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Nostradamus: Visions of the Future
Nostradamus was right about our past. Dare we believe that he was right about our future?
- GenresNonfiction
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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About the author
J.H. Brennan
99 books47 followersJames Herbert "Herbie" Brennan is a lecturer and the author of over one hundred fiction and non-fiction books for adults, teens, and children.
His works have been translated into approximately fifty languages, he has also written books on the Occult and New Age. He initially trained in esoteric teachings and Qabalah with the Fraternity of the Inner Light, and later became associated with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and the Servants of the Light.
In 1995 he contributed two novels to the Horrorscopes series under the house pen name Maria Palmer.
In 2003, Brennan published the children's book The Book of Wizardry: The Apprentice's Guide to the Secrets of the Wizards' Guild under the pseudonym Cornelius Rumstuckle.
His works have been translated into approximately fifty languages, he has also written books on the Occult and New Age. He initially trained in esoteric teachings and Qabalah with the Fraternity of the Inner Light, and later became associated with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and the Servants of the Light.
In 1995 he contributed two novels to the Horrorscopes series under the house pen name Maria Palmer.
In 2003, Brennan published the children's book The Book of Wizardry: The Apprentice's Guide to the Secrets of the Wizards' Guild under the pseudonym Cornelius Rumstuckle.
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July 25, 2020
If you're at all interested in Nostradamus, this is an entertaining and creative read on the "what if" of his abilities.
March 3, 2012
As a skeptic to all this stuff, I still found it an amusing read. It gives you an idea of who Nostradamus was, goes thru some interestng historical events, and then tries to fit Nostradamus's quatrains to the events. Some of the connections are impressive while others are really reaching.
However, what really earned this book a third star is the final chapter because it is a treasure trove of unintentional comedy. Here, Brennan tries to take quatrains of events that haven't happened yet and tell us all what was going to occur after 1992. In the introduction the author says "Every interpreter, myself included, approaches the quatrains weighed down by his or her own prejudices," then ends the book with hillarious proof of that point.
Brennans interpretations include such gems as world peace by the year 2002 (thanks to the looming threat of an alien overlord). Also people with AIDS will be rounded up and sent to live on a sattelite. Nostradamus can't even obliquely mention weather without it meaning that global warming will kill us all. But the best interpretation had to be when the author suspected that Nostradamus reported events from "Star Wars," unaware that he tuned into a movie (yet the quatrain mentions nothing about a John Williams soundtrack coming from nowhere).
In short, come for the light reading biography/history lesson, but stay for the laugh-till-you-cry final chapter. You might even remember the silly ways you thought the world would end in 1992, and be thankful that we have real problems now.
However, what really earned this book a third star is the final chapter because it is a treasure trove of unintentional comedy. Here, Brennan tries to take quatrains of events that haven't happened yet and tell us all what was going to occur after 1992. In the introduction the author says "Every interpreter, myself included, approaches the quatrains weighed down by his or her own prejudices," then ends the book with hillarious proof of that point.
Brennans interpretations include such gems as world peace by the year 2002 (thanks to the looming threat of an alien overlord). Also people with AIDS will be rounded up and sent to live on a sattelite. Nostradamus can't even obliquely mention weather without it meaning that global warming will kill us all. But the best interpretation had to be when the author suspected that Nostradamus reported events from "Star Wars," unaware that he tuned into a movie (yet the quatrain mentions nothing about a John Williams soundtrack coming from nowhere).
In short, come for the light reading biography/history lesson, but stay for the laugh-till-you-cry final chapter. You might even remember the silly ways you thought the world would end in 1992, and be thankful that we have real problems now.
October 21, 2012
Interesting information about the prophet, Nostradamus. His predictions are rather vague but eerily accurate according to this author.
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August 12, 2011Meh not bad, same shit as all the other Nostadamus books
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