End of Days by Sylvia Browne

Posted by admin_akashic on Aug 9th, 2022 in Stories

From Sylvia & Lindsay

For Kristen, Misty, Crystal, and Willie

INTRODUCTION

I’m tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn’t a lot to be scared of in this world today, between the nonstop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assassinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that’s becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it’s too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

Then, just when you’re already on enough overload, someone feels compelled to mention that according to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to end in 2012 anyway, so what difference does anything make, really? Or they heard, or read somewhere, that the book of Revelation, or the book of Daniel, or Nostradamus, or something, or someone says we’ll all be dead in the next two years, or five, or ten, or whatever, or that there are “obvious signs” that the end of the world is right around the corner. And of course it reminded them of some horrible movie they saw in which only a handful of people are left alive on Earth because of a giant asteroid, and these zombie like survivors are wandering around deserted cities trying to kill each other over a crust of bread.

It’s almost enough to make you skip lying down on your bed and to opt for hiding underneath it instead. Almost. But before you do that, I can’t encourage you enough to ask a few questions about these dire end-of-the-world predictions. Who were the Mayans, for example, and how did they arrive at a calendar that ends in 2012? What specifically do the books of Revelation and Daniel say that “prove” this impending doom, and what do we know about the circumstances in which they were written in the first place? Who was Nostradamus, why is he credited with any more expertise about the end of the world than the rest of us, and is it true that his writing is so filled with symbolism that it’s impossible to tell what he was talking about anyway? What are these “obvious signs” that our time