Apocalypse Not: Everything You Know About 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture Is Wrong

John Greer

9/2011 · Predajca: Simon and Schuster

Táto e‑kniha

For almost 3,000 years apocalypse prophecies have convinced people all over the world that the future is about to give them the world they want instead of the world they’ve got. All the end time prophecies splashed across the media in every age have had something else in common: every one of them has been wrong. Apocalypse Not is a lively and engaging survey of predictions about the end of the world, along with the failed dreams and nightmares that have clustered around them. Among the stories highlighted in Apocalypse Not are: the birth of the apocalypse meme out of archaic star myths in the ancient Middle East; the failed end time prophecies of Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, and other famous prophets; the long and murky road from the Great Pyramid to today’s Rapture beliefs; and the real origins of the belief in apocalypse in 2012 (hint: it’s not originally Mayan at all).

O autorovi

JOHN MICHAEL GREER is the author of twenty-four books in the fields of alternative spirituality and future studies, including the award-winning The New Encyclopedia of the Occult; The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (New Society, 2008); and Secrets of the Lost Symbol (Llewellyn, 2010), which has been translated into eight languages. He is also the author of a popular weekly blog on the future, The Archdruid Report. Born and raised in Washington State, he now lives in Cumberland, Maryland, an old red brick mill town in the Appalachians, with his wife Sara.