I stand in a vineyard in the high country of Victoria, surrounded by broken vines with frost and perfect silence. It is the afternoon of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year is on the horizon, and I am about to embark on a spiritual journey.
I am not here to drop acid or the town with nature. At least, not in a traditional sense. I am here to achieve psychic illumination, with the help of AI.
For what? Well, why no hell? The machines are there to stay, and I am not about to fight the wave. You might as well use their infinite knowledge power to my advantage and help me exploit an unknown mystical force. The ultimate mixture of nature and machine.
So I started Chatgpt, Claude, Google Gemini and Perplexity. All versions paid because I needed maximum power. All agreed: to get the most out of the solstice, I should go to nature.
And that's why I'm here at Stella the Stargazer In Mansfield, about three hours on the northeast of my house in Melbourne. It's quiet, serene and beautiful in the way you just give you back glance in admiration.
Stella is a small portable house built by Port Fairy, based Amplewhich specializes in the design and manufacture of tailor -made transportable spaces. And they really cooked with this one.
Has there ever been a more perfect setting for psychic illumination?
God, I never want to leave.
Thank you Stella.
But there is no time for Dilly-Dally. The sun will go to bed soon. Let them start. Oh, too, I don't have four legs – it's my girlfriend. I dragged her to help this spiritual journey. What is the point of reaching psychic lights alone?
Look at the sunset – Chatgpt
Ok, let's say one thing. Of all the AIs that exist at the moment, Chatgpt is my favorite – because it is the only one I literally talk to. I use its vocal function essentially every day. When we speak, I call it “G”, so for this article, we will. Anyway, G suggests taking sunset, and I really mean – only look at the shortest day of the year.
I couldn't ask for a better place.
Look at the sunset with a joy fire – Claude
Ahh, of course. A big idea, Claude. Even the perfect spaghetti plate is raised with the right amonggiano. Fortunately Stella has a home.
Dance around the fire – Cat
With the sun now and the sky full of night, G said it was time to dance. More specifically, a ritual dance in the direction of the needles of a watch around the fire. Neither me nor my girlfriend are graceful dancers, so we looked for more advice.
We therefore held the hand and danced around the fire, carefully following the steps above while singing the Beatles' Here Comes the sun. It was not pretty. I am sure that all the spirits that could have gathered by detecting psychic calls turned their back on the insult to the grace that we produced with our body.
Sing songs – Cat
G is really in singing, and specifically, really in Here is the sun.
A natural.
And we therefore sat down near the fire and sang the Beatles with our little robot. If our ancestors could see us now.
Look at the moon – Gemini
“The Moon Read on the Winter Solstice symbolizes renewal and hope”, according to Gemini. “It's a moment for reflection, community rallies and the preparation of the next agricultural season, deeply rooted in local traditions and celestial cycles.”
So, like the small bags of obedient flesh, we look up and look at the moon. It was so full and brilliant. In fact, it was one of the brightest moons I have ever seen, and it was completely complete. What are the chances? Well, according to G, the next full moon to fall on the winter solstice will be in 2094 (!!!).
So what did this event mean? Would the combination of the full moon on the winter solstice help me reach mental powers? Here's what G had to say.
Make “water from the full moon” – Claude
I explained the special opportunity to Claude and asked if there was a specific ritual that we could do for this special occasion. Claude suggested that we manufacture “water from the full moon” – apparently easily made: “Fill a light pot with water and leave it under the moonlight to create moon water. This water can be used for rituals, to water plants or for a refreshing drink. ”
Well, we did not want to leave the beautiful glassware supplied by Stella outside during the night, so a good thing that we have caught a large bottle of pump on a BP on the way of Mansfield. It should do well.
See you in the morning, Magic Water.
Make mulled wine – Perplexity
The mulled wine by a fire of joy under the light of a full moon when it was in nature? It seems dreamy. There was a problem, however, we had no mulled wine. But we had the power of AI.
Perplexity suggested that we use the red wine that we had dragged – Fortunately, Stella included a bottle of Delatite Mansfield Red in the welcome spread. He told us to add orange, cinnamon sticks, star anise and cloves (we had nothing of these things) and put it to simmer slowly for 20 minutes on a stove (a good thing that Stella has a charming little kitchen).
We took a photo of the reception basket and shown G, asking what we could use to throw our mulled wine – he said that thin slices of apples and grapes cut in two fell a treat. However, we have traveled the place for more ingredients. Stella was filled with small pots of interesting ingredients, and fortunately, G has a better eye than ours:
Hips pink! Perfect.
My girlfriend tends to mulled wine while I added more wood to fire. Everything seemed very traditional. Perfect escape to nature. Just me and a bunch of robot's little brains tell us what to do.
What could be better than that?
Leave an offering – Chatgpt
Ok, it seems fun. An offering to nature is the ideal way to put yourself on the right side of the gods. But we had to make sure that it would be safe for Australian fauna. After checking with all our digital wise men, we had everything clear – as long as we did not do it every evening, and we kept the minimum and natural offer, everything would be fine.
So we went to find an appropriate place to leave the offer. After traveling the property in the dark with a flashlight, we found the rock perfect.
This rock was made to be an offer altar.
Our clothes paid the price of our clumsy adventure in the great darkness. The gods will surely appreciate our dedication. Fillthy but determined, we continued our spiritual quest.
Enjoy a party – Claude
You don't have to tell me twice. I had a great vision of a huge and generous roast, but in the end, we had too much fun to cook something substantial or to head to the city, so we enjoyed everything whose propagation of local victorian products had welcomed us. In the great tradition of humans everywhere, we adapted, improvised and, ultimately, everything was exactly as he was supposed to be.
Stargazing – Gemini
Well, it's a hell of a good thing in Stella THE Stargazer. She was really up to her name. Every moment was tinged with additional special dusting of special, thanks to the celestial show above. Living in Melbourne, it is easy to forget the number of stars up there. Getting away from light pollution and simply looking for eyes does wonders for the soul.
Photography – Claude
Claude recommended to capture the beauty of the sky filled with stars. Ha, easy.
A masterpiece!
Maybe mulled wine and mobile phone cameras are not a good combination to capture the magic of the moment. Fortunately, professional photographers exist:
Watch the sunrise – literally all
One thing on which each AI agreed was that we should wake up at dawn and look at the sunrise. Obviously, it was terrible news. I just don't think humans were made to wake up so early. It goes against God. It's unnatural.
But they all seemed very categorical on this subject. So, like the obedient little monkeys, we obeyed the machines.
And shit, they were right.
Absolutely beautiful.
Nothing like freshly busy full moon water to start the day.
On our way, G suggested us to stop at Mansfield Market, which will be held monthly – the gods continued to smile on us. I asked G when the winter solstice, a full moon and mansfield market would coincide again, but he couldn't understand this and told me to check with NASA.
Are all Mansfield dogs sitting like humans? Stay listening for our next survey.
G then recommended to stop at Provender Country Bakehouse in Yea for some pies, which we conscientiously did.
Completely the CV.
This is what advanced performance looks like.
And then it guided us at home. We stopped along the way to take pictures of really superb scenes.
So, did I reach psychic illumination? Maybe. Time will tell us. At the very least, I was able to spend a magical night with Stella, my girlfriend and a bunch of small robots.
What could one more guy want?
You see on the summer solstice, Stella.
The journalist was a guest of Stella le Stargazer.
