The report argues that contemporary societies face an epistemic rupture: a systemic breakdown in shared trust, institutional credibility, and consensus reality, driven by the convergence of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and cultic ideologies. To conceptualise this crisis, the author introduces “interconnected realities,” overlapping systems of meaning that flourish through cognitive biases, emotional contagion, and charismatic authority, … Continue reading Five-Minute Summary: Interconnected Realities: Magical Thinking, Cultic & Conspiratorial Belief