Nine Plagues

The seven plagues are the seven problems that haunt all sapient beings.


 * 1) Spiralling
 * 2) Forgetting
 * 3) Drowning
 * 4) Absurdity
 * 5) Angst
 * 6) Alienation
 * 7) Enstuckment

Divisions
They are sometimes divided into the plagues of foolishness which were most prominent in classical civilization and of which Buddhism and Taoism deal best with


 * Spiralling
 * Modal Confusion
 * Reflectiveness Gap

The plagues of domicide which were more present in the Hellenistic period, and of which Stoicism primarily deals with


 * Absurdity
 * Angst
 * Alienation

And the gnostic plague of Existential Entrapment which was most prominently addressed by the gnostics