Frank Waters
<p>"From the 1930s on, Waters published numerous novels, articles and works of non-fiction. For instance, in 1975, he wrote <i>Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness</i>. In the book, he makes the case that December 24, 2011, a date he got from Michael Coe's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maya" title="The Maya" class="mw-redirect">The Maya</a></i> (1966), will be the closing date of the Mayan Long Count cycle and would initiate a new wave of human consciousness.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" >["
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<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" >"Waters continued his education at </sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_College" title="Colorado College">Colorado College</a> in Colorado Springs. He studied engineering but left school before receiving a degree. Immediately after leaving college, Waters took a job with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern_California_Telephone_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Southern California Telephone Company (page does not exist)">Southern California Telephone Company</a>, working in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> and the surrounding area. He remained employed by the company until 1935 as an engineer and traffic chief. Between 1925 and 1935, Waters worked on his first novel, <i>Fever Pitch</i> (1930) and a series of autobiographical novels beginning with <i>The Wild Earth's Nobility</i> (1935). In 1936, Waters left L.A. and moved back and forth between Colorado and New Mexico, continuing to write and completing a biography of W. S. Stratton, <i>Midas of the Rockies</i>. He became close friends with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Dodge_Luhan" title="Mabel Dodge Luhan">Mabel Dodge Luhan</a> and her husband from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Pueblo" title="Taos Pueblo">Taos Pueblo</a>, Tony Luhan." <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" >
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