You're listening to Mystery of 2012 Daniel Pinchbeck on the many angles of 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck on the many angles of 2012.

This week I speak with journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, who's the author of 2012, The Return of

Ketsle QuQuadle.

We explore the various views on the meaning of 2012 and examine their validity.

By doing so we dive into the broad array of different perspectives held across the world on the importance of this quickly approaching

date. I'm noticing these days that I'm becoming a bit of a 2012 grump if you will

and I think it's because so much of what I hear about 2012 is speculative,

unfounded, metaphoric, dreamy, hallucinogenic, and yet at the same time I feel something deep inside that

thinks there's something actually happening a type of quickening a of change, but yet most of the time when I talk to people

about 2012, the kinds of things that they say don't rationally make any sense to me.

And I'm wondering, Daniel, if you can help me with this my

grumpiness that's interesting I mean I found that the essays in the book were

fairly compelling and even convincing on all sorts of levels.

I mean, whether it was Peter Russell's take

that you can see that successive transformations

and culture and consciousness happen

in exponentially shorter amounts of linear time or the work that John Major Jenkins has done on

understanding the exact alignment of the solstice sun rising of the dark rift at the center of the Milky Way so it's kind of an eclipse of the solar center or other types of research that weren't presented in the book so much

this Russian science, Demetria's looking at the sort of periods where more

cosmic energies are coming to the solar system, that the solar system seems to be going

through a transformation on a system level where the outer planets are gaining

atmospheres and the magnetic poles are shifting and he sees more vacuumed, I think they're

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