Maya Cosmogenesis 2012: The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date Paperback – August 1, 1998

In a nutshell, this book is about the author's discovery that on December 21, 2012 the winter solstice sun will align with the galactic center of our galaxy. There are two options on how to interpret this: the Maya purposefully designed their calendar to complete 13 cycles on this date in order to coincide with this alignment OR that this is complete coincidence. The author chooses to explore the idea that the end date was purposefully constructed to coincide with this alignment. He presents evidence to back up his argument.Whether you agree with his conclusions or not (that this alignment will usher in a new age) the alignment is real. So why would the Maya want to direct our attention to the galactic center? The research of physicist Dr. Paul LaViolette may provide a more scientific answer to those who aren't convinced by the author's "new age" argument. In his book  Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age , LaViolette argued that eruptions from the galactic center periodically cause catastrophes on Earth. These eruptions would be visible to persons on earth as the appearance of a new bright blue star in the area of the sky where the galactic center is located (between the constellations Scorpio and Sagittarius.) The last major eruption occurred in 10,500 BC and coincided with a mass extinction and major climate event known as the Younger Dryas. A minor eruption occurred in 3300 BC which LaViolette noted was near the beginning of the current Mayan Calendar Cycle. LaViolette noted that these eruptions are cyclical and we are currently overdue for another such eruption.Curiously, in the book  Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies  the author noted that one of the Mayan prophecies for the time period around 2012 was for the return of Kukulkan, a green sky serpent that was associated with catastrophes on earth. He argued that the return of comet Machholz in 2004 seems to have fulfilled this prophecy. He also noted that the last time this comet passed earth was in 10,500 BC, the same time as this last great catastrophe. Did the Maya know of this cycle of catastrophes caused by eruptions from the galactic center which happened to coincide with the orbit of Comet Machholz? Was this the reason they were directing our attention to the galactic center as well as to this green sky serpent (comet)? Were they trying to warn future generations that when this comet returned there would likely be another eruption from the galactic center?Curiously, Mayan scholar David Stuart noted in his book  The Inscriptions from Temple XIX at Palenque  that the Maya recorded a catastrophic flood occurred on earth in 3300 BC, which just so happens to coincide with Dr. LaViolette's minor galactic core explosion. In  Mayan Calendar Prophecies| Part 3: Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes , the author noted that tsunami researchers found evidence of four major mega-tsunamis occurring in four separate oceans at this time. Astronomers noted these were likely caused by four large meteors slamming into the Earth's oceans. The author noted that the Mayan records at Palenque's Temple XIX as well as in their books known as the Chilam Balam appear to be eyewitness accounts of this catastrophe. He also notes that Mayan records suggest another such catastrophe was expected in the future, sometime around or after 2012. Interestingly, back in 1984 astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier argued that the Earth would start to enter a more dense field of cometary debris sometime after the year 2000 which would lead to a greater probability of impact events.Thus Mr. Jenkins theory that the Maya purposefully designed their calendar to end on this galactic alignment seems to be supported by evidence from other fields of research. Although Mr. Jenkins believes this event represents a "spiritual rebirth" and not an "apocalypse" it should be noted that in Mayan mythology rebirths usually occur after some great catastrophe. Will the catastrophe occur on December 21, 2012? Probably not...that's not how cycles work. As argued in the book  Mayan Calendar Prophecies| Part 4: The 2012 Prophecy , this "end date" likely means that our current peaceful epoch is ending and we could be entering a new age of catastrophes like those known to have occurred in earth's past. The Maya were great astronomers and if anyone could have known about such cycles it would be they. So we might want to adopt an attitude of humility and stop thinking we are the smartest people to have ever lived on earth and listen to what the Maya were trying to tell us in their myths and prophecies.

Overall this book is pretty solid I think as far as the research.The main point is that we are very close to the end of what people call "The Platonic Year". This is a 25,800 year period of time during which our solar system travels through the 12 signs of the zodiac.On 12/21/12 a strange astronomical alignment will occur where our solar system will get lined up with the super massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The "black sun". I think I read somewhere else that an energy beam is emanating from the black sun and this beam will strike the earth on that date.The author doesn't really say exactly what's supposed to happen on that date. Perhaps the change that occurs will be within all of us I don't know.Another re-occuring point is the Mayan shamans' use of mind altering substances such as certain mushrooms. To avoid the upset stomach that these concoctions could cause they would sometimes inject the mixture directly into their intestines.In appendix 6 he critiques some other books on this subject and compares them to his own research. He disagrees with others that the ancient Egyptians were more advanced that the Mayans. My own take is both cultures have a common source (Atlantis). The pyramid of Kukulcan compares very well to the other pyramids around the world. However the pyramids at Giza, especially when they were in their original condition, stand alone.Nobody really knows how these pyramids were built by the way, much as traditional Egyptologists like to make us think they know.He is correct that people in our modern world today may in some cases tend to underestimate the knowledge that these ancient cultures possessed.Many people today have a feeling that something strange is going to happen soon. I do anyway. Perhaps a lot of people like to read those 'left behind' books because that's a Christian response to this feeling.There are some truly tragic desecrations and destructions of culture and knowledge that stand out in human history. Here's my short list:1) the Muslims destroying the surfaces of the pyramids at Giza in Egypt so they could use the limestone for their palaces for Mohammed2) the burning of the library at Alexandria by the Christians3) the Spanish burning all of the Mayan's ancient codex booklets and melting down all of the Aztec's priceless gold artifactsSo we see that no single religion or country had any monopoly on destroying knowledge and history. Jeff Marzano Fingerprints of the Gods The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls: Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present, and Future The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt The Giza Death Star Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known Edgar Cayce's Atlantis and Lemuria: The Lost Civilizations in the Light of Modern Discoveries Lemuria & Atlantis: Studying the Past to Survive the Future The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology Initiation Initiation in the Great Pyramid (Astara's Library of Mystical Classics)

Lots of facts don't make a good read which is a shame as the author obvioulsy knows his subject but its presentation makes the book virtually unreadableMy recommendation would be to hire a good editor and reformat the information into something more readable as the subject deserves a wide audience at this time

In 2007, I wrote...Whilst this particlar subject is an interesting one, I found the book painful to read. In fact, it is the first book I have ever stopped reading and that was after resorting to skimming through the thing to find something worth reading. A fair proportion of the contents seems to be pseudo-science and half-baked IMHO)and the book left me hoping that December 2012 comes around PDQ. If a comet is a-coming to wipe us out or the poles are going to flip leading us all to lose our collective conciousness as a species, I only hope it makes me forget this work (albeit that the cover is quite nice).Now, on 21st December 2012, I feel I may have been a little harsh. Perhaps the author accidentally mis-interpreted ancient, esoteric carvings that actually read 2021? Yeah, that right! We have 9 years left! N-nine Years! (Per chance, The title of the next book?)

The enthusiasm of this book's author to do research on the Maya and their cosmology is understandable – more so when one has been under the night sky of the tropics in Central America. This fascinating view easily intrigues a person used to live on a place where electricity has taken over the night sky. To the Maya – and even more to the ancient Maya, a time where electricity did not exist – this sky was and to many still is a complete part of their daily life.Sickening in this book is the self-assurance of the author. He writes actually about very few facts on the Maya, over-interprets many observations without having observed exactly and takes plenty of “knowledge” from other scholars and authors on the Maya, without proving it. He does not mind that this knowledge on the Maya was at times written by some Spanish priests, one of them (bishop Landa) even had - years before writing himself about the Maya - completely burned all the Mayan scriptures, which had been found.Many nice stories written in this book about what ancient Mayas, Mesoamericans or Izapans and their Shaman-priests or astronomers etc. "did", have no source and seem invented. The reader needs to be a kind of insider in the Maya and Mesoamerican world to have a chance to detect what in this book is solid knowledge of serious research and what not.The author mixes his own desires about the Maya - without cautious awareness about the conditioning of his own mind - with the facts he has found, but more so with many assumptions about the Maya, and interprets the Maya from that place.The strangest situation:At first the white people came to destroy the truth of the Maya life (like the one of all other indigenous people). Then they, from their narrow view-point of a life in duality, "discover" of the "left-overs" of the Maya material their "original truth", giving this back to them as the truth of their ancestors. A deformed and narrowed truth.Whatever way, the indigenous people got and still get intimidated by the "power and knowledge" of the white people who even now seem to know more about their ancestors then they themselves.I am convinced that the researchers have good intentions in their hearts and miss something in their own lives, they want to find on their way of discovery.Unluckily this book seems to give the following: A person has an idea (or hypothesis) and sees everything according to that hypothesis - which then gets "naturally" confirmed. It is like a tunnel vision. The studies on the Maya seem to me that way; I am sorry that I have to say this.Of my life with the Mayas I know that their life was and is so much more, i.e. you feel the blinking of the stars in your own body; you know from your body that in the next moment a lightening crosses the sky; the sound of speaking about an action is like the sound of that action itself etc. - this all without psychedelics. How much more with psychedelics?The Maya have originally no ego - they are ONE with everything. There CANNOT be any difference between astronomy and mythology!As a partial researcher of Vedic traditions Jenkins could have found out about the ancient East Indian prevision that our present era moves into the phase where the “Age of Darkness” (= Kali Yuga) changes into the “Age of the Truth” (= Satya Yuga). He could have acted according to this new age – and not according to the often unluckily ego-driven participation in the New Age.To me the existence of such a book does not surprise, since it is created with the help of an editor who writes books in the same style, and who is the wife to the owner of the publishing company.I am actually sorry to have to write this in a time where everything goes towards transformation. This, however, is just the reason why I have to write this, since the numerous readers, who stumble in their search on this book, have not the least any possibility to prove anything what’s written in it. They just become believers….