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The Collective Unconscious and the Media Sphere: An Esoteric Analysis of the Disinformation Crisis Facing Western Civilisation

The Collective Unconscious and the Media Sphere: An Esoteric Analysis of the Disinformation Crisis Facing Western Civilisation

M. Alan Kazlev
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781799888840|ISBN10: 1799888843|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799888857|EISBN13: 9781799888864
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch004
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Kazlev, M. Alan. "The Collective Unconscious and the Media Sphere: An Esoteric Analysis of the Disinformation Crisis Facing Western Civilisation." Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government, edited by Stephen Brock Schafer and Alex Bennet, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 75-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch004

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Kazlev, M. A. (2022). The Collective Unconscious and the Media Sphere: An Esoteric Analysis of the Disinformation Crisis Facing Western Civilisation. In S. Schafer & A. Bennet (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government (pp. 75-96). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch004

Chicago

Kazlev, M. Alan. "The Collective Unconscious and the Media Sphere: An Esoteric Analysis of the Disinformation Crisis Facing Western Civilisation." In Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government, edited by Stephen Brock Schafer and Alex Bennet, 75-96. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch004

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Abstract

A synthesis of Marshall McLuhan's typology of media, Carl Jung's theory of the Collective Unconscious, Teilhard de Chardin's Evolution, and Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy is used to explain the current crisis of Western Civilisation, as well as suggest possible responses. McLuhan described the transition from print to electronic (and now digital) media. Jung explored the collective unconscious and the power of the archetypes. Teilhard posited three evolutionary spheres; here, a further stage is added, the Psychosphere, equated with the Jungian unconscious. And Steiner referred to a threefold polarity of spiritual hierarchies that influence human consciousness and society. Conspiracism and the disinformation crisis comes about through archetypes working through the lower psychecological zones. Orientation to positive epigenetic, imaginal, and divine realities, with their high degree of holism and mythopoetic creativity, offers an alternative to both the paranoia of conspiracism and the reductionism of materialism.

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