Michael C. Sulivan

Michael C. Sullivan is the author of two books: In Search of a Perfect World: A Historical Perspective on the Phenomenon of Millennialism and Dissatisfaction With The World As It Is and Fulfillment - It's All About Power.
Sullivan was born in Chicago in 1942 and graduated from North Park University there in 1966, with a bachelor of arts degree in English and a minor in psychology.
In 1968, dissatisfied with the corporate milleu, he quit a job as a casualty insurance underwriter with Aetna Life & Casualty Co., on LaSalle Street in Chicago, and moved his family to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he began a 40-year career in journalism and communications as a reporter with the Ironwood Daily Globe. During that span, he was employed with several publications as an editor or reporter including the Herald/Review, Sierra Vista, AZ; Wood River Journal, Hailey, ID; Times-News, Twin Falls, ID; Mining Journal, Marquette, MI; Upper Peninsula Sunday Times, Marquette, MI; Gazette-Times, Corvallis, OR; and the Aspen Daily News, Aspen, CO.
In Search of a Perfect World: A Historical Perspective on the Phenomenon of Millennialism and Dissatisfaction With The World As It Is was initially published in February of 1999 under the title Making Sense of the Millennium. This was inspired by the widespread public anxiety Sullivan witnessed during the runup to the Year 2000. This work was updated in 2005 and re-released as In Search of a Perfect World. In it, Sullivan traces the history of millennialist movements dating back to the biblical era, as well as other utopian and other visionary political, social and religious movements that attempted to recreate the world in conformance with their particular ideology. Also addressed are various end-times prophecies, such as the Mayan calendar's prediction that the current world will "end" on Dec. 21, 2012.
Sullivan left full-time employment in February of 2006 from the Herald/Review in Sierra Vista, Arizona and embarked on a three-year journey that took him through Mexico, Belize, the U.S. Southwest and Pacific Northwest that resulted in the publication of Fulfillment - It's All About Power, which he describes as an action/spiritual/mystery/thriller centered upon the quest for a mysterious Mayan crystal skull, reputed to have extraordinary mystical powers. In it, Sullivan addresses basic existential questions -- including the meaning of "fulfillment" and examines the strange relationship between the rise and fall of the Mayan and Anasazi civilizations.
Michael C Sullivan shares his observations on life at his blog .

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