cover image The World to Come: The Guides' Long-Awaited Predictions for the Dawning Age

The World to Come: The Guides' Long-Awaited Predictions for the Dawning Age

Ruth Montgomery. Harmony, $18.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-609-60479-3

Montgomery (Here and Hereafter, etc.) made headlines years ago when she transformed herself from Washington political columnist into a contender for the title of the next Nostradamus. In her first book in 12 years, she revisits predictions she made over the course of 15 books and offers updated information about the ""shift,"" or planetary reorganization (including a change in the Earth's axis), to come in the next decade. Montgomery gives an overview of the material covered in her previous work: the nature of the shift, reincarnation, aliens, ""walk-ins"" (individuals whose bodies have been taken over by enlightened beings) and the method by which she receives her visions from the ""Guides"" (spirits who are active in the human sphere, but whose vibrational energy is higher, making them invisible to human eyes). She then explains why she revoked her decision to stop publishing: the future has changed, and the Guides have reported a delay in the shift (it won't happen until 2010 or 2012), pending the arrival of a walk-in president (no, say the Guides, ""it is not Ross Perot""). Montgomery reassures readers that the spirituality boom (and the good graces of reincarnated ""survivors of the Hundred Years' War in Europe"" who don't want to see us repeat their bloody ways) will lessen the devastation she had previously predicted would be wrought by the shift. But it will still be rough going (people and animals will perish by the millions). Montgomery intends this to be her final book--but if she's for real, the Guides will make that decision, not her. (Sept.)