<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thought I'd ask readers of this list, what do you think about 2012 and similar transformation lore? Some of it overlaps topics discussed here.<div><br></div><div>Is it:<br><div><br></div><div>New age flim-flam?</div><div>Desperate magical thinking, trying to cope with scary things coming at us?</div><div>Spiritual metaphor for (necessary) sociopolitical transformation of humanity?</div><div>Leading edge of a spiritual awakening?</div><div>Other?</div><div><br></div><div><div>Do people have preferred sources?</div><div><br></div><div>This stuff is outside the box. I do not expect conventional media to get much of it right.</div><div><br></div><div>I have looked into the following:</div><div><br></div><div><i>2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl</i> by Daniel Pinchbeck</div><div><i>2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning</i> by Marie D. Jones</div><div><i>Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End</i> by Lawrence E. Joseph</div><div><br></div><div>Video series: <i>The 2012 Enigma</i> by David Wilcock</div><div><div><<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5b-kLvppdg&feature=PlayList&p=7E95D29D067AC7FB&index=0&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5b-kLvppdg&feature=PlayList&p=7E95D29D067AC7FB&index=0&playnext=1</a>></div><div><br></div><div>I think writings by Eckhart Tolle and Jill Bolte Taylor are relevant, though neither of them might appreciate inclusion with the 2012 crowd.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Hal</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>