Conversations with Nostradamus: His Prophecies Explained, Vol. 3 Book

It was comforting and practically nostalgic to re-enter the familiar world of Nostradamus and his conversations with Dolores and her various regressed subjects.

In the encounters with N reported in this volume, D reverts to using a few subjects, including Phil, she had previously availed herself of, and also tries out several new ones, whom she finds all can make contact with N at various ages.

However, I was somewhat disappointed by the book in the long run, since I found many of the quatrains, and their interpretations, uninteresting, and not seeming to deal with matters significant to our time.

I feel the need to reiterate that practically all N's quatrains, if not all of them, were completely incomprehensible and, it turns out misinterpreted by all translators, and indeed this was what N intended from the start, for his own protection, since he was persecuted by the Church authorities of his time. It is as though only now when N reappears on the scene, as it were, and interprets them for us, do they make any sense and validate their existence.

It turns out one of his quatrains (interpreted to D before the events actually occurred) dealt with the break-up of the Soviet Union into various independent states.

The volume contains an unlikely quatrain dealing with Live Aid concerts, concerts for raising money to "aid people stricken with catastrophe", etc. Understandably, N states that he has never heard that sort of music before, but is told by the subject that it is called "rock". He wrote this quatrain because the results of these concerts affected history, e.g. at the time of the Vietnam war when several protests were carried out in the form of such concerts, the result of all this being that the USA disengaged from the war.

There is more information about the Popes of our time, but this didn't make much sense to me, since I have no knowledge of, or interest in, popes or the Church, and cannot distinguish the various popes from each other. I believe I discussed N's mention of popes in a review of Book 1 or 2 in this series.

This volume also contains further information about the Anti-Christ, including drawings of him and the Imam, his uncle, created by a subject when returning from a regression where she saw them clearly. However, according to N, the Anti-Christ should have entered the scene long ago, at least in the last decade of the 20th century and revealed himself to us in connection with the waging of his wars. At this point in 2011 I still have no idea who he might be, though I admit I have no knowledge of political figures from the Middle East.

N still reprimands D for her total ignorance of French and basic French pronunciation despite his repeated corrections (I must admit it irritated me too - perhaps Americans don't learn French in school, in which case D's ignorance is understandable).

I have to point out to D (though I'm sure she's got better things to do with her time than read these on-line reviews of her books) that she could advantageously look into her use of the word "infer" when she means "imply", "ravish" when she means ravage, "worse" when she means "worst", and finally, "affect" as a noun when she means "effect". She commits these last two errors continually throughout the book, which I found quite irritating.

I found most of the book somewhat boring, since it seemed to provide very little new information, Perhaps the most interesting chapter is the one entitled "Nostradamus asks us questions", though I found it to be more a matter of N enlightening us with his wisdom than D enlightening N, since it turned out that in various respects N proved more knowledgeable than D. The two have various controversies, and these do not conclude with D understanding what he is on about. D aggressively defends the practice of modern medicine, which N sees as the administration including injection of poisons into our bodies, though he agrees that the occasional use of medicine might be necessary in urgent situations.

He understands that "disease isn't necessarily caused by bacteria or viruses --- but by our thoughts and karma" - a very advanced view for his time. He understands that "our repressed feelings and emotions, unfulfilled longings and desires, all affect the physical operation of our bodies --- if we're judging our past actions we can have a lingering, long-term disease like cancer." "The viruses, germs or bacteria do not cause illness." D remarks "This is what the scientists have found in their laboratories."

N states, moreover, that chemotherapy does terrible things to the inside of the body. He says the physician never heals the person, and he does know that now.

D, like most people regards organ transplants as a great advance in medicine, while to N's mind an organ transplant is the introduction into the body of a "huge foreign substance rather than tiny microscopic foreign substances".

(In support of N's view of the negative nature of transplants, I would state that I have learnt from various sources that we are held back in our journey to the spiritual world if our body contains an organ or organs originating from the body of another, or if one or more of our own organs have been placed in the body or bodies of others.)

N concludes that he wishes he had talked to his patients about their "goals, frustrations --- emotions, and also about God". In other words he became fully aware of the fact that the causes of illness are largely emotional.

N was/is thus an amazingly highly developed being.

The book of course contains various passages of interest over and above what I have just stated, but to my mind it is on the whole considerably less interesting than Volumes One and Two. Thus, I've awarded it three stars only.

However, if you're a Nostradamus fan it's still worth reading, and Dolores must be commended on the completion of this laborious work which came to comprise three volumes.