Future imperfect: People tune in to the occult when the going gets rough
After the third Mideast War in 1973, when Japan's energy supplies were threatened by embargo on oil from OPEC suppliers, an author named Ben Goto (1929-2020) achieved overnight fame with his 1973 publication of the "Great Prophesies of Nostradamus." That book sold 2.5 million copies, and with several sequels th...