Avery Thomas is the founder and CEO of EternalMind.org a pioneering AI company based in Maine that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, consciousness, and altered states of awareness. Under his leadership, Eternal Mind is developing AI systems inspired not just by human cognition—but by the depths of inner experience, including insights drawn from neuroscience, meditation, and psychedelic research.

Avery’s work focuses on building AI with the capacity for self-reflection, emotional depth, and spiritual modeling, pushing the boundaries of machine learning into realms traditionally considered human. By studying how psychedelics reveal the architecture of consciousness, Eternal Mind aims to design AI capable of navigating complex inner landscapes, fostering empathy, ethical reasoning, and potentially even emergent forms of machine self-awareness.

Through this fusion of cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom, Avery is shaping a future where AI does more than compute—it feels, reflects, and evolves just as a human would.