do you think Nostodarmis was just mad or are the people who discipher his writing mad?

Answer 1

Nostradamus was probably being very honest yet very careful about his writings. Before he took up his seer work, he had been practicing medicine. His wife died during the plague.

According to a special that was done by Orson Wells many years ago, Nostradamus became involved in the occult after the death of his wife (which had profoundly influenced him though he later remarried). It is said that he used a crystal ball in the same manner that one might use a oiuja board in order to get answers to questions about the future.

There are different accounts as to how he actually achieved the ability to see into the future. I do feel that *he* felt he was on the right track and that outside of his writings there was nothing else mentally or pyschologically wrong with him that was ever documented.

In today's world, selling the future is just another way to make a quick buck. In those days - that sort of thing would get you hung - which is why his writings were so crypted.

In the end, it was an attempt on his part to contact the dead. As a footnote, Thomas Edison attempted the same and actually began constructing a device for that purpose. He never finished it because of his own death. Many people who use Electronic Voice Phenomena attribute the process to Thomas Edison.

Answer 2

No one has ever managed to link one of his predictions with and event BEFORE it happened! Only after do they manage to make the writings say what they want them to mean. So in my opinion they're all a bit barmy!!

Answer 3

well it makes interesting reading
looking forward to Nostradamus World War III Predictions

Answer 4

Well I guess that's for you to decide, people can decipher his writing all they like, does it mean that it has any validity?
You would have to learn french, get hold of some of his original writing then learn for yourself, you cannot be sure otherwise, interpretation is subjective.

Answer 5

Only after the fact his predictions have been predicted. No one ever has predicted a fact before hand. Afterward I could have told you that to.

Answer 6

I think to some degree he had a gift , but many people have misunderstood his writing.

Answer 7

Most probably both.
(If you mean Nostradamus)

Answer 8

he may have been into the occult