Godmindbody, Epilogue: Apocalyptic Culture

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Sep 8
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Godmindbody: The Bible, Prophecy, Miracles and TMS Healing Explained

By Robert Ensor

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Epilogue: Apocalyptic Culture

Popular culture is full of apocalyptic or postapocalyptic headlines, movies, art, and books. It has been this way for at least 50 years now. The End Times, the tribulations, the Messianic Age and The Last Judgement are inherent, archetypal ideas of the psyche that are frequently anticipated and projected. It is common nowadays to say we are living in ‘apocalyptic’ times and these statements are not all hyperbole. On some level, everyone feels a vague sense of foreboding, that something is fundamentally wrong with the present world. The fascination with zombies is a foreshadowing of the spiritual death associated with the mark of the beast, and the resurrection of sinners to destruction, just as the contemporary obsession with superheroes reflects the latent psychic powers of all humans and an unconscious longing for divinity, that would be better served by eating the bread of life and performing beneficent works. The interest in flying men, seen in the Superman comics and movies and even the end of The Matrix, foreshadows the ascent of the elect during the rapture. The X-men, misfits with supernormal abilities, bear some superficial similarities to the chosen. The recent obsession with vampires is part of this trend. The very notion of vampires, who fly and obtain conditional ‘immortality’ by drinking blood, is a corruption of the Christian idea of receiving eternal life through drinking the blood of Christ; the late Ann Rice explored vampirism in her novels and eventually returned to Christianity, writing multiple novels about Jesus. The Lord of the Rings is so moving and appealing precisely because its Catholic author loaded it, intentionally or otherwise, with eschatological allusions (SPOILERS AHEAD): cataclysmic final battles between good and evil, the temptation and endurance of the heroes, a supernatural army of the dead that tips the balance (an anticipation of the first resurrection saints fighting in the Campaign of Armageddon), the return of the exiled king to claim his rightful throne and marry his ‘bride’ in a reconstructed city, the restoration of a special tree by the king, the resurrected Gandalf appearing at a prophesied hour astride a ‘white horse’ to relieve his people from a siege and bring about the victory, the destruction of a villain and the evil ring in a ‘lake of fire’, and the final passing of Gandalf, Bilbo and Frodo into the paradisaical Undying Lands. More recently, Gladiator II featured a protagonist who is the secret son of a ‘martyred’ hero, the overthrow of the two corrupt, beast-like pagan emperors who believe they are gods, and an attempt to restore the dream that was Rome, a dream of a just empire, that the quasi-Christ figure Maximus believed in and died for, in an anticipation of the coming millennial Kingdom of God, albeit one that was probably unconscious and unintentional on the part of the writers and filmmakers. Socio-political movements such as communism and Nazism that envisaged a utopian future state are perversions of the biblical idea of a millennium reign.

Millennialism, or something like it, is not restricted to the Book of Revelation. There are also numerous references to a Messianic Age of peace and divine knowledge in Judaism, many of them mentioned in this book. Much of the Old Testament is about the various attempts to bring about an earthly kingdom directed by God and his law: the millennium is the realisation of that ideal. Before the ancient Norse and Germanic peoples heard of Christianity, they believed in Ragnarok, a final, apocalyptic battle involving the destruction and renewal of the world. Muslims believe that a figure called the Mahdi will rule for some time prior to Judgement Day. Zoroastrianism teaches that there will be a final triumph of good over evil, a saviour figure who resurrects the dead, a last judgement by ordeal, the formation of a single borderless nation and the immortality of the righteous in new, shadowless bodies. Buddhists have eschatological teachings about a Buddha-like figure called Maitreya, who will bring back the dharma (or teaching) following an era of ignorance and sin. Approximately thirty years before Christ, the Roman poet Virgil prophesied the birth of a boy who will have the life of the gods, create a new breed of people who descend from heaven and rule the world in an age of peace and happiness, thanks to the virtue of his father.[i] Virgil also foretold that remnants of the old sin shall stir up a final war, before a resumption of the idyll, which sounds like the Gog and Magog conflict followed by the New Jerusalem.[ii] Theosophists believe that The Christ or The World Teacher will return at some point after AD 2025. The New Age movement foretells a coming Age of Aquarius that is associated with great change. In his book Aion, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung held that the astrological Age of Pisces was characterized by the ‘two fishes’ of Christ and Antichrist, spirituality and scientific materialism, which roughly corresponded to the first and second millennia of the Christian era, respectively.[iii] The western Dark and Middle Ages were characterized by piety, faith and a relatively low level of scientific development. By contrast, the most obvious trend of the last 600 or so years is the gathering pace of science, industrialization, technology and a corresponding decline in faith, that may be subsumed under the umbrella term ‘materialism’. What is ultimately called for in our time is a reconciliation of the opposites that Jung predicted would characterize the new age of Aquarius, the water carrier, a symbol of the dispensation of the living water from above. The opposites in question are spirit and matter, and he believed that an encounter with the spirit was needed.[iv] In that regard, Jung was right. Depending on the calculation, the New Age has either recently dawned or is just around the corner. Again, Jesus made it plain that ‘no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.’ (Matthew 24:36).