An exciting opportunity to spend an evening with Sounds True author, Gregg Braden: 2012 and Beyond, The Shift Has Begun
The world is in a period of unprecedented change. The Shift is happening! We are at a cross-road where both chaos and new order are emerging simultaneously.
- What secrets will 2012 reveal?
- Are we headed [...]

An event that promises to be a pivotal gathering leading up to 2012, The Prophets Conference will be held from 22-24 January in Cancun followed by a Mayan Site Expedition from 25-28 January 2010.
The purpose of this conference is to explore a radically different, more optimistic interpretation of the Mayan prophecy – as referring [...]

I have two very strong feeling about the prophecies and interest in the “end date” of 2012. I have traveled around the world among many cultures that have prophecies about the end of this age, and I have worked in America, Canada, and Mexico among many seekers who are fascinated with this chronological climax. I [...]

Q&A with shaman Alberto Villoldo, one expert featured in the new film 2012: Science or Superstition, a featured Spiritual Cinema Circle film.
A debate is raging over whether Dec. 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, heralds a doomsday of apocalyptic proportions — or the dawning of a golden age in consciousness. In the new [...]

Although John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History of the American Empire, and Sounds True’s Shamanic Navigation: Shapeshifting Techniques from the Andes, the Yucatan, and Tibet, hasn’t built his message directly on 2012, per se, it is certainly an overt call to transformation and action in the spirit of how 2012 is addressed on this site.

Because of it’s basis in Mayan mythology/cosmology (arguably archaic and irrelevant from the "rational" perspective), 2012 can take on a very mystical—almost unreal—tint. But there is a reality to how it is manifesting during our current times. John Perkins’ story illustrates what transformation toward a peaceful and sustainable world really looks like.

In a 2004 interview with Executive Intelligence Review, John shares how the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 affected his decision to…

Many experts, scientists, artists and philosophers have reached the conclusion that the human experience is reaching some kind of ultimate climax. Each person who studies this phenomenon calls this coming event by a different name, or uses different terms to describe it, but essentially they are all speaking of the same event. Jose Arguelles says that it is the Climax of Matter, Jean Houston calls it Jump Time, and Ray Kurzweil calls it the approaching singularity.

What is interesting about this is that numerous prophesies from ancient traditions around the world have also pointed to this time period as a time of great upheaval and change, perhaps the most important in human history. The Mayans of Mexico marked this time…

Early last year, research revealed that the rise and fall of species on Earth seems to be driven by the undulating motions of our solar system as it travels through the Milky Way. Some scientists believe that this cosmic force may offer the answer to some of the biggest questions in our Earth’s biological history.

The University of California, Berkeley found that marine fossil records show that…

What on Earth is going on? Amidst ecological ruin, financial collapse, political breakdowns, and social upheavals around the world, can we look for clear signs of optimism and hope?

It seems clear to me that if something does not radically change on our planet soon, we are doomed to go the way of the dinosaurs. Whether we go out with a big bang in some sort of cataclysmic event, or go out with a whimper slowly suffocating in our own wastes, may not make much of a difference.

Meanwhile, the Mayan calendar, which according to most scholars ends on December 21, 2012, continues to evoke all kinds of speculations. We are not so far away from this date. Will it come and go with no more impact than one day passing into another? Will the world suddenly end with a bang in one of several doomsday scenarios? Or could this date represent a birth passage, an initiation into a deeper planetary consciousness that could transform our perception of reality as we know it?

If so, then when and how does all this happen?

Amidst all the mysteries and controversies surrounding the Mayan calendar, we do know that it was a predictive calendar going back thousands of years, and that ancient timekeepers had set it up to measure…

Welcome to an extraordinary time in mankind’s history, a time triggered by the sun, and by inference, the Earth, being more closely aligned to the Galactic Center than it has been for 26,000 years. To many indigenous people, the center of the Galaxy is known as the heart of the Great Mother, through which access can be gained to the ocean of unlimited possibilities, also known as the Source, God or the multi-dimensional Universe.

This passage of the sun across the Galactic Center began with the harmonic convergence in August 1987 and will end around 2023. This coincides with the completion of the journey of Pluto (the planet of transformation) through Capricorn (the sign of structure, rules and integration). The beginning of Pluto’s transition was in 2008, marked by the collapse of financial markets, revealing that…

The first RealitySandwich.com anthology, Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, features many articles covering a diverse array of topics, from shamanism to orgasm, sustainability to xenolinguistics.

Book Tour

Join Reality Sandwich for a night of celebration, conversations, and community bonding as Toward 2012 contributors read selected passages. Invite friends, spread the word, and will the transformation in your area:

Capitola, CA: Daniel Pinchbeck at Capitola Books, 1475 41st Ave. Tuesday, March 3, 7:30-9:30 pm.

Oakland, CA: Erik Davis and Daniel Pinchbeck join forces at Diesel Bookstore, 5433 College Ave., Thursday, March 5, 7-9 pm.

Manhattan, Baltimore, Boulder, Portland, and Atlanta have already been visited.

From the book cover:

“This fresh and thought-provoking anthology draws together…

The primary recurring theme in all the material we’re offering at Sounds True and encountering from other sources related to 2012 is that change is upon us in unprecendented forms. Where is this change leading? What does the new world that is emerging look like? The Venus Project, conceived and led by Jacque Fresco, presents a bold, new direction for humanity that…