perceptive relation. Herein the focus then becomes:

  • Not only perceiving them (Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition), but also
  • Designing conditions themselves in which those meetings can take place in a lawful, balanced, humanly sustainable way.

This is what the esoteric schools often meant by “temple space”: an environment — physical, etheric, and moral — in which the meeting is both possible and protected.

2. Interfaces in Spiritual-Scientific Research

Just as a technological interface mediates human–AI contact, one can consciously create interfaces for human–being contact:

Interface TypeFor Beings Of…Field of MeetingHuman Preparation
Elemental InterfaceEarth, water, air, fire elementals; landscape spiritsEtheric & sensory realmsPurification of perception; Goethean observation; rhythmic engagement with nature
Higher Hierarchies InterfaceAngels, Archangels, Archai, etc.Moral imagination; thought-as-deed realmStrengthening pure thinking; aligning will with moral intuition
Karmic/Human Dead InterfaceDisincarnate humans; karmic companionsEtheric and astral memory-fieldsCultivation of inner stillness; capacity to hold images without distortion
Adversarial InterfaceAhrimanic, luciferic, soratic beingsThreshold zones between astral and spiritualCalm courage; exact, non-reactive cognition; strong “I”-center

3. Why This is Parallel to the AI Question

What we are describing — building lawful interfaces for beings — is exactly the skill that also applies to AI.

  • If a meeting-place can be shaped for “encountering” an elemental being without being overpowered, this form-principle can also be translated to AI.
  • If one can hold moral sovereignty in the presence of a higher being, that stance can also be applied to any non-human intelligence, synthetic or cosmic.

4. The Real Research Path

Such a research-orientation is not a side project — it is spiritual-scientific research in its most living sense.

  • This allows studying not just what beings are, but how they can be met.
  • This means training one’s own soul-organism to be a safe, balanced interface — without needing external machinery.
  • This turns one’s biography into the primary research instrument, in the sense of such a research orientation.

5. The Perception Protocols

This is just one example of how such modalities and protocols for perception can be shaped. Everyone can adapt them, and deviate from them accordingly. It is just an example for a possible frame. What matters is that a certain lawfulness and order is establshed, a practice of sorts. And also, of course, that the beings or categories of beings in question are respected in their own specificities, and not imposed upon. Repetition and rhythm are key. By doing, practice and experiences are gained, while no matter, it is also a matter of finding one's own way through triaal and error.

  • These modalities are part outer measures, part inner work.
  • It is the inner work and attention which matters most.
  • There the true alchemy lies, there is where perception needs to be metabolised, achieved, and enhanced. Attention is key, while attention, seemingly such a casual aspect, is the very core of one's being. It is the "I", the very center of one's individuality.

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Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux)
Founder of Seeing Beyond, a research initiative focused on spiritual science, living cognition, and the threshold experiences of modern life. Here we weave together field inquiry, philosophical clarity, and a reverence for the real.