The 2012 Story (66 page)

6
Aveni’s considered comments are found in the DVD film
2012: Science or Superstition?
The Disinformation Company, 2009.

7
Taube, Karl. “The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple.”
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture,
ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.

8
Gronemeyer, Sven.
Tortuguero, Tabasco, Mexico: History of a Classic Maya Site as Known from Its Inscriptions
. 2004.
http://www.sven-gronemeyer.de
.

9
Grofe to Jenkins, personal e-mail communication. February 20, 2009.

10
See the archive of Copan Notes online:
http://utmesoamerica.org/CopanNotes.php
.

11
Alexander, Helen. “God K on Ceramic Vessels.” Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies,
http://www.famsi.org/research/alexander/godkceramic.pdf
, p. 1.

12
Newsome, Elizabeth.
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001, p. 172.

13
Jenkins, John Major. “Evidence for a Black Hole in Maya Creation Texts.” Appendix 4 of
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
. 1998, pp. 351-356.

14
Milbrath, Susan.
Star Gods of the Maya
. Austin. Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1999, pp. 264-266.

15
Harris, John F., and Stephen K. Stearns.
Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyphic Handbook
, second revised edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1997; Coe, Michael, and Mark Van Stone.
Reading the Maya Glyphs
. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001; Macri, Martha, and Matthew Looper.
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs
. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003; Montgomery, John.
How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs
. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 2002.

16
The possible reading of the “broken sky” toponym as jagged mountain peaks in the immediate geography was suggested by Simon Martin in “A Broken Sky: The Ancient Name of Yaxchilan as
Pa’ Chan.
”
The PARI Journal
, vol. 4, no. 1, summer 2004.
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/journal/
.

17
Jenkins, John Major.
Galactic Alignment.
2002, p. 217.

1
James, William.
A Pluralistic Universe
. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909, p. 292.

2
Rumi. “Sheba’s Throne.”
The Essential Rumi
. Trans. by Coleman Barks. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, p. 190.

1
Daumal, René.
Mount Analogue,
Shambhala edition, 1992, p. 104.

2
Carlson, John B. “A Geomantic Model for the Interpretation of Mesoamerican Sites: An Essay in Cross-Cultural Comparison.”
Mesoamerican Sites and World Views
, ed. by Elizabeth P. Benson. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. 1981, pp. 143-216.

3
Frazer, James,
The New Golden Bough.
Criterion Books, 1959
,
p. 223ff.

4
Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to
The Song of God, Bhagavad Gita
. Mentor paperback, 1972, p. 17.

5
Coomaraswamy, Ananda.
Guardians of the Sun-Door.
Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004, pp. viii-ix.

6
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Introduction to
Guardians of the Sun-Door.
Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2004, p. ix.

7
Huxley, Aldous. Introduction to
The Song of God, Bhagavad Gita.
Mentor paperback, 1972, p. 12.

8
Ibid., p. 13.

9
Guénon, René.
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
, trans. by Lord Northbourne. New York: Penguin Books, 1972; Guénon, René.
Crisis of the Modern World
, trans. by Arthur Osborne. Ghent, New York: Sophia Perennis et Universalis, 1996.

10
Zerzan, John.
Twilight of the Machines
. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2008.

11
Wikman, Monika.
Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness
. Berwick, ME: Nicolas-Hays, Inc., 2004, p. 29.

12
Oldmeadow, Harry (ed.).
The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity.
Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, Inc., 2005.

13
Wilber, Ken.
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
, revised edition. Boston and London: Shambhala, 2001, p. 211.

14
Ibid.

15
The relationship is a bit more nuanced than this summary allows; see Ira Progoff’s
Jung, Synchronicity, and Human Destiny: Noncausal Dimensions of Human Experience.
New York: Julian Press, 1973.

16
Jung, Carl.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
, trans. by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973.

17
Wasiutynski, Jeremi.
The Solar Mystery.
Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2003, p. 15.

18
Wind, Edgar.
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance
, revised and enlarged edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1968.

19
Woodhouse, C. M.
Gemistos Plethon, the Last of the Hellenes
. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

20
Wasiutynski, Jeremi.
The Solar Mystery.
Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2003, p. 15.

21
Ibid.

22
Ibid., p. 16.

23
Ibid., p. 14.

24
Dewey, John. “The Need for a New Party.”
John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953,
vol. 6. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989, p. 163.

1
Tedlock, Dennis (trans.).
The Popol Vuh,
second edition, 1996, p. 73.

2
For more on this, see Jenkins, John Major.
Unlocking the Secrets of the 2012.
3-CD audio. Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007; Jenkins, John Major. “The Origins of the 2012 Revelation.”
The Mystery of 2012.
Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007.

3
Iraq war casualties:
http://icasualties.org/oif/
.

4
Hanley, Charles J. “Massive New Embassy in Iraq Flaunts U.S. Power, Critics Say.” Associated Press. April 15, 2006.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0415-07.htm
.

5
http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005
.

6
Ibid.

7
Ibid.

8
Hermann Göring’s comments were made in a private conversation with prison psychologist and U.S. Army Captain Gustave M. Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials. Gilbert, G. M.,
Nuremberg Diary
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947, pp. 278-279.

9
Valenti, Jack. “Speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.” October 1, 1998. Posted on the
Los Angeles World Affairs Council
website.

10
Shaheen, Jack.
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
. Media Education Foundation, 2007.
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaRaceAndRepresentation/ ReelBadArabs/studyguide/ReelBadArabs.pdf.

11
Joseph Goebbels.
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/joseph_goebbels/
.

12
Michael Parenti,
http://www.radioproject.org/transcript/1998/9839.html
.

13
Keith Olbermann.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#31416352
.

14
Hall, Kevin G.. “Obama to propose new financial regulator, stronger Fed.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090617/pl_mcclatchy/3253921
, June 16, 2009; Rachel Maddow show.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#31416637

15
Scheer, Robert. “Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It.” June 17, 2009.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090617_obamas_economic_misfits_finally_get_it/
.

16
Heller, Stanley. “Worst Movie of the Year: Brzezinski and Charlie Wilson’s War.” December 26, 2007.
http://www.counterpunch.org/heller12262007.html
; “Zbigniew Brzezinski: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen.”
Le Nouvel Observateur
, 1998.
http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html
.

17
Brzezinski, Zbigniew.
Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era.
New York: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 253.

18
The Rachel Maddow Show. “Obama Digs into the Financial World,” June 17, 2009.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#31416567

19
Howard Zinn. “Changing Obama’s Military Mind Set.”
http://www.alternet.org/politics/140035/howard_zinn
:_changing_obama’s_military_mindset/

20
Ibid.

21
Campbell, Joseph, and Bill Moyers.
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
. New York: Mystic Fire Video, 2001.

22
Hartmann, Thom.
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
. Rodale Press, 2004.

23
Noam Chomsky interview in
The Corporation
, a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan.
http://www.thecorporation.com
, 2004.

24
Thom Hartmann,
Unequal Protection
(2004), cited at
http://www.commondreams. org/views03/0101-07.

25
Thom Hartmann.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07
.

26
Grover Cleveland quoted in Hartmann, Thom,
Unequal Protection
, at
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07
.

1
Kingsley, Peter.
In the Dark Places of Wisdom.
Inverness, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 1999, p. 5.

2
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man
. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1990, p. 18.

3
Ibid., pp. 18-19.

4
Pictured in Lawlor, Robert.
Voices of the First Day.
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1991, p. 24.

5
Gimbutas, Marija.
Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe
. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.

6
de Waal, Frans B. M. “Bonobo Sex and Society.”
Scientific American
. March 1995, p. 82.

7
Ibid., pp. 82-88.

8
McLaughlin, Corinne. “2012: Socially Responsible Business and Nonadversarial Politics.”
The Mystery of 2012
. Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007.

9
Spretnak, Charlene.
The Resurgence of the Real
. Addison-Wesley, Inc., 1997, p. 35.

1
Montejo, Victor. “The Road to Heaven.”
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology.
p. 193.

2
Harbury, Jennifer.
Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of Guatemalan Companeros & Companeras.
Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995, 2002.

3
Waller, James.
Becoming Evil.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 198-199.

4
Victor Montejo, biography:
http://nas.ucdavis.edu/site/people/faculty/documents/montejo_cv_08.pdf
.

5
Montejo, Victor.
Maya Intellectual Renaissance
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

6
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures,
vol. 2, ed. by Davíd Carrasco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 439.

7
Ibid., p. 438.

8
Montejo, Victor. “Road to Heaven: Jakaltec Maya Beliefs, Religion, and Ecology.”
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community.
Harvard: Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001, p. 175.

9
Tedlock, Dennis (trans.).
The Popol Vuh
, second edition. New York: Touchstone Books, 1996, p. 356.

10
Montejo, Victor. “Road to Heaven.”
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology
, 2001, p. 181.

11
Ibid., pp. 176-177.

12
Montejo, Victor.
Maya Intellectual Renaissance
. 2005, p. 118.

13
Montejo, Victor.
El Q’anil: Man of Lightning
. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001, p. 154.

14
Montejo, Victor.
Maya Intellectual Renaissance
. 2005, p. 121ff.

15
Carlsen, Robert S., and Martín Prechtel. “Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala.”
Res
15, 1988, pp. 122-132; Carlsen, Robert S., and Martín Prechtel. “The Flowering of the Dead: An Interpretation of Highland Maya Culture.”
Man (N.S.)
26, 1990, pp. 23-42; Jenkins, John Major.
Mayan Sacred Science
. Boulder, CO: Four Ahau Press, 1994/2000.

16
Victor Montejo.
Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation and Leadership.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005, pp. 120-122.

17
Ibid.

18
Cook, Garrett.
Renewing the Maya World.
Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2000, p. 205.

19
Ibid., p. 208.

20
Sitler, Robert. “13 Pik: Maya Perspectives.”
http://www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/13PIK/
.

21
Ibid. Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, head of the National Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala in his address at the inaugural of Guatemalan President Colom in January 2008.