2012 Errata

[daniel]

"2012" comes out in paperback next September. I can get them changes until the end of February. If anyone has noticed any mistakes in the book, can they email them to me? (that would be less embarrassing for me than posting them here, but you can do that as well if it makes you feel good).

[Damien]

How have overall sales been so far??? I've told a lot of people about the book.

[daniel]

Sales have been good. Penguin has done small, incremental printings, so the book is currently in its 8th printing, with 32,500 copies in print. I don't know how many of those have been sold, but I imagine at least more than half. 2012 has done much better than Breaking Open the Head. I still suspect it could go to another level.

The book takes a while to read. I hope the current readers will make sure to tell their friends to pick it up, and so interest will continue to grow by word of mouth.

[phanero]

I just finished the book tonight, and as far as I can recall, there
were maybe 1 or two minor typos, but I don't recall where. They
were pretty minor, like out for our, or some such. I could be wrong
of course, but I don't think there were that many at all.

[phanero]

Just a quick note in reference to the epilogue. I appreciated the way
you linked the Hopi Maasaw with the Kali-Shakti archetype and then
to conceptual art and the clown. These ambiguous or paradoxical figures
of creation / destruction or menace / guidance fascinate me. I have
been following a much more mundane and scholastic path studying
the theme of the monstrous and grotesque best typified by texts like
David Williams _Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature_. Recently while reading your
book I have had a series of visions which I am trying to understand
as mythical or poetic resolutions of Biosemiotic processes or a new
awareness of iconism, which in my view conflates force with morphology
and context.. These refer to the english IS and to the $. Tesla's alternating current and the sign, syn, (co(sin).. as well as Norman O. Brown's statement that "The IS is the original mistake in every sentence.." Your text brushes up against the grotesque in many ways. Your paranoias and generative texts which seem to spring from the daidalon of the environment etc..

the book was fascinating and for me brought to mind a kind of 18th century
gentility and gangly humorousness.. 2012 for me read like a sort of Tristam Shandy in UFOland.. of course there is a serious tone, but the Castanedan
giggling-uncanny really came through for me..

I was surprised to see this sort of anti-apocalypse idea again, a telepathic singularity, which was something I was hugely excited about in High School
in the early eighties reading people like Many P. Hall and Robert KG Temple's
book on the Sirius Mystery etc.. I had sort of begun to think that the internet
might be that, or that somehow it might be apart of leading to that consciousness..

At any rate, this was a real treat to read for me and seemed like something
taylor made for me as a reader.. i hope to read more.

thanks.

[Damien]

Originally Posted by daniel

Sales have been good. Penguin has done small, incremental printings, so the book is currently in its 8th printing, with 32,500 copies in print. I don't know how many of those have been sold, but I imagine at least more than half. 2012 has done much better than Breaking Open the Head. I still suspect it could go to another level.

The book takes a while to read. I hope the current readers will make sure to tell their friends to pick it up, and so interest will continue to grow by word of mouth.

I convinced at least one friend to buy a copy, besides my own which i've lent to another friend i'll probably be picking up a few more hardcopy editions for gifts.

[K.J]

Originally Posted by daniel

Sales have been good. Penguin has done small, incremental printings, so the book is currently in its 8th printing, with 32,500 copies in print. I don't know how many of those have been sold, but I imagine at least more than half. 2012 has done much better than Breaking Open the Head. I still suspect it could go to another level.

The book takes a while to read. I hope the current readers will make sure to tell their friends to pick it up, and so interest will continue to grow by word of mouth.

I recently bought a copy for a friend and I've recommended it to many. I can only hope they pick it up and get as much out of it as I did.

[Vajra Guru]

Although I am only in the middle of the book I did feel it worth sharing some thoughts.

Athough we do share when we talk on the internet, we do still reside behind shields. We don't necersarily, actualy, truly absorb and process the knowledge we receive. Its easy to just read words, yet with no direct physical interaction we are missing the intonation, body language, strength in the eyes, emotional interplay and other parts of non-verbal communication equal in importance to just worsds.

Also when we read words whether in a book or on the internet, we automatically compare them to other words we have read, rather than against things people have said to us over the years, usually anyway. That means not only do we say compare the way people express their views to our own, we also compare the way they expressed it to say, J.R.R. Tolkien, Shakespeare, Arthur C. Clarke, The Dalai Lama, C.S. Lewis and Dodgeson. Therefore Daniel as a writer, expressing complex deep views, has a lot to contend with before we even judge the events or ideas contained within his written words.

Anyone who has written a book, a story, or a blog of sufficient intracacy. WIll know that writing is not inherently easy, its not our primary method of communication. I would likely trust in someone if they came to my house, performed shamanic rituals, giggled with me about mystical events, shared knowledge and broke bread with me. When we only meet through words on the internet, we have in truth only half met, and the same goes for a book. I have half written a few books, and thats one reason why I have a lot of respect for succesful, published writers. 30,000 pages is for example not easy, yet its is also far from a book. Anyone who has written pieces of literature of that length and beyone knows that its easy to want to stop and do something else, something easier. To express things as difficult to process as mystical events, esoteric beleifs, ancient prophecies and observations on the society one lives in is not easy at the best of times. I think thats making them into a coherant manuscript is extremely unlikely, its the 1 in a 100,000 chance right from the off. They say everyone has a book in them, yet one can't shake the feeling we don't all have a Steven King novel, or a modern Dickens within. Many peoples books would look like extremely esoteric and frightening Mr Men novels, others hardly inteligible.

Daniel has managed to enter into that domain of people who can really write, not just construct a few clever words on a web site, like so many of us. For that my respect, is whole heartedly given for such an epic work, on such an epic subject. That some people like or dislike your book it is in the end neither here nor there. In the end you may or may not get wealthy from it, yet equally we all realise that in itself that is meaningless. Who here is still foolish enough to beleive that having more money equates to more happiness in some cosmic scale, sure being in poverty is rarely good, but being rich is not guaranteed to make you happy. Your book will however be remembered by those who read it, something more stable and lasting than money or notoriety. Someone told me that Anna Nicol Smith died today, young but incredibly rich, all her money could not buy her one more minute. Yet she focussed like many, on intangible things such as wealth, legal battles for her husbands fortune, whilst time slipped away. What can be more precious than the points between birth and death, the two great unknowns. It is in the NOW that we have the oppertunity for the ALL.

Two simple question to anyone would clarify this:

1. Name the three most wealthy people in your country?
2. Name your three favourite books?

I would expect nearly everyone to get the answers for question 2, way before 1.

If Daniels book TOUCHES or MOVES someone,then it has done an incredible service, for what more to each other are their fellow beings than agents of conciousness that Touch and Move them, on life journey, indeed moreover, the spirits journey...

If through our many lives, if like me you except except reicarnation, we have met billions of people, its always amazing that for a time one stands out in our lives, even if just for a time. In my opinion conciosness has been around for awhile, it did not start the day I was born and in my head alone, thats for sure. To think otherwise seems risky, to not notice the inherant inteligence and omnipresence of conciousness is unwise, in my opinion. Anyone who is an alchemist of themself, knows that the material they are working with seems to be far older and more powerful than they ever suspected before. Conciousness is the true 'Philosophers Stone' and the magical sip from the 'Holy Grail' of eternal youth and beaty. How could it be else? What else is there?

Daniels book, must be good because its has had positive effects on some people. He has created something from the 'morph' the 'noosphere' or 'ether'. and presented it into the physical. Everything is both a device of mind and a creation of mind, mind is the bearer. Some of us are prodded by that zone of creative thought enouth to express it for all, others are not, or just ignore it.

Sorry, I have wittered on and sadly, though I can talk for hours, my writings not so good...

Bruce

[Bogo]

Since I am new to this forum, and new even to Dianel's writing, I am wondering, in view of this book and the 2012 "end of the Mayan calendar" thing, how much, if at all, Daniel was influenced, guided or inspired by Terence McKenna's writings, and his own experience of 2012, and the Timeline(?) Had they met, compared notes?

Seems to obviously be something afoot about this date, considering the experience from elswhere that is being encounted by others (or, from others) to signify a date fast approaching.

Jeff

[earinsound]

Originally Posted by Bogo

Since I am new to this forum, and new even to Dianel's writing, I am wondering, in view of this book and the 2012 "end of the Mayan calendar" thing, how much, if at all, Daniel was influenced, guided or inspired by Terence McKenna's writings, and his own experience of 2012, and the Timeline(?) Had they met, compared notes?

There are alot of references to McKenna throughout "2012" but I don't recall anything specific in regards to McKenna's thoughts on the year 2012.

Seems to obviously be something afoot about this date,

Or it's another "Y2K"-type paranoia.

[drew hempel]

Just googled myself and what do you -- I was "discovered" recently in a 2012 website, started in 2005. http://www.stargatezero.com/index.shtml

An administrator commented on one of my essays that someone posted from stumbling onto the GNN blog. The administrator's comments were very impressive!

Maybe there's some McKenna stuff over there.....

[Chiel]

Hi Daniel,

Just to be sure you notice, I'll say it here, too, since I think for the upcoming paperback something should be done:

There are two Kali's, the one of the Kali Yuga is a male demon, not the godess Kali.

I am curious what you think of this. I imagine it gives you a scare, that's what would happen to me anyway. Maybe you need time to think how to deal with this, so I'll try to be patient...

all the best,
Chiel