A mistake about Pius XIII, a circle-lemniscate logo, and a lost city found in 2012

I've been reading Joe McMoneagle's 1998 book The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium. I have a lot of respect for Mr. McMoneagle and appreciate his willingness to stick his neck out and make a lot of very specific predictions, many of which could be (and have been) shown to be true or false in his lifetime. Unfortunately, to coin a phrase, "whether there be prophecies, they shall fail." Mr. McMoneagle has a very good track record as a remote viewer in general, but trying to view the future is apparently a different ball game. The only sort-of hit in the material on the first quarter of the present century is the prediction that there would be a second war in Iraq starting sometime between 1998 and 2003. All of the further details he gives about that war are wrong, though. There are lots of other very specific predictions, and they all fail. For example, Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) was supposed to have died in late 1999 and been replaced by a Pius XIII. So far, the winner in the How Wrong Can You Possibly Be category is the prediction that by 2005 "use of the phone as a communication device will be nearly eliminated." To the author's credit, he hasn't tried to memory-hole this book but actually had the integrity to have it republished as recently as 2018.

Prophecies fail, but sync abides. I read the failed Pius XIII prophecy shortly after posting "She's afraid of the light in the dark." Since that post involved Marilyn Manson's version of the song "God's Gonna Cut You Down," I linked to my earlier (2020) post on that song, "Go tell that long-tongued liar." In the first comment on that old post, Francis Berger had linked to a Marilyn Manson cameo on the HBO series The New Pope, which I know nothing about. In the clip, Manson (playing himself) meets the new pope (John Malkovich), who he mistakenly thinks is Pope Pius XIII. In fact, Pius XIII is in a coma; his successor, Francis II, has died; and Malkovich is the new pope, John Paul III. Manson has missed all this, having been holed up in his studio and not following the news. So the sync isn't just the name Pius XIII -- it's McMoneagle and Manson both thinking the new pope is Pius XII and both being wrong.

Another of McMoneagle's failed prophecies is that a new religion would be founded between 2002 and 2005, using as its sign "the Infinity Symbol, superimposed on a circle." He even included an illustration of what this new religious symbol would look like:

Shortly after reading about that, I was on the road and saw a building with a very similar logo on it:

I looked up the company and couldn't fund out much about it, but I did note that their Facebook page has a banner at the top mentioning the company's 20th anniversary. Twenty years ago would be 2005, in McMoneagle's date range for the introduction of that logo. However, the most recent post on the Facebook page is dated 2017, so I don't think the 20th anniversary thing is current. Still a bit of a coincidence.

On Tuesday night, at around 9:00 p.m., I taught an adult English class in which we read an article called "Finding the World's Lost Cities":

The article says of the White City of Honduras that "scientists were unable to find it until 2012."

At 12:07 a.m. this morning, approximately three hours after teaching that "Lost Cities" article, I read and screencapped this in McMoneagle's book:

He uses the same language as the article, calling Atlantis a "lost city" that will be "found" -- even though Atlantis is more typically referred to as an island than as a city -- and gives the date 2012.

Atlantis wasn't found in 2012 -- but apparently neither was the White City of Honduras. Rather like Atlantis itself, it has been "discovered" lots of times, but none of these discoveries is recognized by mainstream archaeology. According to Wikipedia:

There have been multiple claims of the discovery of Ciudad Blanca. "Every ten years or so, somebody finds it," says Begley, who documented this history of claims in a 2016 article for the book Lost City, Found Pyramid. Most professional archaeologists remain skeptical that the various legends surrounding Ciudad Blanca refer to a specific site.