Contemporary psychonauts have even coined a term10 for this persistent distortion: eschatothesia—the perception of the Eschaton, or the end of the world. “It is not necessarily the absolute ‘end of times,’” the Hyperspace Lexicon clarifies, “but can be a feeling of some huge event in the near future we are approaching, the end of an aeon, a marker in time after which nothing will be the same.”
