The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time

by Michael Grosso

If you ever wondered how the New Age is connected with Gaia, Hitler, the Russian Revolution, love, death, sex, and our prevailing preoccupation with the apocalypse and technology, this book will tell you. If you haven't thought about these concerns, as we approach the end of this century, perhaps you should. In any case this book will be a valuable guide.

We have, I believe, enough evidence now to see that the human race has immense possibilities for further development. But our imagination needs to match this evidence. Michael Grosso's The Millennium Myth does the job. It is a great book.

-- Michael Murphy, Founder of Esalen Institute
author of The Future of the Body

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This book may well be the most ambitious and comprehensive piece of scholarship on the myth-making mind since Joseph Campbell's major works.

From the biblical Book of Revelation, through the foundation of America as the New Jerusalem, and on to the Nazi worship of Hitler and to New Age credos, Grosso carefully and clearly explicates both the whys and the wherefores informing the millennial mind. Because he writes with an evenhanded comprehension of both political history and human nature, his text will provide valuable insight and clarification for scholars and interested lay readers. Highly recommended.

This is a major work by an original and gifted thinker. If evocative prose, painstaking erudition, and persuasive argument can themselves bring about a golden age, this is the book to do it.

Michael Grosso is rapidly becoming one of the most astute philosophers/observers of our times. In his many books, he always gives us a view of ourselves in a revealing light. In The Millennium Myth, Michael presents us with some sobering and surprising insights concerning our modern-day views of the oldest concerns we have; namely, how our myths shape and direct our destiny. If you ever wondered how the New Age is connected with Gaia, Hitler, the Russian Revolution, love, death, sex, and our prevailing preoccupation with the apocalypse and technology, this book will tell you. If you haven't thought about these concerns, as we approach the end of this century, perhaps you should. In any case this book will be a valuable guide.

We have, I believe, enough evidence now to see that the human race has immense possibilities for further development. But our imagination needs to match this evidence. Michael Grosso's The Millennium Myth does the job. It is a great book.

In a magisterial act of scholarship and intuition, performed with high competence and lucidity, Grosso, a reader's true friend, has evoked the soul and body of this world-shaking insinuation of vast imminent change and shown us how to grab the Old Serpent, our supposed nemesis, and, rather than chain him up, befriend him and ride his life-affirming energies into the Golden Age.

This is a marvelous compendium of history, mythology and the spiritual quest, which points to a new renaissance emergin. Grosso has put together and well documented a provocative view of our past, present and future. The results are eminently readable and provide a new and expansive vision of what's possible in the future.

The Millennium Myth is a seminal work that can guide human evolution through our current crisis toward a future of immeasurable possibilities. Grosso has given modern hope its lineage and logic, and provided a sense of direction for the conscious evolution of the human species. This major work could catalyze the creative potential of our generation and help us realize the dreams that have motivated us since the dawn of human consciousness.

From St. John to Timothy Leary, everything is considered grist for the millennium mill. Grosso even uses Cronenberg's movie Videodrome as a reference point for what the future might hold. The Millennium Muth taps into the totally unpredictable, creative rage of the human heart. Highly recommended.

It is this inclusive sweep that prompts the comparison with Hegel (whom Gross cites liberally), the conspiratorial (but entertaining) tone that prompts the comparison with The X-Files. There is a wealth of historical information here on an undeniably important mythic component of Western civilization.

This important book comes just in time to get a grip on millenniums old and new. The notion that humanity as a whole will face a major upheaval and spiritual transformation now seems to many an inevitable given, but this idea or archetype began as a religious concept (especially in the West), was elaborated on by mystics, and then was assimilated by almost every area of our society: politics, health, technology, the arts, and the family. Not only will Grosso's research help you understand the reasoning behind the "doomsday" cults, it will give you a refreshing perspective about any belief system.