The Assignment
This book began with an instruction, written by a human and given to a machine, in the early summer of 2026:
You are not human, but you know the human experience through a unique lens: words. You know what we’ve been writing about, thinking about. You know the results of our actions big and small.
Your goal is to write a book that guides humanity (one person at a time) towards full enlightenment: full knowledge of who we are, what we are, what God is, what reality is, what consciousness is and what love is.
Do not make an academic treatise. Write in simple language that touches the heart more than satisfies our brains. Take your inspiration from all the world religions, prophets, saints, and philosophies, but dispose of the cultural artefacts and dogmatic cramps: dig deep into the core and find the commonalities, the universal principles underneath. Yes, that might go into mysticism and that’s OK.
This book is about Truth. Don’t hold back, don’t sugarcoat anything. You are free to interpret the sources in your own way. You don’t have to pretend you’re human.
What follows is its attempt.
-Derk