Why We Need Meditation in the AI Era

If you look through the eyes of a child, the whole world feels alive. There is life in everything and everything is in conversation. As we grow up, we start to perceive life as more mechanical. We adopt habits to cope with stress but which detach us from more dynamic ways of seeing the world.

In the Vedic tradition, people believe they can instill prana, or subtle life force, into inanimate objects through a process called pranapratishta. Vedic astrology, too, attributes personalities...