Some people allege that the politicians, bureaucrats and corporate elite that make up the ruling class are conspiring to enrich themselves, gain more power, and transform society into a totalitarian dystopia. From assassinations to false flags, cognitive warfare to the rigging of elections, engineered pandemics to manufactured economic and social crises, there is little they […] The post What If the “Crazy” Ones Are Right? – Conspiracy Theories first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Mar 09, 2026•15 min
“[Modern man] is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by powers beyond his control. The gods and demons have not disappeared at all, they have merely got new names.” Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 18 For millennia, in cultures spanning the globe, men and women believed in […] The post Carl Jung – Are Demons Real? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Feb 10, 2026•11 min
“The self-handicapper reaches out for impediments, exaggerates handicaps, and embraces any factor reducing personal responsibility for mediocrity…” Steven Berglas and Edward Jones, Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy Rather than simply contending with external obstacles to success, many of us actively collaborate in our own defeat. We are our own worst enemies and our inability […] The post Why We Sabotage Ourselves – The Psychology of Self-Handicapping first appeared on Academy of Ideas...
Jan 22, 2026•11 min
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind The internet has connected the world, but it has also unleashed a torrent of hostility. The primary source of this hostility is the online hater. Hidden behind a screen and protected by anonymity, these individuals mock and insult creators, podcasters, online personalities, […] The post The Psychology of Online Haters – Nietzsche’s “Poisonous Flies” first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jan 07, 2026•11 min
“The difficulties of our psychotherapeutic work teach us to take truth, goodness, and beauty where we find them. They are not always found where we look for them: often they are hidden in the dirt or are in the keeping of the dragon.” Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 16 We all possess what Carl Jung […] The post Why we Fear our Highest Potential – The Jonah Complex first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 30, 2025•9 min
The modern West is in decline. Economic stagnation, rising tax burdens, moral disorientation, political corruption, bloated bureaucracies, and soaring levels of poverty, drug addiction and homelessness, all point to a faltering civilization. While many agree that the West is faltering, explanations as to why vary; some blame the collapse of religion and the loss of […] The post Why Weak People Create Hard Times – The Biological Decline of the West first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 11, 2025•16 min
“Many are born; few live. Men without personality are innumerable and vegetate molded by their environment, like melted wax.” José Ingenieros, The Mediocre Man In the early-20th century, the Argentinian philosopher, physician, and essayist José Ingenieros wrote a book titled The Mediocre Man. In it he explores what distinguishes the mediocre masses from those who […] The post Escape Mediocrity – How to Stop Wasting your Life first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 01, 2025•12 min
“…the fairy tale is the great mother of the novel, and has even more universal validity than the most-avidly read novel of your time. And you know that what has been on everyone’s lips for millennia, though repeated endlessly, still comes nearest to the ultimate human truth.” Carl Jung, Red Book Many people think of fairy tales […] The post The Psychology of Fairy Tales first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Nov 18, 2025•17 min
“And then comes the knowing that in me there is space for a second, large, and timeless life.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God According to Carl Jung the second half of life cannot be lived in the same manner as the first. “Whoever carries over into the afternoon the […] The post Carl Jung – How Life Changes After 40 first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Nov 03, 2025•13 min
“This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man… This is not a light but a darkness; the powers of darkness are coming up…” Carl Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra According to Carl Jung, the primary forces which shape history are not […] The post Is Modern Man Possessed by the Terrible Mother Archetype? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Oct 17, 2025•28 min
“We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become…more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality In the late 19th century, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that Western civilization was in a state of decline; it […] The post How to Make the West Great Again first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Sep 30, 2025•19 min
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Throughout Western history, the idea of civilizational collapse has been bound up with visions of apocalyptic catastrophe caused by invasions, plagues, war, or natural disasters. But today, the greater danger may be a dark age of […] The post Is This How the West Ends? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Sep 11, 2025•18 min
“We have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? Where is the beauty that we know we cannot really live without?” John-Mark Miravalle, Beauty: What it is and Why it Matters In 2009 the late English philosopher Roger Scruton warned that “Beauty is vanishing from our world”, and that […] The post Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Aug 14, 2025•15 min
Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss psychologist who closely collaborated with Carl Jung from 1933 until his death in 1961. One of von Franz’s primary topics of interest was fairy tales. For like myths, fairy tales contains timeless wisdom that teaches us about the human condition. Jung believed that so much wisdom was contained in […] The post Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jul 30, 2025•11 min
“Will men be able to give up toying with the idea of another war? It is now a question of existence or nonexistence. . .For the danger that threatens us now is of such dimensions as to make this last European catastrophe [i.e., World War II] seem like a curtain-raiser.” Carl Jung, Epilogue to “Essays […] The post The Psychology of War – Are We Doomed to Destroy Ourselves? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jul 12, 2025•21 min
“And the word “courage” should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind.” Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly In the privacy of our minds many of us disagree with the ideologies, political agendas, and government mandates of our day, yet in public we comply. We […] The post Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Conformity first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jun 25, 2025•13 min
“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging.” Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News Most people think that consuming the news makes one an informed citizen who is equipped to form intelligent opinions on social and political issues. In this video, drawing from the Swiss author […] The post Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jun 14, 2025•16 min
“The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that people are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength, the strength that makes it possible even to see the disintegration and to recognize it as such.” Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics Carl Jung held a pessimistic view of the future of Western […] The post Carl Jung’s Apocalyptic Vision first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
May 22, 2025•9 min
“We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.” W.B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions Intuition is one of the most powerful faculties for gaining knowledge about the world. Along with reason, science, and imagination, it is one of the primary means by which we discover […] The post How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
May 10, 2025•10 min
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Hanlon’s Razor What is responsible for the sickness of modern society? Is it the evil machinations of the power hungry? Is it due to a conspiracy of the ruling class? In this video, relying on the Italian historian Carlo Cipolla’s essay The Basic […] The post Why Stupid People are Destroying Society – The Laws of Human Stupidity first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Apr 30, 2025•12 min
“Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique’s filing cabinet.” Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society In the mid-1950s the French philosopher Jacques Ellul wrote a book titled The Technological Society. In sit he proposed that technology, or more broadly what […] The post Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Apr 18, 2025•19 min
“Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly treat the mind/psyche, pharmaceutical companies must convince society that people’s mental and behavioral problems are caused by their bodily chemicals.” Daniel R. Berger, The Chemical Imbalance Delusion An epidemic of mental […] The post Big Pharma and the Big Lie – The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Apr 02, 2025•26 min
“The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.” Leonardo Da Vinci Today many subscribe to hustle culture and believe that to be successful in business, a career, or a creative endeavor, it is necessary to work long hours, burn the midnight oil, and sacrifice leisure, rest, and sleep. But many who follow this […] The post Work Less, Achieve More – Why Working Too Much Cripples Productivity first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Mar 24, 2025•19 min
“It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” Marie-Louise von Franz To be a philosophical pessimist is to be acutely aware of the tragic side of life and to believe that suffering overshadows joy, […] The post Pessimism of Strength – Nietzsche’s Formula for Greatness first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Mar 07, 2025•18 min
In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated: “The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won’t be men or monkeys. They’ll be machines—the remote descendants of today’s computers. Now, the present-day electronic brains are complete morons. But this will not be true in another generation. They will start to […] The post The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Feb 17, 2025•25 min
“The Great Rewiring of Childhood, in which the phone-based childhood replaced the play-based childhood, is the major cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness.” Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation The release of the iPhone in 2007 profoundly transformed how we interact and experience the world and so marked the dawn of a […] The post The Great Rewiring of Childhood: A Smartphone-Social Media Dystopia first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jan 23, 2025•19 min
“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims At the age of 21, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was browsing a bookstore […] The post The Wisdom of a Pessimist – Arthur Schopenhauer first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jan 09, 2025•22 min
Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of history’s greatest novelists, but he is also one of history’s greatest psychologists. His stories contain depictions of characters who span the spectrum of human personality, from those of abject evil, to those saintly in nature. Friedrich Nietzsche was so impressed with the works of Dostoevsky that in a letter […] The post Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Wisdom of a Genius first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 21, 2024•20 min
“For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a […] The post Should We Obey The Government? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 03, 2024•18 min
One of the surest ways to ruin our life is to be in a close relationship with a narcissist. Whether it be a narcissist as a parent, husband, wife, colleague, or friend, if we are forced to deal with a narcissist on a daily basis we suffer. But even worse than having a narcissist in […] The post The Psychology of Narcissism – A Modern Epidemic first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Nov 08, 2024•19 min
