A true story about the end of the world
A book by Joachim Feiertraeger
What if the “end of the world” has already happened?
And what if it happened more than a half century ago?
The Greek word eschaton means “the end”? It is used repeatedly in the Bible and belongs to the language of ancient cosmology.
It refers to both the “end” of time as we understand it and a dimension of ultimate reality that is accessible from our perceived four dimensions.
It is both breaking into our conventional reality at unexpected moments and disrupting it. It is also relentlessly and secretly transforming it.
This hyperdimensional reality is what Jesus called “the kingdom of God”, but it goes by other names as well.
Many seek it. Many are waiting for it to break through in some miraculous manner.
But what if it already did in the spring of 1967 on the eve of that iconic, but overly romanticized and misunderstood “happening” in the San Francisco Bay area remembered as “The Summer of Love”?
This startling, largely autobiographical account is authored by an internationally known philosopher and theologian who wishes for the time being to remain anonymous, mainly because it’s not about him. It’s about the message.
The text is the original typewritten manuscript that was composed and finalized during a violent thunderstorm in the spring of 1977, ten years after the recounted events.
You can read the detailed account of it here.
It’s free, and you may disseminate it to friends and neighbors to your heart’s content.
However, it is copyrighted, so don’t try to monetize it in any shape, form, or gimmick.
About the book
It’s not just fiction!
The book opens with the following line: “The trouble with Lucien Lastman was· that he had seen God, and the memory of that experience haunted him day by day.”
The author Prof. Joachim Feiertraeger (not his real name) is driving along a New Mexico highway one night during the 1970s when he picks up two hippie hitchhikers, a man and a woman.
The couple is polite, but a bit strange. Furthermore, he has an odd feeling about them, and there are some unusual vibes during the relatively brief encounter that do not resolve themselves immediately. The young man introduces himself as “Lucien”, and alludes to the fact that he has a story to tell, but at the end nof the ride thanks the professor and goes his way.
A number of years later the stranger appears unexpectedly on a snowy day in the office of Prof. Feiertraeger and demands to tell his story.
The story is even stranger than the encounter on the New Mexico highway.
The story takes place in California, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area but also the Mojave Desert in Southern California.
The time frame is an approximately nine-month period from the fall of 1966 to the early summer of 1967 – the beginning of the fabled “Summer of Love” as well as the national protest movement against the Vietnam War.
The story ends with a worldwide event that is still to this day roiling and upending the international order – the Six Day War between Israel and the surrounding Arab states that began on June 5, 1967 and ended with an astounding and unprecedented military victory by the armies of the Jewish state.
Lucien, whose parents are both dead, experiences a “mystic, crystal revelation” without psychedelics that overwhelms him and thrusts him into an uncanny sequence of events that lead to the formation of a mysterious group that calls itself The Eschaton Society whose role is simply to attest to the “end of the world”. The attestation by the way is published on the front page of the Berkeley newspaper The Daily Californian in May of 1967 right on the eve of the outbreak of the Six Day War.
But say no more. That’s what’s the book is about.
“The end” is not at all what you think it is!!!
