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World Culture, Religion, and History

This is not a book about the future, real or imagined. It is about the past. Felser, a university professor of philosophy, takes a close look at the way beliefs in end times have surfaced throughout recorded history. He argues that the myth of the Great Ending is the psychological residue of unresolved trauma that began with our rejection of nature's circular rhythms. He speaks of the belief in end times as junk food for the imagination, a deadly poison circulating in the body of human consciousness, infecting everything we do. He argues there is no such thing as an End of Days. He sees the present yearning for the end of the world, either in world-escape or world-destruction, as hiding a healthy, although repressed, longing for reconciliation of our inner and outer worlds in the here and now. This book's far-reaching examination of end-of-world myths and highly readable style make it a welcome antidote to present media hype about the supposedly fast-approaching end days.

-- Richard D. Wright, Tranquil Things, Derby Line, Vt.

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Reviews/February 15th 2011 . Parapsychology

Felser (philosophy, Kingsborough Community Coll., CUNY) looks at the prevalence of the end-of-the-world belief system and finds it a morbid and distorted idea that should be discarded so that we can proceed into a new, unified way of thinking and understanding. He believes we must align ourselves with nature and with our own true deepest selves to overturn negative beliefs and move forward into a healthier, more positive, happier life. This is one of his main points in his previous book, The Way Back to Paradise: Restoring the Balance Between Magic and Reason. Adding appeal to this latest work, Felser sprinkles throughout the history of the end-of-the-world movement from Zoroastrianism to present-day thinking and the ideas of many of the world's great thinkers including Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, David Bohm, William James, and others. VERDICT This book is worth reading for those fascinated by the idea of the world coming to an end. It makes many good points and isn't so scholarly that the average person couldn't enjoy it. Good for large public libraries.

-- Mary E. Jones, Los Angeles P.L.