title: Prophecy
author/editor: Sylvia Browne
reviewed by: June
PROPHECY
This book by well-known psychic Sylvia Browne opens with a lengthy history of prophets, spiritual beliefs and their connection to religion. From there the author covers a broad spectrum of subjects.
One area she comments on is the earth. She gives frightening predictions about the future of our planet. For example, The 2020s will be a desperate time for us; acid rain will change our way of life for generations to come. Also, tidal waves will occur on opposite sides of the world -- the Orient and Florida -- between 2025 and 2030. In 2028, tidal waves will be part of an onslaught of hurricanes in Florida.
Flooding and plagues of insects -- mosquitoes, flies, roaches and locusts--will follow. By the end of that decade, because of the alarming increase in pollution and breathing disorders, the people will live in huge domed cities. However, around 2012 five major international corporations will form a coalition to revitalize our rain forests.
Finally, around 2060 when the earth's atmosphere has healed itself enough for us to go outside again, she believes Atlantis and Lemuria will reemerge.
She predicts that a president elected sometime after 2008 will die in office of a heart attack. The Vice President then will have the mistaken intent to declare war on North Korea, which will have weapons of mass destruction by that time.
About 2020 our government will be restructured resembling the ancient Roman Senate. It will be divided into two groups -- the Liberals and the Conservatives. The executive branch will be absorbed into the legislature.
Browne says we will be motivated to become more self-sufficient and there will be a return to the barter system of trade.
On the topic of religion, she sees two major changes. The first will be in the Catholic Church. When the present Pope passes away, there will be only one more elected Pope. After that a College of Cardinals will share the duties and responsibilities.
Between 2015 and 2018 there will be a Christian congress in which most religions will take part for the good of the community of mankind.
On the positive side, Browne sees many advances in the treatment and cure of numerous disabilities and diseases such as cancer, paralysis and immune deficiencies. Stem cell research will make enormous progress by 2012 to the point that it will be possible to exchange old body parts for new ones.
By 2015 improved laser techniques will have replaced traditional invasive surgery. Arthritis will become a minor annoyance by about 2007; there will be an important vaccine breakthrough against HIV/AIDS in 2005.
By 2020, marriage as we know it will come to an end. 'Family values' will still be alive and well but defined differently -- no longer "the two biological parents and their children living under the same roof, no matter what, as long as they all go to church together on a regular basis." (page 257) There will be a return to communal living and it will become acceptable for everyone to have several partners. But, by 2075 multiple partnerships evolve back into a preference for monogamy.
I found this book mesmerizing; I couldn't put it down. Browne writes in a conversational style that makes her work a pleasure to read.
June adds: "Browne says that extraterrestrials are already living among us. But, the most startling prediction is that by 2020 there will be an end to IRA's, mutual funds, pension and retirement plans, and the stock market. Although she doesn't say specifically, the implication is that there will be no Social Security; deficit having wiped all of it out."