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REVIEWS grinding stones in the Solomon Islands dated to 26,000 years ago, taro cultivation in Indonesia c. 15,000 years ago, pottery-mak- ing in Japan 12,500 years ago and rice domestication in the Malay Peninsula 9,000 years ago, he argues for the existence of a prediluvial culture that thrived while much of the north was engulfed in glaciers. When it met its demise, it was these Sundaland survivors who passed on the first creation and flood stories in the west and east, where they were preserved in local mythologies. Oppenheimer's book is a must-read for its radically different perspective on prehistory. grinding stones in the Solomon Islands dated — where Ronnie Burns' TV documentary of the B oO oO K S to 26,000 years ago, taro cultivation in same name left off. It includes snippets of Indonesia c. 15,000 years ago, pottery-mak- —_ interviews not included in the program from EDEN IN THE EAST ing in Japan 12,500 years ago and rice a variety of commentators on Earth changes by Stephen Oppenheimer domestication in the Malay Peninsula 9,000 _ prophecies, including Edgar Evans Cayce, blister Phopnin. UK, 1999 years ago, he argues for the existence of a Adrian Gilbert, Edmund Harold, Malcolm ISBN: 0-75380-679-7 (381 pp pb) prediluvial culture that thrived while much Jagamara, Tom Kay, Peter Lemesurier, Price: AUD$19.95; NZD$24.95; £8.99; of the north was engulfed in glaciers. When | Gordon-Michael Scallion, Moira Timms and NLG35,90; CAD$1 4.99 , , it met its demise, it was these Sundaland Stuart Wilde (who contributes a rousing 7 : _ ; survivors who passed on the first creation foreword), as well as prophecies from Be GO Nacho. Napanee and flood stories in the west and east, where Nostradamus and Mother Shipton. . (09) 478 1000: UK—Orion Books, tel > they were preserved in local mythologies. The interviews are interspersed under vari- 01903 721596: Europe—NEXUS Office: Oppenheimer's book is a must-read for its cus headings. such as the Great Pyramid and USA—Trafalgar Square Publishing, tel , radically different perspective on prehistory. SPhinx, anticipated Earth changes affecting the San Andreas fault and Pacific Rim of (802) 457 1911, fax (802) 457 1913 . Fire, and Hopi Indian and Maya prophecies, he cradle of Western civilisation was not PROPHECY & PREDICTION: and they include both disturbing and hopeful in Mesopotamia or India, but in the THREAT OR WARNING? messages for the future. drowned Southeast Asian continent, argues by Ronnie Burns Amidst it all, Burns remains adamant that Stephen Oppenheimer, a medical doctor Publisher: P&P Publishing, Aust, 1999 any prophesied Golden Age is in our hands. who has spent the last 20 years working in ISBN: 0-646-38109-1 (266pp tpb) _ paediatrics in the Far East and Pacific. Dr Price: AUD$24.95 + $5.00 p&h in Aust; Oppenheimer has studied the unique genetic — Overseas orders, visit website mutations that appear to be markers for the Available: Australia—Prophecy & Indo-Pacific migrations that followed a Prediction Publishing Co., Locked Bag 8, series of floods at the end of the last ice age. | Devonport, Tas 7310, tel 1800 999959 (in Around 20,000 to 18,000 years ago, Aust), fax +61 3 6492 1288, website Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the | www.prophecyandprediction.com size of India. Oppenheimer draws on geo- f you're reading this now, you've managed logical evidence that suggests that three sud- to get through the year 2000 turnaround, den ice-melts occurred around 14,000, but in latter-day prophecy lore there are fur- 11,500 and 8,000 years ago, resulting in ther milestones to anticipate, particularly rapid flooding and rising sea levels, forcing _ regarding so-called Earth changes. That the the inhabitants of Sundaland (now the Sunda __ planet's climate and weather are going shelf) to distant, safer ground. through unusual changes is indisputable; but Oppenheimer proposes that survivors, in whether these are a lead-up to catastrophic successive waves, took with them their Earth changes scenarios as foreseen by well- PRE DICTION. extant skills in language, agriculture, pot- known prophets and futurists is open to ieee ae tery, astronomy, navigation and architecture question—unless they happen, of course! and dispersed them in Indochina, India, Prophecy & Prediction: Threat or Mesopotamia and the Pacific. Referring to Warning? is the book that takes over from 72 ¢ NEXUS where Ronnie Burns' TV documentary of the same name left off. It includes snippets of interviews not included in the program from a variety of commentators on Earth changes prophecies, including Edgar Evans Cayce, Adrian Gilbert, Edmund Harold, Malcolm Jagamara, Tom Kay, Peter Lemesurier, Gordon-Michael Scallion, Moira Timms and Stuart Wilde (who contributes a rousing foreword), as well as prophecies from Nostradamus and Mother Shipton. The interviews are interspersed under vari- ous headings, such as the Great Pyramid and Sphinx, anticipated Earth changes affecting the San Andreas fault and Pacific Rim of Fire, and Hopi Indian and Maya prophecies, and they include both disturbing and hopeful messages for the future. Amidst it all, Burns remains adamant that any prophesied Golden Age is in our hands. PROPHECY - PRE DICTION Alt WURR “ RONNIE HURTS de FEBRUARY — MARCH 2000