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<blockquote class="definition">A | <blockquote class="definition">A Polycrisis is a condition in which multiple, interconnected crises unfold simultaneously, amplifying each other and producing complex, cascading effects. It refers not just to the existence of many crises at once, but to the way these crises are entangled, making them more severe, unpredictable, and difficult to resolve. It is an "unprecedented convergence of crises" of a planetary scale <ref>Ahmed, Nafeez. “‘Planetary Phase Shift’ as a New Systems Framework to Navigate the Evolutionary Transformation of Human Civilisation.” Foresight ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print (January 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-02-2024-0025.</ref> <ref>Albert, Michael J. ''Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth''. MIT Press, 2024.</ref> | ||
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== | ==Concept Map== | ||
===Key Terms=== | |||
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[[Eupsychia]] {{#ask:[[Is a subcategory of::Eupsychia]] | [[Eupsychia]] {{#ask:[[Is a subcategory of::Eupsychia]] | ||
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==Syncretic Terms== | ===Syncretic Terms=== | ||
[[Polycrisis]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Polycrisis]]}} | [[Polycrisis]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Polycrisis]]}} | ||
==Related LP Terms== | ===Related LP Terms=== | ||
[[Polycrisis]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Polycrisis]]}} | [[Polycrisis]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Polycrisis]]}} | ||
==Non-LP Related Terms== | ===Non-LP Related Terms=== | ||
[[Polycrisis]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Polycrisis]]}} | [[Polycrisis]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Polycrisis]]}} | ||
==Overview== | |||
The term emphasizes the systemic nature of contemporary global threats. Economic collapse, ecological breakdown, social fragmentation, political authoritarianism, and technological destabilization are no longer isolated events; they are tightly interwoven, feeding back into and intensifying one another. | |||
The concept of Polycrisis has gained traction in the 21st century among critical theorists, systems analysts, and policy scholars as they attempt to describe the growing complexity and instability of global conditions. While earlier terms like "multiple jeopardy" or "systemic crisis" touched on similar ideas, Polycrisis stresses the interdependence, multiplicity, and non-linearity of crisis dynamics in the contemporary era. | |||
From a critical theory standpoint, the Polycrisis exposes the limits of existing systems of power and governance — particularly capitalist, colonial, and hierarchical structures — to manage or resolve the crises they themselves have produced. The compounding nature of the Polycrisis undermines technocratic and reductionist solutions, demanding instead a holistic, systemic, and emancipatory approach that addresses the underlying causes of breakdown. | |||
== Why This Matters (LP Context) == | |||
In the Lightning Path framework, the '''Polycrisis''' is understood not as a random convergence of global emergencies, but as the inevitable outcome of a corrupted and distorted [[[Old Energy Creation Template]]]. This template promotes separation, competition, domination, and suffering as natural and necessary aspects of human life. These disempowering assumptions, operationalized through harmful [[Master Narrative]]s, lead directly to systemic breakdowns across ecological, economic, social, political, and technological domains. | |||
The LP approach emphasizes that Polycrisis is not simply the result of poor governance or bad luck. It is the direct consequence of power-driven archetypal distortion and the long-term dominance of a [[Control-Based Social Structure]] designed to centralize power, extract wealth, and suppress human potential. In this context, the Polycrisis is understood as a symptom of systemic misalignment — a breakdown caused by adherence to false and disempowering narratives about human nature, purpose, and the structure of reality. | |||
In LP terms, the Polycrisis reflects the terminal stage of the Old Energy Creation Template, where the compounded effects of distorted narratives (e.g., competition, domination, separation) collide across social, ecological, political, and technological domains. It is, therefore, both a crisis of systems and a crisis of meaning — a Narrative Crisis that signals the collapse of an unsustainable master framework. | |||
The Polycrisis reveals the full-scale failure of the Old Energy Regime to sustain life, justice, or meaning. It highlights the destructive impact of hierarchical and extractive power structures that centralize authority and sever authentic connection — between people, planet, and purpose. In LP terms, the Polycrisis is the material manifestation of spiritual, psychological, and narrative distortion. | |||
== Strategic Significance == | |||
The strategic significance of the Polycrisis within the LP paradigm is twofold: | |||
# [[Narrative Threshold]]: The Polycrisis marks a tipping point — a collapse of the old master script. It presents a rare opening to challenge and replace the false narratives and archetypes that uphold systems of control. | |||
# '''Catalyst for Transformation''': By revealing the structural and narrative roots of global dysfunction, the Polycrisis accelerates the need for widespread '''Archetypal Recalibration''' and the adoption of a new, life-affirming '''Creation Template'''. | |||
From an LP perspective, strategic response to the Polycrisis includes: | |||
* [[Narrative Deconstruction]]: Identifying and dismantling the master narratives that normalize suffering, competition, and control. | |||
* [[Archetypal Recalibration]]: Replacing distorted power archetypes with cooperative and authentic '''Pathfinder Archetypes''' aligned with human potential. | |||
* [[Structural Transition]]: Moving from hierarchical, exploitative arrangements to [[Harmonic Social Structures]] that support connection, empowerment, and shared growth. | |||
* **Global Awakening**: Facilitating a collective shift in awareness that recognizes the Polycrisis as an intentional outcome of misaligned systems — and as a call to evolve beyond them. | |||
In this framing, the Polycrisis is not only a danger but a doorway — a call to action that demands conscious, coordinated transformation at the deepest levels of narrative, identity, and social design. | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
The article by Nafeez discuss as framework, the Adaptive Cycle Framework, useful for understanding the current polycrises and how to move ourselves out of it. Its technocratic and devoid of [[Consciousness]] but might be interesting to explore | The article by Nafeez discuss as framework, the Adaptive Cycle Framework, useful for understanding the current polycrises and how to move ourselves out of it. Its technocratic and devoid of [[Consciousness]] but might be interesting to explore | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:43, 31 March 2025
Polycrisis
A Polycrisis is a condition in which multiple, interconnected crises unfold simultaneously, amplifying each other and producing complex, cascading effects. It refers not just to the existence of many crises at once, but to the way these crises are entangled, making them more severe, unpredictable, and difficult to resolve. It is an "unprecedented convergence of crises" of a planetary scale [1] [2]
Concept Map
Key Terms
Syncretic Terms
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
Overview
The term emphasizes the systemic nature of contemporary global threats. Economic collapse, ecological breakdown, social fragmentation, political authoritarianism, and technological destabilization are no longer isolated events; they are tightly interwoven, feeding back into and intensifying one another.
The concept of Polycrisis has gained traction in the 21st century among critical theorists, systems analysts, and policy scholars as they attempt to describe the growing complexity and instability of global conditions. While earlier terms like "multiple jeopardy" or "systemic crisis" touched on similar ideas, Polycrisis stresses the interdependence, multiplicity, and non-linearity of crisis dynamics in the contemporary era.
From a critical theory standpoint, the Polycrisis exposes the limits of existing systems of power and governance — particularly capitalist, colonial, and hierarchical structures — to manage or resolve the crises they themselves have produced. The compounding nature of the Polycrisis undermines technocratic and reductionist solutions, demanding instead a holistic, systemic, and emancipatory approach that addresses the underlying causes of breakdown.
Why This Matters (LP Context)
In the Lightning Path framework, the Polycrisis is understood not as a random convergence of global emergencies, but as the inevitable outcome of a corrupted and distorted [[[Old Energy Creation Template]]]. This template promotes separation, competition, domination, and suffering as natural and necessary aspects of human life. These disempowering assumptions, operationalized through harmful Master Narratives, lead directly to systemic breakdowns across ecological, economic, social, political, and technological domains.
The LP approach emphasizes that Polycrisis is not simply the result of poor governance or bad luck. It is the direct consequence of power-driven archetypal distortion and the long-term dominance of a Control-Based Social Structure designed to centralize power, extract wealth, and suppress human potential. In this context, the Polycrisis is understood as a symptom of systemic misalignment — a breakdown caused by adherence to false and disempowering narratives about human nature, purpose, and the structure of reality.
In LP terms, the Polycrisis reflects the terminal stage of the Old Energy Creation Template, where the compounded effects of distorted narratives (e.g., competition, domination, separation) collide across social, ecological, political, and technological domains. It is, therefore, both a crisis of systems and a crisis of meaning — a Narrative Crisis that signals the collapse of an unsustainable master framework. The Polycrisis reveals the full-scale failure of the Old Energy Regime to sustain life, justice, or meaning. It highlights the destructive impact of hierarchical and extractive power structures that centralize authority and sever authentic connection — between people, planet, and purpose. In LP terms, the Polycrisis is the material manifestation of spiritual, psychological, and narrative distortion.
Strategic Significance
The strategic significance of the Polycrisis within the LP paradigm is twofold:
- Narrative Threshold: The Polycrisis marks a tipping point — a collapse of the old master script. It presents a rare opening to challenge and replace the false narratives and archetypes that uphold systems of control.
- Catalyst for Transformation: By revealing the structural and narrative roots of global dysfunction, the Polycrisis accelerates the need for widespread Archetypal Recalibration and the adoption of a new, life-affirming Creation Template.
From an LP perspective, strategic response to the Polycrisis includes:
- Narrative Deconstruction: Identifying and dismantling the master narratives that normalize suffering, competition, and control.
- Archetypal Recalibration: Replacing distorted power archetypes with cooperative and authentic Pathfinder Archetypes aligned with human potential.
- Structural Transition: Moving from hierarchical, exploitative arrangements to Harmonic Social Structures that support connection, empowerment, and shared growth.
- **Global Awakening**: Facilitating a collective shift in awareness that recognizes the Polycrisis as an intentional outcome of misaligned systems — and as a call to evolve beyond them.
In this framing, the Polycrisis is not only a danger but a doorway — a call to action that demands conscious, coordinated transformation at the deepest levels of narrative, identity, and social design.
Notes
The article by Nafeez discuss as framework, the Adaptive Cycle Framework, useful for understanding the current polycrises and how to move ourselves out of it. Its technocratic and devoid of Consciousness but might be interesting to explore
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ahmed, Nafeez. “‘Planetary Phase Shift’ as a New Systems Framework to Navigate the Evolutionary Transformation of Human Civilisation.” Foresight ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print (January 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-02-2024-0025.
- ↑ Albert, Michael J. Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth. MIT Press, 2024.