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- ANCHESTER - On Dec. 31, as
the century prepares to roll over into a new millennium, some 16 million
people tuned to 400 radio stations across the nation will be listening
to a New Hampshire man. He will tell them what the future holds for the
planet.
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- The radio stations will not go off the air at the stroke
of midnight. Although the man does not foresee serious Y2K-related problems
in America, he thinks disruptions will be devastating elsewhere. But Y2K
problems rate low on his scale of importance, anyway.
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- For millions of people, including most of those living
in Europe and along America's East and West coasts, the news he will bring
for the next decade is not good. By 2012, their homes will be under water,
he says. In part, that is why Gordon Michael Scallion, publisher of Earth
Changes Report and the author of ''Notes from the Cosmos,'' moved to a
small town in southwestern New Hampshire.
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- Scallion said visions, which he has been having since
an illness in 1979, led him and his wife north to a small farmhouse in
a community he asked not be named. There, he and Cynthia Keyes operate
the Matrix Institute, a publishing house, Web site, and organization dedicated
to disseminating Scallion's predictions and advice about how to prepare
for them. Those predictions have been the subject of two segments on the
television show ''Ancient Prophesies.''
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- Scallion has compiled two Future Maps of the World to
illustrate what he thinks the Earth will look like in 2012 after cataclysms
including monumental earthquakes, shifts in the tectonic plates, and a
melting of the polar ice caps.
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- According to Scallion, California will be a chain of
islands, Portsmouth, Portland and Boston will be under water along with
low-lying cities around the globe. There will be one Great Lake, not five.
Portions of the lost continent of Atlantis will rise, while virtually all
of Scandinavia and Europe disappear beneath the seas.
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- Seer, prophet, faker, fraud: Scallion has been called
that and more by his believers and critics. He describes himself as a futurist
blessed or cursed as the case might be by the gift of second sight. He
said that in another life he was Ec-Kar, a teacher in an academy on Atlantis.
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- This much is certain. On Friday, from 10 p.m. to 12:01
a.m., Scallion will air his predictions and take questions from callers
on the Art Bell radio show, which in New Hampshire is broadcast on Manchester's
WGIR and Rochester's WGIN, as well as six Massachusetts stations.
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- Fans who subscribe to his Earth Changes newsletter and
follow his predictions on Web sites addressing topics such as New Age spirituality,
UFOs and the prophecies of Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus credit him with
an accuracy rate greater than 80 percent when predicting events, including
Hurricane Andrew. Scallion said he leaves it to others to keep score. He
just calls them as he sees them.
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- ''The visions have been very consistent since the first
ones came in 1979. They have clarified themselves somewhat but they haven't
changed,'' Scallion said in a telephone interview from his home near Keene.
''Every major prediction has occurred.''
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- Scallion said he was formerly employed in the electronics
industry and is the father of five children, now grown. He lived in Connecticut
until 1982 when his true calling led him to New Hampshire.
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- Scallion is soft-spoken, articulate and unflappable when
confronted with skepticism about some of his more challenging prophecies
- the emergence of a new race of blue-tinged earthlings, for example.
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- ''New Hampshire is a good place to start,'' he said in
describing the years immediately after he began having his visionary dreams.
''One of the dreams showed me a map of New England and the map kind of
circled around southern New Hampshire and Vermont,'' he said. ''The same
dream repeated itself the next week and it zoomed in and I could start
to read some of the names on the map. I could see names like Brattleboro
and Keene and little towns and villages around them, though I had never
been there.''
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- In a subsequent dream he heard a voice tell him that
New Hampshire and Vermont would be among the best places to live in the
mid to late 1990s, ''something no one was saying in 1982,'' Scallion said.
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- Many of Scallion's most prophetic dreams concerned earthquakes
and climatic changes about to beset the globe. Though earlier predictions
have not always come to pass on schedule, Scallion said exact times cannot
always be foreseen.
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- ''The timetable for geologic change takes us to the year
2012, so we have another 12 years before all my visions of changes occur,''
Scallion said of a chain of events that began picking up speed in 1998.
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- Changes in the Earth's magnetic field, its relationship
to the sun, a dramatic increase in sunspot activity, and global warming
all contribute to the coming catastrophes that will dramatically alter
Earth's geography, he said.
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- ''Concord in New Hampshire is the western limit of the
inundation,'' Scallion said of the flooding he expects. ''Elevations on
coastal regions greater than 400 feet will tend to be above the water levels.
The cycle is more and more of these things will happen until eventually,
there is such a melt-off at the poles that water levels rise and literally
make for new maps of the world. Between now and 2012 these things will
unfold,'' he said.
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- Many people will die or be displaced by the changes,
Scallion predicted, but tragedy will also pave the way for what he sees
as a new, more enlightened and peaceful millennium. A shift in the Earth's
magnetic field and the sun's polarity along with more abstract factors
will prompt great changes in human conciousness and biology.
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- ''With anything futurist-oriented, the only way to look
at it is to see if there were patterns ... One of the things we've seen
most recently is the ozone hole,'' Scallion said. It has already increased
rates of skin cancer and prompted changes in plants, he said. Like plants
closing leaves or sunbathers getting tans, humans will adapt to protect
themselves against changes in solar and cosmic radiation. The changes will
be enhanced by the approach of ''the Blue Star,'' a comet-like celestial
body drawn closer to Earth by life's collective spiritual consciousness.
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- ''When people like Karl Jung talk about the universal
conciousness we are all a part of, people have access to that. People like
Cayce and Nostradamus and myself are people who somehow found themselves
kind of tuned in to that place whether by accident, in my case through
a health accident, or through prayer like Cayce, or like Nostradamus who
were simply born into it. In either case, we are accessing the same information,''
Scallion said.
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- It was access to that information, Scallion said, that
allowed him to mentally travel beneath Egypt's great Sphinx to foresee
chambers later discovered by archeologists.
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- Scallion's cosmology, the premises underlying his predictions
and his analyses of the past, is far too complex to be enumerated, let
alone explored, in few words. For that, the curious will have to tune in
on New Year's Eve, visit the Matrix Institute Web site, or read his book.
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- He does not have visions that would allow him to make
stock picks or otherwise profit quickly from his prophecies, Scallion said.
Nor does he have dreams of a political nature that would allow him to foresee
a successful candidacy.
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- Scallion said that he does, however, have an abiding
interest in education and has frequent visions about social and cultural
changes that will occur.
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- Here is what the Cheshire County futurist said about
an issue of great importance to New Hampshire residents.
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- ''An income tax is inevitable in this state,'' Scallion
said. ''While a sales tax would be the easiest way to do it, I don't think
that will happen. We will see more specialized taxes first. With the economy
strong we will look to business but then after that we will look to a state
income tax.''
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- This story ran on page 01 of the Boston Globe's New Hampshire
Weekly on 12/26/1999. © <globe/search/copyright.htmCopyright 1999
Globe Newspaper Company.
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