Rating: 
Summary: You have to be kidding me...
Review: People love doomsday prophecies...the fact that some people actually take this seriously is a testament to that. What we have here are two pseudo-scientists believing in an incredible conclusion (The Earth will be ripped apart by geo-magnetic forces in 2012) and then basing all their "research" to support that conclusion. I've seen this countless times...each time is more entertaining than the last...."Scientists" using "mathmatical proof" to support a variety of doomsday predictions.
Whats wrong with this?
1.) Most discoveries and research successes in science are by accident...true research is not with a set conclusion. SETI researches did not intend to find microwave background radiation...but they did. Penicillin was discovered on accident. Pavlov's theory of conditioned response was on accident. On the other hand...these guys are already convinced the world will blow up in 2012...and base their research to prove it. Most true science is done in reverse...your research leads to your conclusion...not the other way around.
2.) The actual "research" in this book is laughable at best. Their are no controls on what numbers they use, where they get their formulas from, etc. I'm sure if I looked into it I could "Mathmatically prove" that I'm related to Jesus by using my height, my D.O.B., my Zodiac sign, and the distance between my elbow and wrist. All im saying is that people can manipulate numbers however they want to prove however they want.
3.) One of the cornerstones of the book is that when the stars (BTW Venus is not a star) are in a certain position....the sun's magnetic field will go bonkers, causing extreme geo-magnetic activities on the Earth...and that such an event has already occured about 11,000 years ago. Anyone who knows anything at all about physics knows that's illogical to the max....the only way celestial bodies have influence over each other is gravity...which is dependent on both size and distance. Venus has a minute, insubstantial effect on the sun's magnetic-gravitational field....it is simply too small compared to the sun to affect it. Stars outside of our solar system have even less effect...Gravity grows expotentially weaker the farther the two objects are from each other. Double the distance between two objects...and their gravitational attraction diminishes by a factor of 4...elementary stuff really...but its much simpler and too the point than these guys long winded formulas that really say nothing.
5.) If the world's magnetic field already went haywire 11,000 years ago, almost destroying everything...why is their no record of that in the fossil record?? Yes their are fossil records of mass extinctions...end of dinosaurs...etc...but 11,000 was not one of them.
6.) So the Mayans are descended from the Atlanteans...where is your proof for that??? And if these guys were so mathmatically advanced....you'd think they would have invented something to repel the European conquistadors....instead of using obsidian spears to counter their superior cannons.
7.) One of the cornerstones of moderm science is Okcam's Razor....which basically says that the simplest, most logical solution is overwhelmingly the correct answer in almost all situations. Okcam's Razor has held true even in the most advanced fields...cybernetics, nanotechnology, quantum mechanics (somewhat)...and Okcam's Razor would say that these guys overblown, directionless research has all been for naught.
When 2012 comes and goes....and nothing happens....these guys will have already worked out a new theory that will world ends in 2027 based on Nostradomus's predicitions coupled with pentameter of George Bush's speech.
Rating: 
Summary: An Epoch Intrigue Worth Checking Out!
Review: The Orion Prophecy: Will the World be Destroyed in 2012?
Prophecies from the Maya and the Old Egyptians by Patrick Geryl and Gino
RatinckxBook review by
Jaye Beldo
Netnous@aol.com One of the better 'Who will do it?' archeological/scientific thrillers I've
read since the authors meticulously back up their disastrous cover premise
with some compelling factoids. The theory elaborated in the book goes as
follows: In merely a decade (in 2012 A.D.) the magnetic field of the earth
will conveniently flip itself with characteristic indifference, setting off
massive tidal waves, earthquakes and other unsavory geological upheavals
(BTW: the word catastrophe literally means 'turning over') thus terminating
the entire human race. (Except the wealthy few who can afford to subscribe
to the Alternative 3 casebook scenario and get saucer lifted up to a nice
and cozy space station.) Not to be shaken by such dreadful anticipations doled out by hoary
stargazers of a hyper extended yore, Patrick and Gino proceed to lucidly
explicate the origins of both the Mayans and Egyptians, two cultures well
known for their high profile, apocalyptic prophecies, which are mostly
encoded in their calendar systems and elaborate mythologies. Positing that
said cultures originated from continental Atlantis and possessed highly
sophisticated astrological and astronomical knowledge, the authors go on to
give additional substance to their claims that these ancient peoples had
foreseen long ago what is to come our way. Apparently there will be some
astrological alignments that precisely mirror (via 'code positions') those
that occurred during a world wide flood in 9792 B.C. that pretty much
knocked most of humanity down and out for an epochal count. Will the Orion Prophecy turn out to be another Y2K brouhaha or a Gordon
Michael Scallion-esque prognostic PR blunder? Or a travesty ridden May 5,
2000 let down? Let us hope so, primarily by reminding ourselves that we
indeed have the potential to steer our future into a more proactive and
positive consequence. Fortunately, the authors resist the temptations to
cast the usual default doom and gloom aura (characteristic of other disaster
books) over their work and offer some intriguing insights into such
possibilities of cataclysmic forecasting. I particularly liked their
descriptions of the Seth/Osiris story found in Egyptian mythology and its
relation to our collective future, indicating that they have indeed done a
thorough amount of scholarly and exhaustively cross referencing spadework.
We can only pray that Steven Spielberg doesn't get a hold of this book and
infect the mass consciousness of this planet with his characteristically
crass, kellipoth ridden version of cinema.
Rating:
Summary: who ever wrote this is mentaly challeneged
Review: the world isnt gonna end until 40 billion years. Please people do not be alarmed by this book it is all a fake and a trick to scare you
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Summary: TSUNAMI IN ASIA! TIDAL WAVE CHAPTER!
Review: WOW! I READ THIS BOOK A WILE BACK, THE REAZON IM PUTING A REVIEW TILL NOW IS BECAUSE AFTER THE TRAGEDY THAT HAPPEND IN ASIA ON DEC 26 2004 (R.I.P. to all the inocent victims) THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MY MIND WAS THAT CHAPTER OF THAT BOOK!
IF U HAVEN'T BUY THE BOOK BUY IT NOW, READ THE "TIDAL WAVE" CHAPTER AND TELL ME IF AFTER SEEING THE TSUNAMI INCIDENT THAT MAN DON'T MAKE SENCE! IT DOES AND ALOT!
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