I was interviewed by ABC News recently and the resulting report has just been published here.

Needless to say it’s something of a general piece for an audience that doesn’t know much about the Maya or anything else related to 2012, but it’s worth a read just to sense what’s leaking into the mainstream.

Here’s the part involving me:

But Gary Baddeley, who included Joseph in his 2008 documentary, “2012: Science or Superstition,” wanted to get to the truth.

“I saw these books and films coming out, and they were doing well, but I thought they were really misleading and no one was focusing on the big picture,” he told ABCNews.com. “I knew the movie ‘2012′ was coming out and they were going to take the date and run with the idea of the apocalypse, as a tidal wave crashes over the Himalayas in the opening scene. I knew it would spark a lot of anxiety and essentially misinformation.”

Instead, Baddeley heard from scientists and spiritualists who suggested seismic changes in the cosmos might lead to enlightenment, rather than disaster.

“Many end-of-times prophesies are being bandied about, and 2012 is a convenient date to glom on to, but it’s no more ominous than Y2K,” he said. “And if you go down to Mesoamerica and ask the modern Mayan what Dec. 21 means to you, it means tourism.”

Gary