In 2006, author popularised New Age concepts about this date in his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, linking it to beliefs about, and personal revelations based on the use of and Pinchbeck claims to discern a "growing realization that materialism and the rational, empirical worldview that comes with it has reached its expiration date...[w]e're on the verge of transitioning to a dispensation of consciousness that's more intuitive, mystical and shamanic."
In India, the guru has promoted 2012 as a "deadline" for human enlightenment since at least 1998. In the United States, the association of December 21, 2012, with a "transformation of consciousness" has also received popular attention in (2009), a work of by, in which the date is associated with references to esoteric beliefs of and events.
Many assertions about 2012 are a form of a non-codified collection of beliefs about ancient Maya wisdom and spirituality. In 1975, the ending of the b'ak'tun cycle became the subject of speculation by several authors, who believe it will correspond to a global "consciousness shift". In his book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth Age of Consciousness, tied Coe's December 24, 2011 date to astrology and the prophecies of the while both and (in their books The Transformative Visio and The Invisible Landscaperespectively) discussed the significance of the year 2012, but not a specific day. In 1987, the year in which he held the event, Arguelles settled on the date of December 21 in his book The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology, in which he claimed on that date the Earth would pass through a great "beam" from the and that the Maya aligned their calendar in anticipation of that event.
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