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© John Hogue, 01 January 2013.All rights reservedHogueProphecy PublishingP.O. Box 666Langley, WA 98260Distributed online atwww.hogueprophecy.comBook design, production: Gail LaForestCover: Gail LaForest, John HogueTranquil Computertranquilcomputer.comtalkwithme@hogueprophecy.comwww.hogueprophecy.comDEDICATIONGordon Michael Scallion, Ed Dames, Richard Noone, Vincent Bridges, JoséArgüelles, Terrence McKenna and last but not least, the one who came beforethem, who paved the way for them, the greatest End Time – “the sky is falling” –prophet of all times, Chicken Little.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThanks to Talia Toni Marcus and Francis Perry. Thanks also to Nancy White, Bruce,and Gail LaForest. Also to Vipassana.

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION2012: Is this the Real Millennium?Are We Going Chicken Little’s Way?The End of the World as we know it is LateThe Maya behind the Maya CalendarCHAPTER 1Nostradamus Traveling through TimeLife of the ProphetAfterlife of the ProphetNostradamus Target Dating the FutureCHAPTER 2Nostradamus Practiced Mayan Magic?Nostradamus taken back to the “Barrios”Remarkable Men with a Meeting?CHAPTER 3Land of the Lost Book of NostradamusLost Dog-Eared Prophecy Book Found?A Work of Prophetic Father Envy?Television projecting Flaming Castles in the CloudsA “Bridges” Too FarGilligan’s Apocalypse Island

CHAPTER 41999 was Nostradamus’ 2012Ugly Stretch marks on Linguistic LicenseThe New Age Born from Two Labors of the SunAnd the Photonic Band Played OnCHAPTER 5Many Crossroads in TimeCue the Proph-arazziTime’s “Reboots” are made for Walkin’The Final loud Flush of the Mayan OrbCHAPTER 6Towards the Roaring 2020sA Doomsday Decade AheadNostradamus’ Tribulation of Quickening HistoryApproaching Catastrophe with Eyes Wide ShutCHAPTER 7The End of StupidAnd the Critical Mass of NowThe Sum of All Fads of Forecast FearEnlightenment Entitled-meantEver Now is the Time to Harmonically ConvergeFrom iPhone, to iPad, to iEnd Time?EPILOGUE12 December 2012:The End of End Time?Too Chicken Little Too Late?

NOSTRADAMUS 20121INTRODUCTION2 0 1 2Is this the Real Millennium?Source: Jan Bauer, AP.Are We going Chicken Little’s Way?What in the world happened at the turn of the millennium in the year 2000? Themost anticipated end time date of the Judeo-Christian world had humanity bracedfor something big. For those who believed it would mark the dawn of a golden age,1 January 2000 marked the “dull” of a whopping party hangover for many revelersand wasn’t too different from any other sick-as-a-dog day after just another NewYear’s Eve.For the Doomsters there was nothing much to write home to hell fire andbrimstone about. The 24 time zones of Planet Earth witnessed midnight crawlhour by hour across a world lit with fireworks and fun in a wave of collective goodfeeling and positivity never before seen. Doomsday it seems had caught a wintermillennium bug and limped home to bed for the night. The much anticipated collapseof the world’s power grids and 400-plus nuclear reactors going on meltdown mode– because a Y2K computer bug, an innocuous code hiccup caused by computer timeclocks reaching “00” for 2000 going “tilt”, shutting off the lights of the world – hadbeen anticipated and fixed. The dawn of the year 2000 wasn’t something ChickenLittle could cock-a-doodle do a sky falling.For those of you unversed in the Chicken Little story, it is about a baby chick

NOSTRADAMUS 20122named “Little” who liked to walk by herself in the woods. One day an acorn bouncedoff her head. Startled, she immediately assumed the sky was falling and that shewas on a mission from God to warn the king of the forest, the lion, about it. Onher way out of the woods her panicked evangel that the sky was falling picked upa brace of bird brained disciples, the hen Henny Penny and Ducky Lucky. ChickenLittle’s little band of hysteric disciples acquired their own Judas, Foxey Loxey. Heinquired if the baby chick with the bump on her touched head actually knew wherethe lion king lived.“Why no! Can you show me?” she asked.“Naturally!” said Foxey, “Come this way.”Since assumption and blind faith was the motive force of this crusade, theythen followed the fox into what they assumed was the lion’s den.It was the den of Foxey Loxey. Chicken Little and Henny Penny and Ducky(most Unlucky) now faced a different doomsday than the sky falling. They nevercame out.Moral of the story: don’t rush to judgment and go running around like a ChickenLittle with your head knocked off by an acorn, because the doomsday you assumeis approaching isn’t always the doomsday you ought to be preparing against. Also,if you don’t stay grounded in life, living it fully, with awareness, digesting its factualrealities, you end up faced with what the Polynesians say about life: If you don’t eatlife – life eat you.Still, the need to be bird brained in blind faith and assumptions aboutmysterious phenomenon is a hard programmed habit to shake, especially when theacorn of myth can conjure a whole tree of apocalyptic projections misreading itshead popping sign.Wait. There still was hope for something out of the sky falling in the year2000. The sky itself, displaced by a much foretold and anticipated shift of the Earth’srotational axis falling on us with 1,000-mph winds. These acorns have their flutteringmessiahs.Richard Noone ran a 25-year crusade to prepare the world for a great alignmentof planets on 5 May 2000 that he believed would tilt the world’s rotationary axis asmuch as 40 degrees in one violent polar ice-capped, top-heavy slip.The night before the inertia of sky set against a rolling Earth crust mightmake it appear to fall in 1,000-mph winds, I was a on Coast to Coast AM with ArtBell. His show broadcast across 650 radio stations was one of the largest nighttimeradio talk shows in North America, the Caribbean and Armed Forces Radio with an

NOSTRADAMUS 20123audience of 20 million or more. During that show I said it was at last “High Noone”for Richard’s grand theory and life mission, alluding to the Western movie classicabout the high sunlit time of shortest shadows on dusty streets appointed by fatewhen Gary Cooper as sheriff must face a life and death gunfight to protect his townand his honor.The next day, D-Day, Chicken Little Day, the long awaited reckoning, I postedthe following in an article at Hogueprophecy.com:Dawn, May 5, 2000: the brightest stars fading in the morning light willseem to sway giddily in the heavens, and as dawn breaks the Sun willrise from the wrong place on the horizon. Simultaneously, in other timezones, the midday sun will seem to stand still overhead whereas the lateafternoon sun will lurch backwards through the sky. Soon afterwards allliving things on Earth’s surface will feel the ground tremble and hear theair shudder with a rolling thunder. The oceans will boil out of their banksto tower higher than the mountains and flood upon the land. Waves ofwind and water will race across our cities at 1000 mph and blast them totheir bedrock bones. On May 5, 2000, every island will fly away, and themountains will not be found – that is, if the much-anticipated propheciesof the Earth sliding off its polar axis is just another Y2K-style propheticbust.Next to the Y2K-turn-of-the-Millennium, 5/5/2000 is the mosttalked about date in the prophecy genre. For the past 25 years or more,interpreters of the Earth Changes prophecies of Edgar Cayce and theSpirit Guides of Ruth Montgomery have believed Earth is going to tilt onits axis this coming May.Perhaps the only “tilt” we’ll see on that day is from yet againanother prophetic non-event.Axis Shift 5/5/2000Hogueprophecy.com 5 May 2000Nothing happened that day. The Associated Press would later report 5 May 2000 asone of the quietest days of seismic activity for the year, though on 4 May 2000 amagnitude-7.5 earthquake shook Sulawesi province, Indonesia, killing at least 35people and injuring at least 148. Just to be sure, I waited five more days for Richard

NOSTRADAMUS 20124Noone and his Ducky Unlucky Axis Shift Prophecy to come out of Foxey Loxey’s denbefore writing the following article:Another doomster-date bites the dust! First it was the millenniumturning, and Y2K not burning our hot-wired world. Last Friday came thebig D-Day for Earth Changes prophets like Richard Noone. He had spentthe last 30 years researching and promoting a theory that gravity froma grand alignment of planets on May 5 would pull on a growing ice shelfcovering the Antarctic and cause the Earth to roll over on its side.Reality check!Today, rather than covered with ice, the Antarctic is melting.Back in 1977, the World Watch Institute’s predictions of a hotterworld by 2000 were poo-pooed by Dr. Reid A. Bryson, a climatologistat the University of Wisconsin. Noone recorded Bryson’s observationsin what has become, since last Friday, his classic chicken-little tome ofdoomsday, entitled 5/5/2000: Ice, the Ultimate Disaster.In the book, Bryson brushed off Worldwatch’s statement that a“big melt” was coming in 2000, saying, “They don’t know what they’retalking about. You can get all the opinions you like…”In the field of prophecy, what we record for posterity can be hailedor harped on, given time’s inexorable judgment.What the last 25 years have shown is that high “Noone” has comeand passed for those who believed we were entering a new Ice Ageand that 5/5/2000 would see the world spin off its axis, destroyingcivilization. So far, time and events smile on the auguries of World WatchInstitute, which continues to wax prophetically with accuracy. They wereone of the first groups to warn the world about global warming by 2000,over a quarter-century ago.As a prophet scholar I swear by their predictions because theyare consistently correct… If we heed their warnings we can preventreal potentials for doomsday that could come in the next few decadesfrom not stopping overpopulation, global warming and the threat of acollapse from food and water sustainability.The End of the World as we know it is LateNoone was nullified and has since retreated from the public limelight, his theory

NOSTRADAMUS 20125dying with a whimper and many guffaws. Time advanced into the first decade ofthe new millennium and with each yearly step deeper into its dangerous jungle ofintensifying events, things started falling Chicken Little’s way.Hijacked jets filled with passengers held hostage as human shields were thensacrificed, falling out of the sky on 11 September 2001 to take down the WorldTrade Center towers in New York City and drill the western façade of the Pentagonin Washington DC.The sky was falling again in early 2003. Not as acorns but as cruise missilespeppering Baghdad in Operation Iraqi Freedom, a US invasion of Iraq that soonbecame better known as an operation Iraqi quagmire for many years, contributingruinous loss of US treasure that in part began the Stock Market falling by the GreatRecession of 2008.CO2 emissions weren’t falling but rising into the sky from wanton humanfossil fuel use that thus led to rising global temperatures causing a “falling” in daysof cooler highs and colder lows, melting the polar ice cap Noone’s book and climateexperts dismissed at an even faster rate in the 21st century from averages in the20th.Earth’s atmosphere exponentially increased its heat and power to retainwater, fueling increasingly violent weather and climate change to fall upon us insuperstorms like Hurricane Katrina, Typhoon Morakot.Along with the sky falling in climate change, seawalls began falling to greattsunamis across the Indian Ocean on Boxer’s Day 26 December 2004 (from anestimated magnitude 9.1-to-9.3 temblor). This would be the first of three postmillennialtsunami-generating superquakes: the second emanating from Chile’s 8.8earthquake in February 2010; the third, the 9.0 Tohoku temblor of March 2011that drowned the northeastern Honshu Island towns, harbors and Sendai plain withone of the most devastating and powerful Pacific Ocean wide tsunamis in recordedhistory.The Earth made the “acorns” of volcanic pumice and ash fall out of the sky inIceland when Eyjafjallajökull erupted April through May 2010. It shut down flightsin and out of Europe for several weeks as traffic controllers were afraid that the skywould fall in jet airliners as numerous as acorns if ash getting into hot jet engineturbines should solidify turning them to idle cement mixers at 35,000 feet. ScienceMagazine reported upwards of 95,000 flights cancelled all across Europe during theinitial six-day travel ban, rising to 107,000 flights cancelled during an eight dayperiod accounting for grounding 48 percent of global air traffic stranding 10 million

NOSTRADAMUS 20126passengers.A decade beyond the millennium, great rains began falling in never beforerecorded torrential deluges sending 25 million Pakistanis packing from the Indusfloodplain starting in late July 2010; another 8.5 million were displaced in Pakistanifloods in 2011. In that same year, a third of Thailand was inundated with the streetsof its capital Bangkok under water for two months. Then the Sun’s heat began“falling” upon desiccating crop fields of Russia in 2010 with five hundred forest andbrushfires across its European and Siberian territories. Russia’s grain crops dried outand burned out by one third. Then the Sun’s devil rays came down on Texas in 2011and spread the baking across the US breadbasket in 2012 in a drought of doomsdaybiblical proportions, destroying 20 percent of the world’s chief source of sustainablefood. The disruption of food caused by the Great Russian Drought and brush firesof 2010 had already cast revolution in the streets over rising food prices across thetinderbox of the Arab world in 2011. The Arab “spring” of hope for reforms turnedinto a bloody Arab “fall” in 2012 with civil wars in Libya, Yemen, upheavals in Bahrainand a potentially region-wide destabilization if sectarian civil war between Sunni andShia Muslims in Syria should spread.This still from the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” was usedas a fake shot for floods in New York City streets duringHurricane Sandy in October 2012. Science fiction used as afake, looked an awful lot like fact.At the time of this writing,we are a dozen years beyondthe millennium. History keepsquickening. The heat up of theclimate, the ramp up of weirdand violent weather deliveredthe Great US Drought of 2012 inthe central breadbasket states.Even the rainy Pacific Northwestbroke all records with 80 daysof sunshine with only a meagertwo-tenths of an inch of rain.Then came the Halloween Stormnamed Sandy, a 1,000-milewide hurricane that mated witha winter storm as it crashed over 50 million people across New Jersey, New Englandand New York. It transformed into a superstorm, and prophecy fiction began tobecome facts visualized by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber in their book, The ComingGlobal Superstorm (Pocket Books, 1999). Sandy flooded the Atlantic Seaboard and

NOSTRADAMUS 20127drowned the streets and subways of lower Manhattan much like Roland Emmerich’sclimate disaster movie inspired by the book, the movie blockbuster The Day AfterTomorrow, chased by feet of snow from the Nor’easter the blew in a few days afterSandy’s flood. The cost of damage is still being calculated. Estimates have NewJersey damage at $35 billion and New York at $25 billion. Sandy is well on the waybecoming one of the most expensive natural disasters in history.I could go on. Indeed I’ve gone on since the peaceful turn of the millenniumdocumenting these and a plethora of other accelerating incidents of wild weather,food crises, seismic political and resultant economic upheavals in 12 books publishedsince the year 2000 quietly passed. The signs of our times might indicate thatthe great time keeping prophetic traditions of the Judeo-Christian, the Druidic, theEgyptian and many others thought to expect an oncoming wave of apocalyptic eventsthroughout the 1990s coming to a climax by 2000 had miscalculated when the endof the world as we know it was supposed to slide into an apocalyptic unknown.We entered the year 2012 in unique times. There’s a collective vibe arising.The collective unconscious of the entire human race is in subtle psychic alarm mode.The Earth has begun her rebellion against us, it seems. Chicken Little is in search ofa prophetic time keeper that more accurately calculated a doomsday or “bloomsday”or both: a moment when the great motor of the centuries will truly be renewedas the 16th-century prophet Michel de Nostredame (known by his Latin synonymNostradamus) forecast for the year 2000.Well, we have one: a date of epochal change coming from the most accuratecalendar of the ancients. Around the same time 25 to 30 years ago Richard Noonewas putting together his Pole Shift thesis, popular interest in the ancient MayanCalendar arose. Much of it was propelled by the imaginative, groundbreaking (criticswould say fanciful) theories of a best selling New Age book The Mayan Factor: ThePath Beyond Technology (Inner Traditions, 1987), authored by Jose Arguelles. Hewas neither a Maya, nor even a Native American seer but a native of Minnesota.He was not a trained anthropologist or archaeologist, though he did have a Ph.Din Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago. Unswayed by a nearunanimous rejection of his theories by established experts of Maya civilization, orcriticism that he often made up his own math about their calendar, Arguelles becamethe first apostle and founding father of New Age Mayanism. He defended his theoriesby giving one of those Teflon-coated bromides that let reason slide off the New Agepot, in which his mythologies were cooking – something that almost sounds likehe almost knew what he was talking about – that his vision of the Maya and their

NOSTRADAMUS 20128Calendar was, “correct and biologically accurate...for the whole planet”.Mounting criticism would force him to admit later that his view of the Mayaand their calendar were his own, yet that didn’t stop him from making his namesound more Mexicanized by embellishing it with accents (José Argüelles). Thoughthere was nothing in Maya lore or prophecy to support it, the success of the MayanFactor helped gain him worldwide fame and with notoriety’s capital he founded aworldwide New Age meditation and prayer synchronization event based on “his” viewof the Maya Calendar set to happen on 16-17 August 1987, called The HarmonicConvergence. This then established Mayanism as one of the longest lasting NewAge spiritual movements for a quarter century in a genre that usually recycles itsspiritual fads every two years.The Harmonic Convergence may not have lifted the collective consciousnessof the world but it did see a convergence of New Age pseudo-anthropologists,Maya apologists and gurus establishing an authorship industry that has seen over3,000 titles published. It is an industry of modern revisions of what ancient CentralAmerican time keepers might have intended for a series of highly sophisticatedand interlocking calendar systems otherwise known as the Long Count, which therewriters of millennialism now promoted as the correct count of when the greatmillennium of prophetic tradition should have clocked out.The Native Mesoamerican civilization built sprawling cities around clusters ofpyramids by cutting down mountain jungles of Guatemala circa 300 b.c.e. to 900c.e. Some archeologists theorize a 200-year drought was the cause of a regionalclimate change. Others believe this was enhanced or exacerbated by human rapeof natural resources to build their vast cities and pyramids. At last it forced theMaya to abandon them around 1000 to 1200 c.e. New city sites arose in the jungleplains north in Yucatán Peninsula in modern Mexico between 1000 and 1250 c.e.By the time the Spanish conquered the Aztec and Toltec civilizations in the early16th century the Maya they later did battle with in a decade of jungle warfare werestunted survivors of a long exhausted and eclipsed civilization, their cities generallyreclaimed by the tropical forest cover. Despite this, the Maya retained records oftheir glorious past in leather scrolls. They also retained knowledge and utilized theirmost sophisticated calendar system that applied interlocking calendars to date thecycles of planting and religious rituals and mark the passing of the solar year. Theseran like inner gears of a larger, cyclic wheel of a longer calendar count marking thepassing of great ages.The ancient Mesoamerican Maya calendar system dates back to at least 500

NOSTRADAMUS 20129b.c.e. and is still in common use today in many surviving Maya communities ofGuatemala, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern Mexico. It is one of several spin-off,descendant calendar systems used by the Aztec and Toltec civilizations derived fromfar more ancient Olmec and Zapotec Mesoamerican civilizations that thrived in from1500 to 400 b.c.e.Interest in the Mayan Calendar arose a quarter century ago from moderninterpretations – some would say revisions – of what ancient Central Americantime keepers intended in one of five calendar systems that work like units of timeswitching over like an odometer to create vast epochal counts such as the LongCount. Its countdown to an end corresponding to the Gregorian calendar date of 21December 2012 has been the center of so much discussion and controversy.To begin with, the Maya Calendar operates on a base-20 and base-18 system.Starting with the shortest time unit of a day, or kin.Thirteen kin makes a week. Thus 20 kin make a uinal, a Mayan Month.The Maya then incorporated these days and month counts into two calendars,the Tzolkin and a larger count approximating the solar year known as the Haab.The Tzolkin (meaning “the count of days”) uses a trecena (Spanish for “groupof 13”) count of twenty 13-day periods to make a 260-kin (day) Maya sacredcalendrical round. They chronicle holy days signifying and determining the time forreligious ceremonies, divinatory practice and the sacred act of planting crops.The Haab is the Maya version of the 365-day solar calendar, with 18 uninal(months) of twenty days each covering 360 days making one tun (a year). The Mayapunctuate this tun with a condensed week covering the last five days in the solaryear, called Wayeb (Maya for “nameless days”).Now then, the time required for any weekday to recur with both the samemonth and year days is 18,980 days equating the passage of a complete life cycle ofone Maya generation: a Calendar Round of 52 tun-years. A generation.The Maya epochal Olmec inspired odometer can click into gearing up much largerunits of time multiplied by 20. Thus, 20 tuns (years) make a katun (gesundheit!); or,a generation of time amounting to 20 years or (7,200 kin-days).Twenty katun is nothing to sneeze at, for it makes a baktun or 400 Maya years(twenty generations), that’s a biblically long count of 144,000 kin-days. It takes 13baktun (5,125.37 years) to complete a grand cycle of history beginning with theMayan date of creation. Translated into the Gregorian Calendar system, the worldand human history began on 11 August 3114 b.c.e. Accordingly, the Maya calendarfinishes the 13th baktun on the winter solstice: 21 December 2012. Many New Age

NOSTRADAMUS 201210authors believe the reboot on that date of the 13-baktun cycle corresponds to a lineup at midnight (Greenwich Mean Time) of the Earth, Sun and the center of the MilkyWay Galaxy.There are even greater millennia-number crunching possibilities that approachthe astronomical. Pictun this: 20 baktun give one a count of 2,880,000 kin (days)8,000 tun (years) of 7,885 Gregorian (modern) calendar years in a Maya unit of timecalled a pictun.Try to calibrate time to the calabtun of 20 pictun of 57,600,000 kin (days),160,000 tun (years) equating 157,704 modern years.Now chill your overheating noggin musing on a kinchiltun of 20 calabtunequaling 3.2 million tun, or a spread of 416,162 rotations of the Earth around theSun in today’s mark of years.Hey, let’s go all the way with an alatun. It’s a kinchiltun multiplied by 20 givingyou 64 million tun! With that count, the Maya in modern calendar years refried beancounted us all the way back to the early Cenozoic Era, some 63,080,082 years ago.That’s around the time mammals managed to fill most of the evolutionary nichessurrendered by the dinosaurs after they were blown to bits, fried by a global fireballthen frozen by a winter shroud of smoke and dust, blocking out the Sun for years. Acomet or some super-asteroid the size of Manhattan Island, about 6.2 miles, did it.Moreover, it just so happened to crash into what 65 million years later, became thesite of one of the homelands of the Maya, the Yucatán Peninsula.It’s an accepted fact whether one is a Mesoamerican anthropologist or a treehugging, head-shop crystal wand waving New Ager: the Maya and their ancestors,the Olmec, have fashioned in stone, upon their surviving monuments scattered acrossthe Yucatán Peninsula to the Guatemalan Highlands, the most accurate calculationof great tracks of time ever undertaken before the invention of computers.In one respect, the Maya achieved even greater accuracy than computers. Thebest efforts of computerized time keeping using the Gregorian Calendar system stillhas to correct a flaw by adding one extra day every four years – a February 29 – ina “leap” year. The Maya system is so temporally buff that you’ll need a leap yearonce in 320,000 years.People partied, as the Prince song goes, “Like its 1999”. Rather than reveriesplanned in 31 December 1999, the sheer accuracy of the Mayan Calendar’s doomsdayparty time set for midnight 21 December 2012, tracking with all the apocalypticramp up of the last 12 years, makes it seem more significant as a date markingthe end of the world as we know it. It’s as if the other time clocks of other cultures

NOSTRADAMUS 201211hadn’t the mathematic skill of the Maya, and got the changing of the millenniummiscalculated 12 years off.Certainly there are a lot of events expressed in the astrology and propheciesof Nostradamus about our times that are particularly worrying in the years runningup to 2012. Many interpreters of prophecy, including myself, acknowledged thatdozens of Nostradamus’ prophecies, and hundreds of other traditions of predictionseem to have foreseen a heating up of the skies, the rising of the oceans and a sumtotal of collective apocalyptic visions that better describe times approaching 2012 asthat climax year. Even Vedic, Puranic prophecy and Western Sibylline texts or thatof Hermes Trismegistus of the Neo-Platonists collectively envision a degeneration ofhumankind into a race addicted to materialism at the cost of unhinging the balanceof nature, sound more contemporary to 2012. The Aboriginal prophecies of theFourth World native people’s provide a rich trumpet call of final warnings for modern,materialist man and woman to rediscover their lost connection and balance withnature, or suffer an ecological apocalypse far more devastating than any mere worldwar.There was no Superstorm Sandy in 2000, a climate change “Pearl HarborEvent” to awaken at last the sleeping giant of US public concern. After Sandy’sassault, Global Warming now has advocates in Washington DC. They were onceclimate change deniers, mostly from the political Right, or overtly cowardly avoidersof the topic on the political Left, such as Democrat New York Governor AnthonyCuomo, Republican-Independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg and future Republicanpresidential hopeful New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. These political animalsbecame climate change converts at the temporal threshold of the Mayan QuintupleMillennium shift.The future it seems was anticipating for the first time that some ChickenLittle out there might get it right about the sky falling on us in so many ways. Thekey to unlock what might really be coming was in cracking the right code, the rightinterpretation of Maya calendrical calculations.José Argüelles was first to claim understanding but the campaign trail as wepassed beyond the millennium soon became crowded with other Twenty-Twelverexperts. They included John Major Jenkins, Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges, thelast two, especially Vincent Bridges, being pivotal in considering a review of thegreat French Prophet’s connection to 2012. By 2007, Nostradamus was draggedinto the 2012 debate. It renewed his notoriety around the world in a wave oftelevision documentaries. There was the 2007 History Channel two-hour special

NOSTRADAMUS 201212The Lost Book of Nostradamus that chiefly promoted Vincent Bridges’ theories thatNostradamus knew of the Maya calculating their age-changing 13-baktun cycle toa galactic alignment of the Earth, Sun and center of the Milky Way Galaxy. ThoughJohn Major Jenkins is the chief purveyor of Mayan Galactic Center lineup theories,Bridges goes one step further declaring a recent rediscovery of a purported bookwritten and illustrated by Nostradamus in the 16th century that gives us a direct linkto Nostradamus and the 2012 prophecy and its accurate ending of time.History Channel in 2008 followed the Lost Book documentary with a furtherteasing of the Nostradamus-Maya connection entitled Nostradamus 2012 in whichI appeared as one of the guests. If you watch the documentary, you might noticethat none of my spots directly link Nostradamus with the Maya. My sound bytesand furry face set in the background of the Masonic Inner Sanctum in San Antonio,Texas, hover on the periphery of the narrative that’s mostly dominated by a rehashof the Lost Book theories now applied more thoroughly to the 21 December 2012winter solstice.My silence about 2012 and Nostradamus was artificial. The footage filmednever reached the final cut. Readers and TV viewers around the world were puzzled– more so when 2012 arrived and they did not see a book about 2012 coming frommy pen. I was soon becoming the last prophecy scholar on the planet that didn’tproffer one.What gives? Many of you asked.Was my silence a message that 2012-Nostradamus theory, or the 2012Calendar as such, was prophetically insignificant and not worth the time of one ofthe world’s most recognized authorities on Nostradamus and prophetic traditions?This eBook, half of which was written in October 2010, the rest feverishlywritten, designed and released a few weeks after 21 December 2012, is my answer.Rather than be the first to give this 2012 phenomenon input, I choose to be the last.This book will be available as my final testament on End Time 2012 themes.If a perceived blow is coming and soon. If the Mayan calculations are indeedthe most accurate. If the ancient Hellenistic seer Hermes Trismegistus is right, wecan’t avoid what is coming but at least can “understand the blow” just around thetemporal corner. Before we turn that corner, a last word of examination has cometo bring perspective back to earth and anchor prophetic theories on real Mayanand Nostradamian prophecies and not those cooked up and imagined by New Agepromoters.We must ask, what in our interpretations of the stars and their great cycles of

NOSTRADAMUS 201213centuries is renewing our perception of prophetic wisdom?What is woolgathering imagination?Upon what origin of evidence and prophetic literature is the rising din of popularobsession with 2012 founded?What does Mayan prophecy actually say if we strip it down to its bare bones,its Native American point of view, rather than all that has been embellished uponit for a quarter century by very imaginative and mostly non-Native Mayan Gringosfrom north of the Mexican border?I will attempt to answer these questions and bring the Mayan Calendarevent out of the flummoxing-feathered clutches of Chicken Little and settle thiseschatological issue a few weeks “after” this possibly more accurate marking of anew millennial age.Before I move to present my conclusions on the 2012 phenomenon, I hadalready spent years going over a vast franchise of 2012 books. My weary eyes haveabsorbed the hype and hyperbole behind titles, anchored on “2012” this and thatapocalypse, transformation, ecstasy, doomsday, or fanciful cosmogenesis, year ofdestiny. There’s even a 2012 book about the Mayan Calendar and Barack Obama! Iwon’t issue a final word separating the wheat of good books from a mountain of chaffbooks trying to turn over every book “leaf” of Toltec-cally, Aztec-inine calendar rockand bull stories. If I were to grapple for your sake with ALL the theories delivered sofar since José Argüelles started the ballpoint pens rolling by creating the mythos of2012 back with his best selling book, this eBook would become the longest tome seton electrons and photons yet written. If you need such Twenty-Twelver hamburgerhelper tomes as a background I highly recommend Geoff Stray’s herculean effortsset to print in his complete guides to Mayanism, entitled Beyond 2012: Catastropheor Awakening? (Bear and Co., 2009) and Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy?(Vital Signs, 2012). These are the best encyclopedias of notable Twenty-Twelvedom(and dumb) references yet published.I won’t review the three thousand leaves of this literary bush. I will cut thebush, in one relatively short length literary blow. In times that are quickening, Ideem my readers need a swift and quickening response. By the time you read this2012 will have come and gone, its end for better, or worse, for enlightenment orthe big bang of doomsday late by 12 years of bad Christian counting. On the otherhand, we face yet another end-time fizzle to forget. Therefore, I am going to makethis book as brief, essential and bottom line about all things 2012 as I can.First off, what was really converging on the winter solstice, harmonically or age

NOSTRADAMUS 201215us a cautionary warning to sit back, count to ten. Let’s make the last look, the lastword on the Maya Calendar, the most balanced and refreshing.If one looks deeper into the Sanskrit meaning of maya, the source of illusionisn’t the world being illusory but the way we look at the world. The tree is there.The sky, soil and sea exist. The rock I throw at the foot of the fellow beside me whobelieves otherwise and starts clutching his illusory bleeding big toe as he hops onone foot, cursing me with illusory four-letter words is all very real.It is mind that is maya.It is this mind filtering and warping perception of the world that might digestillusory understanding for the soul within and thus that soul disseminates a world ofprojections and programming.Sometimes a real rock is needed to pinch the toe of a soul encased within andunder the illusions of a filtering mind.So, with that said I ask your pardon and the pardon of many colleagues in theprophecy field as I start dropping rocks on the feet of dreams about 2012.By the way, 2012 IS real. It IS significant. This book isn’t going to deny that.But I will endeavor to take the maya projections off the Maya prophecies and theircalendar to give you a truer perspective of the oncoming reboot of what time shiftingon the winter solstice might actually mean to you and to the world at large.I will attempt to pull 2012 back to earth where it might assume its importantprophetic reality as a step in time in a process of human upheaval and transformationthat may neither end the world as we have known it, nor have raised our collectiveconsciousness at midnight on 21 December 2012.

NOSTRADAMUS 201216CHAPTER 1Nostradamus Traveling through TimeMichel de Nostredame(Nostradamus) 1503-1566.Life of the ProphetFive hundred and nine years before 2012, a boy was born to a notary of thepicturesque town of St. Rémy de Provence in 1503 named Jacques de Nostredame.Michel de Nostredame had become the first-born male child of a family of recently“Christianized” Jews who had settled in the religiously tolerant Renaissance crossroadof the realm of King René de Anjou in one of the earlier Diasporas of Jews fromChristian pogroms in Spain, recently conquered from the Moors. This first expulsingof Jews from Spain predated the more notorious Diasporas of sons and daughters ofAbraham ordered and ruthlessly persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition of Tomás deTorquemada (1420-1498).Heaven’s clock of stars and planets in motion far removed and mysterious wouldfind their inky shadows drying on the parchment of astrologers who begged to defineportents to come after King René’s death. The death of his cousin, the Comte de LaMaine, ultimately sent the Provence into the clutches of French King Louis XII. WhereKing René was “The Good”, as he was known for his multiculturalism tolerance, Louishated Jews. He supported the canon papal law of blood libel. Jews were collectivelyresponsible for the crucifixion of Christ unless they were converted. Thus a few years

NOSTRADAMUS 201217before the infant Michel’s birth the family Nostredame with its prosperous father thenotary took their Jewish heritage underground, becoming Christians, so that theymight remain in beloved Provence. Jacques de Nostredame made his momentousdecision no doubt with the council of his yet unborn son’s maternal and paternalgrandfathers Jean de St. Rémy and later Peyrot de Nostredame. History cites themas either learned physicians, or learned grain dealers – most likely both – whowould counsel a loophole of “universality” meant by the word “Catholic” to meanthat Jewish mysticism hidden under the mask of a Gentile faith might forestall anun-gentle fate of expulsion from Provence’s sun-sweetened, lavender-flowered soil.Michel’s scholarly grandfathers – that some stories would have us believe, wereformer physicians of the court of King René – took on the boy’s education, one afterthe other before dotage and death claimed them. Michel imbibed their knowledge ofclassical languages, healing herbs and made their fading-echo memories of travelingthe western Mediterranean as members of René’s roaming royal court fuel for hisown youthful desire to wander the world and learn. He mastered Hebrew and thesecrets of Hebrew astrology as it was practiced by the ancient ancestors of his tribe,the Issachar – once keepers of the holy Temple in Jerusalem who used heavens astheir calendar heavenly dome of starlight, Sun, Moon and wandering planets to markthe holy festivals. The boy showed intellectual brilliance beyond his rosy-cheekedyears and an aptitude for the family gift of foresight. He early on fell in love withthe great calendar template of the stars and how one might use them to foretell thefuture – through the mathematical art of astrology.His paternal grandfather deemed him ready at fourteen to study liberal artsat Avignon, the papal enclave of Provence. There he angered his priestly teachersby openly defending astrology and the cosmology of Copernicus. Michel was thensent to study medicine in the University of Montpellier passing his baccalaureateexaminations in 1525 when bubonic plague returned to Southern France. Withlicense to practice medicine in hand, he dropped out of Montpellier to practice freelyputting his medical theories about curing the plague to the test in the first of hiswide ranging travels circuiting France, Spain and Italy.Nostradamus followed the pestilent shadow of the Black Death, never leavinga town until the danger had passed. He honed his skills and availed himself of theknowledge and teachers of the mystical underground of alchemists, Jewish Cabalists,and pagans. By 1529 he returned to Montpellier where he received his doctoratedegree taking on the Latinized name of Nostradamus. He remained a professorof medicine there for the following three years until he left to set up a practice in

NOSTRADAMUS 201218Toulouse.He soon moved to Agen, married into a wealthy family and sired a boy and girl.However, in 1538 tragedy struck with such brutal intensity that the young doctor’sspiritual and mental serenity was forever changed. In that year, the plague returnedto Agen carrying off his young family. Fell stars it seems had him summoned toToulouse to face the Inquisition for making chance remarks about an inept bronzecaster’s statue of the Virgin Mary that he joked looked more like the bronze cast ofa demon. Nostradamus packed up his mule with a few belongings and stole awayfrom Agen into the night, never setting foot in Toulouse with its waiting Justices ofthe Church. He disappeared for ten years, a non-entity for rack or burning stake.Fragments of data like the withered parchment and script of surviving bits ofthe dead sea scrolls parse out a possible tale of a grieving doctor wandering throughSouthern Europe and Italy in a self-imposed exile of occult as well as botanical andculinary discovery.Sharp shock of tragedy struck the match it is believed of prophetic “sight.” Itbegan to manifest.A more objective account of Nostradamus life resumes upon his return toProvence in 1544, where he resurfaced back into the mainstream of life at the timeof one of the century’s worst bouts of pestilence. He almost single-handedly curedthe city of Aix and Salon from plague and controlled the threat of an epidemic ofwhooping cough in Lyon. It is in the printing center of Lyon that he made his firstpublishing contact that would lead to his string of best selling books; however, it isin Salon Provence that he found a second life and started a new family. He marrieda rich widow – her deceased husband perhaps was one of his patients he couldn’tsave. They combined their treasures for he himself was also made wealthy by therewards of money for his efforts fighting the plague. They set up house in Salon,building a third floor upon it that stands even to this day. It included a secret studyand a rooftop observatory for Nostradamus to muse on the stars’ play with thecycles of time.At this time he also plunged wholeheartedly into the occult. In 1550, he beganpublishing annual Almanacs with a few cautious stabs at prediction. They becamebestsellers. He next embarked in 1554 on an ambitious project called Les Propheties(The Prophecies). It is a future history of the world, told in enigmatic quatrains,incorporating a polyglot smattering of French, Latin, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, andGreek. His carefully crafted cryptic and nebulous writing style has caught interpretersof prophecy in his cleverly set intellectual traps, generation after generation to this

NOSTRADAMUS 201219day, establishing him as the most famous and controversial prophet of the last fourand a half centuries.From 1554 to 1558, Nostradamus composed and published serializations of hisplanned tome of ten volumes, or Centuries, consisting of a planned and indexed setof 100 quatrain (four-line) poetically rhyming verses, for a total of 1,000 verses ofprophecy. A prose prophecy narrative, a Preface dedicated to his newborn son César,introduced the initial publication in May 1555 of three of the planned Centuries.In the process of serialization, Nostradamus added a second preface for the finalinstallment including Centuries 8 through 10 – a long and rambling prophetic prosenarrative known as the Epistle dedicated to Henry II of France, his contemporarymonarch who he had met in 1555 under unusual circumstances.In July 1555, a few months after the opening installment of Les Prophetiescame out, in which Nostradamus predicted the death in a jousting accident of KingHenry II of France; he was summoned to Paris to explain his prophecy in a royalaudience, which took place in August. He became a life-long friend and occult advisorof Queen Catherine de’ Medici.Henry II fulfilled that prophecy in 1559 dying in a jousting accident as foreseenin the prophecy indexed (Century) 1 Q (Quatrain) 35 making the seer who had yearsbefore returned to Salon the talk of the courts of Europe.1 Q35Le lyon ieune le vieux ƒurmontera,En champ bellique par ƒingulier duelle:Dans caige d’or les yeux luy creuera,Deux claƒƒes vne, puis mourir, mort cruelle.The young lion will overcome the older oneOn the field of combat in single battle:He will pierce his eyes through a golden cageTwo wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.Following Century 1, quatrain 35 to the letter:The young lion will overcome the older one.Both men held shields embossed with lions. Montgomery was six years

NOSTRADAMUS 201220younger than Henry, who was 41.On the field of combat in single battle.A tournament is a field of ritual single combat.He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage.During the final bout, Montgomery failed to drop his lance in time. Itshattered, sending a large splinter through the king’s gilded visor (goldencage).Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.Along with multiple minor punctures along the face and throat, are twomortal wounds. One splinter had pierced the eye socket blinding theking’s eye, another had impaled his temple; both have penetrated hisbrain (two-wounds made one). A bacterial inflammation (septicemia)spreading through Henry’s brain and cardiovascular system drained hislife away. He lingered for 10 agonizing days (then he dies a cruel death).On the night of his death, Parisian crowds gathered before the Church Justices,burning Nostradamus in effigy – hoping they would burn him in earnest. OnlyNostradamus’ friendship with Queen Catherine saved the prophet’s life.In 1564, while on a tour through the realm, Catherine (now the QueenRegent) and the adolescent King Charles IX visited the aging prophet of Salon.Before resuming their tour, Catherine had Charles IX honor Nostradamus with thetitle Counselor and Physician in Ordinary, with the privileges and salary this implied.Nostradamus reached the high point of his prophetic career with only a yearand eight months left to live. He would die at age 62 on 2 July 1566 (446 yearsbefore 2012). His last prediction concerned his own death. The apparent victim ofpulmonary edema, crippled by dropsy, hadn’t slept or gone to his bed for months,propping himself instead on a pallet-like bench. At daybreak, friends, family and hisscribe, Jean-Aymes de Chavigny, found his lifeless body half on the bed resting atlast with his swollen leg on the bench, just as he had written eight days before:

NOSTRADAMUS 201221On his return from the embassy, the King’s gift put in place. He will do nothingmore. He will be gone to God. Close relatives, friends, brothers by blood (will findhim) completely dead near the bed and the bench.Afterlife of the ProphetMany ask if Nostradamus was for real or are we who read him and try to divine hiscryptic work perpetuating some half-millennium-long joke?Certainly many of his 1,500-plus prophecies are obscure and open tointerpretation because Nostradamus used a cryptic and nebulous form of languageto convey them. For electing to use such a literary device, he will forever be castin the shadow of being a charlatan. He knew this would happen and said as muchin his writings. Sometimes a mystic will openly play the fool or play the occultistcharlatan to trick the idle mediocrities to browse, reject and move on. Thus thedeeper study is left to those who can look beyond their own shallow egoism to seedeeper hidden meanings. Conversely, there are those who will seek deeper meaningthat only feeds their need to fantasize. Where one kind of mediocrity brushes offNostradamus, another is drawn deeper into their own fantasy world. In both casesthe idiots are happy. They have found what they have already expected to find inNostradamus. To the rest of us is left a deeper illumination that doesn’t come cheapor easy.Though a majority of his prophecies act like fly paper trapping our buzzinginfatuations about tomorrow, there are hundreds of prophecies that do seem toindicate a foreknowledge of potential destinies, or rather, multiple futures we canaccess by our decisions individually and collectively chosen in the present.At present, Nostradamus has been embraced either has a target for derisionor avid popular interest on a global level never before seen since transition fromlife to his popular “afterlife” as every generation’s template for forecasting theirfuture. This is especially so because of the world’s other current collective propheticfixation: what is going to happen in the year believed to end time as we know itaccording to the ancient Maya Calendar.Did Nostradamus indeed forecast the same?What is in evidence from the following selection of Nostradamus prophecieswas that his childhood fascination with the great calendar of the heavens was no lesspassionate than that of the Maya of Mesoamerica. This stargazer in his turret atophis secret study on pleasant Mediterranean nights left us a clear record of openlyinscribed dates, years, and periods of time not cloaked in nebulous verse, otherwise

NOSTRADAMUS 201222open to any whimsy of interpretation. The following published evidence from hispen begs one to consider that if ever there were a man who could mark a date asimportant as 2012 seems, one would think Nostradamus was that prophet.Nostradamus Target Dating the FutureHere then, is a sample of his dated prophecies, chronologically presented, startingfrom the year 1559 to the present.Sometime in August 1558, Nostradamus wrote a pamphlet entitled LesSignifications de l’Eclipse qui sera le 16. Septembre 1559. It clearly indicates heexpected some great catastrophe would befall France beginning in June 1559. Theeffect would last all the way through 1560, with the potential to impact unfavorablycivil and religious discord a further two years. In short, Nostradamus’ pamphletwarned that by June 1559, and until 1563, France would suffer great doubt,enormous social and religious fracture, violence, conspiracies and great profanitiesagainst God committed by the “Jovialists” (his name for French Protestants knownas Huguenots). He adds, starting in June 1559, a shadow of great fear and doubtwould cover and darken the land and cloud over the reasoning of Christian monarchsof the true (Catholic) religion.What happened?At the end of June 1559, Henry II of France received a mortal wound in ajousting accident, dying ten days later, leaving his sickly and weak-willed teenageson the successor, Francois II. Without Henry on the throne, Catholic and Protestantfactions in court were ungovernable. The first of nine religious civil wars triggered bythe Massacre at Vassy in 1562 ended with a truce and uneasy peace in 1563!***Nostradamus wrote the pamphlet in the summer of 1558, yet he had publishedvisions of life in 1559 three years earlier, presenting us with his technique of hidinga date in his words in the following quatrain:3 Q55En l’an qu’vn œil en France regnera,La court ƒera à vn bien facheux trouble:Le grand de Bloys ƒon amy tuera,Le regne mis en mal & doubte double.

NOSTRADAMUS 201223In the year that France has a one-eyed king,The court will be in very great trouble.The great man from Blois will kill his friend,The kingdom put into difficulty and double doubt.Up to Henry’s reign, there had never been a one-eyed king sitting on the Frenchthrone, or worse, laid low in his bedchamber, dying in agony from a brain infected bya jousting stick splinter plunged through the severed retina nerve of a blinded eye.There were another 233 years remaining in the royal succession of French Valoisand Bourbon kings. The courtiers discussing and debating this verse in the Palaisde Tournelles while the king in his bedchamber was dying couldn’t know in 1559that France would never again see a one-eyed monarch. Nor could they imaginethat despite all tribulations to come for French courts in the next two-and-a-thirdcenturies, never would there be another as grievously divided as theirs by religiousdissention. It seems Nostradamus knew and set it down in print in 1555 four yearsbefore it happened in 1559, adding a fore-script of the karmic consequences. Anassassination perpetrated by Henry III, one of Henry II’s degenerate heirs, againstHenry, Duke de Guise in the Chateau Blois. This was the same place that Nostradamusin the summer of 1555 drew horoscopes for Queen Catherine’s little boys, seekingto understand their destiny as future kings of France.***The eldest boy became the subject of yet another quatrain anticipating his fate,widely discussed in the correspondences between foreign diplomats at French courtand their princes.10 Q39Premier fils veƒue malheureux mariage,Sans nuls enfans deux Iƒles en diƒcord,Auant dixhuict incompetant eage,De l’autre pres plus bas ƒera l’accord.

NOSTRADAMUS 201224The first son, a widow, an unfortunate marriage,Without any children. Two islands plunged into discord,Before eighteen years, still a minor,For the other one betrothal happens while even younger.The first son is the Dauphin (heir to the throne) François II. The widow is QueenCatherine de’ Medici. François II was a sickly figure approaching his 17th birthdaynot yet entering puberty. He was married to Mary Stewart (the future and tragic MaryQueen of Scots), herself only a tween at the time. She would be wife to François inan unfortunate and childless marriage. François II died just before his 17th birthday.He fulfilled many of the expectations of the prophecy further making Nostradamusthe talk of (and in some case the brunt of threats from) the courts of Europe.Other elements of this famous quatrain would continue to reveal themselves inthe following years. Mary Stuart, without any children, would return to Scotland andbecome Mary Queen of Scots. This would throw the two island kingdoms (alludingto England and Scotland) into discord over a power struggle between Mary and the“childless” Queen Elizabeth I of England. If the latter remained a virgin queen, shewould have to surrender the English throne to Mary.With François expired, the throne was left to the adolescent 11-year-old CharlesIX. He’s the even younger one mentioned in line 4, later betrothed to Elizabeth ofAustria at age 11. Three years earlier than Mary Stuart’s betrothal at age 14 toFrançois, whose testes never descended.***Sixteenth October 1565 is the date Nostradamus signed at the end of his dedicationletter to the finished Almanac for 1566. In that Almanac he may have signed off on hisdate with eternity as well. There’s a list of one-liner predictions for every day in theforthcoming year. The prediction set for 1 July 1566 was “strange transmigrations”i.e. death. Nostradamus missed his appointed demise date only by a few hours,dying a little over eight months after composing his prophecy in October just beforesunrise on 2 July 1566.***

NOSTRADAMUS 201225Nostradamus’ other dating technique would spell out years leaving out the firstnumber:6 Q2En l’an cinq cens octante plus & moins,On attendra le ƒiecle bien eƒtrange:En l’an ƒept cens, & trois cieux en teƒmoings.Que pluƒieurs regnes vn à cinq feront change.In the year [1]580 more or less,One will await a very strange century:In the year [1]703 the heavens bear witness thereof,That several kingdoms – one to five – will make a change.If one subscribes to the view that Nostradamus looked backwards to see forwards byregurgitating a safely distant event from the year 580 or 703 into the future, thinkagain. Debunkers of Nostradamus such as James Randi and Edgar Leroy remainedsilent. Probably for several good reasons – Nostradamus got the events of 1580 and1703 correct.The year 1580 launched the strange and long century of French history referredto in this quatrain with something sordid and weird. The Seventh War of Religion –a short and eccentric affair that was less a test between Catholics and Huguenots,than a battlefield for the romantic escapades of Queen Margot, the nymphomaniacand wife of the equally noted royal satyr, Henry de Navarre – began in that year.Nostradamus’ long century ends in 1703 with France now a mighty empire underthe authoritarian hand of Louis XIV, who in that year was busy fighting five kingsof Europe in the War of the Spanish Succession. One French Empire against five.There’s a further play of doubled-digit entendre. Louis XIV broke his agreementswith William III of England placing his grandson Philip Duke of Anjou on the Spanishthrone, becoming Philip V (five) becoming one French puppet king of Spain. Williamrenewed his Grand Alliance from the last war with the French. By 1703, Louis XIVwas attacked by several kingdoms, five to be exact: England, Austria, Holland,Germany and Portugal.***

NOSTRADAMUS 201226Now a prophecy said to date the year of the Great London Fire of 1666.2 Q51Le ƒang du iuƒte à Londres fera faulte,Bruƒlés par fouldres de vint trois les ƒix:La dame antique cherra de place haute,Des meƒme ƒecte pluƒieurs ƒeront occis.The blood of the just will be demanded at London,Burnt by lightning fire in twenty-three the sixes [66]:The ancient lady will fall from her high place,And many of the same sect will be killed.Many interpreters believe that twenty-three the sixes is an accurate though figurativeprediction of the year of the Great Fire of London – 1666. Twenty-three may be adate. If so, then he’s wrong. The fire lasted from Sunday 2 September burning itselfout by Wednesday the 5th. Yet Vint trois (23) could be an anagram number codefor three twenties = 60. The sixes are plural for 66. Nostradamus’ love for complexverbal and numerical puns can’t, however, be ruled out, and sixes might meanthe number of man and sin, “666.” The Catholic seer thought the fire was divineretribution for Londoners becoming Protestants.The homes of 100,000 of the city’s estimated half-million citizens wereconsumed after a fire started in Thomas Farynor’s bakery on Pudding Lane. Thequatrain supports the date with details of the fire itself and continues elaboratingNostradamus’ oft used great lady metaphor as a pun code for cathedrals utilizing hisname “Our Lady” (Nostredame). This time the ancient lady personifies the ornate,medieval St Paul’s Cathedral. The Church falling to Protestantism is symbolizedin a more graphic warning: the lead roof of St Paul’s will collapse from heat ontothe faithful who seek shelter within its stone walls from the firestorm devouringtheir wooden houses. A change in the easterly hot summer winds helped Londonfirefighters set controlled explosions with gunpowder kegs blasting down housesto build firebreaks. Perhaps Nostradamus in line 2 described these explosions asfouldres (lightning fire, from the old French foudoyer, which means: to strike down;or, severely; suddenly, stunningly; with a loud noise and a dazzling bright light.***

NOSTRADAMUS 201227Nostradamus records a full year and month in the next verse with little concern offailure and no camouflage of the nebulous.3 Q77Le tiers climat ƒous Aries comprins,L’an mil ƒept cens vingt & ƒept en Octobre:Le Roy de Perƒe par ceux d’Egypte prins:Conflit, mort, perte: à la croix grand opprobre.The third climate included under Aries,In the year 1727, in October:The Shah of Persia, captured by those of Egypt.Conflict, death, loss: great shame to the cross.Here we have an example of a correct month and year of a major peace treatyconcluded by Shah Ashraf and the Ottoman Sultan. The climate of Aries is war.Egypt is a synecdoche for the Turks and the Ottoman Empire, of which Egypt was aprovince at that time. Although the Shah of Persia wasn’t captured, many historiansagree that the peace arrangement was more advantageous to the Turks.The loss to Christendom reverberates to this day. Two great empires of Islamwere strengthened because of this peace. The Ottoman Empire survived until theearly 20th century. Persia (modern Iran) is now an emerging regional superpowerthat could become a chief player or a fossil fuel drug pusher, as it were, of modernChristendom’s oil addiction if it makes good its threat to close the Strait of Hormuzwhere 20 percent of the world’s oil exports flow.Stewart Robb on page 20 of Nostradamus and the End of Evils Begun, reportsthat he took this quatrain to a professor of mathematics at Columbia University tocalculate the odds against its fulfillment being “merely a lucky hit.” Robb takes theperiod of possible years to be those between 1555 using Nostradamus’ last datedprediction, 3797, as the end point, equaling 2,242 years; therefore, we have a 1-in-2,242 chance of getting the right year. Next, one has a 1-in-12 chance of getting theright month. The number of nations existing at any year during a period of 2,242years is variable. However, Robb tells us that even if only 15 nations existing in 1727there would be 105 ways of selecting two of them. I would add that in 1727 over 500Indian nations dwelled in North America alone. Add together all the Eurasian andAfrican kingdoms and you get a number in the thousands. You would have a one-

NOSTRADAMUS 201228in-the-tens-of-thousands chance to hit bingo by mentioning Persia, the OttomanEmpire or Egypt. You would get one-in-two chances for picking the victor: the Shahor the Sultan. Finally, one in two chances to correctly foresee the consequences, i.e.great shame for the Cross.Robb’s professor calculated that the chance of a random lucky strike on allcounts is one in 2,242 X 105 X 2 X 2 = one in 11,299,680 chances!***Nostradamus’ prophetic powers accomplished more than marking a year and evena month of an event often hundreds of years ahead. He frequently calculated thelength in months or years of wars, dictatorial tyrannies and peaceful periods ofhistory.10 Q89De brique en marbre ƒeront les murs reduits,Sept & cinquante annees pacifiques:Ioye aux humains renoué l’aqueduict,Santé, grands fruict ioye & temps melifique.The walls will change from brick to marble,Fifty-seven peaceful years:Joy to humans, the aqueduct renewed,Health, abundant fruit, mellifluous times.Louis XIV once said, “Since there must be war, it is better to wage it against myenemies than against my children.” Though he would fight wars throughout his longreign he kept his promise and France enjoyed domestic peace – a period of stabilitythat Nostradamus accurately predicted 100 years before in 1557.After the Battle of the Dunes in 1657, France didn’t have another war insideits borders for the next fifty-seven years of life remaining to Louis XIV. His reign ischaracterized by innovative building: the Palace of Versailles was constructed at hiscommand, and a network of canals (aqueducts), notably the Midi connecting theAtlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, was laid.***

NOSTRADAMUS 201229Sometimes Nostradamus hid the date of a vision in a quatrain’s verse index numbers.4 Q89Trente de Londres ƒecret coniureront,Contre leur Roy ƒur le pont entreprinƒe,Luy, ƒatalites la mort degouƒteront.Vn Roy eƒleu blonde, natif de Frize.Thirty of London will conspire secretly,Against their King, the enterprise on the sea,He, [and his] satellites will feel disgust for death.The fair King elected, native of Friesland.While Nostradamus lived, no Dutchman ever sat on the English throne, (nor was itever imagined) – let alone a Dutch prince specifically from Friesland. But the seersucceeds on all points in this daring quatrain numbered after the fourth month andthe year William of Orange became king of England: 4 Q89 is the fourth month[April] of [16]89!After the second wife of James II bore him a male heir, the Protestant BritishParliament united in rebellion against their fanatically Catholic king. A secretcorrespondence was passed over the channel to William of Orange through his wife,Princess Mary who, until the birth of the king’s son, had been next in line to inherit thethrone as one of James’ two fully-grown (and Protestant) daughters from an earliermarriage. A petition was sent secretly from parliament requesting her husband setsail for England with an army of liberation. William wrote back demanding that allthe conspirators who wished him to lead their coup d’état put it in writing. TwentynineLords signed (thirty of London). In response, William set sail with his fleet (theenterprise on the sea).The Duke of Marlborough (one of his few allies, or satellites) deserted Jamesand his court and brought the entire army over to William’s camp. James II did notwish to die in the same manner as his grandfather, Charles I (he...will feel disgustfor death), so he fled to France in exile.William of Orange was described as fair-skinned and blond in his childhood.His hair had turned a dusky brown by the time British parliament elected him kingin 1689.

NOSTRADAMUS 201230***Nostradamus would sometimes count the years separating important events:4 Q96La ƒœur aiƒnée de l’iƒle Britannique,Quinze ans deuant le frere aura naiƒƒance:Par ƒon promis moyennant verrifique,Succedera au regne de balance.The elder sister of the British Isles,Will be born fifteen years before her brother;Because his promise proves to be true,She will succeed to the kingdom of the balance.Britain’s eldest sister is a figurative description of the British Empire’s 13 Americancolonies. With the help (promise) of an alliance with France (her brother), Americawill defeat Britain and eventually become an even greater republican democracy asthe kingdom of the balance. The balance of the last line, with its possible allusion tothe scales of Justice, refers to democracy.Later, France would become America’s brother in republicanism. Nostradamusaccurately foresaw the creation of the First Republic of France would occur 15 yearsafter America asserted its liberty in 1776.***

NOSTRADAMUS 201231Nostradamus could even mark the distant year the French people would create anew calendar system because of it:Epistle to Henry IIEt ƒera le commencement comprenant ce de ce que durera & commençanticelle annee ƒera faicte plus grande perƒecution à l’egliƒe Chreƒtienne que n’aeƒté faicte en Affrique, & durera ceƒte icy iuƒques l’an mil ƒept cens nonantedeux que lon cuydera eƒtre vne renouation de ƒiecle.And then will be the commencement of what will long endureand beginning with this year will experience greater persecutionof the Christian Church than it had ever experienced in Africa andthis will last till the year 1792, which they will believe [marks] arenewal of time.Nostradamus in the Preface of his prophecies foresaw a future French king fallingfrom a “vulgar advent” or rebellion of his peasants. In the Epistle he returns to thetheme. There would be a persecution of the Catholic Church up to the year 1792.The rabble in that distant year would believe their barbarous actions heralded a newage.Fast-forward 234 years from 1555. The Church’s persecution ended in 1792,inasmuch as the priesthood was erased from French society for over a decade withCatholic properties confiscated and pastors cast homeless into the streets. Thegovernment of the French Revolution deposed Louis XVI on 21 September 1792and established the First Republic. To celebrate the beginning of a “Republican Era”the National Convention commissioned the creation of a new French RepublicanCalendar system, prolepically marking its epoch launch for 22 September 1792 –thought to be the first full day of liberty after the end of king and Roman CatholicChurch in the birth of a neo-pagan republican new age.***Nostradamus not only dated the French Revolution but what came after. The lengthNapoleon Bonaparte would rule as dictator over the French as their “Emperor” wasaccurately calculated.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012327 Q13De la cité marine & tributaire,La teƒte raze prendra la ƒatrapie:Chaƒƒer ƒordide qui puis ƒera contraire,Par quatorze ans tiendra la tyrannie.From the marine and tributary city,The crophead will take the seat of government:To chase the sordid one who will then be against him,For fourteen years he will hold his tyranny.Napoleon, the hero of the Battle of Toulon the marine and tributary city becomesFirst Consul of France in a coup in 1799. The hero cropped off his long locks toresemble his favorite ancient Roman dictator, Julius Caesar. Nostradamus dates theexact length of time Napoleon would hold power in this new image – fourteen years(from 9 November 1799 to 13 April 1814).The sordid one Napoleon must chase was his rival, General Moreau, who laterturned against Bonaparte and was exiled (chased out) when Napoleon becamea dictator. Moreau offered his services to the Allied Coalitions fighting to restoreBourbon rule to France and was killed by a lucky shot from a French cannonballat the Battle of Dresden on August 26-27, 1813. The index 7 Q13 might have justmissed the right month, August, for July 1813. The year 1813 just misses for theyear of Napoleon’s abdication, 1814, but his abdication occurred on 13 April 1814).***From dating the accidental death of Henry II of the House Valois in ritual combat,Nostradamus now turns to dating the assassination of the last heir of the royalhouse that supplanted the Valois, the Bourbon.3 Q96Chef de Foƒƒan aura gorge coupee,Par le ducteur du limier & leurier:La faict patré par ceux de mont Tarpee,Saturne en Leo 13. de Feurier.

NOSTRADAMUS 201233The chief of Fossano will have his throat cut,By the guide [with the leash]exercising bloodhounds and greyhounds.The deed is executed by those of the Tarpean Rock,Saturn in Leo, 13th of February.The town of Fossano is in Sardinia. It has the palace of Marie Thérèse of Savoy,grandmother of the Bourbon heir apparent, Duc du Berri. He spent his vacationsthere as Prince of Sardinia (Chief of Fossano).On the night of 13 February 1820, the duke left the Paris Opera early becausehis wife was ill. As he helped her into the waiting carriage Louvel, a republicanfanatic employed in the royal stables, stabbed the duke. Although the stables hadkennels for hunting and racing dogs, Louvel did not take care of the dogs. However,in his employment as a saddler he did make their leashes.Louvel didn’t cut de Berri’s throat. He stabbed him in the chest. The phrasethroat cut could be another example of Nostradamus’ poetic frenzies describingLouvel as a cutthroat.The Tarpean Rock symbolizes Louvel’s republicanism. It was a term oftenused by the great French revolutionary orator Marat in his impassioned speeches.He called for the French people to fling the Royalists off the Tarpean Rock to theirdeaths, just as the republicans of ancient Rome had done with their enemies.The planet Saturn was definitely not in Leo on the night of de Berri’sassassination, but Louvel did murder the duke outside the Paris Opera on the nightof 13 February 1820.***Nostradamus could describe the lengths of wars, the intervals in years between theAmerican and French Revolutions. Here he gets more precise, counting the intervalof a lull in the opening years of the Second World War, spanning the many nightsfrom September 1939 through May 1940. Then, he gives us the exact time it tookthe Germans to launch a final thrust against Paris during the Battle of France:

NOSTRADAMUS 2012345 Q81L’oiƒeau royal ƒur la cité ƒolaire,Sept moys deuant fera nocturne augure:Mur d’Orient cherra tonnerre eƒclaire,Sept iours aux portes les ennemis à l’heure.The royal bird over the city of the Sun [Paris],By night will prophesy warnings for seven months in advance:The Wall of the East will fall, thunder and lightning,In seven days the enemy directly at the gates.Oiƒeau royal translates into royal bird; in this case the Nazi German eagle symbol ofthe Luftwaffe, painted on their planes and worn on their pilots’ blue uniforms. Thewall is a medieval double entendre for “wall” of a castle and “frontier” of a country.Tonnerre eƒclaire is the thunder and lightning of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg, a German termHitler used to define his rapidly advancing armies of panzer tanks and motorizedinfantry as lightning war.A six-month lull in fighting after the fall of Poland ensued from December 1939through April 1940. During the lull, the Luftwaffe flew deep into French airspacedropping leaflets of Nostradamus’ quatrains containing the German PropagandaMinistry’s interpretations of an oncoming French defeat foreseen by their illustriouscountryman. According to Boswell one German plane few over Paris as early as 13November 1939, rendering Nostradamus’ prophecy of seven months applicable tothe German eagle being that “royal bird” of the Luftwaffe.The great eastern wall falling is the Maginot line, in which France sank itsfortunes, hopes, and delusions of safety from a German invasion. Hitler’s newbrand of lightning war, or blitzkrieg rendered the Maginot fortifications strategicallyirrelevant. His panzer corps skirted the Maginot Line and made lightning thruststhrough Flanders, sending amassed panzer tank and motorized infantry divisionsthrough the Ardennes in a surprise thunder stroke, splitting French from BritishExpeditionary forces. After the encircled BEF abandoned its heavy equipment on thebeaches of Dunkirk, Hitler’s Blitzkrieg turned southwest against the French. Panzersdirected in an overwhelming force of arms, artillery and air strikes punctured theFrench line advancing deep into the rear sectors. The slow-moving and generallynon-mechanized French armies were encircled.The final Blitzkrieg to Paris took only seven days!

NOSTRADAMUS 201235***Nostradamus in one short verse of prophecy could capture larger units of time. Hereis a sweeping chronicle of 290 years of history using seven milestones in Britishroyal succession, leading to the Second World War:3 Q57Sept fois changer verrez gent Britannique,Taintz en ƒang en deux cens nonante an:Franche non point par appuy Germanique,Aries doubt ƒon pole Baƒtarnan.Seven times you will see the British nation change,Dyed [or stained] in blood for two hundred ninety years.Not at all free from Germania’s influence,Aries doubts the protector of Poland.The rise and fall of the British Empire is foretold in four brief lines that trace sevenchanges in royal blood over 290 years:First: (1558-1603) Tudor Elizabeth I dies childless. The throne passes to JamesI of the House of Stewart (1603-1649).Second: English Civil War ousts Stewart King Charles I for dictatorship ofOliver Cromwell (1649-1658).Third: Restoration of House of Stewart, Charles II (1660-1685).Fourth: Out goes the Stewarts (James II); in comes the House of Orange(William III), (1689-1702).Fifth: the House of Stuart returns with Queen Anne (1702-1714).Sixth: George I and the House of Hanover replace the House of Stewart (1714-1727).Seventh: Line 4 foretells the advent of World War II over Poland. Hitler (bornunder the sign of Aries = God of War) ignored England’s threat to go to war if theNazis invaded Poland (1933-1945). Aries (war) did rightly doubt the protector ofPoland (the British Empire) would attack him from the west while he invaded Polandto the east.The Second World War changed the British Empire. Though they defeated

NOSTRADAMUS 201236Nazi Germany the British could no longer sustain it and began the painful processof relinquishing most of their colonies. Quatrain “57” might imply (19)57. By thatyear the British Empire for all intents and purposes was undergoing a free fall ofdecolonization.***Nostradamus had an uncanny knack for predicting the year and often the month ofthe fall of empires.5 Q45Le grand Empire ƒera toƒt deƒolé,Et tranƒlaté pres d’arduenne ƒilue…The great Empire will soon be desolatedAnd transferred near the forest of the Ardennes…This is actually a tale of two empires falling. First we have an unobscured referenceto the forest of the Ardennes as the pivotal attack point of Hitler’s invasion of Francein 1940. The great Empire and colonies of the French would fall after a surpriseattack that came out of the Ardennes at Sedan.Four years later, at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge – Hitler’s last gambleto repeat a surprise invasion through the Ardennes to cut US and British forces inhalf – Hitler declared, “I prophesy that a great empire will be destroyed.”He was right, but this time not the other man’s empire. Next to fall is the NaziEmpire when a last desperate German counter-offensive thrust through the Ardennesbackfires in the Battle of the Bulge. The quatrain is appropriately numbered “45”for the year the battle ended, and dates the Nazi empire’s total annihilation downto the month of May 1945. Century 5 stands for the fifth month. Quatrain 45 standsfor (19)45.***

NOSTRADAMUS 201237Soviet Premier MikhailGorbachev with signatureblood birthmark.Source: www.gorby.ru.Other empires get their dated ending closer to our times:2 Q89Vn iour ƒeront demis les deux grands maiƒtres,Leur grand pouuoir ƒe verra augmenté:La terre neufue ƒera en ƒes hauts eƒtres,Au ƒanguinaire le nombre racomptéOne day the two great leaders will become friends,Their great power will be seen to increase:The new land [America] will be at the height of its power,To the bloody one, the number is reported.The word used by Nostradamus for friend in the original text of line 1 is demis.This can stand for d’amis or friends, or for the Latin demis being halved, split.The great leaders are American President George H.W. Bush and Soviet PremierMikhail Gorbachev. America is the “new land” becoming the sole superpower afterthe Cold War had ended. The bloody one is Gorbachev, figuratively described afterhis prominent blood-colored birthmark across his balding forehead. The numberreported counts the nuclear Russian and American warheads disarmed and destroyed

NOSTRADAMUS 201238by START (the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). The quatrain indexing is a code for2 [February] [19]89, the month Soviet forces pulled out of Afghanistan, precipitatingthe fall of the Soviet Union. In December 1989, President Bush and Soviet PremierGorbachev declared the Cold War officially over. America the victor became the soleworld superpower.***Nostradamus next anticipated the coming of a new millennium.10 Q74An reuolu du grand nombre ƒeptieƒme,Apparoiƒtra au temps ieux d’Hecatombe:Non eƒloigné du grand eage millieƒme,Que les entrés ƒortiront de leur tombe.The year the great seventh number is accomplished,Appearing at the time of the games of slaughter:Not far from the age of the great millennium [2000],When the dead will come out of their graves.The popular idea of computer game warfare started with the Persian Gulf War of1991, not far in time from the year 2000. US pilots talked about airstrikes as if theywere plays in an American football PlayStation game in a quatrain set for a futuretime when people treat the ultimate human tragedy of war with new lows of banality.The seventh number might be the seventh “month” – sept mois or September – asit originally once was in the classical Roman calendar before Emperors Julius Caesarand Augustus added the months of July and August. Sept mois famously appearsin 10 Q72 masking a date reversed in the mentioned date that I believe marks theterrorist attack on New York City on September 11, 2001.10 Q72L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf ƒept mois,Du ciel viendra vn grand Roy d’effrayeur.Reƒuƒciter le grand Roy d’Angolmois.Auant apres Mars regner par bon heur.

NOSTRADAMUS 201239In the year 1999 and seventh month,Out of the sky will come the great King of terror.He will re-animate the King of the Mongols.Before and after Mars rules happily.Al-Qaeda did not drive jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in NewYork in September 1999. Still, one important key to unlocking Nostradamus’ crypticverses is an understanding of his Renaissance French passion for classical wordplays.The Roman calendar “seventh month” turned in modern times into the “ninth”month. This implies to my mind that “1999” may hide a year in code if you turn thethree 9s into three 1s and the 1 into a 9. Thus you get 9.11.1 September month:11 September 2001.The Chinese at the turn of the millennium emerged in what soon became anew “economic” empire, exerting an influence on the world not seen since the lastgreat Sino-Islamic empire of Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan. (Again, a classicalRenaissance poetic reference to China. It would be ruled by a Mongol king.)The final line could be a play on the higher and lower astrological potentialsof Mars, represented as war in its gross potential or the “Magus” priest in its higher,Hermetic potentials, the spiritual understanding that “as above, so below” all issacred Existence. The Magus was a Zoroastrian “Persian” priest so the classicalallusion here is to a priest running modern Persia, the Supreme Ayatullah of Iran.If you use the laws of Nostradamian anagramming and turn the “g” upside downto make a “b”, you get the code name Nostradamus gave for the final of threeantichrists he foresaw: Mabus out of Magus. There are a number of modern terroristsand potentates from the Middle East who see their name spelled out in the decodingof Mabus, one of these inspired the attack on 9-11-1 September month: Usamabin Laden. The correct phonetic spelling of “Osama” bin Laden in Latin letters is“Usama”. (Following the anagram law, scramble Usama and make it maaus, thenreplace the redundant “a” in Maaus with the missing “b” and you get Mabus.)Many Nostradamus quatrains are stirred out of sequence on purpose, almostas if they were on separate slips of paper and thrown on the ground to be collectedagain. Often the random scattering of quatrains would have parts of a larger prophecyfall closer together. Thus 10 Q74 could be a continuation of the famous 10 Q72. Hereit is again:

NOSTRADAMUS 20124010 Q74An reuolu du grand nombre ƒeptieƒme,Apparoiƒtra au temps ieux d’Hecatombe:Non eƒloigné du grand eage millieƒme,Que les entrés ƒortiront de leur tombe.The year the great seventh number is accomplished,Appearing at the time of the games of Slaughter:Not far from the age of the great millennium [2000],When the dead will come out of their graves.The seventh number is “September” of 9.11.01. Slaughter has become a game inour times. We live in a new century where men in rooms on the other side of theworld literally kill people using satellite linkups to armed drones firing missiles atpresumed terrorists in Afghanistan. War has never been more like a robotic “game.”September 11 is nine months and 11 days past the end of the year 2000 – not farat all from the great Millennium that it appears even Nostradamus knew more aboutmath than we moderns, understanding the new millennium didn’t begin in the year2000 but on 1 January 2001.The final line has a Judgment Day, end time, overtone, but an understandingthat history will have entered its great final reckoning after 1 January 2001 mightnot be the only meaning hidden in its layers. Something more mundane may be alsoimplied if equally tragic. The dead that come out of their graves are the remains ofthousands of people killed and cremated in the smoldering cauldron of debris fromthe Two Towers falling.***We are going to see Nostradamus come back to this important dating theme playingwith 1999 and 2001 several times. The man who could foretell time was obsessedwith these years.Accurately dating events and counting periods of time centuries hence is a mostrare prophetic gift. Nostradamus as we’ve seen already was an accomplished masterat it. These few examples introduce someone quite capable of marking the time,the date, the month and period of transformations coming beyond the millennium.It would seem likely, more than likely, that Nostradamus would not, could not, miss

NOSTRADAMUS 201241the most accurate shifting date of great ages. Somewhere in his cryptic versesthere must therefore be a way to conjure the year 2012; perhaps even manifest themonth and the day the Maya timed their clock to ring in a new age.

NOSTRADAMUS 201242CHAPTER 2Nostradamus Practiced Mayan Magic?Carlos Barrios.Nostradamus taken back to the “Barrios”The popularized notion that Nostradamus had foreseen the Maya’s year 2012 ismostly sourced from outside the modern Mayan culture; yet, it has one significantproponent within it. He’s Carlos Barrios, a native Maya born on El Altiplano,Guatemala, claiming to have a bloodline stemming from one of the most ancient andsacred Mayan priestly lineages. Barrios is a recognized and respected anthropologistand authority on Mayan history, culture and astrology – and one of the few nativeMaya to support an expanded, New Age-ish, view shared by the outside world about2012 prophecy. Starting at the age of 19 he had studied for a quarter century underthe tutelage of Mayan elders, who would award him with the title Mayan Ajq’ij –a shaman and Mayan priest. He has since become a member of the GuatemalanMayan Elders Council and author of the Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets ofthe Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012 (HarperCollins Publishers, New York,2009).In Chapter 18 of that book, entitled Nostradamus and the Mayan Prophecies,Barrios shares a story from his days as a student of the elders. These claimedthat a certain adventurer and physician named Ulrico de Maguncia (Ulrich vonMainz) returned to Europe from the Spanish conquests of the Aztec and Mayancivilizations with Mayan astrological and divinatory secrets. Moreover, he impartedthose secrets to none other than Michel de Nostradamus. So claimed Mayan Elder,

NOSTRADAMUS 201243Don Ramon Carbala, who told Barrios this, after his initiation in the fire ritual at theTikal ceremonial center.Musing together at the seven-jeweled star cluster of the Pleiades appearingafter sunset, sitting on the grass of Tikal Plaza, Don Ramon had suddenly surprisedBarrios, launching into the story of Ulrico de Maguncia’s exploits and discoveriesamong the Maya. A physician to the Spanish Conquistadors, he had displeased hiscommanders by treating the injured Spanish and wounded native warriors afterbattles. De Maguncia defied them declaring he would follow the Hippocratic oathhe swore as a doctor and tend to all people, even if the Spanish brass believe thenatives were subhumans. Moreover, if his captains didn’t like it, he would return toEurope and since he was their only doctor, they would be left to their own ill luckinadequately tending to wounds and illness.The Conquistadors pressed on into the jungles of the Yucatán on a march tothe Maya stronghold of Chichén Itzá. It was there that De Maguncia’s reputation forequally healing Maya and Spaniard alike preceded him. The priests of Chichén Itzáinvited him to exchange knowledge. De Maguncia soon after followed them into theforests, away from the escalating guerilla warfare with the Spanish invaders. He didnot emerge again until a thin and longhaired white man dressed in a white Mayantunic appeared in the city of Merida, Mexico, 14 years later. Presumed dead, the manhad come back to European settlements apparently now a master of Maya sciencesof astronomy, astrology and medicine. He asked the civil and religious authorities ofMerida for funds and permission to return to Europe.Don Ramon relates, “When the plague hit Europe, the Mayan elders wereafraid that it would make its way to the Americas and cause even more deaths here.They told de Maguncia how to control the problem and asked him to go back.”He disembarked in France where he had once studied to become a priest. DonRamon contends that he abandoned his vows the day he was ordained and startedpracticing medicine.What Don Ramon told Barrios next is so eye opening I will quote Barriosdirectly:Nostradamus was one of the first of the alchemists, doctors, and sorcererswhom de Maguncia recruited. To get rid of the scourge, he instructedthem to boil the water, burn the deceased’s clothing, and put calcium inthe graves and on the walls of the houses.Once the plague was under control, seven people came to study

NOSTRADAMUS 201244what de Maguncia had been taught by the Mayan elders. Nostradamusbecame his closest disciple and learned to divine using the cauldron.The Mayan technique, unlike the European, used powdered quartzand mercury to obtain more clarity in the images of the past, present,and future. Nostradamus also studied Mayan astrology and projectiontechniques. Many of the quatrains in his centuries can only be understoodif you are familiar with Mayan astrology, and Mayan experts are stillmaking projections about Nostradamus’ centuries [Les Propheties]. Allagree that December 21, 2012, is not the end of the world but a changein the state of humanity.Ulrico de Maguncia and Nostradamus formed a secret society inwhich they taught ancient alchemy, astrology, and magic techniquesbrought from Egypt, India, Greece, and the Mayan world. Nostradamuswas put in charge of this group when de Maguncia returned to theAmericas.To be fair, the story Don Ramon told, related by Carlos Barrios ten years after heheard it, caught the Mayan anthropologist completely by surprise as it did someonelike myself who has been a scholar of Nostradamus’ life for over 30 years. It is indeedthe first time I’ve ever heard of the connection. Understandably, Barrios trusts hismaster and had asked him for permission to share this story in his 2009 book,from where I’ve gleaned this revelatory material about Nostradamus’ purportedconnection. Don Ramon in 2009 shared more details to Barrios that when the timewas right would be divulged, hinting that the secret society Ulrico de Magunciaestablished with Nostradamus interconnecting Maya and western Occult wisdom stillexists, known as “The Brotherhood” that Barrios was told, “Has maintained contactwith the Mayan clans and tribes.”Remarkable Men with a Meeting?Now then. What documented facts beyond what a Maya shaman relates, eithersupports or refutes Don Ramon’s story?Here is what I’ve uncovered. Ulrico de Maguncia – aka Ulrich von Mainz orde Mayence – was born in 1486, died (or disappeared) in 1558. The only solidlyobjective evidence that he existed is a book he penned and published in 1556 entitledthe Arbor Mirabilis, also known as the Bible of the Year 2000. It is a book of endtime prophecy, indicating the end of the world would take place in the year 2500.

NOSTRADAMUS 201245The Roman Inquisition except for two copies burned all three hundred copies of thisrhymed book of prophetic verse. One known surviving copy remains in a museumin Dusseldorf, Germany.His magnum opus, purportedly preparing humanity for its final stage ofexistence before the end, had survived the Inquisition and time. Yet historiansstruggle with separating fact from fiction concerning near legendary claims in thebook that can’t be proven or disproven. These include the stories pieced together byUlrich of Mainz’s modern French biographer, Michel de Roisin, who published Ulrichde Mayence (1486-1558), La bible de l’an 2000: Le maitre de Nostradamus (LesCarrefours de l’etrange) for Du Rocher in 1982, the publisher that also translated anumber of my works into the French market in the 1990s.It is quite a tall tale. A defrocked priest and a secret student of alchemybecomes a physician to the Spanish Conquistadors, a companion to HernandoCortez during his conquest of the Aztecs then hob knobbed and studied with Mayanshamans learning their secrets, then ventured north to meet Native Americans inNorth America where he dug a gold mine and struck it rich. He comes back toEurope in 1526.Roisin’s book tries to makehistory arrange a meeting withNostradamus and Ulrico deMaguncia.Back in Europe, he cures people of the plaguespreading across southern France, meets the youngNostradamus who becomes a disciple. In 1532, Ulrichforms his own mystical-political religion, the Ekklesiaof Kataugues. He embarks on a Spanish fleet sailingfrom Cadiz, Spain on a seven-year exploration of India,Tibet and the Far East (1540–1547). He ventures intothe Himalayas and meets the Third Dalai Lama, SodnamDschamtso on 4 January 1545. Returns to Europe,writes his Bible in the Year 2000, consolidates hisCult of Ekklesia and on 7 April 1558 he either dies ormysteriously disappears. The association between Ulricode Maguncia and Nostradamus depends on how onedeciphers a talisman purportedly shared by both men.I’ve seen nothing in the writings and prophecies ofNostradamus that would corroborate Michel de Roisin’scontentions. I do have a strong suspicion that Don Ramonmay have heard or even perhaps read the Spanish edition of the de Roisin book orhad formulated some of his story about “Ulrico” in Maya lands from associates who

NOSTRADAMUS 201246had read it as early as 1982. Carlos Barrios was told the story in the year 2000 andpublished the Don Ramon version in 2009.What is unquestioned fact is that Nostradamus’ use of the cuve (magicalcauldron) isn’t a Mayan idea alone. Historical data from Old World Renaissancesources indicate it was derived from Greek and classical sources. Also, Don Ramon’s“Mayan” knowledge about burning the deceased’s clothing, and putting calcium inthe graves and on the walls of the houses was common Western medical practice.His reference to boiling water though is interesting because it implies Nostradamusmay have then applied this technique in his battles with the plague; however, thatremedy never appears in his copious medical writings. What he did believe in wascollecting fresh spring water for curing the sick. That too isn’t so novel an ideabecause even ancient founders of medicine, Galen of the Roman Empire and evenearlier, Hippocrates of Ancient Greece, did the same, though the practice seemedmuch neglected by the hygienically challenged, average Renaissance physicianmaking Nostradamus seem “progressive”.Why wouldn’t boiling water be in Nostradamus’ medical records? The ChurchInquisitors wouldn’t have burned him for that novel idea as long as he kept thesource, if it were native pagans from Mexico, mum. Nostradamus gives absolutelyno record of ever meeting Ulrich of Mainz in travelogues, either.The times Nostradamus might have met his future occult master are alsodifficult to pair up. After the relatively swift Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empirein Central Mexico (1519-1521), campaigns to conquer the Maya who met them inambushes in the jungle choked Yucatán Peninsula or resisted them in the hilly rainforest bastions of modern day Guatemala, took many decades. The Spanish weremassacred and beaten back in a first attempt in 1527-1528. Unfortunately, that putsMichel de Roisin collective tales of Ulrich’s return from initiation by Mayan priestsin a chronological bind, having him return to Europe “before” he could have met asingle priest, let alone spend 14 years learning from them as Don Ramon tells it.If Ulrich de Mainz had gained access to Mayan elders, he had to have missedthe first Spanish expedition into Maya lands, which was massacred. His contactwith the Maya must have happened during the second Spanish expedition led byFrancisco de Montejo from 1531 to its complete expulsion from the Yucatán by theMaya in 1535. The Spanish occupied Chichén Itzá sometime between 1532-1533.If Don Ramon’s story is correct, Ulrich should have met the Maya and gone offinto the jungles with them for his 14-year tutelage. That has him emerging out ofthe jungle with long hair and dressed like a Mayan priest in 1547, a year after the

NOSTRADAMUS 201247Yucatán was conquered. Therefore, if Don Ramon is correct, Ulrich could not havereturned to Europe in 1526, nor could he have met and initiated Nostradamus as hisdisciple circa 1530 and establish his occult cult in 1532.The final conquest of Mayan Yucatán regions took six years – 1540 to 1546.The Itza of Petén in Guatemala resisted into the latter half of the 1600s. TheSpanish were not too interested in preserving any Mayan texts but guided by theirpriests systematically hunted such treasures down and burned them. A fallen priestpreserving that knowledge would have been a target for the Inquisition. Don Ramon’sstory skips the tale of gold mines and riches and has Ulrich cash strapped in Meridaaround 1547, asking for passage home from the very kind of Spaniard warriors andMaya scripture burning papists that would not take too kindly to a white man comingout of the jungles gone native shaman. Nevertheless, he might have convincedthem to give him money and safe passage to Europe. Given the slow pace of travel,Ulrich might return to Europe as late at 1548 or 1549.Ulrich would have still been hob knobbing with the Maya shamans whenNostradamus gained fame between the years 1546-47 for fighting a serious wave ofbubonic plague besetting Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence and Salon de Crau (modern daySalon-en-Provence), then up to Lyon to administer healing to a plague of WhoopingCough. Nostradamus was no longer a young up-and-coming doctor as the masterdisciplestory requires, being, for the average life expectancy of the times, in latemiddle age at 44.It’s possible Ulrich of Mainz could have rushed back to France in time to crosspaths with him in 1547. The more likely year they might have met was 1548. Thatgives us another chronologically challenging problem. Nostradamus wasn’t evenin France but finishing his final and protracted tour of Italy, visiting Turin, Genoa,Savona, Venice and Rome. He reported in his own hand that he stayed in Florence forseveral months. It is where he most likely completed his occult studies or developedany ties to secret societies or mentors. Florence was perhaps his main outlet forgathering magical knowledge, books and occult equipment intended to crowd thesecret study where he planned to begin to build once returning home to Salon.From 1548 onwards, Nostradamus rarely ventured beyond Salon. He remainedin semi-retirement as a physician, ran a lucrative cosmetics cottage industry. Whatconcentration and energy remained was put to work creating a family that eventuallynumbered six children with his young and second wife Anne and also applied tocrystalize his custom system of magic to conjure his prophetic almanacs and laterhis magnum opus history of the future Les Propheties.

NOSTRADAMUS 201248That leaves us a window of ten years (1548 to Ulrich’s death-cum-disappearancein 1558) when meeting was possible. It would put Nostradamus chiefly at home inSalon during his most fruitful and sedentary years as a best selling author producingmost of the almanacs, his famous history of the future, travelogues and recipebooks. In short, the man had already passed through the tender stages of youth,the time of disciplehood. He was engrossed in the final creatively fruitful decade ofhis life. He was already well formed in his prophetic vision and occult understandinglong before Ulrich of Mainz would have possibly stepped through his ground floordoor.What physical state would this mystery master be in if he had stepped throughthat door?Ulrich was probably getting too old to travel from Germany to France. If hewas born in 1486, he would have been 62 on return to Europe and I imagine busysolidifying his cult and writing his own magnum opus Arbor Mirabilis (Bible of theYear 2000) as soon as he returned so that it could be published in 1556. Two yearslater, Mainz is most likely dead in 1558 at what was for the time the very advancedage of 72.Nostradamus in his writings consistently explains his astrological calculationswere based on ancient Hebrew astrological sciences. It is possible that Barrios andhis mentors have been influenced by the popularized idea that Nostradamus usedcauldron gazing or water gazing as his chief discipline. We certainly see that ideadug in as tight as a tick in TV documentaries, no matter how many decades I’vetried to dissuade that idea on documentaries, in which I appeared as a guest andhistorical consultant. There are numerous insertions of passages in his writingstaken verbatim from the Latin translated sources proving Nostradamus based hismagic on Mediterranean classical and Middle Eastern ancient magic and not fromthe Mesoamericans. His chief discipline was conjuring astral emissaries from higherplanes of existence as proscribed by the 2nd-century Neo-Platonist, Iamblicus (c.245–c. 325), from his book De Mysteriis Aegyptorium translated from ancient Greekinto Latin by Marsilio Ficino (c. 1484). Nostradamus lifts entire passages verbatimfrom the Ficino edition.The only boiling cauldron technique Nostradamus was known to use wasbased on Hellenistic cults of Apollo at Delphi and especially that of the Branchidae.He boiled water not to sterilize it, but rather to drop sulfuric “devil’s turd” rocks andother noisome herbs to replicate the venting fumes required to establish a columnof volcanic gases that the Delphic Oracle used to get high so as to make connections

NOSTRADAMUS 201249with a God (or being from a higher plane of existence) for making prophecies.Nostradamus’ magical connections are not with the New World of the Maya,but the old world of the Classical Mediterranean traditions of magic and the occult.

NOSTRADAMUS 201250CHAPTER 3Land of the Lost Book of NostradamusOn Sunday, 28 October 2007, History Channel launched its campaign to pin the taleof 2012 Mayan Prophecy on Nostradamus in a two-hour romp with great productionquality, whiz-bang special effects. The documentary was called The Lost Book ofNostradamus. It proposed that a handwritten book of watercolor illustrations authoredby Nostradamus was discovered in a public Library in Rome in the mid 1990s. Eversince it aired this book has been the most important bridge to any Twenty-Twelvertome or TV theory proffered, proving Nostradamus’ direct connection to the greatage-changing prophetic pyrotechnics anticipated on 21 December 2012. Prove orrefute this book’s evidence and the tale either sticks to Nostradamus’ presagingpetard hard or liberates a real prophet from the “tale” of a donkey fantasy.Lost Dog-Eared Prophecy Book Found?Librarians discovered the book in question in 1994 deep in the archives of the ItalianNational Library in Rome. Its full title is Vaticinia Michaelis Nostradami de Futuri ChristiVicarii ad Cesarem Filium D. I. A. Interprete (The Prophecies of Michel Nostradamuson the Future Vicars of Christ to César his son), subtitled: as expounded by LordAbbot Joachim). This Vaticinia Nostradami (The Prophecies of Nostradamus) is acollection of eighty watercolor images compiled as an illustrated codex. There’s apostscript written by Brother Cinus Beroaldus of the Carthusian librarians at Corati,dated 6 September 1629, recording that Brother Beroaldus had presented thebook to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini. Added on was yet another note declaring theFrench seer Nostradamus painted the images and that his son César de Nostredamehad sent it as a gift. Given what the note implies, César apparently had charged

NOSTRADAMUS 201251either an unknown emissary to make the trip from the South of France to give themanuscript to Brother Beroaldus in Rome; or, the monk had himself delivered thegift to Cardinal Barberini. This by the way is the same Barberini who became PopeUrban VIII (1623-1644) and attained notorious fame for placing astronomer GalileoGalilei (1564-1642) under house arrest, forcing him to recant his theories, in partproven by invention of the telescope, that God and the Holy Church dogma hadsomehow got the fundamental celestial architecture of “His” universe completelywrong. The Earth was definitely NOT in the center of a solar system.God can’t be wrong so Galileo upon threat of torture recanted his finding thatthe Earth moves around the Sun, making his famous though most likely apocryphalstatement under his breath, Eppur si muove (And yet it moves).Nostradamus had died in 1566 when César, his eldest son out of six siblingswas only 12. The manuscript apparently remained his property for 63 years when atage 75 he gave it away to Rome just one year before he died of plague in St. Rémy,Provence. He had no son to hand down the manuscript, as he had died childless. Aletter dating from the year before revealed César under some financial difficulty ashe had asked a certain d’Hozier with connections with King Louis XIII to recommendfor him a modest royal pension.The Vaticinia Nostradami isn’t a printed book. The codex is in long hand. Itspredominant feature is a set of esoteric pen and ink illustrations, thought to besymbolic works of prophecy about the future of the Catholic Church during the endtimes – our times it seems. Though the captions are definitely not in the hand ofNostradamus it would seem from other evidence that he had attempted to add hisinterpretation to a much earlier work of end time papal prophecy from “1343” inspiredby the visions of Joachim de Fiore (c. 1135 - 1202). De Fiore was a Cistercian monkand hermit who lived in Calabria, Italy. He was the author of unorthodox predictionsthat do indeed climax in a radical change of understanding about God’s relationshipwith humanity and his creation around the time of the year 2000 and 2012. In mybook examining de Fiore and the papal prophecies of St. Malachy, I wrote that:One of his more original interpretations of the future of the CatholicChurch and Christianity organizes the historical evolution of the faith intoa “Trinity” of epochs. The first epoch is dominated by the Old Testamentand is known as the Age of the Father: a time of obedience and fear,slavery and tradition. The first coming of Jesus Christ marked the Ageof the Son: an epoch of faith, symbolism, youthfulness and liberty.

NOSTRADAMUS 201252According to some Joachite interpretations the third and final Age ofthe Holy Spirit, which will blossom after a brief and violent apocalypticperiod, is at hand sometime shortly after the year 2000.The Last Pope (Element Books, 1998)Though de Fiore managed to record his heretical views on the future without beingburned at the stake, his book Vaticini del Vangelo (Prophecies of the Eternal Gospels)became the basis for a Catholic end time movement that believed the times of theantichrist and the final days were close at hand. De Fiore had predicted doomsdayhappening sometime before 1260. Prompted by his writings, many interpretedthe horsemen hordes of the Mongols threatening to stampede from the East intoChristendom were the first vanguard of the 200 million horsemen foreseen inRevelation 9:16. As happened to Nostradamus centuries later, others penned worksattributed to or inspired by De Fiore. One such book was Franciscan Brother Gerarddi Borgo’s Eternal Gospel viewed scandalous and anti-Papist by the Inquisition underPope Alexander IV (1254-1261). The Eternal Gospel was based on Joachim’s LiberConcordie novi ac veteris Testamenti and was burned with di Borgo condemned tolife in prison for heresy.When doomsday didn’t take place in 1260, interest in de Fiore’s visionsplummeted but didn’t completely vanish. Whenever there was a schism or disputedelection of the pope in Rome, Catholic prophecy watchers began reading their copiesof Joachim de Fiore or later knock offs. Around the time de Fiore’s works are citedfrom “1343” as a source of the Vaticinia Nostradami, a contemporary Catholicreformer, John Wycliff (c. 1330 - 1384), in The Last Age of the Church, was boldenough to use quotes from Joachim de Fiore (or pseudo-Joachite sources) to supporthis indictments against Pope Urban VI’s Church as being that of the Antichrist.Nostradamus certainly shares his own radical Catholic apocalyptic visions inhis confirmed authentic and published prophecies, including his belief in “three”Antichrists cloaked in code names, such as PAU, NAY, LORON (Napaulon Roy, or,Napoleon King), Hister (Hitler) and the third, intended to be our contemporary,code named Mabus. Nostradamus and de Fiore also shared a tradition of applyingsymbolic language, as I elaborated in 1998, that at least circumstantially connectsthe two:Joachim de Fiore, like another controversial Catholic seer three centuries

NOSTRADAMUS 201253later, Michel Nostradamus, may have protected the body of his propheticworks for future generations by obscuring a vision of a new religiousrevolution to supplant the Catholic faith. It is better to write a politicallycorrect and general statement that during the third epoch of the HolySpirit a ‘special understanding of the existing Scripture’ would come topass. He saves his legacy by not telling just what kind of revelation thatwill be. Perhaps Gerard di Borgo was unwise enough to read betweenJoachim’s lines and say the intended secret out loud.The Last Pope (Element Books, 1998)If indeed the Vaticinia Nostradami is a work by Nostradamus then the prophetgoes one nebulous step further by illustrating a cloudy future for the popes. Thepen, ink and watercolor prints are rife with symbolic letters, fantastic allegoricalportrayals of monks, cardinals and popes mingling with naked male and femalemessengers, mythical and normal animals, over which wheels turn, banners fly,crosses hover, bugles and candles float, towers burn, etc. The captions and notesinserted in longhand seem to be a celebration of Joachite cult prophecy renderedby three different hands, none of which resemble that of Nostradamus’ survivingexamples. That in itself shouldn’t be solely a cause of suspicion. His secretary Jean-Aymes de Chavigny penned many of the surviving letters of Nostradamus with onlyhis signature added. None of the writing matches Chavigny, though, yet there’sno evidence he was the only scribe employed by Nostradamus. Just as we seein authenticated printed versions of Nostradamus, there are Roman numerals forindexing, cryptic references and codes masking the true names of papal personagesillustrated.One thing is self-evident, whoever the artist may be, most of these illustrationsseem to be substandard knock offs from circa 13th-and-14th-century editions ofthe Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus (The Predictions of the Supreme Pontiff),discovered in 1982 by Italian journalists Enza Massa and Roberto Pinotti in theBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (the Central National Library) in Rome.The source book and illustrations may have nothing to do with either Joachiteprophecies or the distant future of the popes. They may actually merge an initialset of illustrations from the 13th century concerning a papal succession from PopeNicholas III (1277-1280) onwards with an additional Ascende calve that makes thisanother pseudo-Joachim work of “propheganda” that might be directly inspired by

NOSTRADAMUS 201254Gerard di Borgo’s Eternal Gospels. Otherwise, another scandalous attempt to foretellthe fall of the Popes into Apostasy leading up to an imminent apocalypse set for thelatter days of the 13th century, that otherwise never happened.One of the researchers, Dr. E. R. Gruber an adviser to the History Channel’sproducers, two-hour special, The Lost Book of Nostradamus in July 2007, hadpointed out the copies of the illustrations of the Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibuswere rendered into the Vaticinia Nostradami by a less competent hand. Gruberrepublished this point once again for the Nostradamus Research Group in October2007, reminding us of it during the month the documentary premiered.Watching the documentarywhen it first came out, it seemedthe producers made an editorialchoice to focus their narrative onproving the book to be an authenticinterpretation of de Fiore’s workby Nostradamus. They based theirscript, it seems, on the highlyimaginative though theoreticalstretches of a Nostradamianscholar and retired analyst for thePurported “Vaticinia Nostradami” (The Lost Book ofNostradamus). Source: History Channel.Italian National Police named Ottavio Cesare Ramotti for his book The NostradamusCode: The Lost Manuscript that Unlocks the secrets of the Master Prophet (DestinyBooks, 1998). It made for better television entertainment, I suppose.The documentary made quick flash in the brainpan blinking facts in imagesfluttering before one’s eyes, served with a starvation diet of background or sourcing.For much of the two hours the documentary dwelled on projecting rather thinly andfreely associated bits taken here and there out of Nostradamus’ accredited propheciesto fit their premise used as verbal captions to these all-too-vague illustrations fromthe rediscovered book. Indeed, the book that nearly shoves the Vaticinia Nostradamiout of the TV limelight is Nostradamus’ magnum opus Les Propheties, the authorshipof which is without question. It was originally published in his lifetime in serializedform from 1555 through 1560. Benoist Rigaud reprinted it posthumously as onevolume in 1568, in which form it has since generally appeared.In it, Nostradamus often mentions any author worthy of prophetic commentary.It is also filled with many references to the future of the papacy, its coming apostasy,the destruction of Rome, its final triumph against the Antichrist, etc. There is, however,

NOSTRADAMUS 201255nothing clearly aping Joachim de Fiore’s more radical take on the holy trinity (theFather, Son and Holy Ghost) as ages of God’s Good News evolving on Earth. In otherwords, you don’t find in Nostradamus a reference to the 2,000-year Age of theFather, followed by the 2,000 years of the Son (Jesus), leading to the turn of ourmillennium launching the 2,000-year epoch of the Holy Spirit where no middlemanChurch or Vicar of Christ is needed. In 30 years of studying Nostradamus, I’ve foundnot one iota or hint or code or outright statement about Joachim de Fiore.Nostradamus’ works were extensively published when he was alive and wehave a rich source of his printed books on his travels, on pharmacists and his manyannual almanacs and last but not least his vast magnum opus, Les Propheties.Medical essays, cook book and preservative essays, vivid quatrains by the thousandforeseeing the future but not one of these authentic publications is illustrated byNostradamus. You would think if he was such a good drawer he would do someup for us in what was his most important prophetic work. We would have seen hisdrawings copied for printing of the many herbs and plants he so passionately studiedas one of history’s proto-botanists.Not a single illustration can be found.What does exist in Nostradamus’ unsteady hand is a man severely crippled byarthritis who, by the 1560s could hardly use it.The documentary introduces the six-by-eight inch book in remarkable condition,its pages one second palmed with naked hands, the next second with gloved handsof an army of Italian scholars. Old book researchers don’t as a rule touch originaleditions with their bare hands because the salts and sweat – let alone the minutesttrace of spaghetti sauce – on their fingers destroys the aged parchment. It makesme wonder if the book in such mint condition was real or a prop.Quite late in the second hour, the documentary introduces the findings offorensic testing that concluded the book was a copy produced with zinc-laden ink– a unique signature in time for tomes penned no earlier than the 18th century.Definitely not from Nostradamus’ time. That would mean the “copy” of the VaticiniaNostradami discovered in the Roman library in 1994 could not have been the onepurportedly handed over to the future Pope Urban VIII in 1629, it had to be aconstruct from no earlier than 1700! With that said, in History Channel’s defense,books were frequently recopied over time as the rot and dust motes of lonely librariesin Rome, the Vatican or otherwise, do inexorably devour unrefreshed, hand drawnillustrated manuscripts.Armed or burdened with the knowledge of many decades and counting

NOSTRADAMUS 201256concerning Nostradamus’ hard effort to get all of his works published, I’m leftwondering why a man past middle age, mindful of when he was going to die accuratelydocumented twice, didn’t publish Vaticinia Nostradami before death came to hisdoor.A Work of Prophetic Father Envy?I was also approached to do an interview for the Lost Book of Nostradamusdocumentary. Late in their production cycle, History Channel’s subcontractedproduction company contacted me. When I examined the illustrations and theirconclusions I had to tell them that in all fairness to my 30 years of study, I had toplay the role of a sympathetic though skeptical Nostradamian expert. Especially asthere are many circumstantial clues to works like this being written either by fraudsunder the name of “Nostradamus” or as an embellishment of the prophet by his son,César . The frauds printed and published during the prophet’s lifetime became soextreme that the elderly Nostradamus was arrested in Marseilles put under suspicionof publishing what turned out to be an anti-Catholic, Calvinist almanac falsely signedand published under his name.The desire of charlatans to hide and be carried under the shadowy cloak of thedead prophet to famous ends has perpetrated even great frauds. After his death in1566, chief among these was a certain “Michael Nostradamus the Younger” posingas the lost scion of the prophet. He published a collection of prophecies in 1568and again in 1571. In 1574, this bastard of fraud died a bastard’s death, it seems.During a siege in one of the incessant religious civil wars France would fight asthe real Nostradamus had accurately foreseen, Michael the Younger was caughtrunning around trying to set fire to a Huguenot town in a pathetic attempt to fulfill aprophecy. Captain Saint-Luc, his commander rode up to him and asked, “Now then…Master, is an accident to happen to you today?”“No,” replied Michael the Younger.Saint-Luc ran him through with his lance. His horse then added insult tohomicide, kicking the corpse.I proposed to the History Channel people that I contribute a theory in thesecond hour of the documentary that César had a conflicted devotional yet jealousrelationship with his father. The producers didn’t choose to go there. By the time Ipitched this idea, they had established a narrative story arc that could not includethis tributary story.I understood and respected their decision not to have me in the documentary.

NOSTRADAMUS 201257Actually, I am grateful I didn’t appear in this documentary as it turned out. I likedmany of its cinematic elements, but I have problems with the near hysterical paceand emotive projections. They did their heroic best to pin the “tale” of Nostradamus’true works of prophecy on the donkey of these illustrations. It didn’t work for me,sorry to say.The following year I made the same suggestion to the producers of HistoryChannel’s highly successful series The Nostradamus Effect. They took up my theorywhole-heartedly in an episode entitled The Son of Nostradamus.No other friend or sibling did more to establish Nostradamus’ legacy, and yet,César may have had this weird desire to garnish his father’s prophetic work withprophecies of his own. It could have been an act of rebellion against his father forpredicting in writing that none of his descendants would possess his gift of prophecy.(That means you too, César.)The Vaticinia Nostradami could be another questionable tome penned andpainted by César. Nostradamus’ grandson, Seve, presented the Sixians (six-linepoems attributed to Nostradamus but written by “somebody else”) to King Henry IVof France in the early 1600s, perhaps with César’s tacit approval.Nostradamus’ son, may have painted the prophetic imagesThe documentary tells us the drawings have the crude innocence of a younghand. Young indeed! It is plausible, though. César was 12 years old when his fatherpassed away in 1566. César did indeed grow up to become a fine portrait painter.Among his works are the best likenesses of his father. The TV show trying so hard todefend the manuscript as original overlooks that fact that childish renderings mighthave been cruder replications of the adult César’s better copies and not drawn by achild of 12.In support of the documentary, I concur that it is quite possible for a manuscriptto reach Rome from South France. Merchants and scholars traveling from Provenceto Rome did so frequently. Nostradamus had sojourned through Italy more thanonce. He even mentioned his long stay in Florence in his travelogue Traité desFardemens – his recollection of recipes for medicines, preservatives and plaguecures published in 1552, several years before his major prophecies.When at last the forensic report about the book’s authenticity came throughlate in the second hour of the documentary, it concluded that neither Nostradamusnor his son César had penned the copy.Fair enough. Books are recopied all the time. Nevertheless, one can still do agood job zeroing in on the author by comparing writing styles. I would have suggested

NOSTRADAMUS 201258that they compare César’s published works to this manuscript. He had a specificstyle of word use. His father, for that matter, had an eccentric writing style veryhard to mimic. Why didn’t the documentary look into this? This is a common practiceof trying to prove authenticity of authorship. The Son of Nostradamus episode didinvestigate the writing and cite both me and French Nostradamian bibliographer,Michel Chomarat concluding the handwriting doesn’t match either the father’s orCésar de Nostredame’s style.Outside of television mythologizing, there’s one objective piece of evidencepresented in “El Testamento Auténtico de Nostradamus”, by Danoel Ruzo, p. 332(Ed. Grijalbo, Mexico City, 1997). It displays a letter by César de Nostredame(written to the French scientist Fabri de Peiresc, in which he describes paintingseveral miniatures for a booklet planned as a gift to King Louis XIII in 1629. ThoughRuzo believes there’s no evidence supporting any connection between the bookletand the Vaticinia Nostradami, I, however, would propose that there’s no evidencerefuting César changing his mind and presenting the book to Cardinal Barberini infar off Rome. In César’s authenticated writings he’s the one recounting the story ofthe Church Justices of Paris in 1559 confronted by a mob demanding they burn hisfather for predicting the death of Henry II. Would not the son at last be mindful ofsending a controversial set of illustrations to Paris, under the noses of descendantsof those Church Justices of the Inquisition? It’s a confirmed fact that César hadwritten d’Hozier to put in a good word for a royal pension. Why would one want toupset that? Better send the book out of country, to Barberini, to Rome.Television projecting Flaming Castles in the CloudsThe most important obsession of the documentary was an attempt to make thewatercolor drawings of the Vaticinia Nostradamibend to their belief that they connect Nostradamusto the Mayan Calendar prophecy for 2012.From first moment to the last, the showbased much of the strength and persuasion ofits argument on pulling – mostly out of context– prophecies universally established as comingfrom Nostradamus and not from the so-called lostmanuscript. For example, we are told to decipherthe image of a castle keep vomiting flames fromits parapet and two arrow slits as a visual allusion

NOSTRADAMUS 201259to Nostradamus’ prophecies about the terrorist attack on the World Trade CenterTowers in New York on 9/11.It is my view that Nostradamus did foresee the 9/11 attacks in two propheciesindexed Century 6 Quatrain 97 and Century 10 Quatrain 49, but like so manyexamples in this documentary the illustrations are at best vague and don’t clearlymatch.Yes, we had an image of a turreted tower on fire like the “two” towers of NewYork (see above). I would have been far more impressed if two flaming castle keepsappeared on the illustration set in echelon and in the angle most of the future worldof the year 2001 viewed them from television cameras broadcasting north of NewYork’s financial district. It would then have connected with the way Nostradamusmay have described them, in plural, as two manmade “hollow mountains” plungedinto the boiling caldron of their own debris fields into “the tub.” By the way, thebuilders of the Twin Towers erected them out of an eight-story deep, watertightcement foundation called “the tub.” We know that hallowed pit today as Ground Zerowhere rises the new World Trade Center tower currently under construction.Another image flashed before us more than once on the Lost Book ofNostradamus special is the cover of Ottavio Cesare Ramotti book that has appearedunder the titles The Nostradamus Code or Nostradamus: The Lost Manuscript indifferent editions. The painting on the cover is a self-portrait of César as an older manand not the prophet. No mention is made of this discrepancy in the documentary.Instead, they display a painting of Nostradamus shown as an example ofCésar’s skill as a portrait painter that isn’t one of his iconic paintings of his father.It shows Nostradamus holding a telescope. The artist, whoever he was, had to havepainted the portrait after the invention of the telescope in 1608, at least 42 yearsafter the prophet’s death in 1566.Another picture displays a pope riding a dragon, flashing his dagger at a bear.The documentary said, this signified John Paul II’s struggle with Russian Communismduring his reign.OK, what I saw facing the pope was a bear. A rather emaciated bear. Indeed,it could have been a big dog or a wolf standing on its hind legs. The narrator wenton and on about the Russian commie bear and ignored the dragon, never explainingwhy the pope bestride this symbol for communist China was fighting the Communistbear.You’ve heard the story of the 800-pound gorilla in the room no one mentions?Things that make you go, harrumph!

NOSTRADAMUS 201260All of this, though, is just a presage bridging a stretch of interpretive imaginationover which I can’t pass.The watercolor depicting the Pope and the scrawnybear with the “500-pound” Gorilla of a Dragon notmentioned in the Lost Book of Nostradamus.A “Bridges” Too FarCornelius Ryan, the great non-fiction Pulitzer prize-winning author of The LongestDay (the subject of the hit movie about the Allied D-Day Invasion) and The LastBattle (The Battle for Berlin) also wrote A Bridge Too Far. It is an excellent accountof Operation Market Garden, the Western Allied attempt to shorten the war withone daring plunge over the lower Rhine River in Southern Holland to penetrate theindustrial heartland of Nazi Germany in September 1944, hoping to end the SecondWorld War in Europe by Christmas.General Bernard Montgomery’s battle plan relied on a string of best-casescenarios: that the September weather would hold for massive parachute drops overseveral bridges spanning the wide Rhine and its tributaries all the way to Arnhem,over 50 miles behind enemy lines. He assumed the German forces there were weak.He assumed his pockets of US and British paratroops in enemy territory could holdthe bridges long enough to be relieved by just one British armored pincer fightingdown one narrow roadway through enemy forces.As it turned out, British paratroopers designated to hold the bridge over theRhine at Arnhem landed right in the midst of a heavily armed SS Panzer Corps withtanks and motorized infantry. They couldn’t call for help. The crystals in their radioswere the wrong ones, rendering radio communication inoperable. September fogs

NOSTRADAMUS 201261on English airfields prevented airborne reinforcements taking off for Holland. Thisalso forestalled the parachuting of the right radio set transmitting crystals to thebeleaguered British paratroopers of the First Airborne Division, fighting a losingbattle in the streets of Arnhem, of whom most were killed and captured. The SS heldthe last bridge at Arnhem preventing an advance into Germany, prolonging the waruntil mid-spring 1945.It was later suggested that Montgomery’s audacious plan failed because alliedforces available on one contested thoroughfare were too overstretched to take thelast bridge at Arnhem. It became known as a “bridge too far”.There have been many audacious interpretations of Nostradamus’ prophecieswhere interpreters unbutton and out “bottomed” a full “Monty.” The star of HistoryChannel’s Lost Book of Nostradamus documentary, Vincent Bridges, is one of them.In my estimation, Bridges tries to bridge a gulf of his interpretation with plausiblereality that for me is excessively too wide and too far from reach.Bridges on his website defined himself as self-proclaimed “anthropologist ofthe weird”. He is co-author of A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, Fulcanelliand the Great Cross, with Jay Weidner (Aethyrea Books 1999, 2000). In the LostBook documentary and later in History Channel’s Nostradamus 2012, Bridgesshows his overreach in a number of ways. For example, his belief in Nostradamus’purported association with the Knights Templar, a paramilitary-cum-monastic orderand secret society from medieval times. Perhaps Bridges had turned the cornereast of Nostradamus’ house in Salon-en-Provence and marveled at the beautifulRomanesque Church virtually next door with its 12th-century carvings and reliefstatuary displaying Knights Templar symbology. Does one just assume this medievalchurch built by the Templars “must” be where Nostradamus sought spiritualsustenance? Do infirmities overtaking him in old age make the journey of 50 paceswith Malaccan cane more bearable for his worsening gout and pulmonary edema?Now I ask you, if you live close to a Catholic Church, does that naturally meanyou are a Catholic? If I eat hamburgers, does it mean I must eat at McDonaldsbecause I live next door? Maybe I go to the Wendy’s several blocks away because Ican’t stomach McDonalds.Vincent Bridges points out in these History Channel documentaries that theRomanesque church statuary matches the illustrations of the Lost Book, so theremust be a connection, right?I’ve been to that church and at first I even liked to think Nostradamus prayedthere. Real scholarship requires a deeper investigative inquiry. Verify it before you

NOSTRADAMUS 201262believe it and start weaving stories on television that might empower an illusionaround the world as “fact”. There’s a lot of surviving documentation of baptismsof Nostradamus’ children along with his surviving Last Will and Testament. Thesecategorically prove Nostradamus went to mass and bowed down to his God at asmaller, more modest Franciscan chapel outside the north gate of town that hassince been destroyed. It was in this Church of the Cordeliers that Nostradamus’ bodywas first laid to rest. It was his dying wish, written in his will. He suffered the longwalk to its threshold on swollen knees to pray there and at last to lay that torturedbody to rest, parking his bones in one of its walls, for an eternal journey.The TV researches and fact checkers and ultimately, a man who calls himselfa scholar of Nostradamus, Mr. Bridges, completely missed this historical fact.One is only left to wonder why. Perhaps because it didn’t jive with his and the TVproducers’ pet story about Templars and their symbols copied into the Lost Book ofNostradamus that the prophet wrote and illustrated, so desperate are they to makethat connection.Next Bridges tells us that the statueon the wrong church, that Nostradamusdidn’t worship in, built by the Templars,has a representation of an illustration inthe Lost Book of Nostradamus showingus the constellation of Ophiuchus. It’ssometimes defined as the “thirteenth”constellation of the Zodiac becauseVincent Bridges. Source: History Channel. it has a toehold on the Sun’s tropicalline crossing the 12 known Zodiacalconstellations.Bridges is on a quest to find a galactic alignment for 21 December 2012. Hemust put skeptical inquiry aside to thread Nostradamus like a needle to pin himto a Romanesque Church then stitch him to the Vaticinia Nostradami book, threadbinding him all the way through a black stellar coal sack of dark matter that hidesthe bright star-lit center of the Milky Way Galaxy from our view. Ophiuchus, you see,is situated right near that galactic center that we are told by Bridges is the celestialportend, upon which the 13-baktun cycle of 5,125 years is anchored for a doomsdayor bloomsday reboot.The TV portrays the star field, Ophiuchus and draws geometric lines throughthe coal sack. You hear the rumpled professorial North Carolinian drawl of Vincent

NOSTRADAMUS 201263Bridges supported by brilliant special effects imaginatively explain how the arrowof the nearby constellation Sagittarius is said to point exactly at the galactic center.We are then told that on the day the Sun rises in conjunction with Ophiuchus andthe arrow of Sagittarius, we will experience what the documentary calls The GreatAlignment.This is the last day on the Mayan Calendar, on the winter solstice, 21 December2012.Then we’re told that at that moment, it is predicted that time ceases and theworld will end…Whoa! Dude!I don’t know if it is just me, but I was standing right before that chiseled imagepurported to be Ophiuchus on the Romanesque church next door to Nostradamus’house in 1991 and the weather worn figure could represent a number of peopleother than Ophiuchus. More than this, Ophiuchus is about as close to the tropicalconstellation demarcation line as any other constellation hanging just outside of the12 tropical signs of the Zodiac. I mean, even the foot of poor Ophiuchus was abovethe tropical line. Just pull out your star charts everybody. If Ophiuchus is closeenough with a toe on the line then why not sandwich the constellation of Auriga nextto Taurus or insinuate the head of Cetus the Whale between Aries and Pisces?You have to dump out of your mind important rules to make Ophiuchus fit.A constellation qualifies as Tropical or Zodiacal when the Zodiacal line dissects themiddle of a sign. Ophiuchus has his foot (toes really) crossing the line. If that qualifiesthen why don’t Mr. Bridges and his ilk also include a few other constellations thathave a peripheral body part crossing the line? Why not say there’s 16 Zodiac signsand not 12?Oh!-phiuchus you, astronomical star charts!Bridges and other Twenty-Twelvoids proffer frightful interpretations at the endof the show. We will be running out of food, water and “ammunition” – whateverthat means. These are just more examples of conclusions derived from fragmentspulled out of context from Nostradamus’ authentic work, applied to a book he neverdrew or wrote, linked to a Templar church within which he never worshipped, allso Ophiuchus can put his toe on the tropical line and can be a member of theZodiac by a toenail. Now we’ve stretched astronomical license to make him relevantso that Sagittarius can point an arrow at Ophi-Windrey-uchus that he might thenbe a tropical constellation “star” shot through the coal sack of a galaxy NEVERMENTIONED as such in Maya lore and scriptures. Archaeologists who actually speak

NOSTRADAMUS 201264Maya, Mr. Bridges, don’t mention your galactic center or your coal sack as beinganything more important than a part of the “road of stars” in the sky.I’ve worked longer in prophecy television shows than Vincent Bridges andanyone else currently writing or expounding correlations, spurious or not, tyingNostradamus to age-changing “2012”. I’ve been in over 100 documentaries sinceAugust 1987. I believe I have comprehensive knowledge and experience of howtelevision executives and producers dumb down what they think is Woo Woo, theparanormal, prophecy, the Mayan Calendar and Nostradamus for entertainmentvalue. I can forgive their lightweight research as it is a consequence of a mediaindustry that more and more descends into being a market for titillation’s sake andthe ratings to base revenue profit from “prophets” – not learning, not understanding,not enlightenment.I can forgive all of that, because luckily, what was once intelligent documentarywork and true skeptical inquiry isn’t dead, it is undergoing a great exodus from thecable and network channels to find and eventually establish a foundation of factualreality in cyberspace, free of the network dogma of “dumb”. This transferral willtake another five to 10 years to complete, but for the record, I predict its advent adecade after 2012 Calendars have long slipped out from underneath your bird cagesinto the trash.I can forgive and forget a soon-to-be “forgotten”, cretaceous television worldlosing itself in “Stupid”. I can forgive, though never “forget”, so-called “experts”constructing myths that presume to bridge a gulf of unreality that is too far.The warnings and astrological dates of Nostradamus’ authentic manuscriptsand those of other seers are clearly set for our times without the need to projectthem on a recovered “Lost Book.” Nostradamus’ dates are “found” and as we willsee later, well documented. They are his own and in them we might gander when aGreat Alignment actually did happen.Gilligan’s Apocalypse IslandBefore we examine in the next chapter what the authentic Nostradamus had to sayabout dating galactic alignments, I can’t let Vincent Bridges go just yet. For therecord, one has to remember him playing dry straight man for the best comedyshow on 2012 ever expensively produced and broadcast for our entertainment.Vincent Bridges in all seriousness sets us up for the joke. We see his droopinghead and hunched shoulders fill the TV screen, a face ever inscrutably devoid of livelyexpression beyond a hang-dog gaze and rambling sleepy-dawg drawl. He launches

NOSTRADAMUS 201265with an earnest, straight face the following declaration for History Channel’s bigbudget production filmed in 2009 and released in early 2010, entitled ApocalypseIsland.Bridges shows up in the prelude, slouches over, gazing into the camera with aMona Lisa smile so yawl out thar, gapin’ at the tube, reckon this southern gentlemanfrom North Carolina got a whole lottah world to end. He tells us cryptically that theMaya’s been settin’ us up with a beginning time. Soooo. Thur’must be an’eenndtaam comin’.Thank you Vincent, another one of your full Monty Python, “know what Imean? Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge” – moments that are to be construed orcon-strudeled as no Erik Idle threat to skedaddle. The Mayan Calendar on wintersolstice 2012 just might now mark thah end of daze.Vinny got me. I was hooked – doomed even – to watch two hours of a “Gilligan’sIsland meets the Mayan Calendar” shipwreck story.Jim Turner, a self-imagined archaeologist and intrepid explorer from Canadaclaimed to have discovered a gigantic statue carved out of a volcanic rock whilehiking and camping on a wind and rain swept desert island deep in the southeasternPacific Ocean about 400 miles off the Chilean coast of South America. Turner in amoment of inspired pareidolia saw in the rock pile the remains of Mayan EmperorChan Bahlum, kept company from behind by a rock saddle-turned-Turner mindedinto a crouching and reverent Jaguar. (Looks to me in the CGI reinvention like it’sabout to pounce on CB).Anyway, it so happens that the Chan Bahlum sculpture (I see Kermit the Frogwith horns) faces a point out to sea where the Sun would set, overshadowed bythe moon in the most important total eclipse – the last, actually – just a month ormore before the “summer solstice” (this is the Southern Hemisphere, folks) on 21December 2012.Sit yourself on the sundown marking the great “get up and photon me!” endof days of the Mayan Calendar’s great alignment with galactic center. It is at thismoment in the climax of the documentary that Vincent Bridges is ready for his closeupto claim that when the alignment of Sun with galactic center happens, a pulseof gamma rays will come from galactic center triggering either global, catastrophicdeath or life and renewal on Earth.This beam blast, he said, happened 13,000 years ago and caused terribleclimatological changes.Now here’s a problem that Bridge’s fertile imagination hasn’t covered. Gamma

NOSTRADAMUS 201266rays are a form of EMR, or electromagnetic radiation, the same as light. Gammarays travel at the speed of light. Now Bridges says there’s a pulse of gamma rayscoming from Galactic Center every 13,000 to 26,000 years.Vince? Space mathematicians? “Houston? We have a problem.”The distance between the Sun and the Milky Way’s G spot is 25,000 lightyears.So, forgive me, Vincent, if I’m a little thick here. Doesn’t that mean the nextpulse, even if it happened a second after the last, traveling at the speed of light,won’t reach us for another 1,000 years?Wouldn’t we then expect doom or enlightenment microwaving the Earth on3012 c.e. rather than 2012???Anyway, let’s go back to Apocalypse Island. We left Mr. Turner’s statue of ChanBahlum pondering the final eclipse on 13 November before gamma rays beam us up,Scotty on 21 December 2012.If you wanted to see this eclipsing prelude, you missed it. You missed thereason why a Mayan Emperor, with a multitude of carvers, scaffold makers, chippersand bashers, paddling 3,500 miles round trip in river canoes, across vast expansesof the Pacific Ocean set up their monument for one moonbeam-eyed adventurer andhis sidekick.You were not able to sit there all wet, trying to find the Sun’s eclipse somewherein the heavy, torrential rain clouds on 13 November 2012 to understand why ancientcanoers treaded water with sharks and storms out to a deserted island on the assend of nowhere.For the Emperor’s eternal fame and glory, they had to build a monument on anexposed, unsuitable and crumbling volcanic plug so that they could mark the eclipseat sunset centuries in the future – one that no one would appreciate or glorify himfor erecting except one lonely loony and his dog from Canada.Turner was standing out there making a home movie of it: just a friggin eclipse.Not even the end of time passing on 21 December 2012, already. And it ain’t even atotal eclipse on the island where all those barfing Maya laborers humped about aftercrossing the Pacific in leaking canoes to chisel on a crumbling crock of rock.There must have been some spiritual reason why the Emperor and his paddlersfelt it reasonable to add a statue out on the Island Styx that even the Maya gods ofthe underworld wouldn’t visit. Wasn’t it enough that they had erected well-knownand glorified monuments in Central America, accessible to tourism, to multitudes ofNew Age oglers who in the distant future would pay homage and glory to the Maya

NOSTRADAMUS 201267Gods for their greater and more accessible glory?Nah! You all missed your chance tocompassionately slap Mr. Turner on thebackside of his head, because that’s where Mr.“Moonbeam” was, (check it out on YouTube)all alone in home movie frame with his dog,waiting to be “enlightened” into the Mayanmystery on a cloudy, rainy raw day with onlya half-assed-moon eclipsing of the Sun.Gone was the bigger budget boondoggleof Apocalypse Island when we could find thatJim Turner.guy atop the volcanic pillar of “Sham Balloon”– the one you saw him rock climb years earlier in the documentary’s climax withthe help of his ever good natured, sideways looking, discretely perplexed sidekick,a certain rock climbing expert and adventurer named Jeff Salz dragged along onTurner’s trip. This is the same “explorer” nursing seasickness on the rusted Chileanfishing trawler Tio Tomás, hired to take the two to the “deserted” Island.That island is mountainous and beautiful, though, and if the two rock humpersweren’t gamboling about it, scaring the birds and trampling the delicate flora, thescene would be worth our peaceful reflection for two hours.The CGI effects used in Apocalypse Island are magnificent lipstick on thispig of a prophecy documentary. I especially was entertained by the hypotheticalremastering of what the great statue of Chan Bahlum about to be predated byjaguar, might have looked like, if these could have, would have, should have beensculpted into unstable stone. Then there’s the shot of Gilligan’s Apocalypse Islandbecoming a buddy movie at the end with Jim and Jeff sitting on top of the pillar ofvolcanic plug as the special effects cue the CGI sunset in Moon shadow darkeningthe sky. The Sun is huge, like they are watching this from the Planet Mercury.Cue the gigantic Sun being overshadowed by a Godzilla-sized Moon. Any timeyou’re ready CB.Truth is, the actual eclipse wasn’t total – only 70 percent in shadow. Totalitytook place four degrees north of their island.(Sorry CB).Where was I? Oh yes…When in doubt of astronomy, cue the solar eclipsing sunset, filled with fastmotion moonlit clouds in front of a wheeeee!-ling star field.

NOSTRADAMUS 201268Boys’ night out sitting on a crumbling rock at sunset. It’s enough to make onemotion sick with ecstasy. Two guys, a couple of beers, and there’s the last eclipsesetting in the sea of this fin de siècle. I wonder if Salz thought perhaps a rock hadfallen off the pillar and hit Turner’s head Chicken Little-style during his first trip toApocalypse Island a decade earlier, after which Turner then “saw” the statues inthe rock outcroppings. Once Salz had to openly admit on camera that he didn’t seeanything in the rock and he should know, being a rock-climbing expert.There were two authentically dangerous moments in the documentary. Thefirst was that skanky fishing trawler dropping Jim and Jeff in a dingy to navigate – asbest they couldn’t – rocks and crashing waves towards what Turner deemed the onlynear adequate beach landing on such a rugged and unsettled Island. The seconddanger was Salz rock climbing the Chan Bahlum pillar shortly after he confessed toa member of the film crew (you know they’re there but you never see them) that hedidn’t believe in the statues. Later he risked his life to shimmy, rope and hammerhis way up the volcanic plug. Every pick strike, foot kick and hand grab unleashed arain of rock face down on Turner standing at the dumb dolmen’s base.Since Apocalypse Island first aired in January 2010 and soon went intodiminishing reruns, it has suffered at best withering laughter and a fair and mountingscorn. It’s widely considered one of History Channel’s worst big budget showpiecesabout prophecy. Indeed, it has frequently been called a major fraud against historicfacts, a ratings-getting romp, a Gilligan’s Island of Kitsch History, TV dinner style.For one thing, the “Island” isn’t uninhabited. Its name is Más a Tierra. Itis part of the Juan Fernandez Islands. It was first “inhabited by none other thanRobinson Crusoe. Later the Spanish claimed it, built a town with harbor, hotels, barsand amenities for about 1,000 people. No need to hire stinky trawler Tio Tomás fromValparaiso, Chile, either. There’s a regular ferry run out from Valparaiso.I imagine that Jim and Jeff, once the video was in the can crossed the shortdistance over the hill to the town, had a beer, and all the other amenities of civilizationbefore they hopped on any number of regularly chartered flights to Santiago fromthe airport on Más a Tierra. Geologists have well documented the fact that volcanicrock outcroppings of Robinson Crusoe Island are naturally occurring through erosion.In other words, they aren’t piled high and deep, constructed by an army of seasickMaya laborers rowing out and beaching themselves from their canoes, without toolsto roll rocks up mountainsides or forests to make scaffolding.If I put this story into song, I might pot and smoke Turner’s projections into:“Wouldn’t you like to fly in my beautiful Bahlum”.

NOSTRADAMUS 201269On second thought, this uncharted desert island fish story, about the big Mayathat got away needs a rousing sailor’s song.It would be a better fit skewering the lyrics of that iconic song from thetelevision comedy classic Gilligan’s Island into the following retelling of ApocalypseIsland:Gilligan.Just sit right back and-you’ll-hear a tale,A tale of-a-fateful trip,Old Chan Bah-lum, the May-Yan KingAboard this tiny ship.Though Maya nev-r-were sailing men,Their Emp’r-ror brave and sure.He built a statue-an’a-Jag-guar too,On a desert island, SURE!On a thirty-five hund-dred-mile tour!The rock he chis-sl’d-was getting rough,On the island, canoes had docked,If not for-the-lay-bor-of-the-My-YAN crew,His statue would be blocks:Of crumbled, vol-caan-nic rocks.The ship set-a-ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,Was meant to mark a monument, on a rocky crumble pile.

NOSTRADAMUS 201270[Now, repeat the same verse twice to the new lyrics. Thank you.]That stands alone for-a thow-Sand years, to watch the Sun’s eclipse,On some endarr-kened No-vem-ber day, to-full-fill a May-Yan trip!That 2012 is an end-time date this eclipse prelude inspires,A couple guys on-a-traw-ler boat to-project what they dee-sire.[OK, knock the record needle off with a loud scratch and cut to the end… Go to thepart in the song when they show the cast and sing Gilligaaaan, the captain tooooo,the millionaaaaaire and his wife... etc.]Their skiff set ground on-the-shore of this “un-chart-ted” desert isle,With Jim Turn-nerrrrThe adventurer too:Chan Bahlooooooooooooooum,And his CAT,The moving starsH-Channel AND, Bridges-AND!Here, on-A-poc-cal-lypse Isle.Alright. I’m done. Roll the credits song:So this was the tale of the castaways,They’ll weird us a long-long time,We’ll have to make the best of things,That crock’s an up-hill climb.Jim Turner and Jeff Salz there too,Will do their very best,To make the Maya com-form-AH-ble,In their trop-pic island jest.No phone, no lights no Mo-tor cars,The town no film you’ll see,

NOSTRADAMUS 201271Like Ro-bin-son Cah-roos-soe,But stupid as can be.So join us here each bak-tun shift,You’re sure to get a smile,From two fool-strand-ded cast-AH-ways,Here on “A-poc-cal-lypse Isle.”

NOSTRADAMUS 201272CHAPTER 41999 was Nostradamus’ 2012Nostradamus didn’t write this,but it may be true.Ugly Stretch marks on Linguistic LicenseMy own literary record shows, that in my long career as a prophecy scholar, I’vebeen a sympathetic skeptical inquirer into whether Nostradamus had any connectionto the Maya and their calendar or prophecies. In that search, any objective andhonest scholar who is in the service of the truth rather than serving the needsof television producers in search of sensational statements can rely on the vastwealth of documented and surviving works penned then printed by Michel deNostredame. Virtually all of his almanacs covering the years 1550 to 1567 survivedintact. Important astrological pamphlets such as Significations de l’Eclipse qui serale 16. Septembre 1559 plus a number of his personal letters in Latin to astrologicalcustomers, his Last Will and Testament are easily accessed, as are surviving copiesof his Traité des fardemens, a travelogue of autobiographical narratives about hisplague fighting experiences, his journeys across France, Spain and RenaissanceItaly, spiced with numerous food, cosmetic and medical recipes.The greatest source of prophetic material that might enlighten us about hisconnection to 2012 might be found in the over 36,000 words of prophecy set in hismagnum opus history of the future, Les Propheties. This masterwork comprises

NOSTRADAMUS 201273two prophetic prose cover letters: the Preface and Epistle to Henry II plus the tenvolumes of Centuries with a surviving 942 of his 1,000 quatrains coming to usvirtually intact except for the loss of over half the quatrains in Century 7. There area number of duplicate quatrains and fragments from an unfinished stab at a Century11 and 12 available to search out any Mayan connection.Over the years I’ve copied and programmed a word search computer program Icall my “Nostradictionary”. It allows me to look at every word written by Nostradamusand every possible application of that word in medieval, Renaissance and modernFrench applications, or any of the other languages Nostradamus threw into the mix,such as Latin, Greek, his mother tongue Provençal. I also incorporated into theNostradictionary other words of regional dialects that on rare occasions appear inhis verses such as Bretagne, Occitan or Langue d’Or.One thing a true scholar of Nostradamus can’t do, is rely solely on translationsof the prophet only in their mother tongue. One has to plumb the meaning of hiswords understanding “his” languages that “he” used and knew. You have to think inRenaissance words. You have to understand his classical metaphors, be they AncientRoman, Greek or biblical and his prodigious use of classical geography. Nostradamusmapped out his future naming over 650 geographical locations across the world.One has to acquire copies or originals of the medieval to Renaissance maps he mightuse, even those that are geographically incorrect, yet are his mistaken source forlocations.With this vast lexicon file of Nostradamus’ writings in hand, I began my search,leaving a printed record since publishing Nostradamus and the Millennium (Doubleday/Dolphin, 1987) of my evolving understanding of possible ways Nostradamus mighthave openly said, or coyly hinted, that he was as interested in the year 2012 asVincent Bridges, Jay Weidner and the producers at History Channel.One of the better and briefer overviews of this evolution of my thinkingprocess about Nostradamus and 2012 came from Geoff Stray’s encyclopedicworks on all things 2012. He takes all of his quotes from my massive 1,000-pagetome Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies (Element Books, 1997). That is anappropriate choice because within this first edition of my complete translation andinterpretation of Nostradamus’ works, I had finished a decade-long linguistic inquiryto any connection the seer had with 2012. Stray has compiled all my pertinentinterpretations. For clarity’s sake I have changed Stray’s quatrain indexing to suitwhat I use in this book:

NOSTRADAMUS 201274Prophecy scholar John Hogue, in his book Nostradamus: The CompleteProphecies, finds six quatrains that have a possible connection to the year2012. Some of these connections are made…which links the number ofthe quatrain to the date of the prophecy. In quatrain [1 Q52], “the twoevil influences in conjunction in Scorpio” are said to be a conjunctionof Mars and Saturn in the constellation of Scorpio. Hogue links this toOctober 2012, when such a conjunction will occur. He links quatrain[2 Q12] or 2012 via the quatrain number. Quatrain [5 Q78] mentionsa thirteen-year period that Hogue connects to the appearance eitherof Halley’s Comet in 1986 or that of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997, which,when thirteen years are added, renders the year 1999 or 2012, whichis “closer to the end of time [2012] as we know it.” In quatrain [6 Q24],a conjunction of Mars and “the scepter” (Jupiter – in Cancer?) meansApril-May 2011, says Hogue (“near the end of the Mayan calendar”).Quatrain [9 Q12] links to 2012 via the quatrain number. In quatrain [9Q55], a conjunction of Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter again refers to April– May 2011. I don’t find these very convincing: if [2 Q12] and [9 Q12]link to 2012, what about prophecies found in [1 Q12], [2 Q12], [3 Q12],[4 Q12], etc.? The quatrains Hogue connects to 2012 concern the end ofthe Catholic Church, the coronation of a new king who will bring peaceto Earth, and a war followed by disease. However, the quatrains thatare obviously based on the Book of Revelation are not included. (GeoffStray, p. 266, Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening? Bear & CO,2009.)I agree with Geoff Stray. What I uncovered after long search wasn’t very convincingthat there’s a connection. I will disagree with Stray, about quatrains concerning theBook of Revelation. Any quatrain that might echo visions of the final apocalypticbook in the New Testament still doesn’t offer up mention of the year 2012. Theydon’t do it linguistically, or in anagram, or in sentence forms. I won’t nor shouldanyone attempt to stretch poetic license so far as to leave their ugly stretchmarkson Nostradamus verses to satisfy an unrequited desire to make the prophet apetheir own expectations and biases.I need to address Stray’s challenge about quatrain indexing and doing sweepson any quatrain numbered 12. As I’ve long stated in many books, Nostradamus’ useof codes and patterns have a certain chaotic randomness. He was a dyslexic and

NOSTRADAMUS 201275one has to study him with that issue, even better if one has that blessed affliction,in one’s mind. A mind wired similarly like Nostradamus with dyslexia can again,have perhaps a better chance to perceive as he perceived words, ideas, thoughtprocesses and the world at large in that uniquely retrograde and vertical, non-linearway any person with dyslexia can access. Not all the indexing of the quatrains willoffer up dates. Just some of them.Therefore I did set Stray straight about this in a phoned interview and wouldlike to set the record straight for my readers. I “did” check 1 Q12 through 10 Q12for indexing the year 2012. I even went one step further and examined the handfulof quatrains in the fragmentary Century 12 and study all the Presages numbered12 in the almanacs. I did not find a categorical correlation to these verses and 2012being some great change of ages causing apocalyptic events.I even searched every use in prose and verses of Nostradamus for the number12, or sixes in plural (6 X 6 = 12). I found nothing significant. Nothing but vaguepossibilities. There’s ever a lot of that in Nostradamus, because of his nebulousstyle. Yet, as I’ve already shown you in earlier chapters, there are times whenNostradamus prophecies leap out at you in the clear with dates, times, names anddescriptions of events that did happen in the future. In his horde of 1,500 prophecies,there are hundreds of these “in the clear” or somewhat in the clear examples. I haveto conclude after 30 years of search that there are no prose lines, no quatrains “inthe clear” about Nostradamus directly associating his visions with the year 2012.If Nostradamus had contacted or used Mayan knowledge or astrology one mightexpect his dated prophecies would converge on the year 2012 with a vengeance.What could inhibit him? Certainly not the Church Justices of the Inquisition. Nopunishment or interrogations were coming from his other dated prophecies for“October 1727” or “1792” or even “1999.” Let’s say for argument’s sake Nostradamusdid obtain knowledge of Mayan astrology and magic from Ulrich of Mainz. Given aclose study of his thought processes and his taciturn attitudes about mentioning hisoccult knowledge, I see no reason for Nostradamus to mention the Maya and gethimself in trouble with the same Inquisition that was systematically destroying Mayalibraries in Central America.I do see him leaving clues and mentioning dates in times far beyond anycontemporary Church threat so that people of the future would respect his propheticpowers. He could write openly apocalyptic prophecies set for 1999, but no mentionof 2012, no direct astrological forecast about the winter solstice of 2012.Why a majority of my colleagues in the prophecy field go on pinning 2012 on

NOSTRADAMUS 201276Nostradamus must be either from a lapse of objectivity into imagination overdrive,or worse, some kind of self-promotion to sell books by doing and saying anythingto get on TV. I keep my negotiations with television producers confidential. I willsay this, though. When you have taped more of these shows in 25 years than allthe other “experts” combined, there are fortunately rare occasions when producersand directors will openly offer a space on a show if you bend your understanding offacts and truth to conform your scholarship to the biases of the television script. Iam happy to say that after doing 110 documentaries I was only timidly approachedonce. I can’t speak for my colleagues. I can only bear witness to my own outrightrejection on professional grounds of such an offer.I’ve certainly seen over the years my interviews in post production editstaken out of context to fit certain agendas, for which I’ve no control. For instance,as I said earlier, in History Channel’s Nostradamus 2012 you’ll see me talk aboutNostradamus but to the more attentive TV viewer, you’ll never see me directlyconnect Nostradamus to 2012 like you see Vincent Bridges, Jay Weidner and othersclearly do. The reason is, when asked about Nostradamus’ association, I told themthere’s no connection I can find. It is easier to just cut out a guest’s footage thanask them to bend the facts, so that’s the way most producers manipulate your ideasby committing a sin of omission rather than commission. The evidence to rest mycase is in their video vaults.The “Nostradamus” Eclipse, August 1999.The New Age Born from Two Labors of the SunThere’s another year that Nostradamus does obsess on and mention outright as theapex of ages changing. It isn’t 2012 but 13 years earlier, 1999.

NOSTRADAMUS 201277Nostradamus’ progression of dated prophecies and chronicle of length ofaccurate forecasted periods of time we listed in Chapter Two took us right up to1999 and perhaps hid 9.11.1 for the September 11 attacks on New York’s twintowers. If anyone peering into the magic mirror darkly could foresee and date theaxis of epochal death and renewal it was Nostradamus. 2012 isn’t mentioned at allas that age shifting time.10 Q72 mentions 1999 outright with Sept mois (September month) hinting ata secondary date if we reverse 1999 into 9.11.1 to hide a reverse number code for9.11.1 September.10 Q74 takes up the story with the “seventh number accomplished” – inother words, Sept mois (September month of 10 Q72 hiding 9.11.1 September (theseventh month).Before we get too far off the track with secondary meanings to his numbers,remember that 1999 is a date in the clear. Moreover, other quatrains and proseprophecies have Nostradamus elaborate at length in a prophecy in prose that theage-changing onset of a great unraveling of civilization would begin after there’sa great eclipse near the turning of the millennium. As you will see, he describesthis eclipse casting a shadow over a specific place. Thus he’s giving us actionableintelligence to find out if any eclipse indeed did overshadow that place near the endof the great millennium. The most detailed entry was actually one of the last writtenin the serialization of the Les Propheties, published in 1558 in the Epistle to HenryII. In classic Nostradamian dyslexic fashion, the seer lists in a long and apocalypticnarrative all the things that will proceed, such as the rise of the Antichrist and hiswar and tribulations against the Christian Church and the world and then he says:Epistle to Henry II& precedera deuant vn eclypƒe ƒolaire le plus obƒcur, & le plus tenebreux, queƒoit eƒté depuis la creation du monde iuƒques à la mort & paƒƒion de IeƒusChriƒt…And this will be preceded by a solar eclipse more obscure andmore dark [and mysterious], than any since the creation of theworld except for the death and passion of Jesus Christ…More clues surface about this end of millennium eclipse, where the shadow of theMoon falls:

NOSTRADAMUS 2012783 Q17Mont Auentine bruƒler nuict ƒera veu,Le ciel obƒcur tout à vn coup en Flandres:Quand le monarque chaƒƒera ƒon nepueu,Leurs gens d Egliƒe cõmettront les eƒclâdres.Mount Aventine will be seen to burn at night,The heavens obscured very suddenly in Flanders:When the monarch will chase his nephew,Then Church people will commit the scandals.Aventine Hill is one of the Seven Hills of Rome in one of Nostradamus’ “Destructionof the Vatican” prophecy scenarios (see 2 Q93), in which fire and floods from theTiber River destroy St Peter’s Basilica and the papal enclave. At first glimpse, it mightnot appear that heavens being suddenly obscured over eastern Belgium (Flanders)describes a solar eclipse, but it does. On 11 August 1999 there was a great solareclipse stopping tens of millions in their tracks across Europe, the Middle East, Iranand India to marvel at the portend. The Moon’s shadow darkened southern England,crossed over Flanders, then northeastern France, Eastern Europe, over Greece andTurkey, northern Iraq, the width of Iran until the shadow lifted off Earth’s limb inWestern India. In 1997 I wrote:It must be remembered that July of 1999 is slotted by the prophet fora significantly apocalyptic terror to descend on humanity from the skies(see 10 Q72).Line 3 is obscure; line 4, however, could call upon us to read thesequence of these lines backwards. In my previous book on NostradamusI posed a theory that within the quatrains are three scandals foretold forthe Roman Catholic Church that would lead to its self-destruction aroundthe end of this millennium or sometime early in the next century. In thefirst, the relationship between fascism and the Papacy undermines theVatican’s spiritual integrity. The second scandal weakens this integrityfurther through the murder of a pope who is on the verge of revealingcorruption in the Vatican Bank. This was Pope John Paul I. The thirdscandal decimates the Catholic clergy itself via a new kind of blood plague.This could be AIDS, Ebola, or a scourge from some other immunological

NOSTRADAMUS 201279breakdown caused by the depletion of the ozone layer and the globalwarming expected for the 21st century. With this reverse sequence inmind, line 4’s scandals precipitate line 3’s intrigues (yet to be revealed);then the total eclipse of 1999 followed soon after by Rome in flames.Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies(Element 1997)Rome hasn’t yet been burned down. The scandal that “did” rock the credibility ofthe Roman Catholic Church and Pope were revelations of a massive sex scandalinvolving hundreds of priests across the world sexually abusing young boys. CardinalRatzinger in the late 1990s led a suppression of information and a network protectingfallen priests from legal scrutiny while Ratzinger was Pope John Paul II’s Prefect ofthe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (i.e. chief Inquisitor). Years after hesucceeded John Paul II as Benedict XVI the extent to which Ratzinger shelteredsex offenders in priestly robes from prosecution and justice hatched out seriouslyundermining the credibility of the Vatican and further troubles his rocky reign asVicar of Christ.3 Q34Quand le deffaut du Soleil lors ƒeraSur le plain iour le monƒtre ƒera veu:Tout autrement on l’interpretera,Cherté n’a garde nul n’y aura pourueu.When the eclipse of the Sun then will beThe divine omen will be seen in the plain daylight:Quite otherwise will one interpret it,High price unguarded, none will have provided for it.Monstrum is Latin for the French monstre (divine omen, strange thing, scourge). Allare implied. Sometime after parts of Europe, Central and South Asia are sent intotemporary darkness on 11 August 1999 will come the next great economic crisissince the Great Depression. The “omen” as we will see will bring the scourge of anaccelerating Climate Change (1998-1999), the Great Recession (2008) to a worldthat won’t respect the portent, a world in denial.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012805 Q54Nay ƒous les vmbres & iournee nocturne,Sera en regne & bonté ƒouueraine:Fera renaiƒtre ƒon ƒang de l’antique vrne,Renouuellant ƒiecle d’or pour l’ærain.Born in the shadows and a dark day,He will be sovereign in rule and goodness:He will cause his blood to be born again in the ancient urn,Renewing the age [century] of gold for that of brass.The dark day is the 11 August eclipse of 1999, the year when a great world leader orspiritual messenger is expected to be born. The ancient urn is a classical astrologicalhint. It symbolizes Aquarius, whose age would soon dawn at the end of the millenniumfor this birth to take place, perhaps even during that eclipse. As I stated in 1997:Aquarius the Water Bearer carries an ancient urn, and the 20thcentury has been called the century of the sun (gold) by Nostradamus(see 2 Q10). Brass is an important metal in prediction and psychicmediumship. The eclipse in 1999 comes close to the predicted rebirthof American mystic and prophet, Edgar Cayce (1998). In this newincarnation he may become an important catalyst for the religiousnesstranscending dogma in the Aquarian era.Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies(Element Books, 1997)5 Q64Les aƒƒemblées par repoz du grand nombre,Par terre & mer conƒeil contremandé:Pres de l’Autonne Gennes, Nice de l’ombre,Par champs & villes le chef contrebandé.

NOSTRADAMUS 201281Those assembled by the tranquility of a great number,By land and sea counsel countermanded:Close to NATO, Genoa, Nice in shadow,Through fields and towns the chief in revolt.The key to this quatrain is solving the meaning of Autonne. One might settle on autonne, or “nearly a ton,” which goes nowhere. Or we can replace the u with an rand swivel it around to get en a(r)ton, and by anagram get the phrase “to NATO”.Now the line could read, “Close to NATO, Genoa, Nice in shadow.” The coastal citiesof Nice, France and Genoa in Italy, along the Mediterranean saw the Moon shadowthe Sun by 70 percent. Still, the total eclipse does touch and overshadow the NATOalliance, blacking out the Sun over member states of the alliance, like England,Belgium and France. NATO headquarters is in Belgium (Flanders!).In 1997 I wrote:Line 1 gives us the tranquility and security of the European Union.Line 2 suggests that counsel or wisdom is canceled by land and seain other words, a global upheaval. Is this another reference to thecoming ecological disasters of the 21st century that cause civilization tocollapse in a world war? In line 3, an event takes place near the southerncommand center of NATO, which is in Naples, Italy. At the same timewe see Genoa and Nice in shadow. This may allude to the great eclipseforeseen elsewhere by Nostradamus as an omen of Armageddon. Thenext total eclipse visible in this region of Europe is on 11 August, 1999,a very important year in Nostradamus’ prophecies (see 10 Q72)…Line 4’s contraband has several possible translations. The chiefhere could be the commander of NATO, a terrorist leader, or even thepresident of the European Union suffering a revolt (contrabanded).Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies(Element 1997)What seems unmentioned, between the lines of these two 1999-related quatrainswe examined in Chapter 2, is this eclipse as the apocalyptic marker.

NOSTRADAMUS 20128210 Q74An reuolu du grand nombre ƒeptieƒme,Apparoiƒtra au temps ieux d’Hecatombe:Non eƒloigné du grand eage millieƒme,Que les entrés ƒortiront de leur tombe.The year the great seventh number is accomplished,Appearing at the time of the games of Slaughter:Not far from the age of the great millennium [2000],When the dead will come out of their graves.The eclipse is appearing at the time of the games of slaughter. “It” happening on 11August 1999 isn’t far from the age of the great millennium. Now we can play withold “and” new interpretations of what it means to be a seventh number, July the newseventh month and “September” the old seventh numbered month.10 Q72L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf ƒept mois,Du ciel viendra vn grand Roy d’effrayeur.Reƒuƒciter le grand Roy d’Angolmois.Auant apres Mars regner par bon heur.In the year 1999 and seventh month,Out of the sky will come the great King of terror.He will re-animate the King of the Mongols.Before and after Mars rules happily.July and September frame August, the month of the 1999 eclipse beshadowingFlanders and many European EU, NATO nations. The King of terror isn’t onlydescending from the skies as an attack by al-Qaeda (1999 = 9.11.1 Septembermonth, remember) inspired by Usama bin Laden, one of the leading candidates forNostradamus’ third and final age-ending Antichrist. He might be the man of evil whoin other verses on the Antichrist sees his war of 25-to-27 year’s length follow hisannihilation. Remember, that war proceeds after the great and mysterious eclipsementioned in the Epistle.That monstrous omen, could be the eclipse itself. It might mark the rise of

NOSTRADAMUS 201283China (Mongols). The Magus (higher aspect of Mars) might represent the Ayatullahof Islamic Fundamentalist Iran. The eclipse of 11 August 1999 cast its total andportentous shadow over Iran, the potential theater of combat where the next andworst war in the Middle East may yet be waged by mid-decade according to otherastrological prophecies of Nostradamus examined in my eBook Nostradamus: TheWar with Iran – Islamic Prophecies of the Apocalypse.Most of you by now have noticed that some of these events described inverses about the eclipse have happened in the 13 years since the eclipse, whereasothers have not. Rome has not exploded in flames. This might be clarified by readingthe second part of the Epistle to Henry II that describes a list of horrific upheavalsexpected to proceed from the event of the great and mysterious eclipse near theend of the millennium. Nostradamus in this passage gives a long period for all ofthe events to be fulfilled:Epistle to Henry II& de là iuƒques icy, & ƒera au moys d’Octobre que quelque grande tranƒlationƒera faite, & telle que l’on cuydera la peƒanteur de la terre auoir perduƒon naturel mouuement, & eƒtre abiƒmee en perpetuelles tenebres, ƒerontprecedans au temps vernal & s’en enƒuyuant apres d’extremes changemens,permutations de regnes, par grands tremblemens de terre, auec pullulation dela neuƒue Babylonne fille miƒerable augmentee par l’abomination du premierholocauƒte, & ne tiendra tant ƒeulement que ƒeptante trois ans, ƒept moys.And from that time [of the dark and mysterious Eclipse] thereshall be in the month of October some great movement andtransference [of the Globe] and it will be such that one will thinkthe Earth has lost its natural gravitational movement, and that itwill be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness; there willbe omens in the spring, and extraordinary changes thereafter,reversals of kingdoms and mighty earthquakes, with the increaseof the new Babylon, the miserable daughter, augmented by theabomination of the first holocaust, and it will last 73 years andseven months.At first glimpse one might think Nostradamus has become Richard Noone, forecastingthe shift of the Earth’s rotationary axis. This depends on piecing the correct phrase

NOSTRADAMUS 201284often missing in his verse, see brackets. It is a linguistic technique Nostradamususes to obscure himself called ellipsis, very popular with Renaissance writers wherethey frame an idea making you fill in the implied word, words or phrase in the gap.It can be quite treacherous because more often than not the interpreter is temptedto fill the missing bits with his or her own biases.If you remove my brackets the translation appears more moderate, describingsome great movement or transference of a collective energy, a collective shift inconsciousness perhaps, that is so cherished a hope of New Agers who believe thewinter solstice of 2012 will somehow lift human collective consciousness because wealign with gamma rays emitted from Galactic Center, etc.Note that he says people “think” the Earth has lost its natural gravitationalmovement. That doesn’t mean it was lost. Nostradamus is waxing propheticallymetaphorical here. Then he moves on to something that may not be related, thatomens come in the springtime, he doesn’t say which. He didn’t specify whichOctober either. Is it October 1999, after the eclipse? For all we know it is the “Arab”Spring setting in motion extraordinary changes, reversals of kingdoms and futureearthquakes.What is clear is that some event, perhaps global, perhaps a collectively sharedchange in energy, or a change in climate, even, begins pulling the rug out fromestablished civilization. We will know the eclipse has launched us into an era ofpolitical as well as seismic earthquakes, reversals of nations, throwing us into aperiod of extraordinary change.Nostradamus comes in the clear again about a new Babylon. Perhaps it ismodern Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship augmented by the abomination ofthe first holocaust of Nostradamus’ own people, the Jews. If true, this might implytwo things: the evil of a new Babylon (Saddam’s Iraq) “augmented” by animositywith a new Jewish State born out of the consequences of the “first” holocaust,implying a second holocaust might be coming for the Jews. This topic is covered inNostradamus’ prophecies in detail in the eBook, Nostradamus: The War with Iran.Babylon-Iraq is the key. Iraq pulled the military forces of Western powers andAmerica into the heartland of Middle Eastern strife through a number of conflictssince 1990 leading to the US unilateral invasion of Iraq with disastrous consequences.A bloody and fruitless occupation (2003-2011) drew a number of jihadist terroristorganizations like al-Qaeda out of the fringes and embedded their cancer of extremeIslamo-Fascism in the heartland of the Middle East. Saddam Hussein fell, as forecastby Nostradamus, in the beginning of the war of his Third Antichrist (2 Q62, 8 Q77).

NOSTRADAMUS 201285He’s also a prime candidate for Nostradamus’ Third Antichrist and as the Epistleearlier showed us, these events, the War of the Antichrist, take place after theeclipse in 1999.They have.Including even some of the natural disasters and “mighty” earthquakes. Theybegan rolling in along the regions occulted by the eclipse in a swarm within twomonths, then again 16 months afterwards:Just weeks after the eclipse on 11 August 1999 great earthquakes beganrocking lands overcast in the Moon’s shadow. First, a magnitude 7.4 inthe Izmit region of Turkey on 17 August, killing 17,000 with an unofficialdeath toll exceeding 36,000. Next Greece suffered its worst temblor in20 years on 7 September 1999 with a 6.0 magnitude quake in Corinth.Fountains of salt plumes sprouted in the brackish marshlands ofthe Rand of Kutch when an earth tsunami on 26 January 2001 rolledeastward across the western Indian state of Gujarat, the terminus wherethe Moon’s eclipsing shadow had lifted off into space 16 months before.The magnitude 7.7 earthquake leveled a wide area destroying 400,000homes killing 20,000 and injuring 163,000. Some put the unofficialdeath toll closer to 100,000.Nostradamus: The War with Iran (2012 edition)Nearly nine years later in the seventh month of 2009 (July 21-22) a new and morepowerful eclipse – the likes of which won’t see the total eclipse shadow lasting sixminutes, for 123 years – began shadowing the Earth exactly where the 1999 eclipseleft off, in Gujarat, India. I’ve had a suspicion that Nostradamus peering into ourtimes in the far-off future might have mistaken the great eclipses of 1999 and 2009as the same.The Moon being eight percent larger than the Sun at perigee, cast a monstershadow 258 km (161 miles wide.). That shadow first touched down on the Gulf ofKhambhat off Western India around dawn of 22 July, Indian Time. The gulf cuts intothe Gujarati landmass slightly east of where the 11 August 1999 eclipse shadowpassed beyond Earth. The 2009 shadow passed rapidly eastward over the crowdedGanges valley overshadowing Nepal, Northern Bangladesh, Eastern Tibet, thendrew a line across Burma finally transiting the densely populous heartland of China

NOSTRADAMUS 201286overtopping several of its largest cities and industrial centers. Chief among them arethe 20 million dwellers of Shanghai. Then it ventured across the Islands of southernJapan over the vast surface of the Pacific Ocean past Samoa, up to a point north ofTahiti.The 1999 and 2009 eclipses together cast an awesome partial and total eclipseevent witnessed by billions of people in Europe, the Middle and Central East, theIndian Subcontinent, East Asia and the Central and South Pacific. It brings to mindthe Solar Eclipse prophecy 3 Q34 placing the event of a portent of economic collapsecloser in time than 1999. Here it is again:3 Q34Quand le deffaut du Soleil lors ƒeraSur le plain iour le monƒtre ƒera veu:Tout autrement on l’interpretera,Cherté n’a garde nul n’y aura pourueu.When the eclipse of the Sun then will beThe divine omen will be seen in the plain daylight:Quite otherwise will one interpret it,High price unguarded, none will have provided for it.The Great Recession began in 2008 and reached its rock bottom in 2009, the yearof the second eclipse. As with 1999, natural upheavals seem to beset the placesovershadowed in the ensuing 18 months.Two months after the eclipse a swarm of severe quakes erupted in Septemberthrough October 2009, including a 6.1 earthquake in the Himalayan kingdom ofBhutan killing dozens and causing widespread infrastructure damage. It was feltacross the Brahmaputra River plain all the way to Bangladesh. Then came a 7.6 quakethat ravaged the Indonesian coastal city of Padang followed by an 8.3 earthquakeand tsunami emanating from a tectonic subduction zone near the American Samoanisland chain in the South-Central Pacific. The eclipse shadow did stop touching Earthnear the Samoa and American Samoa islands, it also passed its black umbra overthe Ryukyu Islands off the tip of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islandsof Japan. One year and seven months later, the 9.0 magnitude Tohoku superquakelowered the northeastern coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu three-to-sixfeet, allowing a vast tsunami to flood the sinking lands and carry off 24,000 people

NOSTRADAMUS 201287on 11 March 2011.The Tohoku Tsunami rested the fishing boaton a two-story roof.The first travails of a new Nostradamusage born on a solar eclipse stretch beyondthe shadow of 1999 and 2009. Before Tohokucame the Pacific-wide spread of a tsunamifrom an 8.8 magnitude quake in Chile inFebruary of 2010. A month before that,a magnitude 7.0 leveled Port-au-Prince,the capital of the Caribbean island nationof Haiti with a massive loss of life in oneof the deadliest quakes of all time, killing316,000, injuring 300,000 and making 1million homeless. Before that, what mighthave been a far more deadly temblor rankled the bottom of Asia off the west coastof Sumatra in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004. A massive 9.3 temblor sent atsunami into Sumatra’s Bandar Aceh region washing away hundreds of thousands ina tsunami ranging from 45 to 80 feet high. Another tsunami raced across the entireIndian Ocean at the speed of sound and within hours drowned tens of thousandsalong the east coast of India and Sri Lanka. The wave surged down the streetsof towns and coral islands of the Maldives stretching all the way to the shores ofEast Africa. The official death toll is 250,000 even though it is impossible to counthundreds of thousands more living off the record books in the heavily populatedcoastal slums and towns of the Indian Ocean, nor count the great loss of life inBurma that went unreported.Kingdoms (nations) have suffered complete reversals since August 1999. Theshock of the 9-11-01 terror attacks on the US forever changed its people’s senseof peace and security as they completely reverse one regime after another in animpossible hunt to catch and kill all terrorists in Afghanistan, in Yemen, in Somalia,invading and occupying Iraq, overthrowing Saddam Hussein, bringing assassinationand upheaval in Pakistan.After 1999, great droughts in Russia (2010), in the United States (2011,2012) cut off affordable imports of food to North Africa and the Middle East. Russia’scut off of grain exports emptied bellies and bank accounts and fed the fires ofrevolution and counter-revolution across the Middle East. Further droughts in theUS and Russia feed the danger of region-wide sectarian civil war between majoritySunni and minority Shia sects of Islam that might see the bloodiest of civil wars

NOSTRADAMUS 201288there, in Syria, spread across the region. They become Islam’s version of the greatChristian Thirty Years War between Protestant and Catholic armies that reduced thepopulation of Middle Europe by half.The reversal of kingdoms is being prepared and countenanced by Israel andthe United States bent on overthrowing the Ayatullahs overlording Iran as late asthe mid 2010s. The US begins moving its military assets in the South and WesternPacific in preparation for some future showdown with an emerging China. The GreatRecession that Nostradamus seems to have foreseen in verse may skip into an evengreater depression than that endured by the world in the 1930s, leading to theSecond World War.These tribulations foreseen by Nostradamus aren’t seven years long asinterpreted by some end-time scholars of the Bible. His Epistle records a periodmore than SEVEN DECADES long:Epistle to Henry II& ne tiendra tant ƒeulement que ƒeptante trois ans, ƒept moys.And it will last 73 years and seven months.Begin the count with the eclipse of 11 August 1999. The death and renewal processfor human civilization is presaged to last until far off March 11, 2073!And the Photonic Band Played OnOne might argue, with some merit, that enough cloudy language exists in thesupporting quatrains to infer other possibilities for sudden darkness and shadowcoming from the sky. Some rather than all of these verses might be describingother natural disasters blackening the sky, such as Rome being destroyed by asupervolcano eruption from one dormant system situated in the northwest suburbsof Napoli sending an ash cloud occulting Rome from the Sun. Like any interpretation,imaginatively logical or not, no one can honestly say with complete assurance exactlywhat Nostradamus intended unless in some rare moments he comes out into thelight from his cloudiness and states something objective that can be corroborated,such as saying a calendar marking a new age would be drawn in the year 1792.That happened.These bold, clear and quite rare predictions expose the prophet’s gift to thehard judgment of actual events. Nostradamus’ emphasis on 1999 as the year the

NOSTRADAMUS 201289motor of the centuries is renewed is one of those bold and clear gambles at forecast.Moreover, he may have good reason to target 1999 because the subjective vision ofa prophet and astrologer for once is supported by objective astronomical science asGeoff Stray pointed out on page 312 of his encyclopedic tome on all things Mayancalendrical:The winter-solstice 2012 termination point of the 13-baktun cycleindicates a 36 year window (1980-2016) in which the winter-solsticeSun rises on the galactic equator. Astronomers variously put the exacthalfway point of this process at 1998 or 1999. The Olmecs and Mayatargeted it at 2012. Some commentators have said that he Maya werethus 13-14 years out with their end point, which is still quite impressiveconsidering it was calculated over 2,000 years ago by anontechnologicalsociety. (The Mystery of 2012, Predictions, Prophecies and Possibilities,©2007, Sounds True Inc.)The ancient Maya astronomers of Tikal as breathtakingly accurate as they wereusing thumb, string and stick, following the mathematical calculations of their Olmecancestors (who arrived in Central America between 1800 and 1500 b.c.e.) werebested by modern star gazers. They just can’t match the accuracy of computersused by modern astronomers of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to clock themotion of Sun and stars across the galactic equator, at galactic center.John Lamb Lash, mythologist and author of Quest for the Zodiac (StarhengeBooks, 1999), reminds us that Mesoamerican time keepers didn’t align their standingstones (stelae) to the movements of the stars, Sun and Moon, or orbits of planetslike one sees in the Old World. The Maya forsook marking these and the seasonsalthough their temples can be oriented to stars and planets the stelae are solelyused as date-keeping dolmens. How then do modern 2012 experts find a way tomake these counting stones account for positions and movements in the heavens,such as pinning all credibility on the lineup of Galactic Center when the 13-baktuncycle shifts?They must be doing it in their imaginations. Vincent Bridges against a backdropof whizz-bang television CGI of galactic centers and rolling star fields declaring his“end of the world as we know it” salvoes aimed at the winter solstice of 2012 seemsto me to just skirt the issue that all that whizz-clanging should have happenedsometime between the winter solstices of 1998 and 1999.

NOSTRADAMUS 201290At least a leading Mayan Calendar Magus like John Major Jenkins, who isperhaps the most well-known purveyor of Mayan Calendar theories after the late JoséArgüelles, addresses directly the inaccuracy of pre-technological Olmec astronomersmissing the real galactic alignment advent window in 1998-99 (off by 13 years).Still, he seems to do so by outflanking clear astronomical fact drawing metaphysicalconclusions to mathematical evidence. He sends us through a gush of arithmetic andcalendar reverie citing a dispute between Native American prophecy scholars. It’sabout which “age” is actually undergoing a great and purifying death and renewalin our times being directly related to the Great Year, Precession of the Equinox,requiring us to look at a longer period of purification and change that includes aperiod staring with the final katun (5 April 1993) that ends on 21 December 2012.Sigh…I’m so ready for this Twenty-Twelve-ish mathematical mash of brain bendersand their advocates to at last end in irrelevance. Aren’t you?My brain feels like a Frodo fried egg, popping and sizzling inside my skullagainst the hot, flatiron rock outcropping of Mt Doom. That rock suspended like anisland in a tilted river flood of cascading lava from the eruption that ended the ThirdAge of Middle Earth. The “Fro” had caused it when pushing Golem, the Ring andhimself over the ledge above the Crack of Doom.Frodo caught the ledge and was saved by Samwise Gamgee. Golem and thering – which is starting to look more and more in my weary mind like the circle stoneof a friggin’ Maya Calendar – went ker-plop into the lava, oh thank goodnesses!Writing this book in a narrow crack of doom time, I, like Frodo, collapsed onthe rock, eyes closed. I feel the end of a bit off finger I pointed too long and oftenat these Golem Doyens of the Maya Cult. My eyes close. This all is a reverie thathappens sometime after 21 December 2012 (when I publish this eBook just afterNew Years 2013) and like weary Frodo I rasp, “It is done.”To my side is Samwise Gamgee saying, “Yes, Mr. Frod’Hogue. It is over now.”But it isn’t done yet. There’s a band playing on. Where were all of these“experts” in 2012 when the Photonic “Band” was actually playing in 1998? Do youremember all the photons and circumstance of it, the great anticipation amongstpurveyors of the New Age movement that galactic alignment was coming with thewinter solstice of 1998? Where was an explanation from Vincent Bridges 14 yearsearlier, about when these gamma ray beams from the center of the galaxy wereexpected to ray gun us with a collective consciousness shoe lift or something? Howcan these “experts” now carry the dead light bulb of this passé idea talking about

NOSTRADAMUS 201291the anticipated “light” coming at us from Galactic Center come 21 December 2012?2012 winter solstice isn’t a waxing moment of climax. It’s not birth, it’sempty beer bottles staining the party floor. It’s the messy placenta of somethingmysterious that might have already happened that New Age fixations of gamma raymoonbeaming mooning, crystal-hugging fools overlook.The party’s over.We didn’t get enlightened by photonic bands of light, folks. Look at historycoming afterwards.Perhaps this fixation on narrowing down the exact moment and hour is a passionof gringo experts from the north and not the obsession of ancient Mesoamericannatives. I’ve had the fortune of meeting many Native American prophecy experts,including Thomas Banyacya of the Hopi who was pivotal in releasing to the worldat large the secret and ancient oral history and eschatology of Hopi Prophecies ofthe Great Purification. Consistently these quiet and patient men and women of theEarth, of humility and meditation haven’t talked about the future changes of agestop-heavy with intellectual and mathematical bling jingling in their skulls like theCaucasian Callemans, Weidners, the Bridgeses, the Major Jenkenses ad-nauseum.The native shamans I’ve known sing from the heart ofprophetic matters. It is a slow song, as slow as the gradualchanging of seasons in a year, gradual as watching the tidesof the ocean moment to moment slowly rise, slowly fall, asinfinitesimally in the moment that one can wait and actuallywatch the color of leaves change when fall approaches. TheNative American elders of prophecy from North, Central andSouth America that I’ve sat with, meditated with, share acommon wisdom, a more open-ended, less time-specificunderstanding about the shift of the 13-baktun cycle or the Thomas Banyacya.Great Purification that it might bring, like a new season-age ofEarth life.Nostradamus may have correctly gauged the year when the shift of seasonsactually happened by citing 1999. Though he perhaps never knew a Maya shamanexcept in the hopeful myths of Don Ramon and Carlos Barrios perpetuated by Roisinthat Ulrico de Maguncia turned him on to it.Nostradamus also understood that great quickening of time in their epochalchange of seasons takes time. Banyacya told us the Purification would take manydecades. Nostradamus tells us there will be as many as seven decades before we

NOSTRADAMUS 201292are through the death and transfiguration of humanity into a new world. Both he,whom I’ve studied long and hard and the Native Americans I’ve met, share the viewthat 1999 is no more than a moment chimed on the clock at midnight. It is but amarker, a reference point, just like on your regular calendar when you notice it is thelongest day of the year or the shortest day of the year, or when spring is born, orautumn on the equinox days. A point of time is only a posting of relative periods ofchange that even in their quickening are gradual – not moments or seconds to getfixated upon or anal about. The knell of the midnight clock is just part of a waxingand waning process while the photonic “band” played on.

NOSTRADAMUS 201293CHAPTER 5Many Crossroads in TimeCue the Proph-arazzi2012 is the Lindsay Lohan of End Time dates. She’s the Hollywood starlet ofstargazing ancients that can inspire moonbeam-eyed explorers to mythologize a runup a crumbling shaft of shale on Robinson Crusoe’s Island like paparazzi poised tophotograph her rare and auspiciously calculated, stoned “mooning” of the Pacific fora 5,125-year anticipated party. Mesopotamian end time is too broad and operatic,taking a cosmic year to come. Hollywood likes a quickie “it” girl. End timers like asnappy and uncomplicated calendar pin-up call girl to rock their world with caldoamor ferbrante-burning warmth on a solstice winter night. Holé!. And that’s no foobar.I mean, look who starred in her own major motion picture?2012 of course.Did you bijou a flick recently called Stop my Wheel of Dharma I want to getoff! or The Hopi Hangover - Final Warning? Did that Hollywood version of CNN calledEntertainment Tonight wolf-blitzer down a high heeled, silicone-heaving movie trailerfor end time epics called Yabba Dabba Kali Yuga or Catch Me if you can Jupiter-Saturn Cycle?There was no Oceans 11-Year Pleiadian UFO Return. Jodie Foster dove bucknaked backwards in Nell. Who can play supersized, buxom Nibiru flopping her vastplanetary curves into the inner solar system? And who can Angelina Jolie that actionfigure to Van Allen Belt fry the Solaris Maximum?

NOSTRADAMUS 201294Popularized “paparazzified” prophecy needs something simple, a one-liner starwhose number everyone gets without complications of reflection. Take a real dramaqueen in and out of interpretive rehab. A date diva doomsday that everyone wantsto vote in favor for on his or her craven American Idol show and naughty tell.Dumb the doom down, baby.Let her wrap her Daisy Duck collagen lips around my Mayan solstice. Give herthat big boob tube job. You’ll sell a lot more ad time! She’ll fill out the cover of anautobiographical confessional every New Age publisher will print, crowding out andrejecting all other doom-dreamy dates and cycle sirens of prophecy because, reallynow, they’re tooooo complicated.She’s coming out of the limo. Get your camera loaded. Just look at that beautiful“end” time, shakin’ it down the red carpet in my strobe light.Oh baby! Hey 2012! Over here 2012! Hey honey, give me the shot. That’s itbaby. Sachet! Baby, just like that. Ahaaah! Shake those pair of perky twos, 2012.Yeeaah! We love ya! Oh yeah! Great picture. You’re so real 2012. Really! I mean it.Loved you in Herbie: Fully Loaded! Awesome!Sensational media hype may be silicone-framing 2012’s end proportions allout of true perspective. When books and documentaries on 2012 mention other timecycles they usually edit their talking heads to make it sound like the others backup 2012’s primary role, like a chorus line dances behind Cyd Charisse in an MGMmusical, frolicking, leg-kicking in the background.What unappreciated chorus line of ending times wouldn’t like to diss 2012’spublicity agent?What if this Lindsay Loutish end time on stage is all just spin? Rather than2012 being the primary and most important date you take out on the night ageschange, what if she’s just one in a crowd of potential starlets in a Hollywood ragsto-richesmusical that just got a lucky break?Source: Columbia Pictures.

NOSTRADAMUS 201295Time’s “Reboots” are made for Walkin’Fame has seen 2012 put her dainty little boot in her own mouth. A contrarianprophetic lyricist might rework the lyrics of “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’” andhave Nancy Sanatra sing:“Reboots” are made for Walkin’That is what they do.One of these days rebootsare go’in to walk all over you.Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo,Doo, doo, doo, doo, doooo…Lindsay Glitzy Lohan with the low down on Twenty-Twelvedom was “mussing whereshe shouldn’t-a-been mussing”. Upstaging a whole plethora of time cycles out there.Time’s up. The girls are ganging up on our Mayan stellar starlet converging on thestage of present time. Just because popular bias has given the Miss ArmageddonCrown to 2012 doesn’t mean there isn’t a host of end-timing age-recycling sirens ofequal and perhaps superior interest that our narrowed fixation on 2012 might havemissed.We are living in a cusp of time between the past and the future. The MayanCalendar may be the media’s star but as we will see below, it may be more factuallycompelling to say it belongs to a larger ensemble of great time clock girls to gawk,ringing our bells to change ages and renew.Western astrology maps the stars’ influence on human actions by what isdefined as the Great Cosmic Year. This is the time it takes the Sun to retrograde everyyear from the position of one Vernal Equinox to the next until its changing positionin the sky as we see it from Earth has circuited all the twelve tropical constellationsof the zodiac. This precession was first identified and recorded by the ancient Greekstargazer, Hipparchus, in his astronomical observations made circa 147-127 b.c.e. Atan annual motion of around 50.3 seconds of arc per year, the Sun takes 71.6 yearsto creep backwards through one degree of sky. Therefore, it would take the Sun’sglacially moveable Vernal Equinox position approximately 25,765 years to retreat acomplete 360 degrees through all twelve signs of the Zodiac. A month in the GreatYear is on average 2,160 years, though this varies in time length depending on theindividual size of each tropical constellation. A month can be divided into four suberasof roughly 500-year history cycles. A cosmic “day” on this calendar is an era

NOSTRADAMUS 201296lasting just under 72 years, divided into “day” and “night” eras, each 36 years long.Astrological prophets use the Cosmic Year to map the rhythmic long lasting,medium, or short lasting cycles in the measurement of the body of time. The greatage of nearly 26,000 years is divided into twelve ages lasting roughly 2,000 years.These then run in four epochal “acts” of 500 years containing day eras of 72 years.We are currently on the cusp or temporal boundary where the Sun’s Vernal Equinoxposition moves backwards away from the constellation of Pisces and is beginning toenter the constellation of Aquarius. The complete transfer isn’t coming in 2012 butwill take another 150 to 160 years to complete. Thus we are in a long twilight periodbetween the Piscean and the Aquarian Age. What is more important to divine is themoment when the equal push and pull influence of the past (Piscean) and future(Aquarian) of both ages imperceptibly moved in favor of the future. Will it be 2012?Before we can answer that, let’s bring more converging time cycles into thepicture. The Cosmic Year is based on a 12-sign Zodiac astrological system that hadits origins as far back as 3000 b.c.e. in ancient Sumer, Mesopotamia. A contemporaryearly Hindu civilization in the Indus Valley of South Asia promoted a system of tellingtime in four vast eras called in Sanskrit kalpas, each of which can be divided intofour smaller eras, or yugas. Each passing yuga is divined in a bovine metaphor asstages of social and spiritual stability in decline like a cow losing one leg at a time.In the first Sat-yuga (the Era of Truth), her balance of spiritual and materialexistence is foursquare and harmonious. In the Dwapa-yuga (the Second Age), a legis cut away, yet she can fake a good stance even though she begins to lose balancein her spiritual and material nature. However, in the Third Age, the Tretta-yuga, thesigns of material and spiritual lameness are clearly overtaking her. At last the finaland darkest era comes where all leg support and balance is lost, the Kali-yuga, orthe Age of Iron and Chaos sees our legless cow completely foundering in the mud.In this age, the kalpa has entered its Cretaceous era, its age of decay and death.This is autumnal history entering the wintertime of times before the tender springof a new kalpa and a new Age of Truth can grow from its corruption and begin thecosmic cycle once again. We are currently in the Kali Yuga which began around thesame time of the current Maya 13-baktun cycle that drew to a close in 1998-1999:3114 b.c.e.The concept of entropy also influences the Buddhist timekeepers. GautamaSiddhartha the Buddha said that the Wheel of Dharma, which creates the momentumneeded for a global search for truth, requires a new Buddha (awakened one) to giveit a fresh push on the prayer wheel of time every twenty-five hundred years. He

NOSTRADAMUS 201297divides the cycle into five, five-hundred-year intervals punctuated by a significantloss of momentum in the spiritual evolution of man. The first revolution starts around500 b.c.e. with a push from Gautama Buddha. Orbit number two pushes off the b.c.e.(Before Common Era) changing for a lunge into c.e. (Common Era) standard timewith Christ. Revolution three sees a weaker spin between 500 c.e. and 700 c.e., whileChina turned Buddhist and Islam was born. In the millennium year 1000, Europebecame completely Christianized and Asia turned Buddhist; an even-more anemicturn of the Wheel around 1500 c.e. witnessed the birth of Sikhs and Protestants. Itwould seem that the momentum of truth grinds to a halt around the year 2000 c.e.and needs a big push from a new Asian born world teacher.The Buddhists await Maitreya (the Friend), a world teacher from the Far East– about as far east as the Hindu version of the World Teacher expected at the endof the Kali Yuga, which may be around “now.”Whether you live in the East or the West, salvation comes riding to your rescueon a white horse. St. John in Chapter 19, verses 11- of the Book of Revelation paintsan apocalyptic picture of a militant return of Jesus Christ come to judge the wickedat the end of history. He’s diadem-crowned and adorned in blood-soaked raimentcalled, Faithful and True. He rides a white horse into the final battle and his tonguecoming out of his mouth “is like a sharp sword with which to smite the nations.” (HeySt. John, leave those cave mushrooms alone!)Hold your horses, Hosanna! The second coming set for our recent entry into thethird Christian Millennium could just as well be the tenth and final advent of a HinduAvatar galloping to our rescue to end the Kali Yuga. The Hindu scriptures give theirown prophetic legend of the latter-day messiah as Kalki riding down illusion uponRevelation’s white horse, not by knife edged fellatio, but with his own actual swordkilling the wicked nations. It would seem that Christian eschatology has borrowedits man on a white horse story from a more ancient Eastern source.Various Hindu scriptures keep time by the reincarnation sequence of thegod Vishnu the Preserver coming ten times in the flesh during four Yugas set togive the evolution of human consciousness a loving nudge – or a kick – in thebackside. Objective scientists look askance at all this prophetic mumbo jumbo, yetthey might be intrigued to see Hindu myth dump the creationist credo and appearmetaphorically evolutionary. The Hindus describe their first divine incarnation ofVishnu on Earth was a fish as if man’s oldest land ancestor was some eccentric fishwho one day flopped out of the waves and forever remained a fish out of water,bringing vertebrate life to the continents. Next, Vishnu incarnated as a tortoise. In

NOSTRADAMUS 201298other words, the next leap in evolution was from fish to reptilian dinosaurs. The laterepochs received their savior in the guise of a boar (perhaps representing evolution’snext leap of consciousness to mammals), a man-lion (brutish Neanderthals?), and adwarf (perhaps one of our diminutive and hairy cave-dwelling ancestors).Then enlightenment’s messenger evolved into something more primate inappearance, like Parashurama the demon-killer, who wielded an ax. Then came LordRama – hero of the epic poem The Ramayana. After Rama, the Vishnu oversoulincarnated as Lord Krishna, the blue-skinned God-man of mischief and cosmic play.If we correlate Hindu timings of the Yugas with those of the less mythical butarchaeologically tested computations of the West, we might discover that, since thetime of Rama, avatars have incarnated roughly once every 25 centuries or so. Thistakes in Lord Buddha, living around 500 b.c.e., as the most recent avatar. Scroll 25centuries forward and Hindu Kalki or Buddhist Maitreya is overdue in our own timessince we passed into the new Gregorian calendar “Kalki-lated” millennium.As we will see later, acid-popping psychonauts like Terrence McKenna theorizedthat time stops with the passing of 2012. Kalki in Sanskrit, being the tenth and finalAvatar of the four yugas, means “conqueror of time.” Faithful and True (i.e. Jesuskick-butt Christ with a tongue sword) heehaws a charge into the world-ending timein the Book of Revelation. Kalki the Conqueror of Time bestride a white stallionrides down illusion, and those attached to their illusions, to renew the Kalpa cyclebeginning with a higher stage of spiritual evolution until the holy cow with all herlegs restored, as it were, comes home to a new golden age. Jesus on white steedestablishes a new new world ordered up by Chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation.Wouldn’t it have been apocalyptically convenient if the Mayan Calendar wasn’toff by 13 years? Otherwise, those Twenty-Twelvers getting mathematically excitedby a winter solstice appearing on “21” December 2012 could tie in the date in withthe death and resurrection of a “new Heaven and a new Earth” after the first Heavenand first Earth vanished. Then there is the imperfect Mayan calculation that pops theend time party balloon of Revelation Chapter 7’s perfect number: 12 times 12 times1,000 equaling 144,000: those Jews given the seal of God upon their foreskins (Imean, foreheads!) that happens to mathematically match how many days are in abaktun: 144,000.And Toto? There’s two twelves too!Revelation “21” matches up with the winter solstice date 21, braced by twotwelves representing December and the twelfth year of the “21st” century, 2012!It’s enough to make a German cry “Zwölf!”

NOSTRADAMUS 201299Jesus Christ! It’s enough to make one fondle one’s multiples!Unfortunately, folks, the Maya messed up the math and we awaited and hada 13-baktun buzz-kill this 21 December 2012. No riders with sharp tongues ridingKalki’s horse. No new heavens and earths. No foreskins rising from the grave.A similar buzz-kill happened when the Buddhist Wheel of Dharma’s momentumof truth should have slowly stopped in the year 2000 with the emergence of a newAvatar pushing its wheel. Vedic and/or Christian apocalyptic revelations should havegalloped in on ending times, too. Yet, Western prophetic traditions are obsessed withmarking the end of days with incurable optimism. Christian seers have gambled onrolling Satan’s ball around the roulette wheel of spinning dates for doomsday morethan any other religion. Nevertheless, Satan’s snake eyes rattle in the reverend’scup for a lucky “I told you so” throw every passing of a millennium after Christ’sbirth/crucifixion. Most ministers of Christ’s good news rolled the dice for years 1000and 2000. It would seem that in both cases they crapped out. Just when the secondChristian Millennium was ending, some calendar bookies filled my inbox with theoriesthat solar year counts were wrong and we should clock doom by the lunar calendaryear; or, that history got Christ’s birth off by several years. In both cases the year1998 came up more often as the real turn of the millennium.Other post-second millennially depressed apologists explain the great noneventadvent of the Second Coming as a misunderstanding of scripture. Doomsdayisn’t about birth but death. It is anti-life. Thus hell breaks loose and Faithful andTrue rides us all down on his white horse sometime in the early 2030s becausethe millennium is supposed to turn on the 2,000-year anniversary of Jesus Christ’ssacrificial crucifixion on the cross before Jerusalem, not his birth in a manger inBethlehem.One might divine a different time window by bringing in the statements ofJesus into these theological apologias. In Luke, Chapter 21:25-26, Jesus says. Therewill be signs in the sun, moon and stars....Men will faint from terror, apprehensiveof what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.In short, look to celestial portends.Jesus, like other eschatological traditions, shares visions of the end timescoming presaged by heavenly signs. Christians would argue that the Jewish Biblehas Joel getting his message from Christ’s dad in heaven: I will show you wondersin the heavens… (Joel 2:30) Go to the Pre-Columbian prophets of the Hopi NativeAmericans and they presage a version of a global end and renewal time in a stringof final warnings, one of which includes, Near the day of the Great Purification, there

NOSTRADAMUS 2012100will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky. (Sounds like jet contrails to me.)When Jesus of the New Testament and Joel of the Old side with pre-Columbianprophets forecasting the end of the world heralded by signs in the sky. Many of usmight assume that Jesus and Joel are waxing astrological. Jesus in Luke 21:25-26talks about heavenly bodies shaking, moving. That might sound like ETs pilotingtheir flying saucer “stars” against nightly star fields in the great UFO flaps across ourskies since the Second World War. Aren’t people apprehensive and terrified just asJesus in Luke prophesied when witnessing UFO light shows since the Second WorldWar?Open the time window for such signs far wider. Humans mastered flight withOrville and Wilbur Wright’s liftoff of a bi-plane kite with an engine in 1902. My ownmaternal grandmother used to tell me frightening tales of German Zeppelins onterror bombing runs over Hull, England, shining the apocalyptic signs in the skies insearchlights from earth during the First World War. By the 1920s early commercialaircraft with lit cabins and wing lights were passing through the stars like portentsforever changing the firmament. The blinking lights of passenger jets running acrossstar and moon, and the brush strokes of vapor they leave across blue skies incobweb-like contrails, would adequately terrify any prophet of the Hopi or Hosannaliving before the 20th century.It seems we’ve been in a state of end times for a long time.Even Islamic prophecy watchers have marked a long advent window for thereturn of the 12th Imam, a learned Caliph of the Shia sect who around 700 yearsago dematerialized. He’s supposed to reappear in the Samara Mosque in Iraq whenthe end of the world is nigh. He’s late, it would seem because the end, or at leastthe beginning of Muslim end times began in July 1969 when a prediction-in-jestattributed to Islam’s founding prophet, Muhammad, proclaimed that, Islam will endthe day a man walks on the lamp of the night [the Moon]!The faithful of Allah, like the rest of us, saw the seemingly impossible fulfilledwhen men walked upon the “lamp of the night” in July 1969. Could this signify thatthe Islamic Apocalypse has begun? The year did mark the rise of militant secularand non-secular Islamic factions. Muhammar Qaddafi became the strong man ofLibya, a base for actively terrorist PLO attacks through the 1970s and 1980s. The1990s witnessed more religiously militant Islamic factions emerge, such as Usamabin Laden and al-Qaeda. First secular then sectarian factions have actively soughtnuclear and chemical weapons since 1969.From Semitic seers of Islam we move to Semitic Jews, and their anticipation

NOSTRADAMUS 2012101of the first coming, rather than the second, of their Messiah. Back in 1997, a quietceremony was held in Jerusalem on a corner of the temple mount that may have setin motion tomorrow’s terrible events when a small group of fundamentalist Jewishleaders laid the cornerstone for their future temple. The lowering of that stonebegins a thirty-year prophetic gauntlet where two apparently anti-Semitic messianictraditions clash for survival. The Semite Jews will either level the Dome on theRock of the Semite Arabs, so Immanuel can appear and preach in a new templeconstructed in its place and thus return the Arabs to righteousness; or Muslims willsave the Dome from destruction so their 12th Imam can convert the Jews to theirrighteous faith.Sometimes trying to get a gander at just when one should count the endtime’s arrival just stinks. Take for instance the five hundred-year-old Basilica of theBom Jesus, a relic of the Portuguese colony that once thrived in Goa, India. One canescape the heat and glare of the tropical midday sun and find within the dark interiorof a side chapel the cool-to-the-touch silver coffin of St. Francis Xavier. The Indiancitizens of this former Portuguese colony will tell you that the body has remaineduncorrupted by the tropical climate for five centuries.The mummified saint is a desiccated device of prophecy. It is foretold thatwhen Xavier’s corpse begins to rot you can set your watch for the onslaught of thelatter days. All local claims to the contrary, one need only regard the current stateof the Jesuit cadaver-under-glass to confirm that the beginning of the end time hasbegun a while ago.Want to start an argument at a party between American liberals andconservatives? Bring religion and now politics into this examination of end timeswith a cycle of time that many would say stinks of left-wing bias. Jupiter conjoinswith Saturn rarely, only every 20 years. It lines up with a powerful Native Americancurse of Tecumseh, leader or the Shawnee Nation, defeated by Caucasian Americanforces and lied to by their bogus treaties. Every 20 years the white nation would loseits chief as punishment for the white tribe’s bad karma with the Indians. The curseso happens to fall every 20 years on an election year cycle ending with a zero duringthe Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. Like clockwork since 1840, presidents of the UnitedStates elected in years ending with zeros campaigning under the conjunction havemostly died or in Ronald Reagan’s case (elected in 1980) narrowly survived deathand assassination attempts.The Famous victims include Harrison (elected in 1840), Lincoln (1860), Garfield(1880), McKinley (1900), Harding (1920), Roosevelt (re-elected in 1940, died in

NOSTRADAMUS 2012102office in 1945), and John F. Kennedy (1960). Reagan (1980) and G.W. Bush (2000)are the only ones who survived. Those who foresee the future with a politicallyleft-wing bias might say the curse of Tecumseh gave us a disputed election in 2000and democracy was shot. An Electoral College technicality backed by a SupremeCourt decision put Texas Governor G.W. Bush in the White House. His opponent,Vice President Al Gore had won a majority by a half-million votes, making leftistbelieve the Curse of Tecumseh has devolved to embrace all Americans in its fatalembrace – that the millennium marked the beginning of the “end time” for Americandemocracy. That end time is not in 2012, but perhaps six years ahead of it, 2020.The most politically correct cycle in time to discuss is the way certain importantinventions evolved in 500-year cycles, like the cosmic “week” of the Cosmic Year. Casein point, what you are reading before you on iPad, cell phone, Kindle or computerscreen, made of photons and electrons is the next 500-year evolution of mediacommunication since the invention of the Gutenberg printing press. Five hundredyears later, Gutenberg, step aside. Here comes Bill Gates and computer software.From presses to the Internet. From books made of paper, to pdf books made ofelectricity and light we go.The same jump took place in 500-year cycles in the arts and sciences. By theend of the 1400s, painting technique evolved away from medieval flat perspectiveto the Renaissance masters applying depth perception. Five centuries ago, theRenaissance was in high printing press gear, technology and science were on the riseleading to the peak of the Industrial Revolution around the recent turn of the lastmillennium. Renaissance painters illustrating messiahs began to move with movies,and now computers are the canvas of the new media Renaissance. Suffering sallowMessiahs painted on canvases 500 years ago hang in art museums. Today a digitalpaintbrush on template fashion blue and cool Avatars in 3-D movies.Less accurate ancient prophecy calendars than the Maya have their mathissues. For instance, the year 2000 doesn’t belong to the new millennium. Thosewho can count will tell you that the first year of the new era is 1 January 2001. Thereare prophetic calendar prophecies that back up 2001 as either the end time of thebeginning of endings and beginnings of a new age.According to Masoudi, a medieval Coptic historian, the Great Pyramid of Gizawas built by King Surid to preserve the spiritual and mathematical knowledge ofEgypt in a giant stone scripture that would weather not only the coming great floodbut a future world conflagration as well. Esoteric scholars claim that the Pyramidchronicles life from the time of Adam and Eve to the year 2001, when the world,

NOSTRADAMUS 2012103as Surid’s dream interpreters tell us, will be destroyed by fire coming from theconstellation of Leo.Cross over into ancient Mesopotamia and meet Berosus the 2nd century b.c.e.Chaldean astronomer who consigns us to Satan’s space odyssey when the currentsidereal precession of equinoxes draws to a close by 2001. He sees all terrestriallife and limb consumed by fire during a planetary alignment in July of that year. Agreat flood will follow the fire in October when, by his calculation, the same planetsare conjoined in Capricorn. (Sounds like it lines up with Nostradamus’ “Octobersurprise” in the Epistle.)The crosshairs of doomsday as a sniper narrow into focus from 2001 to aportal in time diameter of July to October 2001, to perhaps Nostradamus’ Sept mois(September month) of 2001, if his famous “King of terror” descending from theskies is in kind, like the fire out of Leo in Surid’s dream. The fiery Sun transits Leoevery August, just missing September, if Nostradamus entry of “1999” is a reversingnumber code for 9.11.1.Let’s recall from the chapter about Nostradamus’ powerful gift of forecastingdates and periods of time the following quatrain:10 Q74An reuolu du grand nombre ƒeptieƒme,Apparoiƒtra au temps ieux d’Hecatombe:Non eƒloigné du grand eage millieƒme,Que les entrés ƒortiront de leur tombe.The year the great seventh number is accomplished,Appearing at the time of the games of slaughter:Not far from the age of the great millennium,When the dead will come out of their graves.With all the ways we played with this prophecy already, the years 1999 and 2001are “not far” from the great millennium’s turning. The year 2012 is much fartherby 13 years; moreover, Nostradamus clocked the end of the exact grand alignmentcorrectly: in the year 1999.Those who forecast the future by using the soft sciences of gaming theory andthe extrapolation of quants and data trends provide us with a new family of epochepicallydated reboots of history.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012104William Strauss with Neil Howe in his book The Fourth Turning (BroadwayBooks, 1997) proposed a theory that modern history, just like nature, passes throughcycles of seasons – what they call generational “turnings” – lasting around 20 yearseach. The cycle repeats itself or undergoes a crisis era, a “fourth turning,” every 80years or so.The previous Fourth Turning came during the late 1920s with the Stock MarketCrash and a decade long global economic depression. The latter perpetuated aclimate of political and social chaos and economic disasters that aided the rise ofFascism, the attack on Pearl Harbor and eventually climaxed with America enteringand ultimately winning the Second World War.Strauss defined the First Turning as the American High (1946-1964) spanningAmerica’s confident expansion as the leader and pioneer of a new world order in allforms of art, technology economics and politics. In the next turning (1964-1984)Americans passed through a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion againstthe now-established order. Interest in alternative medicine, Eastern religions, andrebellion against the government (Vietnam, Watergate, etc.) marked this era.The Third Turning (1984-2005) is the Unraveling. Growing malaise, the spread ofgovernment incompetence, and a deepening division of the nation in cultural warsbetween liberal and conservative, evangelicals and secularists marks it. Straussdescribed it as “an increasingly troubled era in which individualism [I would addselfish-ism, or the meanness of me-ness] triumphs over crumbling institutions.”By 2005 we arrive again at the Fourth Turning – a new twenty-year era ofcrisis. Back in 1997 Strauss accurately canvassed many of the coming crises of the2000s: political gridlock in Washington DC, Islamic terror attacks of US cities (9/11)causing the loss of many personal freedoms of privacy (The US Patriot Act) and apreemptive attack of another country (Iraq). Worsening US-Russian relations. Helists serious constitutional disputes (Gay marriage, gun control, anchor babies),pandemics (SARS, H1N1, Bird Flu?) a global economic crisis (the great and ongoingrecession of 2008). Furthermore, he extrapolates what could be coming next as theFourth Turning meets the year 2012 and beyond when it started in 2005 and thecrisis plays out beyond 2025, a full 13 years after leaving 2012 in the temporal dustbunny bin.Here is an abbreviated list of his predictions from 1997:There would be a fiscal crisis, tax rebellions and demands for a newConstitutional Convention. A global terrorist group blows up an aircraft

NOSTRADAMUS 2012105and says they possess weapons of mass destruction. The US launchesa preemptive strike. Terrorists threaten to blow up an American city.War is declared and in the name of homeland security, many personalfreedoms of Americans are threatened. Many opponents charge, andI quote, “That the president concocted the emergency for politicalpurposes.” Whether rumor or fact, this accusation leads to a nation widestrike and foreign capital flees the US. An economic and constitutionalcrisis ensues. The president declares emergency powers rescinded byCongress. A new communicable virus spreads adding to the anarchy andlawlessness across the nation. The people demand the president declaremartial law. Meanwhile, anarchy in former Soviet republics leads to acrisis between the US and Russia. Iran allies itself with Russia. “Gold andoil prices soar. Congress debates restoring the draft.”Something else significant and close to a final climax happened at the onset of theFourth Turning in 2005. The second-to-last pope before Judgment Day was crowned.The medieval St. Malachy of Ireland on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1139 isreported to have left a list of papal succession unto the days of the Apocalypse,hiding at times remarkably accurate clues to the family heraldry, acts and names of111 future popes condensed in 111 Medieval Latin two to three word mottoes.The closer we come to the final successor donning St. Peter’s ring the moreclear the prophecy becomes. For instance, Benedict XV (1914-1922) is called Religiodepopulata or “religion depopulated.” During his reign, the Christian flock lost thirtysevenmillion to the slaughter of World War I and the Spanish Influenza pandemic,plus two hundred million Russian Christians who converted to the atheistic cult ofCommunism.John XXIII (1958-1963) is called Pastor et nauta - “pastor and sailor.” Theformer Patriarch of Venice (a city famous for its sailors) navigated his Catholic flocktoward revolutionary reform.Flos florum – flower of flowers – denotes the fleur-de-lis symbol seen on thefamily coat of arms of Paul VI (1963-1978).Malachy calls John Paul I De medietate lunae - “the middle moon,” or “fromthe half-moon.” Cardinal Albino Luciani (a name denoting the white light of the moonwas a pastor in the town of Belluno (good moon). His short reign ended in suddendeath on 28 September 1978, roughly halfway through a lunar cycle.John Paul II was De labore solis - “from the Sun’s eclipse.” He was born on 18

NOSTRADAMUS 2012106May 1920 - the date of a total eclipse (and interned in his tomb nearly 85 years laterunderneath the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on the day of an annular solar eclipse.After John Paul II comes the 111th pope, Benedict XVI, code-named De gloriaolivae – “glory of the olive.” The monastic order of the Benedictines has a prophecythat one of the final popes would be from their order. Though Benedict isn’t of theirorder, he sees himself in the role as a new St. Benedict renewing the Church.The Olivetans are another Benedictine order that use the symbol of the olivebranch of peace. They’re charged with preparing the world for the advent of Christ’sapocalyptic prophecies delivered to his disciples on the Mount of Olives. Thus itwas believed that Pope Benedict XVI’s reign, starting in April 2005, would mark thebeginning of the Church in apostasy and travail.Apostasy crises abound in Benedict’s troubled reign, starting with the severeundermining of his authority in 2010, because of the revelations of his active partin suppressing a plague of rampant child molestation by pedophile priest across theglobe. Though Benedict is approaching his late 80s and his health frail, he looks atthe time of this eBook’s publication in early January 2013, that he made it throughthe Mayan Calendar hullabaloo and will live beyond into the year 2013. Perhaps in2013, perhaps several years farther as 2012 shrinks from our memory, Benedict willpass on and the final pope in St. Malachy’s prophecy will succeed him. He appears ina short Latin paragraph that is the coda to the forecasted succession unto Doomsdayand Judgment of Earth’s people:In persecutione extrema Sacræ Romanæ Ecclesiæ sedebit Petrus Romanus quipascet oves in multis tribulationibus; quibus transactis, civitas septicollisdirvetur; et Judex tremendus judicabit populum.During the last persecution of the Holy Roman Church, thereshall sit Petrus Romanus [Peter of Rome], who shall feed thesheep amid great tribulations, and when these have passed, theCity of the Seven Hills shall be utterly destroyed, and the awfulJudge will judge the people.Rather than support an end time on a specific year, a preponderance of rebootingprophetic time keeping traditions converge 13 years earlier. Even those that advancechange beyond the new millennium do so like the fourth turning in 2005, denotinga crisis not ending in 2012 but passing on deep into the mid 2020s.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012107Returning to the shortest unit of Cosmic Calendar time, a Cosmic “Day” ofaround seventy-two years the Mayan starlet of end time dates gets crowded outby 2008 as the time for real changes. It was the year when the “daytime” phase of36 years fell into its night phase. The “day” husbands history sowing by a slight tiltof influence to the collective unconscious masculine forces what will be harvestedand reaped during the 36-year feminine (night) phase of history that’s subtly moreirrational and emotionally driven.The last time Cosmic Daybreak took place was in the years 1972-1973. TheMiddle East became the main flashpoint for the world and oil the capital export.Arab secular and Islamic terrorism arose. In the West, an interest in Eastern religionwas initiated, so also were political scandals hatched like Watergate that propelleddecades of decline in American trust of their government.We entered the Cosmic Night cycle in 2008. We will see History swayed bypowerful emotions and hysteria and less by reason and intellect. It was the emotionalpromise of change that heralded a new president in the US, Barack Obama. Thesowing of oil power in Arabia in 1973 reaps a potential undermining of that power inIraq, Afghanistan, a spread of revolutions in 2011 called the Arab Spring, a civil warin Syria and last but not least a rise of militant and perhaps soon a nuclear armedIran.Middle Eastern oil’s dominance in Cosmic Day reaped a pass peaking supplyafter the dusk of Cosmic Night in 2008. Interest in Eastern thought has reapeda dramatic shift of social, economic and political power to the cradles of EasternReligion, India and China. The year 2008 is the Cosmic Calendar’s 2012, and ratherthan end four years later on the Mayan Calendar reboot, it runs on until the nextcosmic Daybreak in 2044.The year 2008 passed into 2009 with Western Astrology’s “2012” – the longPluto transit of Capricorn began. This reboots a great cycle of revolutionary renewalthat comes roughly every 248 years it takes Pluto to transit there and back againthrough all twelve signs of the Zodiac from Capricorn to Capricorn. The last timePluto was in Capricorn (1762-1777) secularism and scientific enquiry broke free ofreligious dogma in the West during what was called the Age of Reason or Age ofEnlightenment and the beginning of the Industrial Age. New designs in social andpolitical structure came from the pens of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaireand Rousseau leading to the onset American Revolution.Track back several Plutonic cycles and you have it launching the Renaissance.Go back two millennia and you see the Gospel of Jesus become a working religion,

NOSTRADAMUS 2012108by which St Paul and the early evangelicals marketed Christianity (Capricorn is theHouse of business). It would become the dominant religion of the next two millenniaof the new Cosmic Month called the Piscean Age.Pluto’s return to Capricorn will usher in new revolutions in politics, economicand religion once again, but it doesn’t tap out three years after 2009. This transitcontinues into the 2020s leaving 2012 far behind.Interest in Hopi prophecies rivals that of the Mayan Calendar. These pueblodwellingof the US Southwest began divulging their secret oral tradition of prophecieswhen a number of “final warnings” presented themselves as far back as the SecondWorld War.In brief, the transition time of the Fourth World’s destruction (aka the GreatPurification) and renewal into a Fifth World begins when the white man makes “ironhorses” and suspends metal wires in the skies (19th-century inventions of the trainand telegraph). There will then be signs in the sky of cobwebs crisscrossing theskies (aircraft contrails). The forces of the “red” (communist), and swastika (NaziGermany) attack “Turtle Island” (North America).A terrible weapon will be tested on Native Southwestern American Indianlands called the “gourd of ashes.” It creates the power of the Sun lit on Earth (atomicbombs) and sterilizes the land for years.There will come from the East the tribe of the red cap red cloak peoples. (Orangerobed followers of the Hare Krishnas, maroon robed lamas of Tibetan Buddhism andred clothed and capped followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh [Osho]).The final warning states that the white man will build a permanent house inthe sky. White men began building and launching such in the 1970s with Skylab, theSoviet Mir Space Station in the 1980s. Space Station Alpha currently orbiting theEarth best stands out as this house in the sky, so the final warnings are complete:the Hopi Purification must be next. The Hopi say this world-changing purificationof the world will come by fire. Did the world flame out and be reborn when 21December 2012 arrived?Slow down… Remember, this prophecy of the Hopi is on Native American Time,not Gringo instant time.The fire of a climate warming began its significant quickening as far back as1998. The effort to build permanent teepees in space started back in the mid 1970s.Even the forest fire that destroys centuries of pine tree growth can take days;weeks even, to burn the old in preparation for the slow germination of seeds and thegrowth of the new forest.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012109The death and rebirth of an age can take a cosmic week of 500 years. Astrologerprophets tell us the invisible forces of the Aquarian Age first began influencinghistory roughly 250 years ago with the coming of the Age of Enlightenment andthe American Revolution promoting classic Aquarian virtues of individual freedomsupported by mass movement in democratic society and the rights of man to pursuehappiness. The full flowering of the Aquarian Age isn’t expected for another 250years. The Piscean Age, as of the year 2008 – and not 2012 – has past the cuspof its past-oriented and retreating drag on human forward progress. Each year theemerging new Cosmic Month will see Piscean thought and belief systems relinquishedfor better or worse. To put it another way, since 2008 we move as slow as time’s treerings grow year-by-year, adding height and weight to the gradual great Sequoia ofa new and rising age.People close to the Earth’s spirit, its seasons, seeding and harvests, knowthis. If you ask the early messengers of Hopi prophecy such as Thomas Banyacya,I never heard them obsess like a European might on the exact day, hour or seconda Native American time clock chimes in the end of eras. Native Maya shaman andanthropologist Carlos Barrios may have crossed over into this European thinkingunder the influence of José Argüelles but to those who pass on prophetic messagesuncluttered with popular hysteria or interest describe the Great Purification’s comingas something gradual as the change of seasons.In the reflective minds and patient hearts of many Native American seers, youdon’t wake up in new ages just because the white man’s calendar marks the passingof summer into autumn exactly when the Sun enters Virgo on the Spring Equinox.The great oak of ages does not sprout from a seedling in a second. You, reader,did not sprout from child to youth, to adult at the ringing of an alarm clock. Life isgradual, even in quickening times. When forests fall to fire in weeks, the germinatedseeds take months to sprout, and though a young tree’s early tree ring growth canbe very large and relatively rapid, it is still 12 months of growth.The Maya are also Native Americans and a majority of their elders andtimekeepers don’t put emphasis on the winter solstice of 2012. It’s just the end ofthe 13-baktun grand epoch of 5,125 years. A long season of history now graduallyturns and changes into a new historic season. The gringos obsess on the exact timeand date of 2012. The Maya like other Native American traditions look at dates as ageneral reference point to our times of change.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012110The Final loud Flush of the Mayan OrbI published the following exactly a year before 21 December 2012 to explain howthis important shift of the 13-baktun Mayan Long Count “tick tocks” in a quickeningof history that still passes in relatively slow and leisurely Native American time. The“tick” to “tock” is 30 years long!I doubt you’ll hear about [the Mayan “Orb”] anywhere else. I don’t thinkanyone has written about it before because it mixes two very differenttraditions together, Western astrology and the Mayan alignment withGalactic Center, which happened, so say the more accurate computermeasurements of JPL, 13 to 14 years earlier than proscribed by Mayanastronomers for 21 December 2012.Now, if you made a measurement of the very slow precessionof the Sun through the stellar coal sack of cosmic dust obscuring theMilky Way Galaxy’s center next to the constellation Sagittarius’ arrow,the time the Sun began back tracking each winter solstice through thestellar cloud until it completely leaves the cloud takes 30 years.The Sun began its retrograde retreat in 1986 and won’t becompletely out of the cloud in winter solstice lineups until 21 December2016.Astrologically speaking you could say an exact conjunction of theSun-Earth and galactic Center had an “orb” – that is, an influence onworld history, intensifying between 1986 through 1998; then, climaxingin 1998-1999; then, gradually de-intensifying its influence on historyafter 1999 until all influence ends by the completion of 2016.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012111Applying the orb concept in this way is by no means traditionalastrology. Yet in the spirit of these revolutionary times of new beginnings,I asked myself, Why not do what Steve Jobs famously said, “thinkdifferent” about how we theorize and customize new ways to interpretthe portents of the cosmos?A new future requires a new augury.Therefore, I interpret this Mayan epochal boundary line in timedrawn between two ages with the temporal thickness of 30 years is thedeath and renewal period of two 5,000-year Mayan cycles (1986-2016).The Maya mathematics is in love with fives, so 30 years divideinto six, five-year units of time. These then are the “degrees” of the orbof six five-year long “degrees”. With the winter solstice of 2011, historybegins the final five-year long degree to its complete transition fromone 5,000-year old Mayan epoch to the new epoch, thus completing thereboot of the cycle by the winter solstice of 2016.There’s a lot of clearing and cleaning out of the last vestiges of thefading 5,000-year baktun cycle to come. Consider the many flash pointsof revolutionary upheaval to come after 2012 when Uranus (revolution)and Pluto (established order) square off in waves of revolution in allwalks of life in May 2013, November 2013, April 2014, December 2014and March 2015. The last Sun and Earth’s alignment with galactic centerwill occur on the winter solstice of 2016, just a little over five years fromthe time I write this in November 2011, in the year the IEA [InternationalEnergy Agency] says the Rubicon will be crossed in Climate Change.That is when current trends of growing carbon emissions of our “carbonbudget” has maxed out at 450 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxidein the atmosphere that in 2017 begins to trigger a cascade of climatechanges threatening the sustainability of future civilization.As the toilet flush is at its loudest and rapidly cyclonic spin at theend of the “plunge”, I expect the next five years to be the most rocky ofthis passing down the tubes of one great Mayan counted era of historyto the birth and travail bringing on the new. We are talking about a newera flush that hasn’t happened since the third millennium b.c.e. Most ofour known human history, its fossilized and fecalized traditions must“gurgle” and loudly report their departure down history’s plumbing andsince Mayan years begin and end with the winter solstice, 12/21/12

NOSTRADAMUS 2012112marks one year down, four purging years to go, cleansing away the old,the past, the stupid.Predictions for 2012, Chapter 9: 12-21-2012Subsection: The Future in the Final Mayan OrbThe question whether 2012 is a specific or general reference point for the end andbeginning of an age was a subject to which one of the earliest non-Mayan, Caucasianauthors deeply contemplated. He was anthropologist Frank Waters (1902-1995).Waters, author of the ground breaking Book of the Hopi (Viking Press, 1963) wasamong the first Caucasians to hear the secret Hopi prophecies of the Final Warning,disseminating and sharing them to the greater world beyond the Hopi pueblos ofBlack Mesa, Arizona.Waters also compiled a study of Mesoamerican prophecy in his book MexicoMystique (1975). He presented in its pages an original insight, that Aztec and Mayaend time prophecies and calendar systems had a specific and relevant messagefor people from the Americas, whether native or immigrant. All of us coming fromthe Western Hemisphere have a habit of repeating rampant devastation of North,Central and South American natural resources. Whether we number from the earlyprehistoric Native Americans who hunted large Ice Age mammals to extinction, orwe are descendants of the Classic Era Maya of the 10th century or the Aztecs of the13th – or if we are that new horde of immigrant Americans teaming across from theOld World to crowd, exploit and establish our supercharged economies – there’s apredictable pattern of over-exploitation-to-collapse that needs persistent, prescientwarning. The great classical Mayan time keepers could not keep themselves fromcutting down the tropical forests of Guatemala to fuel furnaces making the whiteplaster for their stone groves of temple pyramids that dotted the deforested landsand housed the sprawl of their rampant overpopulation. The forests felled, broughton a manmade climate change. The Monsoon failed. The soils eroded. Harvestsfailed. The signs of malnutrition and famine are evidenced in the skeletal remains ofthe Ancient Maya.Waters declares that we of the Americas, ancients and moderns, tendto construct socially and ecologically unsustainable and even self-destructivecivilizations: the greatest of these, being the current American Hegemon the UnitedStates. Frank Waters, many decades ago, believed that 2012 might mark a pointof no return from continuing a Western Hemispheric model for global civilization

NOSTRADAMUS 2012113of high energy consuming that is highly wasteful, polluting, overpopulating andecologically destabilizing. What caused the 10th-century Maya to literally abandontheir ghost towns, cities and temples was most likely a civilization much like ourstoday, exploiting the world’s ecosystem to a point of collapse that the highlands ofGuatemala could not feed, resource or sustain.Now we face a global collapse as India, China and other lands adopt andmagnify what is that all-Americas bad habit. The excess that devoured civilizationspast could undermine global civilization’s near future. The chime of the Long Countin 2012 isn’t the end of the world; however, if there’s a date for time running out onStupid, it is 2012. As you have already noticed, reading this eBook any time afterthe first weeks of January 2013, the quickening of history has definitely NOT sloweddown or even plateaued since winter solstice 2012. Uncontrollable history continuesits intensifying stampede, into the roaring 2020s.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012114CHAPTER 6Towards the Roaring 2020sPhoto: calc-tufa/Flickr(http://www.flickr.com/photos/ticky/)A Doomsday Decade AheadThe “quickening” isn’t coming to a climax at the end of 2012. The accelerationof history and events is more like a runaway train gaining speed, running pasteach “station” called 2008, 2009 2010 and soon to zoom past 2012, where a lotof people thought we would be getting off safely, slowing down time and history’smaddening, hustling rush. But, oops! If you blinked you might have missed theyearly station called “2012” whoosh past your window as your train tunnels fartherinto the unknown darkness of the future upon the mad momentum man makes.There’s a terminus of sorts for history’s current quickening pace where we maygo completely off the track. History’s system failure and train wreck on the trackof this timeline happens when futurology’s extrapolation of data crosses the trackof subjective prophecy’s apocalyptic visions of war, famine, pestilence and fires inthe sky from runaway global warming. What we do to moderate the train’s speed orimmoderate its acceleration can bring the train wreck sooner or a little later but onething I will state for the prophetic record, the year 2012 is just a passing stop andfor better or worse or both, we’re not getting off the speeding train there. Station2012 will retreat rapidly behind us and out of memory. Perhaps then at last we mightstart putting the brakes on our train of bad behavior and abuse of the planet andeach other when coming into view several yearly stations ahead is the real line oftime track whereupon our train and history reaches terminal velocity. We slip off thetrack with passenger cars crumpling like accordions in a mountainous jumble of a

NOSTRADAMUS 2012115global train wreck any moment after passing the station marking the onset of the2020s.The 2012 experts tried to drag Nostradamus out of his tomb to fit theirexpectations that he foresaw it as the most significant year, yet at best theirconclusions are based on imagination posing as intuition, or founded upon a LostBook of Nostradamus that was neither lost nor found to be written or drawn byhim. To believe this bogus book, one has to ignore all the documented propheticliterature that without question Nostradamus DID compose for posterity. The year1999 was his 2012, his beginning of the end of the world as we’ve known it. Hisdate for the quickening of history comes closer to astronomical science’s zero pointwhen the Sun conjoined with the exact galactic center, between the winter solsticesof 1998 and 1999. By accident or by a clearer intuition into predicting by the stars,Nostradamus got the correct alignment, without the aid of JPL computers, that theOlmec got wrong and later the Maya in their calendar calculations continued to getoff by 13 winter solstices. It just so happens that the 5,125-year 13-baktun LongCount rebooted around the time Nostradamus foresaw the beginning of apocalyptictravails. If he could get that correct, has he provided in his prose prophecies andquatrains evidence ignored by a fixation on 2012 that frames more accurately theapocalyptic climax of history’s quickening?He used astrology to structure the reoccurring cyclic passages of history’stragedies and lessons unlearned. There are also rare configurations that, set againstthe commentary of his verses, sound quite contemporary and follow as prescientvisions of the outcomes of many a futurologist’s worst-case scenarios coming to ahead in the late 2010s to 2020s.Nostradamus’ Tribulation of Quickening HistoryA relatively recent development in 2,000 years of Christian interpretations of

NOSTRADAMUS 2012116apocalyptic scripture emerged in the early 18th century and gained worldwidefixation ever since the hippies dropping acid started to “drop Jesus” as their newpsychotropic drug in the early 1970s. Concepts arose in the last century abouta “Rapture” event, based on as much circumstantial scriptural evidence as a fewwatercolor cards ties Nostradamus to 2012. In short, a chance phrase of St. Peterhere, and a few words of transformation “in a twinkling of an eye” by St. Paul thatcould equally be construed to mean the instantaneous moment when anyone at anytime could receive the holy spirit, became a “beam me up, Scotty” moment calledThe Rapture. That’s when saved Christians suddenly vanish in a twinkling of an eyeto dwell with Christ in the clouds while the rest of us languish in The Tribulation.It is a seven-year apocalyptic purging of the world just prior to the final battle ofArmageddon and Jesus descending on a white horse, adorned in blood soaked robeswith a curled tongue wagging like a cunalingas scimitar cutting down the wicked.Sounds like St. John of Revelation dropped his own version of acid, or maybeplucked mushrooms from his cave on the Island of Patmos that might have beensilo-silly-sibin hallucinogens.Anyway, Nostradamus, like all Judeo-Christian seers up to the 17th-century,and especially after the concept was more fully developed by Edward Irving in abiblical commentary published in 1706, didn’t believe in a Rapture followed by aTribulation of seven years. Still, there are indeed astrological markers where itseems Nostradamus is framing in time a general quickening of tribulations to aclimax. These are set in Nostradamian verse.1 Q16Faulx à l’eƒtang ioinct vers le Sagitaire,En ƒon hault AVGE de l’exaltation,Peƒte, famine, mort de main militaire,Le ƒiecle approche de renouation.Saturn joined with [Scorpio] transiting toward Sagittarius,At its highest ASCENDANT,Pest, famine, death through military handsThe century as well as the age approaches its renewal.This quatrain, along with 4 Q67 and 2 Q62 below, provides clues to the start of thefinal countdown of Nostradamus’ years of tribulation prior to the new age of peace.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012117The first astrological prophecy launches history’s accelerating period using thecycles of Saturn’s transit at the end of Scorpio (at its highest ascendant), enteringSagittarius (November 1985) just 13 months earlier than the winter solstice of 1986that began the 30-year Mayan Orb.Line 3 describes the beginning of a tribulation sequence theme that arisesin over a dozen quatrains, stacking up pandemics, great famines and a return ofescalating warfare in the world. By the mid-1980s, the AIDS pandemic was ascendant,great famines had already wracked Ethiopia and wars, especially in the homelandsof Armageddon lore. Conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East shortly afterwardsincreased with the bloody Iran-Iraq War coming to a climax, the Persian Gulf War(1991), the Iraqi Civil War (1991-92) the “No Fly” War over Iraqi Airspace (1991-2003) the two Intifadas of the Palestinians in disputed territories occupied by Israel,the first in 1987-1993 and second from 2000 to 2005.The century (the 20th-into-the-21st) as well as the age (Nostradamus timeshift near exact galactic alignment: 1999-2001) approaches its renewal.Line 1 could be a window framing the two times Saturn at the highest ascendantor degree in Scorpio – 30 degrees – passed into Sagittarius: November 1985 andonce again in late December 2014. A retrograde of Saturn will put it briefly back intoScorpio (June 2015) then forward again into Sagittarius by mid-September 2015.This 30-year Mayan Orb began 13 months after the first Scorpio-to-Sagittariustransit and would end 15 months after the second Scorpio-to-Sagittarius transit onthe winter solstice of 2016, setting Nostradamus’ window close but astrologicallyslightly earlier than the Mayan Orb for all these tribulations to begin. Certainly thenew century, especially after the true galactic alignment of 1998-1999 has seen amarked increasing crescendo of political, martial and ecological upheaval that, ifmy calculations are correct, will only continue to accelerate past the 2012 wintersolstice, past the 2016 winter solstice and markedly intensify once we’ve truly passedbeyond the Mayan Orb of 1986-2016.Century 1 Quatrain 16 is the opening salvo of a two-quatrain prophecy timinghis tribulation era. In usual Nostradamian dyslexic fashion, he puts the second halfof his vision in the previous quatrain:

NOSTRADAMUS 20121181 Q15Mars nous menaƒƒe par la force bellique,Septante foys ƒera le ƒang eƒpandre:Auge & ruyne de l’Eccleƒiaƒtique,Et plus ceux qui d’eux rien voudront entendre.Mars, you menace by the force of war,Seventy times will he cause blood to be shed:Increase and ruin for the Clergy,And more for those who will desire to hear nothing from them.Nostradamus here is either predicting a future year when 70 wars will plague Earthat the same time, or this is a temporal tie-in to his apocalyptic narrative from theEpistle, a tribulation of decades. Perhaps this is another layer to 10 Q74’s greatseventh number completed (seven decades). The pressures 70 conflicts place uponthe priesthood of the Catholic Church will be overwhelming. His dire vision parallelsthat of other Catholic seers like St. Malachy. He foresaw the destruction of Romeand a hard pressed final pope named Peter of Rome trying to feed his Catholic flock– perhaps literally, rather than with holy wafer ritual – because of widespread warand global famine that, as St. Malachy warns, utterly destroys the city of the sevenhills – Rome.Wars often erupt on Earth when Mars (God of War) is in either Aries or inLeo (ruled by the Sun or by a God of egomania if in negative aspect). For instanceback in 1995, I used Nostradamus’ astrology to calculate the highest potential timewindows for war in the first decade of the 21st century would come when Marsentered Aries at the same time Saturn entered its two-year transit of Leo (2005-2007). This danger would arise again when Mars was in Leo in June-July 2006, andin Aries again at the end of the Saturn transit of Leo in May-June 2007. Investigativereporter Seymour Hirsh uncovered proof of the United State’s clandestine war withIran that started in 2005, which was also year two of an escalating guerrilla war withUS occupation forces in Iraq. Hezbullah in Lebanon waged the “July War” againstIsrael in July 2006. The years 2006-2007 marked some of the worst urban bloodshedin the US-Iraq War. Sectarian violence nearly sent the country into a religious civilwar with thousands of Iraqis being massacred and killed each month.Here are the possible windows for a plague of 70 ethnic wars on Earth after2012. Mars is in Leo when Saturn is in Sagittarius in September 2015.

NOSTRADAMUS 20121194 Q67L’an que Saturne & Mars eƒgaux combuƒt,L’air fort ƒeiché, longue traiection:Par feux ƒecrets, d’ardeur grand lieu aduƒtPeu pluye, vent chault, guerres, incurƒions.In the year when Saturn and Mars are equally fiery,The air is very dry, a long comet:From hidden fires a great place burns with heat,Little rain, hot wind, wars and raids.When Saturn and Mars are equally fiery that means they’re conjoined in a fire sign,preferably one of those most responsible for wars and raids, Aries or Leo. In the 20thcentury, astrologers blamed Aries-Leo bellicosity for many bloody military offensivesin the third year of the First World War. Hitler’s forces conquered a bombed outWarsaw in the opening month of the Second World War under this malefic aspectin September 1939. Mars and Saturn were again together in Leo during the IndianPartition of autumn 1947, when over one million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims weremassacred in sectarian violence with 10 million displaced by new borders dividingIndia from East and West Pakistan. Mars joined Saturn in Aries at the onset ofthe Tet Offensive in January and February of 1968 during the turning point of theVietnam War. Mars was in Leo and Saturn in Sagittarius during the great Iranian“human wave” offensives of early 1987 during the Iran-Iraq War.The phrase hidden fires could imply a double entendre for a future US and/orIsraeli missile attack on hidden, underground Iranian nuclear installations – hiddenfires...burn with heat from the detonations of thermobaric gravity bunker busterbombs. Their deadly concussions unleash the hot winds from the long comet – amissile.The hot winds may cause wars and raids during other fiery transits of Marsand Saturn in the 21st century when the world suffers climate-induced wars whenglobal warming rains and droughts bring famine and flood in their wake from regionwidecrop failures and sustained floods or droughts such as in the summer of 2010.Remember, that drought scorched European Russia and Siberia setting 500 firesthat burned one-fifth of the third largest global grain exporters, taking the Russianbreadbasket off the global wheat market for half a year. The resulting grain pricehikes triggered a wave of revolution across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012120As we approach 2012 these super heat wave events cluster. Next they settledover the richest cornucopia of the world, the United States, reducing wheat, livestockand produce harvests by 20 percent. Just a few weeks before winter solstice 2012,reports of a winter heat wave crossed Texas and the US southern states withtemperatures reaching the mid-80s Fahrenheit. One wonders if the great drought ofTexas and the central US plain states will resume in 2013, 2014 and long after the2012 phenomenon is another New Age fad forgotten.Regional sectarian or social breakdowns into wars seem to follow ever sincethe 1998 climate change increase in velocity began. Here then is a list of “equallyfiery” configurations of Mars and Saturn to watch light match to tinderbox in thenext few decades. Note how NONE of these fall on the year 2012. The options fora chaotic new kind of wars of ambush and raids on overstretched and dwindlingenergy and food resources only gain frequency in the decades coming:Feb-Mar 2015 – Mars (Aries), Saturn (Sagittarius)Sept-Oct 2016 – Both in Sagittarius! (equally fiery)Jan-Mar 2017 – Mars (Aries), Saturn (Sagittarius)July-Sept 2017 – Mars (Leo), Saturn (Sagittarius)May-June 2025 – Mars (Leo), Saturn (Aries)April-May 2026 – Both in Aries! (equally fiery)Oct-Nov 2026 – Mars (Leo), Saturn (Aries)The astrological time window for war is as wide as a white shark’s glowering grin.That is, if 1 Q15 and Q16 plots a course for Mars threatening the world, starting inDecember 2014 with an increasing plague of wars reaching 70 conflicts over religion,resources of dwindling food and water stretching mayhem and bloodshed all the wayto the fiery entry of Mars (in Leo) and Saturn (in Aries) in 2026. This most powerfulof equally fiery confluences corresponds to the onset of Neptune (ruler of spiritualtranscendence or mass-minded unconsciousness and delusion) entering its long andfiery transit of Aries in 2026 where it will stay until 2038.The last time Neptune passed through Aires happened in the 1860s. Thatdecade broke the record for highest number of military conflicts raging across theworld simultaneously. Thus when you factor in Mars and Saturn both being “equallyfiery” in Aries, the sign of Mars, God of War, the year 2026 in particular and thelatter half of the decade of the 2020s is best presciently framed to have 70 wars ormore raging across the planet as consequence of a breakdown of sustainable global

NOSTRADAMUS 2012121civilization.Back in 1995 (and published in 1997), I observed the following: “In my opinion,this is the most dangerous time for a Third World War in the next century becausethis would come when the planet’s ecology food and water sustainability reacheda critical stress point due to pollution and overpopulation. This final and deadlyscenario can be avoided if humanity now gets serious about pollution control andzero population growth.” (Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies)The theme of Armageddon being an unraveling of civilization affecting bothhumans and animals was introduced in Nostradamus’ famous prophecy about athird and final antichrist whose death triggers either a 25-year or 27-year globalconflagration sometime after the year 1999 (or as the code for 1999 in Century 10Quatrain 72 implies, the year 9.11.1 September month.) Nostradamus’ gathering ofastrological warnings crowd the future beyond 2012 into the 2020s and 2030s withpossible fulfillment of this undoing of the world of people and animals – perhaps anallusion to the collapse of the world’s ecological balance in a mass-extinction event.He describes the worldwide undoing of human civilization in the following passagefrom his prose prophecy letter to Henry II, signed off in 1558:Epistle to Henry IIQuelle grande oppreƒƒion que par lors ƒera faicte ƒus les princes & gouuerneursdes royaumes, meƒmes de ceux qui ƒeront maritimes & orientaux… Tous lesRoyaumes de la Chreƒtienté, & auƒƒi des infideles, par l’eƒpace de vingt cinqans, & ƒeront plus grieues guerres & batailles, & ƒeront villes, citez chaƒteaux,& tous autres edifices bruƒlez, deƒolez, deƒtruits, auec grande effuƒion deƒang veƒtal, mariees, & veƒues violees, enfans de laict contre les murs desvilles allidez, & briƒez, & tant de maux ƒe commettront par le moyen de Satan,prince infernal, que preƒque le monde vniuerƒel ƒe trouuera defaictWhat a great oppression shall be made upon the princes andgovernors of kingdoms and especially those that shall liveeastward and near the sea [the Near East]...And in the last eraall the kingdoms of Christianity [the Western coalition] and alsoof the unbelievers shall quake for the space of 25 years [perhapsrelated to the 27-year war of the Third Antichrist]. There shall bemore grievous wars and battles. Towns, cities and other castles[fortresses] and other buildings all shall be burnt, desolated and

NOSTRADAMUS 2012122destroyed with a great effusion of virgin blood, married women,and the widows ravished, suckling children dashed against thewalls of towns. So many evils shall be committed by the meansof the infernal Prince, Satan, that almost the entire world shallbe undone and desolate.Approaching Catastrophe with Eyes Wide ShutA destiny of global war is described in the passage above as something likea worldwide rash of civil wars and social breakdown, a Balkanization of humancivilization. It is when a state of war becomes a state of chaos. Ethnic cleansing isa plague that could infect continents with the pustulous boils of war when ethnicplague could be either cauterized or spread worldwide. Russia and America hold thekey to preventing this happening. Nostradamus calls them the great brothers, therealms of Aquilon. Nostradamus hides the real kingdoms under one of his frequentlyused classical metaphors.Ancient Romans market the onset of the cold northern winds of late autumnearlywinter when issued from the direction in the evening sky of the constellationAquila (the Eagle). Aquila hangs high over the northern hemisphere shining its starlighton two great kingdoms that both use eagles as their symbolic emblem: America’sbald eagle and the new Russian Federation’s two-headed eagle. The Soviet Union’sdemise in the early 1990s marks the time we all should start watching and helpingthese two great brothers reconcile their differences. If we don’t, Nostradamus saysin another prophecy the brothers who aren’t yet brothers, who are divided “friends”,will be tricked by an Arab source and be dragged into a war in either three years andseven months or in 13 years.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012123Nostradamus the consummate master forecaster of periods of time confoundsus with a challenge to pick the right time to begin what appears to be a countdownto a second American-Russian Cold War turning this time into a nuclear war no onesaw coming.One place to start is August 2008 when the Bush administration began buildingradar and missile batteries in the Czech Republic and Poland far too close, thoughtthe Russians, to be used solely to shoot down a missile coming from a rogue MiddleEastern nation, but rather, a gesture to re-launch Cold War tensions. Deepeningthe danger was Russia’s response to the missile sightings, a war with Georgia, aUS-Israeli ally in the Caucasus, over a border dispute in August 2008. If that’s thebeginning of this unexpected end, we have missed a nuclear war in Nostradamus’short count of three years and seven months. That would have made it happen inMarch 2012. Improved relations between the Kremlin and the Obama administrationmay have nullified or pushed the potential conflict farther down the timeline. Itcertainly didn’t happen in 2012.Nostradamus’ long count of 13 years, still active, has thermonuclear doomsdayhappening in the Roaring 2020s in 2021. The following prophecies might presagea worst-case scenario we need never bring to nuclear fire’s light if we use ourcreativity and intelligence to prevent it.5 Q8Sera laiƒƒé le feu vif, mort caché,Dedans les globes horrible eƒpouuentable,De nuict à claƒƒe cité en poudre laƒché,La cité à feu, l’ennemy fauorable.There will be let loose living fireand hidden death,Inside dreadful globes –horrible! frightful!By night the city will be reducedto dust by the fleet,The city on fire, helpfulto the enemy.Inside a thermonuclear weapon are spheres ofweapons grade plutonium or uranium. Insidethree “dreadful globes” is the power to ignitea fusion reaction that can wipe out cities ina sea of radioactive flame. This is a photo ofwhat may be such a “globe”, secreted out ofthe Israeli nuclear weapons program in 1986by Mordechai Vanunu.No city has been reduced to dust, except Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No fires of such

NOSTRADAMUS 2012124completely consumed urban embers have been required as a navigation markerfor further bombings. The size of a weapon that could annihilate a vast city placesit in the realm of 25-megaton warheads Russia and the United States still hidein their missile silos, not yet disarmed or dismantled. This ghastly vision, one ofNostradamus’ most frightful, is still lurking in the future. The living fire is of fission orfusion reactions, emitting the hidden death of radiation sickness. The globes mightbe atomic or thermonuclear warheads or even the prophet’s attempt to describetheir missile casings, which in some weapons, such as those atop mobile missiletractors or on ships look like globes.Both US and Russian thermonuclear bombing pattern plans send ICBMsaloft in a doomsday carpet bombing that starts with cities farthest south, creepingnorthward. Has Nostradamus left this nightmare waiting in our future for the 2020s?2 Q91Soleil levant vn grand feu l’on verra,Bruit & clarté vers Aquilon tendants:Dedans le rond mort & cris l’on orra,Par glaiue, feu, faim, mort las attendants.At sunrise one will see a great fire,Noise and light extending toward the North:Within the earth, death and cries are heard,Death awaiting them through weapons fire and famine.A full-scale nuclear war using the current US-Russian arsenals would initially kill inthe first hour more people than all the wars ever waged. The radioactive dust anddebris, plus the fires of thousands of cities would create what is called a “NuclearWinter” – the Sun’s rays blocked for nine months to several years. The greatestloss of life in a Russo-American nuclear exchange would follow the initial blast andradiation plague effects that together might kill off 1.2 billion people in the firstweek. The rest of humanity, perhaps every two out of three Nostradamus expectswill die in his version of Armageddon, would succumb to the Nuclear Winter upendinghuman agricultural and transport supersystems. This would be his great famine,often mentioned in his prophecies that would be worldwide and render survivors ofit cannibals.Yet there are among you, people with cuddly, New Age hopes that 2012’s

NOSTRADAMUS 2012125passing brought about a rising of collective consciousness. It would seem fromNostradamus’ standpoint that rather than the winter solstice of 2012 opening oureyes to greater dangers and challenges coming for our evolution, it would seem manywill have their eyes wide shut to the clear and near future danger of a thermonuclearwar between Russia and America.The danger is clear and present! We assist the fulfillment of Armageddon byholding onto ignorance or collective denial of some basic facts. A reduction of nucleararms in the early 21st century of even 75 percent of the Russian and AmericanCold War nuclear arsenals agreed to by Russian President Mevedev and Obama’srenewal of START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) 8 April 2012 is not enough toavert nuclear doomsday. The New START promises a dismantling by 2017 of US andRussian Federation nuclear arsenals each to 700 deployed missiles and bombers,1,550 deployed warheads and 800 deployed and non-deployed launchers (missiletubes and bombers). That still leaves us with enough nuclear bang in their “peaceagreement” to annihilate human planetary civilization.Just one misstep, or crisis between Russia and America and the missiles ofthe Cold War can be retargeted within hours. The Northern Hemisphere could beconsumed by the thermonuclear war everyone wanted to believe was no longerpossible and those of us fixating on 2012 for doom or some contact collective highmass enlightenment event are feeding that denial. Awareness of the continuingdanger is our best defense in voiding the Nostradamus prophecies above as wellas a prophecy from the 17th-century German prophet named Stormberger. Thissimple German cow herder had a remarkably accurate record of accomplishment,forecasting the date and duration of World War One and Two.Stormberger left the following warning about the third and final world war:With open eyes will the nations of the Earthenter into these catastrophes.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012126Nostradamus was a pessimistic prophet only because he wanted to scare us straightout of being stupid with our future. If we heed the “stupid” and get smart, heleaves us a few rare and hopeful words of prophetic encouragement about times farbeyond 2012 or even the 2020s that roar with apocalyptic astrological gravitas inhis prophecies.In the Epistle he declares:Epistle to Henry IIEt ƒera faicte grande paix, vnion & concorde entre vng des enfans des fronseƒgarez & ƒeparez par diuers regnes, & ƒera faicte telle paix que demeureraattaché au plus profond baratre le ƒuƒcitateur & promoteur de la martiallefaction par la diuerƒité des religieuxA great peace will be established, union and concord betweenthe children of the frontiers [borders] who have been gatheredand separated by diverse reigns; and such will be the peaceestablished that he [Satan] who was instigator and promoter ofmilitary factions, born of the diversity of religions, will remainchained to the deepest pit.Perhaps it is a born-again United Nations. Union and concord will be forged betweenthose who fought each other in the Third World War. The references to separationbetween fronts or diverse realms is interesting because it implies that national andreligious divisions must fade away before a millennium of peace can happen. Ifthere are no nations, who will start a war? How can organized religions preach theirmonopoly on God and virtue if people come to understand that religious labels anddogmas cut and divide them from an intimate divine experience and from eachother? Perhaps out of one last paroxysm of suffering in the Roaring 2020s people ofthe 21st century will learn that the nature and essence of God dwells in every heartand that dogma and politics are the real Satanically inspired Antichrist.6 Q24Mars & le ƒceptre ƒe trouuera conioinct,Deƒƒoubz Cancer calamiteuƒe guerre:Vn peu apres ƒera nouueau Roy oingt,Qui par long temps pacifiera la terre.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012127Mars and the scepter [of Jupiter] will meet in conjunction,A calamitous war under Cancer:A short time afterward a new King will be anointed,Who will bring peace to the Earth for a long time.A swarm of Mars-Jupiter conjunctions began with the US decision to invade Iraq andthus get stuck in a ruinous (calamitous?) quagmire there. At the same time, theUS was planning for a second war with Iran. Nostradamus’ astrology, as I showedin great detail in my book Nostradamus: The War with Iran – Islamic Prophecies ofthe Apocalypse indicates the best time for that happening during President Obama’ssecond term is 2015 or 2016. That is right when the last impact of the Mayan Orb“flushes” out the old age for the new 13-baktun age of 5,125 years. If we arecorrectly onto something here, the Iraq war and the one planned for Iran are partof the same calamitous war under the sign of Cancer. President Bush, precedingObama was born under Cancer, as is the United States.This astrological prophecy is about what calamitous or peaceful future it cancatalyze with new leadership. It so happens that the Mars-Jupiter conjunction tookplace again right around the time of the inauguration of Bush’s successor, BarackObama. Now that Obama has won his second term, he’s perhaps the man who mightpull peace for Earth for a long time out of the jaws of a war with Iran, and a renewedcold war with Russia.The future will see Mars-Jupiter conjoined again in the 2020s: In Capricorn on28 March 2020; 27 May 2022 (in Aries), 15 August 2024 (in Gemini); and finally,20 July 2029 (in Libra). Perhaps they foretell another man in the White House whomight turn Russia and America back into friends. In any case, the timing of thesemost momentous decisions for the future sustainability of the human race are farahead of 21 December 2012, a date soon forgotten, a doomsday or bloomsdaydistraction that keeps our attention from facing the future as it comes at us, everymoment for a century of human upheaval, revolution and transformation.Every moment is a time for eyes wide to be opened.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012128CHAPTER 7The End of StupidAnd the Critical Mass of NowDid you make sure your rabid toaster doesn’t eat you on 21 December 2012? Letnot the vacuum cleaner turn on you and dust “you” up its bag. Otherwise, you wouldhave made true the silliness of the last segment of Part Four of Ancient Prophecies,the famous, and equally notorious NBC documentary in which I appeared. PartOne had some merit and a lot of national attention as it out rated the Grammys“and” Mariel Hemmingway kissing Roseanne Bar on other networks with a lion’sshare of TV viewers. Consequently, a two-hour pilot was budgeted to be a fourpart,eight-hour mini-series (1994-1996). I warned the producers that if they didn’tstart balancing the dire and doomy stuff about 2000 or the backup doomsy dayof 21 December 2012 being the end of days with alternative and positive views inprophecy – views I had provided on video – they would see ratings plummet, falland crash in each successive episode. Well, by the time Part Four came out, tackling2012 and the Mayan Calendar theme, the producers gave prophecy on TV a newlow in absurd interpretation. They portrayed a family at breakfast on winter solstice2012 being attacked and slaughtered by their appliances – because they thoughtthe energy from galactic center would make all robots on Earth rebel against theirhuman masters.Some Maya myths have stood the test of time and errant idiocy thanks to theever renewing and addled cognizance of Homo sapiens reclinae on the couch beforethe Boobus Toobus. Really dumb stuff about 2012 made it all the way to winter

NOSTRADAMUS 2012129solstice 2012 stirring fear and anticipation. I begin this chapter with an attempt toopen the windows and let out the stink of these last surviving collective brain farts.The Sum of All Fads of Forecast FearThe first “report” is first cousin to the Flat Earth movement in that it has as muchimaginative theory tied to no scientific or astronomical hard evidence as that thinningthough resilient club of knuckleheads who believe the Earth isn’t round. However,this Nibiru movement supports a “flatten” Earth theory.In the year 2012 the Earth passes nearly out of the Dark Rift of the galaxy justwhen Nibiru the rogue brown dwarf star that never quite lit its fusion furnace passesits shadow across the inner planets of the solar system causing polar shifts, if notliteral then electromagnetic. The magnetic field will flip out or we flip over from agravitational Nibiru nudge. Solar flares in 2012 will be the greatest recorded ever, sogreat that all of the electronics we depend on to record the event, warm the coffee,post porn and post apocalyptic web site survivalists, power the toothbrush, tool theTV, engage the petro pump, start the car – in short, all appliances, internet, powergrids etc. – grind to a halt. Without them a 21st-century, hi-tech dependent worldfalls back into a pre-electronic, pre-electricity dark age for months, even years.Get a horse and abandon ye your horseless carriage. If God had meant us tofly he wouldn’t have shorted out the computer that poops out virtual airline ticketsin the cold and cavernous unlit halls of airports. It just gets worse because we don’thave years to fix our power grids since by the end of 2012 we will see Earth alignwith the Sun and the center of the Milky Way.That can’t be good.Look what happened to all of us on May 5, 2000 when planets Mercury, Venus,Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were clustered in opposition and poised to tilt theEarth off its rotationary axis by 40 degrees. Remember that? Remember the Jupiter

NOSTRADAMUS 2012130Effect when anticipated alignments of Jupiter with Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,Saturn and Uranus were supposed to tilt the world over and sink California on 10March 1982? Remember when enlightenment was assured when we were supposedto pass through the Photonic Band or Belt in 1998? Remember all the apocalypticthings that happened that ended the world and turned on the switch of enlightenmentin the few who survived?I sure don’t remember but perhaps I’m just stupid.When fact puts future fears in doubt just move on to the next fad of forecastfear. When reality brings doom to doomsday expectations just blame it on acts ofGod or data suppressed by shadow elements in religious secret societies or overlordslurking in the darkness of governmental halls. Blame it on the Warlocks of Washingtonwonk or the Brujos of a shadow bureaucracy. It can’t be me barking up the wrongfire hydrant, sniffing the chemtrails. It can’t be a sign of our times foreseen perhapsfour-and-a-half centuries ago by the man everyone wants to drag into any prophecyconspiracy, as their main source for leaps of imaginary lapses. When you have ahuge and gaping hole in your theories, just drag the bones of that Nostra-damnablewhipping boy of skeptics out of his mausoleum and plug it, with scant depth or anyattempt to know what the prophet really knew or did, or predicted.Nostradamus may have looked beyond the magic circle at his angelic emissaryof his subconscious mind under the influence of trance and herbs with some alacrityafter the spectral being showed him a time when lady knowledge becomes a fashionstatement all Lady Gaga dolled-up-like, showing off facts like accessories – a footnoteto her footwear and wig-sculptures.Knowing, data, degrees of BS, MS and PH-piled high D-Litt-erally and deepadorns the atypical email hit-and-running, ubiquitously brazen ignoramus of theInter-gnoramus-net. It would seem that peasants still crowd the world like they didin the 16th century. Only now, they’re decorated with learning that makes themappear as a less loutish serf because they can surf the Internet and gather baubles ofinformation with the intelligence of bower birds who just look and find what intereststhem and think the whole world is explored. Then these birdbrained fluttering folkmake a whole nest of bright beady-eyed net of knowledge to trap fellow bird-braineddata phishers. Thus a whole world adorns a cloak of virtual intelligence over nakedstupid.Nostradamus in his writings showed a grumpy side even to his unlearnedcontemporaries in whose vulgar and tattered minions he must mingle. Dumb livedsans the three-pointy hat of a scholar. In the good old days, illiteracy hobbled and

NOSTRADAMUS 2012131slaved in its appearance, slopped along in its short, violent life crowding dirty, plagueridden streets or the state of stupid bellowed and brawled whilst bending back tobreaking point tilling in the fields. The people adorned with knowledge were few andlike Nostradamus they dressed the part distinguishing knowledge from numbskulls.Education was elitist. Then came what Nostradamus, the Royalist, feared andforecast in the preface to his prophecies: the coming advent of common vulgarity.The peasants empowered would depose kings, leading to mob rule and mob accessto knowledge.We live now in that future day when mass-knowledge often adorns anddecorates a mobbish mass collective, peasant mind with intellectual bling.One of the reasons why prophecy goes on and ever accurately anticipating ournext move is because we don’t change. Our motivations and actions are ever thesame. The ratio between the intelligent few and the stupid minions is the same inour age as with any three-cornered night-capped age before it. The skillful prophetcan find the core of this predictable repetition by looking underneath the surfacescum of progressive changes in future ages. The clothes, religions, technologies andcities may breathtakingly change but the people seem to ever adorn change likefashion rather than inwardly transform the naked human. The humans collect newplatitudes. If literacy is made universal, they decorate their universal mass peasantmindedstupidity with a collection of thoughts and ideas they borrowed from theirnewfangled education-industrial complexes that appears to clothe stupid in fashionsof intelligence for that particular age.A good prophet and his or her interpreters through prescience can identifythe mask of repetitive pretense. They’re burdened with the reality that people aregenerally still mere peasants that grasp at data straws as if they were still serfsmucking in the fields only now the muddy plain has advanced to a new harvest offools. It is virtual. It is the Internet “field”.You can pick the straws you like and like a pig eating the occasional pearlbefore swine, one can build an entire, intellectually constructed house of straw thatthe big bad wolf of fact in good time blows down. For instance, you can stick grassbits of bytes together and be one of the many emailers that approach me over theyears with their concerns about catastrophes forecast for 2012, just as they used todo in the decades leading up to the new millennium twelve years before 2012.Photonic band? Phony New Age tonic of blah!Earth, according the house of straw structure of data gathering and weavingwas plugging factless holes back then in December 1998 where pinheads of illusory

NOSTRADAMUS 2012132maya tried to stuff the holes in their theories once again for 21 December 2012bringing back the galactic rift story that will beam us up into collective consciousness.Photonic light beams traveling at 186,000 miles per second will always keep thatflashlight beam in the mirror of our collective enlightenment 25 to 30,000 light yearsaway from us, because our solar system on one of the starry spirals moving aroundthe Milky Way Galaxy always keeps that distance every orbit of 250 million years orso. The beam is too far away to reach us. Dream on.Magnetic reversal of the poles dramatized on TV running civilization and climateamok is entertaining, but how many stimulated TV couch potatoes grow an interestin checking the astrophysical science behind pole shifts of electric or earthy variety.Would one be so scared of magnetic reversal if one knew the evidence points toit happening rarely, like every 400,000 years rather than the way 2012 expertstheorize such events could come every 25,000 years? Do they know that polarityand pole shifting are two completely unrelated phenomena? Do these bower birds ofbaktun cycles even pick after contrary scientific evidence that imply a magnetic poleshift would scarcely be felt by life on Earth?When did the world end in thousands of recorded winter solstices alreadypassed? What happened to us all those times before when the huge black holebelieved to be anchoring like a cosmic axle the spinning spirals of our galaxy sentevil waves of energy that ended the world, even 13,000 years ago as Vincent Bridgesmakes up? Where did he pull that idea from – the coal sack of dark matter at centerof the galaxy where the suns never shine? Could the sudden meltdown of glaciers13,000 years ago just be the cycle of an Ice Age moving into its usual 10,000-yearwarm interlude before the next?Even Bible Creationists theorize Noah’s flood destroyed the known world manycenturies before 3000 b.c.e. Why should the Maya with their most accurate ancientcalendar be off Noah’s high water level mark, unless like Noah, their end times area fragment of fact clothed in ancient myths?Then there’s Nibiru worship. Not ancient but something festering in our times.Nibiru, also called Planet X is a huge planet or a brown dwarf star that the whollyunwritten and unqualified Book of Internet conspiracy theories set to pass throughthe Kuiper Belt into our solar system. When it does Old Nib will gravitationally gumup the orbital works and cause Hollywood sized mayhem across the world includingaxis shifts, tidal waves, weird weather, dogs falling in love with cats, you name it!All in 2012.Anyway, I’ve been fielding questions about nebulous Nibiru for years now and

NOSTRADAMUS 2012133if one would just use some reason and cut the Kuiper crap, photo images of a planetlarger than Jupiter floating into the environs of the solar system would have beenpicked up by now.It isn’t there. It left us like the Ni-beer-u bubbles in my bar room mutteringphilosopher’s beer.You know, it wouldn’t hurt you besotted Nibiroids to consult astronomers andNASA scientists, such as David Morrison. He’s been fielding answers to a rising tideof concerned questioners about the Nibiru-2012 connection at the NASA websitefor the last few years. (See astrobiology.nasa.gov.) I think his following observationisn’t only a challenge for believers in Nibiru to back their sky-is-falling Nibiru-Boom!Theories. Morrison’s sharp challenge should be a pin that pops all Nibiru-nebbishfate mongering. I mean, 2012 has come and gone.Thus begs the question:“Have you seen Nibiru?” asks Morrison. “If a large planet or brown dwarfwere headed for the inner solar system in 2012, it would already be tracked bythousands of astronomers, both professional and amateur all over the world. Do youknow any amateur astronomers who are watching it? Have you seen any photos ordiscussion of it in the big popular astronomy magazines such as Astronomy or Sky &Telescope? Just think about it. No one could hide something like Nibiru if it existed.”(“2010 and Counting: A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012,”David Morrison, Skeptic Magazine.)When ignorance has no proof, it calls out foul by governmental cover-up.When evidence doesn’t support our theories it can’t be our stupidity that is to blame.It must be the Illuminati, the spook government that can somehow send the men inblack into the backyard of every amateur astronomer around the world to confiscatethe photos, the telescope, et al, threatening some disappearance or death by accidentto all who might tell Aunt Bettie and Uncle Bud about Nibiru blotting out our skies.Stupidity has one constant. Stupid ever has backup. If ever one of thesetheories has enough plausible substance and possibility to give one final chance toChicken Little to sing the Sky-fall electromagnetic electric it is the danger of solarflares.Nibiru hadn’t turned up in time for 2012, yet the Sun makes us its captiveaudience and for about a decade running a new doomsday theory has the nextsolar maximum (the time when sunspot activity is at its peak every 11 years orso) set to blast the Earth’s magnetosphere with powerful solar storms never beforeencountered. Far greater than the largest ever endured way back in 1859 when

NOSTRADAMUS 2012134telegraph operators saw St. Elmo’s electric fire dancing on the telegraph cablesand sparking off their Morris keys. Thank goodness the cable power grid was soNeanderthal in those days but what about now, say the 2012 Solar Wind doomsterson Fox and History Channel shows?Our power grids and electronic dependence are exponentially greater thanclodhoppers in covered wagons, Westward Ho! Coronal mass ejections and Solarflares have been responsible for some big power grid outages in the recent past,such as across the Canadian province of Quebec in 1989.There’s some basis for real concern if a Carrington Event should repeat eventhough 2012 prophets depend on the worst-case scenarios provided by the NationalAcademy of Sciences’ Research Council’s report on heliophysics for NASA and thenrun away with it. Chicken Little locked in the TV special effects editing room producesimages of entire regions, continents – the whole world even – seeing its power gridsand computers fried as if the Sun had blasted the world’s magnetosphere like anatmospheric super-fart of a hydrogen bomb sending an electromagnetic pulse. Everycircuit board in our civilization scorched, causes a supersystem collapse, famines,wars, chaos…Apocalypsi ad nauseam.I wouldn’t minimize the maximum scenario for some future date but let’s comeback to terra firma, or better, come back to the Sun and consider what in evidence ishappening in the current 11-year solar cycle. The last solar maximum was in 2001so naturally one would expect the next max in 2012. However, the subsequent solarminimum beginning to dip in 2003 and staring in 2005 produced one of the quietestsunspot free and long lasting minimums in the astronomical record books. Scientistsbegan wondering if the Sun was preluding a prolonged period of solar inactivity,which in the past triggered a global cooling trend such as the Little Ice Age.In 2009, the Sun ended its unblemished reflection and started its pimpledprogress towards high sun spot blemishes. NASA astronomers are now projectingthe solar maximum possibly being a bit late this time around. Sorry Twenty-Twelvers.Looks like power outages on a global scale – if at all – happen sometime in 2013.Enlightenment Entitled-meantWhile Doomster Twenty-Twelvers on TV had expected to see the sky falling in solarflares taking down the electricity of the global power grid, “bloomster” Twenty-Twelvers had rallied around the idea that some cosmic convergence of forces isgoing to pump up and push the “on” button of the ephemeral generator of theirenlightenment power grid, or something.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012135Whatever the paranormal-malarkey anticipated since August 1987 when agrand trine of eight planets (Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus and Mercury) was cause tomass together across the world on sacred spots with rainbow ladies and plasticmagic crystal wands to “Harry Potter” around in the Harmonic Convergence, JoséArgüelles, the main promoter, had dragged the Mayan Calendar into all of this mostlyWestern astrological event faster than you can yell “Nostradamus!” The event washailed as one of last temporal stages before the big beam in from the center of thegalaxy that changes the vibration on Earth and makes everyone more enlightenedby some cosmically triggered osmosis of some kind. It was anticipated that this trineand the mass mantras and meditation party would correspond to a great shift inthe planetary aura away from warlike tendencies to a time of peace. By coincidenceat least if not a favorable trine’s gift, the long and bloody Iran-Iraq War ended thefollowing year, as did wars in Afghanistan and finally the 45-year long Cold Waritself ended in 1989. However, the end of these conflicts was a void of peace soonfilled by the gore of more conflicts, such as the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi Civil War,a string of wars in the Balkans throughout the 1990s and one of the bloodiest civilwars in modern times across the Congo in Africa. The great trine didn’t stop Hutusfrom slaughtering a million Tutsi in Rwanda, nor soften al-Qaeda’s desire to takedown the World Trade Center towers, or prevent the US from unilaterally invadingand occupying Iraq, while it made plans – ongoing – to attack Iran.I am a longtime observer of the New Age movement. Like Brad Pitt playingBilly Beane, manager of the Oakland A’s said in the movie Moneyball, “I’ve beenin this game for a loooong time.” The New Age game, I would say, is rather likebaseball. Both rely heavily on collected data – baseball on stats of players, New Agerson a vast assortment of information from different religious scriptures, prophecytraditions, Maya Calendar data on when to plant their Golden Age, etc. Both takethat mountain of data and try to bend it to match their subjective beliefs.New age authors are like old school baseball scouts. They often endorse playersfor teams based on gut more than how many times a fellow gets on base and scores.They like players who have the baseball look. For instance, until Billy Beane picked himup, scouts rejected players like relief pitcher Chad Bradford because of his unusual,underhanded pitches. He was too “weird” to be in major league baseball. Scouts tomanagers all the way up to baseball owners follow that gut feeling, that bias thatmade them ignore statistics, facts that look at results that made Chad Bradford oneof the best minor league relief pitchers with the most consistent strikeout records.Bradford was not entitled to be a major league baseball player because he didn’t

NOSTRADAMUS 2012136look or act the part. Thus any baseball general manager with next to no budget, likeBeane of the A’s – a GM that looked at baseball data scientifically and “Billy” beancounted data like a card counting black jack player at a casino – picked up Bradfordand other misfits with great stats for a song. Beane gambled and the Oakland A’senjoyed a winning season into the playoffs in 2002 and just recently did it again in2012, on a dime!The authors, gurus and self-help enablers of the New Age Movement, such asJosé Argüelles, scouted out data about the Maya. Their calendrical number crunchingserved as a background to somehow substantiate their subjective imagination. FromArgüelles to Bridges they played with the data to look New Age correct. Facts,Nostradamus and other prophets were bent and tamed to support New-Age-basicexpectations – one of them being the dawning of the Aquarian Age bringing a highervibration to the planet Earth that will cancel out all human negativity, all factualrealities to the contrary. For them, the mounting stresses and negativity of the worldare at worst one last flare-up of a black light before it blacks out doom and gloomas the dawn of a golden age lets the Sun shine in, like that hippie song from themusical Hair.The perfect New Age Player blocks out any noisome prophetic data andobjective evidence supporting a record of forecasts from Nostradamus and othersthat might indicate that the New Age, if it ever comes, is not coming like a homerun hit in center field. The mojo of enlightenment, as seen by objective record,if it comes at all comes to the world in individual packages called Buddha, Jesus,Muhammad, Krishna, Rabiya, Meera and so on. There’s no team enlightenment. Theyare lone pitchers of enlightenment standing on the mound, exposed. The evidenceindicates that enlightenment, if it exists at all, comes to the collective as teachingsfrom individual loners. The evidence also indicates that rather than people happilyflocking to such people to gain enlightenment they usually mob these people hurlingstones, building crosses. They come with poisoned food or with a torch to burn themand their small band of disciples alive.Here are the hard facts that New Agers scouting for a golden age do not factorinto their mythologies: enlightened loners are not embraced by the masses whenalive, nor do they impart a collective enlightenment to them. The masses though,when faced with such teachers, impart violence. Some cases in point, Socrates wastried and executed by poison. Pythagoras and his commune of followers were burnedalive by a mob. Buddha at 84, died because his cousin brother Devadatta poisonedhis food. It seems eight was the charm because Buddha had faced assassination

NOSTRADAMUS 2012137attempts that many times in the four decades of his ministry.Zarathustra, the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism, was knifed in the heart.We all know what happened to Jesus Christ suffering on the cross and complainingthat his father God had abandoned him. Did you know that a Sufi Muslim saint calledal-Hillaj Mansour suffered a worse fate? Without complaint, indeed in a state ofcelebrating that the mob was punishing “someone else” and not his true being thatwas one with Allah, al-Hillaj was systematically cut into pieces while conscious untilthey beheaded what was left.Muhammad, the founder of Islam was also poisoned in a failed assassinationattempt. He lingered seven years before dying of its complications. My own teacher,Osho, a man I consider enlightened was arrested on a false pretense and poisonedwith the CIA’s assassination weapon of choice, the heavy metal thallium put ina tasteless, odorless sauce in a slice of bread they thrust at him in his jail cell. Iwatched him age 20 years in four and was among those who carried his poisonedbody to be burned at the riverside in India. Like Mansour, like many of these menand enlightened women, they imparted their light and were inevitably destroyedby the masses that New Age wishful thinkers believe (but do not know) can becollectively awakened by the flip of a calendar page on 21 December 2012.I was just off camera when this picture was takenof Osho’s face surrounded by the logs for hisprepared burning along the riverside burning ghatbeside the river on 19 January 1990.You are reading this book after thecalendar shifted because I intended topublish it in the early days of the year2013, weeks beyond the passing ofthe famous date to erase all subjectivehope that enlightenment came to theplanet. New Age prophegandists wantedyou and the rest of us to inadvertentlyreplay a fiction as fact portrayed in ascience fiction classic novel by H.G.Well’s entitled In the Days of the Comet(1906). In short, the book is a reflectionof a man who lived a dark, Dickensianlife in early 20th-century England, aimless, angry with little hope of his dreams oflove fulfilled. Indeed on the night a great comet was expected to see the Earth passthrough its great hoary tail, he embarks with pistol in pocket to kill his lover and herfiancé, and then kill himself. The comet’s tail makes everyone on earth, includingthe young murderer, fall asleep. When they wake up the next the morning some

NOSTRADAMUS 2012138interaction with the comet’s heavy amounts of nitrous oxide with the atmospherehas magically taken away from every human brain something that let them promoteegoistic, prideful, violent and altogether stupid habits of thought leading to poverty,war and all what’s negatively played out by humanity.People literally got a dose of laughing gas, but rather than roll around on thefloor guffawing, the murderer dropped his jealousy and felt universal love for fiancéand the lover jilting. Leaders, civilians and their armies recognized the absurditybehind why they wanted to fight each other. In the ensuing years, wars ended, asdid poverty and want. The world was made anew in a golden age of peace, love andenlightenment.H.G. Wells was a modern prophet but not a New Age Pollyanna. This wonderfulbook was a metaphor, a hypothetical exploration into how certain programmedhabits and traditions block us from achieving that golden age. However, if Wells hadreincarnated after dying in 1946 and wrote this book in the late 1980s he mighthave generated a wholly Jose-Arguellian cult. One ever expectant for some comet,perhaps like some right now are expecting when ISON passes close by the Earth atthe end of 2013: they dream of something triggering that laughing gassed goldenage in us.The actual prophecies and philosophies of native traditions, the predictionsof Nostradamus, even, are expanded into dogmas of new age gurus, hugging up amultitude of people expecting some ascension robed revelation anticipated on 2012winter solstice that you, reading this book, have not seen happen. The mass mindthat can torture and kill those rare loners of enlightenment, if fed sweet lies, canmass together at seminars of José Argüelles and John Major Jenkins and hundredsof less talented and imaginative gurus. They can sit at the foot of such shepherdswho recreate the Maya, their prophecies and redefine their calendars rather thanhelp you “listen” to what most of the Maya actually believed about their calendar andtheir more humble take on the change of ages.I am a witness of this phenomenon. Many of you reading this passage sawme up on the podium at the New Living and Conscious Life Expos held in SanFrancisco and Los Angeles since 2009. You saw me looking carefully at all of youwhilst one of the Maya guru marquee of fellows or frauleins beside me often fed yousweet New Age nothings of Maya calendar clocked dreams of a lift in your collectiveconsciousness. I watched you take in the dreamtime of being marked on, fingeredfor transformation on a new age’s get-up-and-go golden gunned-date: the one thatjust passed a few weeks before I published this book.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012139Some of you have even asked me when on those panels whether I can feelthe shift in collective consciousness that has already impacted you and the massessitting out in the dark beyond the lights, to which I replied, “If your consciousness hadcollectively lifted, you would not be talking about and showing off your enlightenment.“You would be as concerned as I am and scientists are, about reformingthe economy, the banking system, the explosion of our population also explodingpoverty, hunger. You would face the fact that Global Warming is threatening thefuture of humanity, and do something about it.”I looked at your dumb stares and slightly embarrassed smiles, your titteringlaughter for a moment and added, “If you were collectively becoming more andmore enlightened, you would not be escapists retreating into positive thinkingonly, and canceling the negative. You would recognize how you all harbor sucha deep fear and negativity towards negativity. So deep that you suppress it withpretense to enlightenment. Consciousness doesn’t shy away from negative things, itconfronts them, meditates on them and finally gains the wisdom and understandingto transform the negative into a creative and positive solution.”It’s not what you wanted to hear.You want to hear a futurist like John L. Petersen, president of the ArlingtonInstitute, set before us one of the richest cornucopia of consciousness lifting promisesat the finish of his essay Getting to 2012, Big Changes Ahead in the book The Mysteriesof 2012: Predictions, Prophecies and Probabilities (Sounds True, 2007). Petersendetails the real rush of spiritual stuff that “didn’t” happen on the winter solstice of2012. According to his sweet nothings, 21 December 2012 should have crammedthe most far-reaching paradigm shift in human evolution and spiritual enlightenmentinto the shortest day of the year. Petersen steamrolls statistics that indicate justhow many ways a past-peak oil supply default, terrorism, overpopulation, runawayclimate change, desiccation of the Himalayan glaciers drying up Asia’s great riversand a prescient forecast of the coming recession can soon derail civilization.But don’t worry, be happy.The present system on that darkest day of the year 2012, will see us all wakeup from our unconscious and habitual nightmare weaving of history for millennialike Scrooge on Christmas day, jumping out of bed, turning a new leaf. After thesolstice, “this isn’t Kansas anymore.” It’s a munchkin Mayan paradigm gestalt. Timeto go home, Dorothy, and little Toto too. Put on your red slippers everybody andclick them three times saying, “There’s no date like 12/21/2012…There’s no datelike 12/21/2012…”

NOSTRADAMUS 2012140We’re going to OZ at the end of 2012, it seems. Ah shift! Things will just turnover. Don’t Bogart that infectious optimism of Petersen’s final three-page flourish inthat essay. He writes about how global connectedness will suddenly have tangiblereality just because it’s Miller (“Mayan” 2012) time and the round of beer is on us.The Internet tangle of information overload will untangle itself and we will then wirethe world to brainstorm solutions for all our unsustainable futures.New knowledge will turn four million years of bad behavior right around –knowledge like we are all in the same lifeboat planet together. People will just laydown their nationalistic identities, snap their fingers and make it so that nationalsecurity becomes synonymous with global security.Back in 1994, while on a book tour in New York City, I took a stroll frommy hotel in midtown from Lexington Avenue, east about ten blocks and walkedinto the United Nations compound. I briefly toured the UN General Assembly andSecurity Council rooms and discovered first hand what the TV cameras don’t catch.There must be a half-century of dust motes, UN dust bunnies, holding togetherthe frayed and fading interior décor in the upper corners of these hallowed halls bythe thread of its cobwebs. I haven’t been back at the United Nations since 1994. Iguess – I hope – someone will or has at last cleaned the cobwebs out of the UnitedNations Security Counsel rafters and reupholstered the leather seats weathered byUN ambassadorial posteriors.I don’t think Petersen, all the time that he spent in the United Nations, hasseen the dust and cobwebs. Maybe he has but thinking so many positive thoughtsmay have sent those memories of dust, cobwebs and UN dirt bunnies into the raftersof his unconscious mind.His dream is cleaner. Instant and collective contact high enlightenment willsend dogmas of religions into their dog houses after millennia spent habituallydividing us into different hostile camps of believers in my God against yours. All thathabit will just all of a sudden defer to a spiritual interconnectedness beyond whichthere’s no priesthood middlemen and women faster than you can say Chan Bahlum!Just because more people are beginning, as he writes, to “experience andinternalize that fact that we are connected to each other and to animals, plants, andeven Earth in ways that, though inexplicable, are nevertheless demonstrable…etc.”It is enough to think so, when gathering ever deeper inside the bubble of yourown New Age friends and believers. Think positive and do not look at the worldoutside that perhaps upon the last Yule tide Merry Shift-mass minded paradigmof 2012 we passed, did not display the first inklings of enlightenment faster than

NOSTRADAMUS 2012141Dorothy’s magic slipper clicking can bring the house of hard realities down out oftechnicolor Oz back to muddy, depression-era Kansas.Petersen wrote his flight of futurism while his readers were still on five yearsapproach to landing on the Maya calendrical temporal tarmac. Now I must ask all ofus, who have now landed and can still smell the jet’s tires rub burn marks on goldenage hopes. Did we move to new modes of behavior like Petersen predicted? Did we“change”? Can we? That’s what Petersen pondered, his visions high like pie in thesky and still a long way from falling with a splat into reality.Even a pie in the sky needs someone to bake it.Petersen, like most irrepressible Tiny Tims of Merry-2012-mas can thrill uswith all the things we must do, must need, must prepare for, but he leaves out thatmost important point.He’s stuck obsessing on what changes need to happen rather than asking whomakes these changes.If we don’t know who is behind all this supersystem collapse threatening ourfuture and equally don’t encounter who is hidden behind all this 2012-happy hourhopefulness, then any act ventured unawares of who we are behind these acts willbe a pig of noble unconsciousness painted with the lip service of new age platitudes.“Are we ready?” asked Petersen ending his essay five years ago.My answer, now that we’ve landed, is, “Who are we”?Who are you, reader?You, answering that core question, “Who am I” may be the catalyst of a trueparadigm shift in this moment eternal.Choose your moment. Perhaps this one…perhaps now?How about NOW?I wrote the following passage for this book in October 2010, two years beforethe new age “Ego” had landed, like Armstrong and Aldrin on the Moon, with a lot offanfare and little change in the human conditioning.I love the “what” of a golden age Petersen preaches after the shift,but I predict his global connectedness of a collective human spiritualawakening could take another 50 to 100 to 700 years, the reason beingthat such awakenings may be coming one individual at a time. Ratherthan 2012 being the end of upheaval and crisis, we may collectively be infor a long haul of upheaval, as long as it takes enough people around theworld to look beyond their religious and national conditioning, beyond

NOSTRADAMUS 2012142their personalities and imposed egos, and beyond Petersen’s fixation onthe “what” of change to the “who.”I wish to respectfully answer every point of Petersen’s closingparagraph, not to put them down but to expose their flaws of fundamentalperspective when tempered in the furnace of truth, so that platitudesbecome the platinum of golden ages gained:We are all blessed to live at this time of extraordinary transformation…Who are “we”?…Each in his or her own way has a special role to play in contributing tothe ultimate shape and function of this new world…This beautiful outcome can’t happen until each of us discovers whatinvisibly prevents us playing these roles. Indeed role-playing seemsmore important than the one, who is a complete mystery to us, who“plays” roles.…That’s probably why we are here at this time…Probably? Wouldn’t it be better to at last KNOW why we are? Then ouractions would stand in the light of that knowing.…Time is short.That’s true, but not because of 2012 coming. Time is always short andthe need to know ourselves has ever been urgent and pressing, evenif our societies find a way to console us with imaginary divine friendsin the clouds or other Easter-bunny religious comfortings of borrowedfaith.Gurdjieff once proposed, “The sole means now for saving of thebeings of the Planet Earth would be to plant again into their presencesa new origin, an origin like Kundabuffer, but this time of such propertiesthat every one of these unfortunates during the process of existenceshould constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his own

NOSTRADAMUS 2012143death, as well as the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attentionrests.“Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroythe egoism completely crystallized in them that has swallowed up thewhole of their Essence and so that tendency, namely, which engendersall those mutual relationships existing there, which serves as the chiefcause of their abnormalities, unbecoming … and maleficent for themthemselves and for the whole of the Universe.” (G. I. Gurdjieff (1924-1927), All and Everything: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, #3 pg.373)If you are reading this, that very act is objective evidence enough that one of 2012’sgreatest anticipated events never happened on the solstice. Time itself, quickeningas many Twenty-Twelvers liked to exclaim in our breathtaking, often terrifyingrunaway-times, was supposed to completely end in what was called “Time WaveZero”.Along with José Argüelles, one of the most noted proponents of the significanceof 2012 is the late ethnobotanist, philosopher, teacher, lecturer and writer TerrenceMcKenna (1946-2000) who, like José Argüelles, shared a passion for the explorationof and was an advocate for psychotropic drugs. McKenna defined himself as being a“psychonaut” melding the concept of being an astronaut exploring the inner spaceof consciousness via psychedelic drugs, including magic mushrooms and LSD. Hetrained his particularly altered understanding on divining the origin of the universe,the evolution of human consciousness and when perhaps the Universe and timeitself might wink out.Dropping acid whilst applying fractal mathematics to readings of the Chinesefortune telling symbols of the I Ching, McKenna created a computer program thatmade a graph that he believed could map out “novelty” in the march of lineartime. These waves of novelty become progressively shorter, speeding up until, as hediscovered, a singularity of time is reached on 21 December 2012 that he called theyear of “Time Wave Zero” an end to time itself, that just so happened to parallel theend of the 13-baktun Maya cycle.On page 26 of Process and Reality, McKenna defines the winter solstice of2012 as the “Omega Point” of Time Wave Zero:“Novelty Theory suggests that on December 21 of 2012 AD, at the coincidenceof the moment of the solstice and the heliacal rising of the galactic center, levels of

NOSTRADAMUS 2012144planetary novelty will exponentially increase. Theory does not make clear the natureof the ultra-novel event, however. Speculation as to the nature of the encounter withthe trans-dimensional object at the end of time includes the following…”McKenna gave us a list to mark off (that is, if the end of time would actuallyallow us to exist to mark the following off). Now that we’re on the other side of thesolstice where novel or not, time marches on, let’s look at what McKenna expected tohave happened (in bold font) with the factual assessment of what really happened:Hyperspatial Breakthrough Planetesimal Impact: I guess thatphilosophical blast of LSD, DMT-drugged out turgidity means to say, weall across the world experienced an alteration of time as we’ve known iton a planetary scale.Didn’t happen.Alien Contact: Not beyond the norm, and certainly not anything thatmight stir the mainstream population.Didn’t happen.Historical Metamorphosis: Nope.Metamorphosis of Natural Law: Nope.Solar Explosion: Nada.Quasar Ignition at the Galactic Core: Nope.Unless you are dropping acid or having a sustained New Age psychotic episodeof being collectively enlightened, this list and a paradigm-a-dozen other New Ageanticipated shifts in reality, such as global peace, the end of all wars, the mutualemergence of love for one’s fellow man, woman, dog and cat, just didn’t pan out.The clock is still ticking on time, Terrence, wherever you are.Novelty Theory, fractal mathematics, mental masturbatory theory… Sometimesthe test of time and events makes monkeys of us all. Time Wave Zero has becomeTime Wave Zip because McKenna’s theories or Argüelles’ Maya magnificat ofdrug enhanced mythologies about 21 December 2012 are ever rooted in givensand rationalizations of a human mind that again and again shows itself to be afiltering and conditioned passageway from where mysterious consciousness comes

NOSTRADAMUS 2012145to perceive life here. If consciousness is like pure water pouring out of the cosmosbeyond the veil of causality, duality and mortality, it must pass through the teastrainer of the human programmed brain. That receptacle is stuffed with the tannicacids and piled high in tea straining matter of collected belief systems, attitudes,cultural limitations and a lot of subconscious dark matter of suppressed emotions,sex, etc., that taints the pure waters of consciousness to color and flavor of thetea drunk and cultivated in any corner of the world. The Islamic “tea”, the Judeo-Christian “tea”, the Hindu and also the liberal or conservative “teas” tea bagged anddrained in your particular corner of suffering humanity are formed by the piled uptea leaves of thought stuffed in your education’s dogmatic brain strainer. The waterof consciousness will ever taste like what your society crams into it. McKenna hadat least some intellectual understanding of this dilemma when he sought to solve orexpand the consciousness issue with psychedelic drugs:It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning.These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have thetechnological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to curedisease, to feed the hungry, to end war; but we lack the intellectualvision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselvesfrom 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy. (Terence McKenna(1993-09-11). This World...and Its Double. Mill Valley, CA,: SoundPhotosynthesis.)Conceptual portrait of TerrenceMcKenna, Psychonaut.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012146The tea strainer “given” upon which Terence McKenna’s understanding of the cosmosis based is only intellectual. Mystics such as Gurdjieff or Osho see consciousnessbest available to sprout free of the mind’s coloring, would say that mind itself,intellect itself is the Kundabuffer. Intellect is a fragment of the whole needed. Greatthinkers dead from the neck down are like people with their heart on their sleeves orpeople who think and feel little but act on their gut impulses. These are people livingfragmented unconscious, robotic lives, whatever they project and dream otherwise.The best and only chance for a restoration of a harmonious and holisticfunction of the human being must be regained when the gut (kinesthesia), the heart(devotion) and the mind (intellect) are working as one. Sparking on just one ofthese and making a whole philosophy is like a rocket not working on all thrusters.The fragmentary thrust of such an idea will not climb to the stars of understanding.It will inherently crash.McKenna, Argüelles, Timothy Leary and many other psychonauts of mindalteringdrugs may have enhanced the tea strainers of their minds, falling deeperinto them, by using drugs. In ancient India, the rishis and gurus would sometimesprovide Soma to their disciples. It was either a psilocybin (mushroom) or otherpsychotropic herbal drug that gave them an experience of what expansion ofconsciousness was possible beyond the mind. Soma was only used once to givedisciples a glimpse of a bigger consciousness. Soma gave a taste of the real, thoughonly artificially enhanced by the drug. After that glimpse, a teacher would put awaythe Soma. Only meditation and practice was allowed to obtain a self-remembranceof a constant and eternal consciousness that witnesses, mirror-like, reflecting thechangeable world of mind, emotions and the dialectic universe. The drug inducedout-of-body experience was only used to give a disciple a taste or better feel theinvisible shadow of a consciousness that is not of the body, of life or death or mind,heart or gut.The Soma was used to take you out of yourself, but continued use of the drugwould not bring you to your Greater Self. The mystics of India knew that Soma couldbecome a subtle trap, a means to a false enlightenment, not earned, and thereforefleeting like the world in its valuelessness. Drugs are addictive and destroy the mind.I can’t say whether frequent use of psychedelic drugs sped up a burnout ofTerrence McKenna’s body-mind towards brain cancer and early death at age 53and five months. McKenna was worried his brain tumors were caused by heavy useof cannabis, though his brain surgeons said there was no connection. Apparently,McKenna didn’t ask them about his heavy use of mind blasting LSD and DMT

NOSTRADAMUS 2012147(dimethyltryptamine) or many of the other powerful mind chemistry-bending drugshe consumed in prodigious quantity.I saw Timothy Leary two months before he died. At first I didn’t recognize him.To this day I have not seen a more physically burned out and shrunken shadow of aonce vital man at age 75-and-five-months (looking 95). I can’t simply shrug that offto the advance of age only.In the Eastern view, Leary and McKenna’s belief that we are entitled toenlightenment and that drugs can quickly cut corners to take us into the light, is afundamental illusion.Pop-the-pill enlightenment is unearned.Anything that you can take from the outside is not a reality welling up frominside.Borrowed enlightenment, artificially induced was Terrence McKenna’sunqualified intellectual “given” upon which he used the I Ching and played withmathematical fractals to imagine time coming to an end on 21 December 2012.Well, if you are moving and breathing and the clocks around you are tickingand your cell phone’s digital clock is winking seconds, I guess time didn’t end. We’veall come down from that 2012 trip.Another entitlement myth concerning 2012 also not panning out in this NewYear of 2013 is the winter solstice of 2012 bringing down from space a collectiveenlightenment for everyone, free of charge.When mystics like Osho say that enlightenment is every child’s birthright, itseems many a filtering mind colors that in a flavor of presumed entitlement – sincewe’re born with it, then everyone already is Enlightened and only a little cosmic pushof light from galactic center on the last solstice should have lifted collective humanconsciousness.A birth-“right” is not a birth “reality”.Otherwise, since the publication of this book in early 2013, where is all theenlightenment hitting us like a comet’s laughing gas? Look around yourself andinside yourself with honesty. Has the golden age happened? Are we now living inthat happily-ever-after 2012-no-time?Osho was once asked at what point was humanity’s current spiritual evolutionand if some time in the future, humanity as a whole could attain enlightenment?“With man, the natural, automatic process of evolution ends,” Osho replied.“Man is the last product of unconscious evolution. With man, consciousevolution begins…

NOSTRADAMUS 2012148“First, unconscious evolution is mechanical and natural. It happens by itself.Through this type of evolution, consciousness evolves. But the moment consciousnesscomes into being, unconscious evolution stops because its purpose has been fulfilled.Unconscious evolution is needed only up to the point where the conscious comes intobeing. Man has become conscious. In a way, he has transcended nature. Now naturecannot do anything; the last product that was possible through natural evolutionhas come into being. Now man becomes free to decide whether to evolve or not toevolve.“Secondly, unconscious evolution is collective, but the moment evolutionbecomes conscious it becomes individual. No collective, automatic evolutionproceeds further than mankind. From now on, evolution becomes an individualprocess. Consciousness creates individuality. Before consciousness evolves, there isno individuality. Only species exist, not individuality.” (The Psychology of the Esotericp. 2.)Often New Age thinkers defended the possibility of a collective consciousnesslifting event for 21 December 2012 by citing the Hundredth-Monkey Theory ofLyall Watson or the Morphic Field Theory of English biochemist and author RupertSheldrake as empirical proof that consciousness can spark collectively like quark “A”changing quark “B” simultaneously even though they dwell in seemingly differentplaces.Back in the mid-to-late 1970s, Lyall Watson in his foreword to Lawrence Blair’sbook Rhythms of Vision (1975) claimed that Japanese behavioral scientists observeda member of a band of macaque monkeys on Kagoshima Island start washingyams in fresh water. The younger monkeys saw and soon monkeys “did” the samebehavior through mechanical repetition. Watson then claimed that the scientistsobserved that once a critical mass of young monkeys replicated the new trait – 100monkeys, to be exact – the behavior suddenly spread across long stretches of waterto other tribes of macaque monkeys on nearby islands. It was impossible for any ofthe isolated monkey groups to physically glad-yam-in-hand down the new monkeyhabit face to face.Further scientific reviews of the journals of these Japanese scientists, publishedin 1985 by Elaine Myers, entitled “The Hundredth Monkey Revisited” for the scientificjournal In Context concluded that there was insufficient data to support Watson’sstory. These skeptical findings have not stopped the spread of the Hundredth MonkeyTheory as proof positive that consciousness can be collectively lifted. Indeed thehabit of promoting such has spread through the self-help and New Age philosopher

NOSTRADAMUS 2012149and guru community faster than a macaque can wash yams. The idea of a criticalmass of monkey behavior overtaking one isolated group triggering a spread to thecollective simian world is comparable to the base thought of Sheldrake’s MorphicField Theory for the potential spread of collective ideas amongst us naked and mostadvanced apes called Homo Sapiens.From monkey mind to collective high mindedness we go?The train or the strain of that thought makes me ask the unasked question,“How does learning a new skill equate with lifting your consciousness?”We have examples of hundredth-monkey phenomena in the “human” versionof monkeys, such as a number of people without awareness of each other’s workcoming to similar conclusions at the same time about the theories of Evolutionand then later on Relativity. In both cases Darwin and Einstein weren’t the onlypeople grasping at these theories at the same time. Einstein was the lucky one whopatented the Theory of Relativity first. In Darwin’s case, he wasn’t the first, butpeople deferred to his Darwinism because his writings and evidentiary disciplineswere so comprehensively researched and documented.Einstein also was one of the first human “monkeys” to suggest using the atomas a weapon. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor sent the United Statesinto the Second World War, Einstein endorsed a letter written by a committee ofconcerned scientists sent to President Franklin D. Roosevelt explaining the need toinvent such bombs put in vessels to blow up Nazi ports in World War II.This new idea of “washing yams” led to the Manhattan Project, the atomicbomb and the atomizing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It led to the Cold War arms raceand even to today’s dangerous level of nuclear proliferation that still has a capacitymany times more destructive than during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to blowus to smithereens.Now, what I would have liked to ask Sheldrake, Ken Keyes, Blair or Watson isthis: Is invention’ only synonymous with triggering higher consciousness?It seems more often our inventions lead to the opposite and threaten thegrowth of future consciousness. Even Einstein later admitted his endorsement of theletter to Roosevelt put his fame and weight behind developing weapons so terriblethat humanity’s future was now in doubt. He thus made his famous observation thatif he was born to live again he would prefer to be a harmless plumber rather than ascientist.What if a monkey on a remote island got the idea to use a stick as a club ratherthan a tool? What if by some strange osmosis, monkeys on other islands started

NOSTRADAMUS 2012150clubbing each other with sticks?Implausible? Look at the humanmonkey. At some point he started to usethat stick on his fellow Neolithic neighbors.Perhaps what monkey sees, monkey doeswasn’t the only phenomenon workinghere.If ever there were monkeys in thehuman tribe who were trying to triggera lift in collective consciousness, historyrecords their consistent persecution anddeath. Again I must remind my fellow monkey minded men and women of Socratespoisoned, Pythagoras and his ashram burned, Jesus crucified, Muhammad poisoned.Then, their teachings are twisted to a point that real spiritual teachers becomeimaginary friends of myth. Case in point, Yeshua, the Hebrew Judean claimant to thethrone of David that gentiles thanks to St. Paul’s marketing turned into the Greco-Roman misnomer: “Jesus Christ.” Without the living man’s approval or physicalpresence in the way, St. Paul made this crucified Jewish reformer of a Jewish religiontake on Persian virgin birth mythology so that mainstream Roman era religions likeMithras and monotheistic pagan religions like Sol Invictus could embrace him. Nextcame the addition of Santa Claus and Easter Bunny hopping pagan celebrations,later incorporated by the new corporate, mainstream religion called Christianity.It would seem that Osho is on to something. It seems the collective in uswants us to stay sleepy, instinctively defensive and downright reactively violentto the new, to the enlightened accidentally popping conscious light among us.Enlightenment may be beyond this collective mind in us that just likes to happenupon new behavioral habits, new ways to wash yams and not new ways to becomecollectively aware of “who” is washing the yams in fresh or fetid water.We get cleverer as we seem to get more stupid in the heart of things. Learningbetter skills to heal or hurt is a process of intellectual development but is intellectthe “soul’s” development?Still from movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Monkeyfind bone. Monkey bonk other monkeys with boneof contention. Monkey smart?I sometimes wonder if all of us, including the Maya, have overlooked somethingthat the alatun, their longest of long counts, might reveal about the evolution ofconsciousness from a state of collective species instinct to the enlightenment ofone individual at a time. The alatun multiplies 20 kinchiltun to give us 64 millionMaya tun equating 63,080,082 normal calendar years. The Mesozoic Era of the

NOSTRADAMUS 2012151dinosaurs ended 65 million years ago, either by a spread of disease, an inabilityof dino herbivores to keep apace with the hardening leaves of their staple diet,gymnosperm (evergreens); or, as victims of some cosmic catastrophic crash ofmeteor or comet into the Yucatán Peninsula.The mammals, small and rodent like, hiding in holes and burrows as theirsurvival bunkers weathered out the nuclear winter and survived the mass extinction.It most likely took mammals two million years to fill the evolutionary niches left emptyby the thunder struck thunder lizards – around the time the greatest calculation ofMaya time clicked into odometer gear 63 million years ago.In review, it takes 20 kinchiltun to make an alatun count. Twenty calabtunmake 1 kinchiltun. The last calabtun began clocking in almost 158,000 years ago –that’s around the time of the emergence to full anatomical and brainpan developmentwindow for Homo Sapiens, modern humanity, from 200,000 to 150,000 years ago.It takes 20 pictun to make a calabtun count. The 20th pictun punched the Mayaodometer 7,885 years ago. New archaeological findings indicate that the behavioralshift of humanity from hunter-gatherers to villagers and cultivators was on the waythat long ago.The last Great Year of the Maya Long Count began in 3114 b.c.e. at the peakof the ancient South Asian civilization of Bharat (the name of ancient India), theearliest established civilizations in China and the Golden Crescent of the MiddleEastern civilizations and also North Africa’s Egyptian upper and lower Nile Riverkingdoms.The clock winds down as human intellect and culture steps up from theemergence of modern humanity, to the earliest settlements of cultivators to thespreading cradles of civilization. The 13th baktun of that cycle clocked in just afterthe Renaissance ended around 1618. The last Ahaw started 256 years ago in 1756,around what has been called the Age of Reason, when science and secularismat last emerged out from underneath the suppression of faith-based beliefs andsuperstitions. This led to the formation of modern and enlightened concepts ofdemocracy, freedom of speech, the Rights of Man, the pursuit of happiness. Thesetriggered the age of American and other revolutions.That brings us at last to the end of the Maya Great Year of 5,125 Gregoriancalendar years anticipated on 21 December 2012 even though astrologers likeNostradamus inadvertently but correctly pinpoint that line up with galactic centershifting back on the winter solstices of 1998-1999. As we have seen, Native Americanthinking embraces the calendar shift merely as a marker for the time great seasons

NOSTRADAMUS 2012152of history change staring in 1986 with the Maya orb, coming to full waxing in 1999,further crossing the margin of ages past 2012 through and beyond 2016.The Maya may not have known this, but they could have been marking from63 million years ago to 1998-1999 (or 2012 if you like, as part of the final degreesof the shift influence) the evolution of the “potential” of human consciousnessawakening in the human being.They may have accidentally clocked the time it took mammalian species tocollectively advance their instinctive and natural behaviors crystalizing these inhominids, then modern Homo sapiens, at last bringing us to the point in humanevolution when human beings must make an evolutionary jump from collectiveinstinct of the mammalian animal into pursuit of their individual consciousness.The years 1998, 1999 or 2012 mark the moment when YOU, reader, mustwake up and bestir yourself from a monkey mind to true human.To reiterate what Osho proposed: “Unconscious evolution is collective, but themoment evolution becomes conscious it becomes individual. No collective, automaticevolution proceeds further than mankind. From now on, evolution becomes anindividual process. Consciousness creates individuality. Before consciousness evolves,there is no individuality. Only species exist, not individuality.” (The Psychology of theEsoteric p. 2.)The passing of 2012 may mark the beginning of a new Grand Year of theIndividual and his Enlightenment.The End Times are gone. The future comes at us relentlessly now withoutdistractions of Lindsay Lohan-lifing Maya calendar “c(l)ocks”. The clock has chimedan end time to our collective and habitual unconsciousness.Wake up.Photo: Matt Smith.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012153else.The person who needs waking up to their full humanity is only you, no oneIf not your enlightenment, Mr. or Ms. Chicken Little, who?Ever Now is the Time to Harmonically ConvergeNow we are well past 2012 solstice. The words of John Lash are stripped of theirMayan Calendar emperor’s new clothes. They are naked in the time of now that hasalways been the time to act upon revealed individual intentions:“Whatever happens after [the winter solstice] 2012 will be largely if not wholly,determined by the corrective and creative intentions brought to that moment. Apartfrom the overruling powers of nature, nothing decides the outcome of the end-timeexcept the will and imagination of those forward-seeing people who can understandand actualize this rare mythic opportunity.” (The Mystery of 2012, p. 210.)What is in the way of forward sight? What stifles imagination? Who’s will andimagination? Who is forward seeing? The “what” of actualized will and imaginationseems ever outside knowing the state of the “who” that hugs the teddy bear of theselovely platitudes! I’ve seen this. I need only watch many of you out there from mychair on the stage on guest panels gathering dreams and dust attending a quartercenturyof Mayan Calendar expos.I know well from decades of observation. I’ve seen your sleepy, dreamy faces,gathered in herds of New Age Sheeple below my panel table, satisfied with thesafety of your myths and numbers. The conventions are attended by multitudesthat nod and enthuse then fan out from LAX Hilton Hotel meeting rooms and LasVegas convention centers to graze dinner. You herd into the streets, carried bythe love of your dreams, the safety of your collective mobbing with 2012 NewYears’ Eve resolutions ringing in your minds. Your mantra is to make a better, moreconscious planet, to do a harmonic convergence ritual once in awhile to project youremperor’s new clothes of feel-good spiritualism wrapped around the world’s reality,unconcerned if you remain nakedly ignorant of that reality. You got your religionbuttoned on.You get into your polluting cars, go back to your fossil fuel feasting homes,industries, economies, thinking nice positive thoughts about your spiritual intentions.But do you change?Do you stand alone or does this spiritualism only thrive in crowds of fellow lovehuggers of New Age lore?I don’t see you spending 40 days in the wilderness.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012154I don’t see you meditating for years alone under the Bodhi Tree, or climbingthe lonely rocks of Mt. Hira by yourself in search, all alone, for God’s angel. You arenot Zarathustra meditating 10 years in a mountain cave. You are not Bodhidharmastaring at a wall for nine years waiting for questions to dissolve into pure witnessing’s“answer.”Do such idly spiritual people like us herding out of the human paddocks of NewLife, Whole Life, Whole Food and Conscious Life Expos sustain a change in humancourse?There are generations now of Mayan Calendar adherents since the 1980sattending these Whole Life and Conscious Life Exposés who “think” about imaginingand actualizing a better world by 2012. They then find keys to parked cars, put footto peddle and see their thoughts dematerialized from brain like the greenhouse gasblown out the behinds of their pretty cars whilst racing home on freeways. New Ageresolutions are soon forgotten.Happy New Age resolutions are happy if change happens coming from someoneor something else. Now that the Maya D-Day has come and gone what will entertainsuch pretenses of spiritual positive thinking? What will come when a Conscious LifeExpo becomes your Unconscious Life Exposed?Twenty-five years ago on a Friday in August 1987, I did my first radio showout of 1,000-and-counting. The topic was the new fad in New Ageyness, what JoséArgüelles promoted as the Harmonic Convergence.My views on prophecy first going public and hinged then, as they do now withtheir global reach, on the topic of the Mayan Calendar. The Harmonic Convergenceof August 1987 launched the Cult of Twenty-Twelvers taking it New Age mainstreamand since then fuelled hundreds of spiritual marketplace conventions, seminars,retreats, the careers of New Age Gurus and created a 2012 publication industryproducing several thousand book titles on all-things-Maya-naise crazed.It’s all over now.The big day was the big “Went”.Argüelles and McKenna managed to die and not face the muting of their musingand music.Fate, perhaps with the help of a bit too much heavy livin’ and tokin’ and LSDtab lickin’ shortened their lives well before 2012 comeuppance could come, 12 yearsin McKenna’s case and just a year or so before the Maya movie, “Baktun the Future”flopped, in Argüelles’ case.Jim Turner is lost on Gilligan’s Apocalyptic Island. Vincent Bridges, Daniel

NOSTRADAMUS 2012155Pinchbeck, Carl Johan Calleman, Lawrence Joseph, John Major Jenkins, and manymore authors, will all need to find some new gag or construct some New Age employ.The future is at last free of them, their book and seminar industry and theirmyths. Now remains as ever, the only place you and I actually exist and it no longerhas any New Age Mayan Calendar crutch as an excuse to sit back and let the Cosmoscosmically align to perpetuate what time and events can only prove, was a Mayasacred pipe dream that actually few true Maya people promoted.This book came out in early in January of 2013, my journey with 2012ishnessbegan 25 years and four months before as it ends, sharing with you the samemessage I shared on the first radio interview I ever did, answering the comment ofthe first of thousands of callers to come.The woman defended the importance of the harmonic convergence as acatalyst to persuade everyone coming together all on a specific day and time aroundthe world to pray, dance, meditate and celebrate in sacred places on that oncomingSunday.“What is wrong with that?” she asked.My answer was, nothing. Great! The more people around the world stop whatthey are robotically doing to dance, sing and meditate is a good thing. Then I asked,Osho, in his garden.“What comes on Monday morning?”I paused and added, “Unless one is open to harmonically converging eachmoment how then can there be a lingering impact to awakening consciousness?”From iPhone, to iPad, to iEnd Time?Back on another August, two years and four months before the winter solstice of

NOSTRADAMUS 20121562012, I had an interchange with a reader named Reg. It was a rare opportunity toshare personal reflections on going it alone into one’s interiority in meditation andthe alchemical and potentially blissful mystery it can raise in unguarded momentsto carry us above the herding, robotically programmed, crowd. I had alreadyencountered a lot of Reg’s stances of New Age thinking in a previous email. Now thatthe ice of attitude was broken, melted down, what followed was a frank and honestdialogue about meditation. Reg’s comments are in italics:***REGThank you for your reply. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I can resonatewith a lot of what you said. One of my first conscious reflections was of how full ofshit I have been and that it must come to an end. I haven’t succeeded in bringing itto an end, but I’m ever trying.HOGUEI’m not sure we can end it. The question that comes up for meditation is this: Canthe “I” end itself?One of the hardest things to grasp from what my master said over the yearsis that attaining an understanding why we are so full of shit, how it happened thatwe got that way, can make us a witness of the habit and being a conscious witnesscan create a distance. The distance eventually widens until it is no longer a cloud inthe endless sky of consciousness. It disappears as we disappear into the Witness.This process of self-observation isn’t some trick to suppress the mind garbagelike many new agers do by intellectually thinking they aren’t their shit.Identification with the shit or identification with not being the shit. Isn’t thatthe same mind trick, really?I don’t think we can get rid of our stuff. To think that requires one assume asa given that we are our stuff?Are we, really?Anyway, something to watch.REGIt seems like in order to remain honest and sincere I have to remain in that clear,lucid, void-like state, yet if I remain that way I have nothing to say leaving people

NOSTRADAMUS 2012157seemingly incapable of relating with me.HOGUEIt is a challenge to be in the world but not of it. One can find like-minded seekerswho also enjoy being silent. That’s why there are ashrams and communes orhouseholds shared by fellow seekers, so you can be yourself among fellow travelersin consciousness.REGSadly, I had to put it aside in order to make some kind of living.HOGUEOsho used to tell us that he didn’t want us to become escapists but be Buddhas inthe market place. One can use every situation for meditation, be it active, social,inactive and in aloneness. I cope with that issue of others by feeding my innersilence in meditations, and then carry that oasis of cool witnessing into the chickencoop world of mind chattering, ego-flattering people.REGThe biggest shock for me was the people we share our world with. I don’t believeanything could’ve prepared me for how lost humanity seemed to me at that time.HOGUEIt is shocking. It is as if we are in a twilight zone episode where we were oncesleepwalking and talking like everyone else, but then something happened and weare often having glimpses of being awake in a world of sleepwalkers. I think that’swhy Zombie movies are so popular. It is a cinematic metaphor for the walking deadthat our society tries to turn us into, insatiably hungry to consume and be consumed.Real life is not as hyperbolic as Cinema but are we not like zombies, just on autopilotwhen we walk, drive, text and so on?It creeped me out for a number of years, realizing I was a zombie startingto snap out of it yet having to live in a global marketplace of zombies, but asunderstanding and experiences grow I can cope with it. I think what can grow is acompassion I begin to feel for the terrible mess we are in. Those sleepwalkers areus. We’re only just becoming aware of our sleepwalking, and not too often. Thesleeper must awaken and once you’ve had just a little glimpse of what awakeningcould be one can never go completely back into zombie mode. You can try. Many

NOSTRADAMUS 2012158thousands of friends and fellow travellers I have known seem to have fallen backinto the zombiepocalypse mode. Yet I see the seed of witnessing has germinated likea flower that is still underground and not seen with the eyes because it is buried inthe manure of the ego, the zombie. “IT” is there, sprouting.REGUnfortunately, I’ve come to accept it as a norm and re-engaged some of my ownego willingly in order not to stick out too much.HOGUEI think every seeker has to find their knack of masquerading as part of the world.Be totally in the world, play its games, just don’t be “of” those games or “of” thatworld. There are times when you will have to behave on the surface like all the othersleepwalkers and sleep talkers. Otherwise, they will persecute you unnecessarily.It’s trouble enough to be waking up in a sleeping world. No need to exacerbate it.So, I can play sleepwalker when I’m not completely asleep.REGI would appreciate any material you could recommend. Right now I’m feeling a bitstuck. Everything seems so mundane and monotonous.I’ve always pondered about what becomes of spiritual experiencers as timegoes on. As for my last five years I can sum them up as still releasing garbage. Doesthat ever end? What happens after? Does that strange and familiar longing for thosedistant shores fade in time?HOGUEBack in 1980 when I was doing the Vipassana group in Osho’s (Bhagwan ShreeRajneesh’s) ashram in India, we spent ten days on a roof simply sitting one hourand walking with head down and hands on Hara [the solar plexus] for 30 minutes,18 hours a day with six hours watching sleep and watching when eating, etc. Everythree days and nights we’d get a five-minute counseling with the group leaders.I was quite satisfied with the way I could see my monkey mind and roilingemotions cancelled and evaporate in the sharp light of my positive witnessing. In myfirst session with the group leaders I told them about it. Their response knocked thesmile off my face faster than a Zen master’s stick to my noggin.In so many words they said I had wasted three days pretending to look inside

NOSTRADAMUS 2012159myself and that I should get my New Age ass into the work of looking in otherwisethe mind was going to continue pretending it was transcending the mind.So I retreated, wounded bear fashion, back to my little Zen bench and triedto watch my breath help me get over myself. At some point I saw a deep maw openinside my subconscious and beheld there all of this endless shit of the mind and egocoming up like the Gulf Oil Spill out of that pipe.It was endless. I felt so completely helpless. It looked like it was going onforever. Three days later, it was time to see the Vipassana instructors. I asked themexactly the same question you have, Reg, “Does it ever end?”The group leader reflected my look of helplessness and humility and said, “Idon’t know.”That was nearly [32] years ago.Do I have an answer? Do I see the end of the garbage?No.But I will share with you this possibility. Don’t believe it or disbelieve it offhand.See if with time and meditative practice it becomes your experience.The crap is the crap, but the “witness” of it isn’t the crap. I find myself goingdeeper into the witness of things. What is witnessed is just allowed to be there,good, bad, true or crap, it doesn’t matter. The one watching is allowed to be therewhether he’s in his mind or silent or he’s in emotions or serene. Such is the case.There’s all of that and there’s a watching. The garbage becomes a contrast tothat which isn’t the garbage......and then there is “something else” that’s neither of action nor of the inaction.It is deepening...deepening...Each one of us comes to this placeless place and un-has this IN-experient “it.”It is a paradox. It isn’t even there. It never existed, that’s why it is free of allthe garbage, all the holies, all the serenity and all the ego.It is so vast that it isn’t even there and sometimes it is so infinitesimal that itis too universal to bear.It is inescapable.We can try to sleepwalk or take drugs or get as drugged with mind chatter,Mayan Calendar mass enlightenment dates and any other of life’s near infinite soapoperas as we can, but after awhile one can’t completely ignore “this.”…thisAn inescapable, constant, eternal reality.It sounds like “this” has gotten under your skin, Reg. So we move forward,

NOSTRADAMUS 2012160whatever happens. I know you know that. I see that.One has to be a part of this process to understand it. There are very few whoare on this path. Needles of deepening and awakening awareness in a haystack ofsleepers.And who would want to completely forget it once the touchless has been“touched”?It makes life difficult in this world of sleepers but I have no regrets. There’s awhole eternity to tap into This the Inescapable. So, my meditations take me like asigh: deepening a relaxation into “it”.The mind loves to get lost in the noise of its iPhone yakity yak. Meditation, ifI define it with a social media metaphor, creates a new possibility, from iPhone Egoto iEnd.I used to know so much more about other worlds and other plains of existencewhen I started this search.That steadily falls away as iEnd.I am disappearing to myself, to my thoughts and beliefs. The boat’s line to themis loosening from the Ego’s dock, the boat floats away. Watching simply watches.The mystery, however, deepens just as knowing knowledge and beliefs aboutthe mystery fades. I have no idea what “it” is, but as it embraces me ever moretenderly and totally, the mystery has become intimate and that intimacy more andmore as it becomes unknowable, is bliss.REGI haven’t yet succeeded in having a dialogue with someone who has walked thispath before me.HOGUEThis is very rare for me as well. In a process of having hundreds of thousands ofreaders peruse through my books and pass through my web site, only a few speakto the level of the path of suchness as this. So I am grateful to you for that, Reg.***I then offered to give information and links about my teacher and his meditationtechniques. It is something I do much much more these days leading up to thewinter solstice of 2012 and now as it is left behind, I will invite you to meditate

NOSTRADAMUS 2012161more and more frequently in the difficult yet exciting decades to come. I call youall to experience new kinds of meditation techniques, rightfully tailored for andcompassionate to the needs of modern people. Time and monkey mind has notended on 21 December 2012, and now there are no more childish end time dates toattract the childishness of our shallow, spiritual quests. Now is all we have to facethe flood of quickening history that will either see humanity destroy itself or getover itself one individual at a time in the many decades coming that leave 2012 farbehind and soon forgotten.The most important thing I alone can share with all of you who are alone isMeditation.We do this “alone-ing” together. When I go deep into my aloneness I see thatparadoxical connection, that we all together can potentially do this “Un-Divided”Individual state of awareness. That underneath my persona, my thoughts andemotions that crash and storm like waves of the ocean, there is ooooooshhhannn.All is Oceanic, alone with all the rising and falling waves of passing identity,together.My meditation teacher took great stock in aloneness as something trulybeautiful and liberating. I leave it to him to convey and indicate the reality of thisstate, between his words, better than I ever could. I use his words to finish presentingwhat I feel is the true and misunderstood message of the Mayan Calendar event: Wemust all shift from living collectively unconscious lives and awaken an enlightenmentthat can light our world and that of others. We do this completely alone – together.In aloneness there is bliss. And only then is enlightenment achieved.We cannot be alone, others also cannot be alone, so we create groups,families, societies, nations. All nations, all families, all groups are madeup of cowards, of those who are not courageous enough to be alone.Real courage is the courage to be alone. It means a consciousrealization of the fact that you are alone and you cannot be otherwise.You can either deceive yourself or you can live with this fact. You cancontinue deceiving yourself for lives and lives, but you will just go onin a vicious circle. Only if you can live with this fact of aloneness is thecircle broken and you come to the center. That center is the center ofdivineness, of the whole, the holy. I cannot conceive of a time whenevery human being will be able to achieve this as a birthright. It isimpossible.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012162Consciousness is individual. Only unconsciousness is collective.Human beings have come to the point of consciousness where theyhave become individuals. There is no humanity as such; there areonly individual human beings. Each human being must realize his ownindividuality and the responsibility for it. The first thing we must do is toaccept aloneness as a basic fact and learn to live with it. We must notcreate any fictions. If you create fictions you will never be able to knowthe truth. Fictions are projected, created, cultivated truths that preventyou from knowing what is. Live with the fact of your aloneness. If youcan live with this fact, if there is no fiction between you and this fact,then the truth will be revealed to you. Every fact, if looked into deeply,reveals the truth.So live with the fact of responsibility, with the fact that you arealone. If you can live with this fact, the explosion will happen. It isarduous, but it is the only way. Through difficulty, through accepting thistruth, you reach the point of explosion [of consciousness]. Only then isthere bliss. If it is given to you ready-made, it loses its worth becauseyou have not earned it. You do not have the capacity to feel the bliss.This capacity comes only from discipline.…Being totally responsible for yourself, you cannot help but becomedisciplined. But this discipline is not something forced upon you from theoutside. It comes from within. Because of the total responsibility youcarry for yourself, each step you take is disciplined… If you are awareof your own aloneness, you will be aware of the anguish of others also.Then you will not be able to commit a single irresponsible act, becauseyou will feel responsible not only for yourself but for others also… Onceyou know this, it is impossible not to be compassionate.Osho (c. 1970)The Psychology of the Esoteric, pp. 8-9If you wish to have me send information and links to the meditations of this greatmaster, all you need do is email me, with the subject line “meditation”. Ask and youshall receive.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012163The time is very short....So much destructive force isaccumulating that unless a few individuals gather courage andrevolt against all that is past...I am not telling you to choose,to choose that which is good and to leave that which is bad.They are all together; you cannot do that. The past has tobe simply erased, as if we are for the first time on the Earthand there has been no history. That is the only possibility tocreate a beautiful world full of love, full of fragrance, with deeprespect for everybody. The past has lived centered on hate. Thefuture can live only if it is centered on love. The past has beenunconscious. The future can only be conscious....We can eitherdie with the past or be reborn with the future.Osho (1989), Om Mane Padme Hum (1987)

NOSTRADAMUS 2012164EPILOGUE12 December 2012:The Real End of End Time?Too Chicken Little Too Late?“Chicken Little here. Except for a few addedlines in the opening and ending for clarityand continuity, what you are about toread was written by John Hogue over twoyears before 21 December 2012. You maynow return to your reading. Thank you.”Once upon an End Time, farmers laid down their plows and left all their fields fallowfor the spring that would never come. On the last New Year’s Eve, latches weresevered, chains broken. Out went the bewildered cows. Flutter the bedraggledchickens scattering off the property. Pigs running amok with waddling, wet shoutedintent raided the neighbor’s root garden. Clod hoppers cast the next year’s livingstore of beef, baby’s milk, ham on the hoof and egg on the wing to the four cornersbecause Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were expected. Sunset on the final dayhad cows loafing in village streets chewing their green regurgitations. They regardedthe empty meat markets of man with patient mindlessness. No food prepared orpreserved was to be had. All the beer was drunk. All the cupboards lay bare.Who needed it?There would be no tomorrow.Out with the livestock, out with the money too. The coin of many lands waspoured from emptying bank accounts into the dirty hands of the eternally poor.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012165People everywhere in the last days found their Christmas spirit. They generouslygave money when money was at last worthless. Many generously flung away alifetime of savings. Moneylenders rubbed debts off their grubby ledgers, happilybusting their banks in a last-chance gesture of charity before Kingdom Come reallycame. Last act – you will stand before the Maker clad only in your ascendant birthdaysuit. It would be prudent to have curried some good marks, endnotes alongside yourname in the Book of Life, ticking off your last (perhaps only) greatest good deed.Other debts to settle before the last day came? Rope-stretch the neck of thevillage idiot. Hoist up your local tax collector and any misfit unfit for a new heavenand a New Earth coming. Last call for Jew and witch burning! In many places thetorchlight of mobs let sample the soon-to-come searing of the lake of fire in Hell forall staked and bound unbelievers. Burn the village characters unbelievable.This purple haze of doomsday hysteria didn’t happen at the turn of ourmillennium. These people weren’t partying as if it were the devil’s fork-tailed end of1999, immortalized in pop song by Prince. These people were partying like it wasthe end of “999.”When the year 1000 approached, many people across Western Europe werewhipping themselves into a frenzy. Armies of dirt disco dance floor hopping flagellantsgave their sinful skin sacks a few more whacks before zealous penance remainedGod’s only remembrance of poor little us when Gabriel will blow his horned uphecatomb.Chicken Little in an earlier incarnation, about 1,000 years ago, got tappedin the head by a piece of falling doomsday dogma. Left a bit dingy, she may haveplayed “Tweety Bird” to Pope Sylvester II, decrying, “the sky is falling!” while thepestered pope presided at the altar of New Year’s Eve 999 in the more modest St.Peter’s Basilica built by the Romans.Sufferin’ Succotash! Pope Sylvester! When midnight sounded on January 1,1000, eyewitnesses reported the crowd bawled in terror. Some people droppeddoomsday-deadfrom fright.Then what happened?Zilch to the end-time Zeitgeist!No Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse stampeded. No blaring Gabriel crescendo.No earth splitting open. No fire and brimstone. No Jesus falling out of the clouds!There was a whole lot of earth across Western Europe unseeded, unprepared,rotting with the gray frost of bare and uncultivated lands.By the way, does anybody know where my horse is? Without her I can’t plow

NOSTRADAMUS 2012166my fields.Time was still marching on, but the cows hadNOT come home. The root harvest huddled in variousstates of digest in the guts of satiated pigs. Manybanks had no money to loan a reboot for medievalindustry and agriculture. The End of the World – inwhich so many Christians of Europe had believed,which their Pope Sylvester had professed and thepriesthoods had prognosticated would be delivered1,000 years after the birth of Christ – didn’t “plan”out. The sky didn’t fall, nor roll up its stars, Sun andMoon like a shade to reveal a new Heaven and a newEarth without oceans as proselytized by medievalinterpreters of the Book of Revelation.Many people parted the wooden shutters oftheir bedroom windows to a new Heaven and Earth.They were delivered to an apocalypse they did not expect on January 1, 1000.A hecatomb of records erased, ledgers burned. Bills unpaid. Many were indeeddoomed to die of starvation from wide ranging outbreaks of famine, infected woundsof the zealous flagellant’s lash, social disruption and riots in the streets of villagesand towns suffering collapsed agrarian economies all because they believed in thegreatest lie made sacred by evangel-ranting prophecy.And now for something not completely different…After a long era’s work is done, and it’s closing time for the world, one wouldlike to punch out that karma card for good, go to the nearest dogma house ale-andbrimstonebar of holy inebriates, and sit with the most charismatic sage preachingto his beer. If you happened to be someone living in the farm and frontier townsof early 19th-century America, where hope and doomsday springs eternal, andyour faith with blinders tight makes you stride with doubtless, straight and narrowtread through the valley filled with the death of nearly 1,000-year’s worth of faileddoomsday advents, you might want to punch out and cry, It’s “Miller” time!Reverend William Miller, that is, the New England founder of the doomsdayMillerite cult of the 1840s. At its heyday, it was estimated that the Millerite Adventistsnumbered as many as 500,000 adherents. These lived mainly in Massachusettsand the New England states in New York (where Miller resided), New Jersey,Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and some southern states and even in outpost

NOSTRADAMUS 2012167frontier communities of Ohio and Illinois.It is amazing what hellfire and spittle from an aging, palsied mouth can doto mangle the Good Book into a bad interpretation of the second coming of Christ,putting the fear of “Gog” or Magog, or the Seven Seals or any other of St. John ofRevelation’s hallucinants of horror into the hearts of half-a-million faithful.Soap opera? “Soul” opera! A lot of people can’t get enough of it, whatever Endof Ages you live in. Package a stuttering six-decades-a-ragin’ Jeremiah with a Warof 1812 post traumatic stress disorder that turns a Deist, book nerdy fan of ThomasPayne and humanist Voltaire, into an in-humanist world hater. Miller’s tremblingeyes were set on the otherworldly prize.“There is nothing good on Earth! “ reflected Rev. Miller at his well-attendedprayer rallies while recounting his younger life. Once a deeply troubled US ArmyCaptain returning home from the War of 1812, completely loathing “man’s publiccharacter.” Tossed back from battlefields into normal life, a state of emptiness andwretchedness he could not understand overshadowed his heart. Then, in 1816, Godtold him he was all wet.Well, sort of.Miller was told by an inner voice to go jump in a lake.Well, kind of…The historical fact is: Miller took the plunge. He was baptized, that is. How quicklya ritual bath can freshen willing wretchedness with the sparkle of righteousness.Miller filled his empty life for the next 15 years with biblical prophecy study withouta caveat of doubt that he understood its signs better than other men.I can tell you from my personal experience of over 30 years in prophecyscholarship that if you have something single-pointed in mind to find in nebulousscriptures, eventually you will discover exactly what you’re looking for. After whichyou can become a hostage to the “mess” in Messianic prophecy. I ruminated upon thisSecond Coming Syndrome in my 1999 book Messiahs: The Visions and Propheciesfor the Second Coming:“When the apocalyptic traditions of the world’s religions threaten doomsdayfor all of us if we do not return to their idea of the true faith, I wonder if theirprophetic literature isn’t just another version of a ransom note? To fashion a ransomnote you first cut words and letters out of different newspapers and magazines.Then you glue the cuttings together on a piece of paper so the misshapen linesof Frankenstein-monster letters do not reveal the author’s sources. In this waytheologians of religions can turn their prophecies into a ransom doomsday note

NOSTRADAMUS 2012168cut and pasted with Holy texts ripped out of context and stitched together into afrightful new body of thinking.”In the case of Reverend Miller’s ransom note, he faithfully follows his own“Rules of Interpretation” to find exactly what he is looking for, the next crack atchurchy Chicken Little calling out, “the End of Days is falling!”Miller’s holy book editor is just the kind of invisible lamb with seven eyes Millercould believe in. God’s kid bleats approvingly inside his head at any flight of fancifulconclusion he conjures out of the Bible. Specifically in his attempt to count the endof days, he uses scripture to colic cough up a hoof and mouthful of ungroundedconclusions. If the Prophet Daniel said day, Miller substitutes year. Otherwise, howcan Miller cram the bible up the anagoge of his preconceptions? This hateful worldhad to end. Soon!In 1831, Miller fell wholly prey to an idea that the length of time counted indays made of “evenings and mornings” for the transgression of desolation foretoldin Daniel’s vision should be counted as years remaining before the end of the world.Subtract therefore the year Ezra was told by God to rebuild Jerusalem (457 b.c.e.)from 2,300 days to become a count of 2,300 years into the future. Start countingforward from 457 b.c.e. and you get 1843 c.e. as Doomsday. Just 12 short yearsahead!Miller then put down his pen and heard a voice say: “Go tell it to the world!”And like Charlton Heston in a Cecil B. DeMille epic, he strode out to melodramaticallypreach the good news. Soon the Lord sent a blessed coincidence that authenticatedand spread Miller-mindedness. The sky really did fall in a spectacular show of meteorshowers across North America in 1833 that even the faintest Chicken Little-heartedMillerite regarded with awe and terror. The End really was coming. At least oneof these falling meteors must be the plummeting “star” foretold in the Book ofRevelation: “a great star shot from the sky, flaming like a torch!”A growing brood flocked to hear Miller deliver sermons. They would see anaged evangel twitching with the divine spark in trembling eyelid over “Pale Rider”blue eyes. He had a strong and mellow voice of “northern-antique pronunciation.” Inother words, people paacked the cayer-age in th’Haahvid yaahd by the thaazins…tohehraa’m speeek.Miller’s doomsday campaign had by 1842, acquired a slick public relationsman-cum-holy-roadie manager in Joshua V. Himes. He got Miller’s sermons publishedwidely in the newspapers and managed 30 camp meetings across the Northeasternstates of America, each packed and tented with multi-Miller-tudes.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012169On New Years 1843, Miller declared that the end of the world, according to hiscalculation of Jewish calendar reckoning, was a definite maybe for any midnight onor after the coming spring equinox of 21 March 1843 and a sure-as-shootin’ maybeno later than 21 March 1844.Miller’s published prophetic rants gained added credibility among true believerswhen they could be read in the evening glow of one of the brightest comets anyonealive at that time could recall. The Great Comet of 1843 traversed the eveningfirmament from 27 February to 19 April, extending a bright and portentous cometarytail. It remained the longest ever measured until Comet Hyakutake blazed by in1996. It just happened to pass closest to the Sun near spring equinox 1843. Thecomet’s tail was so brilliant that people the world over could easily see it in broaddaylight on Miller’s starting date for the countdown to the advent of Christ-crashingthe world.The Millerites were stoked.Sewing circles across the cult began feverishly stitching their white ascensionrobes in time to deck their families in arising-ready threads for that big get-up-andskedaddleday into the clouds.In the year following the days of the comet, disciples dutifully heeded Miller’scall to participate in a lot of false prophet fire drills. They slipped on their whiteascension robes and assembled on hills, climbed up trees to perch on bendingbranches or balanced on rooftops spending a day and a night waiting. The Lord, itseems, left Miller and his mates standing in the dearth of deliverance a half-dozentimes. After 21 March 1844 passed, what dropped on William Miller’s head wasn’ta new piece of the falling sky, but an idea that he had to go back to the drawingroom, tweak his math to comply with God’s will, otherwise doomsday might catcheveryone with their robes down.It had better be a problem with the math. Some of the followers had givenup everything. Just as in 999 true believing farmers abandoned their fields and letloose their livestock, businessmen gave away their fortunes, debtors erased debts,the well-healed Millerites tossed their fortunes to the poor. The ascension robeswere getting a little weathered and yellowed. And the ridicule from the unforgiven!Especially on sunrise following 21 March 1844. Imagine yourself standing on yourbarn roof, cold and shivering, wearing not much more than a flimsy white robe onthe first frigid full morning of spring.There’s your neighbor, walking down the road. He stops and calls to you,“What! Not gone up yet? We thought you’d gone up! Aren’t you going up soon! Wife

NOSTRADAMUS 2012170didn’t go up and leave you behind to burn, did she?”It isn’t known what mix of prayer and arithmetic calculated it, however, Millerannounced that 22 October 1844 was the end for sure. (It better be or else Millermight be remembered as an End-two-Timer!)The remaining 100,000 Millerite zealots braved the cold autumnal night of 22October across the US Northeast and Midwest, waiting. They gathered on hilltopswhite as their clueless clan ascension sheets to be closer to heaven. Around themsat believers, in the highest branches of trees this time, some holding umbrellas toaid their rapturous ascent upon the winds of Angels passing. It would have to be amighty wind to blow one fashionista from Chicago into the sky, clad in a well tailoredascension robe standing next to a heavy wooden case tied to her ankle, filled withnew dresses.The Last Day of the Great Advent, then the Last Night, then the followingmorning came and went with nary an assent from God for an ascent of the whitefrocked faithful. A few had given up the ghost from exposure, or worse. Echoesof 999 saw some hysterics reach out to lights or angels appearing before theirbedazzled imaginations. They leapt off tree branch and balcony to their deaths.Cows sauntered around the village streets, coming to meat markets lyingempty. Like bovines of 999, regarding it with the same mindless wisdom. There wassome progress, though. This time around not all farmers let their cows loose. Onefellow brought his milk-laden critters to the nearest lift-off point dressed in their ownascension robes. He reckoned they might teat as Gabriel blew taps on the world andmake milk for the children on a misty rest stop before finishing their flight throughthe clouds to be caught up in the arms of Jesus.As 1844 drew to a close, Reverend Miller’s Great Advent became known as theGreat Disappointment. Miller to his last breath held fast to that feel-good fallbackrationale that all unhinged Chicken Littles profess when it is proven that the sky isn’tfalling any time soon: God simply postponed the end. No other reason for it. Awaitye more signs for imminent doom coming soon.Failure feeds the faith. Miller died in 1849, yet his movement spawned a numberof today’s apocalyptic sects, including the “respectable” Seventh Day Adventists andthe notorious Students of the Seven Seals – better known and disparaged as theWaco, Texas, and whackos of the Branch Davidian sect.End-of-the-world folk ever hold fast – unto their last breath – to the imminenceof doom. It’s just around the corner, in the next second, for over 2,000 years andcounting. The devil doesn’t make them do it, God tells Jesus to tell St. John (who

NOSTRADAMUS 2012171wrote the Book Revelation) to program Chicken Littleism into our minds. Thislast book and testament of the New Testament had enough pulp friction fire andbrimstone in it to survive the Council of Nicaea’s cut. That’s when Christian scripturefaced standardization in 326 c.e.The Revelation of St. John contains one of the most lurid and well-known endof-the-worldrants in religion. The opus is part reprise, part homage, to some say abetter-written doomsday rant from the Book of Daniel. The New Testament variantreads like Daniel dropping acid in the lion’s den. Like I mean, the lions startedpopping leopard spots, sprouting horns, dragon tales and roared in perfect Hebrew.Quentin Tarantino must have been John’s ghostwriter in a past life. Seven Seals,seven thunders, Jesus goes bestial. I mean, Revelation is wilder than a Vampireparty girl in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn. He’s a lamb with seven eyes, none ofwhich regard fondly the Great Whore of Babylon.Speaking of whores, this brings me back to the subject of Johns. Theologiansstill debate which one wrote Revelation, John the Apostle, or some other John? Holyhoary Mary Magdalene! There were so many Johns preaching and prophesizing inthose days. Anyway, whoever Scarlet Babel Lon Cheney’s John was, he had intendedGod’s boom to be lowered with all shock and awe upon her ancient Iraqi bodyalongside the rest of the wicked world. Not in our future, mind you, but IN John’sLIFETIME.There was immediacy when this grumpy old John curled up in his cave prisonon the Island of Patmos (circa 54-63 c.e.) and scratched out his “Dear St. John”letter to wayward churches. Saint or psycho, John channels an angelic messengeras a middleman who quotes Jesus passing a message from omnipotent “Dad.” Johnkeeps repeating himself throughout Revelation about doomsday coming soon, soon,like a mentally challenged street person with a world terminating tick. For example,here are the extracts, chapter and verse in Revelation, where John recounts whatJesus told the messenger “angel” to pass along from God: …This is the Revelationgiven by God to Jesus Christ. It was given to him so that he might show his servantswhat must shortly happen…(1:1). So repent! If you do not, I shall come to yousoon and make war…(2:5) I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have! (3:11).And, remember, I am coming soon! (22:7). Yes, I am coming soon, and brining myrecompense with me…(22:12) He who gives this testimony speaks [John]: ‘Yes,I [Jesus] am coming soon!’ (22:20). And even the angel adds his two drachmas:Then he told me, ‘Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, for the hour offulfillment is NEAR.’ (22:10).

NOSTRADAMUS 2012172John in Revelation 13:18 rams home this idea of immediacy with clearinstructions in Hebrew decoding the identity of the Beast as a contemporary despot– John’s Antichrist-Agent Smith in his own Messianic Matrix movie. He says, Here isthe key; and anyone who has intelligence may work out the number of the beast.The number represents a man’s name and the numerical value of its letters is 666.Before the Arabs created numbers, the ancients gave numerical values toletters. Thus 666 doesn’t spell out the name of some future antichrist. The numericalequivalent of the Hebrew letters – pronounced “Neron Qe[i]sar” – correspond to aname written in Greek, the language of Revelation, pronounced: “Neron Kaiser.” TheAntichrist-Beast is none other than Roman Emperor Nero Caesar!The antichrist was meant to be a tyrant dictator usurping the knownMediterranean Roman world, not a president of the modern European Union, as is sopopularly prophegandized today. The Book of Revelation is a doomsday predictionfor events and people in St. John’s time – 2,000 years ago – not ours.Et tu, Pullus Paulo!St. John (d. circa 101 c.e.) and Rev. Miller both lived long enough to face derisionand disappointment; however, the chain of hubris remains unbroken. Again andagain, over 2,000 years, holy hysteria has been exposed in a plethora of doomsdaydatedduds, as the calm reality of life goes on. Prophets of doom console themselvesin the words of Jesus as recounted – some say “inserted” in the Bible after St. John’sgaff – to help cover their ass-end times.Even Jesus, the Son of God, apparentlyhedged his bets when he said:I tell you this: the present generationwill live to see it all. Heaven and Earth willpass away... But about that day or thathour no one knows, not even the angelsin heaven, not even the Son, only theFather. (Matthew 13: 30-32)We’ve passed the millenniumwithout Gabriel’s fanfare. The doomsdaydates remaining are next to none. Peoplepartied like it was 1999 only to havehangover-will-travel into another 1,000-year Christian epoch – one big global party.No Doomsday anywhere. One terrorist

NOSTRADAMUS 2012173planning to blow things up in America got arrested on a ferry to Washington Statefrom Canada. A few guys ran around Jerusalem dressed like Jesus or Jeremiah,closely pursued and straight jacketed by a specially trained Israeli military policeforce of uniformed psychiatrists.No Armageddon happened on New Years 2000.No Problem.21 December 2012 is it! Gotta be. Here’s why. The ancient Mayans had their“shift” together. Don’t Mess-oamerican around with these guys. The ancient Mayanastronomers and priests may be the real doom dealing deal because these Pre-Columbian star gazers chiseled their glyphs and runes upon stone dials plottingepochs nearly as precisely as modern science tells time and all without atomic clocksand computers.The moment called the winter solstice on 21 December 2012, by our modernGregorian calendar, is important to them. A lot of people these days believe it marksthe end of a period of Mayan timekeeping lasting 63 million years. You’d think thiscould be the end of something big? Of all the presumably doom-latent dates everrecorded, this one comes to us from the most accurate calendar ever created byancient prophets (it has a leap year once every 370,000 years). No Jesus hedging.No Beast that is Nero fiddling around in burning Rome. No Miller two-end-timing us,yet again. Current events bring pause to reflect on how quietly and uneventful wasthe turn of the Christian millennium back in 2000. Maybe the Christian Littles wereoff by 12 years?Just look at the wicked world this end-time around. It seems to be sliding intoapocalyptic times for real. Britney Spears, for instance. Paris Hilton. Gadzooks! Lookat Lady GaGa.The Chicken Littles are getting restless in the global greenhouse. Before amultitude of flighty birds start running amok, dinged by the detritus of overtlyinterpreted data falling in a coming meteor shower of books, I’d like to make aprediction.2012 isn’t the end of time.I don’t know what folks who cut people’s hearts out as sacrifices to the Sunmeant it to mean – but it isn’t that.Let’s say the Maya start their longest of Long Counts, the alatun, roughlycorresponding to a time two million years after the violent and sudden extinction ofthe dinosaurs 65 million years ago when mammals filled the evolutionary niches leftvacant. The next Mayan age corresponded to the time our hominid ancestors with

NOSTRADAMUS 2012174expanding brain capacity walked upright with an awakening light of self-awareness.The “wake up” eventually led them to trip over rocks they fashioned into tools, pickfights with Mammoths who in turn chased them into a rapid advance towards anevolutionary path that left their primate cousins, safely up in the trees, far behind.Setting the evolutionary clock on Mayan time is either an amazing coincidenceor these ancient cultures had a “knowing” about primeval evolution. We saw earlierhow there are parallels to the Maya in the surviving scriptures of other early prophecytimekeepers. The Hindus Yugas (great ages) each begin with the rise of a new andoften true blue Avatar – world teacher. But hold on there, James Cameronites of theJake Sully cult. The earliest of these correspond to evolution’s great mutations. Inreview: the first Avatar was a fish, the next a turtle (reptile), the third a lion-man(mammal) and then a human being (a Homo sap.). Perhaps the Hindu, like theMaya, tried to calculate time by the advent of evolutionary jumps.The body intuition of people of simpler times, closer to the anima of nature,may have been far more advanced in reading the subjective underpinnings of thesechanges. The shamans of time were adepts in reading the books of their bodyminds.The Hindus had a knowing of huge and revolutionary steps in evolution thatthey mistakenly personified as early Avatars. Did they know that every embryonicchild growing in the womb for nine months passes through the previous stages ofevolutionary paradigms, from fish, reptile, mammalian, to infant human?On 21 December 2012, a new, Mayan epoch begins. Could this mark the birthof something not yet known in our long evolution? Could it mark the beginning of anend to stupidity on a collective scale?It doesn’t take a prophet to tell us that human civilization is heading towardsa number of unsustainable futures. We are being driven into the ditch by mostlymindless and habitual pursuits of insatiable and dumb ideas, such as, breedinganother billion air, earth and water polluting consumers of the Earth’s finite resources.Seven billion of us, no less, by 2012. And the estimate is we’ll slap on another billionin 15 years (2027), then another in 19 years (2046).Chicken Little? You’ve got a lot of objective trends backing the sky falling.Soon. I can toss at your head a disturbing prophetic fact as well, something I cameupon while researching The Millennium Book of Prophecy back in the early 1990s. Adateline end to the latter-days:Documenting an accurate forecast of any future event nailed by a correctdate, either years or even centuries before it happens, has been one of the hardestfeats of prophecy. Only a handful of daring seers have stood the test: Nostradamus,

NOSTRADAMUS 2012175Edgar Cayce, the oracles of Tibet. What about the Maya?After 2012, the swarm of dates drops away. No date is logged for another88 years by the control group of accurate forecasters. Cayce predicts an importantevent in 2100 during his own future life when New York is a ruin and the west coastof the United States starts at Nebraska.The next date contributed by Count Louis Hamon (Cheiro), is 300 years later –marking the appearance of a future world messiah in the 25th century. After Cheiro’sdate the next predicted milestone in time comes 1,355 years later. It is a civilizationendingcosmic meteor shower foreseen by Nostradamus for the year “3755 c.e.”Over the years I’ve been asked what the drop off of recorded future eventsmight mean. Two possibilities come to mind. Perhaps we were too chicken and toolate changing our habitual, predictable self-destructive ways by 2012 and futurecivilization is so lamed and threadbare to have survived little intact to propheticallyperceive much from survivors of a ruined world.But cheer up Chicken Little.The odds of surviving the end of the worldare definitely in favor of those who misread whatfalls out of the sky upon their knuckleheads. Ihave a different interpretation for the datesdropping off after 2012. One I strive to live by inmy own little life. The dates after 2012 fall awaybecause we may reach at that time what I willcall the Critical Mass of Stupid. Being predictablystupid now compels humanity like never before to GET SMART about the future,individually as well as collectively. If our past habits and traditions have fossilized toa point where mechanically upholding them becomes auto-suicidal for the humanrace, we need to bring into our lives a new awareness – a new intelligence – to breakfrom that destructive past repeating in our future.If we can’t see or date the actions of future humanity, perhaps it is becausethey stopped repeating the stupid past, calling it the future, not because they wantedto stop. They had to stop.The year 2012 may mark the beginning of the end of an old Chicken LittleHumanity. We’ll still be stupid after the winter solstice comes and goes in 2012, butintelligent solutions will become a necessity like never before. Every year after 2012will press home to even the biggest idiots among us that we need to use that bigbrain Existence gave us to redefine what it is to be Human.

NOSTRADAMUS 2012176One thing is certain, with 2012 passing; Chicken Little’s date for the sky fallingwill be a little too late for a very long time. Still, Chicken Littles will be “born again”in future times. They’re a patient lot. The Christian Chicken Littles can get it wrongagain a thousand years hence. Is this three times a Third Millennium charm?If not, there’s always Nostradamus.He marked the year “3797” as the end of his prophetic history of the Earth.He describes the end of the world as a final conflagration of the Sun scorching ourplanet to a cinder.As I stated earlier, I’ve been seen on a number of documentaries concerning2012 and Nostradamus’ connection. In each one, I’ve stated that there’s noconnection between Nostradamus and the Mayan Solstice Prophecy of 21 December2012. For the most part, my statements are “left out” of the sympathetic, Pro-Mayan doomsday documentaries.These documentaries avoid a stark fact that the 16th-century French seercategorically dated the end of the physical Earth happening on a date 1,785 yearsafter 2012: the year 3797.Nostradamus was no Chicken Little. He predicted that the end of the worldwasn’t the end of the “races” of humanity. He wrote in French on page 10 of hisPreface to Caesar:Mais assemblez les vns en Aquarius par plusieurs annees, les autres en Cancerpar plus longues & cõtinues.[Humanity would gather] for several years in Aquarius, others inCancer for a longer time and for evermore.In other words, Humanity has no End Time.I for one like the sound of that. Nostradamus is my kind of prescient nut case.The guy who got the alignment of Galactic Center correct, not the Maya. More so, he’smy guy if by design or accident, he happens to express his vision in old RenaissanceFrench grammar that implies Aquarius and Cancer aren’t merely astrological signs,or ages, but places in the sky that become our future home.This means its curtains for the next Chicken Little who expected the sky tofall in 2012. I suggest, quirky pullus, you just step out the back door of the chickencoop and gaze into the starlit sky. Look at those flickering diamond fire points of theconstellations in Aquarius and Cancer. You might be looking at stars around which

NOSTRADAMUS 2012177worlds revolve. Our worlds. Where someday the human race will dwell in perpetuitybeyond the predicted ends of worlds. Humanity gone galactic.Chicken Little? The stars of Aquarius and Cancer are not falling any time soon.--END--Source: Museum of Science (Boston, MA)