Title: The millennium myth : love and death at the end of time /
Authors: Grosso, Michael, 1937-
Publisher: Quest Books,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Eschatology.; Eschatology in literature.; Future, The, in popular culture.; Sex in popular culture Forecasting.
Abstract: "In The Millennium Myth, Michael Grosso highlights the chief prophetic vision of the Western world and where it may be leading us. We can see it, the author tells us, unfolding in the high-tech of today and tomorrow: space colonization, terraforming, bioengineering, life-extension, cryonics - the lurch toward bionic superhumanity. Grosso's coinage, technocalypse, sums up his insight that technology is secretly driven by the Millennium Myth, a vision that is piloting human history toward recreating nature and reinventing humanity."--BOOK JACKET. "Grosso chronicles the visionary ideas of the medieval prophet Joachim of Fiore, the Renaissance magicians Pico and Ficino, the American founding fathers Paine and Jefferson and shows the millennial thread that runs through them all. No less does he expose the dark side of the Myth in the fanaticism that inflamed the Russian Revolution and the messianic madness that drove Adolf Hitler."--BOOK JACKET. "The author puts the American "New Age" and increasing reports of angelic contact, alien abduction, near-death visions and Virgin Mary sightings all in the context of apocalyptic hope and sees them as heralds of consciousness transformation."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction: Reading the Signs of the Times -- 1. Origins of the Great Vision -- 2. Joachim of Fiore: Prophet of the New Age -- 3. The Renaissance: world Renovation Through Arts and Sciences -- 4. The Enlightenment: Progress and the Millennium -- 5. Yankee New Jerusalem -- 6. The Proletarian Paradise -- 7. The Messianic Third Reich -- 8. New Age America -- 9. Endtime Anomalies -- 10. Technocalypse Now -- 11. The Future of Death -- 12. Love and Sex in the Millennium -- Conclusion: The Meaning of the Millennium Myth.