"The End is Near" mass unconsciousness

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But there is one thing about Revelations that bothers me, and that is that Confederation sources always try to make themselves understood, and avoid confusion, which isn’t something one can say about Revelations.

Oh, and of course the obvious, the messages of doom.

Ra: I am Ra. It is entirely possible for the untuned channel, as you call that
service, to receive both positive and negative communications. If the entity
at the base of its confusion is oriented toward service to others, the entity
will begin to receive messages of doom.

If John was indeed the channel, he would have received doom from a negative source.