Let me start this review by praising John Major Jenkins for his intense scholarship and dedication to the Mesoamerican culture. If there's one person who should be consulted in any effort to understand or speculate on the various cultures of Central and South America, it is he. Jenkins' opinion is highly thought out, scientifically tested and comes with a solid passion for the material. In many ways, he is more qualified than those scholars ...

Everybody loves a good apocalypse meme. That's why the 2012 one is so popular right now. The millennium came and went without even a harrowing Y2K glitch, so we have to hitch our self-destruction and self-loathing onto another upcoming event. 2012 just happens to be that event.

A while back I finished reading Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Though I have mixed feeling about the book, the cultural examination was fascinating ...

This is a tweener post, I guess. It could fit inside either the religion and philosophy category or in the pop culture category. Considering author Taylor Ellwood's knowledge and use of pop culture, however, I decided to settle on the latter. It seemed more fitting.

For those of you unaware, I occasionally write stuff; and no, I'm not referring to just this blog. Recently, Taylor Ellwood edited an anthology on pop culture magic ...

I was phenomenally impressed with Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head, so when 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl was published, I jumped on purchasing it as soon as I could.

It has taken me a while to complete the task of finishing up this book. I had started it several months afters its publication, but had to put it down as other things had occupied my attention. The enthusiasm to pick it back up ...

With the 2012 meme hot on the minds of alternative archeologists, occultists, religious fanatics, and the rest of us crazy people, the Mayan civilization has started its steep upward climb back into the minds of modern civilizations. Mel Gibson - fresh off of his Passion of the Christ work, in which he laughed at traditional movie distribution all the way to the bank - decided to try his hand at the ancient civilization equation with his Mayan ...