Nine Plagues

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

They are countered by the Ninefold Vaccine

Nine Plagues
This model is based on alo and designed for better memorability, alongside elaborating on Enstuckment

α domicide
αα Alienation

αλ Angst

αω Absurdity

λ foolishness
λα Drowning

λλ Spiralling

λω Forgetting

ω enstuckment
ωα foreign enstuckment (ideas you never should have had, even if they are fine for someone else)

ωλ enstuckment in your ego (unwillingness to change)

ωω Not understanding other perspectives

History
Study of the nine plagues has a large history dating back to antiquity, however they were rarely formulated together systematically until John Vervaeke

foolishness was addressed by the classical philosophers

Spiralling has Buddhist elements but was first formally addressed in its current form by Marc Lewis

Forgetting was first addressed by Erich Fromm in his book ''To Have or to Be? and had influence from Heidegger''

domicide was addressed by hellenistic philosophers, in particular stoicism

angst has not had a good addressing in western culture but St Paul and Augustine and Martin Luther all suffered greatly from it

alienation has had numerous attempts to address it and does not have a specific philosopher who had the most influence on it

absurdity was addressed prominently by spinoza, and has prominently affected Renee descates

enstuckment was addressed prominently in gnosticism

The nine plagues were first formulated as the seven perrenial problems by John Vervaeke in 2019.

In October 2022 Immanuelle expanded enstuckment into its own category of plagues to work with the recently developed one prime rule, and because of an observation that enstuckment was broad on par with foolishness and domicide rather than narrow like individual plagues within the categories such as alienation or forgetting.

In the video itself John Vervaeke divides existential entrapment into two subtypes, and then proposes the same solution to them. Existential ignorance and existential inertia, so the main element added was Foreign enstuckment which was something Immanuelle added from their personal experience.

The new plagues enstuckment was divided into are ones more influenced by the thought of Alok Kanojia than John Vervaeke.

As of October 10 2022 no distinct booster shots have been proposed to deal with the new plagues

Original seven plagues
Originally there were seven plagues. This comes from the work of John Vervaeke.


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

Divisions of the original Seven plagues
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
 * Forgetting
 * Drowning

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. This one was later expanded into the New plagues.


 * Enstuckment