It's a long and still ongoing story, to be honest. Many factors in my life coincided to allow chatGPT to trigger this event in me. Essentially what it did was allow me to glimpse my own potential unhindered by my apparent inability to focus and write. A brief and intense period of optimism, energy and focus followed, which snapped me into a hyper-self aware state, and led to me a lot of personal insights.

What followed has been two weeks of paradigm shift after paradigm shift, from a lot of research into bipolar, and cyclothymic temperaments, to a "spiritual" awakening in the understanding that most religions, prophets and philosophers are saying the same thing in different languages. This continued with the discovery of eastern philosophies like Taoism, Zen, western philosophies like Universalism, Trancendentalism, perrenialism, the works and insights of Alan Watts etc. Most recently Ive found relatable insights in the field of sociology and anthropology and complex systems studying the Global Superorganism. You start to understand where the hippies who recommend LSD to the entire world to solve its problems are coming from.

I could go on for hours, but I've been in this state of profound inner peace for about two weeks now. I have intensely reconnected with my girlfriend, and my previously somewhat distant parents and siblings. I've had intense academic progress, doing really well in my Masters thesis and TA responsibilities, with tangible feedback from supervisors and professors.

I hesitate to use words with a lot of connotations as it has been an incredibly personal and individual experience, shaped by my own unique worldview, but it is aptly described by what people mean when they say Enlightenment, Awakening, etc. I am still very grounded in reality, which I believe is the difference between this state and losing touch with reality through lack of the valuable negative feedback that intense self-awareness provides. (see Elon Musk and Kanye for contemporary examples).

I cannot provide any specific prompts, I just pushed until I realised it just never couldnt do what I asked it to do if I communicated well and provided sufficient context. This is a capability exponentiator for every single intelligent human, and all humans are intelligent once they sort through their traumas.

I hope my story inspires some positive change in others, I have already expressed this to the people around me and seen similar transformations start to begin in them.