Product Description

This bestselling book draws on experts from every field to produce a thoroughly researched work on whether a pole shift is likely and how to prepare. You'll learn what scientists, contemporary psychics, and the Hopi Indians say, what Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce said, what it says in the Bible, even what the secret doctrine of Theosophy reveals about this potential disaster to our planet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120440 in Books
• Published on: 1985-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 431 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780876041628
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Review
"Thoughtful and disturbing . . . " -- Bristol Press

"Too many coincidences and warning signs are being discovered by scientists for us to ignore White's important work." -- Dr. Jeffrey Goodman, author of We Are the Earthquake Generation

From the Back Cover
What is a pole shift? A cataclysmic inversion of the planet's axis of rotation, up to 180 -- a sudden slippage of the planet's solid crust around the molten core. Has it happened before? Could it happen again? Top researcher John White probes deeply into ancient history, modern science, and psychic prophecy, revealing what experts from every field have to say, to reach his astonishing conclusions about the possibility of a pole shift in the near future. He also discusses great civilizations lost long ago in a pole shift, how nuclear war could trigger a pole shift, "safe" geographical areas during a pole shift, and the secret that could prevent a pole shift. Photos, illustrations, and a thorough index included.

About the Author
John White, M.A.T., is an internationally known author and editor in the fields of consciousness research, human development, and parascience. He has held positions as Director of Education for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a research organization founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell to study human potential and planetary problems, and as president of Alpha Logics, a school for self-directed growth in body, mind, and spirit. Besides Pole Shift, White has written A Practical Guide to Death and Dying, Everything You Want to Know about TM, and a children's story, The Christmas Mice. Articles and reviews by him have appeared in popular magazines such as Reader's Digest, Esquire, New Age, Omni, and Science Digest, and in professional journals and major newspapers such as The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Chicago Sun-Times. White holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Yale University and has taught English and journalism on the secondary and college levels.

Customer Reviews

A Veritable Tour de Force on the Pole Shift
I'm not as phlegmatic about this title as the other commentators. I really liked it: the author, an obvious Cayce disciple, covers a variety of theories from Hapgood to Velikovsky and beyond -- all the while making it clear that "to make the case is not to prove the theor(ies)." In fact, I am surprised that none of the other reviewers picked up on the most unexpected feature of all: his "epilogue" that one might easily miss because it falls AFTER his index (a most unusual placement: I've never seen that before).

Strangely, White's conclusion turns out to be this loopy, apologetic "por mi culpa" that can be summarized thusly: "Well, folks, we're well into the 1990's, the poles haven't shifted yet. Cayce must have been wrong. I guess it's never going to happen, after all. Oh well, we still had a swell time reviewing the catastrophic possibilities, didn't we?" He goes so far as to quote from John Perry's "The Heart of History" -- in essence, saying that these theories arise because we have a psychological need to come up with these "end time" scenarios.

I disagree.

In fact, I will go so far as to say that White is the eschatological version of a Harry Dent: "You had it right the first time, mister. You should have stayed the course." Just because the Pole Shift hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean that it won't. And whether that huge planetary event is 5 years away or 100 years or 5,000 years away, the fact remains that it has occurred repeatedly over the life of this planet and it will again. He had it right ... before he decided to add the epilogue. In view of the strange "earth changes" we are already witnessing now (present tense, not future tense), I believe this book -- pre-Index -- deserves a fresh read.

Greg Caton (5/9/06)

Interesting item and large summary of disciplines
The author has a very good experience with several disciplines of science and research. The book reads well and sounds impressive and professional, even in matters as Psychic Foresight etc... However, in the epilogue (page 391-408) he takes almost everything back and left me with a rather frustrated feeling of "what is it know ?. Is it so or is it not ?"

My conviction is that he backs away from his own work. This does not mean that I am looking forward for a nice pole shift soon to happen. However, I expected in the epilogue the same professionalism to give a modern, more holistic answer to the questions that surfaced during the years, instead of simply stating in only 17 pages that it will not be as it was seen by him.

After reading White (and Velikovsky), I am truly convinced that more than one pole shift has taken place in the last million years. Maybe not exactly as written by the above mentioned authors but nevertheless highly interesting and demanding for further research. And to be taken very seriously

Pole Shift
Read this book only on long winter nights when your television doesn't work and you have two broken legs. Actually, all possible theories, from the unlikely to possible are presented. The first two chapters are compelling, the remainder tedious. Also, if you purchase the paperback addition, buy a magnifying glass too.