The Book
2012 and Beyond: Transformation of the Psychic Landscape and the Emerging Planetary Consciousness
by Laurence James Lucas
This book is not just about the so-called end date of the Winter Solstice 2012,
as derived from the Mayan Long Count calendar. More, it is about the 2012 effect,
the 2012 era and what flows from the 2012 phenomenon into the future.
This book is designed to accompany you on your journey of understanding before,
during and after the 2012 end date. In it, I explain how and why the
psychic landscape is changing and I state my case that we are heading towards
a planetary consciousness as part of the evolutionary imperative.
History of the Book
2012 and Beyond grew gradually out of my shamanic and visionary exploration of the Maya, their shamanic culture and their calendrical systems, a quest that began for me in the early 1990s. The first version of this publication was a much smaller handout that accompanied our ‘Truth about 2012’ workshop in Hong Kong in 2008. We have added to it each year since then, more than doubling its size this spring.
The current incarnation of the '2012 and Beyond' seminar, for which this book was originally produced, is now a full-day intensive that covers all the topics discussed in the book, including high-energy interstellar plasma; the history of the Maya, their calendars, numerical systems and shamanic culture; the most pertinent current theories about 2012, including John Major Jenkins’ galactic alignment; the Tortuguero Prophecy; an introduction to the Enchantments of Life map and its relevance to the 2012 effect; the astrology and filmography of 2012; and a discussion of planetary consciousness and where we are heading as a species.