The energy is rather apocalyptic lately, wouldn't you say? A global pandemic, mass civil unrest to protest racial injustice, ongoing concerns about climate change - plus, a glowing orange orb-like creature serving as the U.S. president.

It all reminds me of a book I studied in my grad school days called The Sense of An Ending by a 20th century literary critic named Frank Kermode.

*This Kermode book has a much better cover than "The Sense of an Ending," thus it is featured*

In The Sense of an Ending, Kermode points out that in nearly every age, some form of apocalyptic furor whips up and a large amount of people have a damn good time anticipating that "the world is about to end" and they use this energy to create art.

Kermode offered that part of the reason people do this because anticipating an "end to the world" gives a festival-like sense of kairotic or "eventful time," as opposed to the boring ole kronos or "ordinary" time.

In other words, it makes our lives feel more significant to imagine that we're one of the last people who will ever live.

And yet, for all the apocalyptic parties over the ages, life has gone on ;)

I think that life will still go on for quite a long time to come - but I also think it's true that "the world" is indeed ending in that a "world" is always a certain prevailing level of awareness.

One of my magical inspirations, the controversial cad Mr. Aleister Crowley, announced in 1904 that a "New Aeon" in human history had begun.

This claim from Crowley weaves into a lot of other conversation about the Age of Aquarius, the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, etc...

... and I suspect it points to something that's genuinely, actually happening: a new form of awareness emerging among us humans.

This new form of awareness could be just as profound as the dawning of individual ego consciousness that perhaps happened just about 3000 years ago, according to Julian Jaynes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

I like to think that the emerging awareness entails making what was previously unconscious, conscious. This would entail accessing a much greater knowledge of our own magical power to affect our experience of reality. Maybe that sounds a bit goofy to say, but it also sounds way more interesting than continuing to see ourselves as victims of history and fate forever and ever.

One point in favor of this interpretation of the current apocalyptic energy is that the word "apocalypse" actually means "a time of revealing." What can be revealed? Well, only that which has been previously "hidden" or "unconscious."

I find it very interesting that in The Book of Revelation by John of Patmos, of biblical fame, one of the main signs that "the world is ending" comes in the form of a very sexy goddess appearing in the sky.

Babalon the Great" by Mitchell Nolte on Deviantart -- fierce, huh? Babalon ain't your nice hippie friends' "earth goddess"

This goddess who appears has a lot in common with the Babylonian goddess of War & Love, Ishtar-Innana, and indeed, John of Patmos sees her as "Babylon."

".... and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY: BABYLON THE GREAT The Mother Of Harlots And of the Abominations Of The Earth.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."

- from Revelations

So, from the point of view of the ascetic John, BABYLON THE GREAT was bad news bears, but from our point of view as modern leaders and magicians, she's perhaps fantastic good news: a herald of a new deep tantric union between our conscious ego minds and the vast, primal powers of the divine unconscious.

But what is a goddess of War and Love, exactly? Well, to my understanding, she's a goddess of alchemical evolution - because synonyms for "War and Love" include "solve et coagula." I see her as a kind of patron goddess of Existential Kink.

In what feels to me like the spirit of MYSTERY: BABYLON THE GREAT, my friend and colleague Perri Chase is leading and holding an event called Apocalypse: Transmission 2020.

I'll be speaking at the event, as will a number of other fascinating teachers.

To learn much more, you can click here.

Apocalypse: Transmission 2020 is not just a series of talks, but an energetic portal into the newly emerging awareness.

One of the things I love about Perri is that she's eerily prescient and perceptive - I first met her back in 2013 - 2014, and she weirdly recognized me as a powerful money witch back in the days that I was still living on friends' couches.

I remember being like "Huh, that's odd..." after a conversation with Perri...

... and now, here I am, running a 7 figure business - and I'm like "damn, Perri, you were right." ;)

I didn't see it in myself at the time, but she did. She also rang alarms about the COVID-19 phenomenon long before anyone else in my sphere seemed aware of it.

Bottomline: in true magical form, Perri has genuine spider-like feelers on the web of fate, and it's always worth listening to her.

I'm excited to be a part of Apocalypse: Transmission 2020 also because Perri has some of the deepest grasp on the power of electric feminine energy of anyone I've ever met, and she fully understands what kind of serious attention and container-holding it takes to create a portal for that electric energy to move in its most concentrated form.

Cheers to the emerging MYSTERY: BABYLON THE GREAT.

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