John addresses the questions, "what are useful strategies for this paradigm shift…..what cautionary perspective do you have on avoiding 'millennial fever'…….how do you read the future?" And more! Predictions for what the new millennium will bring fascinates us all.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON JOHN HOGUE

I was born 7:32 AM, 29 October 1955, in Hollywood, CA. Both my parents were in the movie industry. My Dad ("Bud" Hogue)was a studio grip during the 1940’s and 1950’s and worked on over 200 of the era’s finest films. My mother, Irene, was a dancer for MGM and Paramount Studios. She worked with some of that film era’s most famous movie personalities: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland, Mitzi Gaynor, choreographer Busby Berkeley and Ester Williams, to name a few.

I also spent some time in the professional performing arts as an actor and Opera singer under the tutelage of William Chapman, Broadway star and lead baritone of the New York City Opera, and his wife, Irene Chapman.

I left a promising singing career because the moments of heightened consciousness experienced while performing were of more interest to me than having a stage career. I wanted to discover if such moments of awareness could become one’s moment-to-moment, twenty-four hour experience. Since the late 1970s I have embarked on an inner journey of self-observation, investigating and writing on subjects of the occult, parapsychology, mysticism and prophecy. This search has taken me several times around the world. I have spent extensive periods in India experimenting with ancient and modern meditation techniques and living in ashrams and alternative communities.

I am a member of World Future Society, Zero Population Growth, and the World Academy of Creative Science, Arts, and Consciousness (WACSAC).

Favorite pursuits: dancing, hiking, humor, love play, meditation, painting (not in that order).

Favorite music: Classical; especially late German romantics (like Nirvana, Whole...just kidding), although I’m game for any kind of music if it has intelligence and innovation.

Political affiliation: Meritocrat.
Spiritual affiliation: Just Religious, thank you...

PHILOSOPHICAL OVERVIEW ON THE STUDY OF PROPHECY
(Updated on 6 January 1997)

The study of the world's meditation techniques and religions naturally expanded into a study of prophecy. I first became interested in predictions out of fear. Fear that an apocalypse was unavoidable. At that time I felt no responsibility for my planet or myself in the matter of its survival. I was reading every prediction made in the last 10 millennia just to see if there was a safe place to weather the coming holocaust. As the years passed my study of prophecy and the occult was revolutionized by the addition of meditation into my life. As a result of practicing this inner science I became aware that no safe place exists for anyone except within consciousness itself. I have come through this twenty-three year study of predictions recognizing that each of us is responsible for the misery and auto-suicidal tendencies which are destined to destroy this beautiful planet. In other words, each of us does our part to create either doomsday or a blooms day in the early decades of the next millennium.

It is my experience that Prophecy works because we are predictable. Conditioning each new generation to blindly follow our habits and traditions without questioning them only condemns our children to be as predictable and tragic in their future history as we have behaved in history’s past. In fact, I don’t believe we've ever had a future. We recreate the past and call it the future, with all of its predictable traps

So far we have failed to fix our world because we deal with the symptoms not the ‘dis-ease’ itself. A new science of self-observation is needed before humanity will become aware of the roots of its suffering. Only this understanding, shared by millions across the Earth, can alter human destiny for the better. As I see it, if humanity wants a future -- rather than a regurgitated past -- it will have to be deprogrammed and deconditioned. In the next 30 years, Society’s habit of turning every enlightened child into a manageable mediocrity will have to end, or civilization will collapse from stresses coming from pollution and overpopulation. If people are freed from their fossilized religious and traditional conditioning then the new humanity of the next century will be spontaneous and unpredictable.

You cannot predict what untethered intelligence and love will do next. Perhaps that is why so many of history’s proven seers witness so few events beyond the first decade of the next century. Rather than 2012 being the date that time ends, as certain prophetic traditions and pop-Apocaloids believe, humankind begins to free itself from its past conditionings and therefore its future cannot be easily foreseen.

With this said, it is always important to remember that we live in no other time but this atomic and eternal moment. A study of prophecy should not nurture our future-oriented obsessions. Doomsday or a Golden Age of peace never comes today. They are potentials of the living present. I propose that a study of prophecy is best served in this context: to use the foreseen future results to reflect upon our present actions which give them birth. Only in the present do we have the power to change tomorrow. Only by living totally in this moment do we have a chance to avoid tomorrow’s darker potentials.

 RADIO APPEARANCES

I have made over 150 radio appearances between July of 1994 through December 1996 which have aired on over 1,100 syndicated stations with an estimated audience of over 40 million in North America, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia.

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

I have appeared on over 30 local, national, and international television stations in America, Australia, Britain and Italy. Some of these include:

NBC’s highly successful eight-hour prime time documentary series called Ancient Prophecies I, II, III and IV, with David McCallum as host..

Fox channel’s Encounters and Sightings. I will appear again in January/February on Fox’s new documentary special Millennium Prophecies.

Arts & Entertainment Channel's A & E’s Biography on Nostradamus, as well as an examination of ancient prophetic traditions on Ancient Mysteries with Leonard Nimoy. Two more shows are planned for A & E and Discovery Channel for 1997.

An interview on RAI 2 Televison, the national Italian broadcast network for New Years 1996. The show was viewed by 30 million.

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