Dostoevsky foretold Covid-19, mass hypnosis and mass chaos

In Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, the main character Raskolnikov has a dream. Uncannily —miraculously? — Raskolnikov’s dream foreshadowed what is going on in our world with Covid. According to Mattias Desmet, Professor of Psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium, what we are seeing in the Covid Era is a psychological phenomenon called … Continue reading Dostoevsky foretold Covid-19, mass hypnosis and mass chaos