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**This is a guest post by Sean Casteel. The ideas, statements, and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Open Minds.**
It would be an understatement to say that there is currently a great deal of anticipation and speculation regarding the coming date of December 21, 2012, said to be the final day of the current world age according to the ancient Mayan calendar. One of the original proponents of this idea was the late scholar and author Jose Arguelles, who had long championed the notion that the Mayans understood the true nature of time much better than those of us governed by the Gregorian calendar and the inadequate, linear passing of our days. Arguelles was the subject of a biography called 2012: Biography of a Time Traveler, The Journey of Jose Arguelles, written by a journalist named Stephanie South. South was also a follower of Arguelles and claimed to have first meant her mentor in a dream state where he showed her the principles of traveling in time using telepathy.
Along with explaining some of Arguelles’ often quite complex theories about time, the extraterrestrials and the countdown to 2012, South admittedly also presents a scathingly honest, warts-and-all portrait of Arguelles, never flinching from discussing the alcoholism, the broken marriages and long bouts of depression that troubled Arguelles even as he moved toward his own kind of personal enlightenment. ......
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