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'''John Major Jenkins''' (born 1964)<ref>{{cite LAF|id=n95-11019}}</ref> is an American author and independent researcher, best known for his works that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the [[Maya calendars|calendar systems]] used by the [[Maya civilization]] of [[pre-Columbian]] [[Mesoamerica]]. His writings are particularly associated with [[2012 millenarianism]] and the development of [[Mayanism]] in contemporary and popular culture, as an outgrowth from the [[New Age]] milieu. He is one of the principal people who have promoted the idea that the ancient [[Maya calendar]] ends on 21 December [[2012]] and this portends major changes for the Earth.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/movies/43132752.html|title=Did the ancient Mayans predict the end of the world? |last=Dudek |first=Duane |date=April. 18, 2009|work=Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel |accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E6D71E3FF932A35754C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4|title=The Final Days|last=ANASTAS|first=BENJAMIN |date=July 1, 2007|publisher=The New York Times|pages=4–6|accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/books/06book.html|title=The End Is Near! Now the Good News: It Could Be Groovy |last=GARNER |first=DWIGHT |date= February 5, 2009 |publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref> |
'''John Major Jenkins''' (born 1964)<ref>{{cite LAF|id=n95-11019}}</ref> is an American author and independent researcher, best known for his works that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the [[Maya calendars|calendar systems]] used by the [[Maya civilization]] of [[pre-Columbian]] [[Mesoamerica]]. His writings are particularly associated with [[2012 millenarianism]] and the development of [[Mayanism]] in contemporary and popular culture, as an outgrowth from the [[New Age]] milieu. He is one of the principal people who have promoted the idea that the ancient [[Maya calendar]] ends on 21 December [[2012]] and this portends major changes for the Earth.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/movies/43132752.html|title=Did the ancient Mayans predict the end of the world? |last=Dudek |first=Duane |date=April. 18, 2009|work=Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel |accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E6D71E3FF932A35754C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4|title=The Final Days|last=ANASTAS|first=BENJAMIN |date=July 1, 2007|publisher=The New York Times|pages=4–6|accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/books/06book.html|title=The End Is Near! Now the Good News: It Could Be Groovy |last=GARNER |first=DWIGHT |date= February 5, 2009 |publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref> |
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Although some{{who}} see his views as controversial, he is considered one of the most lucid 2012 authors, with a solid knowledge of the ancient Maya.<ref>Anastas, Benjamin. 2007. The Final Days. New York Times Magazine (Local reprint). 2007-07-05</ref> |
Although some{{who}} see his views as controversial, he is considered one of the most lucid 2012 authors, with a solid knowledge of the ancient Maya.<ref>Anastas, Benjamin. 2007. The Final Days. New York Times Magazine (Local reprint). 2007-07-05</ref> |
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==Hallucinogen use== |
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Jenkins denies that he now advocates hallucinogen use.<ref>JzG of Wikipedia, Discussion page of John Major Jenkins article, 19 July 2010</ref> |
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==Alternative view of cosmology== |
==Alternative view of cosmology== |
Revision as of 14:07, 20 July 2010
John Major Jenkins (born 1964)[1] is an American author and independent researcher, best known for his works that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. His writings are particularly associated with 2012 millenarianism and the development of Mayanism in contemporary and popular culture, as an outgrowth from the New Age milieu. He is one of the principal people who have promoted the idea that the ancient Maya calendar ends on 21 December 2012 and this portends major changes for the Earth.[2][3][4] Although some[who?] see his views as controversial, he is considered one of the most lucid 2012 authors, with a solid knowledge of the ancient Maya.[5]
Hallucinogen use
Jenkins denies that he now advocates hallucinogen use.[6]
Alternative view of cosmology
Jenkins considers secular, scientific approaches to cosmology a byproduct of limited thinking:
Modern profane science is the degenerate descendant of an ancient sacred science that long ago perceived and embraced many dimensions of reality, including supra-sensory realms that lead into a higher integrative consciousness that is not anti-intellect, but transcends the intellect and is within reach of all human beings. These realms, according to Guénon and others, were more open to human beings in the remote past and were preserved as part of an ancient Primordial Tradition.[7]
It is not certain what cosmological insights Jenkins believes might be revealed in those supra-sensory realms. However, Jenkins has opined that the players in the sacred Mesoamerican ball game were:
… heroic semi-human deities whose job it was to keep the sun rolling toward its meeting with the dark-rift. … Through a kind of sympathetic magic, they kept the precessional frame rolling so that the doorway through the source and center of the cosmos … can open. Through their efforts, an alignment between the foreground framework of the sky (the local solar system defined by the ecliptic, with its four seasonal quarter positions of the sun) and the cosmic background of the sky (the Milky Way) will occur in 2012.[8]
Elsewhere, Jenkins has stated that:
To fully understand Maya culture and cosmology, we must admit that the Maya king journeyed [i.e., projected his consciousness] to distant places, communed with transcendental wisdom, and periodically conjured his kingdom into being, sustaining it by renewing it at specific nexus-points in the Long Count calendar.[9]
Jenkins has also lent support to Walter Cruttenden's thesis[10] that the Sun has a binary companion, and that the lunisolar model of precession is flawed. According to Jenkins,
There are, in fact, anomalies and certain flaws in the “earth wobble” [i.e., lunisolar] model of precession, and Cruttenden’s book The Lost Star [sic] is the first step in what may be a profound revolution in how we understand our solar system.[11]
Similarly,
[W]e may be at a revolutionary point in understanding the real causes of precession, and Walter Cruttenden’s book The Lost Star [sic] promises to blaze the trail.[12]
Publications
- Journey to the Mayan Underworld (Four Ahau Press, Boulder, CO: 1989)
- Mirror in the Sky (Four Ahau Press, 1991)
- Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Garberville, CA: 1992/1994)
- Mayan Sacred Science (Four Ahau Press, Boulder, CO: 1994)
- Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (Bear & Company, Santa Fe, NM: 1998)
- Galactic Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions (Inner Traditions International (Rochester, VT) 2002)
- Pyramid of Fire, co-authored with Marty Matz, Bear & Company, 2004
- The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History (Tarcher/Penguin 2009)
References
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ Dudek, Duane (April. 18, 2009). "Did the ancient Mayans predict the end of the world?". Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
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(help) - ^ ANASTAS, BENJAMIN (July 1, 2007). "The Final Days". The New York Times. pp. 4–6. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ GARNER, DWIGHT (February 5, 2009). "The End Is Near! Now the Good News: It Could Be Groovy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ Anastas, Benjamin. 2007. The Final Days. New York Times Magazine (Local reprint). 2007-07-05
- ^ JzG of Wikipedia, Discussion page of John Major Jenkins article, 19 July 2010
- ^ http://alignment2012.com/chapter3.html
- ^ Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, p. 137.
- ^ Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, p. 322.
- ^ Cruttenden, Walter (2005) Lost Star of Myth and Time, St. Lynn's Press, ISBN 978-0976763116
- ^ http://www.alignment2012.com/thoughtsoncpak-sent-to-heidi5-24.html
- ^ http://www.alignment2012.com/thoughtsoncpak-sent-to-heidi5-24.html
External links
- Alignment 2012 John Major Jenkins own website. Accessed April 2009
- John Major Jenkins video interview, John Major Jenkins discusses 2012 in a two-part video interview with his editor at Tarcher Books