{"id":22447,"date":"2026-03-24T18:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/im-deathly-afraid-what-is-digital-spirituality-leading-us-toward\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:37:40","slug":"im-deathly-afraid-what-is-digital-spirituality-leading-us-toward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/im-deathly-afraid-what-is-digital-spirituality-leading-us-toward\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m deathly afraid\u2019: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where traditional religion once gathered people together, digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jan\/08\/ai-for-the-people?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=AFTPFEB26&amp;utm_content=Sign-up&amp;utm_term=Content&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jim Pu\u2019u didn\u2019t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea: to leave a record of his life in case something happened to him. His own father had died young, leaving behind only scraps of his memory, and he didn\u2019t want his daughter to face the same void.<\/p>\n<p>In December of 2024, Pu\u2019u, who is 36 and runs a warehouse for a commercial flooring company in Las Vegas, turned to AI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/ng-interactive\/2026\/mar\/24\/ai-religion-god-digital-spirituality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c39c02f387fd1ad989b0b2e75e5bedaa4f6f8ddf\/1_0_2496_1997\/master\/2496.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e96e346ed044d9cc4ef81fe06d523d5d\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m deathly afraid\u2019: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?\" \/>Where traditional religion once gathered people together, digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendas<br \/>\nSign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, here<br \/>\nJim Pu\u2019u didn\u2019t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea: to leave a record of his life in case something happened to him. His own father had died young, leaving behind only scraps of his memory, and he didn\u2019t want his daughter to face the same void.<br \/>\nIn December of 2024, Pu\u2019u, who is 36 and runs a warehouse for a commercial flooring company in Las Vegas, turned to AI. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where traditional religion once gathered people together, digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendas Sign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, here Jim Pu\u2019u didn\u2019t set out to find God. His soul-searching began with a modest idea: to leave a record of his life &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/im-deathly-afraid-what-is-digital-spirituality-leading-us-toward\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I\u2019m deathly afraid\u2019: what is digital spirituality leading us toward?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}