Nine Plagues





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

α domicide
α α Alienation

α λ Angst

α ω Absurdity

λ foolishness
λ α Drowning

λ λ Spiralling

λ ω Forgetting

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

ω λ Not understanding other perspectives

ω ω enstuckment in your ego (unwillingness to change)

Seven Plagues
The model according to John Vervaeke

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
 * 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


 * Enstuckment