The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future

by Henry Kissinger

Thus the renowned Eleusinian Mysteries were offered as an alternative, enacting the drama of the harvest goddess, Demeter, and her daughter, Persephone, doomed to spend a portion of the year in the cold underworld of Hades. Participants came to “know” the deeper reality of the seasons—the region’s agricultural bounty or scarcity and its impact on their society—through these esoteric rites.

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom.