Product Description: Explains in a larger perspective the true meaning of the calendrical system of the Maya. The book reflects one of the greatest changes in human thinking ever to have taken place, one that unifies Western and Eastern thinking. The book provides a common perspective on the emergence of all human religions and schools of thought. As the true meaning of the calendar is solved it becomes clear that we are living in a creation that evolves according to a pre-set schedule provided by the Mayan calendar, aiming at a completion on 28 October 2011. The basis for a prophetic science is now returning. The message of this book is crucial to everyone alive: human life has a higher purpose and we may all live so as to fulfil this.
Enjoyed the Book and highly recommend it I know there's been many who have written quite negative reviews, and I am also quite well acquainted with other authors on the same or related topics centering on 2012 and the Calendar and the Nahautl lore and traditions. Oddly, people have taken positions favoring a particular "author", but my take is the content and the overall "message" of the book. Most who had written previously about the Calendar have used it primarily as a focal point to somehow prove the predictions of a coming Biblical "Doomsday" and the destruction of the Earth and humankind. I found my way to this book via Ian Xel Lundgold's video presentation on the Evolution of Human Consciousness! I found that perspective to be SO refreshing, and, dare I say "ENLIGHTENING"? Yes. I highly recommend this book, if for no other reason than to see an more POSITIVE interpretation of the Calendar. It shifts the whole dynamic and gives a greater comprehension concerning things as they have been, as they are, and as they seem to be unfolding.
I know some readers are also looking for definitive "prophetic" revelations, but I think that is perhaps a misguided endeavor (as we can so readily see by all the doomsdayers running amuck). I really resonate with the idea that the cycles Calleman explains are not "circular", but rather like a "spiral" coming to an ultimate elevating conclusion.
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Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our time : The Mayan Calendar As my first book about the Mayan calendar, I was expecting to gain an understanding of it; and why the Maya believed that the world would end in 2012. I have not finished the book, not sure I will. I find the writing style very hard to follow, and am not able to follow the correlations for the author's conclusions. I definitely do not recommend this as anyone's first read about the Mayan calendar!
Worth reading I think this is an excellent book, althought I believe the date is 2012, rather than 2011. Not too new age, seems he has kept contact with the ground.
Misleading Title This book was horrible and the author is a Kook. Very little actual fact about the Mayan calendar and lots of religious rhetoric. Not unbiased at all and the author stuffs all kinds of his personal beliefs down the reader's throat.
A Bit on the Technical Side Textbook style, in-depth analysis of the Mayan Calendar and the formation of the civilization itself. Devotes very little to the prophecy as it realtes to our present day. Not an easy read.
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