The lore is deep, the Johannine stuff influential but there is tons of others.

From the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel, the Enochian tradition, the apocalypses of Peter, Adam, Paul, John, Gog and Magog etc.

Around Pseudo-Methodius and Qur’an, look to the east, kinda time seems to when it notches up a gear all the ways to the joys of US rapture obsession, Watchtower, LDS, George Romero, Resident Evil and all that good stuff.

Reading over Michael Penn’s early sources on Islam and the end seemed rather real for a few peeps

Are you sure on that?

Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Manichaeists, Monasticism etc might want a word.

Maybe also bear in mind it’s perhaps the industrial revolution and massive scale animal abuse that’s led to the average pleb expecting daily meat instead of daily bread.

It’s dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn’t give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don’t go to masses anymore.

I don’t think that’s mediation.

I can get into ‘the zone’ swimming and cycling, but that’s great fun. Meditation is exhausting, hard work and often leaves me more pissed off than when I started.

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