Chichen Itza © Leonardo Canon
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According to some, the world is set to end next Friday when the Mayan calendar runs out of days on December 21st, 2012. Others believe that there will be a new awakening among the human race. However a British academic may have poked a hole in both of those ideas.
Before you take off for Belize or buy your tickets to the festival at Chichen Itza, you may want to consult the paper published by Andrew Wilson, who is the Assistant Head of Social Studies at the University of Derby. Wilson claims that the so-called ancient prophecy originates with two New Age books published in the 70s and 80s and can be traced back to a magic mushroom trip taken by ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna.
Read more about it on Yahoo.