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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, IS COMING SOON!

"Apocalyptic thinking is in the air," University of Connecticut psychologist Kenneth Ring says. "As we approach that subjective date, 2013, images stored in the collective unconscious begin to populate our dreams and visions." And nightmares, of course. There are, a lot of people who think that a Global Catastrophy will soon be here -- around the year 2013, as a matter of fact.

Religious fundamentalists find that cryptic verses in the Bible's apocalyptic texts actually refer to a nuclear Armageddon within the next few years. At the same time an astonishing number of people claim to be in contact with UFOs, and the message they are getting from the "space brothers" is that time is running out for our planet. The Hopi prophecies are in vogue, and they tell us that our world is currently teetering on the brink. The Mayan/Aztec calendar points to the year 2012 as the end of this age, an age that began more than 5,000 years ago. .

Many people feel that the world is now so hopelessly sinful, or just plain messed up, that there is no possibility that it can survive," notes Daniel Cohen, author of _Waiting for the Apocalypse_. Religious tracts begin to assume a kind of logic, and you can notice eerie coincidences between Ezekiel and the UFO people, the Hopi and Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus, Our Lady of Fatima, the Mayan calendar stone, and the National Academy of Sciences, all of who agree we're in perilous times.

HOW THE WORLD WILL END: WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO

Sixteenth-century French prophet Nostradamus foresaw 1999-2013 as a time of tremendous upheaval, wars, even (possibly) nuclear annihilation. Edgar Cayce, the famous "sleeping prophet" of Virginia Beach, Virginia, saw 1998 as the beginning of a New Age -- right before a catastrophic shift of Earth's axis. Jeane Dixon forsaw an evil and charismatic Antichrist leading the youth of the world astray in this first decade.

New Age millennialists focus on the year 2012 as a collective turning point for humanity, a shift into a more ethereal kind of consciousness. One can't help noticing that an awful lot of people are looking forward to the end of the world. Religious fundamentalists expect to be supernaturally "raptured out" of the coming cataclysm; New Age millennialists try to "heal the planet" with love and good vibrations. Bob Nelson, also known as Mobius Rex, a California radio talk-show host and author of _Prophecy_, a compendium of doomsday predictions across the ages, expects that "less than one third of the world's population will be around by 2020." He adds, "It might be best for this planet and humanity if this civilization collapses as quickly as possible.

HOW THE WORLD WILL END AS WE KNOW IT: 

1. There Will Be Global Flooding

The prophecies say we'd better start building arks again because we're all going to get very wet thanks to some wicked tsunamis. If you're ordering your Chris Craft now, make sure that there's plenty of room for your new Akita puppy and a mate so that we can repopulate the earth with various species after everything dries out.

Edgar Cayce predicted a California with coastal cities submerged, with the Carolinas and Georgia sinking into the Atlantic. There's a basis for this: a recent phenomenon, the greenhouse effect. The burning of fossil fuels causes an increase in carbon dioxide, which in effect turns the atmosphere into a greenhouse. The CO2 absorbs infrared rays and prevents them from radiating back into space, and we all end up like hothouse tomatoes. A little side effect is that the polar ice caps melt as the temperature soars upward by as much as 9 degrees Centigrade during the next century. Ocean levels rise seven to twenty feet, submerging the Nile Delta, the Louisiana Delta, and the New Jersey wetlands. In other words, another global flood.

2. There will be a Pole Shift

The earth hurtles through space at 67,000 miles an hour. Think of it. What if you drove your Ford Fairlane that fast down an interstate? And what if you piled too much luggage on your roof rack? Why, you'd topple ace over teacups when you hit the first good curve. That's essentially what happens in a Pole Shift. Namely, too much ice is melting on the polar ice caps this water will eventually make its way into the sea. There will be less weight on the poles. This will cause the earth to destabalize, topple and the poles will shift, maybe in a matter of hours, maybe in days. As you can imagine, this would be very, very bad: enormous tidal waves, electrical storms with hurricane winds, tremendous earthquakes and lava flows; even poisonous gases.  The Celtic Church of Dynion Mwyn, Inc. as well as many psychics who have staked their reputations on this happening: Edgar Cayce, Immanuel Velikovsky, and Nostradamus, among others have stated this is what will happen. Plus hints of a pole shift can supposedly be found in the Bible and Native American prophecies, according to John White, author of _Pole Shift_. 

Some scientists think a pole shift is a possibility. "It's a consideration," says Donald Trucotte, chairman of the department of geological sciences at Cornell University. "Pole shift is a well-established principle. It's the same concept as continental drift. Continents shift around the earth, so it's possible that poles might shift toward the equator."

3. There will once again be a Ice Age

The glaciers, which gave us the Great Lakes and terrible weather, will come again. But this time, even if we don't freeze to death, the new ice age will at the very least reduce the acreage available for farming and we could starve.

Dynion Mwyn and various Psychics including Earlyne Chaney believes the ice age will be an offshoot of the greenhouse effect.  As all the ice packs are melting around the North Pole, the water which is moving North called the Gulf Stream, which gets colder as it moves North and gradually sinks down into the ocean, then moves south, toward the equator, will no longer circulate.  No more Gulf Stream.  No more mild tempratures over Europe.  Europe will gradually turn into a big Icicle.  You probably thought that the greenhouse effect meant everything would heat up.  It will in the beginning.  Carbon dioxide will keep the heat from escaping.  The heat will then vaporize the oceans.  The resultant excess moisture will be carried to the poles, where it will freeze, and the glaciers will come back and grow bigger.  This will all begin, says Chaney, between now and 2023.  Many will die, but some will be rescued.  There is some evidence for a new ice age, No less an authority than physicist George Gamow predicted the return of the glaciers: "We must expect the ice that retreated some ten thousand years ago to come back again."

4. A Comet or Asteroid From The Sky

A comet or asteroid will collide with Earth between 2013 and 2023, and civilization will end as we know it.   Jeane Dixon prophesied that a comet would crash into the earth around 2013, causing massive tidal waves and flooding. Nostradamus also seemed to be referring to an extraterrestrial object when he predicted that "a great spherical mountain of seven stades [about a mile in diameter] will roll end over end, sinking great nations." Comet disaster was also predicted by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). (Hildegard was a twelfth-century Jeane Dixon. Adviser to three popes and two emperors, she had a pretty good track record, predicting the coming of Protestantism and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.) This past March a large asteroid passed within half a million miles of Earth, or twice the distance between our planet and the moon. This particular asteroid, a quarter to half a mile or more in diameter and zipping along at 46,000 miles per hour, would have hit Earth with an impact that would have obliterated New York City or Los Angeles. It would have carved out a crater half a mile deep and five miles wide. A water impact, according to NASA's Bevan French, would have created waves several hundred meters high that could have swept over coastal areas.

A comet is also possible. The comet that exploded over the Siberian forest in 1908 (the so-called Tunguska Event) was estimated by Russian scientists to have been several miles in diameter and to have weighed close to a million tons. But a really big comet could be a hundred miles in diameter and would do some real damage.

We can't be blase about the asteroid that just missed us. Scientists report that this collection of rock and dust orbits the sun once a year and regularly buzzes our planet. "Sooner or later," say Henry Holt, scientist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, who discovered the asteroid, "it should collide with the earth or the moon."

5. Earthquake Cataclysm

The earth will shake and split asunder. Buildings will topple. Coastal cities will slide into the oceans and be seen no more. Just about everybody with apocalyptic thinking agrees. Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce both predicted widespread earthquakes around the year 2013 - 2023. Hildegard of Bingen prophesied quakes, and psychic archaeologist Jeffrey Goodman predicted that the U.S. coastline would end up in Nebraska and Kansas by the year 2013. The Book of Revelation describes a terminal earthquake, and even Isaiah said: "The earth will reel like a drunkard and it will sway like a hut ... until it falls, never to rise again."   This will be the result of the Ice moving from the poles.

6.  Nuclear War

There's an exchange of missiles and a lot people die. Others die of radiation. But enough survivors climb from the wreckage to rebuild civilization.  The Dynion Mwyn, The Hopi, Mayans, Nostradamus, the Seeress of Prague, and the Fatima prophecy all agree. The Hopi said that "gourds of ashes" will fall from the sky, causing a disease for which there is no cure. Nostradamus predicted a horror "enclosed in containers. Launched from a fleet of ships, in a single night it transforms a city to dust and vapor...." The seventeenth-century Seeress of Prague, who predicted Queen Victoria and Hitler, described a war in which men "will sow a Mushroom, whose Seed will fall from the Sky to Earth....Life is wiped out." The 1917 Fatima prophecy predicts a great war in the second half of the twentieth century in which "fire and smoke will fall from heaven, and waters of the oceans will become vapors....Millions and millions of men will perish...and those who survive will envy the dead."  Nuclear holocaust is going to be terrible. Our only hope is to count on the corruption of the defense industry and the ineptitude of the military: Maybe none  The scientific news of the decade, however, is the nuclear winter theory, which holds that where there's fire, there's smoke, and it's the smoke that will really cause the problems. According to Mark Harwell, director of Cornell University's Global Environment Program and one of the architects of the nuclear winter theory, just 100 warheads exploding in major cities in the Northern Hemisphere could generate enough smoke to create a "reverse greenhouse effect." The smoke will travel to the stratosphere and cut off sunlight. The earth will grow cold, as much as 15 degrees Centigrade colder, and our major grain crops will die. In other words, we're more likely to starve than burn. "Most people point to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the models for the aftermath of a nuclear war," says Harwell. "But the entire world will be a lot more like Ethiopia and the Sudan." Previously, the potential body count of nuclear war was estimated to be "only" in the tens of millions in the United States and a few hundred million globally. That would still leave four and a half billion humans on the planet, but Harwell says the long-lasting effects could eventually kill another 4 billion. 

WHY WILL THIS HAPPEN?

The big event will not be the distruction of the Earth, although there may be some rough sledding ahead. The cataclysm is a collective coming of age.  The world will end in A.D. 2012, according to the Mayan calendar stone, as interpreted by Jose Arguelles, New Age eschatologist, art historian, and author of _The Mayan Factor_.  The Mayan calendar, or Tzolkin, describes a 5,200-year Great Cycle beginning in 3113 B.C. and ending in A.D. 2012. This cycle, in turn, is embedded in a longer, 26,000-year cycle, composed of five Great Cycles, which also ends in 2012. (Meaningful-coincidence buffs may note that this long cycle, which Arguelles equates with the life span of Homo Sapiens, corresponds to the 26,000 years of Plato's "Great Year" and of the astrological precession of the zodiac.) "What we are experiencing," he concludes, "is the climax of our particular species and evolutionary stage -- the very last twenty-six years of a cycle some twenty-six thousand years in length!" In 2012, will begin a Solar Age, a postindustrial Utopia. "Everyone will have psychic ability. We'll live harmoniously in posttechnological New Age villages -- equipped with "solar temples," lush gardens, pleasure domes, and "houses of energy and information" -- so communicate the Daughters of Cerridwen and the returned Mayan masters.

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