Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?: A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions [Paperback]

Geoff Stray (Author), John Major Jenkins (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 2009

An illustrated, encyclopedic overview of the prophecies, calendars, and theories that indicate the year 2012 is a threshold of great change for humanity

• Looks at the scientific and anthropological evidence for the rare galactic alignment due to occur in December 2012

• Sifts through the catastrophic theories to show what we might really expect in 2012

In December of 2012 the Mayan Calendar’s Great Cycle will come to an end. Opinion remains divided as to whether apocalyptic scenarios of worldwide destruction or utopian visions of a spiritually renewed humanity will prevail after this key date has passed. What is certain, however, is that a rare galactic alignment will occur, one so unique that it is found at the core of many wisdom traditions from around the globe.

Geoff Stray has been collecting the vast amounts of data relating to the 2012 phenomena since 1982. Far from confining his research to the Maya, who provide the most prominent predictions indicating this date will herald significant changes for humanity, he has studied the prophetic traditions of other cultures--including the Tibetan, Chinese, Jewish, Ethiopian, and tribal cultures from around the globe--to show the kind of convergence of cosmic purposes happening along a number of parallel tracks. This book offers an extensive study of many modern theories, including Terence McKenna’s timewave zero and Maurice Cotterell’s sunspot research as well as anomalous phenomena such as near death experiences and crop circles. Sifting through all the scientific research and speculation that the year 2012 has inspired, Geoff Stray provides an encyclopedic look at what we might really expect on this pivotal date.

Editorial Reviews

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“If there is one book you need to read about 2012, it is this one. Don’t believe a thing until you do. The facts, the fiction, and the reality--it’s all here, made easy. Essential reading.”
(Andrew Collins, author of From the Ashes of Angels and Gods of Eden )

“I support and encourage serious discussion of 2012, and the current level of the discussion--in quality and cogency--must be raised. Beyond 2012 does this with admirable comprehension and comprehensiveness, inviting us all to engage with this topic in deeper ways.”
(John Major Jenkins, author of Tzolkin, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, and Galactic Alignment )

“Beyond 2012 is the most comprehensive study of the 2012 phenomena to date. Geoff Stray’s detective story leaves no stone unturned as he uncovers the truths and the untruths concerning this fast-approaching date with destiny.”
(Jay Weidner, coauthor of The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye )

“Beyond 2012 is an invaluable resource. Fair, open-minded, and rational, Geoff Stray’s book displays the enormous range of the 2012 phenomenon; a sort of mega-mall of marvelous strangeness, insights, and sudden flashes of truth.”
(Vincent Bridges, coauthor of The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye )

"For anyone interested in this topic, Beyond 2012 is a can't-do-without-it reference, the first resource you'll go to whenever a new theory enters your field of vision. It will also be an amusing keepsake for 2013 and after, assuming that we survive whichever of the theories turns out to be accurate." (
Deborah Adams, Curled Up With a Good Book, Sept 2009 )

"Here in Geoff Stray's book, one finds an unprejudiced voice, and an intelligent mind that has investigated and evaluated much of the 2012 material, presenting the most intriguing discussion I have yet seen."
(Robert Simmons, Metaphysical Buyer's Guide, Holiday 2009 )

"New Age libraries will find it the item of choice for considering 2012 changes and challenges."
(Midwest Book Review, Sept 2009 )

"Beyond 2012 is a fascinating, comprehensive exploration into humanity's potential for a quantum leap forward. The many speculative, occult, religious, and fringe theories are examined, correlated, and compartmentalized. . . . Perhaps we are a few short years from the birth of our global brain."
(Chris Lorenz, Dell Magazines, Feb 2010 )

"One of the strengths of Beyond 2012 is that Stray has actually done the astrological and calendrical calculations, plus researched the alleged science behind the many theories he chronicles, summarily dismissing those whose figures don't add up."
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Curtis McCosco, CirclesofLight.com, Jan 2010

 

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“If there is one book you need to read about 2012, it is this one. Don’t believe a thing until you do. The facts, the fiction, and the reality--it’s all here, Made easy. Essential reading.”
--Andrew Collins, author of From the Ashes of Angels and Gods of Eden

“I support and encourage serious discussion of 2012, and the current level of the discussion--in quality and cogency--must be raised. Beyond 2012 does this with admirable comprehension and comprehensiveness, inviting us all to engage with this topic in deeper ways.”
--John Major Jenkins, author of Tzolkin, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, and Galactic Alignment

In December of 2012 the Mayan Calendar’s Great Cycle will come to an end. Opinion remains divided as to whether apocalyptic scenarios of worldwide destruction or utopian visions of a spiritually renewed humanity will prevail after this key date has passed. What is certain, however, is that a rare galactic alignment will occur, one so unique that it is found at the core of many wisdom traditions from around the globe.

Geoff Stray has been collecting the vast amounts of data relating to the 2012 phenomena since 1982. Far from confining his research to the Maya, who provide the most prominent predictions indicating this date will herald significant changes for humanity, he has studied the prophetic traditions of other cultures--including the Tibetan, Chinese, Jewish, Ethiopian, and tribal cultures from around the globe--to show the kind of convergence of cosmic purposes happening along a number of parallel tracks. This book offers an extensive study of many modern theories, including Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero and Maurice Cotterell’s sunspot research as well as anomalous phenomena such as near-death experiences and crop circles. Sifting through all the scientific research and speculation that the year 2012 has inspired, Geoff Stray provides an encyclopedic look at what we might really expect on this pivotal date.

GEOFF STRAY, an international speaker who has been researching the subject of the year 2012 since 1982, is the author of The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars and 2012 in Your Pocket. He maintains the website Diagnosis 2012, the most comprehensive database available on 2012. He lives in England.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company; 2nd Printing edition (May 21, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591430976
• ISBN-13: 978-1591430971
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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More About the Author

Geoff Stray, an international speaker who has been researching the subject of the year 2012 since 1982, is the author of Beyond 2012 - Catastrophe or Awakening (UK edn subtitle Catatstrophe or Ecstasy); The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars, and 2012 in Your Pocket. He maintains the website Diagnosis 2012, http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk
the most comprehensive database available on 2012. He lives in England.

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable resource . . . ., June 14, 2009

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This review is from: Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?: A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions (Paperback)

Geoff Stray has meticulously researched and written a fascinating masterpiece of a book that provides a plethora of information re: many of the nuances surrounding the 2012 time-line/subject-matter. This book should have strong across-the-board appeal; as it has enough minutia and factual documentation to appeal to academia-types, as well as enough common-sense for Lay-People just becoming acquainted with this subject-matter. My own personal resonance with this book's facts and style is that is strikes a level-headed balance between a number of viewpoints re: this subject-matter - as the marketplace is already being flooded with extremely polarizing 2012 books/moves/video-clips that run the gamut from Ascension to Armageddon. Geoff's book is a refreshingly sane, objective and rational exploration into the completely unique time-frame that Humanity finds itself at . . .

I completely concur with Vincent Bridges comment re: this book, (co-author of 'Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye: Alchemy and the End of Time) - i.e., "'Beyond 2012" is an invaluable resource. Fair, open-minded and rational. Geoff Stray's book displays the enormous range of the 2012 phenomenon: a sort of mega-mall of marvelous strangeness, insights, and sudden flashes of truth."

A few quotes from "Beyond 2012" to wet one's appetite:

- "In my opinion, there is enough independent corroboration here to show that this 2012 information is bubbling up from some deep communal level of mind and emerging from various human transmitters in order to give us a spiritual kick up the Aristotle!"

- "So we could look upon the Earth as a large hibernating creature like a bear that is recycling its body waste, but can only keep it up for a certain amount of time before it either has to wake up or poison itself. The unconscious mind of the bear knows when Spring is coming, the trigger that will arouse it from its slumber, just as the year 2012 is emerging from the collective unconscious as the end of time, or year of ascension, or the year of catastrophe, or the deadline for cleaning up the planet by the Kyoto Protocol. As we get nearer, there should be more outbreaks of telepathy and clairvoyance, like a pan of maize on a stove that starts with a few pops and speeds up until the whole pan goes crazy."

- "If this interpretation is correct, it is certainly an interesting time to be alive, to be a part of an evolutionary quantum leap which may be seen as the boundary between Homo sapiens and our descendent, Homo spiritus."

- "In the summer of 2002, I heard philosopher Stanley Messenger give a talk about Rudolph Steiner's prediction of "mankind crossing the threshold at the end of the century". Stanley said that all the people who have completed a struggle towards enlightenment through the ages have formed a "critical mass" that will allow the majority of mankind to cross this threshold together, that Steiner foresaw this, and that the time is now. Stanley sees the event as reaching its climax by 2012, and sees a connection to the crop circles phenomenon. Although some feel it is unfair that all the masses should reap the benefits of the sacrifices of a few, it would seem to be a natural process, like Rupert Sheldrake's `Morphic Resonance' theories, or the `hundredth monkey' phenomenon, in which an entire species somehow miraculously gains a behavioral attribute when a certain `critical' percentage of individuals pioneer it."

P.S. John Major Jenkins wrote the introduction to `Beyond 2012', and I would strongly recommend that his "Maya Cosmogenesis 2012" would be a wonderful synchronistic companion to Geoff's book.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Book on 2012 by which all others will be measured, June 17, 2009

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Zyzygyz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?: A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions (Paperback)

BEYOND 2012... is a virtual Ph.D. dissertation on just about every subject related to 2012. Although Geoff Stray has written this book in layman's language, with plenty of illustrations and color plates for entertaining and informative reading, this is nevertheless a very scholarly work with great attention to detail and an impressive dedication to "getting things right".

Quite simply, this is THE most comprehensive book on the subject of 2012 I have read so far. And the least agenda-based or theory-driven, so readers have more freedom to draw their own conclusions. Impressive in both its scope and depth, it not only covers familiar ground, but does so with fresh insights, and also reaches out to more distant vistas, to the "event horizon" surrounding 2012, and the predicted changes within its influence.

This is a beautiful book and though softbound I would say that no expense has been spared in its production. It's also a BIG book, almost 300 pages and is well worth the modest price, considering it represents 25 years of research. This book belongs in any serious (non-strictly empirical) thinker's library.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book, March 10, 2010

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Barbara A. Baxter "blueballgrandma" (Blue Ball, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Awakening?: A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions (Paperback)

Descriptions of many ancient calendars and predictions from the world over. Includes graphs and charts that are very detailed. I tended to skip over the visual aids and sometimes the descriptions. Read the parts that interested me most and skipped the rest. Very interesting ideas and comparisons.