Reclaiming Eschatology & Atonement During A Convergence of
Globalization, Nihilism, Science, and Spirituality
An Inadvertent Book – Coming in 2025

“The apocalypse isn’t destruction. It’s disclosure.
The end isn’t out there. It’s in here.”

This isn’t a book about escaping the world. It’s about waking up inside it. This isn’t a repackaging of theological clichés, spiritualized psychology, or culture war resistance.

It’s an integrated argument that the “coming of the Son of Man” is not an event to be speculated about but a process already long underway. The apocalypse is an unveiling. And what it unveils is the illusion of separation, the failure of ego-based systems, and the call to become what was always meant to emerge.

“We forgot that Jesus didn’t tell his followers to speculate about the end. He told them to watch for it happening within.”

The Son of Man, Patterson

This book develops that claim through biblical exegesis, philosophical dismantling, neuroscientific support, and a reframing of Christian doctrines from the ground up.

The Son of Man is still in its final stages of editing. The most recent draft—over 600 pages—was last updated on Patreon on June 20, 2025.

📍 The Thesis

The Coming of the Son of Man isn’t a future event we passively await—it’s an ongoing, collective awakening already underway. It’s not about escaping history but transforming within it. This book reframes eschatology as inner transfiguration, not cosmic catastrophe; as mystical unveiling, not dogmatic countdown.

Drawing from theology, neuroscience, philosophy, and myth, it argues that the “Son of Man” is not merely a messianic figure but a mode of being—an archetype of consciousness breaking through ego illusions toward divine union. The so-called end times are not ahead of us, they are within us, revealing what must die in order for something real to live. This is not hype, not “inspiration porn,” and definitely not evangelical self-help. This is fire—refining, revealing, and rehumanizing.

“The funhouse of ego inevitably collapses, leaving us naked to our longings.”

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7 Sections of The Son of Man

“The Coming of the Son of Man is not a single future event. It is the ongoing awakening of humanity through ego-death, communal healing, and spiritual integration.“

Section I: Five Worlds & The Crises of One

We open with the disorientation of modern life—a fragmented existence shaped by ego, algorithm, addiction, and ache. This section introduces five overlapping “worlds” that define contemporary experience: the inner world, the lived world, the noosphere, the infosphere, and the empirical world. It reframes spiritual crisis not as personal failure but as a structural inevitability—and locates awakening in the moment we see through the illusions.

Section II: Reorienting Our Narrative—Toward & Through Scripture (Bible pt. 1)

From Genesis to Ezekiel to Luke’s Gospel, this section rereads Scripture as a mystic and psychological unfolding—not a literal roadmap. The “Son of Man” emerges not as a future tyrant or distant savior, but as a symbolic pattern of ego death, justice, and surrender. Scripture becomes less about prediction and more about participation.

Section III: Corinthians – Unlikely Christian Revolutionaries (Bible pt. 2)

1 Corinthians becomes the unexpected heart of the mystic revolution. Through Greco-Roman ritual theory, neuropsychology, and trauma-informed exegesis, this section unpacks Paul’s vision of a radically inclusive, ego-crucifying community. Corinth wasn’t orderly—it was ecstatic, embodied, Eucharistic, and subversive.

Section IV: The Resurrection of Mysticism

Mysticism isn’t a footnote—it’s the root system. This section traces the historical marginalization and survival of mystical consciousness in the face of empire, dogma, and modernity. From desert mothers to Meister Eckhart to Romantic philosophers, we recover the mystic lineage as Christianity’s hidden heart. Discipleship becomes a path of ego-transcendence, not moral conformity.

Section V: The Neuroscience of Spiritual Transformation

Spirituality isn’t anti-science—it’s verified by it. Here, brain science meets contemplative practice. We explore the right hemisphere’s role in mystery, awe, and surrender, the physiology of deconstruction, and how trauma, ritual, and psychedelics alter consciousness. Awakening isn’t an idea—it’s a rewiring of the self.

Section VI: Modern Deconstruction, Nihilism, and the Subjective

We enter the philosophical abyss: Nietzsche’s hammer, postmodern fragmentation, and the death of objective meaning. But where many stop at despair, this section searches for integration. Girard’s scapegoat theory, Jungian individuation, and psychospiritual models of rebirth reveal a strange hope—one that walks through the void and emerges with new vision.

Section VII: Paraclete, Unified Atonement, and Sparking Movements

The final section weaves theology, psychology, and lived community into a mystic eschatology. The Paraclete is reframed as the Spirit of mutual transformation—not the internalized cop, but the fire of love burning between people. Atonement is no longer substitution—it’s participation. And the eschaton? It’s not postponed. It’s now.

• Bonus Epilogue: Armchair Futurism
  The book ends by looking forward—not with certainty, but with curiosity. This epilogue explores spiritual futurism from the edge of ecology, technology, collective psychology, and the eschatological imagination. What might awakening look like in a world of AI, climate trauma, psychedelics, and mass disconnection? What new spiritual movements might emerge? It doesn’t prophesy. But it sketches what might be possible if the inner transformation described here ever scaled outward.
• Glossary
  To keep the language open and accessible, a robust glossary is included at the end. It defines theological, psychological, philosophical, and mystical terms—from sin to noosphere, mimesis to Paraclete, ego death to Trinitarian metaphysics. Whether you’re steeped in Christian mysticism or new to the whole conversation, it helps readers track with the book.

Appendix Summaries

• Appendix I: A Comparison With Historic & Contemporary Eschatology
  Reframes eschatological paradigms—dispensationalism, rapture theology, annihilationism—through the lens of mystic transformation. Less about escape, more about unveiling. Less Left Behind, more Luke 17.
• Appendix II: On the Nature of God
  Explores panentheism, process thought, and radical relationality. God is not a sky tyrant or absentee landlord, but the dynamic ground of Being—intimate, participatory, and evolving within creation.
• Appendix III: On the Afterlife
  Rejects both literalist heaven/hell dualism and materialist reductionism. Offers an integrated vision of postmortem consciousness informed by early Christian texts, trauma theory, and ego-death.
• Appendix IV: On the Divinity of Christ
  Affirms Christ as divine—but not as exception, as prototype. The Logos incarnates not just in a body, but in the psyche. Divinity is not hoarded—it’s modeled. Christ is the pattern.
• Appendix V: Calvinism and the Neurological Dysfunction of American Christianity
  A psycho-theological takedown. Calvinism is dissected as a trauma-coded theology—marked by control, fear, scarcity, and the pathological need for certainty. It’s not just wrong. It’s harmful.
• Appendix VI: Entheogens in Ancient Israelite Ritual
  Examines archaeological and linguistic evidence that psychoactive botanicals were used in Hebrew worship. Not to escape the world, but to enter it more deeply.
• Appendix VII: A Revolutionary Plan
  What if spiritual communities were built for ego transformation, not conformity? Outlines a post-ecclesial, practice-centered model for healing, awakening, and shared leadership.
• Appendix VIII: On the Trinity
  The Trinity is reframed as relational metaphysics—subject, other, and unitive field. It is not a math problem, but a mystical map of consciousness and becoming.
• Appendix IX: On the Devil
  The Satan is treated less as a literal being and more as an archetypal force—internalized shame, collective projection, adversarial selfhood. Accuser, divider, ego’s last stand.
• Appendix X: The Emmaus Key
  The Emmaus story (Luke 24) becomes a mystical template for awakening. Scripture, Spirit, and shared bread culminate in a new kind of sight—one that always breaks the spell.
• Appendix XI: Reframing Alien Life Theologically (HEAT)
  Through the Holonic Existential Awareness Threshold (HEAT), this appendix explores how interstellar consciousness, if real, may mirror our own spiritual fragmentation—and integration.
• Appendix XII: The Redemption of Lilith
  Lilith—ancient scapegoat and shadow of the divine feminine—is reimagined through mystic atonement. If Christ reconciles all, she, too, belongs in the garden reborn.

Some Quotes from the Book

• “This is the theology after the collapse. The Christianity that lives after the institution. The spirituality that isn’t afraid of science. And the psychology that knows salvation isn’t about being right—it’s about being real.”
• “Love is not sentimental. It is the eschatological fire that reveals what is and burns what isn’t.”
• “We are not waiting for a future moment; we are living inside the collapse of the false world already.”
• “The Son of Man language in the gospels is not simply a messianic title—it is a window into the type of humanity that awakens.”
• “Mysticism is not fringe. It is the original Christian consciousness, buried beneath centuries of doctrine and moral performance.”
• “The true apocalypse is not destruction, but unveiling. And the true coming is not external conquest, but inner transfiguration.”
• “Our era’s crises are also invitations—a perfect starting point for exploring how globalization and spirituality now converge.”
• “Atonement is not a divine bookkeeping trick—it is the undoing of the scapegoat mechanism that has driven history.”
• “Jesus’ death unmasks the scapegoat mechanism at the heart of civilization, not to appease God, but to expose us.”
• “What we call ‘salvation’ is often the ego being preserved. What the gospel calls for is the ego undone.”
• “AA, at its best, is not just a support group—it is a system for communal ego transcendence.”
• “Pentecost is Babel in reverse—not language divided, but meaning reunited.”

What It Asks of the Reader

This book doesn’t try to convince or convert. It invites. It attempts to trace how the ego—personal, institutional, and cultural—has shaped the human story, and how its unraveling may be the beginning of something better.

That’s not just theological. It’s neurological, mythic, historical, and social.

If you’ve sensed something shifting in the world, in faith, or in yourself, and you’ve run out of room in inherited categories, this might be for you. If not now, maybe later.