The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 - Dr. Synthia Andrews Nd [86]
◆ 989 C.E: Halley’s Comet and beyond. Comets, eclipses, and other celestial events are often believed to be heralds of the end times. Both Halley’s Comet in 989 C.E. and a supernova in 1006 C.E. were interpreted as signs of the end times. In present times, Hale-Bopp in 1997 was believed to start the end times, and in 2003 we were supposed to pass through the tail of a comet, provoking the end-time Earth changes. And of course, alignment with the galactic center in 2012 ….
◆ 1000 C.E: The Second Coming. The approach of the first millennium created mass hysteria. Everyone believed the return of Christ was imminent, complete with the apocalypse, Armageddon, and Ascension. Some took it to extremes, and as the millennium approached people abandoned their crops and journeyed to Jerusalem. It was a good time to become a good Christian, and in the year 999 people sold their belongings, gave the money to the poor, and awaited redemption.
◆ 1260 C.E. The Franciscan order of the Catholic Church was based on the belief in an “Age of Spirit” when God’s revelations would be sent directly to individuals. Citing the writings of Italian monk Joachim of Fiore (ca. 1132-1202) people believed the end of the Age of Grace was near and the Age of Spirit was approaching. They believed the date was 1260 C.E.
◆ 1666: The year of the beast. The number 666 is declared in the Book of Revelations to be the number of the beast, or the number of the antichrist. Any time the number 666, or multiples of 666, or years whose numbers add up to 666 arrive, predictions of Armageddon follow. It heralds the beginning of the apocalypse with disease, plague, and famine. Considering that in 1666 600,000 people died in the bubonic plague, it was perhaps understandable that this was believed to be the year of the end times. For 600,000 people, it was!
◆ Nuclear war: 2000, 2003, 2008. War is another common end-time prediction. You will be happy to know that not only have we lived through the Bible Code’s prediction of a nuclear war in 2000, we have also lived through a nuclear war in 2003, predicted by the Aum Shinri Kyo cult. The most recent one, prophesized to destroy the earth in March 2008, was predicted by the British group the Lord’s Witnesses.
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
We all need to apply healthy skepticism to the information about 2012. Otherwise we can get so caught up in the theories that we stop seeing events objectively. The loss of objectivity can cause poor decision-making or close our minds to information that can clarify and help our understanding. Take a quick check; is there anyplace where you do not want to hear any other view than your own? You may be filtering reality to fit your own ideas. Something we all have to watch out for.
Don’t forget, prophecies can become self-fulfilling. When a child spills his milk and is told he is prone to accidents, he starts to think of himself that way. His new self-image damages his self-confidence and creates more accidents. The prophecy is fulfilled.
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A great website for more information on defeating self-fulfilling prophecy is www.terrybragg.com/Article_Self-fulfillingProphecies.htm.
Here’s how self-fulfilling prophecy works: you automatically change the way you act and what you do based on your expectations. Here’s an example: you own stock in a company. You hear on the news that the stock market is going into a slump or the stock you hold is going down, and you decide to sell your stock. If everyone who heard the news report does the same, the stock crashes and the prophecy is fulfilled.
This process, like so many we have been talking about, is a cycle. It starts with your forming an expectation, then interpreting events based on what you expect, then changing your behavior, and creating the effect. It’s important to remember that self-fulfilling prophecies are fulfilled not because the prophecies