Hyperstition and The Northern Mystics

I'm feeling the need to conserve some of my blogging energy as of late, a time to inhale, draw in, and restrain. In the mean time, check out some interesting tangents and responses to my Coffee vs. Oil post over at Hyperstition (special thanks to Reza for the link). One such tangent which emerged, via Northanger, was this piece on C-Theory on some of the more metaphysical/mythical properties of the concept of North -- the Great White North, the Blank Spaces, the Void, the Vast Expanse of Featureless Tundra. The author, Sergei Medvedev, provides three exampls of this mysterious property, as opposed to our more culturally-loaded notions of East (sunrise, wisdom, new life), West (death, sunset, gold, opportunity), and South (summer, vibrant life, the Third World): Finland, Russia, and Canadian composer Glenn Gould. Of key interest here is Medvedev's tracing of the Russian ascetic movement in the 14th century, led by St.Sergius of Radonezh:

A son of wealthy parents, after their death he gave away his property and at the age of twenty-one retired from the world. He set out to live in the wild forest northeast of Moscow. His brother, who accompanied him at the beginning, could not bear the hardships of desert life and abandoned him. For a long period St.Sergius lived completely alone, surrounded by wild animals; the legend has it, that his only companion was a bear.

Given the spare, nirvana-esque quality of the Great White North, and given the growing indications of Global Warming, and the resultant new ice age it may foster, I am drawn to pose an odd question: is the Christian notion of the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven at the End of Time to be interpreted climactically? Are Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point, Peter Russell's White Hole in Time, Terrence McKenna's Timewave Zero, etc. all just clever euphemisms for the glacierization of the world? That is, will we all become snow-mystics? (And if so, if human enlightenment is dependent upon an ascetic "plunge" into the Hoth-like wastes which blew open St. Sergius, what can we do to speed along the descent of this Frigid Overmind?)