This essay is one attempt to address the mind-boggling question:
why are we in such denial about the likely extermination of everything?
I explore this problematic from a soul phenomenological perspective. “Our current notion of the end of the world (apocalypse) is determined by the style of consciousness that we are today. This style of consciousness can only think the present as logically interpenetrated by the imagined past and by the imagined future, as based on that imagined past. In other words our structure of consciousness insists on linear continuity of time. We cannot think otherwise.

Temporal linear continuity defines our current structure of consciousness. When we therefore think the apocalypse we must think in terms of some kind of continuity—a remainder as it is called today. Our present structure of consciousness is simply and fatally unable to think the apocalypse as total, i.e., without remainder. As one author succinctly asks, “can thought go along with its own destitution and ruin?” There seems to be no indication that thought or our present structure of consciousness can “go along with its own destitution and ruin.”

We seek in every way possible in imagination and theory to preserve the continuity between our origins and our future, and thus ourselves in our psychological reality, over-riding or erasing the most obvious objections.

We are in total denial!