Product Description

According to Mayan & Egyptian prophecy, the earth awaits a super catastrophe in 2012: its magnetic fields will completely reverse in one agonizing shift. Devastating earthquakes and tidal waves will completely destroy civilization as Europe and North America are pulled north to polar latitudes. Almost all the earth's population will perish. These predictions stem from the sophisticated astronomy of the Maya and Egyptians, descendants of the legendary original Atlanteans, whose island, in this theory, is now buried under the South Pole. The Atlanteans predicted the world-wide flood in 9792 BC. In 2012, according to several 10,000 year-old star codes, Venus, Orion and several other stars will take the same 'code-positions' as in 9792 BC. There is also a forgotten and massive labyrinth, created by the Old Egyptians, of secret chambers filled with artifacts and documents about the previous flood.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81452 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Customer Reviews

Waste of My Money
I knew I made a mistake in buying this book when I read the first sentance: "I am writing this book out of sheer anger, despair, and misery." The author, Patrick Geryl, writes in hyperbole and loosely uses such language as, "After reading these notes, I was gripped by a terrible fear. Ir's clear that a world disaster of unknown proportions is in store for us." and "I felt so desperate I could have killed myself. Luckily I didn't have the time for it, because I had to finish my research first." He is not a researcher. He is hysterical. I cannot believe such nonsense was actually published and presented as "new age".

Don't Waste Your Time
Patrick Geryl has to rank as the worst published writer of all time! His theory that the world will be destroyed in 2012 based on the most pointless of mathematical calculations is right up there with that of giddy pre-teen girls finding out whom they'll marry by consulting the Ouija board! If the Egyptians and the Mayans were leaving us the result of their scientific prowess messages that we could actually use, they might have just put up a sign that said, Beware 2012! The crypto mumbo jumbo of "proof" in arcane measurements of buildings just makes you want to laugh! Every aspect of Geryl's work screams "Inept"! His theory that there is some huge labyrinth buried in the Egyptian desert that contains 3000 rooms full of the ancients' calculations--oh, Geryl claims to have found it but just couldn't get around to unearthing anything--puhlease! I'm sure there are relics from ancient Egypt that remain to be discovered, but the largest building ever made by man lying doggo in the sands for this long just makes you want to roll your eyes! Now, if you have read any of his work, you will understand what I am doing with the exclamation marks! I'm sure he draws circles over his i's, too!

Major Disappointment
It might very well be true large-scaled cataclysms obliterated past civilizations. It might well be true a cataclysm will occur on or around 2012. And maybe our ancestors really were trying to warn us of global disasters that happen cyclically. There's a lot of interesting literature on these subjects, and I've enjoyed quite a few of them, but "The Orion Prophecy" was a poorly written disappointment.
Although the author's theory regarding solar storms and magnetic field reversals is worth looking into, the (otherwise apparently very intelligent) author does little to build his case. His crazy number connections are nothing more than numerology and can easily be dismissed on dimensional bases alone. For example, in Chapter 16 Geryl randomly squares the number of seconds the earth shifts in the zodiac each year, 3.3333, to 11.11111 square seconds, then somehow connects this with the average sunspot cycle of 11 years. He does nothing to explain what led him to squaring that number, why the mathematical operation is relevant, or how 11.11111 square seconds is equivalent to or connected to 11.11111 years. It's just the same number. The sunspot cycle ranges from roughly 8 to 18 years anyway. The accuracy of seven significant digits also seems arbitrary, falsely implying some high degree of precision. It's like he's just clicking away on the calculator looking for anything familiar without understanding why certain operations should or could be made and with no concern for dimensional analysis.
I also couldn't understand the significance he places on the motions of Venus and why its retrograde loop in and around Gemini and Orion has such importance according to the Egyptian holy books. With Venus performing its retrograde loop approximately every year and a half, this loop will occur in various places along the zodiac quite often, so its loop in the vicinity of Orion fails to strike me as especially significant regardless of his interpretations of the ancient texts. These days, readily available programs such as Starry Night display these motions very easily across incredibly time spans, past and future. I looked and I don't see anything especially compelling there.
Apparently I wasn't as excited as Geryl about his "discoveries", because I found myself rolling my eyes at the numerous exclamation points. I laughed at the "Walter Mitty" part where he fantasizes speaking to the passengers and crew on a special ship designed to survive the catastrophe, the guy who saved everybody's lives. He even has "200 young girls" on board, for him no doubt, to repopulate the world.
He advocates certain extreme lifestyle changes such as a hunger diet and outlawing nuclear power, no doubt an angry axe to grind there.
Does the sun indeed periodically perform these devastating magnetic reversals? It could very well be, but this book does more to discredit the theory than to support it. It also adds more "giggle factor" to the already over ridiculed theories of ancient Mayan and Egyptian advanced knowledge.
If it wasn't laughable, it'd be a real bummer. Sad, because if there are indeed periodic cataclysms that can be predicted, Geryl only succeeds in turning a potentially serious issue into a dismissible farce.