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Nemu’s End is best read as a book, in an armchair, with a cup of tea and slippers. You can buy it from these shops, and also online.
It can also be read online. Clicking a title below opens a chapter, and gives you an option to download it. You can also download the whole book.
The PDFs are print-ready, but you have to make your own tea.
CONTENTS
PREAMBLE
MESSIAH APPREHENDED AT HEATHROW!
Preface: What’s goin’ on ’ere then?
PART 1: SCYENSE
1. Nemu’s Razor – Slashing theory
2. Fido’s Fight – The hazards of rationalism
3. The Churche of Scyense – Truth manufactured
4. Science Revealed – The two sides of the apocalyptic scientist
————— INTERVAL: Piles of refinement ——————
PART 2: CROSSING THE BOUNDARY
5. São Miguel in Stockwell – A visit to the spiritualist church
6. The Pores of Deception – Drugs and their detractors
7. Shocking Subjects – Milgram’s nightmare and the question of Evil
9. Ka-sensei’s Love-bite – The monk, the mystic, and the mosquito
10. From Layered Truths to Horns and Hooves – Exu’s journey
—————— INTERVAL: A trickster’s tail ——————
PART 3: NEURO-APOCALYSPE
11. Japanese Whispers – God in translation
12. Neuro-Apocalypse One: The Monkey Puzzle - Linguistics and limitations
13. Neuro-Apocalypse Two: The Lord of the Apes – Gnostic neurology
14. Neuro-Apocalypse Three: Monkey Magick – Autistic bliss in a mind undefined
15. Neuro-Apocalypse Four: The Monkey Wrench – Psychedelic scripture
16. Chaos in the Crèche – Magick bombs, blowing open doors
——— INTERVAL: The philosopher’s euphemism ———
PART 4: APOCALYPSES PAST AND PRESENT
17. Jürgen’s World – Seventeenth century apocalyptics
18. The Mark of Zoroaster – Early Jewish apocalyptics
19. Apocalypse Now! – Melting into a new world
20. The flippin’ Poles - Really?
21. Sines of the Times – The apocalypse, by the book
——————— INTERVAL: Serpentine ———————
PART 5: THE NEMMED IS I!
22. Autobiography of a No-body
23. The First Draught – The Brew, The ‘brews, and the King of the Jews. The End is Nu!
24. Baba-loca-lips – A Priestesses, A Prostitute, and a Persistent Priapism
25. Apocalypse Survival Kit – Tent, penknife, and a full sac
26. The Final Draft – Can you script the Man-U-Script?
Chapel Perilous
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.
