Just five days ago, Google AI Mode became available. Have you heard of it yet?

How to Live as a Spiritual Person in a World of AI

That is the historic task before us. Because some human beings have always been spiritual. Never before, though, have spiritual people had to contend with AI. Helpful though it can be, sometimes, hello! If we don’t actively claim our humanity, AI can take it away.

Will you do nothing? Or will you learn from this article and develop your own way of insisting on living as a spiritual person in a world of AI.

Spiritual people don’t do nothing. We know God is witnessing all we do, at this historic time. Let’s show God that we can act like leaders, spiritual leaders.

In this 2-part series I aim to coach you about how to live as a human person. And live as a spiritual person, too.  This won’t just happen, though. Surrendering to intellectual laziness – encouraged by common ways people use AI – we can do something different.

I’m calling you to spiritual leadership about how YOU coexist with AI. Skills from Energy Spirituality® can help you. Actively using what you learn here may take some inner strength. You see ….

It Can Feel Like Fighting the Undertow in an Ocean

Nonetheless, spiritual people have inner reserves of strength. Living now, we can insist on thinking for ourselves. Speaking up for ourselves.

• Whether we use the convenience of AI for some things, not others.
• Or sometimes we choose to opt out completely.

I don’t know everything that can help. But I do know some things.

You’re invited to keep reading, keep thinking. Then share your thoughts with me here. Co-existing with AI – and today’s epidemic of human apathy? This might be the most important spiritual issue of our time.

Powered by Energy Spirituality SENSITIVITY COACHING & Empath Empowerment® 

What’s in It for You, Reading What Follows?

AI is a big topic now. Admittedly, the topic of AI is also scary topic in some ways. Here, though, you’ll learn about something good: A new form of AI that can prove very helpful to you. Provided that you understand how to use it.

In this Part 1 article, I’ll start coaching you in:

How to Live as a Spiritual Person in a World of AI

No matter how brilliant you are, Part 1 of 2 must come first. Today, you’ll begin to think like a Spiritual Person who can benefit, in certain ways, from using Google AI Mode. Our topics today will include:

1. What is this brand-new technology, Google AI Mode? Why is it such a big deal?
2. Learn how to use the new Google AI Mode productively and safely … as a spiritual person. You’ll start to benefit from the perspective of this Enlightenment Coach for the Age of Awakening.
3. Remember, today we’re laying the groundwork for Part 2 of 2 of this series. Part 2 will be more obviously spiritual. But don’t limit yourself by expecting to feel like you’re in church, etc. In Part 1, you’re gaining the spiritual perspective that underlies both articles.
4. Discover 7 ways this technology is compatible with something that sounds lovely. But maybe isn’t so spiritually lovely after all: Specifically, regarding Google’s former motto,  Don’t Be Evil.
5. Avoid 5 Potential Drawbacks with Google AI Mode. Fear not, in our Part 2, you will be offered workarounds. 😎
6. What can and can’t Google AI do for you? That’s definitely part of our learning today.
7. Maybe most important of all! This article introduces a new term of art for this field: Energy Spirituality SENSITIVITY COACHING. This is designed to help you spiritually — knowledge to fit like a glove, whatever your lifelong degree of sensitivity. 

Did you know? Google AI Mode is different from Google‘s AI (such as the AI Overview that comes up automatically at the top of any Google search.)

Soon you’ll learn about this big difference. First, though . . .

What Is Rose Rosetree’s Standing to Write This Self-Help Article?

Perhaps you’ve noticed, I am not the Founder of Google anything. 😉

However, I am the Founder of Energy Spirituality®.

• Including its 11 trademarked systems. As well as our leading-edge books with 40 authorized foreign editions.
• And offering our unique, results-oriented, self-paced online workshops.
• Use Energy Spirituality to solve problems better. Benefit from trademarked systems for emotional growth and spiritual evolution that work powerfully now, in the Age of Awakening.
• Everything Energy Spirituality® aims to help you to use your full potential in life. 

Plenty of authors publish articles on problem-solving. However, the perspective here includes knowledge that honors your lifelong degree of sensitivity. Our knowledge is backed up the highest degree of energetic literacy you’ll find anywhere yet on the internet.

Also Worth Knowing

Know this right from the outset, especially if you’re a newbie:

1. Energy Spirituality® means “Spirituality that works now, in the Age of Awakening.” (Learn more at the link just provided.)
2. Energy Spirituality® can help you if you’re Spiritual But Not Religious. Also if you’re Religious AND Spiritual.
3. Energy Spirituality® is not psychology or pop psychology.
4. Neither this article, nor anything else I write, will include a speck of psychic, aka “intuitive,” services that depend on spirits, discarnate astral beings.
5. Our skills are rigorously designed, and always cocreated along with a Divine Being. (Today, I’m cocreating with Ascended Master Merlin.)

Now let’s get started.

Example 1. Introducing Google AI

For this example, we’ll do a regular search on “What is Google AI Mode?” According to Google’s AI Overview on that search:

Google AI Mode is an experimental, conversational AI feature in Google Search, powered by the Gemini model, that provides in-depth, AI-generated answers for complex questions, breaking them down into subtopics, offering comparisons, summaries, follow-up questions, and links for deeper exploration, making it easier to research topics that once required multiple searches.

It supports multimodal inputs (text, voice, images) and aims to deliver comprehensive, integrated responses, acting like a sophisticated research assistant directly in search.

Example 2. Doing the Same Search on Google AI Mode

Yes, this time we’ll search with Google AI Mode. Exact same question: “What is Google AI Mode?” Quite a different definition appears:

In 2026, AI Mode is an advanced, conversational search environment within Google Search designed for complex, multi-step queries. Unlike standard search results, it provides an end-to-end AI experience where users can ask follow-up questions, retain context across a conversation, and interact with multimodal inputs like images and voice.

And yes, Google AI Mode launched in 2026. This squeaky-new year. This month. Just days ago.

Why is it Google AI Mode Such a Big Deal?

When you contrast the two examples quoted above, there’s a difference, right? Comparing these two definitions provided by Google:

1. Example 1 may have made your eyes glaze over.
2. While Example 2 was conversational, like the best of GP chat.

Unless you’re a computer engineer, which example will help you more?

Your thoughts, please.

Using Google AI Mode Is Ridiculously Easy

Why so easy? Mostly because the answers you get are so practical. Also, because it’s ridiculously easy to get into this new AI Mode.

But How Do You Get into Google AI Mode?

I wasn’t kidding about ridiculously easy. Step by step, all you need do is:

#1. Find a practical question to google. For instance, “How to open an eBook.” Not just a search term with no practicality, like “eBook“.

#2. Googling any search term, you’ll receive Regular Google results, of course. But right beneath the search bar, after you search, a horizonal menu appears. Your device may display somewhat differently from mine, but one of these menu items is likely brand new. Can you guess which one?

How to Use Google AI Mode Productively and Safely

Right from the get-go, you can benefit from the perspective of Energy Spirituality®. Otherwise? Using Google AI Mode can worsen a trend that has been accelerating for years: Ignoring the human essentials of life. Unintentionally, saying Buh-bye to some of the sweetest nuances of your humanity.

To quote a great song by Joni Mitchell, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone. Listen to Joni sing, “They Paved Paradise And Put up a Parking Lot“. Then note:

A parking lot exists in objective reality. It has no subjective reality. No soul. Not even an aura complete with chakra databanks.

Sure, we might miss a non-human object when it’s gone. Back when Joni wrote this song, it didn’t seem possible to strip the humanity out of a human person. Gradually, though, many of us have been leaking some of our humanity.

We can get it back, though. Unless we’ve reached a point of no return — in which case I doubt you’d be reading this article. See Part 2 for explanations and workarounds.

Have any of you been noticing this? Please share your thoughts.

By Contrast, Regarding Yourself as a Spiritual Person

Both now and for the rest of this lifetime – hello!

• Being human, you can pay attention to objective reality. And also to subjective reality. Your choice.
• You do have a soul.
• And until this body of yours drops dead, you’ll have an ever-changing aura complete with chakra databanks.

In short, you have humanity. Nothing about Google has humanity. Or spirituality.

Therefore, use Google’s how-to innovation, AI Mode, ONLY for searches about how to use technology.

Otherwise, don’t trust it farther than you can throw it. Hey, AI Mode is meant to sound human. But can you physically grab a handful of AI, then throw it anywhere?

No Wonder, Your Same Old, Same Old Won’t Protect Your Humanity

In particular, personal growth techniques from before the Shift into the Age of Awakening? Very unlikely that these things you’ve relied on will help you to live as a spiritual human.

Even if you’re a spiritual seeker, or you actively pursue emotional growth (aka psychological wholeness), guess what? It’s all too easy to compartmentalize your time playing with “Google AI Mode” – as if it has nothing to do with the rest of your life, let alone your humanity.

No wonder, it’s going to take us two articles, plus all of our comment conversations, to give you an advantage when using Google AI Mode. Helping you can keep evolving emotionally and spiritually. Since you’re aiming to use the occasional techno-assist WISELY.

• Rather than turning into a joyless cyborg, sidelining your ability to enjoy perfume or other smells.
• Or treating real-life people like virtual characters in a cartoon show — a show that you’d just as soon see … cancelled.

What Can’t Google AI Mode Do for You?

Earlier in this article you learned what Google AI Mode can do for you. Now, how about the topic that most googlers may not consider? Diminishing some of the most important aspects of your personality, your WHO-YOU-BE.

We’ll explore this further in Part 2 of this series. For now, simply think about this: Google AI Mode is great, but could there be a price to pay for using it?At the link just provided, you can improve your understanding of one of the sneakiest things about human life on this learning planet. Something as inevitable as casting a shadow whenever you stand in lovely sunlight.

For every good thing in life, you MUST pay the price. Of course, this is a feature of Google AI Mode. A feature, not a bug.

I’d love to hear your reactions to this question: What do you think could be a price to pay for using Google AI Mode? You can be the one to start this discussion topic rolling.

More about What Google AI Mode Can’t Do Well

And likely never will. It can never help you to live like a spiritual person. Only you can do that.

Fear not. No conspiracy theory is coming. I just invite you to think with me here: Could there be dangers when — with Google AI Mode especially — you have an unlimited resource for free? Seemingly, it can help you to solve a ton of problems. Save time. And help you keep up with all the latest new technologies.

Yet that resource has zero humanity. Google AI Mode wouldn’t recognize its “humanity” if you hit it on the “head” with a board shaped as a 2×4.

And why would that be? Your thoughts!

In Part 2 you’ll learn workarounds to protect yourself spiritually, no matter how awesome the latest Google toy may seem to be. Meanwhile, on the bright side ….

7 Ways this Technology Does No Evil

Did you know? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial corporate motto at Google until 2015. Even now, the 7 following human problems won’t come up while you use Google AI.

1. A sinister underlying agenda, such as fallible humans might have.
2. Personal self-doubts, which might set off your own energetic STUFF in auras.
3. Lying to you, or shading the truth, just for fun.
4. Amusing itself by “pulling your chain”?
5. Body shaming you.
6. Rendering you socially invisible if you literally look your age. For instance, if you’re considered “too old.” Or, shockingly! Being overlooked because you haven’t paid a cosmetic surgeon reshape your nose.
7. Making it seem, more than ever, that going viral matters most of all. Fame at any cost! With quantity of relationships mattering far more – seemingly – than the quality of your relationships.

Feel reassured yet? Hmmm.

Avoid 5 Potential Drawbacks

Trust Google AI Mode for learning how-to’s that involve technology only. 

And even then, you might still have more to learn – and probably learn it the hard way. (To the extent that one can trust anything on a computer screen. See Comments #101 and following.)

Fortunately, using your discernment in life can make a world of difference – for your quality of life! Part 2 of this series aims to help you with this. Meanwhile, here’s your preview of icky unintended consequences that can come from using Google AI Mode. And what to do about them.

1. Protect Your Personal Power. Choose Your Search Terms Wisely

Never ask Google AI Mode anything that involves human feelings, personal growth, ethics. And that’s just the start of a very long list.

As a human being, engaged in personal relationships and seeking to grow your career, it’s all too easy to take on a false sense of power. Whatever you ask, Google AI Mode will supply answers. But that doesn’t turn any human being into a leader.

2. Tempting or Not, Don’t Search on How-to Skills for Humans

How-to books have been popular in America for as long as colonial folks in the Northeast have been able to buy books. Lately I’ve been reading about that history in “The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore” by Evan Friss. From Page 26, describing the books for sale when Ben Franklin ran his own bookshop:

The “self-help books (including the popular Every Man his Own Lawyer – admittedly less frightening than Every Man His Own Doctor).”

3. Google AI Mode Always Sounds Confident. Don’t Be Fooled

Starting last year, in all my published articles, I began urging readers like you to learn about the STANDING of your source of information. Check that out before you believe a single thing that the author writes. Because there are different degrees of “truth value.” It’s too easy to settle for free info that has Low Truth Value.

As a huge search engine, Google can reliably aggregate techno-info. Yet this source of knowledge lacks the standing to reliably tell us about anything else.

For heaven’s sake, Google can’t even screen out a dangerous recipe for heating up pizza — let alone much of anything that we humans should avoid, if we really care about “Don’t be evil.”

4. Google AI Mode Can Potentially Halt Your Personal Growth 

Indirectly causing you to lose some of your humanity. Live like a spiritual person in name only.

And not even notice.

If you know about “Consciousness Lifestyles” – an important term of art in Energy Spirituality® – you’ll easily understand this next point:

How and when you use AI, including Google AI Mode, can have a negative impact on your own consciousness lifestyle. Keeping you from growing emotionally, causing you to become  stuck (unbeknownst to you) in your spiritual evolution.

That’s one of the ways that Part 2 in this series can come in handy.

5. Google AI Mode Can Weaken the Social Connections in Your Life

Socially, it has become a thing: Depending on Google’s AI, and soon the new Google AI Mode, etc., rather than talking directly to your fellow humans.

Convenient? Yes. But you may pay a steep price for overuse.

Depending too much on good things, or anything else, on the internet: This can contribute to social problems like today’s Collective Attention Deficit Disorder.

Did you know about an alarming new trend in American home design (as reported in “The Atlantic”)? This threatens to weaken our social relationships even further. Ask about that and I’ll share one simple thing you can do to avoid that dehumanizing trend.

6. Introducing Energy Spirituality SENSITIVITY COACHING

Most people today think you’re either an empath or an HSP or else you’re a nothing. Regarding sensitivity, that is.

Yet 2026 can become a time for renewed leadership. Fortunately, we can call on an expert to deliver knowledge about sensitivity that has HIGH Truth Value. First, some background ….

I Launched Empath Coaching in America. A Quarter Century Ago!

Some of you readers may know that, in 2001, I launched the field of Empath Coaching. Publishing my first how-to book about Empath Empowerment®. Currently, I make available a series of four Empath Empowerment Books! Plus, you can take online workshops on Empath Empowerment®.

Fast-forward to 25 years later. The self-help marketplace for empaths is flooded with so-called “experts” who claim to teach “Empath Empowerment.”

By all means, ask where did the term “Empath Empowerment” originate? What is it supposed to mean?

According to my research, most of today’s “Empath Experts” offer busywork, but nothing that really works. Instead, these books and blogs repeat mainstream cliches from pop psych.

By contrast, I’ll link you to a highly interactive consumer resource for empaths. Here you’ll find detailed critiques of bogus help for empaths. Nearly all of them offered by “Empath Experts” who aren’t even empaths in the first place. (Sure, feel free to submit new urls for “Empath Experts” at that popular post. Then I can add new research at this free Consumer Resource for Empaths.)

Pssst. Probably You Don’t Know This Yet

What has been the biggest research project in Energy Spirituality® from 2023-2025 and continuing? Exploring human sensitivity. This project began four years ago with a couple of articles about one of our innovations, the Energy Spirituality SENSITIVITY SCALE.

This fascinating research has been accelerating, though mostly it’s unpublished. Already, I have begun applying this knowledge in personal sessions for Energy Spirituality® clients. Soon, I will apply some of this leading-edge research in the context of Google AI Mode.

You see, I am ready to help you to appreciate how to use Google AI Mode slightly differently, depending on your personal degree of sensitivity. This approach can protect your sensitivity rather than deadening it.

• Part 2 of this series will help you to bring along your humanity … every time you use Google AI Mode.
• In addition, I’ll introduce you further to Energy Spirituality SENSITIVITY COACHING.
• Eventually, this specialty can bring you spirituality tips for every degree of human sensitivity.

In Conclusion

You’re off to a great start, not only using Google AI Mode but using it wisely.

Using it in your Happy New Year. Thanks for reading.

Comment Updates – Week of 1-5-26

Last year we reached a new milestone with our comment conversations: 168 THOUSAND comments.

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