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Al eeuwen lang zijn de voorspellingen
van Nostradamus deel van de geschiedenis.
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Hoewel speculatief en controversieel,
de erfenis van de auteur houdt stand.
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U dient als kijker wijsheid te betrachten.
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December 21, 2012,
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daybreak doesn't come.
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All remains dark.
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The world has come to an end.
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Many ancient cultures from across the globe
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describe startling events that seem to be taking place now.
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Are they pointed to 2012?
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Newly discovered drawings that many believe
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are from the famed prophet, Nostradamus,
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may the answer.
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We're really on the edge of the biggest ride in all of history.
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Life on earth has faced extinction at least five times before.
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Is Nostradamus telling us that another epic disaster is on the way?
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2012 is kind of the beginning of upheavals in the world rather than the end.
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Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down
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to zero days - zero hope?
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Decoding the final predictions of Nostradamus
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may provide the critical answers before the clock strikes 2012.
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The recently discovered Lost Book
of Nostradamus,
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reveals drawings that may contain coded clues
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about what will happen in 2012.
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Like Nostradamus' quatrains,
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these drawings give dire warnings,
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and this popular prophet's immense stature makes them difficult to ignore.
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Many people today when they find themselves frustrated by the inability of science
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to answer some of the deepest questions of our time
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are looking to the past.
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And this is where we look to the great seers of the past, such as Nostradamus.
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Our planet is facing crises of alarming complexity.
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Oil shortages, vanishing species
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deadly tsunamis, economic chaos and nuclear threats.
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Is this coincidence, or is something more ominous unfolding?
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We are reaching a confluence of turning points in fundamental systems.
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There's tipping points in the energy system.
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There's tipping points in the climate system of the planet.
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There's tipping points in terms of financial system, food production, water issues.
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We're at the moment when all these things converge.
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That time when the world is either destroyed, made new or both.
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Every world culture has always had its own prophecies of an End Times.
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I think its only natural that people are feeling a connection
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between our cultural traditions with what is happening in the world today.
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Eerier still, some believe
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these same prophecies are portrayed in the Lost Book images.
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or seem to point to the fact that in 2012, from the earth's perspective,
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the sun will align with the center of the Milky Way galaxy
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in an incredibly rare astronomical phenomenon
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that occurs only once every 26,000 years.
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Half the 26,000 year cycle coincides, pretty darn accurately, with the
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last Ice Age and the end thereof and talk about the greatest time of global warming
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was the melting of the last Ice Age.
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God forbid, we should be into something of that magnitude.
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Because the earth is rotating,
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our view of the stars changes over time.
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The galactic alignment, in simplest terms,
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is when the sun appears to rise in a straight line
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with the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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According to an array of ancient cultures,
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this alignment seems to signify a time of traumatic change.
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The world, as a whole, feels like we're approaching some kind of passage
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and, I think, what is at the root of this is the galactic alignment.
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One of the most significant ancient cultures thought to have observed this phenomenon is the Maya,
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famous for their advanced grasp of astronomy.
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Their possible warning that this alignment of the sun
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in the galaxy centre, known as the "Dark Rift",
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might bring terrible consequences,
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is believed to be repeated by a number of ancient cultures.
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Most of these end times, Apocalyptic predictions
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and visions of the future have centred on the fact
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that when the sun is rising in this "Dark Rift",
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it's going to be bad. This is the time of cataclysm,
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this is a time of destruction.
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The ancients knew how to be at one with themselves, with all of nature, with all of life,
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with all of the cosmos and we have lost touch with them.
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A lot of what is happening now, particularly with the changes that are taking place in ecology,
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with the oceans. All these things which were all predicted
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by Nostradamus and all the different prophets.
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Like the Maya and other cultures before him,
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Nostradamus looks into the stars and sees coming danger.
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There will be a great shedding of blood.
Heaven will appear unjust.
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Both on land and sea and in the air, cults,
famine, kingdoms, plagues, confusion.
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A controversial figure, shrouded in mystery,
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Nostradamus died almost 500 years ago,
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centuries and worlds away from 2012.
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Yet time and again, his predictions are interpreted as highly accurate.
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He has foreseen many of the major events,
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changes in terms of politics, religion,
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even science and inventions.
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Why is he the only one we're talking about in 4 and half century?
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There is only one reason because every so often,
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comes a bright light of clear data that could only have happened from somebody who saw it
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before it happened.
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When a manuscript with Nostradamus' name on it appears
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at a book exhibition in Rome,
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there was talk that the timing of its discovery is no accident.
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This controversial book contains a series of seven images,
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some experts believe is a detailed chronology
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of the coming crisis in 2012.
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Now, for the first time,
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these drawings will be compared with prophecies and warnings
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from ancient people of all backgrounds.
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These prophecies have this eerie resemblance to each other,
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which many researchers into this work, you know, kind of get goose bumps.
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There are, by my count, 15 or 16 independent kind of indicators
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that all suggest that 2012,
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is going to be a time of extraordinary shift.
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There's no way to see your way through
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the layered kind of series of converging extraordinary thing.
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Even one of them was enough to dramatically disrupt the whole system.
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2012 is the year of the domino effect.
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Its the year which could set off a chain of events,
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where a natural catastrophe spurs a war, brings down an aspect of the economy
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with the system which is, in one sense, so robust but also so fragile and inter-dependent.
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I think 2012
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I think it's going to be that kind of year.
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And I hope I'm wrong.
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Will daybreak come on December 21st, 2012,
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or will it the year that ends all years?
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Hidden predictions about the end of days
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may be encoded in the Egyptian pyramids,
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the Mayan calendar, the mysterious cross of Hendaye
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and the secret society of Freemasons.
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And Nostradamus may hold the key that unlocks them all.
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December 21st, 2012 approaches.
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Will it mark a catastrophic occurence, as some ancient cultures suggest?
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Many believe the date is targeting a rare astrological phenomenon
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called the galactic alignment that may trigger unspeakable chaos.
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The recently uncovered Lost Book of Nostradamus
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contains seven stark images that also might point to 2012.
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Is this proof that there was ancient knowledge of
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a coming event?
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The seven images in the Lost Book of Nostradamus
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are telling us a story
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and that's why they are united by this wheel of fortune,
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the wheel of time at the top.
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This is the part that Nostradamus really want
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us to recognize, emphasize and understand.
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Those images star with the Sun and under the sun is a lion.
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That's obviously calling attention to the fact that
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when the sun is in Leo, this is somehow important. When the sun is in Leo,
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or when the sun is in the opposite sign, Aquarius,
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that means we are at the galactic alignment.
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This is another reference by Nostradamus to the galactic alignment.
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Many believe the Maya discovered this intriguing phenomenon
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caused by the earth's rotation hundreds of years ago.
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If the earth spun perfectly on its axis, the view of the sky above would never change.
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But because it's been slightly off centre in a warble motion, our view of the stars shifts
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slowly over time.
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Every 26,000 years, this background lines up so that the sun appears to rise
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directly in front of the center of the galaxy, creating what some call the galactic alignment.
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Clearly, Nostradamus was aware of the time period from roughly 1992
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to roughly 2012, 2014, is being enormously significant.
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because of the number of quatrains that we can specifically identify
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as having some reference to this time period.
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It's the idea that he pinpointed astronomically
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the moment in which the sun is most directly conjoined with the center of the galaxy.
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That's a pretty good hit.
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Nostradamus uses a variety of methods to derive his quatrains.
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But his understanding of heaven is crucial to his work.
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He is an astute astrologer, who believes
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that the map of the future is embedded in the stars.
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To a certain degree, his basic idea of forecasting the future
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is based on the idea that time is cyclical.
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That there are motions in the sun, the moon and the stars
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and as those patterns and angles between planets repeat,
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that there would be similar events.
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In order to chart these coming events,
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Nostradamus studies changes in the night sky,
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some that take decades to play out.
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He seems to be aware of what we call the precession of the equinox,
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in which that the whole night sky is moving slowly backwards,
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one degree every 72 years.
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This is a direct reference to the coming galactic alignment,
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that may be at the heart of the 2012 phenomenon.
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The earth's off centre rotation means that our view of the stars shifts very slowly
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changing only one degree every 72 years.
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Amazingly, some researchers believe
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this was precisely charted by the ancient Mayan civilisation.
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The Mayans used their gift for understanding the earth's movements
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to create a marvellously precise calendar,
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one that endured for thousands of years.
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It ends on December 21st, 2012.
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Once every 26,000 years, we line up through the December solstice sun
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with the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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This seems to be the reason why the Maya chose December 21st, 2012
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to end their great cycle.
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The Mayan civilization thrived in Central America
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between the years 250 and 900 CE. Then mysteriously disappears.
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Both scientifically sophisticated and savage,
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they're able to predict the galactic alignment without telescopic tools
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and seemed to associate it with a cycle of violent change.
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If we go back 26,000 years ago, to the last time
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that we entered into Aquarius, we find that this is the beginning of
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Cro-Magnon man, the end of Neanderthal,
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the first camp fires are found at this point
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and we see that there are these incredible historical correspondences.
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We know that the last time that the galactic alignment happened, hundreds of species disappeared.
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Skeptics claim that an ancient interpretation of the stars
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is unlikely to have any significant impact on our lives.
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But the astonishing achievements of ancient Mayan astronomers
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still mystify experts today.
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Until recently, we looked at most of the higher civilizations or advanced cultures in the Americas
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has been slightly below what it developed in the West,
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but they were, in fact, anything but primitive, particularly the Maya
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who were probably the greatest culture of astronomers on the planet.
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The Maya believed that that black hole
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at the center of the Milky Way, was the... the navel of the galaxy
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from which the material... from which the stars were born.
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And today, astronomers believe that, in fact,
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that black hole at the center of the galaxy
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is where the stuff that the stars and the planets are made.
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Pretty darn good, for 1500 years ago.
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We still do not know how the Maya were able to pinpoint these amazingly
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accurate astronomical occurences but their obsession with the heavens is clear.
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They carefully positioned their temples
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and monuments to mirror the constellations.
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Some believe they even play out their predictions of the coming 2012 alignment
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on a mystical ball court, with a ball
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going through the stone hoop represents the sun aligning perfectly with
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the center of the galaxy, known as the Dark Rift.
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The ball court is the Milky Way,
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the ball is also the December solstice sun
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and the gold ring is the "Dark Rift" in the Milky Way.
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This ritual ball game not only re-enacts the alignment,
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but, according to researchers, it also incorporates
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the possible life or death consequences the alignment brings.
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For if the players cannot get the ball through the hoop,
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their leader is brutally beheaded.
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Now, Mayan society itself was far off in time from our time period.
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In other words, they were looking into the future to see the time period we're in now,
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when the sun would rise inside the ball court.
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But they were very aware of the fact that as this happen,
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there would be a great deal of change on the planet.
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If researchers are right and the Maya ended their calendar
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to coincide with the coming galactic alignment in 2012,
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is this a determined attempt to caution future generations?
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The question becomes, "How did the Mayans and Nostradamus,
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how did they all have the same idea and why, now that we're approaching this time period?"
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Is the world seemingly going to hell, which iswhat they said would happen?
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The quatrains of Nostradamus hold intriguing warnings
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about the hazards that may lie ahead.
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Because of heat like that of the sun on the sea,
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the fish around Negrepont will be half-cooked.
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When in Rhodes and Genoa there is lack of food.
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Some interpreters believe that this Nostradamus quatrain
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points to global warming as the trigger for a coming crisis.
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Nostradamus seems to try to describe global warming as a fire in the sky,
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something as a blazing sun.
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Since 1998, every single summer has been hotter than the summer before.
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Every single one.
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Some suggest that the galactic alignment will coincide with a peak in solar activity.
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This controversial theory holds that the sun's impact on the earth
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waxes and wanes over time,
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and that a solar peak can cause massive disruptions
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including an increase in global temperatures.
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Our own scientists are telling us, that our solar cycle, the solar cycle of our sun right now
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will peak right about the 2012 solstice, right in that time.
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And when it peak and this is a quote
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from the National Center of Atmosphere Research
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in Boulder, Colorado. One of the scientists there
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used a highly technical term
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to describe what this peak would be. He said it would be a doozy.
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They think that within the next year, there probably won't be any ice on the North Pole in the summer time
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for the first time in all of recorded human history.
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The melting of the polar ice caps, the rising of sea level, massive storms,
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that are inundating coastal areas throughout the world.
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This is not the random confluence of a variety of things that are just coming together.
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This is a much bigger transition than anything we've ever lived in before
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and we certainly don't have any experience nor the tools,
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to be able to deal with this kind of change.
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Nostradamus seems to predict the extreme results of a climate change.
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This is Century 5, quatrain 98.
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At the latitude of 48 degrees
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at the end of Cancer
There is a very great drought.
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Fish in the sea, river and lake boiled hectic
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from fire in the sky.
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You look on a map, you look to the northern hemisphere,
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and all the great grain belts of the world
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are intersected by 48 degree latitude.
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There are some verses where he talks about humanity falling into cannibalism,
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because of the lack of food around the world.
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Famine is the most dangerous threat to all of us
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and all prophecies of dire nature,
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the way you buy it in the doomsday is through hunger.
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Famine is not the only threat that Nostradamus and a variety of ancient cultures
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are said to predict.
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It is believed that, like the Mayans, the Egyptians built warnings
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into their religious buildings and some even theorise
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their once thriving civilisation may have fallen prey to a catastrophe,
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similar to ones that Nostradamus describes.
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Are the Egyptians cautioning us about the coming peril in our future?
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The pyramids of Egypt and the writings of Nostradamus
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may hold the key.
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The Lost Book of Nostradamus
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highlights an era when prophecy and astronomy converge
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in a manner that literally changes the world.
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One of the most striking images from this remarkable book
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speaks of an impending apocalypse
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and some see its symbols as a warning.
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What really triggers the whole thing is the three eclipsed moons.
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There's going to be three eclipses in 2012. Very unusual.
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There's going to be a total eclipse of the sun. There's going to be the eclipse of Venus against the sun
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and then there's the grand eclipse of the ages,
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the eclipse of the sun at the center of the galaxy.
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This whole thing is going to culminate in 2012, is what Nostradamus is saying.
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Interpretors believe that the spiral-shape at the head of the scorpion
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in this drawing, is a direct reference to the spiral shape of the Milky Way galaxy.
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No one in the mid-1600s, knew supposedly,
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that we had a galaxy, much less that it was a spiral galaxy,
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and yet, the Lost Book manuscript shows just that image.
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Nostradamus believes that the stars and planets hold the meaning of life.
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This is also at the core of Egyptian philosophy.
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And they incorporate these celestial desires into their most important structures.
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Nostradamus foresees the destruction of these monuments in his writings.
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Atop the summit fractures will appear,
the lightning will shatter the stones.
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Three without chains bound up around the middle.
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Does the phrase, "Lightning will shatter the stones."
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mean the pyramids of Giza will be destroyed at a future date?
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Some researchers believe that the layout
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of the Egyptian pyramids points to future planetary shifts
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and, perhaps, to the galactic alignment itself.
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There's really no doubt
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that someone went through a great deal of... of effort to make the pyramids on Giza
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and other pyramids in the general group,
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correspond to alignments of stars,
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to make sure that these large culture defining monuments
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match events in the sky.
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Some experts theorise that the pyramids were built
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to precisely match the three stars
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that make up the belt of constellation, Orion,
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also known as the hunter or the wise man.
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Orion is the key player. The way they join up the dots, almost
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without exception in all the ancient cultures, was as
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a man standing with his arms raised and his legs apart,
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and he's wearing a belt studded with three different stars, the belt stars of Orion.
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These researchers claim that the Egyptians are pointing to Orion
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because it marks the halfway point of the 26,000 year circle
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the sun makes between galactic alignments.
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This proves, they say, that the ancient Egyptians
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also recognised the pivotal importance of this celestial event.
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The fact that the monuments are aligned with their celestial counterparts
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for the time in the history when they were present in the sky above Giza
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tells us that whoever built those monuments understood that movement.
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And this particular alignment for the three pyramids and through the sphinx,
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was exactly one half of the 26,000 year cycle that we're now experiencing.
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The sphinx along with the entire Giza complex, can then be viewed
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as pointing to the coming galactic alignment.
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Our ancestors clearly understood
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the movement of earth through the heavens,
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the movements of our solar system through the galaxy
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and the changes, the cyclic changes that we could expect
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as that movement reached certain milestones
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and, it appears that, one of those is upon us in this time right now.
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The Egyptians were one of the world's first super powers.
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Their possible fear of coming disasters
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could very well have similarities to our own time.
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The Government of Egypt was investing so much money
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fighting wars that they went broke.
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There were strikes among the workers because there were no wages,
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because the weather patterns changed, the crops weren't growing
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the way they had in the past. There were food shortages.
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And all of these things contributed to the collapse of one of the greatest civilizations
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in the history of our planet.
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So we can certainly draw a parallel between what happened to that civilisation and what we're seeing now.
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With lifting the veil on a very esoteric subject,
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that, not that many hundreds of years ago in the West, if you actually talked about it and expounded it
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and said, "Oh, I know when the end of the world is going to happen."
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you would be led off and burnt at the stake.
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So this is dangerous knowledge. This is very significant knowledge
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that only now can we talk about openly.
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Nostradamus also fears repurcussions for his dark predictions
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and cloaks them in four line poems called quatrains.
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Like the Egyptians before him, he read the stars like a road map
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and he tries to glean details regarding the end of days.
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Conjoined here, in the sky manifested...
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it enters Little rain...
the sky and the earth dries,
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Undone, death, caught,
arrived at a bad hour.
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Like the Egyptians, Nostradamus believes that
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messages about the future are written in the heavens.
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Researchers point to this Nostradamus prediction
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has a metaphorical warning
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about the potential weakening of the Earth's magnetic field.
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The Earth's magnetic field is... is in the process of changing and, perhaps, weakening in spots
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and showing its vulnerabilities.
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And anybody who's ever watched Star Trek, you know, when the shields are down,
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death.
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When the magnetic fields are strong,
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they deflect the solar wind that is coming from our sun
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and the incoming particles from the universe beyond.
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And when those fields are weak, they have less ability to do that,
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meaning that more solar influence
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reaches the earth, heats up the atmosphere of the earth,
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as corelated now with melting the ice caps,
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the increase in the sea level.
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As the Earth's magnetic field wears down,
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the earth is left open to a frightening array of problems.
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If the magnetic fields of the earth were to collapse to zero
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and go through reversal, with a planet of 6 billion people,
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based in computer technology, GPS satellites,
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our way of life would change dramatically.
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A magnetic pole reversal could mean that the South and North poles
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would switch their magnetic charges.
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Some believe the resulting interference
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would be extremely disruptive to all the signals
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that our modern society sends through the sky.
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What we would see down here on earth would be a major collapse
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of all electronic communications.
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Our communication satellites would go down.
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Our cell phones would no longer work.
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Anything that had to communicate through or work on an electromagnetic field, would collapse.
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Nostradamus also believes that he has found a clue
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to the timing of this potential disaster.
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It ties in perfectly with the images of the Lost Book.
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There will be a solar eclipse more dark and gloomy than any since the creation of the world,...
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and it will be such that one will think the gravity of the earth
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has lost its natural movement and that it is to be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness.
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Could this aclipse be a reference to the sun,
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blocking the dark center of the galaxy
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during the galactic alignment?
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And what does this disturbing image portend?
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Nostradamus does mention, in particular, a very powerful eclipse of the sun
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that will be a marker point for major disasters to take place on a planetary level.
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Will the coming of the galactic alignment bring disaster?
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Is the date of 2012 the beginning of the end?
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And why does the "Dark Rift" at the center of the Milky Way galaxy
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seem to be such a powerful place?
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The mysterious science of alchemy and the writings of Nostradamus
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reveal a critical piece of the 2012 story.
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The Maya, the Egyptians
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Nostradamus and the Lost Book images
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all may be pointing to a rare galactical alignment,
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due to occur in 2012.
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If true, the phenomenon could have
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an untold effect on the earth.
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The next drawing in the Lost Book sequence furthers the story.
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This image has a man holding a sword straight up and down with again
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one of these morbid strip pattern making an 'S'. If you're standing in a very clear place
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on a hot summer night and you look up at the sky,
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you'll see that the Milky Way makes an 'S' across the sky.
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So this is the great alignment with the galaxy that's going right up to the center of the galaxy,
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through the center of this 'S'.
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He's telling us there's a club destroying the tree of life,
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so he's telling us that there is a great danger afoot when this alignment happens.
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Our Milky Way galaxy is flat, with arms curving outward,
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giving it a spiral shape.
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From the earth's perspective, when the galactic alignment occurs,
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it will appear that the sun is rising directly in line with the center of the galaxy.
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The grim prophecies of Nostradamus that some believe
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coincide with the timing of this alignment,
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are similarly repeated by an impressive list of ancient cultures.
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While the specifics from each tradition vary in general, there's a remarkable consistency between all of these.
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Whether we're talking about the ancient Vedic traditions of India or talking about the Egyptian traditions,
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or talking about the biblical traditions, or the Mayan traditions,
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all of them say we're going through great change.
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All of them say our lives will never be the same again.
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Cultures from around the world and across time
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have disguised their most extreme prophecies in a variety of ways.
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One of the most intriguing involves alchemy.
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Known widely as the pursuit of transforming lead into gold,
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it is actually a much broader scientific discipline
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that uses its own unique symbols and terminology.
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It is a way of thinking and communicating that Nostradamus is surely familiar with.
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Anyone who is as smart as Nostradamus in his time period,
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studied alchemy. There was no science.
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Modern science owes its entire allegiance to alchemy.
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Newton was an Alchemist who discovered gravity.
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Einstein was into alchemy. Believe it or not, his wife said
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that what he would do every night before he went to sleep, was he would read ancient books on alchemy.
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Over the centuries, alchemy is replaced as the mainstream science
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by chemistry and physics, but its role as a symbolic language
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and as a philosophy of spiritual transformation survives the ages.
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The Alchemist is concentrating his mental and spiritual energy into the base elements
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and trying to transmute them and pour the spirit out of them.
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Or possibly just scrying a bowl of water to see the future
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because that could be the singularity or the miracle
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that might happen in an experiment that Nostradamus would perform.
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In Nostradamus' time, alchemy remains the primary science of the day.
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Still, its practitioners ply their trade in secret,
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hoping to keep its potentially dangerous findings
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to themselves.
483
00:36:11,668 --> 00:36:13,699
It could very well be, as experiences
484
00:36:13,949 --> 00:36:19,058
in alchemy, were one of the reasons why he openly obscured his prophecies,
485
00:36:19,308 --> 00:36:23,984
so that he would keep all the idiots of every new generation occupied
486
00:36:24,234 --> 00:36:26,127
and the initiate go beyond the code
487
00:36:26,377 --> 00:36:30,624
and find something else in the obscurity rather than meddle.
488
00:36:30,874 --> 00:36:34,691
We're talking about the metal of spirit.
489
00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:38,057
At the beginning of the 1900s, however,
490
00:36:38,307 --> 00:36:41,233
a rogue Alchemist known only as Fulcanelli,
491
00:36:41,483 --> 00:36:43,212
publishes a shocking text,
492
00:36:43,462 --> 00:36:45,896
revealing some of alchemy's secrets
493
00:36:46,146 --> 00:36:48,392
and purporting that the legendary society of the Masons
494
00:36:48,642 --> 00:36:51,941
may have used the symbols of alchemy
495
00:36:52,191 --> 00:36:55,800
to embed secret messages in historic buildings.
496
00:36:56,135 --> 00:36:58,748
The Masons are thought to have ultimately given rise
497
00:36:59,048 --> 00:37:01,914
to the brotherhood of Freemasons.
498
00:37:02,676 --> 00:37:05,275
While they are primarily a fraternal organisation
499
00:37:05,525 --> 00:37:08,040
that brings together members with common interests,
500
00:37:08,290 --> 00:37:14,340
some share Fulcanelli's view that they are also the keepers of ancient secrets.
501
00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:20,166
The carrying on of tradition of knowledge that cannot be put into words
502
00:37:20,416 --> 00:37:22,103
is symbolic knowledge.
503
00:37:22,353 --> 00:37:25,840
I like to say that a symbol is worth a thousand pictures.
504
00:37:28,411 --> 00:37:30,636
Fulcanelli believes the Masons
505
00:37:30,886 --> 00:37:32,928
who built many of Europe's Gothic cathedrals
506
00:37:33,178 --> 00:37:35,772
used symbols that have alchemical meaning
507
00:37:36,022 --> 00:37:41,222
to disguise messages about the manner and timing of a future disaster.
508
00:37:43,787 --> 00:37:49,690
Fulcanelli saw many of the shifts that were happening at the beginning of the 20th century as evidence
509
00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:54,807
of the fact that the time period was upon us and it was going to be very soon.
510
00:37:55,601 --> 00:37:58,740
For Fulcanelli, the symbols on the Gothic churches
511
00:37:58,990 --> 00:38:02,329
add up to a simple but chilling message.
512
00:38:05,502 --> 00:38:10,202
Fulcanelli made the direct co-relation between alchemy
513
00:38:10,452 --> 00:38:12,949
and something called Chiliasm which is the idea
514
00:38:13,199 --> 00:38:16,782
that at the end of the world, everything will be made new again.
515
00:38:17,032 --> 00:38:20,001
It would be an alchemical transformation of reality.
516
00:38:20,351 --> 00:38:23,463
What this meant, in Fulcanelli's terms, was
517
00:38:23,713 --> 00:38:26,358
that we are on the cusp of a time
518
00:38:26,610 --> 00:38:30,195
in which alchemy is not just an isolated event that happens
519
00:38:30,589 --> 00:38:32,166
buried away in a laboratory,
520
00:38:32,416 --> 00:38:34,790
but is a 'Trans-personal' event
521
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,485
that happens whether you want it to or not.
522
00:38:39,915 --> 00:38:41,431
Like Fulcanelli,
523
00:38:41,681 --> 00:38:45,579
Nostradamus foretells a time of violent transformation,
524
00:38:45,829 --> 00:38:51,379
that seems to be eerily reminiscent of the current environmental challenges facing the world.
525
00:38:54,075 --> 00:38:59,225
The end of the wolf, the lion, bull and the Ass,
526
00:38:59,669 --> 00:39:03,612
No longer will fall upon them the sweet manna.
527
00:39:04,788 --> 00:39:10,263
Century 10 quatrain 99 is a very serious quatrain prophecy
528
00:39:10,513 --> 00:39:14,738
because he outlines many different animals, not just animals
529
00:39:14,988 --> 00:39:19,199
but also certain food plants that we are dependent upon
530
00:39:19,449 --> 00:39:20,975
that could go extinct.
531
00:39:21,225 --> 00:39:24,463
If we lose those, we're gonna be in serious trouble
532
00:39:24,713 --> 00:39:29,388
because what else are we gonna rely upon in terms of... of our food?
533
00:39:29,738 --> 00:39:32,208
Honey bee pollination accounts for
534
00:39:32,458 --> 00:39:35,303
a good third to the half of the crops
535
00:39:35,553 --> 00:39:40,456
that we get the greatest nutrition from.
If the honey bees disappear,
536
00:39:40,706 --> 00:39:45,630
unless we come up with a zillion little honey bee robots immediately
537
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:50,103
which we're not going to, it's going to lead to crop failure.
538
00:39:50,353 --> 00:39:53,926
The honey bee is vanishing because - of A: a virus, B: a parasite,
539
00:39:54,176 --> 00:39:58,105
C: nobody knows. The same could be said, by the way, for the bat,
540
00:39:58,355 --> 00:40:05,255
another one of those sympathetic creatures that, guess what, eat mosquitoes by the bushelful. Thank you very much.
541
00:40:05,633 --> 00:40:09,555
So its this scary confluence of events
542
00:40:09,805 --> 00:40:12,531
that, all of a sudden, these mainstay species,
543
00:40:12,781 --> 00:40:15,222
whether you like them or not, they are important to us,
544
00:40:15,472 --> 00:40:17,839
are disappearing for reasons that
545
00:40:18,089 --> 00:40:21,090
not only we can't prevent but we can't even understand.
546
00:40:22,319 --> 00:40:26,472
You got the depletion of species that you haven't seen before.
547
00:40:26,722 --> 00:40:30,676
You got extraordinary growing water problems around the world.
548
00:40:30,926 --> 00:40:37,891
You got depletions of fisheries all over, you've got rapid increases in price of food
549
00:40:38,141 --> 00:40:39,794
that you've never seen before.
550
00:40:41,217 --> 00:40:46,617
As the food supply shrinks, a lethal chain of events unfolds.
551
00:40:47,634 --> 00:40:52,934
It's a known fact that if America stops exporting food
552
00:40:53,184 --> 00:40:57,751
beacuse of a food crisis, immediately 100 nations would go hungry.
553
00:40:58,001 --> 00:41:00,319
And that in a year's time,
554
00:41:00,569 --> 00:41:04,419
African might lose half a billion people to famine.
555
00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:10,109
This much I know that where you have famine, you have plaque.
556
00:41:10,359 --> 00:41:15,868
Where you cannot feed people properly, they become more susceptible to disease.
557
00:41:16,118 --> 00:41:20,008
And when you have disease where people cannot do the work
558
00:41:20,258 --> 00:41:22,539
where they need to raise and transport food,
559
00:41:22,789 --> 00:41:24,617
you have famine.
560
00:41:25,016 --> 00:41:28,756
This circle of disease and deprivation, if unchecked,
561
00:41:29,006 --> 00:41:33,606
could lead to the type of instability that can sweep the globe.
562
00:41:34,215 --> 00:41:37,201
When you have that, you inevitably sadly have wars
563
00:41:37,451 --> 00:41:38,918
and governments falling.
564
00:41:39,168 --> 00:41:42,730
The domino effect, that's what I'm most worried about
565
00:41:42,980 --> 00:41:44,666
beginning in 2012.
566
00:41:46,073 --> 00:41:51,008
If this domino effect is not averted, there could be a serious threat
567
00:41:51,258 --> 00:41:53,614
to the survival of the human race.
568
00:41:54,403 --> 00:41:56,666
We talk about our time in history,
569
00:41:56,916 --> 00:42:01,624
biologists will tell us that there had been many extinctions in the past
570
00:42:01,874 --> 00:42:06,140
and we are well into the sixth mass extinction
571
00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:08,462
on this planet, right now.
572
00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:11,896
We're gonna back to a situation very similar to Soylent Green,
573
00:42:12,246 --> 00:42:13,752
if you remember that movie years ago,
574
00:42:14,002 --> 00:42:18,052
where they were feeding off plankton, and pretty soon, they are feeding off each other.
575
00:42:19,558 --> 00:42:23,608
Life has been nearly wiped off the earth five times before.
576
00:42:24,894 --> 00:42:28,389
Could there be another major extinction event in the future?
577
00:42:29,797 --> 00:42:34,335
Warnings from Nostradamus may unlock the answer.
578
00:42:38,047 --> 00:42:41,537
A striking number of ancient prophecies appear to coincide with
579
00:42:41,787 --> 00:42:46,837
the Mayan depiction of 2012 as a cosmically significant year.
580
00:42:48,288 --> 00:42:50,745
The predictions of famed prophet Nostradamus
581
00:42:50,995 --> 00:42:56,095
are also believed to describe the troubling array of global conditions today
582
00:42:56,453 --> 00:42:59,216
disturbingly close to 2012.
583
00:43:00,485 --> 00:43:03,268
Even the Lost Book's astrological symbols
584
00:43:03,518 --> 00:43:06,814
seem to concur as if they are veiled clues
585
00:43:07,064 --> 00:43:10,014
pointing to an impending shift.
586
00:43:11,013 --> 00:43:12,795
What's interesting about the second image is
587
00:43:13,045 --> 00:43:15,845
the man with the bow, Sagittarius.
588
00:43:16,095 --> 00:43:22,282
And if you know your astronomy and believe me, Nostradamus knew his astronomy,
589
00:43:22,532 --> 00:43:25,528
you know Sagittarius is shooting his arrow
590
00:43:25,918 --> 00:43:29,240
almost exactly into the centre of the galaxy.
591
00:43:31,476 --> 00:43:34,130
Some interpretors believe the arrow in this drawing
592
00:43:34,559 --> 00:43:41,209
is pointing to the very place in the sky where the sun is predicted to rise in 2012.
593
00:43:42,498 --> 00:43:49,122
This galactical alignment is explained by the fact that the earth rotates and warbles like a top
594
00:43:49,522 --> 00:43:54,572
and it is this warble that causes our view of the sky to change.
595
00:43:54,854 --> 00:44:00,416
On December 21st, 2012, many believe that, as seen from the earth,
596
00:44:00,666 --> 00:44:04,645
the sun will line up exactly with the center of the galaxy.
597
00:44:05,935 --> 00:44:08,790
Is the Lost Book providing one of the many warnings
598
00:44:09,167 --> 00:44:13,767
that something momentous will occur at this climatic time?
599
00:44:15,875 --> 00:44:19,177
That's one of the most important things
600
00:44:19,427 --> 00:44:21,492
not only been passed down by the Christians and the
601
00:44:21,742 --> 00:44:25,347
Jews, the Egyptians and even Islam,
602
00:44:25,597 --> 00:44:29,161
but Nostradamus and all of the prophets of the past
603
00:44:29,411 --> 00:44:35,461
have all felt this... compelled to send this message down to us.
604
00:44:36,085 --> 00:44:38,127
They left the messages in their texts,
605
00:44:38,377 --> 00:44:40,756
in their oral traditions and their temples.
606
00:44:41,085 --> 00:44:45,350
We got to ask ourselves, what is it that can be so important
607
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:51,825
that they would build entire civilizations to convey a message to us
608
00:44:52,075 --> 00:44:56,325
regarding our time in history. What were they trying to tell us?
609
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:04,470
Like many of the ancient prophets, Nostradamus camouflaged his predictions.
610
00:45:05,632 --> 00:45:09,988
He writes his prophecies in the 1500s in southern France.,
611
00:45:10,238 --> 00:45:14,430
When questioning the royals or the Catholic church is a crime
612
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,585
punishable by death.
613
00:45:17,842 --> 00:45:20,353
This forces him to be extremely careful
614
00:45:20,603 --> 00:45:24,389
in stating his most controversial visions of the future.
615
00:45:26,192 --> 00:45:29,771
I would imagine that if you were talking to Queen Catherine
616
00:45:30,021 --> 00:45:32,714
and you announce to her "Yeah, all your children are going to be royals but,
617
00:45:32,964 --> 00:45:35,686
you know, this one is going to die and this one is going to die and, oh
618
00:45:35,936 --> 00:45:37,610
that one is going to have a very bad end,
619
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:41,696
that you might not get the patronage that you would like to.
620
00:45:41,946 --> 00:45:44,553
In other words, no one likes a prophet who's right
621
00:45:44,803 --> 00:45:46,876
too much of the time,
622
00:45:47,144 --> 00:45:50,392
or is too accurate about things that are really close to your heart.
623
00:45:52,395 --> 00:45:55,960
Nostradamus is not alone in the need for obscurity.
624
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,708
Avoiding behavior that would offend the church
625
00:45:58,958 --> 00:46:01,977
is a way of life in 16th century Europe,
626
00:46:02,393 --> 00:46:04,926
causing many groups to go underground.
627
00:46:06,637 --> 00:46:08,566
One of these secret societies
628
00:46:09,804 --> 00:46:11,366
is the Freemasons.
629
00:46:12,846 --> 00:46:16,371
While they are primarily a fraternal organisation today,
630
00:46:16,771 --> 00:46:18,508
some believe that they have a long history
631
00:46:18,758 --> 00:46:21,198
of hoarding secret wisdom.
632
00:46:23,218 --> 00:46:25,605
In the old days, Freemasonary was the
633
00:46:25,855 --> 00:46:28,227
highest echelon of knowledge of its time.
634
00:46:28,477 --> 00:46:32,479
So when you join the Freemasonary, you got to read their secret libraries
635
00:46:32,729 --> 00:46:34,487
and... and learn the secret knowledge
636
00:46:34,772 --> 00:46:38,329
that had been passed down for maybe hundreds of generations, we don't know.
637
00:46:40,646 --> 00:46:45,117
Some believe Nostradamus himself is associated with the Masons.
638
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:53,042
Right around the corner from his house in Salon, there's a church front which shows very clearly
639
00:46:53,292 --> 00:46:56,474
the return of Jesus at the End of Time,
640
00:46:57,371 --> 00:47:00,737
riding the exact position the sun will be rising
641
00:47:01,275 --> 00:47:04,066
in 2012 in the center of the galaxy.
642
00:47:05,968 --> 00:47:11,729
At least, a certain part of this awareness carried over to Nostradamus and influenced his idea
643
00:47:11,979 --> 00:47:15,216
of... of when to look for this great apocalyptic moment.
644
00:47:17,891 --> 00:47:22,338
These Masons who were considered some of most skilled craftsmen of their time,
645
00:47:22,588 --> 00:47:24,947
plied their trade across Europe.
646
00:47:26,483 --> 00:47:30,403
They established their reputation as a tightly knit ambitious group,
647
00:47:30,653 --> 00:47:34,599
who built great Gothic cathedrals for the Catholic church.
648
00:47:35,149 --> 00:47:37,996
The Alchemist Fulcanelli theorises in his book
649
00:47:38,246 --> 00:47:40,622
titled "The Mystery of the Cathedrals'
650
00:47:40,872 --> 00:47:43,952
that the Masons also had a hidden purpose.
651
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:47,451
He claims that they boldly carved secret symbols
652
00:47:47,701 --> 00:47:54,201
that spell out their controversial prophecies into the face of these stone structures.
653
00:47:56,877 --> 00:48:01,498
You really don't go to the trouble to carve the front of a massive Gothic Cathedral
654
00:48:01,748 --> 00:48:03,991
unless you have some purpose behind it.
655
00:48:04,241 --> 00:48:07,721
Notre Dame Paris is again another one of these church fronts
656
00:48:07,971 --> 00:48:13,255
that had coded within it very important secret information.
657
00:48:15,715 --> 00:48:23,015
These symbols include a bull, a lion, an eagle and a human face.
658
00:48:25,169 --> 00:48:30,219
While the Christian interpretation is that they represent the writers of the Gospels,
659
00:48:31,234 --> 00:48:36,840
their true meaning, according to Fulcanelli, is a warning.
660
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:43,960
These are exact symbolic references to the four fixed signs of the zodiac.
661
00:48:44,210 --> 00:48:46,373
The man is Aquarius, the lion is Leo,
662
00:48:46,623 --> 00:48:50,229
the bull is Taurus, and the eagle is Scorpio
663
00:48:50,638 --> 00:48:54,838
which today is turned into a scorpion, but in those days was an eagle.
664
00:48:56,794 --> 00:49:00,075
These four signs of the zodiac are the constellations
665
00:49:00,325 --> 00:49:04,717
that the sun passes through each year in its path across the sky.
666
00:49:06,515 --> 00:49:12,265
They also represent great ages of time, each lasting thousands of years.
667
00:49:13,677 --> 00:49:15,347
According to Astrology,
668
00:49:15,597 --> 00:49:22,547
the human race is now moving from the age of Pisces into the age of Aquarius.
669
00:49:24,974 --> 00:49:28,469
This shift marks the coming of the galactic alignment.
670
00:49:34,020 --> 00:49:38,250
The most important thing that they put into the Gothic cathedrals
671
00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:40,913
was the secret of the End of Time.
672
00:49:41,163 --> 00:49:45,552
Again, the same thing is in the Mayan calendar. The same thing is in the pyramids.
673
00:49:45,802 --> 00:49:48,751
Our ancestors thought that this is the most important knowledge that
674
00:49:49,001 --> 00:49:50,395
they could pass down to us,
675
00:49:50,645 --> 00:49:53,881
so that when we enter into this time of crisis,
676
00:49:54,131 --> 00:49:57,632
which is where we are right now, we will know what to do.
677
00:50:01,536 --> 00:50:03,943
If it is true that the earth's weather patterns have become
678
00:50:04,193 --> 00:50:05,938
increasingly erratic,
679
00:50:07,174 --> 00:50:10,305
is this a sign of an imminent crisis?
680
00:50:14,349 --> 00:50:18,546
The real problem is that the global climate system
681
00:50:18,818 --> 00:50:26,718
is a very, very complex system and in complex systems, they exhibit non-linear behavior.
682
00:50:27,281 --> 00:50:32,440
You're starting to see an anomalous strange behavior in the weather around the world
683
00:50:32,690 --> 00:50:35,385
that you never saw before. You have flooding,
684
00:50:35,707 --> 00:50:38,577
you have extraordinary kind of storms.
685
00:50:40,469 --> 00:50:43,727
Nostradamus' quatrains seem to support the idea
686
00:50:43,977 --> 00:50:48,677
that nature may be preparing a terrible backlash.
687
00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:56,383
Shortly afterwards, not a very long interval,
688
00:50:56,804 --> 00:51:02,004
a great roaring storm will be raised by land and sea...
689
00:51:02,549 --> 00:51:07,912
flames, animals, which will make more upheaval.
690
00:51:09,547 --> 00:51:15,970
Century 2 quatrain 40, he refers to not simply one storm,
691
00:51:16,420 --> 00:51:21,149
but to a series of storms that keep coming again and again and again.
692
00:51:22,299 --> 00:51:27,676
The great city of the maritime ocean,
Surrounded by a swamp of crystal:
693
00:51:27,926 --> 00:51:33,026
In the winter solstice and the spring,
Will be tried by a terrible wind.
694
00:51:36,234 --> 00:51:37,757
If I were a 16th century man and
695
00:51:38,007 --> 00:51:45,544
I try to describe these amazing neon covered lit, artificially lit skyscrapers
696
00:51:45,794 --> 00:51:53,391
with their geometric angular cuts of glass windows and glass signs,
697
00:51:53,641 --> 00:51:57,821
I might call that a city, a city as in a swamp.
698
00:51:58,071 --> 00:52:03,355
He might have been talking about downtown New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina.
699
00:52:05,471 --> 00:52:12,212
I had a friend called me up when Katrina was happening, another Nostradamus fellow,
700
00:52:12,462 --> 00:52:15,983
and he wanted to talk about Century 9 quatrain 48
701
00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:22,456
because it appeared to him that this was a very direct and exact description of Katrina
702
00:52:22,706 --> 00:52:25,880
and all the other hurricane disasters.
703
00:52:26,130 --> 00:52:30,583
If Nostradamus predicts an escalation of these battering storms,
704
00:52:30,833 --> 00:52:34,009
what might the climax be?
705
00:52:34,817 --> 00:52:38,501
Hurricane Ike was... is big as the Gulf of Mexico.
706
00:52:39,417 --> 00:52:42,891
We're now finding out not simply one storm of the century,
707
00:52:43,141 --> 00:52:48,841
but we're finding series of storms of the century. They're coming over and over and over again
708
00:52:52,139 --> 00:52:58,266
While the storms keep coming fast and furious, the concerns for 2012 rises
709
00:52:58,516 --> 00:53:01,628
and the search for answers grows more urgent.
710
00:53:03,348 --> 00:53:08,643
Near Nostradamus' town of Salon in southern France, there is an obscure cross that may
711
00:53:08,893 --> 00:53:12,069
provide yet another dire warning,
712
00:53:12,576 --> 00:53:17,013
that some believe points directly to 2012.
713
00:53:27,903 --> 00:53:33,260
Nostradamus, The Lost Book manuscript and ancient cultures from around the world
714
00:53:33,510 --> 00:53:37,061
appear to target the 2012 time period as one of change,
715
00:53:37,311 --> 00:53:39,779
that could be apocalyptic in scope.
716
00:53:41,991 --> 00:53:44,507
For some, recent worldwide events
717
00:53:44,868 --> 00:53:46,992
highlight the potential for emergency.
718
00:53:48,992 --> 00:53:51,790
Another Lost Book drawing attributed to Nostradamus,
719
00:53:52,303 --> 00:53:55,027
continues the story of warning.
720
00:53:55,786 --> 00:53:59,960
What's interesting about this is that, again, we see the Archer,
721
00:54:00,210 --> 00:54:05,610
Sagittarius, and he's pointing his arrow, he's actually shooting his arrow into a woman.
722
00:54:06,057 --> 00:54:09,340
And this woman is the center of the galaxy.
723
00:54:10,557 --> 00:54:14,128
I would think that it means, at the great alignment
724
00:54:14,378 --> 00:54:21,501
the scale or the balance of our decisions and life are going to be more important.
725
00:54:23,421 --> 00:54:29,342
Closer examination of this image reveals an intriguing symbolism.
726
00:54:29,592 --> 00:54:33,131
Sagittarius' arrow and the woman form a cross
727
00:54:33,454 --> 00:54:35,775
that resembles the galactic alignment.
728
00:54:38,037 --> 00:54:39,946
The sky... we presage,
729
00:54:40,196 --> 00:54:43,030
Through clear signs and by fixed stars:
730
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:51,030
Suddenly the age of change approaches,
neither for its good, nor for its evils.
731
00:54:52,032 --> 00:54:56,178
In this quatrain, do the phrases, 'clear signs'
732
00:54:56,428 --> 00:55:00,429
and 'fixed stars' allude to the sun rising in line
733
00:55:00,679 --> 00:55:05,829
with the dark center of the galaxy, ushering in a sudden age of change.
734
00:55:07,010 --> 00:55:09,672
Are Nostradamus and the Lost Book drawings
735
00:55:09,922 --> 00:55:14,722
envisioning a cosmic event that causes earthly havoc?
736
00:55:15,888 --> 00:55:19,909
As we go through these seven drawings, they get more and more interesting
737
00:55:20,159 --> 00:55:25,555
and this is one is really interesting because it really backs up the whole motif.
738
00:55:25,805 --> 00:55:33,058
It's really trying to draw attention to the astrology and astronomy of this event
739
00:55:33,308 --> 00:55:36,608
that Nostradamus is trying to tell us about.
740
00:55:37,729 --> 00:55:43,665
If it is indeed the case that the alignment triggers a significant shift on the earth below
741
00:55:43,915 --> 00:55:46,977
pinpointing its occurence is of vast importance.
742
00:55:47,227 --> 00:55:50,660
The mysterious Alchmist, known only by the name Fulcanelli,
743
00:55:50,910 --> 00:55:55,506
claims in the 1920s, to have decoded the symbols on
744
00:55:55,882 --> 00:55:57,733
the Gothic cathedrals.
745
00:55:57,983 --> 00:56:00,594
Fulcanelli also writes of an obscure cross
746
00:56:00,844 --> 00:56:04,167
in southern France called the Cross of Hendaye.
747
00:56:04,417 --> 00:56:07,489
Though little is known about the origin of the cross,
748
00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:10,012
Fulcanelli believes it carries a message that echoes
749
00:56:10,262 --> 00:56:14,312
the Masons' predictions about the End of Days.
750
00:56:15,717 --> 00:56:19,591
What Fulcanelli, who's the first person to write about the cross of Hendaye, says,
751
00:56:19,841 --> 00:56:25,314
is that this monument is telling us about what is about to happen to us
752
00:56:25,564 --> 00:56:30,545
and that this age has no other seal than that of death.
753
00:56:31,562 --> 00:56:36,073
A small group of researchers believe that the symbols carved into the base of this cross
754
00:56:36,323 --> 00:56:40,559
reveal not only the date when the coming danger will arrive
755
00:56:40,809 --> 00:56:44,611
but also the sequence in which these events will unfold.
756
00:56:45,361 --> 00:56:49,032
When I began deciphering the cross of Hendaye,
757
00:56:49,282 --> 00:56:55,475
I went through every single symbol, I came to realise that the star on the pedestal
758
00:56:55,725 --> 00:57:00,297
was the center of the galaxyand that was exactly opposite the sun,
759
00:57:00,547 --> 00:57:02,729
the angry sun face on the pedestal
760
00:57:02,979 --> 00:57:07,892
and that the moon was exactly opposite this odd oval.
761
00:57:08,210 --> 00:57:10,501
And as I explored this further, I realised
762
00:57:10,751 --> 00:57:13,884
that the odd oval is the precession of equinoxes.
763
00:57:14,189 --> 00:57:19,118
And so this is like the big clock that we're watching.
764
00:57:19,368 --> 00:57:23,421
The clock appears to be counting down to the coming galactic alignment
765
00:57:23,671 --> 00:57:25,270
in a very specific way.
766
00:57:26,039 --> 00:57:28,116
The gravitational pull of the sun and the moon
767
00:57:28,366 --> 00:57:30,695
cause the earth to warble on its axis,
768
00:57:31,275 --> 00:57:37,501
which means that the earth's view of the constellations changes by one degree every 72 years.
769
00:57:37,751 --> 00:57:40,735
This is called the precession of the equinoxes.
770
00:57:41,583 --> 00:57:45,218
Over 26,000 years, these constellations
771
00:57:45,614 --> 00:57:49,921
rotate a full 360 degrees back to their staring point.
772
00:57:51,152 --> 00:57:54,156
According to one interpretation, the cross
773
00:57:54,406 --> 00:57:58,167
like the Mayan calendar, uses the last galactic alignment
774
00:57:58,441 --> 00:58:02,026
that happened 26,000 years ago as a starting point
775
00:58:02,276 --> 00:58:06,876
to count down to the next one due to occur in 2012.
776
00:58:07,546 --> 00:58:09,921
If we start with the cross, it's easy to see, okay,
777
00:58:10,171 --> 00:58:12,004
this is our alignment.
778
00:58:12,304 --> 00:58:17,815
Basically, if you look at all the images combined, you come up with an... a rough idea,
779
00:58:18,065 --> 00:58:23,292
that what we're looking at is a time period
and that time period is roughly equivalent
780
00:58:23,542 --> 00:58:30,292
to the Mayan calendar from roughly 1992-1993 through 2012.
781
00:58:31,351 --> 00:58:37,196
They decided to put all of the knowledge into this little obscure monument
782
00:58:37,446 --> 00:58:41,740
hoping that someone would, one day, discover it and began deciphering it,
783
00:58:41,990 --> 00:58:45,161
so that we would know the secret of the End of Time.
784
00:58:45,661 --> 00:58:49,364
This is what Nostradamus was pointing to in the quatrains
785
00:58:49,614 --> 00:58:54,861
and that is what Fulcanelli was, sort of, punctuating with the idea of the Hendaye cross.
786
00:58:55,111 --> 00:58:59,942
It's coming, get ready. It's gonna happen, get ready. Be aware of it.
787
00:59:00,192 --> 00:59:02,061
That's about all you can do.
788
00:59:03,060 --> 00:59:05,498
According to the prophecies of Nostradamus,
789
00:59:05,860 --> 00:59:10,181
the catastrophes that some believe he sees climaxing in 2012
790
00:59:10,431 --> 00:59:13,130
are already beginning to descend upon us.
791
00:59:14,785 --> 00:59:17,361
When the fish that is both terrestrial and aquatic
792
00:59:17,611 --> 00:59:20,514
Will be put upon the beach by a strong wave
793
00:59:20,764 --> 00:59:24,782
It's shape strange, smooth, and horrifying
794
00:59:25,032 --> 00:59:30,132
They instantly reach the enemy from the sea to the walls.
795
00:59:31,281 --> 00:59:35,915
Is the quatrain forecasting the tsunami of 2004
796
00:59:36,165 --> 00:59:39,966
that killed more than 150,000 people?
797
00:59:41,336 --> 00:59:45,704
If you look at some of the... er... video tape images of the tsunami wave
798
00:59:45,954 --> 00:59:50,874
that hit the southern part of India, where he talks about the ocean swelling
799
00:59:51,124 --> 00:59:53,945
and looking ugly in its appearance and then coming in,
800
00:59:54,195 --> 00:59:59,295
he says fish and animals being swept up under the shore.
801
00:59:59,699 --> 01:00:03,171
Some scientists question whether the cause of the tsunami
802
01:00:03,421 --> 01:00:05,500
and other impending natural disasters
803
01:00:05,813 --> 01:00:08,868
could be the coming galactic alignment.
804
01:00:09,688 --> 01:00:11,533
As we go through that change intense
805
01:00:11,783 --> 01:00:15,939
and in that intensity, we can expect extremes,
806
01:00:16,189 --> 01:00:19,894
of all the things we've already experienced.
Extremes of earthquakes,
807
01:00:20,144 --> 01:00:23,813
there was a 9.0 earthquake in the Pacific Ocean in the place
808
01:00:24,063 --> 01:00:28,113
that had never even been previously known to have a fault.
809
01:00:28,682 --> 01:00:31,304
There is a growing concern that earthquakes and Tsunamis
810
01:00:31,554 --> 01:00:37,054
may be just the beginning of the natural disasters that could bring the world tumbling down.
811
01:00:38,780 --> 01:00:45,380
Including the potent eruptions of the sleeping giants, known as super volcanoes.
812
01:00:46,545 --> 01:00:50,739
The last time one of these things really popped was in Lake Toba, Indonesia.
813
01:00:50,989 --> 01:00:52,782
It was about 70,000 years ago.
814
01:00:53,306 --> 01:01:00,356
And about 90% of what then was human species was extincted.
815
01:01:01,112 --> 01:01:04,688
In today's numbers, that would be 5 and a half to 6 billion.
816
01:01:05,888 --> 01:01:08,239
In the area of Yellowstone National Park,
817
01:01:08,489 --> 01:01:13,095
in the state of Wyoming, a subterranean super volcano
818
01:01:13,345 --> 01:01:16,626
has now moved into what scientists call the Red Zone.
819
01:01:17,157 --> 01:01:21,707
A category that means it could be preparing to erupt.
820
01:01:22,651 --> 01:01:24,901
Once a super volcano such as Yellowstone
821
01:01:25,151 --> 01:01:27,801
moves into the 'Red Zone' to where it could erupt,
822
01:01:28,078 --> 01:01:36,678
it's not like there's a little alarm clock in there that's ka-boom is if it's affected by some outside stimulus that... that triggers it.
823
01:01:37,117 --> 01:01:41,004
Some believe that trigger is coming in 2012
824
01:01:41,404 --> 01:01:47,110
and if it does, the result would be nothing short of catastrophic.
825
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:53,434
And we have in 2012 coming, as... as I've said, this... this climax of solar activity
826
01:01:53,684 --> 01:01:58,157
which can stimulate such things as volcanic and, perhaps, super volcano eruptions.
827
01:01:58,407 --> 01:02:03,457
In comes the energy, metal conducts it, shakes up the crust ka-boom.
828
01:02:07,154 --> 01:02:11,850
The ticking time bombs of earthquakes, tsunamis and super volcanoes
829
01:02:12,100 --> 01:02:15,750
are frightening enough, but there are those who now point to
830
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:20,650
an even greater natural nightmare that trumps them all.
831
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:27,200
One that may already be on a direct path to the planet earth.
832
01:02:32,744 --> 01:02:39,944
Mounting evidence indicates that the year 2012 may be highly significant, but to what end?
833
01:02:42,792 --> 01:02:48,692
Many world cultures point to ride this upheaval that could forever alter our way of life.
834
01:02:52,347 --> 01:02:56,708
This image, from what many believe to be the Lost Book of Nostradamus,
835
01:02:56,958 --> 01:03:01,358
offers a look at how our destiny may hang in the balance.
836
01:03:07,282 --> 01:03:10,229
In this drawing, Nostradamus is looking at the Book of Life
837
01:03:10,644 --> 01:03:12,214
and there is writing on the pages.
838
01:03:12,464 --> 01:03:17,037
And underneath the Book of Life are three women, the three fates.
839
01:03:17,394 --> 01:03:20,919
The Greek have a myth that the fates were three women,
840
01:03:21,269 --> 01:03:24,424
who weaved time, weaved destiny.
841
01:03:24,674 --> 01:03:30,974
And what he's telling us is that we have a choice and this choice will determine our fate.
842
01:03:32,836 --> 01:03:34,868
The role of choice in human affairs
843
01:03:35,355 --> 01:03:37,377
is not limited to Nostradamus.
844
01:03:37,967 --> 01:03:40,924
It is a basic principle in many ancient cultures.
845
01:03:42,113 --> 01:03:47,436
For the Hopi Indians in the American southwest, it is the central tenet of their faith.
846
01:03:48,766 --> 01:03:51,217
They believe that in every human juncture,
847
01:03:51,467 --> 01:03:53,447
there are two potential outcomes.
848
01:03:53,863 --> 01:03:58,007
One where goodness trumps evil and life continues
849
01:03:58,257 --> 01:04:01,697
and the other where humanity faces destruction.
850
01:04:04,037 --> 01:04:06,258
All of these traditions are pointing to our time in history
851
01:04:06,508 --> 01:04:07,810
some in generality,
852
01:04:08,087 --> 01:04:10,884
some in specifics... er... and they're all telling us
853
01:04:11,358 --> 01:04:14,290
this is the time that they've been planning, anticipating,
854
01:04:14,656 --> 01:04:17,935
fearing and preparing for... for a very long time.
855
01:04:19,787 --> 01:04:22,837
The Hopi believe that just before the end of the world
856
01:04:23,258 --> 01:04:26,033
will be a period of intense trial,
857
01:04:26,283 --> 01:04:30,870
marked by devasting social, environmental and political problems,
858
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:33,770
as well as bouts of extreme weather.
859
01:04:34,862 --> 01:04:39,067
A time very much like now.
860
01:04:40,436 --> 01:04:43,518
And the Hopi tradition talk about four previous worlds.
861
01:04:44,170 --> 01:04:47,153
Each world, every great age ended with a cataclysm.
862
01:04:47,457 --> 01:04:49,850
And they say we're now moving into the fifth.
863
01:04:56,369 --> 01:05:00,528
The Hopi looked to the sages of their past for the answers.
864
01:05:01,228 --> 01:05:03,991
They believe that the appearance of ancestor spirits
865
01:05:04,368 --> 01:05:07,868
called Kachinas portend important events.
866
01:05:09,366 --> 01:05:13,766
The most dreaded of thes Kachinas is known as the 'Blue Star'.
867
01:05:16,103 --> 01:05:20,531
The Hopis speak of the appearance of the 'Blue Star' spirit
868
01:05:20,781 --> 01:05:25,043
which will herald the appearance of the cataclysm.
869
01:05:26,536 --> 01:05:29,217
And they refer to various effects
870
01:05:29,467 --> 01:05:33,880
that will occur; trembling of the earth and flood and so on.
871
01:05:34,875 --> 01:05:37,504
The 'Blue Star' has not been directly connected
872
01:05:37,803 --> 01:05:40,194
to the galactic alignment of 2012,
873
01:05:40,596 --> 01:05:44,566
but its origin in the heavens and its warning of impending doom
874
01:05:44,816 --> 01:05:47,379
give it possible relevance.
875
01:05:47,629 --> 01:05:51,507
Despite the warnings of disasters, native Americans
876
01:05:51,757 --> 01:05:53,433
believe that a message of hope is encoded
877
01:05:53,683 --> 01:05:58,034
in a sacred monument found in the Hopi reservation in Arizona.
878
01:06:00,638 --> 01:06:05,483
There is actually a prophecy... a prophecy rock in a place called Orab, Arizona,
879
01:06:05,733 --> 01:06:11,166
where they show humans represented living this time in history,
880
01:06:11,416 --> 01:06:14,719
will we walk a path and the path splits,
881
01:06:14,969 --> 01:06:18,077
and they say humans must choose one of two worlds.
882
01:06:18,327 --> 01:06:20,831
In one path, the humans are living in a world
883
01:06:21,176 --> 01:06:24,033
where they show crops are growing. Another world,
884
01:06:24,283 --> 01:06:27,890
the humans still exists, but not in touch with themselves, with the world.
885
01:06:28,140 --> 01:06:31,181
The food isn't available it isn't such a tough life.
886
01:06:32,043 --> 01:06:38,240
Those etchings and rock drawings were a history of what had occurred
887
01:06:38,490 --> 01:06:40,489
during their time of existence
888
01:06:40,879 --> 01:06:44,488
and also what may happen in the future.
889
01:06:46,207 --> 01:06:49,846
Some of the Hopi elders say the Blue Star's already happened
890
01:06:50,096 --> 01:06:54,994
when the comet broke up and impacted Jupiter in the... the 1990s
891
01:06:55,244 --> 01:06:59,728
and ignited a glow in the atmosphere of Jupiter
892
01:06:59,978 --> 01:07:04,810
that under certain spectral conditions appear as a blue mass in the heavens.
893
01:07:05,060 --> 01:07:07,811
Others say that the 'Blue Star' has not happen yet
894
01:07:08,061 --> 01:07:13,038
and that when the 'Blue Star' appears in the sky, there is a new kind of Kachina
895
01:07:13,288 --> 01:07:17,338
or a new God that will physically come and dance with them in their pueblos.
896
01:07:20,662 --> 01:07:23,082
The Hopis predicted in their final warnings,
897
01:07:23,405 --> 01:07:25,995
those who cannot celebrate change
898
01:07:26,245 --> 01:07:28,537
and the coming of the new dispensation,
899
01:07:28,924 --> 01:07:32,846
will drop dead from their own fear of that change.
900
01:07:36,099 --> 01:07:39,317
The Hopi are clear about the burden the human race will bear
901
01:07:39,567 --> 01:07:41,898
in the coming time of catastrophe.
902
01:07:42,911 --> 01:07:47,961
They say that in this world age, there will be three great shakings of the earth
903
01:07:48,465 --> 01:07:52,805
and they interpret this to be the first shaking was World War I.
904
01:07:53,055 --> 01:07:59,203
The second shaking was World War II. The third shaking, they say, cannot be predicted
905
01:07:59,453 --> 01:08:03,460
because humans are determining how that shaking will occur
906
01:08:03,710 --> 01:08:06,354
by the way we live our lives right now.
907
01:08:07,124 --> 01:08:11,627
Some believe that the third shaking indicates a cataclysm from above
908
01:08:11,877 --> 01:08:17,318
and if so, this could be another tie to the coming galactic alignment.
909
01:08:17,568 --> 01:08:21,519
It is a theme that resonates in the writing of Nostradamus.
910
01:08:22,494 --> 01:08:25,101
Nostradamus look in the future are often horrirfying.
911
01:08:25,351 --> 01:08:29,451
There is a definitely a cosmic disaster described.
912
01:08:32,349 --> 01:08:35,985
Where all is good in the sun and moon and abundant,
913
01:08:36,235 --> 01:08:38,379
Its ruin approaches.
914
01:08:38,629 --> 01:08:46,679
It comes from the sky to sift through your fortunes
In the same state as the seventh rock.
915
01:08:47,881 --> 01:08:52,693
Nostradamus seems to describe some kind of a nuclear holocaust.
916
01:08:52,943 --> 01:08:57,159
And this is not necessarily mean to be like Hiroshima or Nagasaki,
917
01:08:57,409 --> 01:09:01,582
this can be somthing that suggests some kind of radiation leakage or whatever.
918
01:09:02,836 --> 01:09:04,605
A small number of scientists,
919
01:09:04,868 --> 01:09:08,059
who have compared the predictions of Nostradamus and the Hopi,
920
01:09:09,309 --> 01:09:12,212
believe that they both could be describing the characteristics
921
01:09:10,262 --> 01:09:13,313
of a galactic super wave.
922
01:09:13,563 --> 01:09:19,203
A blizzard of cosmic radiation that is thought to mimic the destructive capabilities
923
01:09:19,453 --> 01:09:22,401
of a nuclear explosion.
924
01:09:22,953 --> 01:09:27,704
The question arises sometimes regarding precisely what this 'Blue Star' of the Hopi may be.
925
01:09:27,954 --> 01:09:33,145
It could very possibly be the galactic super wave that some of the scientists were talking about.
926
01:09:33,395 --> 01:09:36,237
They've a great wave of energy that pulses through the universe,
927
01:09:36,487 --> 01:09:39,293
disrupts the magnetic fields of the earth
928
01:09:39,711 --> 01:09:45,211
and causes changes in the atmosphere that are recorded in layers of ice.
929
01:09:46,853 --> 01:09:49,302
The exact nature of this cosmic energy
930
01:09:49,552 --> 01:09:54,602
is difficult to determine, but its impact could be devastating.
931
01:09:55,287 --> 01:09:56,683
It is intriguing
932
01:09:56,933 --> 01:10:00,327
that the origin of super waves is said to be the center of the galaxy
933
01:10:00,577 --> 01:10:04,668
which plays a prominent part in the galactic alignment.
934
01:10:04,868 --> 01:10:08,083
The troubling aspect of this super wave phenomenon
935
01:10:08,333 --> 01:10:10,782
is that this cosmic rays travel towards us
936
01:10:11,032 --> 01:10:12,900
from the galactic center with the speed of light
937
01:10:13,150 --> 01:10:15,809
so there wouldn't be very much warning. One day, everything's fine
938
01:10:16,059 --> 01:10:19,546
and suddenly, you know, its gone crazy.
939
01:10:21,282 --> 01:10:24,053
If the super wave did come to us, hope it's just minor,
940
01:10:24,303 --> 01:10:26,503
maybe it'll just knock out the satellites.
941
01:10:26,753 --> 01:10:29,401
Maybe we won't have cell phones or television.
942
01:10:29,651 --> 01:10:31,888
It could be quite an economic impact
943
01:10:32,138 --> 01:10:34,713
for quite a few years, but then we would recover.
944
01:10:34,963 --> 01:10:38,313
You know, if its something minor like that, we should be thankful.
945
01:10:39,224 --> 01:10:43,047
It could overload the power lines so it could be like an EMP
946
01:10:43,297 --> 01:10:48,851
that they talk about for a nuclear event where somebody would detonate a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere,
947
01:10:49,101 --> 01:10:53,249
and would cause blackouts all over the planet.
948
01:10:54,759 --> 01:10:59,304
Is this the phenomenon that Nostradamus and the Hopi are describing?
949
01:11:00,648 --> 01:11:03,807
Or did they envision something even more perilous?
950
01:11:04,869 --> 01:11:07,922
What would be the worst scenario? For example,
951
01:11:08,172 --> 01:11:11,914
we could point to what happened at the end of the Ice Age,
952
01:11:12,164 --> 01:11:18,334
the last super wave that wiped out 95% of the large animals
953
01:11:18,584 --> 01:11:19,932
from North.
954
01:11:20,182 --> 01:11:24,232
And you hear stories that a large part of human race was wiped out
955
01:11:24,482 --> 01:11:26,466
and only a few survived.
956
01:11:27,118 --> 01:11:30,728
This was probably one of the most... er... significant events
957
01:11:30,978 --> 01:11:34,778
to occur in human race, in our history.
958
01:11:36,091 --> 01:11:39,869
If the 'Blue Star' and a possible galactic super wave,
959
01:11:40,119 --> 01:11:42,557
are two of the main cosmic events
960
01:11:42,807 --> 01:11:46,548
that some claim may coincide with the 2012 alignment,
961
01:11:46,798 --> 01:11:48,673
perhaps a startling prophecy
962
01:11:48,923 --> 01:11:50,888
from one of the world's greatest scientists
963
01:11:51,138 --> 01:11:54,188
can shed new light on what will unfold.
964
01:11:55,064 --> 01:11:58,797
Sir Isaac Newton, known as the father of physics,
965
01:11:59,047 --> 01:12:01,949
also believed firmly in prophecy and alchemy,
966
01:12:02,618 --> 01:12:07,268
a fact which ties him in unexpected ways to Nostradamus.
967
01:12:13,330 --> 01:12:17,714
Nostradamus casts a wide net in his endeavour to capture the elusive truth
968
01:12:17,964 --> 01:12:23,652
of human life and destiny. He consults the most esteemed wisdom of the past,
969
01:12:23,902 --> 01:12:27,407
from ancient civilizations to the great Biblical prophets,
970
01:12:27,657 --> 01:12:31,407
in his attempt to map the very future of man.
971
01:12:32,772 --> 01:12:34,581
This drawing in the Lost Book of Nostradamus
972
01:12:34,831 --> 01:12:37,867
is the climax of the seven drawings.
973
01:12:39,376 --> 01:12:43,386
In this particular one, there's only two women now.
974
01:12:43,893 --> 01:12:46,867
So one of the fates has disappeared.
975
01:12:47,117 --> 01:12:48,981
There is another interesting aspect,
976
01:12:49,231 --> 01:12:53,442
the wheel of time no longer has any spokes
977
01:12:53,692 --> 01:12:55,668
which means the wheel is going to fall off.
978
01:12:55,918 --> 01:12:59,584
And the third disturbing aspect of this drawing
979
01:12:59,834 --> 01:13:04,684
is that the Book of Life is empty, there is nothing written on it.
980
01:13:06,541 --> 01:13:08,692
The Book of Life is a symbol from the Bible,
981
01:13:08,942 --> 01:13:14,298
that is one of the many religious images that Nostradamus incorporates into his work.
982
01:13:15,516 --> 01:13:17,513
The Bible is a book that has guided
983
01:13:17,763 --> 01:13:21,253
and divided humanity for thousands of years.
984
01:13:21,503 --> 01:13:24,050
Some believe it holds a coded message
985
01:13:24,300 --> 01:13:25,746
about our future.
986
01:13:27,290 --> 01:13:28,821
The search for a Bible code
987
01:13:29,071 --> 01:13:33,715
began in the 17th century with English physicist, Isaac Newton,
988
01:13:33,965 --> 01:13:36,143
who believes that he can decode this warning,
989
01:13:36,393 --> 01:13:39,702
and reveal the timing of the apocalypse.
990
01:13:39,952 --> 01:13:42,796
The same challenge is tackled in the 20th century
991
01:13:43,046 --> 01:13:45,583
by an Israeli mathematician.
992
01:13:46,091 --> 01:13:51,085
The Bible Code was a statistical analysis of a particular portion of the Bible
993
01:13:51,335 --> 01:13:55,114
made by an Israeli mathematician named Eliyahu Rips.
994
01:13:55,364 --> 01:14:01,624
And, basically, he found encoded in those books
995
01:14:02,753 --> 01:14:06,853
a remarkable, beyond coincidence, wealth of information,
996
01:14:07,626 --> 01:14:13,576
predicting the names of great rabbis and... and other religious figures who would come.
997
01:14:14,319 --> 01:14:20,218
In 1994, three Israeli mathematicians discovered number patterns
998
01:14:20,468 --> 01:14:22,835
that American author, Michael Drosnin, uses
999
01:14:23,085 --> 01:14:26,378
to pinpoint what he believes is a direct Biblical reference
1000
01:14:26,628 --> 01:14:29,217
to the end date of the Mayan calendar,
1001
01:14:30,181 --> 01:14:34,388
adding a layer of intrigue to the 2012 question.
1002
01:14:34,638 --> 01:14:40,008
What he did was, lay it all... all the characters of a particular portion of the Bible, lay them out as they were written,
1003
01:14:40,258 --> 01:14:45,608
and then whatever words crossed or were near, significance was attributed to that.
1004
01:14:46,403 --> 01:14:50,318
The fact that 2012 and earth annihilated did cross
1005
01:14:50,568 --> 01:14:53,127
was an eye-popper.
1006
01:14:53,910 --> 01:14:57,182
Many believe that the Bible and the Jewish Torah,
1007
01:14:57,432 --> 01:15:00,569
both contain warnings of a possible Armageddon.
1008
01:15:03,172 --> 01:15:05,191
There is a reference in the Christian tradition,
1009
01:15:05,441 --> 01:15:10,145
in the book of Revelations, of a mountain of fire hitting the earth.
1010
01:15:10,395 --> 01:15:15,174
We can understand that today as being a meteor strike, comet
1011
01:15:15,424 --> 01:15:23,975
something which could be of extinction level.
But yet many Torah scholars
1012
01:15:24,225 --> 01:15:28,582
asks what exactly caused the flood of Noah
1013
01:15:29,445 --> 01:15:33,014
and they claim it was an astronomical event.
1014
01:15:33,264 --> 01:15:38,184
That a body from outer space around the sun
1015
01:15:38,434 --> 01:15:46,236
pulling upon the earth's gravitation field ripping the seas out of their beds,
1016
01:15:46,486 --> 01:15:51,075
literally shifting and altering the orbit of the planet.
1017
01:15:51,325 --> 01:15:55,202
Is it possible that such an event can happen again?
1018
01:15:55,452 --> 01:15:58,082
There are those who state that this will come
1019
01:15:58,332 --> 01:16:00,335
and this will come soon.
1020
01:16:01,043 --> 01:16:03,281
Another possible co-relation is found
1021
01:16:03,531 --> 01:16:06,111
between these descriptions of the End of Days
1022
01:16:06,361 --> 01:16:11,911
and the timing of the Jewish calendar, which is said to stop in its 7,000th year.
1023
01:16:12,997 --> 01:16:16,995
Depending exactly on how you want to count and look at the Jewish calendar,
1024
01:16:17,245 --> 01:16:23,975
which version of the Jewish calendar you want to go by, we just have hit millennium seven.
1025
01:16:24,225 --> 01:16:27,708
We just crossed over into the 7,000th year.
1026
01:16:29,099 --> 01:16:33,949
Is the occurence of the galactic alignment, when the sun will, once again, line up
1027
01:16:34,199 --> 01:16:37,081
with the very center of our galaxy, somehow connected
1028
01:16:37,331 --> 01:16:41,381
to the end dates of the Mayan and Jewish calendars?
1029
01:16:43,470 --> 01:16:49,720
The fact that Iran has now arisen to be a great threat to the West,
1030
01:16:50,207 --> 01:16:53,850
was something that was recorded in prophecy
1031
01:16:54,392 --> 01:17:00,119
over 1500 years ago.
I definitely see the upheavals that existed then,
1032
01:17:00,369 --> 01:17:06,319
are all portents of the greater crisis which faces all mankind.
1033
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:09,270
As the old saying goes;
1034
01:17:09,529 --> 01:17:13,629
it's going to get darker before the dawn.
1035
01:17:14,130 --> 01:17:18,089
Nostradamus also discerns danger related to the Bible.
1036
01:17:18,339 --> 01:17:21,897
He foresees trouble in the Middle East in many of his prophecies
1037
01:17:22,147 --> 01:17:26,305
and, specifically, seems to envision the war in Iraq.
1038
01:17:27,107 --> 01:17:33,721
He will enter, wicked, unpleasant, infamous,
tyrannizing over Mesopotamia.
1039
01:17:33,971 --> 01:17:37,021
All friends made by the adulterous lady,
1040
01:17:37,287 --> 01:17:40,450
the land dreadful and black of aspect.
1041
01:17:40,750 --> 01:17:43,586
This is century 8 quatrain 70.
1042
01:17:43,836 --> 01:17:47,992
An army of crusaders has never, in the times of the Crusades,
1043
01:17:48,366 --> 01:17:55,266
ever set foot in Iraq. That is the ancient name, Mesopotamia, is the name of Iraq.
1044
01:17:56,601 --> 01:17:59,134
Researchers believe Nostradamus
1045
01:17:59,384 --> 01:18:04,122
sees the Iraq war as a religious battle. Another quatrain has been linked to this one
1046
01:18:04,372 --> 01:18:06,917
as part of a larger prophecy.
1047
01:18:07,839 --> 01:18:12,930
The great host and sect of the cross
will be massed in Mesopotamia:
1048
01:18:13,180 --> 01:18:15,695
Of the nearby river the fast company.
1049
01:18:15,945 --> 01:18:18,973
That such law will hold for the enemy.
1050
01:18:21,079 --> 01:18:23,959
Soldiers of the Cross, crusaders. President Bush
1051
01:18:24,209 --> 01:18:26,699
called the war on terror a great crusade,
1052
01:18:26,949 --> 01:18:29,845
but the key to understanding this prophecy
1053
01:18:30,095 --> 01:18:38,058
is how do you define the final line. He's saying that America will lose in Iraq.
1054
01:18:38,658 --> 01:18:45,788
In the most important thing that Nostradamus is saying about this time period is beware the war with
1055
01:18:46,038 --> 01:18:48,564
with religious fundamentalism.
1056
01:18:48,814 --> 01:18:52,517
There's no quatrain from Nostradamus quatrain saying; "And they lived happily after
1057
01:18:52,767 --> 01:18:56,079
and worship the same God." He doesn't say that.
1058
01:18:57,210 --> 01:19:01,610
Nostradamus predicted a legion of problems arising in our time.
1059
01:19:02,855 --> 01:19:04,937
The recent and devasting downward spiral
1060
01:19:05,187 --> 01:19:07,804
in the financial markets is another crisis
1061
01:19:08,054 --> 01:19:09,988
currently plaguing the world.
1062
01:19:10,373 --> 01:19:17,323
According to some, this too appears to have been anticipated in Nostradamus' quatrains.
1063
01:19:18,324 --> 01:19:21,255
Within the closed temple lightning will pierce
1064
01:19:21,505 --> 01:19:23,963
It injures the citizens within their fort.
1065
01:19:24,350 --> 01:19:28,800
Horses, cows, men, the wave will hit the wall.
1066
01:19:29,050 --> 01:19:33,241
Through famine, drought, under the weakest armed.
1067
01:19:35,067 --> 01:19:38,537
If you think of the closed temple being the Stock Exchange,
1068
01:19:38,787 --> 01:19:42,960
and the temples of money on Wall Street, then they have been struck by lightning.
1069
01:19:43,210 --> 01:19:50,321
Er... they been demolished, in fact, and so we... we catch the cinch of their... of their dismay and the disruption
1070
01:19:50,571 --> 01:19:53,820
caused by the economic disasters in recent months.
1071
01:19:54,070 --> 01:20:00,443
Nostradamus says that the... er... there will be mobs of people who will storm the banks...
1072
01:20:01,093 --> 01:20:05,124
er... trying to get their money back but the banks will be closed.
1073
01:20:05,374 --> 01:20:09,939
Er... the money will be useless and will be thrown out and burned like paper.
1074
01:20:10,189 --> 01:20:13,305
Basically, banking systems are gonna come to an end.
1075
01:20:14,255 --> 01:20:18,830
As painful as a financial meltdown and war are to endure,
1076
01:20:19,180 --> 01:20:21,282
some wondered whether they are a mere
1077
01:20:21,532 --> 01:20:24,307
prelude to what awaits in 2012.
1078
01:20:25,290 --> 01:20:27,859
Many new diseases that have cropped up
1079
01:20:28,109 --> 01:20:31,782
in the last 20 years that we simply have no medical cure for.
1080
01:20:32,470 --> 01:20:36,255
The depletion of vital resources
1081
01:20:36,505 --> 01:20:40,639
and the violent competition for, what people believe,
1082
01:20:40,969 --> 01:20:46,378
are the few remaining resources that are left leading to wars, regional wars
1083
01:20:46,628 --> 01:20:50,506
that are... the experts were concerned could actually become global wars.
1084
01:20:50,756 --> 01:20:53,738
To the best of our knowledge, this has never happened in human history
1085
01:20:53,988 --> 01:20:57,415
and all must be solved within the next eight to ten years.
1086
01:20:57,665 --> 01:21:00,747
That makes our time in history very, very unique.
1087
01:21:02,564 --> 01:21:06,514
The Lost Book contains one last piece of information,
1088
01:21:06,764 --> 01:21:13,064
that may be the final deciding factor that reveals whether 2012 will be an end of violence,
1089
01:21:14,482 --> 01:21:17,883
or a time of violent end.
1090
01:21:26,150 --> 01:21:31,411
Are ancient cultures sending a resounding message of deep importance?
1091
01:21:32,161 --> 01:21:36,211
Is a cataclysmic event on the all too near horizon?
1092
01:21:37,046 --> 01:21:39,219
Man's awareness of his own mortality,
1093
01:21:39,469 --> 01:21:42,545
is central to his interpretation of the past
1094
01:21:42,795 --> 01:21:45,783
and his expectation of the future.
1095
01:21:46,183 --> 01:21:49,697
Past cultures had the idea that, okay, a culture only exists for a time.
1096
01:21:49,947 --> 01:21:52,522
Even the Roman Empire can't last forever.
1097
01:21:52,772 --> 01:21:56,708
But that there would be something afterwards, there would be a period of disturbance.
1098
01:21:56,958 --> 01:22:02,008
It's only very recently that we come around to the idea that there may not be anybody after us,
1099
01:22:02,264 --> 01:22:06,145
that we may actually be able to destroy all life on the planet
1100
01:22:06,399 --> 01:22:13,044
and there can't be any accident about the fact that this idea becomes common occurence and, at the same time, is this whole idea
1101
01:22:13,294 --> 01:22:16,893
of the galactic alignment and the End of Time, so forth.
1102
01:22:17,293 --> 01:22:19,498
All these traditions are pointing to our time in history,
1103
01:22:19,748 --> 01:22:22,073
some in generality, some in specifics
1104
01:22:22,323 --> 01:22:27,006
and they're all telling us this is the time that they had been planning and anticipating,
1105
01:22:27,256 --> 01:22:30,844
fearing and preparing for... for a very long time.
1106
01:22:31,784 --> 01:22:34,507
For some, the last Lost Book image sends
1107
01:22:34,757 --> 01:22:37,607
a simple but unmistakable message
1108
01:22:38,187 --> 01:22:43,287
that failing to heed its warning may have devasting consequences.
1109
01:22:44,402 --> 01:22:48,359
This is saying we could either continue on like we're going
1110
01:22:49,273 --> 01:22:52,597
and the Book of Life would keep going in being written,
1111
01:22:52,919 --> 01:23:00,619
or there's a chance that we may not go on, we may be facing some kind of extinction event.
1112
01:23:05,178 --> 01:23:08,680
At sunrise one will see a great fire.
1113
01:23:08,934 --> 01:23:11,940
Noise and light extending toward the North.
1114
01:23:12,190 --> 01:23:15,794
Within the earth death and cries are heard.
1115
01:23:16,209 --> 01:23:21,737
Death awaiting them through weapons, fire and famine.
1116
01:23:23,477 --> 01:23:29,577
Nostradamus is trying to scare us into not destroying ourselves?
1117
01:23:29,862 --> 01:23:35,275
Nostradamus is trying to scare us to stop oceans from rising?
1118
01:23:35,725 --> 01:23:39,228
To stop our children from dying from starvation?
1119
01:23:39,478 --> 01:23:43,309
Stop our climate from going out of control?
1120
01:23:47,009 --> 01:23:52,678
There had been world ages and world civilizations that had failed and failed to change
1121
01:23:52,928 --> 01:23:54,272
and they are completely wiped out,
1122
01:23:54,522 --> 01:23:56,701
even their memories have been wiped out to us.
1123
01:23:56,951 --> 01:23:59,981
But he's saying, hey, this is also happening today,
1124
01:24:00,231 --> 01:24:03,127
if certain changes are not being made now,
1125
01:24:03,377 --> 01:24:05,961
er... you could be the next Atlantis.
1126
01:24:07,236 --> 01:24:09,361
As 2012 approaches,
1127
01:24:09,611 --> 01:24:12,915
the world's problems appear to be multiplying.
1128
01:24:14,034 --> 01:24:21,429
If you just read the newspapers or listen to CNN, what you see is constant news about
1129
01:24:21,679 --> 01:24:28,707
rapidly increasing changes in major fundamental areas
1130
01:24:28,957 --> 01:24:30,434
that support humankind.
1131
01:24:30,684 --> 01:24:34,336
Rapid climate change, financial disruption
1132
01:24:34,586 --> 01:24:36,732
rand the energy reorganisation
1133
01:24:36,982 --> 01:24:39,057
and species depletion, water problems.
1134
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:46,605
Harvard biologist, E.L. Wilson, talks about this time in history, the uniquenees of our time in history.
1135
01:24:46,855 --> 01:24:50,099
He says that we're living the bottleneck of time.
1136
01:24:50,607 --> 01:24:53,060
The bottleneck when our resources
1137
01:24:53,310 --> 01:24:55,033
and our ability to solve our problems
1138
01:24:55,283 --> 01:24:57,258
will be pushed to the limits.
1139
01:24:57,859 --> 01:25:02,459
And as the problems mount, time seems to be speeding up.
1140
01:25:02,990 --> 01:25:07,052
It has been said that the 20th century has much history packed into it
1141
01:25:07,302 --> 01:25:09,712
as the last 19 preceeding it.
1142
01:25:09,962 --> 01:25:15,444
It's quite likely that the 21st century will have 19th, 20th centuries in it.
1143
01:25:15,694 --> 01:25:20,232
We will see a thousand times the technological change
1144
01:25:20,482 --> 01:25:23,927
in the 21st century than we saw in the 20th century.
1145
01:25:25,273 --> 01:25:28,843
There's nobody alive can wrap their head around that concept.
1146
01:25:29,093 --> 01:25:36,635
In the 20th century, we started from horses and we became automobiles and airplanes,
1147
01:25:36,885 --> 01:25:39,436
and we went to the moon and we got the Internet
1148
01:25:39,686 --> 01:25:46,273
and if you multiply that times a thousand in the next century, you cannot imagine what that might be.
1149
01:25:46,523 --> 01:25:51,720
If history is any kind of an indicator for what we're about to experience
1150
01:25:51,970 --> 01:25:57,020
then this transition is going to be very short and it'll happen very soon.
1151
01:25:57,449 --> 01:26:04,999
December 21st of the year 2012 marks a date, but we're already in the zone of time
1152
01:26:05,358 --> 01:26:07,962
where as a civilization and as a planet,
1153
01:26:08,287 --> 01:26:13,327
we're being forced into solving the greatest challenges
1154
01:26:13,577 --> 01:26:15,777
of recorded human history.
1155
01:26:17,116 --> 01:26:20,317
If modern man continues on the current path,
1156
01:26:20,567 --> 01:26:24,538
some believe Nostradamus' darkest predictions could be triggered
1157
01:26:24,788 --> 01:26:28,224
when the galactic alignment occurs.
1158
01:26:29,674 --> 01:26:33,325
Yet there may be a window of opportunity.
1159
01:26:34,361 --> 01:26:36,650
While the final Lost Book image shows
1160
01:26:36,900 --> 01:26:39,663
an empty book of life suggesting extinction,
1161
01:26:40,732 --> 01:26:43,241
some see a ray of hope.
1162
01:26:45,205 --> 01:26:47,548
This is done by someone who knew what they were doing,
1163
01:26:47,798 --> 01:26:51,793
that's why he's holding the book up to us, he's saying it's your choice,
1164
01:26:52,043 --> 01:26:54,283
you decide what it is you want to do.
1165
01:26:54,533 --> 01:26:56,768
That's the work of a compassionate genius
1166
01:26:57,018 --> 01:26:58,888
because he's trying to give us a message
1167
01:26:59,138 --> 01:27:01,724
to save us, to save our civilization
1168
01:27:01,993 --> 01:27:03,950
and to save our lives.
1169
01:27:06,030 --> 01:27:08,439
Is this the reason that so many cultures
1170
01:27:08,689 --> 01:27:11,384
have coded warnings for future generations?
1171
01:27:12,266 --> 01:27:15,993
Could the galactic alignment actually be a trigger for an outcome
1172
01:27:16,243 --> 01:27:19,795
that mankind controls?
1173
01:27:20,446 --> 01:27:23,859
It's possible that the cataclysmic event
1174
01:27:24,109 --> 01:27:28,890
that has been predicted might be something that's that tragic.
1175
01:27:29,140 --> 01:27:31,703
It could be more of a wake-up call.
1176
01:27:32,430 --> 01:27:37,319
If we could take anything from Nostradamus, it would be a sense of hope.
1177
01:27:37,569 --> 01:27:41,314
How bad things get no matter bad the wars and the famine
1178
01:27:41,564 --> 01:27:46,275
and the nuclear holocaust, humanity will survive.
1179
01:27:46,821 --> 01:27:51,006
I think the question that we really must answer now is,
1180
01:27:51,256 --> 01:27:55,663
do we have the courage to marry the wisdom of our past
1181
01:27:55,913 --> 01:27:57,526
to the best science of today.
1182
01:27:57,776 --> 01:27:59,469
Where will the spirituality based science lead
1183
01:27:59,719 --> 01:28:05,261
us after December 21st in the year 2012?
1184
01:28:05,919 --> 01:28:08,657
Some say that the ending of the Mayan calendar
1185
01:28:08,907 --> 01:28:13,966
is itself a message of hope, that December 21st, 2012
1186
01:28:14,216 --> 01:28:19,424
is not marking an actual end, but rather the conclusion of one age
1187
01:28:19,674 --> 01:28:22,509
and the start of a new one.
1188
01:28:22,808 --> 01:28:24,675
Ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge,
1189
01:28:24,925 --> 01:28:28,632
put them together and we just might pull through.
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01:28:29,659 --> 01:28:35,769
For all his sobering visions, Nostradamus himself describes the coming days
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as having many possible outcomes.
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This preeminent Prophet speaks not of a future fixed in stone,
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but one where man creates his own destiny.
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Remember, this is the prophet who gave his king two futures to follow,
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one where he describes him as a great knighter
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of second Charlemange of France and another where he dies,
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in a jousting accident. He can't have fulfilled both futures.
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He was offered a choice. You all are offered a choice.
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You either pave the way to a new humanity
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or you wait, let somebody else fix it
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and you all go down in an apocalypse.
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Cultures wax and wane, civilizations rise and fall.
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Even the mighty prophet Nostradamus is, in the end, a mere mortal
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but his immortal message lives on, proding us to prevail together,
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or perish.
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The transformation will be very difficult.
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Cities and provinces will gain by the changes.
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Their hearts held high, prudence established,
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the cunning ones expelled. The sea, the land restored,
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as human harmony awakens.
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I really don't think there'll be any great shift
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on the morning of December 21st, 2012. UFO's won't land,
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the comet won't hit that morning,
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but it'll be a point in which, looking back,
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we can all say, "Oh yeah, that's when it all ended."
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And that was the year in which the new Rome fell and the United States transformed itself
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hopefully began to move forward towards some better future.
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