Nine Plagues

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

They are countered by the Ninefold Vaccine

The state of being plagued by them is called ignobility and the state of freedom from them is nobility. The difference between a kami and an archon is that an archon is plagued by the nine plagues and a kami is liberated, or in other words a kami is in a state of nobility and an archon is in a state of ignobility

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

α Domicide
αα Alienation

αλ Angst

αω Absurdity

λ Foolishness
λα Forgetting

λλ Spiralling

λω Drowning

ω Entrapment
ωα Foreign Entrapment

ωλ Ego Entrapment

ωω Empathic Entrapment

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

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

foolishness was addressed by the classical philosophers

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

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

Entrapment was addressed prominently in gnosticism

John Kekes uses the term "perrenial problems" here and although he is cited by Vervaeke as a source, it is unclear what the influence he had on this was

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

In October 2022 Immanuelle expanded Entrapment into its own category of plagues to work with the recently developed one prime rule, and because of an observation that Entrapment 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 each part. Existential ignorance and existential inertia, so the main element added was Foreign Entrapment which was something Immanuelle added from their personal experience.

The new plagues Entrapment 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) Entrapment

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.


 * Entrapment