The Prophecy Is Now

Ten years after '2012', it appears I was more or less accurate.

My book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl was an unlikely bestseller when it appeared in 2006, selling 130,000 copies in the US alone. After its release, I appeared on The Colbert Report and suffered nasty attacks in The New York Times Book Review (“Visionary flights sound like such a downer. But if things change in 2012, please paint me blue.”), Rolling Stone, and elsewhere.

I find that every book of mine has its own unique path in the world. But the path of “2012” was particularly strange. For a while the book had a big cultural presence, and then it vanished (I have recently released an audio version, and will soon republish it). The culture tried to assimilate it in various ways, then forgot about it.

As an artist and writer, I poured everything I had into that book over five years, barely scraping by financially, in an earnest attempt to help evolve human consciousness. Artists are strange, sensitive creature (at least I am). The critical hack jobs on my work really did hurt me. Also, the shocking reality of what I uncovered as a result of my research was hard for me to bear. I did feel like a messenger, proposing a