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Mayan Prophecies: 2012 The Message and the Vision, The

Gerald Benedict

Is the world going to end on 21 December 2012 or will a new golden age dawn for humankind? – here are compelling insights into the Mayans’ world-view and their end-time prophecies for 2012

Hardback
176 pages
248 x 215mm
ISBN 9781907486258
~~RRP: £16.99~~
Price: £15.29
01 October 2010

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For centuries wise men of the Mayan civilization of Central America devoted themselves to predicting the movements of celestial bodies and amassing a body of revelations about the future. At the winter solstice in 2012 their prophecies will come to fruition: this is when, according to the chilam (time-keeper priests), the current epoch of time will come to an end.

One way to interpret this is in terms of looming apocalypse; but a more thoughtful way is to look at human thinking and behaviour and consider how they can be revolutionized to usher in a new and more balanced way of living. The Mayan Prophecies presents twenty-one predictions based on original Mayan texts, each fully explained and beautifully illustrated. From the prophecy of energy release at the 26,000-year galactic syncronization climax to the possibility that humankind itself may be the living prophecy of which all the prophecies speak, the urgent message is not one of cataclysm but challenge.

The book’s starting-point is a detailed overview of Mayan science, belief and ritual. We learn how the Mayans saw their own time and the time to come. Their astronomical understanding was highly advanced: they were the only civilization in antiquity to know that the morning star and the evening star were one and the same (Venus).

This book takes us right to the heart of the Mayan world-view and shows how it can be seen as the foundation-stone for a new way of thinking about our planet, our survival and our well-being.

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