Christ And The Maya Calendar: 2012 And The Coming Of The Antichrist

NOTE: In light of several postings in response to this excerpt, I have appended below a statement that I hope all readers will take under consideration. Thank you.

One of the many marvelous things about Reality Sandwich is that it takes quite seriously the significance of dreams and other forms of visionary experience. Indeed, visionary experience is at the very heart of this community. The most talked about “dream” of our age is that millennia old dream that gave rise to the Long Count of the Maya Calendar, which culminates in the end date of December 21, 2012. We do not know and cannot even begin to speculate about the identity of the individual who may have first had the waking vision that hinted at some as yet undetermined future revolution in human history. . .

Throughout history, cultures have compared dreams, brought them into conversation with each other in an effort to discern their higher meanings. My new book, written with my friend Robert Powell, Christ and the Maya Calendar: 2012 and the Coming of the Antichrist (Lindisfarne/Steiner Books), approaches the significance of 2012 by exploring the dreams and visions from: ancient Persian and Hindu myth; the Book of Revelation; Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research; and Vladimir Solovyov’s turn-of-the-century vision of the coming of the Antichrist. From these variegated visions, a completely new context for grasping the end date of the Maya calendar emerges.

Though quite isolated from these visionary streams, Jeane Dixon’s February 5, 1962 visionary experience holds a critical place in the conversation about the meaning of 2012. Below is an excerpt from Christ and the Maya Calendar that discusses Dixon’s dream and asks us what role we will choose to play in the cosmic and human drama foreseen by the Mayan astronomer-priests so many centuries ago. I look forward to conversation with Reality Sandwich readers about this unfolding dream and its importance to humanity.

At 2 AM on February 5, 1962, amidst a rare “stellium” (cluster) of the seven classical planets (plus Chiron) in the sign of Capricorn, there was a total eclipse of the sun whose path of totality passed over Indonesia, New Guinea, and the eastern Pacific Ocean. At 7:17 AM, as she readied herself to greet the rising sun by reciting the 23rd Psalm, American psychic Jeane Dixon beheld this picture:

The bare-limb trees of the city had given way to an endless desert scene, broiled by a relentless sun. Glowing like an enormous ball of fire, the sun had cracked the horizon, emitting brilliant rays of scintillating light, which seemed to attract the earth like a magic wand. The sun’s rays parted, facilitating the appearance of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. But my eyes were drawn to the new-born-child she tenderly cradled in her other arm. He was wrapped in soiled, ragged swaddling clothes, in stark contrast to the magnificently arrayed royal couple. I then became aware of a multitude of people that appeared. I witnessed Nefertiti hand the child to the people. Instantly rays of sunlight burst forth from the little boy, which blended with the brilliance of the sun. My eyes once more focused on the baby. By now he had grown to manhood, and a small cross, which had formed above his head enlarged and expanded until it covered the earth in all directions. Suffering people, of all races, knelt in worshipful adoration, lifting their arms and offering their hearts to him. (Jeane Dixon, My Life and Prophecies (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1969), pp. 178-179)

Jeane Dixon – whose elegant Washington, D.C. townhouse was less than a mile from the White House – looked over at her bedside clock to see the time, and then recorded her waking vision. Her first impression was that she had witnessed the birth of a great king who would revolutionize the world. At the end of her vision, however, she saw that while most people followed the man, a small group followed a narrow path away from him. By 1969, when she published My Life and Prophecies, the “Washington Seeress” had concluded that the man in the flowing robe was the Antichrist, who would “form a new all-embracing doctrine based on his almighty power.”

Though the February 1962 vision was interpreted by Jeane Dixon as that of a child born in the Middle East, Dixon had other visions connecting this individual to America:

I have seen a “government within a government” develop in the United States within the last few years . . . I see this “government within a government” being controlled and financed by a well-oiled political “machine” of one of our leading political families. With their eye on the White House, I see them discredit any man who occupies it without their approval, no matter how good his political programs may be.

They will — through political intimidation, propaganda, and illegal sixth-column activities — make every effort to show the nation that only their man, the one who heads their “machine,” has the sole right to occupy the White House. Their campaign is going to cause great harm to our nation both here and abroad.

I “see” this group succeed in taking over de facto control of the country. They will give rise to an upheaval in our social structure as never before seen. They will bring about increased social unrest and great discontent. Foreign subversive elements will — as they did in the 1960s — infiltrate the unruly factions and cause renewed fighting on the nation’s campuses and in racial ghettos.

All of the evil in the masses will be swept toward an unknown frenzy by this “machine” . . . (Ibid, pp. 167-168)

His disciples . . .will have the power and the propaganda machine of the United States backing them, advancing his cause beyond anything ever thought possible. The social and religious chaos generated by this political machine throughout the United States will prepare the nation for the coming of the prophet of the Antichrist. This political unit of the East will be the tool of the serpent in delivering the masses to him…With teaching and propaganda the prophet will cause people not merely to accept the Antichrist but rather to desire him with positive enthusiasm to create the conditions of his coming and to participate in organizing the frightful and terrifying despotism of his World Empire. (Ibid, pp. 168-169)

Dixon’s scenario was nuanced rather than literalistic, saying that the miracles, signs, and wonders that Revelations attributed to the Antichrist and his prophet would not be supernatural events but “the prodigies of science and human achievements.” She pointed particularly to the “fire from heaven” spoken of by John, which she saw as the ultimate symbol of the conquest of Nature. “The ideological and falsely scientific prophet” would advance an anti-Christian science perfectly tailored to modern materialism. Finally, she anticipated a full victorious reign of the Antichrist and his prophet, who would be “specific and identifiable persons!” (Ibid, p. 170)

Dixon’s celebrity had always been based on the fact that the “specific and identifiable persons” in her visions were almost always noteworthy national and international figures, usually from the world of politics. She gained her initial fame for having successfully predicted the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi, John and Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the death of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Believing her faculty of prophecy to have been given by God, Dixon attributed any errors in her predictions to her own mistakes in interpretation. Calling her perceptions “revelations from God,” she claimed to hear the voices of Christ and angels, but she never claimed to be able to call up her gift of prophecy at will. The many documented cases in which Dixon described important future events in uncanny detail cannot be simply explained away. Though she made considerable effort to discern it, the most important detail – the actual timing of the Antichrist’s appearance – eluded Jeane Dixon. Believing that she had witnessed his birth in 1962, she thought that the Antichrist would appear in 1992, as a Satanic echo of the fact that Christ’s ministry began in his 30th year.

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