Transforming Through 2012: Leading Perspectives on the New Global Paradigm, a resource guide to these changing times and the global paradigm shift. It provides a voice for scientists, researchers, futurists, astrologers, artists, as well as indigenous elders representing traditions of the Mayan, Hopi, and several other indigenous cultures as they share their core messages about the 2012 Shift. Respected experts including Jean Houston PhD, Bruce H. Lipton PhD, Carl Johan Calleman PhD, Daniel PinchbeckPeter Russell, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and many others, share their cutting edge perspectives on the "great shift" - the prophecies, the history, the science, the sacred, the possibilities, the past and the future - in ways that inspire, educate and empower you to evolve into a new way of being. What's really going on and what could happen on December 21, 2012? How will 2012 impact the economy, nature, and the planet? How could 2012 change our lives? Ask someone on the street about 2012 and many will chuckle and say it's the end of the world! Based on the end date of the Mayan Calendar, doomsayers, Hollywood films, and several television documentaries have speculated that December 21, 2012 marks the end of time. Others suggest this is a historical moment of great opportunity when humanity is at a crossroads, and that we can, as a planet, take a quantum leap in consciousness. - www.transform2012book.com