{"id":716,"date":"2006-09-10T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2006-09-10T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T20:01:00","slug":"nostradamus-and-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Nostradamus and 9-11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Smoley, the former editor of Gnosis<\/em><\/a>, was desperate enought to publish a few of my articles during the journal’s existence.<\/p>\n

He has continued writing and editing elsewhere, and his most recent book was The Essential Nostradamus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack by Muslim fanatics on the United States has some people saying, “Nostradamus predicted that the Twin Towers would fall.”<\/p>\n

Not so, says Smoley, in this online interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His assessment of the French prophet: By the way, when Nostradamus did try to forecast something specifically, he was usually wrong. . . . <\/p>\n

The cause of his perennial popularity is that, although he was apparently of middling ability in most of the areas he worked\u2014his astrological contemporaries said he didn\u2019t know how to cast a chart\u2014in his way he was a superb surrealist poet. There is something haunting and evocative in his verses, a continuation of the great apocalyptic tradition of Christianity and, before it, Judaism. These traditions are powerful, not as actual prophecies, but as glimpses into the collective storehouse of images, in which all of us, like it or not, share.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tags: Nostradamus<\/a>, terrorism<\/a>, Islam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Smoley, the former editor of Gnosis, was desperate enought to publish a few of my articles during the journal’s existence. He has continued writing and editing elsewhere, and his most recent book was The Essential Nostradamus. The five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack by Muslim fanatics on the United States has some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-by","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":224,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=224","url_meta":{"origin":716,"position":0},"title":"The Inner West is published\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The Inner West is published The Inner West: An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West is just out under Penguin's Jeremy Tarcher imprint, with the publisher's web page here. The collection of 20 articles is drawn mostly from the back issues of Gnosis: A Journal of the Western\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8126,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8126","url_meta":{"origin":716,"position":1},"title":"Demons! Swastikas!! Witches in Ireland!!!","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 The Washington Post runs a non-snarky article about a psychiatrist who thinks that demons are real. So began an unlikely partnership. For the past\u00a0two-and-a-half\u00a0decades and over several hundred consultations, I\u2019ve helped clergy from multiple denominations and faiths to filter episodes of mental illness \u2014 which represent the overwhelming majority\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Ireland\"","block_context":{"text":"Ireland","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=ireland"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12453,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12453","url_meta":{"origin":716,"position":2},"title":"Wines for Esotericists","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"What has been happening over at the Winery at Holy Cross Abbey, down in Ca\u00f1on City, Colorado? They have gone hermetic! M. and I celebrated equinox season today by attending the winery's Harvest Festival. It was packed. SInce the focus is on wine, many attendees turned it into a picnic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/the-alchemist-wine-239x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}