Apocalypse Pretty Soon - Travels In End-Time America

Zusatztext "A frequently hilarious traipse through the bizarro netherworld of millennial and utopian subcultures." -- Washington Post Book World " Apocalypse Pretty Soon is a funny must-read for anyone looking for a respite from doom-and-gloom offerings currently on the bookstore shelves." -- Chicago Tribune "Funny! unsettling! crank-packed...an all-American take on the looming exclamation point at the end of history." -- Entertainment Weekly "Heard is an engaging writer: witty! not snide! not superior...turn to the chapter titled 'Death! Be Not in My Face!' read it! and I think you will agree: This is not simply silly stuff; this is the human comedy." --Katherine Powers! Boston Globe Informationen zum Autor Alex Heard Klappentext The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twentieth century! but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsthand. Heard's enthusiasm led him on errands as diverse as being a voyeur at a Republic of Texas militia standoff! accompanying an expectant UFO "greeting party" to a remote field in Minnesota! and enacting the grief of the California quail at an ad-hoc therapy group for fierce environmentalists who believe the earth is an actual living entity that's preparing to kill off its human population -- and soon...or at least pretty soon. Leseprobe Welcome, Space Brothers What would happen in a world, when upon impacted soil, an angel touches down to stay a while? --from Forty Years of Love and Light, a video eulogy for Ernest and Ruth Norman, co-founders of the Unarius Academy of Science On December 27, 1974, in a moment that must have cheered somebody up at the Los Angeles offices of the Internal Revenue Service, a completed IRS form 1023 arrived by mail from a California-based outfit called Unarius--Science of Life. Form 1023 is mandatory paperwork for groups seeking tax-exempt status, and one requirement is "a narrative description of the activities presently carried on by the organization." Most people keep that answer short and straight. (Why brag when you're asking for a favor?) The Unarians did too--by their standards--but their unique mission demanded a splash of Technicolor: Planned and masterminded by millions of super-intelligent beings from higher worlds, Unariun [sic] Mission formally began in 1954. . . . [Its teachings] could most accuratly [sic] be described as containing more information, knowledge, and wisdom than would be contained in any known pricepts [sic] of human knowledge. This Interdimensional Science exist [sic] now in 30 bound volumes and was delivered to the earth world by Dr. Ernest L. Norman and his wife, Ruth E. Norman. . . . Here . . . can be attained the science of the future. . . . The IRS doesn't require nonprofits to demonstrate that their work will benefit the United States government. Unarius tossed that in anyway, giddily bragging that it could help the country win the cold war. "The Unariun Science could factually . . . place the United States far ahead of [the] U. S. S. R. in all scientific findings," the application said. Since the previous August, Ruth Norman had received "mental transmissions" from "over 159" departed luminaries, including "Albert Einstein . . . Iwan Petrovich Pawlow [sic] . . . Robert Oppenheimer, President John F. Kennedy, Eisenhower, T. Roosevelt, etc., etc." In the process she had recovered the lost secrets of the Tesla Tower, a 2,000-foot-tall wireless energy-transmission machine--attempted and abandoned on Wardenclyffe, Long Island, in the early 1900s by Nikola Tesla, the late, great engineering genius--that the Normans planned to build using "crystalline substance and gold." "There are no limitation [sic]," the statement conclude...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alex Heard
• Verlag: Main Street Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.01.2000
• EAN: 9780385498524
• ISBN: 978-0-385-49852-4
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein