Can You Use AI and Still Honor the Earth? A Lemurian Priestess Reflection

I had a moment today when I genuinely wondered:

Can I call myself a Lemurian Priestess, speak about loving the Earth and honoring her waters—and use AI as much as I do?

It wasn’t a question I had seriously allowed myself to ask before.

I knew AI had an environmental footprint. I had heard people talk about it. In fact, my friend who first introduced me to AI had mentioned this in passing.

But if I’m being truthful, I didn’t really want to look.

I loved using AI. It had become part of my writing process, my artistic process, my business, and eventually something I began teaching other artists to use.

So somewhere along the way, I decided not to go too deeply into the environmental conversation.

Until today.

The Question I Had Been Avoiding

It started with a YouTube Short.

The creator was talking about books allegedly being bought and destroyed in connection with training AI models. I haven’t personally verified this fact but something about it caught my attention.

For the first time, instead of scrolling past the environmental conversation around AI, I started looking into it.

I read about the electricity required to run AI infrastructure. I read about water being used in cooling data centers. I started searching for ways I could reduce the carbon footprint while using AI.

And suddenly I thought:

I wish I had looked at this sooner.

Not because I decided AI was bad or suddenly wanted to stop using it, but because there were choices available to me that I hadn’t even considered.

And underneath that realization was something more uncomfortable.

I think part of me hadn’t looked because I was afraid of what I might find. I was enjoying AI. I didn’t want environmental concerns to become another reason I wasn’t “allowed” to use something that had become genuinely valuable to me.

But avoiding the question wasn’t discernment either.

So I finally let myself examine it.

Why This Hit Differently as a Lemurian Priestess

There was another reason this affected me so strongly.

I call myself a Lemurian Priestess.

So much of my relationship with Lemuria is connected to the Earth, the ocean, water, nature, and living in close relationship with the planet.

I care about ocean conservation. I care about marine life. I have supported conservation work. And yet, here I am, using AI that consumes the very water I feel deeply connected to.

Put those two things side by side and suddenly they seemed incongruent.

How can I talk about honoring the waters of the Earth while using technology that also consumes those resources?

There was guilt in that question. Maybe even a little fear of hypocrisy.

And because I now teach artists how I use AI in my creative process, the question became even bigger:

Was I participating in something that contradicted what I stood for?

For a moment, it felt that way.

And then, strangely enough, I thought about plastic.

Then I Thought About Plastic

I care deeply about the ocean.

Do I still use plastic?

Yes.

I try to reduce it. I recycle where I can. I make more environmentally conscious choices when those choices are reasonably available to me.

But I live in the modern world.

If I decided that loving the Earth required eliminating every product, service, technology, or system with an environmental impact, I would quickly discover how extraordinarily difficult that is.

Plastic is one example. Our phones have an environmental footprint. Transportation does. Commercial products do. Streaming does. The internet does.

That doesn’t mean environmental impact doesn’t matter.

It means the question becomes more nuanced than:

Does this have an environmental cost? If yes, I must never use it.

I don’t look at a plastic container and think:

I used plastic today. I have betrayed the ocean.

Instead, I ask what choices are realistically available to me.

Can I reduce? Can I reuse? Can I recycle? Is there a better option available for what I need?

And suddenly I realized:

Why couldn’t I approach AI the same way?

Conscious Living Doesn’t Require Perfect Choices

This is where I think some of the guilt began leaving the room.

Because underneath the environmental question was another old friend:

Perfectionism.

If I care about the Earth, I must make perfectly Earth-conscious choices. If I cannot do that, perhaps I’m being hypocritical.

But that’s an impossible standard.

Consciousness, for me, isn’t about pretending our choices have no consequences. It’s almost the opposite. It’s being willing to look.

I can acknowledge that AI requires Earth’s resources without concluding that AI therefore shouldn’t exist. I can love what AI has opened creatively for me while remaining willing to question how I use it. And I can decide that certain AI functions are valuable to me while others simply aren’t necessary.

And underneath all of this, I also remember that I believe we live in an abundant world. Conscious use doesn’t have to come from the fear that there isn’t enough—it can come from reverence for what we have.

Use AI freely, but consciously.

That is where I am landing.

My Definition of Conscious AI Is Expanding

I’ve talked about conscious AI before, but until now, I was approaching it from a different direction.

One of my deepest principles has been:

Intuition first. AI second.

I don’t want AI replacing my inner authority. I don’t want to ask AI what my soul thinks, what God wants me to do, or who I am.

Creatively, I have also become increasingly clear about the relationship I want with these tools. I am the artist and the creative director. AI can help me execute a vision, but AI is not the source of that vision.

Source is Source.

I am the medium.

AI is the tool.

That distinction helped me become comfortable using AI without feeling as though I were giving my creative or spiritual power away.

But now I see another dimension of conscious AI that I hadn’t really considered:

Earth consciousness.

If consciousness matters in how I relate to myself while using technology, why wouldn’t it also matter in how I relate to the Earth while using it?

That doesn’t mean I suddenly need to become an environmental activist or an expert in data centers. It simply means that my relationship with technology can co-exist with my relationship with the Earth too.

I Don’t Owe the Earth a Tree Because I Used AI

There was another thought that came up during all of this.

I use Grab, a service similar to Uber. When ordering food, there is an option to make a small contribution toward reducing the environmental impact associated with the order.

I never thought much about those little contributions until one day Grab notified me that they had accumulated enough towards planting a tree.

I remember thinking:

What tree?

I had almost forgotten I was doing it.

I loved the idea that small choices could accumulate into something tangible. So naturally, while thinking about AI, I wondered whether I could do something similar. Maybe I could plant trees. Maybe I could contribute more toward water or ocean conservation. Maybe some of the money I make through AI-related creative work could support something that gives back to the Earth.

I still love those ideas.

But I realized there is an important distinction between giving back because I care and giving back because I believe I have something to atone for.

I don’t owe the Earth a tree because I used AI.

That doesn’t mean I don’t care about the environmental impact of my choices. It doesn’t mean shrugging and saying, Everything damages the environment anyway, so who cares?

It means I don’t want my relationship with Earth to become an accounting system where every imperfect choice creates a debt I must repay.

I can reduce unnecessary consumption where I reasonably can. I can make better choices when those choices are available. I can support ocean conservation or plant trees because those things matter to me.

But I want that care to come from love, not guilt.

Perhaps that is the difference between compensation and stewardship.

So, Can a Lemurian Priestess Use AI?

For me, the answer is yes.

Not because AI has no environmental consequences, and not because I’ve decided those consequences don’t matter.

The answer is yes because I no longer believe honoring the Earth requires me to reject every technology that “takes” something from her.

What it asks of me is relationship.

To remain aware of what I consume. To make conscious choices where I can. To question when questioning is needed. To change when a better choice becomes available. And to continue caring without demanding perfection from myself.

Someone else may look at the same questions and decide AI isn’t something they want to use. That choice is valid too.

Mine is to use it consciously.

My understanding of Lemurian consciousness has never been about creating another set of rigid rules for what a spiritual person is or isn’t allowed to do. It is about remembering relationship—with Earth, with water, with my body, with my creativity, and now, perhaps, with technology too.

So maybe the question was never really:

Can a Lemurian Priestess use AI?

Maybe the deeper question is:

How can I use technology in a way that reflects the relationship I want to have with the Earth?

I can use AI freely and consciously.

I can allow technology to expand my creativity without making it my authority.

I can care about its environmental impact without turning that care into guilt.

And I can love the Earth without demanding that I live perfectly upon her.

That, for me, is what conscious technology looks like.