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Summary: Popular Hysteria Reloaded
Review: I'm sorry, but this whole cottage industry of 2012 being the
end of the world purportedly based on Mayan cosmogeny has one
very big hole in it: Bishop Landa did a great job of destroy-
ing many Mayan codices in his bonfire in the townsquare of Mer-
ida back in the 16th century. Only about 3 to 4 complete or partial codices remain. How can
a wild-eyed increasingly popular theory be based on this fact,
not to mention a spurious authorship to boot? There are few
people in this world who can decipher the intricate Mayan hiero-
glyphs, and I find this whole theory to be simply bunk! It is
not based upon logic at all. Buy Cosmogenesis for entertainment value only, NOT for accurate
or logical scholarship! This whole 2012 scare reminds me very much of the Y2K hysteria..
...............buy it and read it with a pound of salt!
Rating: 
Summary: Insigtful, well-written, and brimming with integrity
Review: In his final analysis, author John Major Jenkins offers hope; for uncovered in his Maya calender research is the quickening dawn of a new age for humankind. If you're interested in ancient mysteries and their relevance to our present time and near future, then this intelligent work is for you.
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Summary: In depth yet accessible and often poetic analysis...
Review: In Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, author John Major Jenkins has combined his gift for incisive, mythic and symbolic interpretation with rigorous research, to reveal the Mayan calendar as a world cosmology and spiritual philosophy, firmly grounded in precise observations of celestial patterns and rhythms. According to Jenkins' in depth yet accessible and often poetic analysis, the Maya had reconciled a number of planetary and sidereal cycles to accurately define the passage of our earth and solar system, as it moves through millennia, in and out of alignment with the galactical core and equator. This vast, celestial conjunction, so central to the Mayan sages and astronomers, holds profound transformative implications for individuals and civilization today.
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Summary: Great significance for humanity...
Review: Jenkins' findings not only extend our understanding of Maya cosmology, they have great significance for humanity at the evolutionary crossroads.
Rating:
Summary: Insightful, well-written, researched with great integrity
Review: John Major Jenkins offers a conclusion, which when fully realized in the reader's mind, seems ineluctable --- a quickening dawn of a new age for humankind. I recommend this work to all persons interested in ancient mysteries and their present day implications.
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Summary: Excellent blending of academic and spritual
Review: John Major Jenkins ties together many threads of Mayan cosmology/spirituality/teachings in a way that will satisfy those who value true academic scholarship. A landmark book that we Westerners can read, while the traditional Mayan daykeepers, priests, and h'men tucked away in the recesses of the Maya lands keep bits of this wisdom in their hearts and traditions.
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Summary: A deep work, but the meat is the last chapter
Review: No doubt JMJ has done lots of research and presents lots of evidence for his conclusions. However, if you want to know what 2012 is all about, what is it supposed to do for mankind, there is one chapter at the very end with very little. This book is about MesoAmericas long-running fascination with time, stars and calendars. This is an archeological study. This is not a book about 2012.
Rating:
Summary: A deep work, but the meat is the last chapter
Review: No doubt JMJ has done lots of research and presents lots of evidence for his conclusions. However, if you want to know what 2012 is all about, what is it supposed to do for mankind, there is one chapter at the very end with very little. This book is about MesoAmericas long-running fascination with time, stars and calendars. This is an archeological study. This is not a book about 2012.
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Summary: Timley Explication
Review: Notice the favorable reviews by the quality reviewers; ie. those published authors who can and do understand the momentous material contained in this work (and try to ignore the glib quips by those who admit having difficulty with scholarship.)
I am amazed to see Jenkins constantly associated at Amazon with 'new age' and 'millenium' authors rather than scholars like de Lubicz and John Michell. By all means read this book, and see his new Galactic Alignment as well!
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Summary: This is a book with a rich sense of our spiritual evolution
Review: The basis for Jenkins' reconstruction is a meticulous search behind the Mayan belief system which led him to deciphering the Hero Twin Myth in the Popol Vuh, the Ball Court symbology, and the Long Count system used to predict the precession of the galactic center. All of this took the Mayan priests many thousands of years to perfect, and a thousand man-hours by Jenkins to understand... This is a book with a rich sense of our spiritual evolution that only John Jenkins can state so eloquently.
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