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by Gary Bonnell

At every hundred year mark, there has been an outcry of the prophesied end times. If there is to be a second coming of Christ, or an apocalypse, the question is when? Timing in all prophecy is difficult. The Mayans indicated the shifting into the fifth dimensional awareness for 2012 on the winter solstice.

by Richard Heinberg.

The suggestion that we do away with mythology is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of myth and of the human psyche. Myth in some form is inevitable and necessary. What is our goal, our meaning, our purpose as human beings? These are the questions a myth can answer.

by Werner Huemer & Micah Rubenstein

Prophecies abound for the upcoming millennium. Are we helpless in the face of these prophecies? Are these simply tools to allow us to take action to avert the consequences of possible actions?

by Ken Kalb

Tales of gloom and doom abound for the upcoming millennium. This article offers a shift in our reality - things we can do to make the shift we desire.

The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse -- Famine, War, Pestilence, and Death -- will gallop furiously across the face of the Earth, according to a growing cadre of sensationalists peddling their special brand of millennial madness.

by Michael Grosso

The American dream of the Millennium keeps evolving. Does the original power of the myth still live in the people? Our leaders seem little inspired by the vision of godliness and high destiny. The rhetoric is still present, to be sure, but one senses fatigue, hollowness, shrillness. The American dream is still alive, but for the most part, the dream has lost its spiritual content.

by Prema Baba Swamiji.

Are you disheartened by the continued violence in the world among nations and individuals? What can you do to assist in the creation of peace on earth? Mahatma Gandhi provided the world with an example of spirituality in action to create social reform. Martin Luther King exemplified Gandhi?s teaching by opposing racism through non-violence.