End of Days - the movie?
Q-116 - 5th Jan 22 - End of Days?
Dr dear Dr: Are we living in the End Times described by modern mystics of a post-christian kind? Any indicators from scripture or theology?
No, well no, not really, nothing in scriptures or theology, but there is something we can pick up from the able psychologists. Psychology? Codology surely? No, from psychology. Allow me to explain as your friendly neighbourhood doctor of dreams and dream interpretation, a New Testament ministry in itself. It is possible of course, it is always possible, but highly improbable at this time - something which says more about the insecurities of mystics than about objective reality. Empirical psychologists of the Dublin Circle near the Royal College of Surgeons sometimes have occasion to say that when a patient imagines themselves falsely to be at the centre of the world or the universe and appearing secretly on the radio for instance in schizoid patients, then he or she begins to evince the first signs of mental illness. And indeed in every Age since the Book of Revelations was produced, there have been those who imagine that their Age or Epoch is so critically important, crucially important for the history of their world, that it quickly becomes easy to read themselves and their absurdly unimportant Epoch into the Book of Revelations in what is a false version of exegesis, in sum to place themselves and their Age into the End of Time Discourses in Chapter 8 of the Good Book of Revelations. Once in that fixative and slightly obsessive declining state of mind, it is easier still to feed into the whole Anti-Christ Agenda of Revelations 17 and then psychosis, general psychosis begins to kick in to a given and somewhat absurd and credulous society. Poor catechesis in this present age and even poorer exegesis have produced this explosion of lay led but variant interpretation. Sir Isaac showed signs of this mentality towards the end of his life in his mad search for alchemaic productions of gold and so on. The rest is history. And we call this aberration General Time Related Millenarianism - it is a condemned heresy to believe that any individual human actually knows the precise date of the End of this World, worse still for people to plan ahead on the strength of such people since they are obviously aberrational. So generally speaking often a psychological basket case of an issue. Only God knows it, as Jesus himself explained to his querulous and questioning apostles. No doubt, look it up in Denzinger Schonmetzer.