In the book, Swami Prabhupada challenges the materialistic scientific claim that life is the product of chemical processes. The work is a critique of materialism and a call to spiritual awakening and thinking beyond the framework of modern scientific dete
British author Adrian Gilbert (co-author of The Mayan Prophecies from 1995) in The End of Time offers the most thorough and sober modern interpretation of the Mayan calendar and the so-called "2012 prophecy", completely rejecting New Age hysteria.