Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our time : The Mayan Calendar
As my first book about the Mayan calendar, I was expecting to gain an understanding of it; and why the Maya believed that the world would end in 2012. I have not finished the book, not sure I will. I find the writing style very hard to follow, and am not able to follow the correlations for the author's conclusions. I definitely do not recommend this as anyone's first read about the Mayan calendar!

Worth reading
I think this is an excellent book, althought I believe the date is 2012, rather than 2011. Not too new age, seems he has kept contact with the ground.

Misleading Title
This book was horrible and the author is a Kook. Very little actual fact about the Mayan calendar and lots of religious rhetoric. Not unbiased at all and the author stuffs all kinds of his personal beliefs down the reader's throat.

Masonic Propaganda
You have to love Masonic propaganda. The roots of all this Mayan/Atlantean "mysteries" lies in 19th century creators of the New Age movement, most famous of which was the Freemason Mrs.Blavatsky.

Masons are putting together a One world government (taking shape under European Union, and the coming Rockefeller-sponsored North American Union)...which needs a one world religion. Its easier to control people if they all believe the same religious nonsense that you feed to them.

Masons invented communism (look up Marx and Mazzini), and succeeded in killing about 200 million people, but it didn't work in wiping out Christianity, which was its original intent.

So they try to invent new religions, fuse Christianity with all sorts of New Age concepts (like this book)...etc...but so far they've failed to come up with anything that would catch on.
Maybe they are still experimenting...

It will still take a few more decades to bring about one world government with continental "unions"...so they have plenty of time to pitch ideas to people and see what works. By 2013, the Mayan Calendar will be long gone and forgotten...

I get a good laugh out of those reviewers who consider this a "scholarly" work, when in fact almost none of the ideas presented can be scientifically corroborated.

A Bit on the Technical Side
Textbook style, in-depth analysis of the Mayan Calendar and the formation of the civilization itself. Devotes very little to the prophecy as it realtes to our present day. Not an easy read.