Dannion Brinkley, who died three times and came back to life, wrote best sellers about what he saw in the future (while dead), and now works with hospice patients (after living part of his life as a really nasty guy--supposedly working for the CIA and killing a lot of people in Vietnam) says we're in for it.

I dunno--since lots of people are guessing, why not hear what he has to say about it? Go there if you wish. The URL is below. (FYI, one of his predictions--hasn't happened yet--is of some kind of nuclear accident originating in the vicinity of Sweden that pollutes a good bit of the ocean. Another is a vision of Islamic clad women marching through Europe. Yet another is swarms of people trying to get into the U.S. from South America.)

http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/September/articles/0998-03a.htm

-- just guessin' (whynot@whynot.com), March 22, 1999

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Here it is hot linked:

Dannion Brinkley on Y2K

-- PJ Gaenir (fire@firedocs.com), March 22, 1999.

And we will have to fight technology control, the chip implant, the Y2K problem. This will come about but only in systems of disruption. We will have solar flares that will affect grids for the next three years, that will shut down power companies, blow out pagers, cell phones. . . all that stuff's going to happen. Those who seek to control will declare martial law, probably suspend the Constitution. Begin to take over because of these natural calamities as well as improper planning on their part.

-- y2k (y2k@y2k.y2k), March 22, 1999.

Everytime I have an organism, I die and come back to earth but that doesn't make me a prophet(ess).

-- Yeepeeeeee!!! (Yeepee@yeepee.com), March 22, 1999.

I'm having an organism as I write these words - an apple.

-- humpty (no.6@thevillage.com), March 22, 1999.

Aside from the smarmy answers above, I read both his books when my mother was dying of cancer and it helped. No doubt about the fact that this guy was pronounced dead three times. (The first time a friend discovered he was alive when he saw him under a sheet wearing a toe tag and the sheet moved). Supposedly he saw a vision of Chernobyl before it happened.

Now, is he a fraud? I don't know. The only thing I know is that he spends a lot of time with dying hospice patients and that is not a bad thing. And. . .he thinks Y2K will be bad.

I'm also grateful I don't have to be concerned about my elderly parents amid all the uncertainty about Y2K. They both suffered through the Great Depression and World War II and I think that was enough for two very significant lifetimes.

-- Not grieving anymore (noparents@noparents.com), March 23, 1999.

well, dannion sees disruptions, but not utter destruction. i wish he had been a little more specific, but it doesn't soud too bad.

-- jocelyne slough (jonslough@tln.net), March 23, 1999.

Quack, Quack.... These people that die repeatedly, and float above the death bed, into a white light, then drift back to life, to appear on yet another TV talk show, then write a best selling book to fleece the credible make me sick. If you like 'em fine; I don't. They are charlatans of the first water. All you have to do to be rich and famous is write a book on "healing the spirit and how to stomp down the road less traveled in order to return to love," and you'll have it made.

But I do like satire and parody, and I highly recommend Chicken Poop for the Soul: Stories to Harden the Heart and Dampen the Spirit by David Fisher. Be sure and read the last chapter on "How I Found the Secret of Happiness," and all will become crystal clear.

-- gilda jessie (jess@listbot.com), March 23, 1999.

DO NOT discredit near death tales out of hand. I have a friend whose 4 year old son was found at the bottom of their pool..she and her neighbor did CPR on him until the EMS came to take it over....after a lengthy stay in the hospital he awoke and told his parents and the doctors he remembered "looking down from the sky at me floating in the pool". I highly doubt he'd ever heard of near-death tales!!

-- MUTTI (windance @train.missouri.org), March 23, 1999.

Well, he's right about the swarms from the south. But that's been self-evident for years.

-- A (A@AisA.com), March 23, 1999.