Machu Picchu and You: 

 A review of Return of the Children of Light, by Judith Bluestone Polich

  The fascinating thing about spiritual interpretations of history-- and prehistory-- is the imperative that we don't just absorb it, we act.

After journeying with Polich through these "Incan and Mayan Prophecies for a New World," readers will want to dive into a DNA activation starter kit, like Richard Gerber's Vibrational Medicine or many of Polich's other sources in her research.

  That's because she explains what DNA activation is and what it would look like, in the ancient past as well as in the present-- along with a feast of other curious New Age concepts that will tantalize the layperson. With a foundation of easy-to-understand anthropological research and the rising action of oft-whispered claims from old esoteric texts, each page probes the mysteries of the Incan and Mayan legacies, purportedly hidden away just for our generation to find and decode. Most of the claims are well-cited so you can decode them in other contemporary nonfiction works.

 Polich's slim book is a place to start, though. It helps you actively step into the rituals and practices for modern evolution, stirred up by Jung and the Dalai Lama and circulated by popular authors like Gregg Braden and Michael Talbot.

 Loaded words are explicated, but not before they are given their own spirit and meaning in the first chapter's poetry and historical fiction that ease you into the deeper work of physics, astronomy and theology, seen through the prism of ancient peoples' cosmology.

 Readers who are new to New Age philosophies will still need a general glossary of metaphysics terms at hand. Polich does more synthesis than analysis in this work, which is guided by her amazing personal experiences. See the preface for a disclaimer of some slight bias, found in between the lines.

Take Return of the Children of Light with a grain of salt, or two. Anyone who argues that Quetzalcoatl, Moses and Hermes belong in the same narrow category, or maintains a neutral treatment of Mayan and Incan practices of human sacrifice, raises questions. Polich unfortunately does not answer the implicit questions, rather she dismisses some of them as unimportant because, facts aside, they are a part of our collective unconscious anyway. [...]