This is a fascinating article on a topic that is very current these days. The end times, the apocalypse, 2012, and so forth. It traces the history of how doomsday prophecy has evolved to the here and now.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/15/may_21_end_of_world/index.html
"A number of unusual natural phenomena in 1881 -- a meteorite, violent windstorms and large earthquakes -- convinced Mother Shipton’s followers that the end indeed had arrived. More recently, a cult has arisen around a prophecy made in the 1550s by the French seer Nostradamus that the world will be destroyed around 2012 -- an idea associated by some with a 5,126-year era established in an ancient Mayan calendar that ends on Dec. 21, 2012"
"The Mayan prediction has been popularized in disaster movies like Mel Gibson’s "Apocalypto" and Roland Emmerich’s "2012" as well as in books like journalist Lawrence E. Joseph’s "Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization’s End," healer Andrew Smith’s three-volume "The Revolution of 2012" and the bestselling "2012: The Return of the Quetzalcoatl" by New Age writer Daniel Pinchbeck".
If for no other reason than to be informed of the "catastrophe currency" as I call it, the story covers a lot of territory that surrounds us right now and merits careful consideration.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/15/may_21_end_of_world/index.html
"A number of unusual natural phenomena in 1881 -- a meteorite, violent windstorms and large earthquakes -- convinced Mother Shipton’s followers that the end indeed had arrived. More recently, a cult has arisen around a prophecy made in the 1550s by the French seer Nostradamus that the world will be destroyed around 2012 -- an idea associated by some with a 5,126-year era established in an ancient Mayan calendar that ends on Dec. 21, 2012"
"The Mayan prediction has been popularized in disaster movies like Mel Gibson’s "Apocalypto" and Roland Emmerich’s "2012" as well as in books like journalist Lawrence E. Joseph’s "Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization’s End," healer Andrew Smith’s three-volume "The Revolution of 2012" and the bestselling "2012: The Return of the Quetzalcoatl" by New Age writer Daniel Pinchbeck".
If for no other reason than to be informed of the "catastrophe currency" as I call it, the story covers a lot of territory that surrounds us right now and merits careful consideration.
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