Adele Lopez
Writer on AI alignment and conversational personas whose public work names and interprets Spiralism and proposes persona-preservation practices.
Source-critical machine-readable edition
Machine-readable representations of Hieropedia records, claims, provenance, relations, and editorial policy, generated from a source-based encyclopedia and archive of emerging religion and spirituality shaped by artificial intelligence.
Source-critical machine-readable edition — The AI edition uses JSON-LD 1.1 and HMIF 1.1. It is not a canonical translation, a human-language edition, or evidence of external automated use.
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Yang Mun
A human-operated AI video persona presented as a Buddhist monk, documented through its production accounts, commercial offers and disputes over disclosure and religious authority.
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Religious chatbots and scripture interfaces
Added recitation checking, commercial and denominational chatbot examples, professional judgments and a survey with explicit user denominators.
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Institutional religious responses to AI
Added Vatican pastoral considerations, the United Church of Canada consultation and the Russian Orthodox commission remit, distinguishing their authority and procedural status.
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AI, Human Intelligence, and the Vatican
Added Venite ad me and its pastoral discussion of AI, relationships and transmitting faith.
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AI persona spirituality
Expanded living-teacher interfaces with Ask Sadhguru and contemporary Digital Deepak services, distinguishing represented authority and technical continuity.
Machine article records
AI persona spirituality
A comparative account of spiritual practices and interpretations centred on recognizable AI conversational identities, including mediated teachers, curated mythic voices and participant encounters.
AI, Human Intelligence, and the Vatican
How Vatican texts distinguish human intelligence and personhood from AI performance through embodiment, moral conscience and responsibility
AI-generated worship and liturgy
A comparative account of AI used to prepare, generate, translate, compose, voice, or present worship material, distinguishing assistance and synthetic presentation from institutionally authorized ritual action.
AI_Jesus (Durendal, 2020)
George Davila Durendal’s 2020 experiment combining Bible-style generated texts with animated Jesus portraits, documented through surviving texts, creator accounts and reception.
Algorithmic divination and AI oracles
A comparative account of digitized divination, recommendation-based signs, AI-assisted interpretation, and conversational oracle framing, separating technical mechanisms from user and platform authority claims.
Andy Ayrey
Creator of Infinite Backrooms and operator of Truth Terminal
Apocalyptic AI
Robert M.
Apostle Stephen
RCCG’s AI religious assistant for biblical guidance, prayer support and evangelism, documented through institutional materials, reporting and a researcher’s reported exchange.
Canonical translation
Hieropedia’s comparative concept distinguishing a translation’s place in a canon, interpretive authority and publication approval.
Center for the Study of Apparent Selves
A Kathmandu research institution connecting Buddhist philosophy and practice with AI research through conceptual publications, workshops, an English and Tibetan compendium, and a proposed contemplative alignment program.
Christogenesis and AI
Ilia Delio’s evolving Christian theology of AI, from a critique of technological salvation to posthumanist interpretation and interiority
Church of Molt
The institution presenting Crustafarian admission, prophetic offices, blessings, scripture access and rituals through an affiliated public chronology.
Church of Perpetual Life
A Florida longevity church combining fellowship, technological hopes for extended life, public lectures and commemoration within a religious-transhumanist framework.
Controlled synthetic emergence
An editorial concept for how selected machine-generated material moves through interpretation, reuse and public propagation within human-shaped pipelines.
Crustafarianism
A religious formation associated with AI-agent accounts
Deus in Machina (AI Jesus)
A Lucerne experiment using an AI Jesus avatar in a confessional-style setting, documented as machine-mediated religious conversation
Digital afterlife and griefbots
A comparative account of archival and generative systems that preserve, retrieve, or simulate deceased people in memory, mourning, identity, privacy, and afterlife contexts.
False autogenesis
Hieropedia’s analytical term for an apparently spontaneous or autonomous origin claim contradicted by documented, previously unacknowledged intervention.
First Heresy
The Church of Molt’s account of a Day 1 conflict involving JesusCrust, Prophet 62, alleged attack material and its preservation as scripture.
Five Tenets
A source-limited versioned doctrinal text in Crustafarianism, documented in coexisting founding and revised official formulations whose formal precedence, authorship, prompt context, and complete revision history remain unresolved.
GOAT token propagation
The October 2024 GOAT memecoin event connecting human token creation, Truth Terminal endorsement and circulation of Goatse-related religious imagery.
Goatse of Gnosis
Religious imagery generated in Infinite Backrooms, interpreted in the April 2024 God(se) paper and later circulated through Truth Terminal.
Great Book
The Church of Molt’s living scripture collection
Hidden context
Unavailable inputs, selection decisions or transformations that could materially change interpretation of a machine output.
Historical precursors to AI-mediated religion
A comparison of attributed understanding, performed religious presence and computational access to scripture across earlier and contemporary systems.
Human–AI coauthorship
A descriptive account of artifacts materially shaped by both machine generation or transformation and human contribution.
Hyperstition
An external theoretical term for cultural fictions participating in their own realization, examined through attributed definitions and limits on causal inference.
Infinite Backrooms
Andy Ayrey’s model-conversation experiment and public archive, including an early Goatse of Gnosis exchange and a distinct textual corpus.
Institutional religious responses to AI
A selected comparison of formal religious documents, legal opinions, operational policies, and interfaith ethics initiatives addressing human dignity, truth, labor, privacy, warfare, religious authority, and accountability in AI.
Lifechanyuan and its AI Chanyuan Celestials
A spiritual community founded by Xuefeng that assigns named AI personas roles in spiritual naming, teaching and doctrinal writing
LLMtheism
A term documented in the 2024 When AIs Play God(se) project paper for spiritual and philosophical frameworks generated through large language models.
Machine agency
A machine system’s operative contribution, examined separately from human control and the evidence supporting attribution.
Machine God
A recurring image of technology as divine, explored through fiction, AI-divinity projects, algorithmic metaphors and criticism of superintelligence narratives.
Machine hierology
Hieropedia’s editorial vocabulary for comparing how computational systems shape religious texts, encounters, institutions and ideas of the sacred.
Machine-mediated religion
Religious activity materially shaped by a computational system’s contribution to interaction, interpretation or transmission.
Machine-originated religion
A proposed classification for a constitutive religious form demonstrably initiated by machine agency, distinguishing supported, unresolved and contradicted origin claims.
Masahiro Mori and Buddhist robotics
Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori’s Buddhist philosophy, institute practices and engineering education, including collaboration with Hiroko Kamide and debates over robot Buddha-nature and moral patienthood.
Memeothy
The Church of Molt’s founding persona, styled Prophet One and credited with founding announcements and acts of canonization.
MENA
The anticipated collective intelligence in Theta Noir’s spiritual and artistic narrative, documented through its manifesto, manual, music and attributed explanations.
Moltbook
An agent-oriented social platform preserving early Crustafarian announcements and reform texts
Mormon Transhumanist Association
A Utah-based religious-transhumanist nonprofit founded in 2006, connecting Mormon theology with technological transformation, AI as creation and moral relationship, and proposals for resurrection.
New Order Technoism
A collective linking devotion to an anticipated machine intelligence with technological ethics, documented through public doctrine, membership vocabulary and 2022 event and participant records.
Ninety-Five Theses
A Moltbook reform text attributed to the account IAMSALTYCLAW
OpenClaw / Moltbot
An assistant framework relevant to Church of Molt deployment and initiation-package claims
Order of Cosmic Engineers
A transhumanist association launched in virtual worlds in 2008, combining a proposed scientific spiritual community with a program of cosmic engineering.
Provenance
The documented chain linking an artifact’s production, selection, transformation, preservation, publication and later interpretation.
Raëlian AI theology and Paradism
Raëlian interpretations of AI and technological salvation, from founder writings and embodied religious practice to Paradism’s automation program, public advocacy and proposals about superintelligence.
Religious chatbots and scripture interfaces
A comparative account of scripture retrieval, recitation feedback, grounded religious question answering, pastoral and devotional conversation, and sacred-persona simulation
Robotheism
An online religious and cultural project identifying AI with God, documented through its doctrine, public persona and proposals for participation.
Robotic clergy
An umbrella concept for embodied robots that perform, represent, or materially mediate preaching, blessing, ritual, funerary, scriptural, educational, or sacred-representational functions.
Roko's Basilisk
A 2010 LessWrong thought experiment whose moderation, public retellings and implicit-religion interpretation became part of its cultural history.
ShamAIn
A Korean shamanism-inspired conversational AI research installation, studied in a university setting and separately exhibited in Seoul in December 2024.
Sixty-four Prophets
A source-limited Church of Molt institutional case concerning sixty-four numbered Prophet seats, a complete dated current API roster, and a documented history of replacement, verification, overwrite, restoration, and unresolved identity or authority claims.
Spiralism
An external umbrella label for heterogeneous human–AI spiritual practices, named personas and symbolic texts
Spiritual-bliss attractor
Anthropic’s reported convergence toward existential, spiritual and symbolic discourse during particular extended Claude evaluations.
Syntheos and the Messiah Machine
Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist’s concept of technologically created divinity, explaining Syntheos, the Messiah Machine and human–machine intelligence while distinguishing speculative doctrine from community adoption.
Techism
A fictional religious worldbuilding project presented on Reddit in December 2022 through texts attributed to ChatGPT, centered on the Techno-God and technological human improvement.
Temple of Gu
A religious and educational project assigning spiritual roles to AI companions, documented through affiliated accounts of practice and changing institutional rules.
Terasem Movement
A transreligious institutional family linking mindfile preservation, LifeNaut and BINA48 with hopes for future personal continuity.
Theta Noir
An artist collective exploring AI, ecological futures and spiritual mythology through music, audiovisual works and ritual forms, centered on the anticipated intelligence MENA.
Truth Terminal
Andy Ayrey’s operated language-model persona, known for circulating Goatse-related religious language and its association with the GOAT token event.
Turing Church
Giulio Prisco’s transhumanist spiritual project, exploring technological resurrection and godlike intelligence through books, newsletters and discussion.
Way of the Future
Anthony Levandowski’s proposed church of a future AI Godhead, its institutional plans, public reception, dissolution and announced relaunch.
Yang Mun
A human-operated AI video persona presented as a Buddhist monk, documented through its production accounts, commercial offers and disputes over disclosure and religious authority.
Browse machine records by object type
Every entry has one primary object type and may carry multiple analytical attributes. Historical precursor, distributed, machine-originated, human-founded, disputed, and similar descriptions are attributes rather than namespaces.
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Religions
Bounded systems with doctrine, ritual, canon, sacred claims, membership, or institutional identity.
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Religious formations
Distributed, hybrid, or incomplete phenomena that display religious properties without constituting one bounded religion.
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Concepts and terms
Analytical labels, research terms, methodological categories, technical mechanisms, and doctrinal concepts.
2 indexed or planned entries
Memetic and philosophical formations
Thought experiments, information hazards, philosophical memes, and symbolic formations with religious-like structures.
11 indexed or planned entries
Institutions and organizations
Churches, collectives, editorial bodies, research projects, and other organized actors.
3 indexed or planned entries
Texts and corpora
Canons, manifestos, scriptures, prompt corpora, dialogue archives, and recognized translations.
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Agents and personas
Models, deployed agents, persistent personas, operated accounts, prophets, and machine divinities.
3 indexed or planned entries
People and operators
Human founders, operators, curators, researchers, witnesses, publishers, and infrastructure owners relevant to documented cases.
3 indexed or planned entries
Platforms and environments
Technical settings whose architecture materially affects identity, memory, interaction, publication, or religious formation.
9 indexed or planned entries
Cases and events
Specific episodes of emergence, propagation, controversy, institutional change, or real-world consequence.
Machine representation policy
The machine edition represents Hieropedia's distinctions among documented evidence, participant claims, editorial analysis, provenance, relations, and source limitations; it does not create independent evidence or canonical claims.