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John Major Jenkins is a leading voice in elucidating the mysteries of ancient Mesoamerican cosmology. As an independent researcher, he has authored five books, several booklets, and over a dozen articles on the Maya. His research is directed toward the cutting edge of what is known about Mesoamerican cosmology and calendrics, in an effort to understand more deeply the world viw of the Maya.
Since 1986 he has journeyed to Mexico and Central America five times, throughly exploring the ancient sacred sites and the contemporary indigenous cultures. During an international relief project in 1990 he spent six weeks helping build a school in the Tzutujil Maya village of San Pedro, on Lake Aritlan in Guatemala. In 1994 he delivered relief supplies to a beleagured Quiche Maya community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, and established a relationship with a Quiche Maya Daykeeper. Throughout this period he researched the inner workings of the Mayan calendar science, writing his first book, "Journey to the mayan Underworld", in 1989. He founded Four Ahau Press that year, to publish and distribute his research. His book, Tzolkin: Visionary Perspctives and Calendar Studies which reconstructed the Mayan Venus Calendar and established that the "True Count" of the ancient Tzolkin calendar is still being followed by Mayan daykeepers today, was published with Borderlands Science Research Foundation in 1994.
I believe that human civilization is passing through an era of great transformation. Ten years ago I began seeking answers to big questions, questions involving human spirituality, human history, and the lost wisdom of ancient civilizations. My search brough me to the Maya. Mayan cosmology contains within it the explanation for our current global transformation, and possibilities for how we can survive it. My work has been to reconstruct the lost Galactic Cosmology of the Maya, to indentify Izapa as an initiation center, and to stimulate the renaissance of Indigenous Cultures in the New World."Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" is based upon my realization, in 1993, that the end-date of the Long Count Calendar in 2012 pinpoints a rare alignment in a vast cycle of time called the precession of the equinoxes. Wanting to establish evidence for this, and to ascertain how and where the ancient skywatchers discovered and mapped this cycle, I devoted myself to an in depth study of Mesoamerican astronomy, cosmology, culture, and ethnography. I sought the answers to key questions, and pieced together- primarily from academic literature - my progressive interpretation of Mesoamerican history and cosmology. The exciting thing to consider is that this knowledge reemerges at a time when we really need it, for the 2012 end-date looms before us.
What others are saying about John's research:
"The extensive research by John Major Jenkins into the Mayan astronomy and mysteries is very impressive indeed, and his book will no doubt become a classic in this field of study. Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 is a must read for all those who feel that there is far more to our ancient past than meets the eye." - Robert G. Bauval, coauthor of The Orion Mystery.
"In Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, John Major Jenkins, answers the question: why did the Maya choose Winter Solstice, 2012, as the end-date to their thirteen-baktun "Great Cycle" long count? In the process of reading the account to this fascinating solution to the reason for the famed Maya end time date, Jenkins takes the reader through a well-researched psychoarcheological and astonomical excusion of the Mayan mind field of time. Enjoy the ride." - Dr. Jose Arguelles, author of The Mayan Factor, and, coodinator of the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement.
"John Major Jenkin's Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 presents a fascinating, meticulously researched, exquisitely reasoned, scholarly yet readable account of the development on ancient Mesoamerican astro-spirituality, and offers an inspiring poetic vision of the human future." - Douglas Gillette, author of The Shaman's Secret: The Lost Resurrection Teachings of the Ancient Maya.
"With this scholarly effort of comparitive calendric research and investigation into Mayan Cosmology, we may all ascend to new levels of insight concerning the wealth of coded messages that remain the Mayan legacy to modern mankind in this age of transformation. John Major Jenkins identifies the rare solar/galactic alignment that marks this world age shift and pinpoints the geographical and cosmological origins of the Maya's creative imagery. Now you can free yourself from the spell of popular contrived and intuited "Mayan" calendar systems and embrace the surviving Tzolkin "True Count" calendar of the Guatemalan Highlanders. May the New Kin shine brightly on your path, and may John Major Jenkins lead the way." - Jim Reed, editor of the Mayan Message Newsletter, board member of The Institute of Maya Studies, Miami, Florida.
John Major Jenkins email address is: kahib@ix.netcom.com
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