2013: Beginning an Era of Hope and Harmony brings together important information and perspectives about the end of the Mayan Long-count calendar, and how it relates to the astronomy, scientific discoveries, and present-day signs of the coming transition from the end of the Mayan Fourth Sun into the new world era of their Fifth sun. Writers and teachers from many fields are brought together to show how we can help in this process involving the evolution of consciousness, and how our thoughts and attitudes will greatly affect how this world's age ends, and how the new era begins. 2013 predicts with credible proof that this new-world age, the Mayan Fifth Sun, will begin a Golden era of peace and harmony.