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Show Notes: “The End of the World” Podcast

There’s no getting around the end of the world! It’s just that no one knows when it will happen. But that doesn’t mean that religious prophecy, individual revelation or group consensus can’t predict Judgement Day, even though all who have so far predicted it have been wrong. And many of them keep trying!

There’s also no getting around the perception that signs and wonders, floods and disasters, meteors and comets, and general weirdness are occurring on what seems to be an accelerating basis.

So, are all of these events pointing to the End of Days?

Hop on down the rabbit hole with Bob as he explores the eschatology so prevalent today and why it is connected with “corporate colonization” and the loss of individual power and the resulting erosion of freedom.

There is a way to remain steady, though, and the method may surprise you. And it begins with firing up all seven cylinders of that body-mind-soul machine you walk around in.

There are a ton of links to the William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) poem, “Second Coming” that is quoted in the opening song by the incomparable and prolific songwriter Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com. But here’s one version of the poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html

Harold Camping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping

Jehovah’s Witnesses and general eschatology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time

Mayan Calendar: There’s thousands of sites to read with a Google search

The Apocalypse books mentioned, Ezra, Peter, Paul and Thomas can be found online in many places, as well as in lots of books. My favorite is The Other Bible by Willis Barnstone. Published by HarperCollins 

The Book of Revelations is the final book in the Christian Bible

Reference to Pres. George W. Bush and Middle East Wars, i.e. “Gog and Magog”: http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5

Eisenhower / Military Industrial Complex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

Chris Nelson site: http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

Psychopathology, supernova, Saturn storms, Inuit people, asteroids, comets, meteors: http://www.sott.net/

Earthquakes: http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

http://www.earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/increase_in_earthquakes.php

Tornadoes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes_of_2011

Hungry Children: (http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-studies/map-the-meal-gap/map-congressional-district/~/media/Files/research/map-meal-gap/TX_CFI_2009.ashx?.pdf

The phrase “corporate colonization,” refers to a book written by University of Colorado at Boulder professor Stanley Deetz. http://comm.colorado.edu/~deetz/

MUSIC, In The Order It Was Played:

Thanks to all musicians for allowing the use of their compositions. Some of the music provided from Mevio's Music Alley. Check it out at music.mevio.com.

1. “The Second Coming,” Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

2. “Borders,” Bob Maus, http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

3. “Imagine Finding You Here,” Synthetic Movements, http://www.musicalley.com/

4. “Impact Anante,” Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

5. “Colossus,” Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

6. “Wings of Aurora,” Maximilian Fantasy, http://www.musicalley.com/

7. “Stoneworld Battle,” Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

8. “Sign of the Chimes,” More Human Than Human, http://www.musicalley.com/

9. “Movement Proposition,” Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

10. “Long Road Ahead,”  Kevin MacLeod http://www.incompetech.com

11. “Borders,” Bob Maus, http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

A Sampling of Previous Podcasts related to this one:

“Shamanic Water Ceremony”: http://blog.naturalshamandrums.com/2011/01/23/shamanic-water-ceremony-podcast.aspx

“Shaman Drums on Location”: http://blog.naturalshamandrums.com/2011/04/01/shaman-drums-on-location.aspx

“Spiritual Bodybuilding Workout”: http://blog.naturalshamandrums.com/2010/09/12/shaman-drums-podcast-spiritual-bodybuilding.aspx

“Parsing UFOs and Religion”: http://blog.naturalshamandrums.com/2010/01/24/ufos-religion—the-divine-dance.aspx

“Work and Love, Spirit and Healing”: http://blog.naturalshamandrums.com/2010/03/19/work-and-love-spirit-and-healing.aspx

Thunder Valley Drums website: http://www.naturalshamandrums.com

Shaman Drums 2.0 Blog http://www.blog.naturalshamandrums.com

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