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A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012
2012 and Counting
by Dr. David Morrison
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About the author
Dr. David Morrison is the Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute and Senior Scientist in the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Dr. Morrison received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University (where Carl Sagan was his thesis advisor) and has spent most of his career working in planetary science and astrobiology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the California Academy of Sciences. He is recipient of the Dryden Medal for research of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Sagan Medal of the American Astronomical Society for public communication. Morrison is a leading skeptic and proponent of improving science education and literacy. Asteroid 2410 Morrison is named in his honor.
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www.skeptic.com] Skeptic Magazine, volume 15 number 2:
Table of Contents
The End of the World, Again?
2012 and Counting
A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012
by David Morrison
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‘The 2012 Phenomenon’ As the year 2012 approaches, apocalyptic visions of the year has achieved newfound popularity. In this MA-thesis, Sacha Defeche investigates the roots of the esoteric apocalypse in 2012 in psychedelic and New Age subculture, and looks at the different types of apocalyptic visions, from Jose Argüelles to David Icke.
By Sacha Defesche
‘The 2012 Phenomenon’: A historical and typological approach to a modern apocalyptic mythology.M.A. Thesis by Sacha Defesche
Department of Religious Studies, Subdepartment History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents
M.A. Program Mysticism and Western Esotericism.
Tutor: Prof. Dr. W.J. Hanegraaff
Secondary Reader: Dr. M. Pasi
University of Amsterdam
January-August 2007