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…