Science Revealed. Part 1 of the Nemu's End Series. The History, Psychology and Poetry of the Apocalypse

An apocalypse occurs when the hidden is revealed, when the unconscious becomes conscious, when something waiting undercover is discovered and has its cover dissed. Nemu's End is about this process, about how limitations arise in our worlds and in our minds, and what happens when they fall, both collectively in society and individually in our brains. The process of apocalypse can be seen at work in scientific discovery, in the psychology of non-normal states, and in transformative catastrophes in evolutionary and social history. 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. Rational materialism is a bulldozer lurching down a dark cul-de-sac at the end of the world. Revelation is a magick bus bouncing down the path of understanding towards the light. With the wisdom of fools and the tricks of magicians, we can slip free of the loops of linguistics and law, and experience a world far more responsive and enchanted than is immediately obvious. 'Science Revealed' considers the apocalypse in science as discovery. Biographies of scientists including Tesla and Einstein reveal how our most groundbreaking ideas result not from rational thinking and tapping on calculators, but from visions, dreams, feverish delirium and other non-rational revelations. The controversies that blow up when such insights clash with received wisdom are often resolved in a manner most unscientific, and this is just one of the ways in which what is simplistically called 'rationalism' often obscures truth in a fundamentally complex world.