15 Scheer, Robert. “Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It.” June 17, 2009. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090617_obamas_economic_misfits_finally_get_it/.
16 Heller, Stanley. “Worst Movie of the Year: Brzezinski and Charlie Wilson’s War.” December 26, 2007. http://www.counterpunch.org/heller12262007.html; “Zbigniew Brzezinski: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen.” Le Nouvel Observateur, 1998. http://www.counterpunch.org/brzezinski.html.
17 Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era. New York: Penguin Books, 1976, p. 253.
18 The Rachel Maddow Show. “Obama Digs into the Financial World,” June 17, 2009. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#31416567
19 Howard Zinn. “Changing Obama’s Military Mind Set.” http://www.alternet.org/politics/140035/howard_zinn:_changing_obama’s_military_mindset/
20 Ibid.
21 Campbell, Joseph, and Bill Moyers. Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. New York: Mystic Fire Video, 2001.
22 Hartmann, Thom. Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights. Rodale Press, 2004.
23 Noam Chomsky interview in The Corporation, a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. http://www.thecorporation.com, 2004.
24 Thom Hartmann, Unequal Protection (2004), cited at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.
25 Thom Hartmann. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.
26 Grover Cleveland quoted in Hartmann, Thom, Unequal Protection, at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.
CHAPTER 10. ENDING THE WAR ON US
1 Kingsley, Peter. In the Dark Places of Wisdom. Inverness, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 1999, p. 5.
2 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1990, p. 18.
3 Ibid., pp. 18-19.
4 Pictured in Lawlor, Robert. Voices of the First Day. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1991, p. 24.
5 Gimbutas, Marija. Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.
6 de Waal, Frans B. M. “Bonobo Sex and Society.” Scientific American. March 1995, p. 82.
7 Ibid., pp. 82-88.
8 McLaughlin, Corinne. “2012: Socially Responsible Business and Nonadversarial Politics.” The Mystery of 2012. Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007.
9 Spretnak, Charlene. The Resurgence of the Real. Addison-Wesley, Inc., 1997, p. 35.
CHAPTER 11. THE MAYA RENAISSANCE
1 Montejo, Victor. “The Road to Heaven.” Indigenous Traditions and Ecology. p. 193.
2 Harbury, Jennifer. Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of Guatemalan Companeros & Companeras. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995, 2002.
3 Waller, James. Becoming Evil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 198-199.
4 Victor Montejo, biography: http://nas.ucdavis.edu/site/people/faculty/documents/montejo_cv_08.pdf.
5 Montejo, Victor. Maya Intellectual Renaissance. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
6 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, vol. 2, ed. by Davíd Carrasco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 439.
7 Ibid., p. 438.
8 Montejo, Victor. “Road to Heaven: Jakaltec Maya Beliefs, Religion, and Ecology.” Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community. Harvard: Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001, p. 175.
9 Tedlock, Dennis (trans.). The Popol Vuh, second edition. New York: Touchstone Books, 1996, p. 356.
10 Montejo, Victor. “Road to Heaven.” Indigenous Traditions and Ecology, 2001, p. 181.
11 Ibid., pp. 176-177.
12 Montejo, Victor. Maya Intellectual Renaissance. 2005, p. 118.
13 Montejo, Victor. El Q’anil: Man of Lightning. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001, p. 154.
14 Montejo, Victor. Maya Intellectual Renaissance. 2005, p. 121ff.
15 Carlsen, Robert S., and Martín Prechtel. “Weaving and Cosmos Amongst the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala.” Res 15, 1988, pp. 122-132; Carlsen, Robert S., and Martín Prechtel. “The Flowering of the Dead: An Interpretation of Highland Maya Culture.” Man (N.S.) 26, 1990, pp. 23-42; Jenkins, John Major. Mayan Sacred Science. Boulder, CO: Four Ahau Press, 1994/2000.
16 Victor Montejo. Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Identity, Representation and Leadership. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005, pp. 120-122.
17 Ibid.
18 Cook, Garrett. Renewing the Maya World. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2000, p. 205.
19 Ibid., p. 208.
20 Sitler, Robert. “13 Pik: Maya Perspectives.” http://www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/13PIK/.
21 Ibid. Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, head of the National Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala in his address at the inaugural of Guatemalan President Colom in January 2008.
22 Ibid. Lorenzo Kinil of Chemax (speaking in 1930) in Paul Sullivan, “Contemporary Yucatec Maya Apocalyptic Prophecy: The Ethnographic and Historical Context” (diss.), Johns Hopkins University, 1984, pp. 291-295.
23 Sitler, Robert. “13 Pik: Maya Perspectives.” http://www.stetson.edu/~rsitler/13PIK/. José María Tol Chan.
24 Ibid. Mam teacher Benito Ramirez Mendoza (2006).
25 Ibid. Don Rigoberto Itzep Chanchabac (2006).
26 Online YouTube clip of Don Rigoberto Itzep Chanchabac speaking on 2012 and the Maya calendar, in three parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFzTdrwTLE.
27 González, Gaspar Pedro. El 13 B’aktun: La nueva era 2012. Published privately, 2006. http://www.yaxtebooks.com/catalog/books/featured.htm.
28 González, Gaspar Pedro. El 13 B’aktun: La nueva era 2012. Published privately, 2006. http://www.yaxtebooks.com/catalog/books/featured.htm. Unpublished English translation provided by Robert Sitler.
29 Henry, William. The American Rite. www.williamhenry.net, 2009.
30 Ereira, Alan. The Elder Brothers’ Warning. Tairona Heritage Trust, 2009.
31 McKenna, Terence. The Archaic Revival. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
32 McKenna’s introduction to Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, pp. XXVIII-XXIX.
CHAPTER 12. RESTORING THE BIG PICTURE
1 Campbell, Joseph, and Bill Moyers. Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. New York: Mystic Fire Video, 2001.
2 Sullivan, Lawrence E. “The Attributes and Power of the Shaman: A General Description of the Ecstatic Care of the Soul.” Ancient Traditions: Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas, ed. by Gary Seaman and Jane S. Day. 1994, p. 34.
3 Wasson, R. Gordon, Stella Kramrisch, Jonathan Ott, and Carl A. P. Ruck. Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986; Furst, Peter. Hallucinogens and Culture. Novato, CA: Chandler and Sharp Publishers, 1976; Hoffman, Albert, Carl A. P. Ruck, and Gordon Wasson. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, 1978.
4 Ruck, Carl A. P., Blaise Daniel Staples, and Clarck Heinrich. The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist. Carolina Academic Press, 2000.
5 Irvin, Jan, and Andrew Rutajit. Astrotheology & Shamanism: Christianity’s Pagan Roots. Gnostic Media, 2009.
6 Kingsley, Peter. Reality. Inverness, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 2003; Kingsley, Peter. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
7 Klein, Anne. Meeting the Great Bliss Queen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995, p. 178.
8 Jenkins, John Major. “Mayan Shamanism and 2012: A Psychedelic Cosmology.” Toward 2012: Perspectives on the New Age, ed. by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008.
9 Bache, Christopher. Dark Night, Early Dawn. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000, p. 296.
10 Campbell, Joseph. Hero with a Thousand Faces, second edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968, p. 3.
11 Ramakrishna in Hixon, Lex. Great Swan: Mee
tings with Ramakrishna. Boston and London: Shambhala, 1992, p. 171.
12 See, for example, Burckhardt, Titus. Mirror of the Intellect. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1987.
13 Bache, Christopher. Dark Night, Early Dawn. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000, p. 298.
14 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. The Need for a Sacred Science. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1993, p. 25.
15 Sustainable living resources and books of interest include: Pritchett, Laura (ed). Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009; Timpson, William, et al. 147 Tips for Teaching Sustainability. Madison, Wis.: Atwood Publishing, 2006; Bartmann, Dan, and Dan Fink. Homebrew Wind Power. Buckville Publications, 2009; books of www.chelseagreen.com; Friedman, Thomas. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008; Ivanko, John, and Lisa Kivirist. Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life. New Society Publishers, 2009; Kunstler, James. The Long Emergency, 2006.
CHAPTER 13. AFTER THE PARTY
1 The Fountain. Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Warner Bros., 2006.
2 Perry, John Weir. “Spiritual Emergence and Renewal.” Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis, ed. by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof. New York: Tarcher, 1989, p. 67.
3 Ibid.
4 Jenkins, John Major. Sonnets from the Sands. http://www.tryptagonals.com. Boulder, Colo.: Four Ahau Press, 2005.
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