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[a reference to airplanes] and the horse runs on wheels [cars], the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the Earth, and the Dharma will come to the land of the red men." Since the 1970s, the Dalai Lama and a number of maroon-robed priests fulfilled Hopi prophecy by regularly paying a visit to the Hopi elders and moving on. Many Hopis also believe that a later visi- tation in the 1980s of red-cloaked/capped followers of Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh, com- ing in their thousands to eastern Oregon, completes the prophecy. Even a handful of Rajneeshees, aware of the prophecy, paid a visit to the Hopi elder-in-chief, Grandfather David Monongye, in 1985, before they and their fellow red-clothed travellers soon vanished from sight. I report on this meet- ing in detail in my book, Messiahs: The Visions and Prophecies for the Second Coming. burn our civilisation down before the next 50 years are out. However, if in the same period of 50 years the message of personal transforma- tion and meditation is heeded by enough individuals around the world and they start changing themselves, then the "fires" com- ing to purify the world will be those of love, awareness, genius and compassion. I believe we will see the blazing of both inner and outer fires in the coming years. The question then remains: which fire would you like to be purified by? With that said, I would like to share with you a message I received off the Internet. It is purportedly an open letter of advice on how to get through the year 2001, coming from a spokesperson for the Hopi elders. I have not yet confirmed whether this mes- sage is indeed from the Hopi elders, but my own understanding of their prophecies makes me presume that it is authentic. Here it is: To my fellow swimmers: There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore; they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know that the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our heads above water. And I say, see who is there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all our - selves, for the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves. Banish the word "struggle" from your attitude and vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for. The river is a metaphor for the fast white water currents of our present times in this new millennium. The call to abandon "the shore" we know and flow down the current of an unknown destiny is a common theme in the Hopi purification prophecy. I have heard the elders put it in another metaphor- ical way: people will "drop dead from their own fear of change" if they do not embrace the coming changes. Those people who can not only embrace change but celebrate their journey into an unknown and new millennium will greatly benefit from the coming purification of the world. Certainly, the call to celebrate life—and make every one of life's simple actions sacred—is a common message the Hopi share with those modern mystics and prophets like Adi Da, Gurdjieff and Osho. All of them promote a vision of a coming new humanity that transcends its past attachments through meditation and cele- bration of life. Happy floating down the unknown river, to you all! oo Warning: The white man will steal rocks from the Moon. This is a danger sign, that we are in the final days before the purification. Fulfilment: The Apolio Moon landings unearthed (or should I say "unmooned"?) hundreds of pounds of Moon rocks, taking them back to Earth. Indeed, I saw one sit- ting under glass at the United Nations, just outside the main theatre where the Hopi elders shared their prophecies with the UN assembly just a few years before. (Source: John Hogue, 16 April 2001, from his HogueProphecy Archives at website www.hogue- prophecy.com. A self-styled "rogue scholar", Hogue is the author of Messiahs: The Visions and Prophecies for the Second Coming, Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies and The Last Pope: The Decline and Fall of the Church of Rome.) Warning: The white man will build a permanent house in the sky. This is the final warning before the purification. Fulfilment: MIR may have blazed its way down to the sea in fragments, but the far more permanent International Space Station traverses our skies today. It will be fully operational in a few more years. One could argue that it is already operational and therefore the times of the purification have come. here are hundreds of prophecies from other apocalyptic traditions that support the idea of some death and rebirth of the world shortly after the turn of the millenni- um. Those who have read my books know that I interpret the coming Hopi purifica- tion by fire in two ways. If fear and robotic adherence to fossilised traditions remain the motivating forces of our destiny, then the "fires" of war, global warming, collective anger and stress will JUNE — JULY 2001 NEXUS = 67 www.nexusmagazine.com