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Mass Dreams of the Future

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I attended a "Future Life" workshop with the author in the late 90's and had a private session with him while he was in town. Both experiences were life-changing for me, personally.

Mass Dreams of the Future is an important book, because it characterizes several possible types of futures we might have, based on the individual choices we make today.

Chet Snow collected and categorized the descriptions of "future life journeys" of hundreds of people he worked with under hypnosis. Using valid analysis methodologies, he has drawn some fascinating hypotheses about the kind of societies we might be evolving into . . . His work taught me what a tremendous impact our personal attitudes and choices might have on the evolution of human kind, and convinced me that each of us has a personal responsibility to be conscious of the choices we are contributing to the collective unconscious.

During the workshop in 1996, I (along with others) did a future life journey under hypnosis, and on the way back to the present, he had us stop at our birthdays two years in the future to see where we were and what we were doing. That would have been December 1998, and in the journey I was in Manhattan, near the world trade center. I saw the area all burned and demolished and smoking, no one else alive. It was very disturbing, and I had a difficult time processing it afterwards.

When 1998 came, our media were all obsessed with the Clinton/Lewinski affair . . . and Clinton bombed the terror camps in Afghanistan because of some plot or action that Bin Laden had taken, but that hadn't made it through the news noise. That's why there was a lot of "wag the dog" talk about it . . . Then, three years after that, 9-11 occurred, matching the vision I had in Chet's workshop. Timing changed, obviously, but the condition I saw was there.

In 1996, I didn't know what I was supposed to do about it . . . but that vision made me look deeply into how I live. Today, as a result, I believe that my conscious attention to what is happening at all levels of my life is critical. I recommit daily to living now as though I belong to a society that understands our connectedness, honors the individual, and supports the growth of all.

Chet Snow's book is based on research he did as a graduate student, so it is interesting and historical. His early 80s views of future events were of the most likely probability in the 90s, so we can see that the earth changes have been delayed, not eliminated. Future glimpses of a world that has graduated to the 1st grade and emphasizes compassionate spirituality are certainly welcome and overdue.

I recommend you read this book and ignore the ramblings of anti-anything reviewers.

i am not one to even know how to give a review, but i had made an earlier comment on the book that now needs to be retracted. i said that none of the things that chet snow wrote about happened. well, i had read the book over a year ago and began reading it again the other day, and what i found is the time line is not correct. what he claimed was going to happen in 1998 is actually happening this year. First he mentioned a new president with prominent ears that was younger than reagan, one who was trying to fix the economy. then he talks about the lack of being able to get credit,no faith in the stock market and banks failing. some of the other things for this time period have not happened, and i hope they don't, but it renewed my interest in the book.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in what the next few years holds for this planet. One of the most valuable books on the subject. Forget Nostradamus read This Book

Interesting technique on prognostication. Of course we are still here, but something to think about.

I am very happy to get this book, even though it was kind of dusty and no jacket covering on it, but all in all please to have it.

Usually I consider "past life regression," "hypnosis" and "future life progression" in which you ask people's souls question to be a better way of getting information than "channeling" because I trust our souls more than channeled extraterrestrials. According to this book all kinds of cataclysms were supposed to take place in the 90s and most of us should have been dead by now. I think what happened is, earth simply didn't do it. Earth didn't make us endure what she made the Atlanteans endure because the Atlanteans were cocky and arrogant & had no love for earth. Even though all humanity doesn't have a love for earth, Earth is touched by the few that do. Also humanity is such a huge mix of people now, some very good and kind to animals and some very bad, that earth decided not to generalize & punish us all. Earth limits the cataclysms or overthrowing of bad energy (caused by us) and so natural disasters are actually much less that what we had planned for in writing our soul contracts.

I read this book and viewed it as a work of fiction. To view it any other way is a crock. According to the book, we are now living in a survivalist wet-dream of a post-apocalyptic ice-age world in a state of total anarchy and social breakdown. Look around you. Didn't happen. The "dreams" are nothing more than the subconscious of the "dreamers" indulging in fantasy role-playing, with touches of Jack London's "The Scarlet Plague" and George R. Stewart's "Earth Abides."

Don't just give this book a pass--go long and give it a forward pass into the nearest trashbin.
In 3000 AD it will still be in a landfill. It's so bad bacteria won't touch it.

"Mass dreams of the future" should probably be titled "massively stupid delusions derived from bad 1950s sci-fi movies".
"Doctor" Chet Snow is a whackjob, there's no two ways about it. From the first "future" progression into a post-apocalyptic 1998 that NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED, to the overly-detailed, forced, and just plain wrong chapters attempting to justify his specious, sloppy "experimental results" by means of the "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce (who was wrong every bit as often as he was ostensibly "correct") and garbled blather about various american indian tribes and the epic of Gilgamesh, this book can never possibly be worth whatever price anyone offers for it. They should pay YOU to read it, it's so pretentiously bad!

MESSAGE TO ALL NEWAGE NUTBAGS: wake up and smell reality. Heisenber's "uncertainty principle" cannot, and SHOULD NOT, be invoked to "justify" any and all blitheringly stupid ideas you pull out of your ****. Sorry, but the big, all-encompasing "earth-changes" Chet Snowjob blathered on and on about in this steaming, stench-ridden heap of a "book" DID NOT ACTUALLY HAPPEN. Remember how most of the subjects who were "progressed" to the year 2000 claimed not to be alive at that time? Well, if even a SINGLE ONE survives to this time-period (2005), that's a slap against the thing, isn't it?

Do yourself a favor: don't waste any money on this pretentious pile of New-age mush. Use the money you were going to buy the book with to purchase more aluminum foil to make a hat to keep you safe from the "Government Mind-control satelites".

Did I mention that the "future folks in silvery suits" thing was WAY overdone?

One-thousand thumbs DOWN!