![]() ![]() ![]() (There is no evidence that the Mayans associated the end of the Long Count with any specific transformation or destruction of the world.) But my brain shuts down in the face of elaborate occult calculations, and I have only so much stomach for the promoters of ghost dances. I find western culture's predeliction for apocalyptic date-mongering a fascinating phenomenon, at least from a distance. Even The New York Times Magazine deigned to cover it recently, and with nary a smirk at that. If you own crystals or wear dreads or spell magic with a k, you know that the 2012 meme is riding high these days (in more ways than one). Old school New Agers will remember Argüelles as the guy responsible for the harmonic convergence of 1987, but these days he is best known for his feathered boosterizing of the belief that the year 2012, the end of the Mayan Long Count, forebodes an epochal transformation of time and life on this planet. My pal Gregory P(TM) was recently offloading some stuff and decided to ditch his copy of Telektonon: The Game of Prophecy, a boxed Mayan-calendar board-game mind-virus that was released in 1995 by Jose Argüelles.
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