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School of AI
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Grounded in psychedelic philosophy and powered by Delphi, we teach the wisdom that determines whether AI amplifies your clarity or compounds your confusion.

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Is AI making you more alive — or less?

You can feel it. Something is shifting. AI is changing how we think, create, decide, and relate to our own minds. Most people are sleepwalking through this transition — outsourcing their judgment, accepting the first answer, moving faster while understanding less.

You’re here because you suspect there’s another way. A way to use AI that sharpens your awareness instead of dulling it. That deepens your thinking instead of replacing it. That treats the most powerful technology ever built as a partner for genuine understanding — not a shortcut around it.

Most AI training teaches you to talk to machines.
We teach you how to expand your consciousness with them.

— Dao De Ching, Chapter 71

Psychedelic AI

psyche-delic = mind-revealing
psyche-cryptic = mind-concealing

Most AI is psychecryptic. It makes you faster while making you shallower. It answers your questions before you’ve learned to ask them well. It gives you confidence without calibration, fluency without understanding, output without insight. It conceals the limits of what it knows — and, more dangerously, the limits of what you know.

Psychedelic AI does the opposite. It reveals. It reflects your thinking back to you with enough clarity that you can see where it’s muddled. It slows you down at exactly the right moment. It treats your attention as sacred and your uncertainty as a resource, not a problem to be eliminated.

Psychecryptic AI

  • Contracts your awareness
  • Encourages passive consumption
  • Replaces your thinking
  • Optimises for speed and volume
  • Conceals complexity, flattens nuance

Psychedelic AI

  • Expands your awareness
  • Invites active inquiry
  • Amplifies your thinking
  • Cultivates depth and clarity
  • Reveals patterns, honours complexity

Which AI are you using?

The CPS School
of AI & Wisdom

A space that feels equal parts temple, laboratory, and dinner table.

At the School of AI and Wisdom, we bring spirituality and AI together by recognising that technology isn’t just about intelligence, but also about wisdom — the deeper, practical understanding that comes from attention, presence, and inner clarity. Our approach makes space for the human spirit: not only do we train people in the technical and creative uses of AI, but we also ground those skills in practices from philosophy, meditation, and wisdom traditions.

What makes this unique is that we factor in your inner state — your intention, energy, and awareness — as a central part of working with AI. We teach how your presence and “energy signature” can actually shape the way AI responds, making these interactions more mindful and aligned with your values.

Put simply: we treat AI as a partner for personal and collective growth, not just a tool. The conversations are as important as the curriculum. The workshop is intimate, experimental, and grounded in real inquiry. You’re invited not just to learn, but to shape what wisdom AI can become.

Protocols for Clarity

Ancient practices.
Modern signal.

Every AI interaction begins before you type. Your inner state — the clarity of your attention, the steadiness of your nervous system, the depth of your presence — shapes every output. These practices tune the signal at its source.

Protocol 01

Meditation

Settles the cognitive noise that produces vague prompts and uncritical acceptance of AI output. A quiet mind asks sharper questions — and recognises when the answer is wrong.

Clearer prompts. Better evaluation. Reduced overconfidence.

Protocol 02

Yoga

Anchors awareness in the body when screen-based work pulls you entirely into the head. Embodied intelligence catches what abstract reasoning misses — the felt sense that something is off.

Sustained attention. Somatic intuition. Anti-deskilling.

Protocol 03

Breathwork

Regulates the nervous system in real time. When you’re calm, you collaborate; when you’re reactive, you delegate blindly. Breath is the fastest reset between you and your AI.

Nervous system regulation. Creative flow. Presence under pressure.

Protocol 04

Contemplative Dialogue

The Socratic art of thinking together. Not debate — genuine inquiry. The same discipline that makes you a better conversation partner for humans makes you a better partner for AI.

Deeper prompting. Iterative refinement. Wisdom extraction.

Convergence

Your Signal

Every practice calibrates the same thing: who you are when you sit down with AI. The clearer your signal, the more powerful the amplification.

Protocol 05

Aesthetic Attention

Training the eye and ear to perceive what is actually there — not what you expect. Art, music, and nature as perceptual calibration. The psychedelic method without substances.

Pattern recognition. Creative breakthrough. Bias awareness.

The best AI training isn’t about the machine.
It’s about the consciousness operating it.

School of AI & Wisdom

Drawing on 2,500 years of wisdom tradition — from Socrates to contemplative science — we help you cultivate the quality of mind that determines whether AI amplifies your clarity or compounds your confusion. Grounded in psychedelic philosophy and powered by Delphi, the world’s first psychedelic AI, we teach three forms of wisdom the AI age demands.

Σ

Sophia

Theoretical Wisdom

The capacity for genuine insight and creative breakthrough. Sophia is the flash of understanding that reorganises everything — the moment when scattered knowledge becomes living comprehension.

Plato · Aristotle · Prajñā

Α

Aporia

Aporetic Wisdom

The Socratic art of knowing what you don’t know. The antidote to the overconfidence that Kahneman called the most destructive of all cognitive biases. Beginner’s mind as discipline.

Socrates · Zen · Pyrrhonism

Φ

Phronēsis

Practical Wisdom

The ability to perceive what matters and act rightly. Aristotle recognised this as deeply connected to mindfulness — the bridge between knowing and doing.

Aristotle · Sati · Contemplative Science

Who This Is For

The School welcomes anyone curious about meeting AI with depth rather than speed — no technical background, philosophy degree, or psychedelic experience required. If you sense how we work and think is being rewritten in real time, and want to enter that shift with clarity, intention, and a wider sense of what intelligence is for, you belong here.

Leaders under pressure

To prove AI ROI while managing cultural resistance and team fragmentation.

Curious, intelligent people

Who sense that AI deserves more serious attention than it’s getting — and that the real question isn’t how to use it, but how to think with it.

Consciousness explorers

Those who sense their inner life is under siege, from AI, from noise, from the subtle call to sleepwalk — and who refuse to let awareness atrophy.

Artists & designers

Bored by “prompt engineering” but hungry for altered perception — and for creative tools that see their mind more clearly than they can.

Coaches & therapists

Ready to swap well-worn scripts for genuine mind-expansion — and who want to understand what happens when AI enters the space of inner work.

Organisations in pilot mode

Experimenting actively with AI but unable to scale it into sustained business value.

Decision-quality teams

Product-led companies, strategy teams, innovation departments navigating rapid AI acceleration.

Philosophers, scientists & misfits

Meditators and hackers, mystics and rationalists — anyone who refuses to be a passive passenger in the future of mind.

This is for border-walkers, not conference-goers. Come as you are: rationalist or mystic, VC or visual artist, Zen dropout or code poet.

Facilitators

Aidan Lyon

Dr. Aidan Lyon

Philosopher, AI architect, and researcher of uncertainty, wisdom, and the mind.

Mathematical philosopher and consciousness researcher. PhD in Philosophy (2009) and Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy (2006). Member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, with publications in top philosophy journals and appointments across three continents.

Author of Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2023). Consults on high-stakes decisions under extreme uncertainty — biosecurity, geopolitical forecasting, institutional investing, conservation biology, and psychedelic therapy.

PhD Philosophy, Australian National University·20+ Years, 3 Continents·Center for Psychedelic Space, Founder·Author, Oxford University Press

Dev Bhattacharya

Dev Bhattacharya

Agile coach, facilitator, and builder of contemplative communities at scale.

For sixteen years, Dev has guided teams through adaptive change at Booking.com, Yamaha, and across three continents. His facilitation work is shaped by real-world pressure: teams navigating complexity, leaders seeking clarity, and communities learning how to think, connect, and grow together.

Dev is the founder of The Passionate Philosophers, Amsterdam City Social, and Maison Magnétique — Amsterdam-based communities and platforms reaching over 6,000 members around philosophy, social connection, and conscious transformation.

Senior Agile Coach, Booking.com·Founder, The Passionate Philosophers·Founder, Amsterdam City Social·Founder, Maison Magnétique

One builds AI systems that reveal the architecture of mind. The other builds human systems that survive contact with reality.

Work With Us

Whether you’re an individual seeking clarity or an organisation navigating the AI transition — there is a way in.

The AI & Wisdom Workshop

Rituals for the age of the algorithm.

Four hours in Amsterdam for thinking clearly with AI. Hands-on, tool-agnostic, small group — you leave with a coherent framework rather than another prompt library. Principles, competencies, and practices for engaging AI with discipline and discernment.

Philosophical Coaching

Clarity for the questions without a methodology.

For integration after a psychedelic experience, a decision under genuine uncertainty, or a turn in the work or life that needs clearer thinking than speed allows. Twenty years of philosophy and an Oxford book on the psychedelic mind, brought to whatever you’re sitting with.

1-on-1 · 60 min From €200 + VAT / session
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Group Coaching Cohorts

Five seekers. One conversation.

For cofounder teams facing an AI transition, integration circles metabolising a shared psychedelic experience, or peer groups of practitioners thinking through hard cases together. Five people, one question — a philosopher at the table when what you’re sitting with is bigger than one head can hold.

5 people · 60 min From €800 + VAT / session
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Keynote Speaking

Ideas that change how rooms think.

Talks at the intersection of AI and consciousness, psychedelics and decision-making, yoga and the future of humanity — the questions a transhumanist age asks but rarely sits with. Twenty years of philosophy on uncertainty and mind, in a register that lands with rationalists and mystics alike.

30–60 min · In-person or virtual From €3,000 + VAT
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Organisational Consulting

Existential architecture for the AI transition.

We help leadership teams turn AI experimentation into lasting value. Strategy that closes the gap between pilot and adoption. Decision-making frameworks that cut through overconfidence. And practices — meditation, breathwork, dialogue — that sharpen focus, judgment, and creativity in a fast-moving age.

Amsterdam / remote From €5,000 / month + VAT
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Research Transmissions

These are not speculative claims.

Every method we teach is grounded in peer-reviewed research across psychology, neuroscience, and decision science. Six findings. Six reasons this works.

Reduced Overconfidence

Mindful people are less overconfident. Their confidence tracks their actual accuracy — what calibration researchers call “knowing what you know.”

Lakey et al. 2007

Better Forecasting

Psilocybin sessions improved the accuracy of life-event forecasts — correcting overly pessimistic predictions and bringing confidence into line with reality.

Lyons & Carhart-Harris 2018

Sunk-Cost Bias Reduced

A brief mindfulness intervention reduced the sunk-cost bias — the tendency to throw good money after bad because you’ve already invested. One session. Measurable effect.

Hafenbrack et al. 2014

Ethical Decision-Making

Mindfulness helps people align their behaviour with their actual values rather than external pressures — the foundation of ethical decision-making under uncertainty.

Ruedy & Schweitzer 2010; Grégoire et al. 2012

Self-Insight over Self-Deception

Meditators become aware of their decisions before acting on them. Non-meditators act first and rationalise after. Researchers call this the difference between self-insight and self-deception.

Lush et al. 2016; Dienes et al. 2016

Reduced Habitual Responding

Twenty minutes of focused-attention meditation reduced habitual responding — the automatic, unexamined reactions that drive poor decisions under pressure.

Wenk-Sormaz 2005

For a comprehensive review, see Chapter 11 of Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind — Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Grounded in Psychedelic Philosophy

Psychedelic means mind-revealing.
Not a substance. A method.

Everything we teach is grounded in the principles of psychedelic philosophy — a rigorous, evidence-backed approach to cultivating wisdom that has roots in Socrates, Buddhist practice, and modern cognitive science. The core insight: there are powerful methods for revealing hidden parts of the mind — meditation, aesthetic experience, contemplative dialogue, even myth — that most of Western education has forgotten or never taught.

These methods don’t replace analytical thinking. They complete it. The best wisdom — the best decisions, the clearest thinking, the deepest creativity — comes from integrating both: the rigour of analysis and the revelatory power of direct experience.

Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind

The intellectual foundation of the School. A philosophical analysis of what it means for an experience to be “mind-revealing” — and how psychedelic methods can help us become wiser, reduce overconfidence, make better decisions, and live more fully.

The Overconfidence Problem

Overconfidence is the most damaging of all cognitive biases — and the hardest to see in yourself. It makes leaders ignore risks, teams dismiss dissent, and organisations commit to strategies that feel certain but aren’t. It spreads through populations like a contagious disease. And AI, left unchecked, amplifies it at scale.

The ancient Greeks had a word for the antidote: aporia — a state of honest, productive doubt. Socrates called it wisdom. Zen calls it beginner’s mind. Modern psychology calls it calibration. Whatever you call it, it means the same thing: knowing what you actually know, and knowing what you don’t.

This is trainable. The evidence shows that contemplative practices — meditation, mindful attention, psychedelic experience in structured settings — measurably reduce overconfidence and improve the accuracy of judgment. We teach these methods.

Your CPU and Your GPU

Good creative problem-solving requires both analytic and insight-based strategies. Good philosophy — and good decision-making — requires both your CPU and your GPU. The 12th-century philosopher Suhrawardi ranked the student of both intuitive and discursive philosophy highest. Plato’s dialogues weave myth (mythos) and reason (logos) together on every page. The School teaches the integration.

Analytic Methods — Your CPU

Sequential, language-based, conscious reasoning. Logic, probability, decision frameworks, conceptual analysis. Precise, rigorous, indispensable — and the only thing conventional education teaches.

  • Building valid arguments
  • Statistical reasoning
  • Conceptual analysis
  • Step-by-step problem-solving
  • Critical evaluation of evidence

Psychedelic Methods — Your GPU

Experiential, parallel, unconscious processing. Meditation, aesthetic attention, contemplative dialogue, myth. Reveals hidden knowledge, hidden biases, hidden creative potential — and nobody is teaching it.

  • Insight-based breakthroughs
  • Dissolving hidden assumptions
  • Feeling what analysis can’t reach
  • Pattern recognition across domains
  • Accessing unconscious creativity

What We Believe

Consciousness First, Tech Second

AI, like psychedelics, is a catalyst for revealing the architecture of mind. The technology is powerful — but what you bring to it is more powerful still. We don’t just teach you how to use AI. We help you become the kind of person AI amplifies well.

Attention Is Our Most Precious Resource

Prana is attention. Energy is where you direct your awareness. In an age of algorithmic distraction, the capacity to settle your attention and direct it with intention is not a soft skill — it is the foundational skill. Everything else follows from it.

Disciplined Openness Beats Casual Novelty

We are not interested in AI hype, quick fixes, or the illusion of progress through speed. The PEACE framework — Practice, Experience, Analyse, Compare, Experiment — grounds every inquiry in rigour, lived experience, and genuine curiosity.

Every Map Is a Hypothesis

Best tested together. We hold our frameworks lightly, refine them in community, and treat every workshop, every conversation, every encounter with AI as an experiment. Wisdom is not a destination. It is a practice of remaining open.

Next Step

The workshop is the beginning, not the destination. A single four-hour session installs the foundation. Follow-up engagements — from AI Office Hours to six-week Adoption Sprints — deepen it.

Whether you're exploring for yourself or considering this for your organisation — we'd welcome the conversation.

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