Beyond 2012 US edition

topic posted Thu, June 11, 2009 - 2:20 PM by  Dire
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"Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy" is now out in the USA... Bear and Co edition, except the subtitle is now "Catastrophe or Awakening" ( the Greek ex stasis origin meaning standing outside oneself was probably eclipsed by the recreational drug meaning)....anyway, it could do with some Amazon.com reader reviews for those of you who have read it. It is essentially the same book with some extra explanations and updated web links.
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...iregnosi-20

The same goes for 2012 In Your Pocket, just out in USA on 4th Dimension Press - its just the same as the UK version:
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...iregnosi-20

Thanks folks,

Geoff
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  • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

    Thu, June 11, 2009 - 4:23 PM
    What's up with the Aztec calendar stone on the cover of "2012 In Your Pocket"?

    The Aztecs didn't know about the Long Count or 2012.

    Or do you have some evidence that they did?
    • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

      Thu, June 11, 2009 - 7:46 PM
      www.youtube.com/watch

      Martha Sole, seems to feel differently.
      • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

        Fri, June 12, 2009 - 7:01 AM
        If all one had to do to be authoritative was to "feel differently," we'd all be experts, right?
        • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

          Fri, June 12, 2009 - 7:55 AM
          sometimes experts can be weird things...

          www.youtube.com/watch
          • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

            Fri, June 12, 2009 - 8:31 AM
            Only sometimes?
            • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

              Fri, June 12, 2009 - 1:43 PM
              good point there Hoopes, the word expert meaning "ex-pertinent", which is someone who had a degree of some pertinence at some time, under some framework of relevance which may no longer be such, or might be Entirely out-of-context. An expert, if truly so, may have come to too many conclusions, making them ex-pertinent to the bigger picture as it is revealed.

              As for myself, I'm more of a why-pert , basing what pertinence I bring to the public forum upon an almost dizzying array of traceable relevancies extending into a veritable infinitude of why-relevancies. Why-pertinence, what expertise may promise, but turn out to be only, indeed, a Tease.
              • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

                Fri, June 12, 2009 - 4:38 PM
                Not quite, Leslie.

                "expert (adj.)
                c.1374, from L. expertus, pp. of experiri 'to try, test' (see experience). The n. sense of 'person wise through experience' existed 15c., reappeared 1825. Expertise (1868) is from Fr. expertise 'expert appraisal, expert's report.'"
                www.etymonline.com/index.php

                "what pertinence I bring to the public forum"

                All of which is vastly overestimated on your part, IMHO.
                • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

                  Fri, June 12, 2009 - 5:05 PM
                  Fun Stuff......... you should be a GoMedian

                  as far as experiences, I have experiences not only in This life that span the spectrums, but hundreds of other lives and continuums of being stretching back before this universe was conceived. You can dismiss all that (and predictably will) but it doesn't diminish what i know, what I've experienced THIS Consciousness, now in this life (remembering even the long paths to reincarnating here)...... not diminished except in your unexperienced imagination (experienced only in Routinely Throwing Away anything Slightly Irregular to the proscribed worldview to which you diligently are obedient)
                  Just saying, you don't Have to be that way. You Could be an Actual Scientist, rather than joining and maintaining the plodding morose excuse for science (oh punctuated with the occasional Eurekas) that Passes the Approval of the Powers-that-BE.

                  Quite
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                    Re: Beyond the beyond

                    Sat, June 13, 2009 - 3:22 AM
                    so I squished a tiny bug that was on top of my computer screen and I think it may have been the one that had been appearing inside the screen as I haven't seen that one since...

                    but of course there are a lot of these bugs around so maybe it was the bug and maybe it wasn't and maybe others will play inside my lcd despite my murderous act...

                    or indeed because of it...

                    my attempt at self forgiveness with regards murdering bugs is that somehow they don't really count as independent beings but rather are kinda like insignificant agents of a probably less than conscious swarm entity etc...

                    kinda like my dandruff and other excrescent bits don't really count as me etc...

                    probably just deceiving myself though to try and hide the infinite hells I have added to the eternal torment of my already heavy load...
    • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

      Sat, June 13, 2009 - 1:59 PM
      The publisher didn't consult me about their choice of cover or I would have brought this up - I supplied them with the image used on the original UK version - (a super-nova) but they decided to use an Aztec Sunstone image, and not even the real one, but a plaster copy.

      Brotherston said he found evidence of the Long Count on the Sunstone - see Book of the Fourth World p.116 - see also Jenkins MC2012 p.340-341....

      regardless of this I still would have chosen a different image, but film-makers have ignored me when I mentioned this, and people insist on this connection, whether you tell them or not - a bit like the Hunab Ku image being related to GC and te Maya, when...well we've been through all that...you know what I mean
      • Re: Beyond 2012 US edition

        Sun, June 14, 2009 - 10:21 PM
        "The publisher didn't consult me about their choice of cover or I would have brought this up..."

        That's too bad, but their job is to generate sales, which should be good for you. I'm still fascinated by the divergent marketing strategies used in the US and the UK for books by Daniel Pinchbeck and Lawrence Joseph.

        In the US, Pinchbeck's book is:

        2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (with the familiar "Julia Set" crop circle design from Stonehenge in 1996)
        www.amazon.com/2012-Retur...1585425923/

        In the UK, it's:

        2012: The Year of the Mayan Prophecy (confusing, given that the prophecy is not Mayan but Daniel's)
        www.amazon.co.uk/2012-Maya...749928530/

        Presumably, readers in the UK are much more familiar with crop circles than those in the US, and therefore somewhat prejudiced?

        In the US, Joseph's book is:

        Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End (with a black, ominous cover featuring a flaming sun)
        www.amazon.com/Apocalypse...0767924487/

        In the UK, it's

        Apocalypse 2012: An Optimist Investigates the End of Civilization (with a jaunty, bright and almost humorous cover of tumbling letters)
        www.amazon.co.uk/Apocalyps...007227396/

        Are you Brits less likely to buy into gloom and doom scenarios than we Yanks?

        Culturally conditioned marketing can be very revealing.