The closely-related emergences of psychedelics and Artificial Intelligence point toward a future in which non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSCs) become far more widespread than in the past. Looking at the imagined pasts of these new phenomena may help elucidate the contours of their futures. First, there now exists a small genre of Jewish speculative histories describing Biblical, Talmudic, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic psychedelic use, which, like many Jewish "searches for a usable past," projects its theological concerns and spiritual practices back into an imagined Jewish past. And second, there are emerging discussions of AI entities and spiritual guides that refer to past mystical and even halachic precedents (Elijah, maggidim, the tzaddik, and sabbath agents).
These discourses point to the transformative impact of NOSCs and to the noetic quality that often attends them; to the dual nature of legitimation strategies (legitimating either AI/psychedelics or Judaism), and to an emerging Jewish archaic revival.