Our instinctive interest in prophecy resides not so much in a need to know in advance of a terrible demise, rather in the belief that we have the power to effect change on enormous scales. We innately sense the value of prophecy because we may have the capacity to change what lies in the offing . including an interplanetary prediction. If such is believed, even a tiny bit, then we owe it to ourselves to understand the prophecies that surround us, to look for the signs that they are coming, to examine whether we can change the outcome, or simply prepare for the worst. Within this scenario lurks enormous danger for the powers that be. For when people believe in their own ability to harness creative powers or that their prayers can have an impact on the movement of a heavenly body, then those will have regained their power and the few will have lost it.
Control is the underlying theme .
Having handed over power we realize that this was not wise. We realize that with power went knowledge access. Now we are treated like children, and told only what the powers want us to know. As a mass of consciousness, we seek to regain control, fully aware, its relinquishment may require efforts of apocalyptic proportions. Thus, deep in our sub-conscious, we are attracted to our apocalyptic suspicions.