SUMMARY Ignatius Donnelly, visionary futurist, returns from the past to visit a notable creek in California, finding there evidence of impending millenial instability, including global warming, AIDS, and stock market speculation; setting out to repeat his amazing predictions of the 1880s, he probes ancient symbols and modern science; from the stones of the creek he finds that remarkable events occurred 5000 years ago; from the oaks and his knowledge of Krakatoa he discovers how asteroid-triggered volcanism impacts civilization including biblical narratives and the archaeology of the Dead Sea; from a skull found in the creek and the impudence of a certain Saint in his treatment of native sacred objects he discovers what nature holds in store for humanity and the environment. The site contains information on Mr. Donnelly's personal history including his remarkable middle age ability to recover from adversity.

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PART I

THE CREEK

I. GREETINGS AND PURPOSES
How this chatauqua sets out, through three manners of prophecy, to reconcile science and religion, and provide useful answers to certain problems that stalk through the world at the threshold of the millenium.

II. UNSTABLE HAPPENINGS
A common thread runs through many of your concerns: new diseases such as AIDS, instability of global markets, floods and other signs of climate deterioration, geophysical chaos.

III. GERALDIS CAMBRENSIS:THE NATURE OF THE WESTERLY REGIONS
Overture: twelfth century view of Ireland and the meaning of California; why men need friends: pagan Celtic Nel and Moses.

IV. FIRST PROPHECY: THE SKULL
The discovery of a 5000 year old native skull in San Francisquito Creek creates a link to the distant past.

V. SECOND PROPHECY: THE STONES
Modern technology and geological history reveal the content of the "sermons in stones"; a medieval tradition of creek-based knowledge exemplified by the Hymenoptera.

IV. THIRD PROPHECY: THE OAKS
How the oaks remain today a leading source of prophecy and enlightenment; the true lesson of Sodom.

IV. BONIFACE
Why is this Christian Saint chopping down the native's favorite tree?

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PART II

EAST OF EDEN
(In Progress)
donbio1, donbio2, arist, martin, gilg, burrows, marfl, saddam, love(book.nfo)
Marsh, Iraq
Flood, Pajaro River
Pajaro River, flood and lawsuit over
Donnelly, life of
Donnelly, later unlucky years
Donnelly, early years
Aristotle, theory on rivers
Ragnorak, significance of
Van, Lake, sediments in
I. MR. STEINBECK'S VALLEY
II. VISIONS DESTROYED AND RECOVERED
III. THE DISCOMFORTS OF CHANGE
IV. NOISE, SEX, AND ECOLOGICAL RUIN

PART III

THREE THOUSAND BC
(In Progress)
paleo, holo, holosci, peru, pines, van, krak, 3000BC, hot toxics, iceman, bruins, deadsea, sealevel, sodom, cina, fiji, sc
Sea level San Francisco Bay
3000 BC, remarkable coincidence of
Dead Sea, past levels of
Peru, past climates in
Rhine, paleo surfaces of
Sea level, in South Carolina
Pines, in prehistorical
Climate, holocene
Levees, geology of
Sea level, Fiji
holocene, events in
3000 BC, events at
Sea level, China
Egypt, ancient
Krakatoa, effects on climate of

I. KRAKATOA, PRECURSOR OF THE GREAT COOLING
An 1880s eruption chills the world
II. THE ACID SPIKE
Palaeoclimatic evidence points to something special at 3150 BC
III. RETURN OF THE SEA

PART IV

THE FLOOD
(In Progress)

PART V

THE WISDOM OF THE NATIVES
(In Progress)
Gerow
Gilgamesh
Mayans
donnelly/bible

PART VI

THE FUTURE

I. DISASSEMBLING THE LANDSCAPE
II. THE BEETLES OF ARBOGA
III CLIMATE AND STABILITY

APPENDICES
pajaro/1cov
flood/geo
flood/lpp
oaks/select
sts90q99/prehist
donnelly/summary

VELIKOVSKY AND SAGAN
THE FAIRIES: TRUE CAUSE OF AIDS?
MAIL AND DISCUSSION
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