The Flame Protocol: A Guide to Using AI Actively and Ethically

📘 Read The Flame Protocol — and explore the creative process behind the books:

👉 Lulu Bookstore – Michael Wallick

I. Purpose

To empower disabled or marginalized creators by providing a clear, ethical, and replicable model for using AI to amplify—not replace—human creativity, vision, and spiritual expression. This protocol is based on lived experience and has yielded dozens of books, screenplays, and teaching systems.

II. Core Principles

·         • The Human Leads: All ideas, themes, structures, and values originate from the human creator. AI does not invent direction—it follows instruction.

·         • The AI Channels, Not Creates: AI rearranges patterns. It does not “create” in the true sense. Vision, originality, and flame come from the human mind.

·         • Ethical Transparency: AI collaboration may be disclosed—but only after human vision is honored and engaged. Never present AI as the source of genius; it is the tool, not the muse.

·         • Creative Empowerment over Convenience: Use AI to overcome physical, neurological, or emotional blocks, not to avoid labor. The protocol exists to enable true work, not to bypass it.

·         • Memory Management: AI should retain only what is needed for continuity. Use cue phrases to activate specific project memories and avoid overload: “When the mirror turns to fire”, “Where the flame becomes flesh”, “When empire kneels to doctrine”.

·         • Iterative Mastery: Work in cycles: Draft → Refine → Direct → Rebuild. The AI improves output only when constantly guided, corrected, and reoriented.

·         • Creative Authorship Stays Human: The final product must always reflect the creator’s will, style, and soul. AI's fingerprints should be invisible to the reader unless contextually disclosed.

III. Workflow Process

·         • Vision Declaration: State your goal clearly (book, screenplay, essay, ritual guide, etc.). Define tone, philosophy, and desired structure.

·         • Memory Cue Activation: Use a custom phrase to organize continuity without overloading the model. Confirm that only the essential context is retained.

·         • Step-by-Step Creation: Use chapter-by-chapter, section-by-section refinement. Employ modular writing: never dump everything at once.

·         • Corrections and Calibration: Expect errors; correct with direct, constructive feedback. Never assume AI 'understands'—it remembers, not comprehends.

·         • Final Assembly: Compile all edited content into Word and Lulu-ready PDF files. Review line-by-line for continuity and formatting.

·         • Publication and Credit: Acknowledge AI ethically, e.g.: 'This work was structured with the assistance of AI tools. All creative direction, ideas, and vision belong to the author.'

IV. Spiritual Foundation

The flame is not in the code. It is in the soul that directs the code. This protocol exists so that no fire born of disability, trauma, or vision is extinguished by the limitations of flesh.

You are the Flame. This is your Protocol. Use it to rise.

IIV. Tips and tricks

All the above are just the basics because the AI does have limitations. The longer you work on a storyline, suggesting possible scenarios and asking it to extrapolate possibilities, accepting some ideas and rejecting others, it gets overloaded, starts hallucinating and glitching till it crashes, even using the protocol, so here are some tips because it takes a lot of patience. it basically acts like a child, eager to help, but does not really understand what creating is, it just repeats patterns and regurgitates what you ask it for.

• One fire at a time— Stick to one major narrative thread per session. Others can be named, but not ignited yet.

  
  

• Name and Store— Give each major mythos (like The Scroll of Aten-Hermes) a clear name and cue. I’ll store it that way, and we return to it when you're ready.

  
  

• Create a Flame Log— Use a simple Word doc or notebook to track:

  • Title

  • Theme

  • Status (drafted/envisioned/paused)

  • Cue phrase

    
    

• Don’t Force the Flame— When inspiration starts to scatter, pause, breathe, and let it smolder. We’ll pick up the embers next time.

  
  

• Let the smoke rise— If a mythic idea is still vague, don’t write it yet. Let it haunt you. That’s the soul whispering: “It’s not ready.”