70 A Brave New World
In recent years the pseudo-aeonics of 2012 have found a new champion in the writer and neo-shamanic guru Daniel Pinchbeck. In 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pinchbeck relates his own journey with psychedelics and his eventual realisation that he is actually the embodiment of the Feathered Serpent god of the Aztecs, Quetzalcoatl. Pinchbeck marries the work of McKenna, Arguelles and Jenkins into a perhaps more grounded vision of the future, where he sees 2012 as more of a marker for a transformation in consciousness that will result in cultural revolution, as opposed to a higher vibratory ascension. Or does he? The 2012 myth is perhaps the most syncretic of all the models of time entertained by magicians, and the above overview is hardly comprehensive; frequently new elements are added to mix, with new prophecies from Native Americans and various forms of alien Alan Chapman
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