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End Times: Sign of the End Times
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End of the World: Surviving the End of the World
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Living in the Time of Prophecy
by Swami Ramananda
We stand on the threshold of the Time of Great Change. The Time of Great Change is the foundation of the 2012 prophecy.
These teachings from an ancient time can awaken in us the dawn of a bright new horizon. Humanity is passing from an Old World to a New World, as the end time revelations have prophesied. The end of the world is the beginning of the world.
Living in the Time of Prophecy reveals the meaning of the end times of each passing epoch of Earth’s awakening and vividly illuminates the emerging wisdom and insights of each new world.
What is the deeper and practical meaning of the idea of the 2012 end times?
What lessons of the Old World do we carry forward?
How do we prepare ourselves for the New World?
And what is its purpose and vision?
Listen to an interview about the time of great change:
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2012 Survival Guide: Will You Be Ready?
by Crystal Abrams
Crystal Abrams has written a big book about surviving 2012. She begins by pointing out that 2012 is going to be a significant year of sunspot activity. She also believes that the Earth's magnetosphere is getting weaker. Well, if the magnetosphere that protects the Earth from devastating solar flares is getting weaker and solar activity is reaching a statistical maximum then that must be the perfect recipe for global disaster.
The pole shift, a common catastrophic reference made in these books, is confused with the precession of the Earth's axis. The earth has a 26,000 year old rotation like the vertical axis of a top inscribing a circle. That means that in 13,000 years the north star will no longer be Polaris but instead Vega - the star Jodi Foster visited in the Carl Sagan book based film Contact.
That does not mean that the north pole and south pole will shift or switch. Nor does it mean that the earth will flip upside down. It simply means a that the north and south pole will be pointing at a different part of the sky. Remember also that there is no up or down in outer space as demonstrated by all the astronauts who hang upside down in the Space Station to pose for photographs.
In Ms Abrams defense, she does not tell the reader that this global disaster will happen, but rather (with a strange reference to Chairman Mao) "Wish for sunshine, but build dikes".
Planet X Forecast and 2012 Survival Guide
by Jacco van der Worp, Marshall Masters and Janice Manning
This complex and detailed book is comprehensive in its approach to the 2012 phenomenon. It accepts at face value that the threat of a 2012 Armageddon is real and the proposes to show these "end-times" as caused by an undetected brown dwarf star orbiting our own Sun. The Earth's encounter with Planet X in 2012 is compared to the real planet X searched for by astronomers - in particular Clyde Tombaugh who discovered the now-demoted planet Pluto.
This 2012 Survival Guide sees 2012 not as a harbinger of evil but a portent of good. Comparing this event to a larger scale version of the Bubonic Plague of the Middle Ages, the authors believe that just like the Black Death opened the way for a reemergence of Science and the Renaissance through questioning the authority of the Catholic Church, so too will the temporary suspension of life as we know it in 2012 bring a New Age of Enlightenment.
The Official Underground 2012 Doomsday Survival Handbook
by W. H. Mumfrey
Before we examine the content of this 2012 Survival Guide we have to ask ourselves is this a book title or an internet keyword search string? If it’s underground then it’s not official. If it’s official how can it be underground? And finally, is 2012 a doomsday or is it transformation like some of the other 2012 survival guides we are reviewing? The author does not answer these questions instead he poses the following:
Is it time for homo sapiens as a species to end as all other species eventually do? While other books delve deep into how to cope with a post apocolyptic 2012, this guide suggests that the worst thing that can happen is that you should avoid at all cost “meeting your doom wearing nothing more than a pair of flannel pajamas and an embarrassed expression on your face.” It’s almost like this guide is more of keeping up with the doomsday jones’es that a real analysis of the problem. MR Mumffrey closes the his introduction with the pithy “This book is for survivors” and then goes on the next page to recite the nursery rhyme chicken little.
All kinds of bizarre comparisons and references are made. Chock full of similes “like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day”; “like Noah before the Flood”; “like the Fall of Rome”; “Like Babylon”’ Let’s add a noted science fiction writer “like Isaac Asimov…” And finally Old Saint Nick is thrown in for good measure “like Santa opening the toy bag from the underworld”. Mumfrey drops us into “oceans awash in blood…darkness, death” etc., etc. etc. until we are both insulted and nauseated by this consumptive regurgitation of platitudes and Golden Book Encyclopedia sophomoric facts.
2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect
by Bob Thiel
This 2012 Survival Guide considers sources from the I-Ching to the Talmud with a little Anti-Christ for good measure.
This 2012 Survival Guide takes a different tack. It considers source materials from Catholic Prophecies, the I Ching, the Talmud, Islam, Buddhist & Hindu predictions as well as the Mayan Calendar. And as if that were not enough, current US President Barack Obama, is thrown in as the Anti-Christ for good measure. A quick look at the table of contents gives you a good overview of the Christian apocalyptic bias of this 2012 Guide. Chapters like
“The Sect of the Nazarenes”; “Barack Obama, the future Islamic King of the South and the end of America”; “Who is 666” and
“The New World Order Prophesized for the Great Monarch and the Anti-Pope” leave no doubt to the reader that this is a Christian, apocalyptic polemic about the end times with a Mayan Calendar 2012 flavoring.
A rather unique point of view taken by the author is that it doesn’t matter whether one believes in ancient prophecies and predictions or not. The fact that billions of others on this planet do, does matter. So even if you personally don’t care, the fact that many others do care can still change the course of history. Mr. Thiel illustrates this startling premise with an ancient prophecy attributed to Mohammad’s cousin that “a tall black man will assume the reigns of government in the West and command the strongest army on earth”.
Sounds like Thiel is talking about Barack Obama, but the author qualifies his statement by saying that even if you don’t think that prophecy has anything to do with the current US President, what if Muslims see it as a sign to find and rally around a new militaristic Muslim leader to take over the world?
So even though this 2012 Survival Guide sounds more like Glenn Beck/Fox News, the content is well-presented and compelling to someone who agrees with the rapture/armegeddon model of the future. So if that’s your thing, strap on your seatbelts and enjoy the ride!
