Since early childhood, internationally renowned astronomical and mathematical researcher, Patrick Geryl, has been fascinated with the stars: over the years he has studied hundreds of publications and books on cosmology, quantum physics and astronomy. Patrick's first book on astronomy, "A new Space-Time Dimension", published in 1979, bravely launched an attack on Einstein's world famous relativity theory. As part of his calculations, Patrick also predicted several spectacular and controversial theories connected to the structure of the universe including; galaxies in the infrared spectrum and the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Originally ridiculed by more 'knowledgeable' and 'qualified' cosmologists, astronomers and scientists, it has only been in the last ten years, with the launch of the Hubble and IRAS orbiting telescopes, that Patrick's predictions have been confirmed as correct. Patrick received huge coverage in the Belgium press and television for his predictions and discoveries, and this media coverage is now extending worldwide. During this time, Patrick was also researching the nutritional aspects of diets and their implications on our state of health. Several of his 5 books on this subject have become best sellers, including his brilliant and controversial book "Vitality for Life" predicting that AIDS can be cured by a change in diet. Patrick himself converted to a fruit and vegetables diet believing this would give him a much longer life.Ironically, his astronomical discoveries about the Mayan and Egyptian 'End of Times' in 2012 shocked him so deeply that it threw all his plans of a long life into total disarray and sent him on a quest: a quest for the lost city of Atlantis and a quest for the true history of modern man. Through his astronomical knowledge, Patrick discovered evidence leading to the existence of a highly-developed civilization that was destroyed by a not so distant polar reversal. The surviving descendants of this civilization, the Mayans and Ancient Egyptians, each predicted a similar disaster for the year 2012. Realizing the urgency of this warning, Patrick set aside all other research and started intensive investigation and analysis on decoding the ancient messages encoded into the very fabric of the ancient cultures. Patrick's research has resulted in three books so far. The first book, "The Orion Prophecy", was published in 1998 in Belgium and Holland, and in the USA at the end of 2001. Translations followed in Polish, Spanish, Bulgarian and Portuguese, with the book becoming a bestseller in Poland. The second book, "The World Cataclysm in 2012" was published in 2005 in the USA, again becoming a bestseller in Poland, with the third book in the series, "How to survive 2012" published at the end of 2006. Patrick Geryl is no Doomsday prophet; he didn't predict the approaching 2012 catastrophic pole shift: the ancient Atlanteans, Egyptians and Mayans have all done that: Patrick is a serious logical, methodical and systematic researcher. What Patrick has done is decoded the key that explains how and why these ancient civilizations knew the current world was going to end on Dec 20 2012. His astonishing discoveries will quite literally shake the earth to its core.