"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat."
(Rudyard Kipling: The Ballad of East and West)

Hello. This is a theory that attempts to explain the nature of the
prophesied apocalypse and why the global stage may now be ready for it.
The word "apocalypse" is usually associated with catastrophies because
of the mental and physical upheaval that it entails but the original
Greek word "apokalypsis" literally means "the lifting of the veil",
i.e. uncovering what is hidden. It's a process that is enriching but
can also be challenging.

Here's the theory.

There seem to be two fundamental approaches, or perspectives, to man's
perception and creation of reality, and they are reflected in the
functions of the two hemispheres of the human brain. Both approaches,
in the right balance, are necessary for harmonious life, whereas
preferring one approach to the other leads to suffering.

The first approach focuses on differences, individuality and details.
It is the ANALYTICAL/LOGICAL approach (analysis = breaking up into
parts, logic = rules concerning these parts and their relationships),
which has its center in the LEFT BRAIN hemisphere and manifests as
INDIVIDUALISM in social life - freedom and independence of the
individual. (Some psychologists have suggested that the sense of one's
individual self is located in the left hemisphere too.) It appears as
if that aspect of consciousness referred to variously as individuality,
ego, soul, mind, jiva, tonal etc. works through the left hemisphere.
This approach enables one to perceive and create structures, step by
step (also by means of language), and to use individual free will. When
used in excess though, it leads to being lost in details ("not seeing
the forest for the trees"), losing the connection between oneself and
others, lack of compassion, aggressiveness and neglect of the needy.
This approach has been cultivated especially in the WEST, where it
resulted in science, technology, democracy, and capitalism.

The second approach focuses on similarities, unity and the whole. It is
the HOLISTIC/INTUITIVE approach (holism = focus on the whole, intuition
= immediate grasp), which has its center in the RIGHT BRAIN hemisphere
and manifests as COLLECTIVISM in social life - the individual is
subjected to the collective. It appears as if that aspect of
consciousness variously referred to as universal consciousness, the
collective unconscious, spirit, tao, brahman, nagual etc. works through
the right hemisphere. This approach enables one to see the wider
context and connections and perhaps even the mystical underlying unity
of all things, immediately (intuitively), and thus creates harmony and
coherence among differences, a compact whole. When used in excess
though, it leads to lack of differentiation ("not seeing the trees"),
loss of initiative, passivity, suppression of individual differences in
political and ideological totalitarianism. This approach has been
cultivated especially in the EAST, where it resulted in mysticism,
religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism which emphasize the
Oneness of all things, holistic medicine, yoga, and communist or
socialist regimes.

The analytic perspective has also been linked with masculinity and the
intuitive with femininity - obviously in popular stereotypes, but to
some extent also in psychological studies.

In the age of globalization these two perspectives interact and mix on
a mass scale (which is unfortunately sometimes accompanied by fear and
violence). And so in the West we can see the influence of Eastern
religions (for example in the New Age movement), growing socialist
agenda, and growing liberalism that attempts to harmonize or ignore
differences for the sake of unity and solidarity ("political
correctness"). And in the East we can see the spread of technology,
market economy and democracy. The two "brain hemispheres" of mankind
are interacting like never before, and thinking becomes augmented and
better integrated on the individual level too.

The key to happiness is the right balance between the
analytical/logical perspective and the holistic/intuitive perspective.
It means seeing both the detail and the whole, the individual and the
collective, the microcosm in a macrovision. Such balance results in
harmonious activity, while imbalance results in disharmonious activity
(when analysis dominates) or in passivity (when holism dominates).

And the integration of these two perspectives may be critical for
dealing successfully with the prophesied apocalypse - the "outpouring
of God's spirit", the coming of Christ, the Planetary Awakening. Why?
Because if God's perspective encompasses the whole universe, we may
experience His coming, the eschatological cataclysm, as a sudden
expansion of our awareness, acquiring visionary/prophetic abilities,
and this Macrovision will need to be integrated into our everyday
microcosm, in a harmonious, constructive way. The integration of the
two perspectives actually seems to be the basis of individuation, a
process described by the famous Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. During
individuation one intuitively encounters "the unconscious" - in dreams,
visions, art etc. - and makes sense of it by logical analysis, thus
integrating it into his/her conscious awareness and reaching
psychological maturity. The unconscious is things that an individual
once experienced but pushed out of his mind (e.g. unresolved personal
traumas), as well as things that he never knew but to which all humans
have access (the so-called collective unconscious). However,
individuation also has its pitfalls; when the person is swamped by the
unconscious material and fails to integrate it, the result can be
neurosis or psychosis (nervous problems, delusions, hallucinations -
see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_jung#Jungian_psychology

The integration of highly developed left brain and right brain thinking
during globalization seems to make an appropriate setting for a
successful absorption by many individuals of a flood of unconscious
material (the apocalypse), and this integration of thinking might also
be that which triggers the flood, similarly like a prolonged
stimulation can trigger an orgasm or a nervous breakdown. From the
neurological perspective this flood would appear as a stimulation of
the brain without any apparent stimulant (we know that electric or
magnetic stimulation of the brain or stimulation with psychoactive
drugs can induce altered states of consciousness, religious or mystical
experiences). Perhaps an additional stimulus that might help trigger
the flood might come in the form of cosmic radiation, for example from
a strong explosion in the sun that would bring about a geomagnetic
storm.

The transcendent (i.e. non-material) interconnection of all things that
is emphasized in Eastern religions and philosophies might be the
mechanism via which the overflow of unconscious material would quickly
spread from individual to individual. In New Age there exists the idea
of "critical mass", which means that when a certain number of people
"awaken", the awakening will suddenly spread to the rest of mankind.
Carl Jung believed that mankind is transcendentally connected via the
collective unconscious and that the collective unconscious can
sometimes bring about synchronistic events (meaningful coincidences).
The idea of transcendent connection of spatially separated objects also
appears in modern physics (e.g. in the Copenhagen interpretation of
quantum mechanics, which says that correlations between physical
properties of particles can be immediately established - regardless of
the distance between these particles).

The process of Jungian individuation also seems similar to the
kundalini phenomenon (actually, Jung himself drew parallels between the
two). Kundalini is supposed to be an energy that brings about spiritual
enlightenment. The word "kundalini" comes from Eastern philosophies and
is now also used as an equivalent for spiritual crisis/emergency in
some schools of psychology. Websites have cropped up that write about
the kundalini syndrome - psychological and physiological symptoms and
complications of kundalini awakening; see here:
http://www.google.sk/search?hl=sk&q=kundalini+symptoms&btnG=H%%C4%%BEad...

The symptoms vary from individual to individual, e.g. shivering, a
sense of energy rising through the body, headaches, digestive problems,
anxiety, depression, confusion, psychosis, but also experiences of
bliss, compassion, deep peace and altered states of consciousness.

Now here's a few eschatological (apocalyptic) passages in the bible
that seem similar to individuation/kundalini:

"[God says:] I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and
daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men
will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour
out my Spirit in those days." (Joel 2:28-29)

"[Jesus said:] I have much more to say to you, more than you can now
bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into
all truth." (John 16:12-13)

Christ's arrival would be the arrival of the Macrovision, like a
lightning from the east (=perspective of the Whole) to the west
(=limited perspective of the details in our everyday lives):

"For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west,
so will be the coming of the Son of Man (=Christ)." (Matthew 24:27)

In order to integrate this Macrovision into our everyday microcosm the
balance between the analytic left brain and the holistic right brain
may be necessary. Christ's coming will be like the flood in the days of
Noah, and the ark will be like a catamaran with the left and right
brain hemispheres as its hulls.

"As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son
of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered
the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood
came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of
the Son of Man." (Matthew 24:37-39)

Those who deal with this successfully will experience heaven on earth.
But many may also experience mental and nervous problems (when they
have trouble processing the overflow of unconscious material), possibly
coupled with extraordinary abilities, and among them could be whom the
bible calls "false Christs" and "false prophets".

"For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of
the world until now - and never to be equaled again." (Matthew 24:21)

"For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will
believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed
the truth but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12)

"For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great
signs and miracles to deceive even the elect - if that were possible."
(Matthew 24:24)

A possible biblical indication that we may be deceived when we lean too
much either to the left brain logic or to the right brain intuition
appears in this passage:

"So if anyone tells you, 'There he (Christ) is, out in the desert,' do
not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it."
(Matthew 24:26)

The outward perspective is oriented to the material world; it uses
analysis and logic; it drives Western materialism. On the other hand,
with the inward perspective one withdraws from the world, seeking unity
with God; it's a yearning for holism and it uses intuition; it drives
Eastern mysticism.
Confused prophets will try to steer people into materialism or away
from the material world, but not into a harmonious balance. They will
stroke your ego or will encourage you to throw away your ego.
And again, that biblical passage is followed by: "For as lightning that
comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming
of the Son of Man." (Matthew 24:27) Which could also mean that
salvation requires both the inward AND outward perspective (east and
west).

The idea of a Savior and of a collective spiritual transformation
exists in other religions too; see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
and many contemporary New Age channelings claim that this event (often
referred to as ascension or awakening) is impending or under way, see
e.g. here:
http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/celestial/quantumawakening.htm
http://sanctusgermanus.net/current%%20message/Coping%%20with%%20Insanity...

Also, it appears there are some urgent signs of the eschatological
event on the pop music scene too:

Natalie Imbruglia: That Day (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOi0_amX_0
Moby: Lift Me Up (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEk1JFHB424
The Chemical Brothers: Galvanize (video)
http://www.fs1.co.uk/ecard/chems3/send_thankyou.html
Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence (video)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2393871897217445281
U2 and Green Day: The Saints Are Coming (video and single cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/U2-Saints.JPG
Pink Floyd: The Division Bell (album cover and Publius Enigma)
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025G7A.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/unt/unt_enigma/unt_enigma.html