The Maya, Archaeology and 2012

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By JIM REED

“All was mystery, dark, impenetrable mystery, and every circumstance increased it.” So wrote 19th century explorer John Lloyd Stephens after journeying through the rainforests of Mesoamerica in search of cities long shrouded under a dense canopy of vegetation. Today, some of the mystery has been dispelled. Their great cities, their architecture and their [...]

Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?

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By GEOFF STRAY

Over the last two thousand years, there have been literally dozens of proposed dates upon which the world was expected to end. Around 30 CE, Jesus is reported to have said “Judgement Day” would come within the lifetimes of his audience. This is the failed prophecy on which all the others were based.However, [...]

The Mayan Calendar and 2012: Why Should We Care?

The author at Izapa (located in the Mexican state of Chiapas), the origin place of the 2012 cosmology. December 2006. Image courtesy of the author.

By JOHN MAJOR JENKINS

In my own process of studying the Maya and their traditions, I moved progressively into deeper water with time. Twenty-two years in, I can report back to newcomers that the implications of the Mayan calendar are staggering, its connection to other cosmologies around the globe is deep, and its most famous artifact, [...]

2012: A Time Odyssey

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By SHARRON ROSE

Many experts, scientists, artists and philosophers have reached the conclusion that the human experience is reaching some kind of ultimate climax. Each person who studies this phenomenon calls this coming event by a different name, or uses different terms to describe it, but essentially they are all speaking of the same event. José [...]