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In two documentary episodes, the Discovery Channel featured my work on the solstice-galaxy alignment of 2012. First broadcast in October, 2000, these programs were part of the "Places of Mystery" series, and will be rebroadcast periodically on the Travel Channel.

An exploratory trip to Tacana and Izapa is being planned for March 2001. A summary of Izapan cosmology, sent to Maya scholars before the trip.

Flyer for April event at The Solstice Institute in Boulder (PDF - 142K).

My 1994 study called Jaloj Kexoj and Phi-64 has been revised and retitled Mayan Sacred Science. Four new appendices have been added, as well as three new sections within the text.

I've been rescuing my first book, Journey to the Mayan Underworld (1989), from old floppy disks in archaic formats. A tedious task, but the result is a new understanding of what that book was really about. Approaching completion quickly as of January 2001.

My next book, the natural follow-up to Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, is now progressing nicely. Entitled, after much debate, Ancient Gnosis and the Galaxy, I anticipate completing the manuscript before the Tacana trip.

Marty Matz has resurfaced, along with a lost recording of he and Jack Kerouac. We have worked together to re-release his book of opium poetry, Pipe Dreams. See the Official Marty Matz website I designed for him at Pipe Dreams.

Visit Sacred Mysteries to explore the amazing insights of Sharron Rose and Jay Weidner.


Book Reviews



A Monument to the End of Time by Vincent Bridges and Jay Weidner
Sacred Geography of the Greeks by Jean Richer
Review of Fulcanelli's Dwellings of the Philosophers, published by Archive Press and Communication, Boulder, Colorado.
Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichen Itza. By Lindsay Jones, 1995. University Press of Colorado. Niwot, Colorado. 482 pages, black & white photos and drawings. Photos by Lawrence G. Desmond. Reviewed by John Major Jenkins for Colorado Libraries Magazine.
Cotterell and Gilbert's Mayan Prophecies - the unabridged review
Schwaller de Lubicz's The Temple of Man
Barbara Tedlock's Time and the Highland Maya
Martín Prechtel's Tales of the Talking Jaguar
Martin Brennan's The Hidden Maya
Life and Death in the Templo Mayor. By Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, 1995 Translated by Bernard R. and Thelma Ortiz de Montellano. University Press of Colorado. Reviewed by John Major Jenkins for Colorado Libraries Magazine.
Barbara Clow's Pleiadian Agenda
Schele, Freidel and Parker: Maya Cosmos
Robert Cox's The Pillar of Celestial Fire
Secret of the Incas by William Sullivan
Valerie Vaughan's Astro-Mythology: The Celstial Union of Astrology and Myth
Endorsement for Bruce Scofield's Signs of Time: An Introduction to Mesoamerican Astrology


Bibliography of important essays and books in Mesoamerican Studies


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