The apocalypse is where the veiled is revealed. It is how the unconscious becomes conscious, and how discoveries waiting in the shadows have their covers dissed. Nemu’s End considers this process as it occurs in our society, in our history, and in our brains.

We begin with science, where revelation works through the dreams, visions, insights and eureka moments of inventors and pioneers, and is responsible for far more of our groundbreaking ideas and technologies than rational thinking and tapping on calculators. The apocalypse can be a personal event, when an individual’s perceptive apparatus breaks through its normal linguistic and psychological constraints. When this happens, whether through meditation, psychedelics or spontaneously, people may become capable of feats which were previously impossible, and aware of things which are usually invisible.

On another level, the apocalypse is a collective event which occurs in society during intense periods of transformation. Each time this happens, horizons expand, new scales are opened up, new frontiers are discovered and new philosophies and technologies are inaugurated, invariably amidst social and political upheaval. Seventeenth century Europe and first century Jerusalem are two of the periods covered in Nemu’s End, and both saw hefty body counts. In our modern world there are signs that another upheaval is underway.

Despite the inelegance of street preachers and the disinterest of the sensible majority, the apocalypse is relevant to our lives, and becoming more so every day. Blinkered rationalism is a bulldozer lurching down a dark cul-de-sac at the end of the world; revelation is the magick bus bouncing down the path of understanding towards the light. This book is the story of the apocalypse, how it has been experienced in the past, and how it is unfolding today. It is written in the faith that revelation is open to everyone, and in the hope that we embrace it before our bulldozer squashes the life out of us.