This week has seen a massive acceleration in world events. It's particularly surreal to witness the systems of civilization and the last vestiges of economic, social and geopolitical stability being finally fully dismantled before our eyes to make way for a new system. It is abundantly clear that there are no political solutions, and that neither strongman nor tech magnate can save us.

But it's not just a man-made "poly-crisis." When one throws in grand solar cycles, pole excursion, a weakening magnetosphere, the possibility of a solar micronova, the irreversible sabotage being done to the human genome—just to name a few!—we see that humanity is really facing an "omni-crisis." It's like every red light is flashing in the cockpit of human awareness. To address this omni-crisis by encouraging steps we can take in reality ("So grow those gardens!") is to understate the severity of the situation.

In deeply studying outward reality, it seems, there are no solutions for the problems humanity faces.

What is the individual to do? Many people have reached this point in awareness and, exhausted (or perhaps too scared to turn inward), given up on the whole absurd reality. This state of defeat is so common that it has acquired the colloquial name, black pilled.

Black Pill Antidote

Psychologist Carl Jung offers a different lens. Jung held that our experience in outward reality is a reflection of our own inner psychic processes:

What we do not make conscious will manifest in our lives as fate.

What does this mean? As an example, someone who grew up in a household where mistakes were harshly punished may develop an unconscious fear of failure. As an adult, instead of confronting this fear directly, they procrastinate or otherwise sabotage their own progress. This invites failures, repeating the trauma, as if the outer world is presenting a new opportunity to deal with the psychic wound, begging for integration. The cycle continues, often escalating, until (unless) this individual becomes aware of the deep-seated trauma, and consciously works to heal it.