Prophecy Postponed?

I find this time we are in now to be unprecedented, weird, disorienting. Perhaps most of you agree? This month, we reach ten years since “2012,” the prophetic end of the Mayan Long Count calendar. One of my books — my favorite, probably my great work until this point — explored this prophetic threshold.

2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl came out in 2006 — I was forty years old at the time — and made a cultural impact. I was…