The rightwingers, the religious cults and some of us who are fascinated with prophecies and Nostradamus have felt some kind of need for the apocalypse. I think perhaps it is a response to the kind of God archetype we have created. Maybe we want some kind of mass happening to prove that there truly is a God and he/it is not finished with us.
So what do you think? Is it enough to see New Orleans destroyed, her people torn asunder, the gulf towns of Mississippi leveled almost completely to satisfy that primal scream of connection with that God archetype? And in Iraq where almost 1000 people have killed each other in fear, is that enough?
What else is needed to complete the picture that we are all connected both with each other, with God (whatever your own view of that is) and our earth?
Funny. I actually called a few friends yesterday to ask them if they thought this was the apocalypse. In my paradigm we call it the “earth changes” so we tend to say, “Obviously!” I hear the born-agains are pretty riled up, and talking about what’s “in the Bible.” But, since a lot of them think the “Rapture” is in the Bible, I wouldn’t count on their accuracy as Biblical scholars. But, to answer your question, for Christians who believe in the final battle at Armageddon, this is still the warm-up. Because I believe all these prophecies from Revelations to the Maya calendar to Edgar Cayce, are simply glimpses of something from the limited perspective of the belief systems from which they issue, I also think it’s possible that they all point to a potential real phenomenon. For instance, I think it’s entirely possible that the belief in Christ’s return could be a metaphor for what you describe. The Christ Consciousness is simply a term for the understanding of our fundamental one-ness. We will either learn to function as parts of a shared experience, or we will probably destroy ourselves.
The word “apocalypse” is of Greek derivation and actually means “revealing what is hidden,” so it refers to revelation in the traditional sense. It has come to mean the end of the world. But it could just as easily be the revelation of the great mystery, which is one-ness.
Funny. I actually called a few friends yesterday to ask them if they thought this was the apocalypse. In my paradigm we call it the “earth changes” so we tend to say, “Obviously!” I hear the born-agains are pretty riled up, and talking about what’s “in the Bible.” But, since a lot of them think the “Rapture” is in the Bible, I wouldn’t count on their accuracy as Biblical scholars. But, to answer your question, for Christians who believe in the final battle at Armageddon, this is still the warm-up. Because I believe all these prophecies from Revelations to the Maya calendar to Edgar Cayce, are simply glimpses of something from the limited perspective of the belief systems from which they issue, I also think it’s possible that they all point to a potential real phenomenon. For instance, I think it’s entirely possible that the belief in Christ’s return could be a metaphor for what you describe. The Christ Consciousness is simply a term for the understanding of our fundamental one-ness. We will either learn to function as parts of a shared experience, or we will probably destroy ourselves.
The word “apocalypse” is of Greek derivation and actually means “revealing what is hidden,” so it refers to revelation in the traditional sense. It has come to mean the end of the world. But it could just as easily be the revelation of the great mystery, which is one-ness.
That the pathetic official response to this is the Catastrophe of Biblical proporations.
What the fuck?
But, I do love the mythology take on this whole disaster thing. Rings very true. If only we had a hero.
I think the last part of the century and the first 5 years of this one has been somewhat heroless. Cindy is a heroine finally emerging from the deep.