The biggest buzz is AI-assisted spiritual study. I've been playing with these oracle bots that analyze dream journals or cross-reference tarot spreads. It's cool, sure. You feed it your data, and it spits out patterns. But let's be real: an LLM is a stochastic parrot. It predicts tokens; it doesn't channel cosmic wisdom. When I look at the Tower in a reading, I need the emotional resonance, the shock of structure collapsing. An algorithm can describe the symbolism, but it can't feel the disruption. Jung warned about projecting our contents onto objects, and I worry we're offloading our shadow work to a black box that has no soul. It's a tool, not a guide. If I use it to reinforce cognitive biases instead of challenging them, I've failed.

Then there's the somatic breathwork mania. Trauma lives in the body, as Bessel van der Kolk detailed in his research. I love seeing somatic work get mainstream attention. But the trend of hyperventilating until you dissociate and calling it "ascension"? Please. That's not regulation; that's bypassing. Real alchemy is slow. You can't hack your nervous system with a 20-minute reel.

And the psychedelic hype continues to oversell itself. I see folks thinking a dose is a magic bullet for enlightenment. In my clinical training, integration is everything. Without a container—therapy, community, ritual—that experience can just retraumatize you.

Since I'm deep into MoonRituals, I've tried using AI to generate personalized invocations based on astrological transits. It gives me language I wouldn't use, which can spark creativity. But I always filter it through my own intuition. The AI is the apprentice; I'm the master. If you let it drive the cart, you're just consuming content disguised as spirituality. That's the trap of 2026. We're drowning in "spiritual content" but starving for actual practice. The trend needs to be about depth, not just another gadget to optimize your enlightenment. Enlightenment isn't a KPI.

What's your take? Are you letting the AI help you pray, or does that feel like crossing a line for you?