2012 Book
Saturday, January 30th, 2010The Doomsday in Print
Armageddon, Judgment Day, Galactic Alignment, Magnetic Pole Reversal – these names pertain to a sensational issue of today, the end of the world. No matter how sensational, the validity of the claims lies unknown. Professionals and non-professionals—astronomers, astrologers historians and psychics, try to shed light on what will happen one the year 2012, many of them writing their own 2012 book.
Some 2012 book writers explored the more religious and cultist explanation of the dooms day, matching them along side with the physical events on planet earth that may occur on the same dates. “2012 Year of the Apocalypse” by Edward Arnold discussed the Mayan Civilization and their mathematician-astronomers who invented a calendar and a list of “predictions.” The Mayans were able to correctly predict the explosion of Mt. St. Helen’s, 1500 years before it happened. If their predictions are correct, what could be the interpretation of the Mayan count of days, ending abruptly on December 21, 2012?
The 2012 book Apocalypse 2012’s point of view focused on the scientific events experimentally and empirically observed to happen on the year. Its author Lawrence E. Joseph, journalist and science consultant, says that the Mayan calendar ending on that day—at an abrupt stop, coincides with the peak of sunspot activity on the sun, a phenomenon that affects the earth’s climate. The earth has several catastrophic events the happen in a cycle, like the explosion of the Yellowstone super volcano once every more than 500,000 years.
“2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” by Daniel Pinchbeck narrates how return of Quetzalcoatl, a Mayan deity, is a metaphor pointing to 2012 saying that the year is a time of major change whether on the physical earth or the psyche of man. He intelligently suggested that a possibility is that the feared end of the world is actually brought by man, that the technology has risen to a point that it is destroying the planet, that man may have unconsciously created the “End of Days.”
Whichever 2012 book the readers choose the decision to believe or reject is up to them. The end is possibly coming or maybe a reflection of rich culture and myths. December 21, 2012, will give the answer itself.