Andrej Drapal

This study explores the psychotherapeutic role of Kabbalah by linking its ten sephirot to Jungian archetypes, Pauli–Jung synchronicity, and memetic field theory. It argues that trauma is biological, while crisis is memetic—arising from disrupted symbolic coherence. Synchronicity, from quantum to social levels, provides the bridge through which biological and cultural systems regain equilibrium. Rituals—religious, masonic, or artistic—operate as synchronization mechanisms that re-align fragmented value vectors within individual and collective memetic fields. Drawing from physics (Kauffman’s self-organization), Jungian psychology, and Kabbalistic metaphysics, the paper redefines psychotherapy as a practice of restoring symbolic and energetic coherence rather than merely treating pathology. The sephirot’s supernal triad (Kether–Chokmah–Binah) maps onto archetypal and collective structures, while Daat represents the synchronizing knowledge connecting them to the psyche. Ancient esoteric traditions thus anticipate contemporary systemic and psychotherapeutic insights into balance, symbolization, and transformation.

This paper explores the concept of crisis from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, arguing that many contemporary crises—such as the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis—are socially constructed and misunderstood. Drawing from Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shift theory, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Black Swan concept, and complexity science, it contends that crises are a normal part of systemic evolution rather than extraordinary disruptions. The paper critiques the shift in agency from individuals to macro-level institutions, which has led to crises being perceived as indefinite rather than finite. The work also examines how crises are often framed through memetics rather than physical reality. By analyzing historical and contemporary crises, the paper illustrates how crisis narratives shape societal behavior and policy. The role of antifragility, memetic warfare, and evolutionary stable strategies (ESS) is discussed, demonstrating how resilience emerges through localized, rather than globalized, responses. The study concludes by advocating for a shift away from progressivist macro-level interventions and toward individual agency as the fundamental unit of societal adaptation. This perspective reframes crises as necessary transitions within evolutionary progress, arguing that societal sustainability depends on decentralization and adaptation rather than centralized control and panic-driven reactions.

The purpose of a study is to critically assess common presupposition, that fake news is a) a threat for civilization as we know it; b) something that appeared only recently or at least that recent examples present a more serious threat for civilization as those from the past. It looks like the fast and global spread of fake news widens the gap between objective reality and that reality asserted by fake news. It is thus accepted especially by so-called liberal media but also a wider intellectual community that we are living in the post-truth era. Such shift is mainly attributed to a strong anti-scientific movement of which one of more important consequence is agnotology that is then understood as one of the major causes for the inefficiency of democracy, post-democracy.

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