the greek word for apocalypse is apocalypsis meaning a revealing or an uncovering. it is like a curtain or a veil is lifted so that what is behind can be seen or the contents are suddenly disclosed. it doesn't say anything about light in the etymology, but i just thought of elaine pagels and i may have got it from the gnostic gospels, which are very different than the common interpretations. some cataclysm does seem to be involved, and it seems to be imminent or it feels so, though the feeling partly comes from millenial disasters and collective unconscious and the mythology that always percolates up in us to try to understand why we are so fucked up, other than it's human nature or we are just born that way, and we have to make do. is that different than let go let god decide? can there be a cataclysm of light? and not the kind that blinds and melts us into a more viable energy? 

whatever the hell is happening i can only believe in nature, in the beauty and life in that natural rising. i can only imagine that none of this destruction is final, that creation is ongoing too.