Nostradamus

Introduction

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them

changes both the maker and the destination.

-- John Schaar

The Practical Nostradamus

This book combines future expectations for the early years of this millennium, integrating the prophecies from Nostradamus's, famous ten-volume work the Centuries, with visions offered by modern authors and scientists, economy experts, and journalists. The idea is to create a book that explores the sixteenth-century prophet's extraordinary ability to see far into his future and at the same time to exemplify the future envisioned by contemporary individuals, many of whom have spent years mapping trends that are likely to occur in what is now an immediate future through the early part of this century. What we find in this prophetic partnership is a remarkable synchronicity.

Michel de Nostradame was born at the beginning of the sixteenth century into a Jewish family in France. His family was forced to convert to Roman Catholicism because o ... read full excerpt from: Nostradamus 2003-2025: A History of the Future ebook