The Future Map of North America.
"A striking example of Gordon-Michael Scallion's 2002 doomsday map of North America. Scallion' (1942 -?) Is a ,futurist, spiritualist,,and 'prophet' who predicted a series of cataclysmic astronomical and seismic events would occur between the Issue date of this map, 2002, an...
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| Summary: | "A striking example of Gordon-Michael Scallion's 2002 doomsday map of North America. Scallion' (1942 -?) Is a ,futurist, spiritualist,,and 'prophet' who predicted a series of cataclysmic astronomical and seismic events would occur between the Issue date of this map, 2002, and 2012. This map offers an exceptionally granular breakdown of Scallion's predictions for the United States and a newly extended timeline - It Is somewhat revisionary, issued one year after his earlier maps predicted these events would come to pass. The map describes itself as 'North America' though it is decidedly U.S.-centric, including only adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico. It presents a topographical map of the region overlayed with contemporaneous political boundaries and Scallion's predictions. These include three major seismic upheavals causing 'fractures' which, over the decade, would inundate most of the American West, including the Rocky Mountains. Other significant changes include the inundation of most of the East Coast and a significant widening of the Mississippi and St. Lawrence river valleys. The Great Lakes merge into a massive inland sea connecting via a new major river, named 'America's River', with the Pacific, now reaching well into Colorado. {We cannot help but recognize a similarity with the speculative 18th cartography of Guillaume de L'isle, Nicholas de L'Isle, and Phillip Buache, who postulated a massive 'Sea of the West' roughly occupying the same region, or even more curiously, the apocryphal Verrazzano Sea, which appeared on many 16th century maps of America, including those of Sebastian Munster.) Scallion's prophesies are outlined at right (along with a disclaimer), as well as in annotative text blocks throughout the map. Scallion's Dream-Prophecies: Scallion's predictions included a polar shift leading to the near total inundation of Europe, significant parts of Asia, much of European Russia, China, Japan, and South America. He also predicted Antarctica would become a warm, fertile land, Atlantis would rise ... |
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