The prophetic book of Dr. Arguelles is a challenge to conventional ideas on a cosmic scale. Statements about the “reasonableness” of a particular vision of the Universe only mean that this description fits into the modern scientific worldview, which has given rise to and supports global tragedies. We don't need a sensible picture of the world. We need the most incredible and outrageous vision of the universe imaginable. Dr. Argüelles' book satisfies this requirement. However, his vision of the world is not just unimaginable. With the unerring precision of a genius, Dr. Argüelles realizes that the only hope for the harmony of Western science and the entire modern society is unification with the cosmologies of the ancient peoples, one of which were the Mayans.