Thread by @KUHoopes

Remember when the world was going to end on December 21, 2012?

Remember when we were all going to experience a transformation of consciousness?

It’s been ten years. What happened?

My chat with @KurlyTlapoyawa and @tlakatekatl
#AncientApocalypse
talesfromaztlantis.com/?episode=episo…

Graham Hancock was a huge booster of the imaginary Maya Apocalypse prophecy, dedicating many pages to it in “Fingerprints of the Gods” (1995), which contributed to a counterculture mythology that began in the 1960s and 1970s.
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psychologytoday.com/us/blog/realit…

This excellent book, edited by Joseph Gelfer, was finally published in 2011, but hardly anyone read it. Most of it had been written in 2009, but publication was delayed.

The #AncientApocalypse is yet another #CountercultureApocalypse, but on Netflix.

amazon.com/2012-Countercu…

The “2012 phenomenon” contributed to a huge bubble in the metaphysical industry in the late 2000s, much as Y2K had contributed to the dotcom explosion in the late 1990s. It also fueled the conspiracy theory industry, as Kevin Whitesides explains.
online.ucpress.edu/nr/article/19/…

Kevin Whitesides also chronicled how the #2012Phenomenon contributed to a bubble in speculative and New Age publishing. You can now buy most of these 2012-themed books as cheap, used copies on Amazon. They were throwaway books.
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academia.edu/5154109/2_012_…

Kevin Whitesides and I collaborated on an article about the psychedelic roots of the 2012 mythology for the Gesellschaft für Anomalistik, digging up the details on #TerenceMcKenna and #TimewaveZero as well as #JoséArgüelles and Hancock.
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anomalistik.de/images/pdf/zfa…

Of course, the 2012-related hype also fueled the right-wing survivalist industry, especially as pushed by the #DoomsdayPreppers series on the @NatGeo channel. It sold lots of guns and ammo along with buckets of freeze-dried meat.
#MayaApocalypse
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