| Home :: Featured Items :: CLEARANCE! :: Clearance & Overstocked Books :: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl This literary and metaphysical epic unifies the cosmological phenomena of our time - from crop circles to quantum mechanics to the worldwide resurgence of shamanism - in support of the Mayan prophecy that the year 2012 portends an unprecedented global shift. In tracing the meaning of the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012, Pinchbeck synthesizes indigenous cosmology, alien abductions, shamanic revivalism, crop circles, psychedelic visions, the current ecological crisis, and the Judeo-Christian Apocalypse into a new vision for our time. The result is an unprecedented and riveting inquiry into where humanity is immediately headed as it faces an imminent decision between greater self-potential and environmental ruin. The Mayan "birth date" of 2012 could herald the close of one way of existence and the beginning of another. In just the nick of time, the skeptical modern mind can reclaim the suppressed psychic, intuitive, and mystical dimension of being and institute a new planetrary culture. Many, if not most, of us feel that real change - for good or ill - is right around the corner. Join Pinchbeck on his journey - a metaphysical opus that takes us from the endangered rain forests of the Amazon to the stone megaliths of the English plains to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada - searching for a redemptive vision of where we are all heading. 384 pp. Hardcover. | |
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