535 Angels: Can Activism Save the World? with Stephen Kercel

Sunday, September 13th, 2026, from 2 to 4 PM ET via Zoom Are we immersed in a catastrophe? Drawing on Jung's psychological exegesis of the Book of Revelation, this talk takes seriously his terrifyingly prescient account of the collapse of materialist culture. For Jung, the apocalyptic imagery of Revelation was never merely a prediction of external events but a symbolic portrait of what happens when a civilization's conscious values grow too one-sided and the repressed contents of the psyche come flooding back. Read this way, the collapse we sense around us is not simply political or economic but psychological and spiritual, the return of everything a materialist age has refused to acknowledge.

The intensity of that collapse, Steve Kercel argues, is so irresistible that even a Congress of 535 angels could not craft legislation to mitigate it. The point is not cynicism about politics but a recognition that the forces at…