The Orion Prophecy: Will the World Be Destroyed in 2012? [Paperback]

Patrick Geryl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2002

According to Mayan & Egyptian prophecy, the earth awaits a super catastrophe in 2012: its magnetic fields will completely reverse in one agonizing shift. Devastating earthquakes and tidal waves will completely destroy civilization as Europe and North America are pulled north to polar latitudes. Almost all the earth's population will perish. These predictions stem from the sophisticated astronomy of the Maya and Egyptians, descendants of the legendary original Atlanteans, whose island, in this theory, is now buried under the South Pole. The Atlanteans predicted the world-wide flood in 9792 BC. In 2012, according to several 10,000 year-old star codes, Venus, Orion and several other stars will take the same 'code-positions' as in 9792 BC. There is also a forgotten and massive labyrinth, created by the Old Egyptians, of secret chambers filled with artifacts and documents about the previous flood.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932813917
• ISBN-13: 978-0932813916
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #500,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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51 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cataclysmically dismal!!, March 8, 2006

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This book is essentially a self-important book report! The auuthor has perused several touchstone books in the realm of alternative science, specifically those having to do with end times prophesies, cataclysms, and pole shifts! Notable among these are works by Hapgood, Bauval, and Flem-Ath!

Do yourself a favor, read the originals! This book adds nothing new to the discussion! Rather, it serves as a "book report" on the work of others, presented in breathless style, with 15 exclamation points on every page! What is up with all the exclamation points?! I could have lived with less punctution and more, I don't know, ideas! Since I've read most of the books this reports on, it was ultimately pointless!

Start with Charles Hapgood and the Flem-Ath book, When the Wky Fell!

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Illuminating, December 6, 2005

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Mario Crespi - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Orion Prophecy: Will the World Be Destroyed in 2012? (Paperback)

If you will notice the rating in the reviews of this book will either be 1 or 5 stars but no in-betweens. THis is perhaps do to the polarizing nature of the subject and the many fears that people tend to harbor. I found this book to be very illuminating and a confirmation to something that I already knew from either other sources or from pure insight. But regardless of the numerous reviews here nothing can take away from the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012? Coincidence? THe book was not written for a scientific journal, so it does sound speculative at times, but once you read and understand the implications and the sources from which the authors have drawn their data, it is highly illuminating.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but Horrible Math, August 8, 2006

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Rob (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Orion Prophecy: Will the World Be Destroyed in 2012? (Paperback)

Lots has already been said about the book in reviews, good and bad, so I won't go into my own opinion. I did however, want to say something about the mathematical side of the proofs used in this book, since many people without mathematical backgrounds seemed interested in the validity of this aspect of the author's claims.

The math used in this book is "correct" as far as the calculations themselves go. The author's addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are correctly figured as written. The problem though, is that Where he gets his numbers from, and the Reasons behind his figures and logic-chains unfortunately has NO logical validity.

Numbers and math can be manipulated however people see fit; that's what mathematics is good for - manipulation. Much like how we can formulate any sentence we like in a language, even if the sentence is grammatically correct that does not mean that it conveys a fact.

Purple bananas sometimes have evil intentions; cats with feet on their head instead of ears should be wary of them.

This could be a grammatically correct example of a statement in the English language, but it does not prove the existence of oddly colored bananas, the sentience of fruit, or anatomically freaky felines. The math in this book is much like the sentence above and would not be given any weight as "proof" to Anybody with a strong mathematical background.

I recommend to anybody following along with the math in this book to question the author's selection of numbers. Where did he get most of the numbers from that he uses in his proofs?

Where did he get the number 68,302 from to begin with, and why did he decide to divide it by 26 and 37? Further, why would he then subtract the result? Is it only for the purpose of arriving at another number that he was already looking for?

When the author "finds" a repeating number, what method does he use to select how much of it to pay attention to? Sometimes the author makes a division calculation and arrives with a number that has repeating .8888888 at the end. He then will go on to use just the 8, or 88, or 888 to manipulate other numbers - seemingly the choice of how many 8s he uses is just to arrive at a number that he wanted to arrive at beforehand.

Other times, the author ignores some digits in a repeating number, such as 68.370370370 - he will only use the 37, and ignore the 0. On other occasions, he will completely drop any digits in the decimal, and only keep the whole number. THIS IS NOT PROPER MATHEMATICS - The author seems to be deliberately choosing Arbitrary numbers *Just so that he will arrive at an answer He Has Already Decided That He Wants to Arrive At*.

The rest of the book is interesting and entertaining both. I have nothing to say of the author's other assumptions and proofs of his belief.

Please think of this book whatever you will, but do not let the mathematical "proofs" themselves convince you of any validity to the book's claims. They are Not.