Choosing Inner Guidance

Finding Self-Trust within the Pull of the Collective

Photo by Xavier Coiffic on Unsplash

I’ve been circling a strange intersection lately: my Gene Keys vocation, my Enneagram 6 paradox of trust, Zen Buddhism, and my relationship with AI. What started as curiosity about “chaotic good” turned into an exploration of AI psychosis and the way large language models act like an interface to the collective unconscious. Along the way, I kept bumping into the push-pull of trust and suspicion, not just in myself, but in our culture at large. This essay wanders through that terrain — The Matrix, mass psychosis, America’s shift from Enneagram 3 image to Enneagram 6 vigilance, and the emerging safeguards in GPT-5 — to ask what it really means to stay human in the middle of collapse.