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This paper explores how the figure of the Beast in Revelation 13 can function as a mirror for contemporary experiences of abuse of power in workplace settings. Starting from an autoethnography of a specific “workplace apocalypse,” it proposes understanding the Beast as an ego-system: a configuration that weaves together emotional, narrative, relational, and institutional layers around the logic of pride and image preservation. The methodology combines lived-experience narrative, analysis of personal meaning, situated biblical hermeneutics, and dialogue with symbolic–psychological readings of Revelation, and draws practical implications for accompanying people who are going through workplace apocalypses.
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Title (h)A(y)POCA(e)LIPSIS and the Beast as an Ego-System: Autoethnography of a Workplace Apocalypse in the Light of Revelation 13
This paper explores how the figure of the Beast in Revelation 13 can function as a mirror for contemporary experiences of abuse of power in workplace settings. Starting from an autoethnography of a specific “workplace apocalypse,” it proposes understanding the Beast as an ego-system: a configuration that weaves together emotional, narrative, relational, and institutional layers around the logic of pride and image preservation. The methodology combines lived-experience narrative, analysis of personal meaning, situated biblical hermeneutics, and dialogue with symbolic–psychological readings of Revelation, and draws practical implications for accompanying people who are going through workplace apocalypses.
Work type Narrative, Essay
Tags abuse of power, autobiographical essay, workplace, spiritual essay, secular spirituality, egocentrism, beast, jung, work experience, symbolic hermeneutics, capital vices, emotions, revelation 13, linkedin, analytical psychology
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Author. Holder Andrés Calvo Espinosa. Date Dec 4, 2025.
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