By (author) John Michael Greer
An investigation into the history, politics, and belief-systems that have shaped human understanding of the ‘end of days’
This book is a lively and engaging survey of predictions about the end of the world, along with the failed dreams and nightmares that have clustered around them.
For almost three-thousand years apocalypse prophecies have convinced people all over the world that the future is about to give them the world they want instead of the world they already have. But these end of time prophecies splashed across the media in every age have had something else in common: every one of them has been wrong.
Among the stories highlighted in Apocalypse Not are the birth of the apocalypse meme out of archaic star myths in the ancient Middle East; the failed end time prophecies of Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, and other famous prophets; and the long and murky road from the Great Pyramid to today's Rapture beliefs.
With Greer’s usual sharp and witty insights, Apocalypse Not offers a pertinent analysis of spirituality, the future, and what it means to be human.
By (author) John Michael Greer
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn and Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
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