A 2012 financial prediction made in 1941

About the Elliott Wave Principle

The father of the Wave Principle was born on July 28, 1871. Some 65 years later, Ralph Nelson Elliott discovered the fractal nature of the financial markets: He called his discovery the Wave Principle. Like a masterpiece from the hand of a Renaissance artist, Elliott's work had to wait for a later generation to understand and appreciate it. Now millions of investors and traders around the world recognize or use Elliott's method to analyze financial markets.

In the late 1930s and early '40s, Elliott's forecasts were not widely known or accepted. Even today the Wave Principle has skeptics. But Elliott's track record speaks for itself. The accountant turned technical analyst is responsible for one of the greatest documented stock market forecasts of all time, when in August 1941 he boldly predicted a continuous expansion -- consisting of drawbacks but no major depressions -- through the 1940s "until about 2012." Investors have already witnessed the early impact of the monumental trend change Elliott anticipated, yet the bulk of his bear market forecast still lies ahead.

Listen to Elaine Smitha's interview with me on her show "Evolving Minds" this past Tuesday in the archive posted for July 20:

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/evolving...

I just bought this book on Amazon Kindle for PC. I've only just arrived at the 3rd chapter and I have to say something. This is the best book I've read on 2012 to date. I haven't even gotten into the middle but have all ready been given lots of information that I've never heard on some History Channel special or read from the several other 2012 books I've read. I want to thank you all for making this book. I'm getting some relevant knowledge about this topic that is very easy to follow. At last! I was beginning to get very bored with the whole 2012 area because it has been too hard to find information that I can understand but is also neutral so I don't feel I'm being pushed into the believing whatever the author believes. Its nice to be treated like a thinking adult to have all the info and decide for ones self. I all ready love this book! I will definitely have to read this book over and over because for once I'm not just getting the same old watered down facts. I'm actually gettng some intellectual food for thought and that is AWESOME. Plus I've finally found a book on 2012 that deserves to be reccomended to my friends when they ask me about which books are worth their time! When it comes to 2012 there aren't many!

Aw! Thank you so much, Daniel! That's the only reward I receive for having written it and I appreciate being appreciated! If you don't mind posting your review when you're done reading on Amazon, that'd be great. Some Jersey A-hole just completely torpedoed this book of mine and screwed up my ratings. Feel free to engage with me or ask questions here. All the best –– Chica

Is anyone taking a look at this thumbnail sketch I put together of Earth & human history over the past 12,000 years? Click on the "TIMELINE" tab, above or on this link:

http://www.2012sos.net/the-holocene-epoch/


Last night, I blabbed about some reality-shattering stuff, as a guest on Paul Richard Price's show, "The Prophecy Chronicles." There were over 70,000 listeners and lots of positive feedback in its chat room. Yay!

An archive can be found here:

http://media.podcastingmanager.com/64024..-8347...

And here's my Amazon Blog, for the gazillionth time:

http://www.amazon.com/Alexandra-Bruce/e/..B001J...

It's got recent reviews in the press and by the buyers of the book, themselves and some additional blabbing by moi...

ONE LOVE!
Alexandra "Chica" Bruce

Here's the other article I wrote for Astrology.com:

http://www.astrology.com/will-world-end-2012/2-...

Here's an article I wrote for Astrology.com's new Maya Astrology section:

http://www.astrology.com/2012-what-s-all-fuss-a...

The book version is funnier and a bit racier because the "Starshine" character was a toad venom dealer...

if you really relay on those superstitions you will soon think about it on the end. maybe if those are really proven by science.

Belief is a hustle. Creation is creation. Science is at its best when it doesn't get into the belief business.

hey um do u have like a signing event or anything promitional event for signing ur book cuz i have it its great!!! like email me please

I have a change of email situation so I can't post as myself. I'll talk to the guys and get that fixed tomorrow.

Thanks for your appreciation of my book. I was working 7-day weeks, 17-hr days for several months and didn't have time to visit my own site!

So sorry I missed your comments until just now.

I don't have a signing "event" but I can certainly sign a book for you. Where are you located?

I'm now in the middle of taxes

Im in San Diego Calfiornia right now

________________________________

For you or anyone who wants a signed copy of my book, please contact me on:

intuit7@yahoo.com

Best regards and thanks, again –

Alexandra

i have your book and stuff i was wondering if like u have a barnes and noble signing event or something email me back please

No current signing events planned but if they are scheduled we'll post them here well in advance. Thanks for asking!

I listened to your radio interview, and I applaud you for standing up for the truth about 2012, when so many "enlightened" are capitalizing on the hysteria. For accuracies sake, however, I have to take you to task on a few issues. First, 12/21 is the point when we are the "closest" to the Sun, it's just the time when the Northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun.
The other concerns Terrence McKenna. In describing him, you said that he believed that "everyone should do as many magic mushrooms as possible..." This is simply not true. McKenna was clear that not everyone is properly wired to do this, and in fact he makes this specific case in The Archaic Revival. This is the clear delineation between him and Tim Leary, who said that "everyone should "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
Otherwise, I am looking forward to reading your book and using it as a reference for my New Age friends who are being led down the garden path by the usual suspects.

Dear Chazzone,
Thanks for your post and please accept my apologies the delay of my response. I've been *beyond* busy with many projects and with many unseamly issues and battles, which are only making me stronger, I'm happy to say.
It's possible that I went a bit overboard in that particular statement of mine, which you cited above. Hyperbole can creep into my rants from time to time. Chalk it up to my Brazilian, passionate way of expressing myself –– however, I really didn't stray one bit from the source I was working from, parts of which form the soundtrack of a film, "2012: The Beginning," which I recently co-produced and which is soon to be released (TBA), which includes pieces from a talk which McKenna gave at the Esalen Institute, back in 1990, called "History Ends in Green."
In this day-long talk (man, could that guy talk!) he speaks about his view that the human species' "fall from the Divine Logos," i.e. how our direct connection to the will of the Creator occurred when we transitioned from neolithic, nomadic foragers who ate the occasional magic mushroom, to when we settled down and started farming "straight" food (well, most humans –– but not the Maya & many Native American groups from both Western Continents). Of course there is a different interpretation of "The Fall" in the Bible, as well as in many revisionist iterations, mainly from the 19th & 20th centuries.

In this same lecture, McKenna also speaks to the states of mind induced by the ingestion of several naturally-occurring alkaloid compounds, which he suggests may be the antidote to the heavily egocentric civilization that is currently destroying itself. A direct transcription I made of this talk he gave:

"If any of you have read Robert Graves’ book, “The White Goddess,” he talks in there about an “Urspracht,” a visibly-beheld language of beheld poetry. And he thinks that the fact of our anxiety is due to having lost the “True Speech” and that if you speak the True Language, the Urspracht; it’s a beheld language. It doesn’t require the conventionalization of dictionaries. You KNOW what you mean and the loss of this genetic language is what has made us so maladaptive and at un-ease with ourselves."

He goes on to endorse the use of such substances to "heal" our Western problem. So, apparently McKenna said different things at Esalen talks than he did to a broader readership, in published books.

I have many similar snippets from that talk which I could post here but I'm not sure if that would start to constitute a copyright infringement, even if I am friends with the licensees. Let's just say that I've acquired new depths of understanding of entertainment law, lately...without going to a university to get it!

Let's just say that the message of the film, "Tropic Thunder," a hilarious must-see is that the film business is worse than the war business (speaking humorously, of course) –– it's an epic comedy and by far the best work of Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise, IMHO...

Thanks again, Chazzone for taking time to post your opinions on my book's webpage.

Alexandra Bruce

Thanks for the reply, although I have to admit that I had to go back and reread the original to remind myself of the context.
As one who has explored this paradigm for more than 40 years, I'd like to remind that Graves really has no evidence to support his ideas, rather they are the result of a general zeitgeist surrounding the Gaia Hypothesis.
We know that for the vast majority of human existence, we lived in widely dispersed groups that may or may not have had any contact what so ever with individuals outside their geographic range.
In fact, all indigenous groups name themselves "The People" in their own language, which clearly shows that they thought of themselves as separate and the only "real" people, and other people were viewed as somehow fundamentally less or different.
I'm talking about over the last 200,000 years, not just the last 8-10k that most people consider when discussing human history.
Indeed, we are discovering that Homo moved out of Africa as long as 2 millions bce, and colonized Asia and the southwest Pacific archipelago.
So, clearly, there has not been a "shared" language, other than the physical cues that most of our species shares. Interestingly, until recently, these physical cues have been recognized as universal, but recent studies in Africa show that some populations there don't even share these.
To the point of hallucinogens, as I pointed out to McKenna, we do not find extant examples of random hallucinogen use in indigenous peoples, rather we see a ritualized, shaman guided practice that is carried out under specific situations.
The reason is clear to anyone who has experience with hallucinogen use, and across the broader population. Indeed the even spontaneous ecstatic experience can be extremely problematic in the general population, and nearly always requires the assistance of someone who is experienced in non-normal states to help to transition the individual successfully back into society.
Unfortunately today, that job is being taken on by "mental health" professionals who, by and large discount the existence or validity of the non-normal state, or the knowledge and insight that can be gained.
i shudder to think the result of mass hallucinogen use, or even a mass ecstatic experience, as I'm sure it would result in the complete collapse of society and the deaths of millions.
Once again, thanks for your response.

Wow! Thanks, again for your thoughts, Chazzone. I certainly do NOT endorse mass hallucinogen use, especially after the decades of violent films and video games that have conditioned masses of people to equate psychopathic behavior with "heroic."

What if our cultural values and "what sells" were different from what they are, currently?

Some of my earliest memories in my life are of seeing wild-eyed, barefoot "flower children" who were NYU students, nearby where I grew up and went to kindergarten in Greenwich Village. So, I guess you could say that I already saw what you described and it was pretty scary, as my head was still about 3 feet off the ground and the masses of filthy feet were literally in my face.

I've also seen mass ecstasy, like the annual Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro and it's not bad, at all. It's absolutely splendid, actually –– but it comes with the culture. I don't think the Taliban could "go there," but *could* such unbridled creativity and lust for life become more mainstream than being relegated only to Rio de Janeiro and Brazil?

The dominant cultuer would have to shift drastically in order for that to be so.

I think the current zeitgeist is a mass hallucination of powerlessness and defeat, induced by a fundamental sense of disconnection; by the dissociative quality of the dominant, post-industrial cultures, themselves. The pressure is going to be released somehow. These statements stray from the kind of scientific rigor that I usually bring to what I write but they are a true reflection of what I've observed, growing up in several countries and speaking several languages...

More of McKenna's "History Ends in Green" talk at Esalen, in 1990:

"It is forbidden to know the depth and breadth of human consciousness. We’re supposed to live in a narrow canyon...walled-in between 'awake' and 'asleep' and anything else is considered pathological.

"We make a little place for artists, as long as they don’t get too uppity or obscene and otherwise, it’s all closed off. Well...breaking through this is the recapturing of the birthright, that I’ve been talking about."

Cheers, Chazzone!

Alexandra

My experience is mainly in relation to the pagan/New Age movement, and many festivals over more than 20 years, along with my own guided "Spirit Quests", primarily using psilocybin.

At the festivals, many rituals are planned and performed by people who show no real understanding of the metaphysical ramifications of their actions including the potential for manifestation of the entities involved, or the effects on the participants.

One example of the former was at a gathering of "elder" pagans who chose to "marry" Lazuli (the primary Voodoun goddess) to Herne (a neo-Wiccan Celtic earth god). What resulted was a massive thunderstorm with winds in excess of 70 mph, torrential rains, and the destruction of local crops and significant damage to trees and property. Even though I openly questioned the wisdom of this forced union, I was assured that those in charge "knew what they were doing", and besides "what harm could it do?"

Well, we got our answer.

As to the latter, I have witnessed individuals who have participated in group ritual that was designed to reconnect the participants to their "primal self", or re-enact the "wild hunt". Many times, this resulted in individuals who had near psychotic episodes that required extended periods of "talking down' to even allow these people to not be a danger to themselves. Some individuals were so unhinged, that they were simply required to leave the festival grounds before they harmed themselves or others.

To me, this was the height of irresponsibility by those who chose to conduct the rituals, and I believe that they really didn't expect any such reaction to occur, or if it did, they were only too happy to blame it on the one who suffered the results.

You see, to many in the Pagan/New Age movement, this is all a game or way to make a living.

We had a particularly clear example of this recently where a New Age guru allowed many of his charges to die while undergoing a sweat lodge.

On the other hand, when ever I would do a "Spirit Quest", I would only allow those that I felt were psychologically sound enough to participate. I am the guide, and I am responsible for the safety of those who trust me to guide them. I would prepare the sacrament in "sacred space", and work with the spirits to prepare for the passage of my group into the other world. I never took my "eye" off those for whom I was in charge, and all returned safely. We talked about the experiences we shared, and in some cases, we have been years in discussion and discovery.

I have never had anyone have a "bad trip".

This is what all traditional shaman do. In fact, this is the job of the shaman, and has been for many thousands of years.

What would be if our world was different? That's kind of an irrelevant question, but we know that traditional people treat this subject with the same reverence that I adhere to, for the plain and simple fact that not all people can handle losing their tenuous grip on this reality, regardless of where they come from or what century.

In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that our society is far less violent than at any time in our history, regardless of, or maybe because of video games, movies, or literature, for that matter. It has been my experience that these serve as outlets for our primal instincts, and can be a very positive aspect of some individuals lives.

Life is violent. nature is especially violent, and everywhere we look in the cosmos, we see violence and destruction as the norm. Humans are simply another expression of this.

To deny violence is to deny the very essence of life.

Those that I find to be truly powerless in the world today, are those who would deny our nature, and our place in the web of life, and these people are primarily those brainwashed by the Green/New Age movements who have no real connection to the Earth or the spirits that they claim to call.

These are the "urban pagans" who want to find a "connection to the land", and lecture us country folk who grew up growing and killing our own food. Their heads are filled with the fairy tales of those like Graves, Gimbutas, and other pseudo-scholars who had a particular perspective that they wanted to promote. They created their myths out of whole cloth, and depended on the ignorance of others and preyed on their need to find the sacred.

On the other hand, there is a reason that religion evolved. Most people are sheep that require guidance. Most people do live in fear of the world, and their own inadequacies. This is why we developed civilization, and seem to have to find large groups to "belong to".

You simply can't take the average human and throw them out into the universe to fend for themselves. Many would die of fear and shock long before exposure, dehydration, or starvation.

So that brings us back to McKenna, and his observations on shaman, and our role in the human condition. We are the gate keepers, although this has recently been co-opted by governments, there is a very good reason for it.

Hey Guys,

British literary critic, John Lloyd of thebookbag.co.uk starts off his review with a sound trouncing of myself and others writing on the topic of 2012. Anyone who wants to see how he beat me up at the beginning of the review is free to check it out that site but I don't see what good it does for me to promote that on my own page, especially since some of the bashing bits include incorrect information that was not in my book.

However, Lloyd does warm up to my efforts in the latter half of the review, allowing for the following glowing pull quotes:

"...the book read better than I thought. There are box-outs and interview excerpts presented as asides, which I thought would make for a bitty read. Not at all - counter my experience and intuition, this book flows just as one would wish.

"I get the impression that Bruce can write about anything in an amenable fashion - hardly does her copious research get the better of her, and she's a clear conveyor of science - if you like her sometimes chatty style...

"There is a lot of fun here, as well as a lot of eschatology, which sounds heavy but isn't...

"Perhaps more importantly, we also see what the current-day Maya think of all the hoo-hah.

"I still don't know what might happen in a couple of years' time...I'm none the wiser. But I'm certainly more knowledegable through these pages about how inter-connected so much is.

"This is looking at the ideas with a scientific head, and...it's a lot less judgmental than many other volumes. With a final spark to the writing, and a better defined journey through all the details, this book would readily have sold as many copies as all the doom-mongers. I'm fairly sure someone will be taking lots of royalties about the whole thing come 2013, however.

"I must thank the publishers for our review copy.

"Buy 2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce at Amazon You can read more book reviews and buy 2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce at Amazon and Waterstones."

DECEMBER 21, 2012: BELIEVE THE HYPE?

NEW YORK (SEPTEMBER 17, 2009) — Walk around any big city and you’ll see ubiquitous ads plastered on bus shelters and telephone booths suggesting that the world may come to an end on December 21, 2012. Turn on the TV and chances are there will be a 2012 doomsday special on History Channel or miniseries on SyFy. Browse the New Age shelves of any bookstore and you’ll find 2012 is a full-blown genre of its own.

All of which is seemingly building up to what director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day) is calling the “mother of all disaster movies,” entitled, of course, 2012 (worldwide release by Sony Pictures on November 13, 2009).

Can this apocalyptic hype possibly have any substance, or is it just Hollywood marketing gone mad? Clearing a path between fantasy and reality, Alexandra Bruce’s new book 2012: Science or Superstition surveys the entire 2012 landscape, asking questions such as:

* How did 2012 come to mean “The End of Time”?

* Does the Maya calendar predict apocalypse in 2012?

* Did psychedelics facilitate the Maya “Cosmovision”?

* Should we worry about Earth Crustal Displacement?

* Is there a geomagnetic pole shift under way?

* Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano getting ready to blow?

* Is the Earth losing its Mojo?

* What the hell is “Planet X”?

Uniquely amongst a vast array of 2012 literature, this companion book to the #1 documentary film about 2012 features interviews with the leading experts — including Graham Hancock, John Major Jenkins, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alberto Villoldo and many others — and insightful, detailed analysis of the broad spectrum of opinion, debate, research and myth regarding the most compelling “end times” prediction of the 21st century.

As author Bruce points out, “The 2012 meme has evolved beyond any debates about the relevance of the Maya Long Count calendar to the lives of contemporary human beings. 2012 is about us on planet Earth at this time.”

More information is available at www.2012SOS.com. For review copies please send email requests to books@disinfo.com.

About the Author: Alexandra Bruce is the author of five non-fiction books about popular culture, science and spirituality. This is her third book for The Disinformation Company, following Beyond The Bleep: The Definitive Unauthorized Guide to “What The Bleep Do We Know!?” and Beyond The Secret: The Definitive Unauthorized Guide to “The Secret.”

2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce

Here's the latest review of my book by British reviewer, John Lloyd from TheBookBag.co.uk

The upshot of his review is:
With hardly 1,000 days of the world to go, as I write this, we need this book either to explain what the flash fuss is about, or to consign ourselves to living in a bunker somewhere with 10,000 loo rolls and lots of tinned beans.
Buy? Yes Borrow? Yes

Here are the nice bits he wrote about it, you can read it in full here:
http://thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title...

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...counter my experience and intuition, this book flows just as one would wish.

I get the impression that Bruce can write about anything in an amenable fashion - hardly does her copious research get the better of her, and she's a clear conveyor of science - if you like her sometimes chatty style…

There is a lot of fun here, as well as a lot of eschatology, which sounds heavy but isn't. We see the idea that Cromwell is to blame for some of our restrictive scientific thinking…Perhaps more importantly, we also see what the current-day Maya think of all the hoo-hah.

I still don't know what might happen in a couple of years' time…But I'm certainly more knowledgeable through these pages about how inter-connected so much is.

This is looking at the ideas with a scientific head, and…it's a lot less judgmental than many other volumes.

LISTEN TO MY LATEST INTERVIEW ON THE BARBARA SIMPSON SHOW

"Your book is terrific and I really love it! It really brings in a lot of interesting information and I highly recommend it."
-- Barbara Simpson Host of Self-Named Talk Show on KSFO 560 AM

(Broken up into 5-min. chunks):
PART ONE:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qlk-xLeok
PART TWO:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npe7a-60qyY
PART THREE:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB9H1WawQ5k
PART FOUR:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5x41imTJDc

PART FIVE:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdwXZXmGKuE

HAPPY HALLOWWEEN!!!

While you're getting all tarted-up or ghouled-out for trick-or-treating tonight,
you can listen to me on:

The Barbara Simpson Show KSFO 560 AM
October 31 6-7PM P/9-10PM E
Listen live: KSFO.com
(I believe podcast will be archived...)

http://www.ksfo560.com/showdj.asp?DJID=2364

I am delighted that Beliefnet's Bryan Mackintosh wrote a huge article on the site that's 80% derived from my book and endorses it:

http://www.beliefnet.com/Holistic-Living/2009/1...

...and that he (or at least somebody on Beliefnet's staff) formulated a multiple choice quiz about the "2012 Facts and Myths" (which credited me, "with many thanks to Alexandra Bruce"):

http://www.beliefnet.com/Holistic-Living/Quiz/Q...

This is really great, except that some of the "correct" answers on this quiz are totally incorrect, starting with the "correct" answer that the Maya Long Count calendar is "ending" on 2012. It is not! I have a whole subtitle of my book called "2012 is NOT the End of the Maya Calendar."

The Maya Long Count Calendar has no end, in the exact same way the Western Gregorian calendar has no end; both are theoretically infinite and can describe dates occurring eons into both the past and the future.

Academics and independent scholars who have devoted their studies to this topic generally agree that December 21, 2012 represents the end of what the ancient Maya conceived of as a 5,125 World Age cycle and the beginning of a new one.

The previous World Ages, according to Maya tradition are recorded in their version of the Old Testament which is called the "Popol Vuh," ("Council Book"). This book is one of the few remaining fragments of Maya literature that survived the Spanish Conquistador's attempt to completely obliterate their culture, which included mass book burnings.

There are two or three other incorrect "correct" answers on this Beliefnet quiz. While I'm totally thrilled at the attention and grateful to be cited, credited and endorsed by this site, these inaccuracies that are being attributed to me are a bit troubling.

If you're interested in the topic of 2012, please just buy my book. It's inexpensive and packed with a range of fascinating interconnected information, which I carefully vetted out, drawing from several scientific disciplines and cultural traditions from around the world, many of which eerily echo those of the Maya, pointing perhaps to a global civilization that existed in antediluvian times (i.e., before the Great Flood and Noah's Ark, per the Judeo-Christian tradition).

My book also includes a look at just how the 2012 meme got started and propagated, to become what is today this pervasive thought form in Western pop culture that is essentially about the mysterious past, present and future of planet Earth and all of its inhabitants.

Good afternoon! My name is Sasha. I one of representatives of ancient spirits. You us name Indigo. I want to you on this interval of time, to give the information, which open to you the truth on your life. This information opens everything that you wished to learn. If it is interesting to you, the text I will send you on mail.

Here my mail – rus-indigo@hotmail.com

Each person on all planet should know it!

Order also you learn that is latent by special services of all world. But also they not know all. Even scientist. 2011, this year for you last. 2012, time of transition for your spirit. The galaxy centre, is the new energy, a new life. The prevention –THAT YOU LEARN – WILL change YOU And YOUR WORLD!

Hello Sasha,

Thanks you for your kind offer. I have sent you an email from the address where I would be most appreciative of receiving your text.

Thank you,

Alexandra

James Arthur Ray's Journey of Power®

My heartfelt compassion goes out to everyone involved with the Arizona sweat lodge disaster, including James Arthur Ray.

The following is an excerpt from my Dec. 2007 book, 'Beyond "The Secret,"' in which I profiled the latter.

In light of the three tragic deaths and several casualties sustained by participants of his $9,000-a-head "Spiritual Warrior" retreat, I couldn't help wondering whether Ray's involvement with lower astral entities (whether wittingly or not), which is entailed by his immersion in "magick" might have been related to these human sacrifices, albeit unwillingly by Ray?

Having spent some time in regions where Black Magick is in heavy use, all I can say is that it casts a pall of bad mojo all over the whole place. I strongly advise anyone to stay way clear of that stuff.

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8.

THE MAGICK OF "THE SECRET"

President and CEO of Carlsbad, California-based James Ray International, he spends over 200 days a year at public appearances and seminars, teaching his trademarked Journey of Power® experience, which is "a fusion of wealth-building principles, success strategies, and the teachings of all great spiritual traditions, mystery schools, and esoteric studies that he has experienced and assimilated over the last twenty-five years."1 The Journey of Power® program essentially shows participants how to bridge the gap between real-world success and spiritual fulfillment.

...

According to the website of speakers' bureau Keynote Speakers, Inc., Ray charges $25-40,000 to give a lecture, offering as speech titles "Harmonic Wealth" and "Turn Your Company Into a Raging, Profit Producing Machine."2 Of course it's likely that his fees are now significantly higher, in the wake of The Secret's success.

...

As just a taste of Ray's teachings, consider a topic he frequently lectures on:

Seven Secrets of Top Performers

1) High achievers know exactly what they want.

2) Top performers visualize themselves in possession of their desired results.

3) Highly successful people have an unbending belief in themselves and their abilities.

4) Achievers take action "as if" they were already in possession of the goal they desire.

5) Winners take full responsibility for their own destiny.

6) Top performers build high-leveraged partnerships.

7) Great achievers are great givers.

...

"Mr. Magick"

Ray's chief distinction among his peers in The Secret is his very public embrace of mysticism and the occult. More on his views can be seen on his IBIS[3] website, where you can learn about his courses on Modern Magick and his IBIS spiritual movement that draws on transpersonal, esoteric and shamanic traditions, both modern and ancient, that are meant to deepen the participants' personal relationships with their "Creative Source."

In medieval times, of course, such activities would have unleashed ingeniously elaborate desecration of each participant's anatomical parts. Luckily for Ray and the rest of us that those dark days are over!

Ray's detractors are not the usual polite handwringers we've seen; those with genuine concern for the innocent souls being misled by The Secret. Ray's nemeses are Christian rabble-rousers with an angry streak and a particular obsession with a so-called "Rosicrucian"/"Masonic" conspiracy which looms in the shadows, quietly slinking around in our TV sets, movie theaters and magazine racks, from the pierced belly rings of nubile popstars to the self-help messages of such films as The Secret. The ultimate aim of the nefarious "Rosicrucian" plot is to destroy all Christian decency before taking over the world with a global, godless, sexually profligate, fascist dictatorship, à la George Orwell's 1984.

Therefore, it was hardly surprising to find the following posts on the über- conservative chatboard, "Free Republic," soon after The Secret appeared on Oprah:

New Spiritual Method Called 'The Secret' Promoted On TV Has A Hidden Occult Link

Posted on 02/19/2007 12:42:01 PM PST by Coleus

We have to issue an occult watch -- perhaps "warning" is more like it -- for a new self-help trend that apparently is sweeping or beginning to sweep segments of America. The "method" is now on DVD as a movie called The Secret, and has been featured, among other places, on Oprah and Larry King Live....

Due to the power of the Winfrey show, and previous complaints of flirtation with the New Age, we recommend that Christians stay away from this "method" and even the movie...[4]

To: Coleus

The Secret: ...The Secret teachers are not followers of Jesus Christ and have rejected the God of the Bible, and 
the truth of God's word, and have rejected faith in His Son, Jesus. They have fashioned a system of personal power, based on human power. This philosophy and method is just the doorway/lowest level 
of the world of deep occultic mystery religion, which is the belief that either lucifer is god, or "we are god"...This is satan's religion; it is very popular...Those who pervert true Biblical faith make it about what we want, when true 
Biblical faith is about what God wants, and our faith and trust in Him, and obeying Him because of our love for Him, and because He is God... God has openly revealed all truth that we need, and He has not kept it a secret. 
Secret philosophies that come from the world of occult and sorcery have been 
keeping these philosophies secret for a long time, but now they are beginning to introduce 
them to the general public, because the whole world is being prepared 
for Antichrist.

50 posted on 02/19/2007 7:53:59 PM PST by Gal.5:1
(stand firm, speak truth in love)[5]

IBIS & Modern Magick™

According to Ray, he Institute of Balanced and Integrated Spirituality is the result of more that two decades that he devoted to the immersive study of the world's great esoteric disciplines, from the shamans of the Andes and the Amazon, to the mystery schools of Egypt, to the teachers in far-flung spots in the South Pacific. There were many times when he was extremely uncomfortable and his life was at risk but he claims that it was all worth it. Having synthesized what he learned, he now offers the life-changing insights he gleaned from these extreme experiences in his Modern Magick workshops, given once a year, in Kona Hawaii for $5,695 per person.

Now I'm going to let you in on a little secret. These real life teachers, gurus and shaman are not the meek, mild, mousy people you might think. They have thunderous personalities and were some of the wildest, most interesting characters I've ever met.

The belief that to be spiritual we must be meek and mild and talk in a harmonious whisper is a bunch of baloney...

Individuals of true power typically have more of the things that misguided thinkers believe cause internal conflict (money, sex, food, power), and yet, for some strange reason...they're not troubled...and
 they suffer no internal conflicts.

This is why they're really fun to be around. They have so much in their life, they're joyous about it, and when in their presence...things light up![6]

Ray's Theory about "Ascenders" and "Descenders"

Ray's theory about "Ascenders" and "Descenders" would surely make the Freeper chatboard posters' heads spin!

[The] ascenders want to get the hell out of here, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have the "descenders..." The descending mentality believes that everything to do with Earth is spiritual and sacred, and anything that denies these things is "sin."

...The descending approach has most often been pegged by the ascenders as "pagan," which really translates to mean "anything that doesn't agree with us."

Check around, and you'll notice increasing numbers of Shamanic teachings, Native American and indigenous events, Wicca workshops and many others. These traditions embrace and celebrate the physical journey and the joys of Earth.[7]


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ENDNOTES

1 James Ray's website: http://jamesray.com/about-james-ray.php

2 Keynote Speakers, Inc. http://keynotespeakers.com/speaker_detail.asp?i...

3 Institute of Balanced and Integrated Spirituality http://ibis.org/v1/modern-
magick.php

4 Free Republic Chatboard:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-religion/1787493/...

5 Op. Cit. 02/19/2007 7:53:59 PM PST by Gal.5:1 (emphasis by the author of this
book).

6 James Ray International Create Wealth in Your Life http://jamesray.com/about-
james-ray.php

7 http://ibis.org/

I've been booked for
Meria Heller's Show
11AM Mountain/10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern
November 17, 2009
http://www.meria.net/

My great-grand-parents arrived in Pittsburgh from Scotland to work in the steel industry. Pittsburgh was instrumental in building the US into the powerhouse that it ultimately became.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by what a solid and smart interview I got from Mike Pintek, the nighttime host of one of America's first and longest-running radio stations, KDKA Pittsburgh.

Here's the audio file for the KDKA interview last Thursday:

http://www.kdkaradio.com/topic/play_window.php?...

Here's the KDKA page, where it's posted.

http://www.kdkaradio.com/pages/3624256.php

Go Steelers!

My friend, actor Rudy Youngblood was at a Blockbuster store in LA last week and he saw this 2012 book on the self and picked it up. Then saw my picture and realized it was my book! (he is mentioned in the 2nd paragraph). Anyway, that was cool. He said it could have used more of a display or presentation around it, because he happened upon it by accident...

Some Say The End Is Near: Does Your 2012 Woo Beat Our 2012 Woo?

by Ralph Bernardo on September 30, 2009

Woo-woo (or just plain woo) is a term used, often in a dismissive way, by skeptics for dealing with phenomena that can’t be verified by independent evidence, but yet, many people strongly believe in. So who better to investigate the “woo-woo” world of the present-day 2012 phenomenon than author Alexandra Bruce (Beyond The Bleep, Beyond The Secret), no stranger to the realm where pop culture and the esoteric collide.

Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall, hosts of our monthly interview series Disinformation: The Podcast, talk with Alexandra about her new book 2012: Science Or Superstition, a companion to the Disinformation documentary of the same name.

Listen to the interview here or on iTunes.

As Alexandra Bruce describes in her introduction:

Here’s a woo-woo story for you. While working on this book late one evening, I read that the Chicxulub impact crater, the scene of the most notorious mass extinction event in history, was named after the small fishing village located near its epicenter in northern Yucatán, Chicxulub, which translates loosely from Mayan into English as “Tail of the Devil.”

Moments after I’d read this factoid, a friend of my colleagues, actor Rudy Youngblood dropped by the studio and we had an impromptu cocktail party. Rudy played the lead role in the film Apocalypto, so I commented to him about how eerie it was that “Chicxulub” means “Tail of the Devil.” He nodded slowly and looked me dead in the eye. He said, “They knew.”

Rudy told me that he’d spent almost a year in the Yucatán filming Apocalypto and during that time he’d befriended some local shamans. They told him about a practice that has existed for ages in Maya culture, where the shamans go into deep states of meditation and as Rudy described it, they would “time travel,” to see the land in the future and in the past, to lead their communities towards the most auspicious areas, for settlement, for planting, for building. The modern-day shamans told Rudy that the ancient shamans of 1,500 years ago had astrally “seen” the cataclysm at Chicxulub and that was how the village had come to be given the name “Tail of the Devil,” in the Mayan language of the Classic period.

The Chicxulub impact was one of the biggest doomsdays in the history of this planet. An object about 6 miles wide came in out of the sky and slammed into the beautiful Caribbean. The impact literally shook the Earth to its core. The massive shock waves generated global earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and megatsunamis thousands of feet high. The super-heated pyroclastic dust fanned out in every direction for millions of miles, broiling Earth’s surface, setting most of the world ablaze. For almost a decade, the sky was blacked-out, with a rain of ash dust and sulfuric acid, accompanied by freezing temperatures. The photosynthesis of plants came to a halt, affecting the entire food chain of whatever survived the initial blast.

Today, the crater is buried beneath a kilometer of sediments. From the ground, no one would guess that such unimaginable devastation could ever have taken place in this tropical paradise, yet the Chicxulub impact is generally viewed to be the cause the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event that wiped out 75% of all Earth’s species and 100% of the dinosaurs — which brings us to the apocalypse at hand …

Read more of 2012: Science Or Superstition freely on Scribd and check out the companion site 2012sos.net. It’s available on Amazon now and (hopefully) in your local bookstore.

I've just been booked for an interview on
News Radio 1020 KDKA, Pittsburgh's
"Tonight with Mike Pintek"
Next Thursday, October 8th 9PM Eastern Time
http://www.kdkaradio.com Liten Live!
(My grandmother's favorite radio station!)

Hey Guys,

I forgot to post this previously. I had a hilarious interview on The Bob Rivers Show CBS Radio - KZOK FM Seattle

The Bob Rivers Show this morning. I had a blast with those guys!

Here's the link to the audio file, I start a couple of minutes in. I'm the first 1/4 of this file:

http://www.twistedradio.com/podcasts/BRSPodcast...

Here's the stations's website:

http://bobrivers.com/#v10156c4

Cheers -–

Alexandra

Hey, Guys –– If you like hearing me bluster about everything under the Sun and beyond, you can listen to a new interview conducted by The Disinformation Company's Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/5pYop

xoxo c

Reviews are just starting to appear. Here's one from Geoff Ward's Mysterious Planet (thanks Geoff!):

http://www.mysteriousplanet.net/books.php

"...[the] book provides an invaluable aid to understanding the background to the phenomenon being hyped for all its worth for the release in November of the Roland Emmerich disaster movie 2012. Her approach is brisk and urbane, but comprehensive ... Pessimist or optimist, you’ll find plenty here to engage you on the crucial question of what lies in store for the human race in the all-too-near future."

While researching for this book, I came across the story that the Solar System did not originate in the Milky Way. It was originally part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, which is currently being cannibalized by the Milky Way Galaxy. Here's one article about it:

http://www.viewzone.com/milkyway.html

I was not familiar with any ideas suggesting that this galactic cannibalism was a process whose completion was imminent or in any way coincident with 2012, until I was sent this YouTube link today, where Clif High from the Web Bot Project suggests that the end of this cycle of the Maya Long Count Calendar has to do with the idea that the night sky or "celestial sphere" would be so altered by our absorption into the Milky Way that the Maya calendars, which were entirely based on their fastidiously accurate observations of the heavens, could no longer be counted upon, as the skies would have seriously changed in 5,125 years. Here's the interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aROKtUWLDc&feat...

Enjoy!

My book, "2012: Science or Superstition" was the bestseling book at Blockbuster Video last week –– whatever *that* means but it's a fun stat, anyway!