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NHNE
Special Report
The NewHeavenNewEarth
Earth Changes Composite Map
ORIGINAL EDITION, Published
January, 1995
REVISED EDITION, Published January, 1997
© Copyright 1995, 1997 by NewHeavenNewEarth
Research: David Sunfellow, Thomas J. Dunn, Robert Perry
Illustrations: David Sunfellow, Robert Perry
Text: David Sunfellow, Robert Perry
Contents:
•
Introduction
•
About The Sources We Used
• Common
Points
•
Possible Explanations
•
Conclusion
•
ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS & INFORMATION:
"Pole
Shift Torpedoed by Author"
by David Sunfellow
"Sorting
it All Out"
by
David Sunfellow
"Geological
Issues"
by Deborah K.B. Chaplin & David
Sunfellow
"Cracks
in the Psychic World View"
by Robert Perry
• SOURCES
•
NHNE CREDITS
• Introduction
Many sources, psychic and otherwise, have long predicted catastrophic
physical changes for America. How many of these predicted changes
are the same, or similar?
And how many of these predicted changes are likely to happen? These
are the questions we set out to answer.
In preparing our composite map, we examined eight different sources
of information: "We
are the Earthquake Generation" by Jeffrey Goodman, "The
Survivor," published
by Donovan Quarmby, "The Half Times" by Don Daughtry, "Surviving
Catastrophic Changes" by G. Cope Schellhorn, "Daybreak,
the Dawning Ember" by Mary Summer Rain, "Black Dawn,
Bright Day" by
Sun Bear and Wabun Wind, the "I Am America Map" by
Lori Adaile Toye, and Gordon-Michael Scallion's "Future Map
of the United States: 1998-2001." In the end, the only sources that we felt were
complete and/or credible enough to report on, were the maps produced
by Goodman, Scallion,
and Toye. Our composite map is, therefore, based on maps produced by
these three sources. Although our composite map is not an exact reproduction
of these
three sources, we have reproduced their maps accurately enough to show
how and where their predictions complement and differ from one another.
• About The Sources We Used
1. WE ARE THE EARTHQUAKE GENERATION
This book was originally published in 1978. Dr. Jeffrey Goodman,
Ph.D. collected predictions from seven well–known psychics. Although not completely unanimous
in their predictions, Goodman found that the psychics "were predicting
the same earth changes." His seven psychics were: Edgar Cayce,
the famous American trance psychic who lived from 1877 to 1945; Aron
Abrahamsen,
a contemporary
psychic in the Cayce mold; Beverly Jaegers, a psychometrist; Bella
Karish, a psychic noted for her medical skills; Rev. Ray Elkins, apparently
a spirit
medium; Clarisa Bernhardt, famous for earthquake predictions; and Susan
Harris, a psychologist (not a psychic) who hypnotically progressed
normal subjects
into the future and asked them what they saw.
2. FUTURE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES: 1998-2001 (1993
Version)
Gordon-Michael Scallion is the most well-known and widely-publicized
of today's American psychics. His specific predictions, as well as
the overall content
of his visions, follow closely in the footsteps of the famed Virginia
Beach psychic, Edgar Cayce.
According to Scallion, his psychic gifts were triggered by an experience
he had in 1979. After admitting himself to a hospital for a sudden,
unexplained illness, a woman appeared to him in a vision and made a
series of short-term
and long-term predictions. Among other things, the woman said that
beginning in the late 1980s there would be major earth changes. These
changes would
begin,
she said, with earthquakes, volcanic activities and tsunamis. By the
1990s, they would spread to the whole planet and would increase in
intensity with
each passing year. She called these changes a "Tribulation."
Now, almost two decades after his initial experience, Scallion claims
that his visions come to him both spontaneously and as a deliberate,
conscious
process of inner seeking. The earth changes map that Scallion publishes
is a finely-chiseled
reproduction of the many, suspiciously-consistent visions he claims
to receive. Scallion first published his earth changes map in 1982.
Since
then, he has
made four revisions that we are aware of, in 1991, 1992, 1993, and
1997. His most recent version is called "Future Map of North America." As
its name suggests, this new version includes Alaska, Hawaii, Canada,
Mexico and
Central America.
3. I AM AMERICA
In 1983, Lori Adaile Toye had a recurring dream in which four white–robed
beings unraveled a map showing a drastically altered United States. Five years
later, a friend urged her to reconstruct this map. In over 80 sessions, she
contacted the four beings through a meditative state, and guided by them, she
and her friend meticulously constructed the I AM AMERICA map. She has now founded
the I AM AMERICA organization in Payson, Arizona, to "provide
help during the time of changes."
• Common
Points
The three maps we have selected have the following points in common.
These commonalities are also shared by many other sources (including
maps by
trance psychic Don Daughtry and maps from the book, "The Survivor"):
- West Coast Inundation
The most striking thing about all of these maps is the massive chunk taken
out of the West Coast. Even though the size and shape of this chunk varies
greatly, all of these sources predict major changes to the West Coast of the
United States.
- The Great Lakes & Mississippi River Valley
The Great Lakes are foreseen as growing in size and becoming a single massive
inland lake. This then drains through the Mississippi Valley into the Gulf
of Mexico, dramatically widening the Mississippi River. A partial exception
to this view is the I AM AMERICA MAP, which, though it predicts the swelling
of both the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, predicts that only Lake Michigan
will drain through the Mississippi and only temporarily.
- East Coast Inundations
The maps all see inundations along the East Coast, though far less severe than
that foreseen for the West Coast:
--All of the maps foresee the destruction of New York City
--Two of the maps foresee major inundations of New England
--Two of the maps foresee inundation along the coastline of Georgia and the
Carolinas
--All of the maps foresee inundation somewhere along the Florida coast. Two
maps foresee the southern tip disappearing.
• Possible Explanations
When confronted with several different maps predicting such staggering
and unconventional changes, yet being so strikingly similar, it is
hard to not
take them seriously. It is their agreement that is so impressive. Yet
does this agreement necessarily mean that such changes will occur?
For instance,
of the 18 dramatic predictions given for the 1980–1985 period
by the psychics of WE ARE THE EARTHQUAKE GENERATION, only one has even
arguably
come true:
Increasingly harsh weather patterns. Ten years later the rest of the
predictions,
most involving the rising or falling of land masses, remain unfulfilled.
And what is true of Goodman's dramatic predictions, is also true of the predictions
presently being made by Gordon-Michael Scallion and Lori Adaile Toye.
Using his offline newsletter, THE EARTH CHANGES REPORT (ECR), pre-recorded
900 number phone messages, frequent appearances on nationally televised
shows like "Sightings," "Encounters" and "Ancient Prophecies," guest
appearances on "The Art Bell Radio Show," interviews with
mainstream television reporters, and his own radio show, Scallion has
repeatedly
issued dramatic predictions that have failed to manifest. In the April
1995 issue
of ECR for instance, Scallion boldly declared, "I see a portion
of the Imperial Valley under water this year. I see no turning back
now. I believe
all my predictions will occur regarding the West Coast. My visions
are now in full color with no alternative aspects, or realities, to
shift to.
In
other words, events will now unfold with no possibility of change.
I suggest everyone
living on the West Coast pay attention to their dreams and intuitive
sense. Time is now very short. Earth changes in the year 1995 will
create new
maps of the West Coast." Faced with a growing number of failed
predictions, Scallion's response has been consistent: he fails to publicly
acknowledge
just how wrong he has been and he quietly moves the dates back for
his predicted disasters. His current "Future Map of North America" for
instance, no longer predicts the world to be remade by 2001 as he did
in earlier versions.
Instead, Scallion says the changes will not be complete until 2012
(a figure widely quoted in New Age circles that relates to the supposed
ending of
ancient Mayan calendar).
Toye, on the other hand, has taken another approach. Instead of publishing
one map that details the fate of North America and another one that
details the fate of the world (Scallion also publishes a large map
of global
geological changes called "Future Map of the World"), Toye now publishes FIVE
VERSIONS of her I AM AMERICA map, with each map representing a different level
of earth changes activity, depending on how humanity responds to the ecological
and spiritual warnings that are now occurring. In Toye's "best-case" scenario,
much of California and New York would be spared, while in the "worst-case," North
America would be split in two and hardly anything would remain beyond
the Appalachian and Rocky Mountain ridges. Toye has also begun to move
away
from viewing her
maps as actual physical predictions and, instead, is saying that she
feels her maps are more symbolic, than literal.
While it is clear now than that the predictions issued
by these three sources have all failed to take place as originally predicted,
how do we account for all three sources predicting the same basic events?
Here are some hypotheses:
1. They all read Cayce.
While other psychics predicted massive global change before Edgar Cayce, Cayce
was the first to predict the series of catastrophic earth changes mentioned
in many of today's earth change scenarios -- especially as they relate to America.
Over the past few decades, his predictions have received a great deal of publicity
and notoriety. Among people interested in the realm of the psychic, these predictions
are common knowledge. It is conceivable that through direct or indirect exposure
all of the psychics associated with these maps have been unconsciously (or
perhaps consciously) influenced by Cayce and the particular series of geological
changes he first outlined in the early 1930's. What this would mean is that
all of these maps are based on a single source of information, rather than
multiple sources of independent information. If this is the case, then we are
only really dealing with ONE source predicting catastrophic change -- which,
of course, is much easier to dismiss than many different sources.
For the record, here is one of Cayce's most celebrated earth change predictions:
"As to the changes physical again: The earth will be broken
up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan
must go
into
the sea.
The upper portion of Europe will be changed as in the twinkling of
an eye. Land will appear off the east coast of America. There will
be the upheavals
in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption
of volcanoes in the torrid areas, and there will be the shifting then
of the poles ---
so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical
will become
the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow. And these will begin
in those periods in '58 to '98, when these will be proclaimed as the
periods
when
His light will be seen again in the clouds. As to times, as to seasons,
as to places,
ALONE is it given to those who have named the Name --- and who bear
the mark of those of His calling and His election in their bodies.
To them
it shall
be given." (Edgar Cayce Reading #3976-15, 1/19/34)
2. The maps represent collective doomsday expectations.
It is safe to say that the idea of global catastrophe is an archetype
in the human psyche. Our culture is permeated with doomsday expectations.
Also, visions
of global destruction seem to be readily accessible in certain altered
states of consciousness. Perhaps the psychics behind these maps are
simply tapping
into this doomsday archetype. Under this theory, however, it is hard
to
explain why the psychics would come up with such similar maps. Perhaps,
while tapping
into the doomsday archetype, they are also psychically sensing points
of seismic stress on our continent. Their unconscious may be using
those points
of stress
to help them specifically flesh out the general doomsday theme. This
scenario would explain the correspondence between "The Seismic Risk Map" (pictured
alongside our composite map) and the psychics' maps without validating
the latter. In this scenario, the predicted changes do not happen,
but instead
are a bizarre mixture of psychological archetypes and valid scientific
information.
3. The geologic changes pictured are symbols for inner changes.
Perhaps the psychics are sensing valid changes in the consciousness of humanity
that are approaching. These psychological and social changes are then being mistranslated into
geologic changes by the unconscious minds of the psychics. As in the
previous hypothesis, they are using psychically–derived geologic information as
a template for fleshing out their visions. In this scenario, the geologic changes
do not happen, but in a sense the predictions do come true –– in
the form of inner upheavals that permanently change our world.
4. The predicted changes will really happen.
In this scenario the psychics are right. In a few short years the U.S. will
look much like their maps. Their timing may be off, but then timing always
seems to be the weak point in psychic predictions. Even valid predictions have
been wrong about timing.
5. Some combination of the above hypotheses.
Perhaps the truth will turn out to be a combination of two, three or all of
the above hypotheses. Perhaps, for instance, only minor geologic changes will
happen, but in conjunction with major inner changes.
6. Something else is producing these maps and dire predictions.
There almost certainly are important hypotheses that have not occurred
to us.
• Conclusion
When this report
was first published in 1995, we ended it saying, "We
had hoped that some kind of iron-clad pattern would emerge that would
dramatically support OR clearly refute the predictions of massive geological
change
in America. No such pattern emerged. There are too many loose ends
to make any
kind of
absolute statement."
Now, however, after carefully researching various aspects of this situation,
including current geological and seismic data, it is clear that the
dramatic geological changes predicted by the sources mentioned above
are in error.
To be more specific, the possibility that our planet is going to undergo
a global
geological catastrophe is exceedingly remote. Unless we get smacked
by a comet (as some psychics have predicted), bounced into by the Martian
moon, "Phobos" (as
Scallion has predicted), or assaulted by some other presently unforeseen
force that is powerful enough to unleash global calamities, the chance
of our world
being ripped a part at the seams by geological disturbances is almost
nil. Here's the earthquake and volcano evidence that should send most
(if not
all) cataclysmic-minded psychics back to the drawing board:
Earthquake UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS) Frequently Asked
Questions: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/more/eqfaq.html
Q. Will California eventually fall into the ocean?
A. No.
The motion of plates will not make California sink -- California
is moving horizontally along the San Andreas fault and up around
the Transverse
Ranges.
Q. Are earthquakes on the increase?
A. We
continue to hear from people throughout the world that earthquakes
are on the increase, and it may seem that we are having
more earthquakes. However,
earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant
throughout this century and according to records have actually
seemed to decrease in recent
years.
Q. How many earthquakes does THE NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
CENTER report yearly?
A. The
NEIC now locates about 12,000 to 14,000 earthquakes yearly, or approximately
35 a day.
Frequency of Occurrence of Earthquakes
USGS NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION CENTER
Title Magnitude Annual Average
Great = 8 and higher = 1
Major = 7 to 7.9 = 18
Strong = 6 to 6.9 = 120
Moderate = 5 to 5.9 = 800
Light = 4 to 4.9 = 6,200 (estimated)
Minor = 3 to 3.9 = 49,000 (estimated)
Yearly Number of Earthquakes Worldwide, 7.0 & Greater (Average
19 per year)
USGS NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION CENTER
1980 = 18
1981 = 14
1982 = 10
1983 = 15
1984 = 8
1985 = 15
1986 = 6
1987 = 11
1988 = 8
1989 = 7
1990 = 12
1991 = 11
1992 = 23
1993 = 16
1994 = 15
1995 = 25
1996 = 21
The most 7.0 and larger earthquakes tracked since 1900 occurred
in 1943. There were 41 that year. Significantly, the years from
1934
to 1951 all exceeded
the average annual rate of 19 earthquakes per year. The average
rate of earthquakes greater than 7.0 for these years was 27.
While the
yearly number of earthquakes
worldwide 5.0 and smaller has increased, the USGS says this is
because earthquake tracking equipment has improved and earthquake
tracking
stations are located
in more places around the world (in 1931 there were 350 tracking
stations, while today there are over 4,000).
What is true of earthquakes is also true of volcanoes. According
to a spokesperson for the SMITHSONIAN VOLCANISM NETWORK, "Our analysis DOES NOT support
[the idea that volcanism is increasing] in any way, although with the encouragement
of the SMITHSONIAN (and many other factors), reporting of small eruptions
has increased in this century."
On the other hand, we do believe there is a strong possibility that some
kind of stripped-down version of major geological change could take place. Scientists
in California and Japan have long predicted that both of these
geological hot spots are overdue for major earthquakes. Recent
studies also
indicate that
New York is ripe for a major earthquake and that if even a 6.0
or larger quake struck the area, the nature of the land and current
building codes would make
it a major disaster.
Dannion Brinkley's predictions also support the possibility
that the U.S. may experience some kind of major earthquake
activity
near the
turn of
the century.
In 1994, Brinkley published a book detailing two remarkable
near-death experiences. Called, "Saved by the Light," Brinkley's
first book became a national best-seller and established him
as one of the
most original,
enigmatic and
thought-provoking people ever to appear in the human potential
movement.
While a growing number of people are reporting near-death experiences,
Brinkley's story contained several aspects that placed him in
a category all by himself.
In addition to passing through the classic phases associated
with near-death experiences, Brinkley also received a series
of 117
dramatic predictions, 95
of which he claims have come true. One of these predictions follows:
"But the end of America as a world power came as visions of two
horrendous earthquakes in which buildings were swaying and toppling over
like child's
wooden blocks. I knew that these quakes happened some time before the end
of the century, but couldn't tell where they took place. I do remember
seeing a large body of water that was probably a river. The cost of rebuilding
these
destroyed cities would be the final straw for our government, now so financially
broken that it would hardly be able to keep itself alive. The voice in
the vision told me that it would be this way while images from the box
showed
Americans
starving and lined up for food."
Why do we take Brinkley's predictions so seriously? Of all
the psychics and psychic predictions that we have tracked,
Brinkley
is the only
one who has
a demonstratable record of solid hits. His past hits are backed
up by Raymond Moody, the world's foremost expert on near-death
experiences
(Moody took notes
of Brinkley's predictions shortly after his first near-death
experience in 1975). And we have tracked two major hits since
Brinkley's best-selling
book
was first published.
Editor's
Comment - 9/8/2003:
Since
the revised edition of this report was published, Dannion
Brinkley's credibility has come under fire by Raymond
Moody and others. In his 1999 book, "The Last Laugh",
Moody had this to say about Brinkley's prophetic abilities:
"Many
prophets seem to foresee mostly drastic kinds of unpleasantness,
and the majority of Dannion's
foreseeings were the
typical soothsayer fare -- looming famine, war, economic depression,
societal disarray.
"In
the mid-1970's, when I first heard these foretellings, I was smug.
As an avid, in-depth follower of current events, I felt sure the
world was in for a big shake-up, a conclusion I based on simple
extrapolation
from bad news of those days -- the nuclear arms race, rampant poverty
in the third world, carelessness about the environment, and burgeoning
overpopulation -- not on psychic forewarnings. I also knew enough
about psychiatry to perceive that most Americans were hiding their
heads
in the sand about global developments. And I had heard several other
near-death experients recite their own awesome, end-time visions
of gloom and doom that were parallel to Dannion's. I surmised that
sometimes,
when people realized that they were on the verge of death, their
defensive structures collapsed and their thoughts raced ahead from
what was then
the state of world affairs to make the likely inference: a worldwide
calamity was in the offing.
"Subsequently,
however, I admit I have been a bit unsettled by the uncanny accuracy
of some of those experients'
forecasts. In 1975,
my friend
Vi Horton correctly foretold (from her near-death vision) the exact
year, nature, and outcome of the revolution in South Africa. And
in April 1976 Dannion told me that in his vision he had foreseen
that
in 1990 there would be a breakdown of the Soviet Union and that
there would be food riots there. I recall that incident so vividly
because
what he said struck me as silly and absurd; I took his seriousness
about the pronouncements as evidence that the bolt of electricity
had disrupted his brain circuitry. Imagine my surprise fourteen
years later
when the event transpired just as he had forespoken it. There have
been many other instances, too, when he issued predictions that
seemed totally off the wall at the time, only to be fulfilled later
with
chilling precision.
"Then
I must go on immediately to add that I have seen and heard him
pronounce many other prophecies, detailing even
the day, month, or
year of their forthcoming, and all in the same preemptory voice
and manner of all-confident authority, that never did materialize
as
he said they would.
"Not
only that, but he has continued to prophesize ever since his near-death
experience took place in September 1975
because he believes
that his
close call with death empowered him to read minds and to peer
into the future. And his display of mind reading is among the best
and
most convincing I have ever witnessed. Time after time, I have
seen folks'
jaws drop, or tears well up in their eyes, as Dannion, a total
stranger to them, correctly rattles off the details of their
personal circumstances,
even their deep inner secrets.
"For
years, I have been baffled by his amazing talent for seeming to
know things about others that
he seemingly would have no way
of knowing.
That is why I encouraged him to get his story into print. I
introduced him to the persons who arranged for its publication.
"But
I had envisioned a different presentation; for a long time, I
have wanted to see Dannion in a face-off with the Amazing
Randi or
other
sigh cop, such as Dr. Ray Hyman, a psychologist who specializes
in putting claims of telepathic powers to the test. I still
hope that
some day such a confrontation will come to pass. Since the
release of his book, though, a couple of parapsychologically-minded
investigators
have assessed Dannion's skills, and they profess to be as
perplexed by him as I am.
"Whatever
the eventual outcome of the wrangling about Dannion among parapsychologists,
sigh cops, and funda-Christians,
however, it
won't many any difference to the many admirers and
fans who have gathered
around him. They will continue to believe he can read
minds and foresee the future. Nor is Dannion ever bothered for
a minute
by any of his
misforeseeings, for when prophecies fail, fresh ones
soon
are heard tripping from his tongue to replace the worn-out
ones."
Our conclusion, then, is that the kind of pole-shifting, all-out
global catastrophes predicted by Goodman, Scallion, Toye,
Cayce and others are wishful thinking:
our world is not in danger of being ripped to shreds by planetary
geological changes, nor are we likely to see current land
masses falling into the sea,
while new land masses rise from the depths of the ocean.
We do, however, believe it is possible for a couple of major earthquakes
to strike
before the turn
of the century which could potentially cause the stock market
to crash, world economy to fail, and many nations, including
America,
to experience severe
hardship. Furthermore, we also believe it is possible that
these
earthquakes could strike in areas that Cayce and others said
would experience severe earthquakes,
especially since modern seismologists are saying major quakes
in some of these areas are overdue.
Time will tell.
- ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS & INFORMATION:
In October of 1996, we published a Special Report entitled, "Letters
about Geological Cataclysmic Global Upheaval." Consisting of a series
of letters to and from our readers, these letters were later followed by an
article that appeared in News Brief 36 (November 15, 1996) that dealt with
John White's current views on the likelihood of a pole shift. The author of "Pole
Shift," White popularized the idea that our planet
was approaching a geological apocalypse near the turn
of the century.
Beginning with
the article
on John
White, our discussion of geological earth changes concludes
with three letters that appeared in our October 1996
Special Report.
"Pole Shift Torpedoed by Author," by
David Sunfellow
"Sorting it All Out," by David Sunfellow
"Geological Issues," by Deborah K.B. Chaplin & David
Sunfellow
"Cracks in the Psychic World View," by Robert Perry
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POLE SHIFT TORPEDOED BY AUTHOR
By David Sunfellow
From NHNE News Brief 36
Friday, November 15, 1996
When John White first published "Pole Shift" in 1980, his book sent
re-affirming shocks waves through the earth changes community. Many earth change
believers (including this reporter) believed White's book "proved" that
Edgar Cayce, and a host of other psychics, had correctly foreseen a global
catastrophe that would destroy much of the planet along with major portions
of the human race. White's book was particularly powerful because it was written
by a man with serious professional credentials and, perhaps more importantly,
because it seamlessly wed modern scientific data with contemporary psychics
and ancient myths and prophecies. While White refused to say in "Pole
Shift" that he was absolutely certain that a pole
shift was coming, he left no doubt that he thought one
might strike
sometime near the
year 2000.
Now, however, White has publicly said that he doesn't
believe there is going to be a pole shift -- at least
the kind
of cataclysmic variety envisioned by Cayce, Gordon-Michael
Scallion,
and others.
And while "Pole Shift" is
still selling like hot cakes (it is presently being published by the A.R.E.,
Edgar Cayce's organization), the 1995 edition now contains an epilogue that
discusses why a pole shift WON'T be visiting planet Earth anytime soon. White
also challenged the themes championed in "Pole Shift" in another
book of his published in 1990, "The Meeting of Science and Spirit." In
that book he writes, "On the basis of a decade's
hindsight, I think that the possibility of a catastrophic
pole shift at the end of this century
is increasingly unlikely. To be more precise, I do not
think a pole shift will occur as predicted."
Since then, White has apparently become even more convinced
that a pole shift won't happen. In an interview that
appears in the
current issue
of ATLANTIS
RISING (Number 9), White called the possibility of a
geological pole shift around the year 2000 "nonsense and fantasy." Furthermore,
he also believes that there has probably NEVER been a
pole shift, although he doesn't
rule out the possibility that it could occur someday
in the distant future. White is, however, careful to
distinguish
the
difference between
a magnetic
pole shift and a geological one. While acknowledging
that there have been
at least 181 occasions recognized by science when the
magnetic field of the Earth
has completely collapsed and re-established itself in
the opposite polarity, White says that these reversals
were
never accompanied
by catastrophes. "Or," says
White, "certainly not catastrophes of the sort
predicted by pole shift theorists and predictors." White also said
that as far as he knows, such magnetic shifts do not occur
on any
cyclical basis, nor are they triggered
by outer-space events.
Why, exactly, does White believe a pole shift won't happen?
First, White says that the precursor events foreseen by Cayce,
and a host of other psychics, have not taken place as predicted.
Second, White believes the Piri Reis Map (a Renaissance map
found by Charles Hapgood in the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS in 1959)
and a
map drawn by Oronteus Finaeus
in 1532 are not accurate maps of an ice-free Antarctica.
Pole-shift theorists have cited them as evidence that the
continent was
free of thick layers of
ice and snow within the last 12,000 years and that its current
ice-locked condition happened very quickly (perhaps in hours
or days). Modern
subglacial topographic
maps indicate the ancient maps are not exact renditions of
what actually lies beneath Antarctica's ice, nor do they
account for
what the subglacial
topography
of Antarctica would actually look like if massive amounts
of ice and snow were removed and the land rebounded from
the weight
(isostatic
rebound): Antarctica
would be raised as much as 3,100 feet in the interior and
160 feet along the coasts. Thus, while both of these maps
may have
been
efforts to guess at what
the land mass of Antarctica looked like, neither was drawn
by someone who actually saw an ice-free Antarctica. Some
researchers
believe
that the maps are based
on observations of early Portuguese sailers who may have
discovered Antarctica before 1513. The Piri Reis map even
contains comments
that strongly suggest
it drew at least part of its inspiration from early, possibly
secret, Portuguese records. If these maps are, indeed, based
on Portuguese
voyages, then the idea
that Antarctica was mapped by ancient, technologically advanced
civilizations (from earth or elsewhere) is also effectively
discounted.
Third, the discovery of wooly mammoths that appear to have
been instantly frozen, some with flowers in their mouths
and stomaches,
has been
one of the strongest
arguments pole-shift theorists have used to support an instantaneous
flipping of the poles -- or slipping of the earth's crust.
White now believes, as do
many others who have seriously studied this peculiar phenomenon,
that every argument put forward by pole shift theorists to
explain this phenomenon, has
been effectively refuted by ordinary explanations.
To name a few:
1. The new science of taphonomy (the study of the
processes an animal goes through from the time it starts
to die until its
remains are finally embedded
in a geological stratum) demonstrates that mammoths died
not as the result of disastrous temperature change, but from
asphyxia
(i.e.,
drowning in an icy
stream, suffocating in a landslide, etc.);
2. Mammoth flesh is not so well preserved as has
been claimed, but rather the flesh had begun to putrefy BEFORE
being
frozen in
permafrost;
3. Mammoths were adapted to cold conditions (pole-shift
theorists typically believe they weren't -- they argue mammoths
lived in warmer
climates that were
instantly blanketed by arctic conditions);
4. There is documented evidence that flowers and other
vegetation do not require dramatic flash-freezes to be perfectly
preserved
(more mundane
circumstances have produced this phenomenon);
5. Radiocarbon dating of frozen mammoths indicates
that they were not all frozen in a single catastrophic moment
-- rather,
their
freezings were
spread out over a much longer time period.
Fourth, while the mechanics of ice ages are still not
fully understood, current evidence argues against pole
shifts
being their triggering
mechanism. In "The
Meeting of Science and Spirit," White itemizes the
arguments for pole-shift-induced ice ages as well as
current research
calling these
arguments into question.
His conclusion: "Altogether then, the latest
evidence weighs against pole shifts, although the onset
of deglaciation
is [still] unexplained." Significantly,
White does not rule out pole shifts as a triggering mechanism
in his 1990 book and, in fact, says that he believes at least
one
theory of crustal displacement
deserves serious consideration.
Noting that White is placing more reliance on scientific
evidence than on psychic clairvoyant prophecies, ATLANTIS
RISING asked
him why:
"I'm not a scientist. I'm only a student of science.
But I have enormous respect for the scientific method
as a way of probing reality
and ascertaining
the truth of something. Science has its limits, and spiritual
truths will not be proven definitely by science. On the
other hand, science does have
a lot
to say that can help us to assess the validity of reported
spiritual truths. In a world of spirituality, there's
a strong tendency for people to cross
over the line from having an open mind to having a hole in the head."
............
John White has degrees from Dartmouth and Yale, and has been writing,
teaching and lecturing on diverse New Age subjects since
the 1960s. In 1972, he
joined with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell to found
THE INSTITUTE OF NOETIC
SCIENCE. He is also the author of several books, including "Pole Shift," "Frontiers
of Consciousness," "Future Science," "Kundalini, Evolution
and Enlightenment," and "The Meeting of Science and Spirit." Since
1983, White has also organized and hosted an annual conference called "The
UFO Experience" in North Haven, Connecticut.
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SORTING IT ALL OUT
By David Sunfellow
From "Letters about Geological Cataclysmic
Global Upheaval"
Saturday, October 26, 1996
So, are worldwide catastrophic geological changes going to
tear our planet to pieces in the next couple of years? Are
islands
and continents
going to
rise and fall? Will the poles shift? Will super-mega quakes,
ferocious volcanoes and mile-high tidal waves rage across
the Earth?
You already know what I think (there might be isolated geological
changes, but there aren't going to be any planetary-wide
ones). In a minute, we'll be
taking a look at what some of the rest of you think.
Before we do, though, I want to draw your attention to another,
more fundamental concern: Can human beings receive guidance
from God/Spirit
that is accurate
and reliable?
At this late stage of the global geological catastrophe game,
it is already clear that many of the predictions made by
our most
celebrated psychics and
soothsayers are wrong. And while many people might justify
their poor track record saying that our prayers, or some
significant
change in human attitudes
or behavior, prevented their predictions from unfolding as
predicted, I don't think their misses can be explained so
easily. Prayers
and changes in thought
and action can undoubtably help avert all kinds of disasters
in our personal and collective life, but what about the possibility
that
these psychics were
wrong? That they misread and/or misunderstood what they were
seeing?
That, in some cases, they may have even fabricated their
visions?
Like many of you, I have spent many years attempting to receive
guidance from God and follow it. Sometimes I have received
guidance that proved
to be stunningly
accurate, while other times I have received guidance that
proved to be stunningly wrong. I know, therefore, that it
is possible
to receive guidance that is true
and helpful and, at the same time, guidance that isn't. I
also know it is very possible to receive solid guidance and
twist
it to fit
preconceived (and erroneous)
conclusions.
And what is true of me, also seems to be true of others.
Since very few of us are truly pure, open channels to the
divine, we
can expect
whatever impulses
come to us to filter through our personalities, fears,
biases, belief systems, cultural conditioning and other human imperfections.
We
can also expect many
of the impulses that come to us to originate from places
within us that are far from divine, even though they may
feel genuinely
inspired
at the time.
Because
of the jungle of forces within us that are both producing
and interpreting guidance, discernment is critically
important. It would be nice if there was
a simple way to sort it all out, but for most of us,
there isn't. Real discernment is a deep, complicated, multi-faceted
process.
And while there are those rare
moments when a flash of inspiration strikes that requires
no further processing, most of the time, receiving
and
acting on
guidance
is an ongoing, ever-evolving
process: We receive an inspiration, think about it,
apply it in some way, see the results, make adjustments, receive
more
guidance,
see
a few holes, notice
some inconsistencies and loose ends, make some more
adjustments, say a few prayers, receive some more guidance, and so
it
goes. Our guidance develops,
deepens and unfolds as we do.
As flexible as this process is, there still seem to
be a few helpful guidelines:
1. Since no one on this planet is perfect (or
they wouldn't be here), no form of guidance and no
channel of
information
(psychic or
otherwise)
is free from error. We should, therefore, treat all
forms of guidance accordingly: nothing should be swallowed
hook, line
and sinker,
and we should always
be on the lookout for things that don't quite sound
(or
feel) "right." In
a similar vein, it is my personal conviction that we
should regard any person, or source of information that
claims
to be perfect (either
overtly
through
bold declarations, or subtly through airs of superiority)
with exceedingly-great apprehension.
2. Since all guidance comes to us through human
instruments, the human instruments in question are
a major part of the
process. Their moral character,
their open-mindedness, their sincere desire to receive
AND LIVE the Highest, deeply affects the guidance they
receive.
More to
the point,
if someone is
dishonest, unethical, unstable, brazenly egotistical
in his or her dealings with themselves and others in
the outer world,
you
can be
sure the same kind
of forces are also affecting and influencing whatever
guidance they may be receiving. If the person in question
is especially
unstable,
it is entirely
possible they are fabricating their inner experiences
and/or seriously embellishing them. I have, in fact,
personally
known psychics (including
very well-known
ones) who have done this. Psychics, in other words,
are not immune to being dishonest and since many of
their other-worldly
claims
cannot be put to the
test as easily as other, more earth-based claims can,
the psychic arena is an easy place for misinformation
to thrive.
3. When guidance comes to us in one form (say
a voice, or intuition), we should learn to check it
out with other
forms of
guidance. If, for instance,
we have a strong intuition about something that dreams,
I-Ching readings and synchronicities call into question,
then we
should take a closer
look at what
we think we are receiving. If the guidance we are receiving
is truly inspired, other forms of guidance should back
it up. If
they don't,
something is amiss.
4. Whenever possible, we should involve other
trusted human beings in our process. The more sincere,
honest, open,
genuinely-seeking
people we have
looking at a particular situation, the more likely
we are to get a solid, well-rounded answer. In a similar
vein, the
more
isolated
our process is, the more possible
it is for us to make an error. While there are a few
extraordinary exceptions, history is littered with
would-be prophets who
received solitary visions that
led multitudes of unquestioning people to ruin.
5. And, finally, no matter how clear a particular
piece of guidance may seem, or how strongly we feel
that we understand
it
completely, we should
always be open to having overlooked, misunderstood,
or misinterpreted what we have received. True spiritual
impulses are renowned
for their dazzling unpredictability.
At every step of the process -- before getting guidance,
after getting it and in the middle of trying to apply
it -- we should
be poised
to move in directions
we aren't aware of and don't expect. Similarly, if
truly being guided is what we are after, then we must
make our
search for
the truth
our highest priority
and be willing to admit we are wrong -- which, for
most of us, will be a fairly common occurrence if we
are seriously
seeking
the truth
and owning up to the
blind spots that are part of being a human being on
planet Earth.
So there's a few guidelines that I have found to be
true and helpful in my journey.
A major goal of NHNE is to create a global system of
people who can help discern the truth about many of
the impulses
that are
appearing
in the world today.
When new (or old) impulses arise, we want to be able
to discern how authentic they are. In time, we hope
to draw together
some of the
best people on the
planet -- from many diverse fields and perspectives
-- to do this. Diving into the topic of cataclysmic
geological
change
is a good
example. Instead of simply
relying on psychics and their predictions, we are also
looking to geologists, scientists, psychologists, reporters,
long-time
seekers,
common, everyday folks,
to get to the bottom of the issue. And while it will
probably take us a little while to get our act together,
in time we
hope to have
a truly marvelous system
in place for discerning the true nature of our experiences
on this planet.
And with that, let's put a few more pieces of our truth-seeking
system together by looking at what some of you had
to say about the threat
of worldwide geological
changes...
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GEOLOGICAL ISSUES
By Deborah K.B. Chaplin & David Sunfellow
From "Letters about Geological Cataclysmic
Global Upheaval"
Saturday, October 26, 1996
Deborah K.B. Chaplin Writes:
A comment on the geology issues: A slowing down
of earthquakes can be an ominous thing!
It can be the foretelling of big ones
to come.
Small earthquakes serve
to relieve the pressures of the Earth gradually. If
there are none, pressures may be building, especially
in those faults
that are
not well lubricated by
water, etc.
Also, changes to this planet have been quick, even
evolutionary changes. Changes happen suddenly and then
plateau. This
has been a topic of
evolutionists for
several decades now. "Punctuated equilibrium" is
one term for it.
David Sunfellow Responds:
Excellent letter, Deborah.
A few counter points:
1. The psychics we were referring to all indicated
that there would be a global increase in earthquake
and volcanic activity.
This
was one of the
things these sources said would happen before the poles
shifted. They did not say there would be a lull over
a couple decades
and then, just before the year
2000, we would be inundated, out of the blue, with
8.0, 9.0 and greater earthquakes. So however you look
at this, they
were wrong
on this
point.
2. Along with a general increase in earthquake
and volcanic activity worldwide, these sources also
indicated
the intensity
of earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions would be quite extraordinary -- waves of
8.0, 9.0 and larger quakes would strike repeatedly,
while massive
amounts
of volcanic
ash would fill the
atmosphere. Nothing of the sort has happened. Current
earthquake averages haven't even matched the most active
years of this
century, let alone unleashed forces
the likes of which we've never seen.
3. The idea that major volcanic and earthquake
activity is often preceded by quiet periods is usually
associated
with specific regions
of the planet.
Specific areas (like California) get quiet and then,
as you pointed out, get very active. In a larger sense,
I
realize
the Earth,
as a whole,
has also gone
through quiet periods and then become active. The Earth,
as a whole, does, however, not appear to be in one
of these "calm-before-the-storm" periods.
Rather, it seems to be moving along a rather typical
-- non-dramatic, nothing-out-of-the-ordinary -- path
of geological
activity.
In short, the extraordinary earthquake and volcanic
activity predicted by these psychics was supposed to
climax in a pole
shift in about
three years from now.
Again, the idea was that things would build and build
and build, getting worse and worse and worse, until
the poles
shifted (or
the crust slipped -- depending
on what psychic you talked to). And again, this is
not happening. Theoretically, the next three years
(or in Edgar Cayce's
case, the next two years -- his time
frame was from '58 to '98), could see massive volcanic
eruptions and a series of massive super-quakes the
likes of which we've
never seen in recorded history.
In this case, the psychics would be correct about the
general time frame, but still in error about how it
unfolded.
With the exception of the instant geological changes
that were unleashed when our planet was hit by asteroids,
I know
of no
other reliably
documented case
for such instant changes -- i.e., continents or large
chunks of land rising and falling instantly, or, even,
the crust
slipping (you probably
know that
current research has been sorely challenged many of
the key points for crustal displacement).
I've also heard that geologists have determined that
sea beds and continents are composed of fundamentally
different
kinds
of rocks,
and that there are
no large areas of continent-type rock present on the
ocean bottom (meaning, if these geologists are correct,
that there
is no Atlantis
or any other sunk
continent under the ocean waiting to rise again). While
specific areas of continents have been both above and
beneath sea
level, entire continents apparently have
not. They have moved (via some kind of continental
drift mechanism), but not risen and fallen as many
psychics have
suggested.
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CRACKS IN THE PSYCHIC WORLD VIEW
By Robert Perry
From "Letters about Geological Cataclysmic
Global Upheaval"
Saturday, October 26, 1996
I have always been in support of NHNE's critical eye
towards psychic predictions. I was especially glad
to see the
article, "Global Geological Changes Unlikely," in
News Brief 31 (October 11, 1996). I would like here to
offer my personal perspective on psychic predictions
of massive geologic
upheavals.
For many years I strongly believed in the predicted
Earth changes. For a while I stored dehydrated food
(it has since
gone bad).
I congregated with others
who believed in these changes (such as NHNE publisher,
David Sunfellow). Something like starting an IRA (Individual
Retirement
Account)
seemed totally pointless
(now, I'm not so sure). I envisioned human history
as rushing headlong toward an imminent death and rebirth.
I based my
life on information
from higher levels,
which came through a chorus of channels with a stunning
unanimity.
Yet I also based my life on reason, and because of
this, cracks began appearing in my vision of a cataclysmic
future.
I saw prediction
after prediction fail.
I saw timetables continually set back. Most disturbing
to me was that psychics were predicting geologic events
that
went way
beyond
the normal, and even the
possible (as measured by geologists). And yet I never
saw anything happen that has not been happening regularly
for
countless centuries.
In over 15 years
I did not see a single coastline altered by earthquakes.
I began to believe the scientists, who said that continents
simply do
not fall into the ocean
like that.
Even before I began doubting the vision of a geologically-disastrous
future, I doubted the psychics’ vision of the past.
Carbon dating of the Great Pyramid did not support the
psychic view
that it was built
in 10,000 B.C.
by a spiritually-advanced civilization, but instead supported
the standard Egyptological
view -- which put it 7,000 years later. Research into
the human chromosome traced Native American ancestry
back,
not to a fabled
Atlantis, but
to Asia -- as the anthropologists had always maintained.
I had an increasingly-sinking feeling that whenever evidence
and reason met face to face with the
psychic
view of history, the psychics lost.
Eventually, I started to re-examine the entire phenomenon
of psychically-derived history. The standard timeline
that I knew
of went like this: In
the distant past there was the Golden Age of Atlantis
and Lemuria, characterized by heightened
spiritual awareness and psychic powers, as well as
advanced New Age technology. This Golden Age, however,
perished in
natural
cataclysms brought on by the
sins of the people. Since then, civilization has slowly
built up again until we are now facing another terrestrial
cataclysm,
again
brought on by the sins
of the people. Land masses will fall into the sea,
ancient continents rise from the ocean floor, and the
Earth tumble
in space. Though
this will decimate
civilization, it will immediately propel us into a
new Golden Age of spiritual awareness, psychic powers
and New Age technology.
As
cataclysm had ended the
first Golden Age, so, just as abruptly, it will ignite
another one.
There is a lot that could be said about this psychic
vision of history. The first thing I want to say is
that I think
it is
simply not true.
I seriously
doubt that there was an Atlantis or Lemuria. I am certain
that California is not going to fall into the ocean
(I have $100 riding
on this with
a friend).
And I am willing to bet that May 5, 2000 (the commonly
predicted date of the pole shift) will be one of the
most forgettable
days in history.
If, for the moment, we grant that this timeline is
not true, where does it come from? Why does it come
through so many
people, often
independently? To
answer that, ask yourself this question: Have you ever
seen anything like this vision before? If you step
back far enough
and blur
your eyes a bit, doesn't
this vision start to look suspiciously familiar?
To me, it looks like a universal archetype, which can
be found in ancient mythology, in conventional religious
prophecy,
and
in New
Age predictions, and which goes
something like this: Once man lived in a Golden Age
of peace and harmony. Then by his sins he fell from
this, which gave
rise to
how things are now, to our
despoiled and sinful current age. Yet a cleansing is
coming, in which God will punish the wicked, lay low
the powerful,
exalt the
holy
but powerless ones
(the ones making these prophecies), and catapult us
into a new Golden Age.
Is it so hard to imagine what might produce such an
archetype? I don't think so. There is profound psychic
stress generated
by the
conflict between what
is and what ought to be -- at least as we see those
things. The vast gap between them is so anguishing
that the mind
craves relief.
It
fantasizes about a time
when what ought to be was the norm. And it yearns for
what ought to be to dramatically re-assert itself,
to swoop in,
wipe out
what is, and re-establish its utopian
kingdom.
What if these urges have over time built up an archetype
in the human unconscious, a place where you can go
and experience visions
of all
this coming to pass?
What if, in a certain sector of this unconscious place,
this vision will get dished up for you in fantastic
geologic imagery,
in which
nature itself rises
up to cleanse this sinful age? And what if, to flesh
this vision out, the unconscious will draw upon valid
-- perhaps
psychically-obtained
-- information about seismic
activity and tectonic stress points?
This is my current best guess about what is going on
with psychic predictions of geologic upheaval. I am
sure there
is much more
going on than this; even
I have additional, more complex views. But I suspect
that this is a huge part of it.
I guess I sound somewhat like a traitor to my own spiritual
roots. Yet, I remain deeply and humbly indebted to
many channels, not
the least of which is the
great Edgar Cayce. I think that psychically-derived
information is often remarkably accurate and helpful.
I think that human
channels have brought through some
of the greatest spiritual wisdom and philosophic truth
that humanity has seen. Yet I think that psychic history,
by and
large, is
profoundly mistaken. I do
think that history is a great drama of coming into
harmony with reality
and God, a drama which is overseen and guided by a
divine plan. Yet I don't think
it is a simple process of rocketing back into Eden
through a dramatic divine cleansing of the
Earth. Rather, I think it is a slow maturational process,
in which there are no guilty sinners, in which we will
of our own
free will
rise above the messes
we have made, and in which God never swoops in -- because
He is always there.
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You may also want to check out the following on the award-winning NHNE Web
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NHNE Special Report:
A Review of Scallion's Predictions for 1995:
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NHNE News Brief 31:
www.nhne.com/nhnenb31.html
NHNE Special Report:
"Letters about Geological Cataclysmic Global Upheaval": www.nhne.com/geoletters.html
NHNE Special Report:
“Earth Changes & Millennium Fever":
www.nhne.com/srmillenniumfever.html
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By Jeffrey Goodman
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