Инволюция в духовной культуре: Ящик пандоры

Pandora's box is interpreted in the new book by VP Danilenko as a symbol of the involution (degradation) of modern spiritual culture. It systematizes involutionary processes occurring in all spheres of spiritual culture - religion, science, art, morality, politics and language. As such processes in the field of religion, sectarianism, heresy and theological anti-evolutionism are considered, in the field of science - pseudoscience, which is divided into parascience and quasi-science. The author considers astrology, numerology, mantic, physiognomy, metoposcopy, graphology, theosophy, spiritualism, telepathy, occult conspiracy theory, alchemy, magic, extrasensory perception and "living ethics" as parasciences. According to the subjects of study, quasi-sciences are divided into quasi-physical, quasi-biological, quasi-psychological and quasi-culturological. The book considers the theory of physical vacuum or torsion fields as the first ones, anti-Darwinism and Yetism as the second ones, S. Grof's transpersonal psychology, socionics and neurolinguistic programming as the third ones, G. Wirth's Hyperborean theory, B. F. Porshneva and B. A. Didenko, quasi-chronology of A. T. Fomenko and ufology. In the field of art, the book analyzes modernism and postmodernism, in the field of morality - social Darwinism, pragmatism, eugenics and existentialism of A. Schopenhauer and A. Camus, in the field of politics - the concept of the "end of history" by J. Baudrillard and F. Fukuyama, in the field language - barbarization and vulgarization, which includes cultural and speech illiteracy, youth and criminal jargon and swearing.