Crossing the Cusp: Surviving the Edgar Cayce Pole Shift [Paperback]

First - I'll be perfectly frank...

This book is apocalyptic in content, but not without some foundation that's beginning to emerge in respect of an enormous "failed planet" reportedly hurtling towards our inner solar system at great speed, with forecast arrival in the uncomfortably-near term. Two common names for this planet are "Nibiru" (so named from reported appearance in ancient text), or "Planet X" - the modern equivalent. Googling might whet your appetite with the wealth of available material, having trawled the maze of the usual attention-seeking drivel and desperate YouTube video's.

Intelligently written, the book begins by drawing startling parallels between orbital trajectory and what would appear to be associated messages depicted in recent Wiltshire crop circles. The book is written in an unashamedly-forthright style, dealing with inter-planetary physics and diagrams that are easily appreciated, and the inescapable bliblical texts and visionaries (whilst read at face-value) that again draw parallels with an impending event. I should perhaps mention that I am not of any religious persuasion.

The subject matter however is somewhat alarmist and could prove deeply disturbing, leaving some to dismiss its content (or the book altogether) out of fear and preferred ignorance, for some as "yet more apocalyptic fantasy", and others inspired to keep a watchful eye on possible near-term events. In the following months, this red planet (according to available reports) will become visible in the far-Southern hemisphere, and inescapably-visible from the northern hemisphere at the end of the magical 2012 to mark the start of disasterous consequencies. This does however assume that the unstable comet-styled orbit is sufficiently predictable to initiate such cataclysmic outcomes.

Had the word "Surviving" not appeared in the title, I would have been less forgiving in my rating for the wealth of conjecture and widely-cast psycho-analysis of the human species in order that one might follow such advice and, statistically, survive such an event. Furthermore, reference is made to crop-circle and visionary messages of inexplicable origin, but the possible intervention of the same 'super-race' (?) playing some part in mankind's survival hardly gets a hearing.

If you are of an open-minded and objective disposition, and prepared for an unsettling read into what promises to be observable quite soon, then this book is probably for you. According to the information contained in this book, and without revealing too much, the underlying predictions stand to be wholly credited or discredited within two years.

There is, and will always be, a veritable glut of apocalyptic predictions and such, though the question here must be "could this be right?". If you really don't want to know, then I suggest that you look away now... or have a chuckle one Christmas whilst celebrating the welcome departure of the countless failed 2012 prophecies.

Do not buy this book. He is a scammer, he cherry picks information, has no evidence to back up his facts, he thinks he had deciphered the crop circle, I just think he made it up to fit in with his story, Niribu had not arrived on December 21st. The book was do bad I never even finished it. Don't waste your money. He is talking rubbish, I know I won't get my money back, but what my wasted time reading this crap.

There is no arguing that the author has a gift for words. He sounds convincing and almost appealing. I was drawn to purchase this book due to my own interest in crop circles. Most importantly I was interested in his solution to a perceived problem, a dwarf sun about to enter out solar system, which he speaks of using a vortex to minimize effects of such an event. And knowing something about vortexes this piqued my curiosity.

The flaws in this book begin with the early chapter relating to the Hopi Indians. They did not survive as he assumes merely on their practical skills. Hopi lore is full of stories where they were saved by the ant people, that is they taken up in large space ships until the smoke cleared between the various cataclysms that ended each of the previous three world orders. It is true that the Hopi these do believe that we are going to be entering into a 5th world and that there will be a period of Great Change.

After putting the fear of God into the reader about the impending cataclysm which he and perhaps rightly knows is a natural process he doesn't offer hope or solutions that the book title suggests. Instead he basically says "Johnny get your gun and bigger the better" and remember "to shoot at the head of the heart" a direct quote. This kind of survivalist mentality seems to be in absolute opposition to his theories of spiritual evolution and not allowing fear to rule ones decision-making process. If I did not take some of the information referred to in this book seriously, I would be amused instead of befuddled. When he speaks about our spiritual capacity to be able to use our own thoughts and energies to overt disaster, it is presented in a very convoluted and for me totally confusing matter about Hawaii and Japan. Vortexs are all over this planet.

I believe that the author is using Edger Casey's Prediction as hook to grab the reader's attention and hopefully pocketbook. What is interesting is that not only Casey's predictions but also the predictions of Nostradamus regarding geological changes have been consistently inaccurate particularly in relationship to time. And as far as I know the date of 2013 was never part of the Casey prediction.

If you spend any time studying crop circles it becomes very evident that the makers are not sloppy and do not make "mistakes". With this in mind it is very clear that Marshall has taken the liberty as some authors do to present their own personal views as history. They cherry pick facts or distort them in order to support their thesis that in this case centers around the date of the end of the Mayan calendar. In fact if you go onto the website Crop Circle Connector you will clearly see the date stamp December 21, 2012 is not evidently clear. (To do so you will have to join as a member in order to access the archives.) The so-called anomaly of the position of Pluto actually places the date stamp of the planets positions they are shown formation to be the year 2036. Without Pluto it would be 2012. But Pluto is there! Ergo the entire rationale is book is undermined glossy cover and all.

I was initially surprised to find that a book of this nature had so much personal referencing about the author's life. But this is intimated by the name of Marshall's own publishing company, "Your Own World". This is a book about the author's world and his future world that is barely habitable. The big lesson after reading this book is quite simple. We create our own Reality, absolutely.