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When Prophecy Never Fails

 

As sociology was one of the fields I considered pursuing as a profession when I was younger, I was delighted to discover a sociological work that focused exclusively on the Unarius Academy of Science. 


I had read Diana G. Tumminia's chapter on Unarius in The Gods Have Landed years ago, and had most recently encountered her in the film Children of the Stars - again, speaking about Unarius.


When Prophecy Never Fails is the result of the author's eight-year sociological study of Unarius. It incorporates her previous articles on the group. 


Ms. Tumminia does an excellent job with describing the processes that groups of people (including both sociologists and Unariuns) use to make sense of, and validate, their concensus reality. She also provides a clear picture of how myth-making, or story telling, further shapes and colors that reality. 


As with many such works, the field-worker's primary challenge is to balance being 'insider' enough to understand the group they are seeking to study, while remaining enough of an 'outsider' to retain their professional stance and objectivity.


When Prophecy Never Fails seems to be, in great part, a refutation of the classic sociological study from 1956, When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter.  The failed prophecy in question being, in this case, the predicted arrival of Space Brothers, in Vehicles of Light, anticipated by the Unariuns in the year 2001.


The book was very helpful to me in providing a new perspective on Unarius, helping me to attain a broader overview of the organization and its activities, and humanizing the key personages that brought us the core Unariun teachings. It certainly strengthened my inner bond with the group.


One of my favorite tales related in the book is how the Unariuns she was studying were much more compassionate and comforting than her sociologist friends when she was not granted a professional position she felt she deserved.


A historical timeline and information on the planets of the Interplanetary Confederation was included in the Appendixes. There are also copious notes and references. All in all an informative and helpful book from a 'detatched' sociological point of view. To gain greater insight into Unarius, I highly recommend that you explore it for yourself. 


Review by Hercules Invictus

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