UPDATE! – UPDATE: Whitley thinks he knows WHY the Mayans predicted the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012 and he explained this at our recent Stargate conference. He’ll also talk about it on Coast to Coast AM on November 12!

While the West is obsessed with the Mayan 2012 prophecies, it turns out that the remaining Mayans aren’t interested in them. Scientists now think that drought may be one of the things that caused the Mayans to abandon their cities and Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun says, “We have real concerns these days, like rain.”

On the MyWay website, Mark Stevenson quotes Pixtun as saying, “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”
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Did it have something to do with 2012? – Ancient Mayan palaces have been discovered with their contents mysteriously intact, suggesting that the occupants simply walked away one day, leaving their possessions behind. They knew a lot, but they didn’t know how to save themselves. Scientists now think that this ancient civilization was brought down by drought, but would this have triggered such a sudden exodus?
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Was Mayan medicine as good as their calendars were? Researchers are looking at the plants shown in Mayan art so they can identify them and find out why that civilization thought of them as sacred.

Were they hallucinogens or something that we could use in our own pharmacies? Many so-called modern medicines have their origins in healing plants used by indigenous people, especially those living in the rainforests of the world.
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