In tracing the meaning of the prophetic Mayan "end date" of 2012 to our present society, Daniel Pinchbeck draws together alien abductions, psychedelic visions, the current ecological crisis and other peculiar aspects of 21^st century life into a new vision for our time

There are many hints, in quantum theory and elsewhere that humanity is precariously balanced between greater self-potential and environmental disaster.

The year 2012 heralds the end of one way of existence and the return of another in which the Mesoamercan god Quetzalcoatl returns, bringing with him an ancient, wholly new way of living. Publisher: ISBN 0749927607