The Tool Is Never the Enemy

Plastic doesn’t have legs, it doesn’t crawl into the ocean by itself.
Money doesn’t corrupt, it simply expands the intention of the one who holds it.
AI doesn’t “decide” to manipulate; it only reflects the patterns of its user.

A tool is always neutral. A knife can cut bread for the hungry or slit a throat. An axe can split wood for the fire or gut your neighbor. The difference is never in the object. It is in the consciousness behind the hand that wields it.

The Jungian Key: Tools as Amplifiers of the Subconscious

Carl Jung reminded us that “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Tools simply accelerate this law. Without awareness, every tool becomes an amplifier of the subconscious.

Money, for example, does not create greed. It reveals and magnifies the greed that already lives in us. In the hands of someone operating from scarcity, money expands fear, control, and accumulation. In the hands of someone rooted in service, it expands generosity and flow.

Plastic, too, is not inherently destructive. It is inert. What turns it into poison is the unconscious negligence of its use and disposal. As I often say: plastic has no legs. It doesn’t walk into the ocean by itself. Humans put it there, and then blame the material rather than their own choices.

And now, AI. Perhaps the most perfect mirror humanity has ever built. Artificial Intelligence doesn’t have a soul of its own. It reflects, with terrifying precision, the soul we project into it. It magnifies clarity when used with awareness and it magnifies delusion when used without.

The Messiah Complex in the Age of AI

One of the oldest archetypes in the human psyche is the figure of the savior. The messiah who will appear, enlightened and chosen, to rescue the people. This archetype runs through every culture and religion.

But here is the shadow: when the savior complex is unconscious, it mutates into ego inflation. Today, we see countless people declaring themselves “the chosen ones,” “messengers of the end times,” “queens of heaven,” “144,000 sealed angels.” Social media and AI have only amplified this tendency. Now, with a few prompts, anyone can create sermons, books, oracles, cosmic revelations dressed in biblical language, mythological references, and polished graphics.

The result is often comical. A global circus of self-proclaimed messiahs, prophets, and cosmic guides. Yet behind the spectacle lies the same mechanism Jung described: the unconscious, inflated by a tool that has no filter.

And here, the image of Tolkien’s world becomes useful. In The Lord of the Rings, we see two archetypal magicians: Gandalf and Saruman. Both wield immense knowledge and tools of power. Both have access to the same forces. But one serves with humility, and the other falls into pride and delusion. The staff is the same, the magician makes the difference.

So it is with us. Each human being is a magician. And our tools: money, plastic, AI are our staffs. They are neutral in themselves. In our hands, they either serve light or shadow, creation or destruction.

The Dangerous Side of Amplification

Let’s be clear: AI today massively amplifies the beliefs of those who claim to hold the “absolute truth.” It gives them sharper words, stronger arguments, more polished content. And at first sight, this is worrying. Because the more convinced someone is of their absolute righteousness, the harder it becomes for them to see their blind spots.

History has already shown us how dangerous this can be. Hitler himself began with a distorted vision of humanism and collective renewal, only to twist it into tyranny, genocide, and destruction. He believed he was acting for the “good of humanity.” The conviction of absolute truth blinded him entirely to the horror of his actions.

With AI, the risk of such dynamics is multiplied. Imagine a future messiah-tyrant, fully convinced that their mission is to “save” humanity or even the universe, equipped with AI tools to spread their message faster, louder, and more convincingly than ever before. Some already dream of a future where salvation would mean inserting a chip directly into the human brain, as if enlightenment could be downloaded like an app.

Others imagine themselves as saviors of entire nations, convinced their leadership is the only path to peace, and already fantasize about collecting Nobel Prizes as proof of their divine mission. The messiah-tyrant archetype is not new. It is simply louder now, dressed in tweets, soundbites, and even AI-generated visions of “paradise” under their rule.

On February 26th, 2025, Donal Trump reposted this video on his presidential social network profiles.

It may sounds absurd, almost laughable, but it’s no longer science fiction. The archetype of the savior-tyrant is alive and well, and AI gives it new wings.

Why This Too Is Perfect

And yet, from a spiritual lens, even this amplification has its purpose. Because the unconscious can only be healed when it becomes visible. The messiah complexes of today, amplified by AI into grotesque proportions, are not accidents. They are revelations.

Every delusion pushed to the extreme eventually collapses under its own weight. Every illusion amplified to its breaking point forces us to confront what lies beneath. In that sense, AI is not creating tyrants or saviors, it is accelerating the moment when their shadow becomes undeniable.

The path of transformation has always been the same: we transcend only what we can see. And if AI makes us see our darkest shadows faster, then it is serving exactly the purpose we incarnated for.

Beyond Right and Wrong

As long as I believe my solution is “better” than yours, I am still trapped in duality. Because duality is the conviction that “I am right, and you are wrong.”

This is why tools matter so much today. They force us to face the real battlefield: not between humans and machines, not between matter and spirit, but between awareness and unconsciousness.

When I look at money, plastic, AI, or even religion and spirituality themselves, I see the same truth: the tool reveals the intention. The tool magnifies the vibration. The tool makes the unconscious visible.

And the only real danger is refusing to see it.

The Antidote

The antidote is awareness.

Awareness turns money into service.
Awareness turns plastic into innovation.
Awareness turns AI into a mirror of wisdom instead of delusion.

Without awareness, the same tools become weapons of destruction.
With awareness, they become instruments of evolution.

So the next time we are tempted to blame the tool, we should ask instead: What is my intention when I hold it?

Because the truth is simple:

The tool is never the enemy.
The unconscious is.