Apocalypse makes sense from the perspective of duality:
It is the only way to end duality through duality.
I'm talking about apocalypse as a result of some great battle
between the forces of Good and the forces of Evil - the final
clash of Heaven and Hell to end the tension/conflict once and
for all; to achieve peace and recognize Unity.
(Ultimately, they already recognize their Unity - it's just
our polarized view to see things this way. The World just IS
and we create our Heavens/Hells/World/Being.)
One can take a look around today's world and say: "There
is more Chaos (Evil) in the world today - the end of the world
must be coming!"
This perspective is very ineffective, as it leaves an individual
very little choice:
It leaves powerless: I could pray to God or make a pact with
the Devil. (Except for "ignorance is bliss", those
are the only choices.) Either way, the prospect of apocalypse
would still remain, even more inevitable than before.
It is the very concept of Duality that creates a reality where
Apocalypse is more probable; an extremely polarized tension
breaks things apart.
The greater the pull-apart, the greater the push-together.
When looking from afar with distorted lenses, the other side
is the 'enemy'.
From one side of the polarized view, when the push-together
comes, such a (Self)force/power can be overwhelming indeed.
When a force isn't uselessly judged/condemned/categorized as
good or evil, then it simply is another part, another aspect,
another expression of the All - Loved and Balanced as self/Self.
If you accept Chaos (as well as Order), there is no external
harm that can befall you - only Choice is.
'Chaotic agents' can indeed be released into a mass conscious,
but only an extremely dualized 'self-view' of the mass conscious
would permit slavery/destruction/fear/separation in extreme
forms as a result.
A balanced mass/entity would grow more powerful.
Let's explore the premise that there's an influx of 'chaotic'
energy upon our world/awareness:
Is it because some powerful malevolent entities want our destruction?
Or is it because this world desires greater freedom, greater
power within self, greater ability to Balance, greater Love
- and thus greater challenges; a greater manifestation of separation/fear
waiting to be integrated?
These are simple waypoints, saying: "The way to there leads
through here."
Do you think it is the first or the second option that creates
the influx of 'chaotic' energy upon our world/awareness?
Every day is judgement day!
Each moment it is judged (decided) what continues and what does
not.
I find it very unlikely that physical apocalypse would occur
because God has developed and applied a concept of revenge and
condemnation.
'God's wrath' is actually not 'wrath' (condemnation), but just
a forceful energy type.
It is a way of saying:
"Okay, I don't want to do this anymore. Let's do something
else."
or
"Okay, I am not (exclusively) this anymore. Let's be something
else."
A little block of 'self' stuck in separation may mistake Love
and Choice for condemnation; afterall, it hasn't seen plenty
of Love and Choice but it has seen plenty of condemnation and
denial, and in view of this such a polarized way of looking
at things doesn't come as a surprise.
Do you like to believe in an external wrathful and vengeful
god who is now bored of our sinful ways? A god who demands fear
because he himself is afraid of greater Gods?
Take a look at what such a view offers and take a look at what
you truly want.
Then take a look at the relation between these two.
Is such view a useful tool to achieve what you want and to
be who you want to be?
Yes? Use it.
No? Don't use it.
(Optionally, transmute it! Integrate it into something you
can use!)
"A creature who has spent his life creating one particular
representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the
antithesis of that representation."
(Scytale, "Dune Messiah " by Frank Herbert)
Do we require an apocalypse on global level to integrate the
thesis-antithesis problem? I hope not. I would much rather have
a bunch of mini-apocalypses within each individual to resolve
the 'good'/'evil' polarity.
There are thresholds of just how much duality a form can take.
No wonder some people in religious sects (which believe the
apocalypse is inevitable) commit suicide. Hey, if I thought
that God and his angels are angry at me, that the apocalypse
is coming for sure and that I'm infinitely powerless before
the infinite power of God or Devil, I would either change my
views on this or commit suicide as well.
It is logical to rather die than live in a world that doesn't
permit self-expression. (Actually, that is a paradox.)
There is discrepancy between Being and such mental state; taking
it to the extreme inevitably results in the death of these views.
In extreme, these views lead the physical self to death as well
just to bring an end to this polarized paradox.
Physical matter, as we know it, has its antithesis: anti-matter.
Light, on the other hand, is its own antithesis.
We, as self-defining beings of awareness, have that ability
as well:
We are able to Balance!
In conclusion:
I don't find exclusive duality to be an efficient basis for
a reality; exclusive polarized views have zero useability at
a core level. I prefer to see this world operating on a different
basis:
Choice of one thing doesn't have to be the negation of another.
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