A Look At The Word “Apocalypse”

Most often people use the word ‘Apocalypse’ as the end of time and associate the word with being surrounded by doom all around. -But is that really the case and origin of the word?

The Prefix ‘Apo-‘ means ‘to move away from’.

The Suffix ‘-Calypse’ relates to Calypso, it means ‘concealing’ or ‘hiding the truth’.

Thus the word ‘Apocalypse’ translates to ‘moving away from concealment’ or ‘moving from illusion’.

So the Apocalypse isn’t the end of the world, it’s more like the “great reveal”, the “great awakening”, the end of the old world and the start of a new one.

From the ashes of dead, comes new emerging civilizations.

From a burnt forest, comes new growth.

A Cycle, a life cycle. Birth, death, and rebirth.

Old world order, new world order. Old reality, new reality.

It all changes in flux, and the apocalypse merely reveals the next step. Perhaps it’s a revolving revolution for our evolution.

In some ways, the apocalypse is synonymous with societal death in the sense that death is an alchemic transmutation, a transformation from one form to the next. An apocalypse is such an enlightening transformation, the expectation of apocalypses being bad is a preconceived cognitive bias from our programming and use of the word ‘Apocalypse’.

Epilogue

So the apocalypse is merely change.

Arguably, we’re always in an apocalypse, the more and more people learn and come to know more things.