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

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 not destruction—it’s 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 400 pages—was last updated on Patreon on May 29, 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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Some Quotes from the Book

• “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.”
• “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.”

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 begin with the disorientation of our modern moment—a house of mirrors reflecting ego, addiction, and alienation. Technological acceleration and globalization have fractured our inner and outer worlds. But amid the digital distortion, ancient frameworks offer a way out. This part introduces five interwoven “worlds” of human experience—noosphere, inner world, lived world, infosphere, and the empirical world—and argues that transformation begins by seeing through the illusions.

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

Rereads the Hebrew Bible and Gospels from a mystic and psychological lens. Moves from Genesis through Ezekiel to Luke’s eschatology, showing how the “Son of Man” was never about a single Messiah figure—but a call to collective ego death and spiritual awakening.

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

Engages 1 Corinthians through cultural, mystical, and neuropsychological frames. Tracks Paul’s language and context through Greco-Roman death cults, psychedelics, early Eucharistic feasts, gender politics, and ancient ritual theory—revealing the Corinthian church as an emergent mystic counterculture.

Section IV: The Resurrection of Mysticism

Mysticism isn’t fringe; it’s foundational. This section reclaims the mystical stream that runs through Christianity—and contrasts it with the institutional co-opting of spiritual experience. It tracks the death and resurrection of mysticism from Constantine to Kant, revealing how mystics, philosophers, and heretics preserved the inner life of the faith. It proposes discipleship as ego-death and mystical union—not institutional loyalty.

Section V: The Neuroscience of Spiritual Transformation

Here, science meets spirit. Psychology, brain science, and contemplative practice converge to validate the ancient call to transformation. We examine how the right hemisphere processes mystery and meaning, how mysticism maps onto neural processes, and how digital life warps our consciousness. This part reveals that genuine transformation rewires the brain—and that mystic awakening is a psychospiritual, physiological reality.

Section VI: Modern Deconstruction, Nihilism, and the Subjective

If God is dead, so is the self that killed him. We face Nietzsche, postmodern despair, and the crisis of the subjective in a society unraveling at its philosophical seams. Girardian theory, Jungian individuation, and the collapse of coherent meaning all take center stage. Yet amid the nihilism, a strange new hope surfaces—one that doesn’t deny the abyss but walks through it with open eyes.

Section VII: Paraclete, Unified Atonement, and Sparking Movements

This final part weaves theology, psychology, and real community into a unified model of awakening. It proposes a theology of atonement rooted not in penal substitution but in ego death, scapegoating theory, and interpersonal transformation. The Holy Spirit (Paraclete) is reinterpreted as the force of mutual transformation. Love becomes not sentiment but the eschatological fire reshaping the human condition. The final claim? The eschaton is now.

Appendix Summaries

Appendix I: A Comparison With Historic & Contemporary Eschatology
Reframes theological “end time” debates through the lens of collective transformation rather than speculation or fear. Think Less Left Behind, more Luke 17.

Appendix II: On the Nature of God
Explores panentheism, immanence, and relational theology. God is not a sky tyrant or absentee landlord but the divine ground of Being—active, intimate, and universal.

Appendix III: On an Afterlife
Considers post-death consciousness through biblical and psychological frameworks, rejecting both literalist heaven/hell dualism and reductionist materialism.

Appendix IV: On the Divinity of Christ
Affirms Christ’s divinity while rejecting metaphysical arrogance. Christ is both the prototype and mirror of our transformation—the Logos incarnate in flesh and psyche.

Appendix V: Calvinism, Control, and American Christianity’s Dysfunction
A brutal psycho-theological critique. Calvinism is unpacked as a neurotic theology rooted in scarcity, control, and unresolved trauma masquerading as doctrine.

Appendix VI: Entheogens in Ancient Israelite Ritual
Drawing on archaeology and comparative religion, this explores the possibility that cannabis and psychoactive botanicals were part of Israel’s ritual ecosystem.

Appendix VII: A Revolutionary Plan
A pragmatic vision: what if communities were structured for awakening, not control? Merges politics, theology, and praxis.

Appendix VIII: On the Trinity
Unpacks the Trinitarian dynamic as relational metaphysics—subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and transcendence.

Appendix IX: On Psychedelics
Argues for cautious integration of psychedelics into spiritual practice—especially in pastoral, therapeutic, or initiatory contexts. Informed, not romanticized.

Appendix X: The Emmaus Key
A mystical Christology. Shows how the story of Emmaus (Luke 24) is a pattern for awakening: Scripture, Spirit, and sacramental sight converging in a shared meal.

Appendix XI: Reframing Alien Life Theologically (HEAT)
We explore how our present reality and the tension between individual consciousnesses and the collective whole are not just abstractions, but an actual filter for interplanetary societies.

Appendix XII: The Conversion of Lilith
If the concepts contained in the book hold true, then even modern figures like Lilith, formerly a feminine demon, can be redeemed and unified with the Divine.

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.