Scenezine Selections (1990)
This 60-page booklet contains the four articles I published in the 1990
quarterly issues of "Scenezine," plus two additional excerpts from my first
book. These articles represent my fling with investigative journalism. The
excerpt from this booklet I provide relates my interview
with Sandinista supporter Don Rafael in Estelí, Nicaragua, just
after the 1990 elections.
Mirror in the Sky (1991)
8.5" x 8.5" spiral bound, full-color cover, 172 pages. In 1984-85 I had
a series of mystical experiences which sent me wandering around America.
The whole episode culminated in a spontaneous 3-day Vision Quest, alone
in the Appalachicola Forest of Northern Florida. What inspired me to write
Mirror in the Sky was my discovery that this entire episode (during
which I kept a detailed journal of dreams, thoughts and so on) was paralleled
very closely by planetary conjunctions and phenomena. As such, an uncanny
parallel between my inner experiences and astrological auguries was discovered,
and is explored in this unusual book.
Teol (1991)
A small 17-page pamphlet exploring various ideas about the Mayan Sacred
Tree. Original full-color cover design.
Ouside the Cage (1991)
8.5" x 7" Stapled booklet, 54 pages. Another personal exploration, presented
as a three-leveled allegory, in which celestial processes are again seen
to parallel an important turning point in life.
Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies
(1992, 1994)
My study of the Mayan Calendar. I discuss the correlation debate and reconstruct
the Mayan Venus Calendar for modern use. I also explore the visionary approach
in studying the sacred calendar and present many new ideas. 40 pages of
calendars are provided so the reader can track time in solidarity with modern-day
Maya daykeepers. Appendices, annotated bibliography and index. Standard
trade paperback, 8.5" x 5.5", 340 pages, published by Borderland
Sciences Research Foundation (Bayside, CA) in 1994. Excerpts can be
found elsewhere on this Web Site.
7 Wind: Quiché Maya Calendar for 1993 and 8
Deer: Quiché Maya Calendar for 1994
Monthly calendar-wheels according to Quiché tradition. Utilizes the
true count of days. Includes 40 pages of text explaining modern shrine rituals
and calendar-priest initiations on 8 Batz. Color cover, spiral binding,
60-page booklet.
The text of this booklet can be found here.
Jaloj Kexoj and PHI-64 (1994)
This book is rather hard to explain. It has to do with the two core principles
of Mayan Time Philosophy, their relationship to Jaloj Kexoj (a dual-principle
paradigm of the modern Tzutujil Maya) and the square-root principles of
Egyptian sacred geometry. If you're still with me after that, the subtitle
of this 130-page book is: "The Dual Principle Core Paradigm of Mayan Time
Philosophy and its Conceptual Parallel in Old World Thought." Despite the
potentially labyrinthine nature of this multi-faceted book, I think it's
rather well presented. I treat the thesis very seriously. In my own visionary
work with the Sacred Calendar, I concluded that the core of its mathematical
and philosophical properties could be reduced to an interplay of two principles:
PHI (that is, the Golden Mean) and "64" (the principle of binary or exponential
duplication). Thus: PHI-64, the "dual-principle core paradigm." It was
somewhat of a shock when I met Martín Prechtel in 1993 and read his academic
study which described the dual-principle paradigm of the modern Tzutujil
Indians of Guatemala called "Jaloj Kexoj." The parallel of meaning was
astounding. Something strange was definitely going on... Not sure yet
how this book will be distributed. I'd like to publish it as a small book.
A shorter version of this, 88-pages long, was produced as a stapled booklet.
Re-issued in 2000 as Mayan Sacred Science.
"When The Skull Spits" (1995)
A look at the magical conception of the Hero Twins and dates on which
the implied astronomical scenario historically occurred. The astronomical
reconstruction follows Dennis Tedlock's astronomical identifications of
certain features of Mayan myth. 12-page booklet.
"Mayan Creation: The Stellar Frame and World Ages" (1995)
A 5000-word essay on the end-date alignment. Carefully documented, this
overview was intended to elicit responses (of some kind) from Mayan
scholars. After I submitted this to "Mexicon", epigrapher Nikolai Grube
did generously comment on it, but avoided the primary thesis of an astronomical
alignment in 2012 AD. It was conceived as a step-by-step description of
what is really a very simple scenario. See "Mayan Cosmogenesis" file
for a brief treatment of the same topic. 9 Diagrams, xeroxed. [Note: This
essay was mentioned in Graham Hancock's recent book, Heaven's Mirror]
The Center of Mayan Time (1995).
This 110-page monograph explores the obvious questions that come up in
testing the end-date alignment thesis. I did all the line drawings for this
book. I interpret the iconography of Izapan monuments in terms of likely
astronomical meanings, following recent breakthroughs from academia.
I discuss what Mayanists have said about the possibility that ancient
Mesoamerican skywatchers knew about precession, and look at the astronomical
and calendric orientations at Izapa. The evidence is in and the conclusion
is clear: the ancient skywatchers knew and calculated precession over 2100
years ago, formalized the calculation as their Long Count calendar, and
elements in the Popol Vuh also reflect this knowledge. This monograph
is the preliminary research that evolved into MC2012.
"Mayan Cosmogenesis"(1995)
This 60-minute tape contains spoken presentation of several documents
related to the alignment of A.D. 2012. I begin with the simple 3-point
thesis, then continue with the "Mayan Cosmogenesis" article, and then "Mayan
Creation: The Stellar Frame and World Ages." On the lighter side, also
included is my poem "Hunab Ku" and a Yucatecan travel experience from my
first book. The tape comes with a 8.5" x 14" fold out with nine diagrams
and bibliographic references.
Mayan Cosmogenesis 2012 (1996-1997).
This book explores the World Age doctrine in Mesoamerica, the role of the
precession of the equinoxes in the development of New World cosmology, and
the astronomical alignment of the 13-baktun cycle end-date. Since 1993,
I've been intensely engaged in elucidating these fascinating yet little
explored core ideas of Mesoamerican cosmology and calendrics. Here is the
Table of Contents. The prototype version of
this book was completed in early 1997. See Maya cosmology.
Love Something? Look Into It.
(For "Zeitgeist", October 1995)
Mysteries of Mayan Time Philosophy.
(For "World Explorer" magazine, June/July 1995)
Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies.
(Article for "Borderlands Journal", May 1994)
The Finnish Sampo: The Stellar Frame and World Ages.
(Published in "Scenezine", July 1995)
The Great Pyramid at Chichen Itza: A Cosmic Myth in Stone.
May 1996 issue of Mountain Astrologer
magazine.
The How and Why of the Mayan End-Date in A.D. 2012.
(For "Mountain Astrologer" magazine, December 1994). Can also be found here
or here
Excerpts from the Interview with Robert
Paul for Esoterra magazine.
Issue #6, Spring/Summer 1996.
The Cosmic Symbolism of the Mayan Ballgame.
An excerpt from forthcoming book Mayan Cosmogenesis 2012.