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Catastrofobia: La verdad detras de los cambios de la tierra
En Catastrofobia , Barbara Hand Clow, autora de libros de gran éxito, examina legendarios cataclismos y muestra cómo, contrario a muchas profecías de fatalidades, estamos en la cúspide de una era de increíble crecimiento creativo. El reciente descubrimiento de los vestigios de arcaicos pueblos enterrados bajo el Mar Negro, es la más última instancia de evidencia de que muchas “míticas” catástrofes de la historia--la caída de la Atlántida, el Diluvio Bíblico--fueron eventos reales. Barbara Hand Clow muestra que una serie de desastres cataclísmicos, causados por una masiva alteración en la corteza terrestre de hace 11,500 años, estremeció al mundo y dejó la psique humana colectiva profundamente cicatrizada. Somos una especie herida y este miedo sin procesar, que pasó de generación, es responsable de nuestras constantes expectativas del apocalipsis, del Y2K al famoso final del calendario Maya en el 2012.
Catastrofobia revela como las insidiosas fuerzas globales han usado estos miedos colectivos para controlar a la humanidad por miles de años. Pero estamos a la mitad de un tremendo cambio en el ciclo precesional de la Tierra de 26,000 años y existe toda la indicación de que los cambios en la consciencia durante los últimos treinta años son los comienzos de una colectiva curación de estos profundos miedos, presagiando que un tiempo de extraordinaria actividad creativa está al alcance de la mano.
Catastrofobia revela como las insidiosas fuerzas globales han usado estos miedos colectivos para controlar a la humanidad por miles de años. Pero estamos a la mitad de un tremendo cambio en el ciclo precesional de la Tierra de 26,000 años y existe toda la indicación de que los cambios en la consciencia durante los últimos treinta años son los comienzos de una colectiva curación de estos profundos miedos, presagiando que un tiempo de extraordinaria actividad creativa está al alcance de la mano.
- GenresMetaphysics
320 pages, Paperback
First published April 15, 2001
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Barbara Hand Clow
44 books146 followersBarbara Hand Clow is an astrological counselor, an editor of books on New Consciousness, and a ceremonial teacher at sacred sites. She lives in rural new England.
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November 21, 2011
This is a very valuable book that casts a second look at history. The idea of the global seafaring civilization and the idea of the global catastrophe that changed the world from 11000-9000BC is very valuable for anyone who looks at mythology with a historical eye. The author attempts to weave in many myths to prove her points. The book is not 100% well written and is somewhat confusing but overall has some good nuggets and perspectives I think.
May 17, 2020
This book was, and continues to be, pivotal to my understanding of humanities "lot" seen within a multi-dimensional cosmology or, in simple terms, why we are the way we are, how and when that happened, where we are now, and what choices do we have in front of us as we approach the time of transformation. If you have ever wondered about "the fall" of humanity and why we seem so fixated upon things going wrong or life having to be such a struggle between dark and light, this will shed more light than you are probably used to...
Read in conjunction with Dr Carl Johan Calleman's "The Nine Waves of Creation", you then have a powerful "kit" of new understanding at your disposal; use it in your daily lives and become part of the momentum for change!
Read in conjunction with Dr Carl Johan Calleman's "The Nine Waves of Creation", you then have a powerful "kit" of new understanding at your disposal; use it in your daily lives and become part of the momentum for change!
August 9, 2011
I found this book to be exciting, addictive, though not always, or at all, easy to comprehend, and it introduced me to several new fields of knowledge.
However, the author seemed to write the book as though for her peers and others extremely knowledgeable on the subject of prehistoric times, earth changes, Egyptology etc. She used many words I'd never heard of, and even though some of these may have been defined or explained. this didn't help much, since several pages later dozens of new words and place-names of special significance were introduced and used together with the original words and I couldn't remember what these latter words meant. The book absolutely lacks a list of definitions of these specialized words. If the index had been comprehensive/inclusive, I could have looked up the words in question and checked what the author had previously written about them in connection with their first use, but sadly the index was severely restricted/lacking in its inclusion of uncommon but (by the author) frequently used words and names, including place-names. Still, I've given the book five stars because of its exciting content.
The book treats of how accepted theory about earth changes and the cataclysmic and precataclysmic days of Earth history is vastly erroneous, and informs us that early Man, far from being primitive, was in fact highly developed, possessing knowledge of the stars and telescopes and having the ability to travel to distant star systems, albeit this may have been out-of-body travel.
Clow was blessed in having Celtic/Cherokee grandparents who taught her advanced knowledge at an early age, which now stands her in good stead, and has given her access to alternative or perhaps natural means of gaining knowledge. Instructed by her grandparents, she studied Plato and Egyptology and learnt Cherokee and Celtic stories. She learnt how to see nature spirits and how to work with the Ancestors, among many other things.
The "working hypothesis" presented by Clow in this book is that we all at a deep level have memories of past cataclysmic events, and thus continually fear that new such tragedies will befall us in the future. She informs us that 11,500 years ago (i.e. in 9,500 B.C.) our Earth suffered an axial tilt of 23 ½ degrees from the vertical (caused by "the separation of Kingu ... a moon of a destroyed planet, Tiamat, from the Akkadian epic, the Enuma Elish" from Phaeton. Unfortunately, I can't find any explanation of what Phaeton is/was, the name not being included in the Index.
This axial tilt resulted in the advent of seasons and humanity having to adopt agriculture. Apparently, before this the Earth had a vertically positioned axis. Clow's theories are supported by other experts in the field, including J. B. Delair, who clearly explains about the axial tilt and about Earth changes in useful appendices.
An illustration depicting Seth I erecting the Djed Pillar from Abydos Temple in the Osiris Hall shows us the early Egyptians' obsession with the axial tilt and their need to perform ceremonies to right this tilt.
Clow discourses at great length about "precession", which I did not find to be clearly defined and thus did not clearly comprehend, though she does write "precession of the equinoxes is an astronomical cycle that describes the times and qualities of cultural patterns by symbolism". Precession occurs because of Earth's tilted axis.
She asserts that we are "a wounded species afflicted with global collective fear", and being basically an astrologer, discusses the role of the recently discovered asteroid or comet Chiron in our predicament, Chiron being the "wounded healer".
She enlightens us as to the role of the Global Elite (the Illuminati, Secret Government - it has many names), who have controlled us for thousands of years. The Global Elite is also discussed at length in the works of David Icke and by the Sirian High Council (Patricial Cori).
Clow believes that instead of the envisaged/predicted earth changes in the near future (2012) - we have in fact experienced many already, and I heard on the TV news the other day that due to the recent earthquake in Japan the earth's axis had been further tilted to a significant degree, instead of these, she argues, we are heading towards a golden age of peaceful evolution. Well, I quite agree with this, I just believe that the Earth changes will come first, and these need not necessarily be so severe - this may depend on the extent and rapidity of our spiritual development at this time.
The book includes chapters on "The Fallen Angels & the Stones of Ica", "The Stargate Conspiracy & the Kosmokrater" and "Goddess Alchemy & the Heliopolitan Mysteries". The author states "We are completing 11,500 years of a collective degeneration, and we are rapidly shifting into an exciting regenerative phase." She refers us to books on ecstatic body postures, by means of which we can go into trances and access other realities.
To sum up, this is a fascinating, mind-expanding, comprehensive book that touches on many spheres of knowledge. I would strongly advise you to read the book, but unless you're already exceedingly knowledgeable about the subjects the author deals with, I would recommend that you have a dictionary by your side!
However, the author seemed to write the book as though for her peers and others extremely knowledgeable on the subject of prehistoric times, earth changes, Egyptology etc. She used many words I'd never heard of, and even though some of these may have been defined or explained. this didn't help much, since several pages later dozens of new words and place-names of special significance were introduced and used together with the original words and I couldn't remember what these latter words meant. The book absolutely lacks a list of definitions of these specialized words. If the index had been comprehensive/inclusive, I could have looked up the words in question and checked what the author had previously written about them in connection with their first use, but sadly the index was severely restricted/lacking in its inclusion of uncommon but (by the author) frequently used words and names, including place-names. Still, I've given the book five stars because of its exciting content.
The book treats of how accepted theory about earth changes and the cataclysmic and precataclysmic days of Earth history is vastly erroneous, and informs us that early Man, far from being primitive, was in fact highly developed, possessing knowledge of the stars and telescopes and having the ability to travel to distant star systems, albeit this may have been out-of-body travel.
Clow was blessed in having Celtic/Cherokee grandparents who taught her advanced knowledge at an early age, which now stands her in good stead, and has given her access to alternative or perhaps natural means of gaining knowledge. Instructed by her grandparents, she studied Plato and Egyptology and learnt Cherokee and Celtic stories. She learnt how to see nature spirits and how to work with the Ancestors, among many other things.
The "working hypothesis" presented by Clow in this book is that we all at a deep level have memories of past cataclysmic events, and thus continually fear that new such tragedies will befall us in the future. She informs us that 11,500 years ago (i.e. in 9,500 B.C.) our Earth suffered an axial tilt of 23 ½ degrees from the vertical (caused by "the separation of Kingu ... a moon of a destroyed planet, Tiamat, from the Akkadian epic, the Enuma Elish" from Phaeton. Unfortunately, I can't find any explanation of what Phaeton is/was, the name not being included in the Index.
This axial tilt resulted in the advent of seasons and humanity having to adopt agriculture. Apparently, before this the Earth had a vertically positioned axis. Clow's theories are supported by other experts in the field, including J. B. Delair, who clearly explains about the axial tilt and about Earth changes in useful appendices.
An illustration depicting Seth I erecting the Djed Pillar from Abydos Temple in the Osiris Hall shows us the early Egyptians' obsession with the axial tilt and their need to perform ceremonies to right this tilt.
Clow discourses at great length about "precession", which I did not find to be clearly defined and thus did not clearly comprehend, though she does write "precession of the equinoxes is an astronomical cycle that describes the times and qualities of cultural patterns by symbolism". Precession occurs because of Earth's tilted axis.
She asserts that we are "a wounded species afflicted with global collective fear", and being basically an astrologer, discusses the role of the recently discovered asteroid or comet Chiron in our predicament, Chiron being the "wounded healer".
She enlightens us as to the role of the Global Elite (the Illuminati, Secret Government - it has many names), who have controlled us for thousands of years. The Global Elite is also discussed at length in the works of David Icke and by the Sirian High Council (Patricial Cori).
Clow believes that instead of the envisaged/predicted earth changes in the near future (2012) - we have in fact experienced many already, and I heard on the TV news the other day that due to the recent earthquake in Japan the earth's axis had been further tilted to a significant degree, instead of these, she argues, we are heading towards a golden age of peaceful evolution. Well, I quite agree with this, I just believe that the Earth changes will come first, and these need not necessarily be so severe - this may depend on the extent and rapidity of our spiritual development at this time.
The book includes chapters on "The Fallen Angels & the Stones of Ica", "The Stargate Conspiracy & the Kosmokrater" and "Goddess Alchemy & the Heliopolitan Mysteries". The author states "We are completing 11,500 years of a collective degeneration, and we are rapidly shifting into an exciting regenerative phase." She refers us to books on ecstatic body postures, by means of which we can go into trances and access other realities.
To sum up, this is a fascinating, mind-expanding, comprehensive book that touches on many spheres of knowledge. I would strongly advise you to read the book, but unless you're already exceedingly knowledgeable about the subjects the author deals with, I would recommend that you have a dictionary by your side!
February 23, 2008
Have We Been Watching the Movie in Reverse?
Barbara Hand Clow is a noted astrologer, shaman, and teacher, a tireless researcher, and the author of a number of important and best-selling books including "Pleiadian Agenda" and "Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner and Outer Planets." In "Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes in the Coming Age of Light" she once again reaches beyond the consensus to shed new light and original thinking on the events, processes and anxieties that humans deal with on a daily basis.
The pervasive fear of an impending catastrophe is the motivating force, in Ms. Clow's postulation, behind and beneath all of the obsessions having to do with the structure of contemporary earthly civilization: work, human relationships, the economy, the environment and the state, and the search for healing of these structures and ourselves. But whence this anxiety? Why now, and indeed at periodic intervals over the course of recorded history, have we feared a coming catastrophe, a tragedy of such proportions as to snuff out the Earth and all that lives on it?
In this monumental work, Ms. Clow examines legendary cataclysms and delineates how - contrary to prevailing prophecies of dark and deadly times to come - we are truly on the cusp of an era of incredible creative and spiritual growth. The very recent discovery of the remains of ancient villages buried beneath the Black Sea is but the latest in the accumulation of mounting evidence that many of the "mythic" catastrophes of history - the fall of Atlantis, the Biblical flood - were historic events. Ms. Clow ably demonstrates how a series of cataclysmic disasters resulting from a disturbance in the Earth's crust some 11,500 years ago (itself likely caused at least in part by a stellar supernova in the nearby Vela system) "rocked the world" and left humankind's collective psyche deeply scarred and ineradicably traumatized. We are, in her view, "a wounded species," and the unprocessed, until-now indescribable fear passed from generation to generation is responsible for the constant and widespread expectation of a world-ending apocalypse, seen in such instances as the Y2K event to the much-reported end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
"Catastrophobia" also uncovers in detail the insidious global forces - economic, political and religious - that have used these collective fears to control and manipulate humanity for countless centuries. But Ms. Clow's book offers more than a glimmer of hope. It is the work of an informed, reasonable and persuasive optimist. In the author's view, we are in the midst of a shift in the Earth's 26,000 year precessional cycle, and there is every indication that the changes in consciousness seen over the past forty years are the beginnings of a collective healing from these deep fears from the primeval past, heralding a time to come of great spiritual evolution.
Ms. Clow's monumental research effort in writing this insightful and important book and the scientific efforts underlying that research it are particularly praiseworthy. The reader is advised, for a taste of the foregoing and as a preface to "Catastrophobia," to consult the article by G.R. Brackenridge in Icarus (16:81-93) entitled "Terrestrial Paleoenvironmental Effects of a Late Quarternary Age Supernova."
Every serious student of history (both academic and alternative) has every reason to own this important, incisive and pacesetting volume. It will appeal also to the astrologer and the eschatologist, as well as the scientist willing to approach Ms. Clow's work with an open mind.
Barbara Hand Clow is a noted astrologer, shaman, and teacher, a tireless researcher, and the author of a number of important and best-selling books including "Pleiadian Agenda" and "Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner and Outer Planets." In "Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes in the Coming Age of Light" she once again reaches beyond the consensus to shed new light and original thinking on the events, processes and anxieties that humans deal with on a daily basis.
The pervasive fear of an impending catastrophe is the motivating force, in Ms. Clow's postulation, behind and beneath all of the obsessions having to do with the structure of contemporary earthly civilization: work, human relationships, the economy, the environment and the state, and the search for healing of these structures and ourselves. But whence this anxiety? Why now, and indeed at periodic intervals over the course of recorded history, have we feared a coming catastrophe, a tragedy of such proportions as to snuff out the Earth and all that lives on it?
In this monumental work, Ms. Clow examines legendary cataclysms and delineates how - contrary to prevailing prophecies of dark and deadly times to come - we are truly on the cusp of an era of incredible creative and spiritual growth. The very recent discovery of the remains of ancient villages buried beneath the Black Sea is but the latest in the accumulation of mounting evidence that many of the "mythic" catastrophes of history - the fall of Atlantis, the Biblical flood - were historic events. Ms. Clow ably demonstrates how a series of cataclysmic disasters resulting from a disturbance in the Earth's crust some 11,500 years ago (itself likely caused at least in part by a stellar supernova in the nearby Vela system) "rocked the world" and left humankind's collective psyche deeply scarred and ineradicably traumatized. We are, in her view, "a wounded species," and the unprocessed, until-now indescribable fear passed from generation to generation is responsible for the constant and widespread expectation of a world-ending apocalypse, seen in such instances as the Y2K event to the much-reported end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
"Catastrophobia" also uncovers in detail the insidious global forces - economic, political and religious - that have used these collective fears to control and manipulate humanity for countless centuries. But Ms. Clow's book offers more than a glimmer of hope. It is the work of an informed, reasonable and persuasive optimist. In the author's view, we are in the midst of a shift in the Earth's 26,000 year precessional cycle, and there is every indication that the changes in consciousness seen over the past forty years are the beginnings of a collective healing from these deep fears from the primeval past, heralding a time to come of great spiritual evolution.
Ms. Clow's monumental research effort in writing this insightful and important book and the scientific efforts underlying that research it are particularly praiseworthy. The reader is advised, for a taste of the foregoing and as a preface to "Catastrophobia," to consult the article by G.R. Brackenridge in Icarus (16:81-93) entitled "Terrestrial Paleoenvironmental Effects of a Late Quarternary Age Supernova."
Every serious student of history (both academic and alternative) has every reason to own this important, incisive and pacesetting volume. It will appeal also to the astrologer and the eschatologist, as well as the scientist willing to approach Ms. Clow's work with an open mind.
May 7, 2009
Yeah, I reeeealy like BHC, been reading alot of her lately. But this book is just not resonating with me. I thought it was going to be great. I resonate with the premise. However, at one point she started bashing a bunch of people, like Edgar Cayce. Now, I'm not standing up for Cayce, but I don't know if I have heard that he and his peops were Masonic before. I'm into David Wilcock, and David is said to be the re-incarnation of Cayce. He was friends with the peops of the Cayce group and yes, Wilcock confirmed that Cayce had personal problems and perhaps there was a trickster entity messing with Cayce because of lack of personal integrity...but Wilcock is on the up and up, as far as I'm concerned. So, I just sorta got a little turned off about how this book was written...on other levels too. It was almost like she was talking things too seriously all while telling us to not take things too seriously. BUT CHECK OUT "The Pleiadian Agenda" and "The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions"...I've really enjoyed those two!
February 2, 2016
THE SIMPLE TRUTH...BARBARA HAND CLOW WROTE A BEAUTIFUL RECOMMENDATION FOR MERILYN TUNNESHENDE...WHEN HER FIRST BOOK WAS RELEASED AND AMERICA IS CRIPPLED BY FEAR...CRIPPLED AMERICA... BUT THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES. I.T. IS LIKE JOHN LENNON'S IMAGINE HEAD SHOT... WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THEN IN REALIZATION. GAFFC...TIME TO CHIME... FOR SOME CH CH CH CH CHANGES.
October 17, 2007
This book just made so much sense to me. Hand Clow is very grounded while also being way out there. Her thesis, that we are currently suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome as a species due to prior catastrophic earth changes is fascinating and true to me.
June 5, 2011
Hmmm... some of it is really way, way out there. OK, honestly, most of it is way, way out there. Then again, my copy was in Spanish (a gift from a friend)!
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April 2, 2010Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes by Barbara Hand Clow (2001)
May 27, 2014
Purse pseudoscience. But if you're in the mood to play with some fantastical stories of death and destruction, it's kind of fun.
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