Prophecy: What The Future Holds for You - Rilegato

Browne, Sylvia; Harrison, Lindsay

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ISBN 10: 0525948228 ISBN 13: 9780525948223

Casa editrice: E P Dutton, 2004

Riassunto

The best-selling psychic author of The Other Side and Back and Visits from the Afterlife shares her insights into such topics as cancer research, the conflicts in the Middle East, and the prospects of an asteroid collision. 225,000 first printing.

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L'autore

A psychic for nearly fifty years, Sylvia Browne has written many tremendously successful books, including The Other Side and Back (more than 900,000 copies in print) and most recently Visits from the Afterlife. She appears regularly on Montel, and her frequent lectures attract thousands of attendees.

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Introduction

I was eighteen years old. I’d been psychic for eighteen years, but I still hadn’t made peace with it. I was starting to do readings for people, successfully, and I was even building a clientele, to my amazement. The problem was, while I never doubted my God-given ability to see into people’s futures (I didn’t especially appreciate it, but I never doubted it), I kept hoping that somehow none of these new clients would notice that, accurate or not, I didn’t especially know what I was doing or how I was doing it. Except for my much adored and brilliantly psychic Grandma Ada, I had no one to talk to about it, no one to ask advice from or express my insecurities to or, probably most of all, tremble to about the responsibility of people turning to me for insights and warnings about what their lives held in store.

And so, I began reading everything I could get my hands on about other people who’d seemed to be “like me,” communicating with spirits, seeing clients, peering into the future, using their gifts for other people’s benefit and trying to serve God in the process. Somewhere between a biography of Madame Helena Blavatsky and one of Edgar Cayce’s many books I became intrigued with the idea of expanding my visions of the future from one client at a time to the world at large, just like Cayce and Madame Blavatsky and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and so many others I was reading about had done, with often remarkable accuracy.

I wasn’t very ceremonious about it. I just sat down one day, surrounded myself with the White Light of the Holy Spirit to keep God’s presence and protection around me, told Him what I was about to do (as if He didn’t know) and prayed for His wisdom and insights as I looked into the future of life on earth, took a deep meditative breath and nearly fainted. The rush of images and sounds and flashes and special effects and explosions and music and words and cars and doctors and rocket ships—it was like seeing and hearing every movie you’ve ever sat through, all at the same time, superimposed over one another.

Needless to say, I put a stop to that very quickly, and realized that if I was ever going to be able to expand my gift to anything beyond one-on-one prophecies, I was going to have to find a way to organize those prophecies into some kind of sequence my mind could sort out and make sense of. After a bit of trial and error early on, I finally learned that breaking prophecies down into one subject at a time—focusing on that one subject and then stepping aside for whatever information comes in—was what worked best for me.

Which explains the structure you’ll find in the pages of this book. As some of you may know, I have “standing dates” on several television and radio shows to do annual New Year’s predictions for the coming year. Those are great fun, and I enjoy them and am thrilled to be accurate enough that they keep inviting me back. But this book, subject by subject rather than year by year, is written at my real “comfort level” and my ultimate pleasure when it comes to prophecies.

I hesitate to call them “my” prophecies, because again, ultimately, everything comes from God. That doesn’t mean you should read these prophecies as a series of divine messages directly from Him. As you’ll read in Chapter 3, prophecies have a variety of sources, all of which trace back to our Creator, but by the time we fallible humans have finished translating them and communicating them, we’re bound to get it wrong some of the time.

I simply meant to acknowledge that never do I write a book, do a reading, give a lecture, make a media appearance, appear at a book signing or, for that matter, even take a breath, without God and His love at its core.

I thank Him for being with me through every page of writing Prophecy, and with you through every page of reading it.
—Sylvia C. Browne

PROPHECY

Chapter One

Our Timeless Connection
With Prophets and
Prophecies

It is our nature to want to know what the future holds. From the moment we first began to inhabit this earth in human form, we’ve believed that forewarned is forearmed, and we’ve sought out those who seem to have a clearer view of the road ahead than we do. On a small scale, we don’t want to get caught in the rain without an umbrella, but we also wouldn’t mind knowing whether or not we should save that rainwater for an upcoming drought or man-made crisis. On a much larger scale, we want to know that we personally, we as a community, we as a faith, as a society, as a nation or as a surprisingly fragile planet are going to be okay and, more to the point, what “okay” is going to look like. We look to prophets and prophecies not just for warnings but also for hope and for comfort, no matter how far in the distance they might be. And because we’ve been fooled before, and/or not paying attention, and/or too naive or greedy or in too much of a hurry to always rely on our own judgment, we explore prophecies in search of a blueprint for discerning the real from the counterfeit, the truth from the lies, the heroes from the villains, meaningful road signs from time- and soul-wasting detours and, probably most essential of all, the genuinely God-centered from the countless clever pretenders.

The Cultural Bond of Prophecy One of the countless aspects of prophets and prophecies that has always fascinated me is that they’ve always been traditional and fundamental to civilizations throughout the world, even the most ancient, isolated cultures who had no interest in or means of communicating with each other. It’s not as if the Aborigines of Australia heard that predicting the long-range future had become very popular among American Indians and decided to give it a try, or the Mayans only started coming up with prophecies so they wouldn’t be outdone by those Egyptian prophets they kept hearing about. Cultures tend to express the most deep-rooted essences of their people, and each of these cultures, so vastly different in so many ways, has demonstrated, separately and together, that we’re eternally united as human beings around the world in our insistence that the future is knowable.

Of course, the future is knowable, and I’ll explain in Chapter 3 exactly why that is. That fact alone, and our universal agreement that it’s true, should bring us more peace than it does. Who’s “good at” and “bad at” foreseeing the future, and which information is accurate and which isn’t, is almost beside the point when it comes to simply appreciating how dearly held our global yearning to look ahead really is. It would be impossible to explore the prophecies of every culture that ever existed, or that exists today, but I want to highlight just a few, hoping that as you read them you’ll focus on the respectful purity of spirit at their core, no matter what corner of the world they came from.

The American Indians

A friend of mine was involved in a recent documentary about native American Indians. The film crew shot for a couple of weeks, capturing great footage of several generations of the tribes they were focused on, their rituals, their daily lives, their traditions and ceremonies, their relationships within families and within the tribe, and the extent to which “civilization” had irreversibly seeped into their lives.

As wonderful as the footage and the camera work were, though, and as mesmerizing as that collage of brown, beautiful faces from ages one year old to a hundred were to watch, the producers and the director realized that their film was still missing something, some special element that would set it apart from every other documentary ever done about the American Indian. As a solution, someone came up with the idea of giving a camera to the Indians themselves and letting them shoot some footage, so the makers of the documentary could really get a look at life through the eyes of the subjects of their film. And that’s exactly what they did. A week later the producers and director found themselves gaping, with chagrin at first, at the results of their bright idea: a coyote’s pawprints in a muddy riverbank, a wisp of white fur caught in a broken branch, a hawk circling, an aura around a full moon, an approaching thunderstorm, a bear catching fish in a waterfall, a wolf loping across a hill—hour after hour of footage, and not for one second was there so much as a glimpse of a human being.

What they finally edited together was a gorgeous documentary and eloquent, simple proof of what’s been written about American Indians for thousands of years: ask them to tell you their story and they’ll tell you about Nature.

Of course, the many tribes of the native American nations each have their own distinct language, customs and cherished legacy of prophecies. But even their prophecies reflect their reverence for this earth and our essential spiritual connection to it, without which humankind can’t and won’t survive. One of the most beautiful examples is an excerpt from a Lakota prophecy. It refers to the Star People, whom many tribes believe to be their ancient extraterrestrial ancestors, and to the Sacred Mother, who is the earth:

In the next decade, the Star People that you call meteorites will come to this earth in answer to the Mother’s call for help. You see, we are all relations. So the Star People are beings, and they are the planets, and the other bodies in the heavens as well.

The Sacred Mother is screaming for life and the meteorites will hear her cries and answer her call for help. They will hit the earth from the heavens with such force that many internal things will happen as well as external. The earth will move as a result of the impact. This will cause the sacred fire that is the source of all life to the Mother to move through her body.

The rains will change their fall and the winds will alter their course and what has existed for three hundred years will no longer exist. And where there is summer, there will be fall. And where there is fall, there will be winter. And where there is winter, there will be spri...

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• Editore: E P Dutton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0525948228
• ISBN 13: 9780525948223
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267