5 star rating for Apocalypse2012

***** Factual Yet Funny But Mostly ... Frightening *****, January 23, 2007 Reviewer: John Jay Harper "www.johnjayharper.com" (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews Since I opened the first page of this book, I was captured by its style as much as its content. For as I write and speak extensively on the coming global supersolar storm circa 2012, too, and issue warning after warning that our weapons of mass manufacturing-era is all but dead and gone, the words that Lawrence E. Joseph uses to describe these civilization-changing calamities disarms me as it alarms me. Now that takes a damn good wordsmith to properly employ gallows humor, as he calls it, while all the time he gets us to braid our own noose and volunteer to stick our necks into it simultaneously. I mean this book is more a manual for the dead than the living since he seemingly expects the majority of us to meet the undertaker in 2012. Albeit that will take the form of a solar storm that will cremate us rather than bury us alive as some see earthquakes and tsunamis doing in fact. Nonetheless, as I have seen in my own visions, the greatest concern that we both have is that if the SuperVolcano known as Yellowstone erupts at the time of the solar maximum sunspot eruption, then it will be lights out for 90% of the world population according to some estimates. Why? It will be as I say over and over again from starvation, a slow angonizing death for sure. Ask the millions that are doing so today in Third World countries ... or will it be the case, as I suggest in my book, that we will wise-up in the next few years, begin to respect the natural world order, band together in communities focused on family to survive the shift of the ages in 2012. Whatever the case, this book is a valuable worst-case scenario guide to the looming disasters that will come to pass as we spiral faster and faster towards an inevitable rendevouz with destiny; the most energetic and transforming region of the cosmos for us -- the central core bulge, called a "black hole" for a reason, in the Milky Way Galaxy. Of course, this is what the Maya shaman knew as the Mouth of the Crocodile as it swallows you whole as you sink deeper and deeper and deeper into trance to commune with cosmic consciousness that resides there as well. To the Maya this is the Home of Hunab Ku -- the Sun Behind the Sun, or ... God. Yes, we are to worship the Sun God as it will be that living light that will bring both death and rebirth to the blue-marble planet we call the Good Green Earth soon. Dr. John Jay Harper is author of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century and his award-winning blog on the End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012.