There is an old Chinese curse that essentially translates to English as: May you live in interesting times. I think, without intended understatement, that we do in fact live in interesting times.

Every culture and civilization that has ever existed here on Mother Terra has had some version or vision of an “end-times” apocalypse. This is not so unusual in that the very essence of our existence is one fraught with strife and peril, and ultimately the end result of that existence is death. It would stand to reason then that we might as human beings project that view onto our society and world as a whole.

What is unusual, however, is that all of these individual prophets, cultures, and civilizations seem to share a very similar timeline. The Mayan calendar, which is incidentally more accurate than our current one, ends shortly after the year 2000. There is a prophecy inscribed in their hieroglyphics on that final date which says the Gods come back on that day to give us a new calendar.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops, on the other side of the planet has the future history of the world built into its very structure using what is called a “pyramid inch” for its unit of measure. One “pyramid inch” in its central corridor being equal to one year of human history. Interestingly, the starting point would seem to correlate our beginning to about the same time of biblical creation, and the corridor branches at the point of 33 AD with one path leading upward and the other path leading downward. In any case, its record of human history ceases in the year 2001.

Nostrodamus predicted the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it in, depending on the interpretation, July, August, or September of 1999 where he foretold the advent of a horrible future war that is to last for “seven and twenty years”. He also wrote that in the year of the “great seventh number” the dead would rise up from their graves. This sounds eerily familiar to prophecies of a mass resurrection or “rapture” spoken of in the Bible. Incidentally, the “great seventh number” begins in the year 2000, plus or minus three years, when the Hebrew god YHWH (Yahweh) finishes his six days of work (one thousand years equaling one day) and begins the Sabbath Day (one thousand years of peace).

There are others: St. Malachy, Edgar Cayce, Musashi, Baha’u'llah, and the Navajo Indians to name just a few. It defies the laws of statistics and probability that there are so many similar prophecies of a coming apocalypse from such a wide range of personalities, cultures, and eras. Failure to recognize this improb- ability is nothing less than ignorance, bias, or denial. The safe approach to this issue would seem to be to hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Personally, I’m praying for some massive divine intervention, since I think it is extremely arrogant of us as human beings to think we will rectify the situation from its current dilapidated state. After all, aren’t we the ones that got us into our current predicament?

December 30th, 2001 at 6:20 pm in Philosophy and Religion

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