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I have had
the opportunity to speak and do interviews at two press
conferences organized for the new 2012 movie, which adopted
the unfortunate, and incorrect, premise that the ancient
Maya predicted the end of the world in 2012. This is the Big
Lie of 2012. I have never taken this position on 2012.
Why? Because there is no evidence for it in the Maya material
on 2012. To the contrary, all of the evidence for how the Maya
actually thought about 2012 falls into two categories: 1) 2012
was intended to target a rare astronomical alignment; 2) 2012
was conceived as having the potential for transformation and
renewal, should human beings choose to engage the spiritual
teachings that can facilitate such a transformation.
I
have studied Maya traditions since the mid-1980s, and have
traveled, lived, and worked among the Maya in traditional
communities in Highland Guatemala. I have worked to dispel
misconceptions that increasingly confuse the 2012 discussion,
and have worked to reconstruct the lost aspects of ancient
Maya cosmology, especially in relation to the Long Count
calendar and the 2012 cycle ending.
Despite having had
access to the mass media at many events through October and
November, the doomsday talking point has a tenacity that is
hard to counter. People who haven’t studied the Maya
traditions much say I’m wrong to emphasize how the evidence
does not point to the ancient Maya applying a doomsday concept
to 2012. Critics who do this are interfering with the accurate
reconstruction of ancient Maya cosmology. I realized,
therefore, that a clever kind of counter-media would be
necessary. I was invited to attend the big red carpet 2012
movie release in Hollywood on November 3. My brother Bill and
I, along with our friend Dario, conceived of our own publicity
that would allow the accurate information to be broadcast. We
pulled it off on the red carpet, which resulted in a popular
YouTube clip: www.youtube.com/user/mandalay37.
I
have always believed that if we could get past all the
doomsday noise, we would begin to see what the 2012 material
is really about. What I have found and have written about in
ten books since 1989 is an impressive astronomical science and
a profound spiritual teaching, found in the Maya Creation
Myth. The implications of what this means are explored in all
their multifarious ramifications in my new book, The 2012
Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most
Intriguing Date in History. My presentation at The
Prophets Conference in January in Cancun will cut to the chase
and get right to the core of what the ancient Maya believed
about 2012, drawing from authentic sources including Maya
inscriptions and the carvings preserved at the early Maya site
of Izapa --- the origin place of the 2012 calendar.
What better way to get a handle on what 2012 is really about,
but by looking at what those who created the 2012 calendar
were saying. Doomsday? No, it’s not there. Let’s get over
it.
In my experience of doing dozens of radio and TV
spots and appearances on all the prime time networks over the
past two months, I can testify that the media loves to hammer
the doomsday angle, and almost always avoids allowing the
simple facts of the Maya information to get through. Here we
have a problem that can be identified as stupidity and
ignorance in the marketplace. On a larger collective level,
consciousness is choosing to remain stuck to lies and
misinformation, but there is no time like the present to open
up and see the thing-in-itself, the authentic Maya teachings
and cosmology in all their profundity.
A revolution is
underway. We in the Western world are encountering, finally,
the incredible genius of the ancient Maya, which was eclipsed
and buried at the time of the European conquest and
occupation. This revolution is growing outward from Mayaland.
What better place to find out what 2012 is really about,
beyond all the doomsday noise? I hope to see you there.
John Major Jenkins is a pioneer of
the 2012 movement and a leading voice in elucidating the
mysteries of ancient Mesoamerican cosmology. The author of
nine books on the subject, he has investigated the authentic
sources of the 2012 tradition and has identified the
astronomy, prophecy, and spiritual teachings connected to
2012. In reconstructing how the rare galactic alignment of
earth, the solstice sun, and the dark rift in the Milky Way
was encoded into Maya traditions, Jenkins’ work restores lost
aspects of ancient Maya cosmology. In his 1998 opus, Maya
Cosmogenesis 2012, Jenkins finds in the Maya Creation
Mythology a cyclic time philosophy and a doctrine of World
Ages that reveal how the ancient Maya thought about 2012.
Contrary to the modern media’s obsessions with doomsday, and
the countless inventive models flooding the marketplace, 2012
is about transformation and renewal.
Order and read
John's new book: The
2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most
Intriguing Date in History
THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONFERENCE is to explore a
radically different, more optimistic interpretation of the
Mayan prophecy – as referring to the end of the world as we
have known it. Instead of predicting a physical destruction of
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Graham Hancock, John Major Jenkins, John Kimmey, Christine
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Vergara, this gathering promises to be the groundbreaking
event leading up to the 2012 planetary cyclical change.
All conference sessions are all plenary with no
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Following the conference
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Muyil led by Miguel Angel Vergara.
"2012 is now on everybody’s mind.
The release of Roland Emmerich’s film, 2012, has
popularized this date on a planetary scale. What does it mean?
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of mass consciousness, we begin to sense something of the
greatest magnitude, a veritable world shift."
—Jose
Arguelles
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