Knowing Truth in the Age of AI: Spiritual Awareness in Human Knowledge and Its Normal Correlates
Moderator: Lisa Miller, Ph.D.
Monday, Nov. 12, 2026 | 7 p.m.
Baron-Forness Library, First Floor
PennWest Edinboro
Free Admission | Free Parking
Dr. Lisa Miller
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child
and The Awakened Brain. She is a full professor in the Clinical Psychology Program
at Teachers College, Columbia University. where she founded the Spirituality Mind
Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality
and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department
of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been
published in more than two hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including
Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality (Editions 1 and 2), Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement. Dr. Lisa Miller speaks extensively for higher education, business, government and military, creative endeavors, medical, health and wellness centers, universities, and faith-based initiatives.
About the Series
Knowing Truth in the Age of AI: Spiritual Awareness in Human Knowledge and Its Normal Correlates
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Columbia University, Clinical Psychology, Teachers College
What best might come for humanity in our new era of AI? What can humanity be, that is not feasible for AI? AI might offer a gentle shove to recall who we really are as humanity, distinct from machines, foremost naturally spiritual beings. AI might encourage our realization of the unique and profound capacity in humans for spiritual perception and its application to our ethical and moral lives.
It appears based upon neuroscience that there exists a mode of perception underlying spiritual awareness that is not replicated by AI. Specifically, there exists differences in neural correlates and function between
1) Achieving Awareness, with tactical and strategic calculations, versus 2) Awakened Awareness, as a receptive form of perception which is a spiritual form of knowing. Based upon 25 years of peer-reviewed science, spirituality is not seen to be a belief, but rather an innate human capacity for perception. In this talk, we examine the implications of a renewed understanding of a foundationally spiritual humanity.
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