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Why did the Maya choose the date of 21 December 2012 to mark the end-time of their long-count calendar? Does this date hold any significance in other cultures of the world? And why mark the (northern) winter solstice?
Reference Desk
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
While researching the 2012 end-date of the Maya Calendar, John Major Jenkins decoded the Maya's glactic cosmology. The Maya discovered that the periodic alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the formative influence on human evolution. These alignments also define a series of World Ages. The fourth age ends on December 21, 2012, when an epoch chapter in human history will come to an end. Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 reveals the Maya's insight into the cyclic nature of time, and prepares us for oue own cosmogenesis--the birth of a new world.
2012: Mayan Year of Destiny
Join Adrian Gilbert on an exciting look at the Mayan Calendar and the many mysteries it holds. Discover why the year 2012 is predicted to be a year of exciting and extreme changes and the reasonings behind these changes. Learn why and how the ancient Maya, a people of exceptional astronomical skill and understanding, invented a calendar so accurate that it ends exactly when the Sun enters a specific portion of the Milky Way as it rises on the Winter Solstice, December 22, in the year 2012, marking the shift to a new age. Look at the possibility that we are, according to those ancient people, actually living through the end times.
Visuals: Video & DVD
TimeWave Zero
A detailed description of Terence McKenna's TimeWave concept and a demonstration of the software originated in his early exploratory period of deep study with the I Ching, the ancient oracular Chinese Book of Changes. He proudly takes us on a biographical tour of our culture from his personal library in the early 80s to what he saw the TimeWave project to 2012. Terence describes the Time Wave as his "only original work". The first part of this piece is the first visual description of TimeWave's unique theory. The second chapter of the tape astounds the viewer with the display of the the historical resonances that demostrate how the last 4000 years are compressed into the increasingly speeded up, drawn and sqeezed collective thoughts of the Gaian matrix.
2012 The Odyssey
Join author/filmmaker Sharron Rose on an adventure into the future. In this feature documentary she travels across the United States speaking to the many experts on this fast approaching prophecy. They help her to reveal the secrets that will unfold before our eyes and shape our future. Featuring noted experts and best-selling authors Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Terence McKenna, Geoff Stray, Moira Timms, Alberto Villoldo, Jay Weidner, the Inka Elders and more, this film shows us that the coming world is ours to reshape and remake in any way that we deem possible. Sharron Rose also travels to the Georgia Guidestones, Washington D.C., the Denver Airport and many other places to discover that there are numerous groups and secret societies who understand that this present age is ending and a new world is now just beginning. Discover the secrets of the Mayans, the Incans, the Alchemists, the Christians, the Masons and others of our ancient ancestors concerning the end of time and the promise of our destiny as human beings.
Book Shelves
Magic | New Age | 2012 | Masters of Metafiction | Robert Anton Wilson