from an article: "Using a computer program assigning a date to each of the 64 possibilities, starting with when the I Ching was created, philosopher/ethno-botanist Terrence McKenna realized that it corresponded to a pattern he describes and illustrates as a “time wave”, which ends-- independently and ignorantly of the Mayans-- on 12.21.12."
"ethno-botanist" - euphemisim for druggie?
from:
http://www.december212012.com/articles/mayan/mystery_ancient_mayans.shtml
The problem is that none of these predictions were made by actual Mayans, only individuals from the West who have interpreted the calendar themselves, according to Dr. Robert Sitler, the Latin American Studies director at Stetson University in Florida.
“All of that speculation is by modern Western people who are unfamiliar with the Maya culture,” Sitler said. “If you talked to 1000 Mayans about 2012, they wouldn’t know about it.
“The (classic) Mayans simply never mentioned it once. I’m dissuaded from (the end of the world theory) because they never wrote it down anywhere”
While the Maya were accurate in charting the movements of the heavens without the benefit of telescopes, Sitler said the Long Count calendar has nothing to do with astronomy but more to do with the Maya’s theory on creation. In fact, the Maya believed in multiple creations, one of which ended with the great flooding of the Earth.
...Dr. Vern Scarborough is a Mayanist and professor of anthropology at the University of Cincinnati. He also warns not to read too much in the doomsday prophecy of the Long Count Calendar. “This was a society governed by rules that were very different than ours,” he said. “I think you have to be very careful when you drum up support for the end of the world just because the Maya say so.”