KEYPOINT FOR THE MASSES: There is nothing in Mayan tradition, lore or belief that envisages a scenario in which we will all die and the planet will cease to exist. Rather, the idea is one of amazing and collective rebirth. A period of newfound cosmic a...wareness, an era in which humanity expands their collective conscious awareness. In fact, the Maya called the last day of the Great Cycle, Creation Day. The Mayans themselves have suggested that their 2012 end date is really nothing more than the finishing point of a particular age or 'underworld' – the one we are living in right now, the Galactic Underworld, and the entry point to the Universal Underworld of both conscious evolution and revolution, which is to follow. Maya scholar John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy. He has authored dozens of articles and many books including, 'Galactic Alignment : The Transformation of Consciousness', 'Maya Cosmogenesis 2012' and 'Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies'. He has made a strong case that the Long Count calendar of the Maya was actually a device for tracking the cycle of precession of the equinoxes. This is the 26000 year cycle in which the Earth's axis, which is 23.5° off vertical, rotates in a circle, and is measured by the movement of constellations against the fixed positions of the rising equinox or solstice sun. In his book 'Maya Cosmogenesis 2012', he shows that the 13-baktun cycle is a 5th and final cycle in the 26000-year precession of the equinoxes, and on December 21st 2012, the solstice sun will align with the Dark Rift in the Milky Way, which the Maya called the Mount of the Crocodile, the 'crocodile tree' being the Milky Way itself. So to summarise, in 2012 the plane of our solar system will line up exactly with the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This cycle has taken 26000 years to complete – truly a cosmic event. According to Jenkins, this galactic alignment stimulates consciousness evolution on this planet, whether or not beings alive during the alignment era are aware of it happening. However, it is likely that this is the first time that humans as a whole are consciously aware of it and could, in his view, therefore take the opportunity of a leap in individual and collective consciousness provided by this event. The Mayans themselves have suggested that their 2012 end date is really nothing more than the finishing point of a particular age or 'underworld' – the one we are living in right now, the Galactic Underworld, and the entry point to the Universal Underworld of both conscious evolution and revolution, which is to follow. There is nothing in Mayan tradition, lore or belief that envisages a scenario in which we will all die and the planet will cease to exist. Rather, the idea is one of amazing and collective rebirth. A period of newfound cosmic awareness, an era in which humanity expands their collective conscious awareness. In fact, the Maya called the last day of the Great Cycle, Creation Day. CALENDAR WARS: It needs to be mentioned that calendar wars have existed since the dawn of ages, including in the time of the early Egyptians, and continues today between the Maya themselves, religious scholars and Western mathematicians and cosmologists. In Egyptian oral tradition, the sage-god Thoth was banished from Egypt because he was insistent on using a calendar aligned with the star system Sirius, while the other gods wanted to use calendars that aligned with their own respective star systems and power bases. A calendar plays a significant role in the life of a society. Usually it tells people what events to commemorate and celebrate and what they are supposed to consider as being part of their tradition. So, today the Gregorian calendar implicitly places a great role on Jesus, while the Muslim calendar places its emphasis on Muhammad. Whichever calendar was established as the primary calendar during the various eras and cultures provided that particular god or institution with the ultimate power to control the masses. Expanding on that, the Gregorian calendar, according to Carl Johan Calleman and many others, conveys a certain world-view based on the very way that it is structured. It conditions people to a view of creation that is not going anywhere and so has no higher purpose. In the same sense as this calendar is based on the mechanical year of the planet, and endless revolutions of Earth around the sun, life with this calendar comes to be perceived as an endless merry-go-round and people view their lives and purpose in a similar way. As a consequence, human beings would not have any responsibility to live according to some unfolding divine plan, of which the planet, its movements and the heavenly bodies were also crucial parts, and so eventually even the planet itself may be regarded just as dead matter to be exploited. Viewed from this perspective, a whole subconscious world-view is actually linked to the particular calendar we use and the effects of this are partly overt (such as through the celebration of Christian or national holidays) and partly insidious (such as in promoting a mechanical world-view where life has no higher purpose). Calleman, author of 'The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and Awakening the World Mind', 'The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness', and 'Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan Calendar', is a former cancer researcher from Sweden whose calculations have led him to a controversial end date of his own devising: October 28, 2011 – that's nearly 14 months sooner than most people think is the end of the Mayan calendar. Calleman's view is that the Mayan Calendar provides an exact schedule for the 'Cosmic Plan' and the unfolding of all things that come into existence. He goes on to say that there is now ample empirical evidence for this, something that shines new light on the age-old questions of mankind. In his view, things do exist for a reason – and, for serious students, the Mayan calendar becomes a gateway to the worlds of consciousness which the majority of humanity has been blinded to through the use of false or delusory calendars. Another excellent person for an in depth look into 2012 is Geoff Stray. His research into 2012 started about 25 years ago, and was first summarised in a now-rare booklet called 'Beyond 2012:A Convergence of Eschatological Information'. In September 2000 this was compiled on a website, '2012 Dire Gnosis', which was designed to gather more input from people all over the world. This has become the internet's leading database on 2012. In 2005, he published 'Beyond 2012, Catastrophe or Ecstasy: A Complete Guide to End-of-Time Predictions', bringing all the research together into what some are calling the '2012 encyclopedia'. For more information on Geoff Stray: http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/ IS TIME SPEEDING UP? Time is actually speeding up (or collapsing), according to both conventional cosmologists, and to some unconventional thinkers on the subject. For thousands of years, as best we can tell, the Schumann Resonance or pulse (heartbeat) of Earth has been 7.83 cycles per second. The military have used this as a very reliable reference for various purposes. However, since 1980, this resonance has been slowly rising, and more rapidly so in recent years. It is now over 12 cycles per second. This means there is the equivalent of less than 16 hours per day instead of the old 24 hours. Another interpretation is that we, or rather 'consciousness' as we collectively represent that, has or have been down this same road seven times before over the last 14-billion or so years. According to some of the oldest calendar systems on the planet, like the Mayans, each of these 'cycles of Creation' runs 20 times faster than the last one. The same amount of 'Creation' is paced 20 times tighter. This is why time seems to be going so fast, even to people who are not even remotely 'sensitive' or 'spiritual'. It is not so much that 'time' is going faster – there are still only 24 hours in any one day-night period, each made up of the same number of seconds, minutes and hours as before – but, in terms of the inner timing of cycles, as understood by the Maya and others, it is 'Creation' itself that is accelerating. Of all the theories, including those involving comets, rogue planets, asteroids, galactic core explosions, mega-sunspot cycles, obliquity harmonics and unusual conjunctions, that various researchers have put forward to explain 2012, there is one theory that is so well scientifically grounded that is almost universally considered valid, at least in terms of its data if not its hypothesis, by even the most conservatively-minded. Alexey Dmitriev, a Russian geologist, has analysed the increasing changes in Earth's weather and seismic phenomena, plus recent changes to the planet's geomagnetic field. He has also taken into account solar changes, and changes to the weather and magnetic fields of all the other planets in the solar system. A '10-fold increase to the layer of deflected interstellar plasma on the heliosphere boundary', he has found, indicates that the solar system is headed into an area of 'magnetised plasma', that Dmitriev says is causing these changes. So far, so good. When it comes to interpreting what this means, Dmitriev loses some of his fellow scientists. According to him, an increasing incidence of plasma balls in the atmosphere is a sign of the imminent 'transformation of Earth', involving an interaction with processes beyond the three-dimensional world. You may have already heard about this theory but phrased differently as in perhaps someone speaking or writing about the so-called 'photon-belt'. Some have proposed this as a stream of high-level energy emanating from the centre of our galaxy, much like a stream of X-rays or gamma rays might be shot out of a collapsing black hole, only the energy form is of a different kind, affecting both physical life and consciousness fields. Regardless of whether or not you follow this Russian investigator all the way to the conclusion that he reaches, one thing is clear, ancient or modern, mythical or scientific, each concept that deals with the issue of 2012 (or thereabouts, give or take a year) speaks to its own people in symbols they will understand, and all refer to this time of our history when humanity will be faced with making fateful choices which will determine our future. Either we will become a planet of co-operative nations or a self-destructing war zone of people competing for dwindling resources. The Mayan Calendar, The Book of Revelations, and Hopi prophecies and many others like them, some referred to in this article, apparently all contain elements of universal truth, whether or not 2012 is an actual date or a symbol for some kind of threshold which man and womankind will one day soon reach. Maybe it is not for any individual or institution to decipher these communications, for to do so only introduces interpretative beliefs from the dominant paradigm. This causes everyone to be so caught up in the semantics that we miss the big picture. In other words, maybe we should look at the overall theme and leave all the minute details out. Many events in this current decade have made people of our world all the more aware that something is terribly wrong on this planet and a time of choice and change is upon us. Not only is our environment in danger of collapsing in on itself (and us), but humanity is in danger of annihilating itself: humans killing all other humans and every other living thing with them. The planet hangs in great imbalance on every level and, by nature, will find a way to regain that balance. Things will have to change, whether we like it or not and whether we consciously and constructively co-operate with that change or not. Even if we were to ignore completely the Mayan Long Count Calendar, and even if we did not ascribe credence to the religious traditions that predict total human annihilation at the hands of a final battle between good and evil, there is still ample evidence that the following years will be rife with chaos, disorder and destruction. Surprisingly, the greatest challenges that face humanity and the earth in general all seem to be preventable. With that said, the biggest mystery is why we are not doing more to prevent them now, while we still can and when it truly counts. Global climate change is creating a need for new ways of co-existing with the earth. Already, water shortages are threatening to derail peace agreements and further escalate already tense relations between nations into outright war. Even the decreasing rates of food production, coupled with over-inflated prices and a global market that favours the rich, hint at another coming disaster: the spread of famine into regions never having experienced lack of food before. HOW TO PREPARE? So what can we do as individuals, communities, and nations? How does one prepare for 2012? If the world is going to end for good, then obviously no preparation is needed. However, if the Mayans, indigenous people and others were right, and the ending is really more of a beginning, can we indeed prepare at all? The green movement, focusing on building sustainability now, is a great place to start. We should be doing anything possible to make the coming changes less disruptive and damaging, whether that means conserving, recycling or raising awareness of the carbon 'footprints' we each leave – and how we can lessen those footprints. Local communities are already springing up around the concept of contained, sustainable living, with residents pitching in by growing food, sharing water resources, bartering services and even watching out for each other's children to create a new sense of connectedness and unity. Should this effort spread, we may be able to greatly diminish the potential for death, disaster and disease that our overpopulated, stressed-out and soon-to-be-tapped out planet is quickly plummeting towards. Maybe that is what this is really all about – a shift in consciousness, internal transformation that will extend into external change. Even with increasing numbers of super-storms and earthquakes, an asteroid or two coming too close for comfort, the highest sunspot cycle activity in years, global shifts in political and economic power, and a host of other earthbound changes, we may need to concentrate on the internal work to be done first. Spiritual transformation is on the lips of many awaiting 2012. Perhaps by altering our collective consciousness, we can change not only our own lives, but our destiny as a people. As far as the 2012 date is concerned, we should not wait until the December solstice of that year to take action. Clearly all of this does not centre on one date. The time to take action is now. Many of us are afraid of what is coming, but if the ancient wisdom and modern interpretations are right, we shouldn't be. Fear constricts and binds us to the old paradigm. What we need now is the courage to face and transmute the essential energy of that fear into right action. There is a great world waiting for us to birth into being, one of love and generosity and wisdom and compassion. Wouldn't it be great to wake up on the first morning of 2013 to a better world than we ever imagined? Let the Acceleration begin! *Note: This is a huge subject and one that is difficult to cover in just one article. There are so many thoughts and controversy around 2012. That is why we asked the question 'What If'. This article mentions a few of the various predictions, philosophies, ideas and concepts around 2012 but many have been left out due to space constraints. Source : Odyssey Magazine http://www.odysseymagazine.co.za/ See More
By: Dave Hurst
I just recently watched the movie (book is better as usual) The Celestine Prophecy again, same hopeful message that is said to already be well in progress, Amen...
The Revolution will not be televised...
So Be It.... Ahhhhmaan
I think the Mayans have it right. Much of the worries about the "end of times" are stimulated by fear propaganda.
I'd like to comment on your byline, "UKFan1968 is thinking that if we keep examining our minds,we will come to see that thoughts of who we are and how it all is...are creating the reality we are experiencing..."
I, too, believe we create our reality through our thoughts. That which we focus upon grows; like attracts like; the Law of Attraction and all that jazz. At the same time, I struggle with the paradox of such a notion.
When indigenous tribes of peaceful people are suddenly invaded and conquered by "civilized" men who seek to dominate and enslave them, have these peaceful folk somehow created such a scenario?
And what of the victims of natural disasters - earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc. Have they called these events into being?
And because so many "sheeple" are blissfully unaware of the world domination agenda, will they miraculously be spared that reality?
I don't think so.
What appears to make sense (to me anyhow) is that at the same time we are creating our realities, others are creating theirs. If their intent is for our demise, and we do nothing to divert or dilute that energy, then they can prevail unimpeded.
There is much written about the innate powers within our minds that have been supressed (for centuries) by those who seek to control. Our gifts of intuition, telepathy, and other "paranormal" powers have long been labeled abnormal or even satanic. The fluoride added to our drinking supply calcifies the pineal gland, which is the gateway to such knowledge. Within this gland, DMT is made, a chemical secreted during sleep and in mass quantities at the time of death. DMT is found in Ayahuasca and other hallucinogenic drugs. (Interestly, there's a campaign now to criminalize all plants containing even minute amounts of DMT.)
Perhaps the best tact, is to be informed about possible obstacles along the path and then to do what you can to circumvent them. This is where creating your own reality comes in. When we collectively imagine and claim (with emotion) a world of peace, love, and prosperity, that rocket of desire magnetically gathers the energy that creates worlds into substance, and in time, takes form in our physical reality. ~ Noa
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ~Joseph Campbell
When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anaïs Nin
Noa, you are absolutely correct. The Lumurians learned this when the Atlanteans cut them all down. As a peaceful people they devoted themselves to Love and its art. And when invaded, they stated their Love but could not unseat the more dominate numbers of the Agressive and Bellicose Atlanteans. Prayer is only part of the science of Love and Light. Action is required.
I bless you with Love. All of the "You Create Your Own Future LOA" "gurus" are what I call Plastic Shamen and Plastic Gurus and Plastic LOA Teachers. The only Prophet that profits from the prophesy is the Prophet.
The time we are all in is the Great Correcting and Connecting time. With focused Love-Light prayer and proper energy work even Flouride in the water can be nullifieed by raising the vibration the water (structuring the water) the vibration of our body water is raised and all that is no longer in resonance simply is nullified. Bless your water with the Energy of Light-Love and see what happens.
I bless you with Love.
Fairy
Dr. Len, a teacher of the Huna practice of Ho Oponopono, works through a process of "I love you, I am sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you" with every person with whom he comes in contact, because he believes he has created them and the moment that they are meeting, for the purpose of the forgiveness of past ties and karma. His patients in a mental hospital in Hawaii were cured even though he never came in contact with any of them: he only asked forgiveness of himself for somehow creating the conditions of their lives and taking full responsibility for it all. He believes that we are all fully responsible for everything we experience and for every person we meet: he helped create them and the moment as the opportunity to ask forgiveness of himself for the karma that brought them together. I often ask myself about the reality matrix in which I find myself and ask to what extent I have created it all? And to what extent have each of us added to the all of the problems we are facing as humanity tries to push itself beyond the darkness? Is the darkness a reflection of each of us? If we are all ONE being on the planet together, manifesting as seperate entities, then each of us must look within for the answers and take responsibility for our part in creating all of it. None of us are seperate from Mother Earth: we are created from Her and with Her love. At the moment, She is rebelling and in pain. And we have all added to it. In my opinion, it would not harm any of us to do a better job of respecting the planet upon which we all walk and to ask ourselves for forgiveness for our contributions, as a first step towards helping all of us learn to walk in the light given to us and to be shared with all. There are times when I want to take up a pole axe and charge something, like Don Quixote charging a windmill, to vent my pain and rage against an invisible enemy bent on destroying the planet. Then I have to remind myself that my inner rage is what is wrong with the planet in the first place and that I have created it! Perhaps nothing will work other than love and forgiveness and we have to begin with healing ourselves to do a better job of healing our beautiful little planet. It is not about 2012; it is not about Nibiru; it is not about earth changes or pole shifts; it is not about fascism, democracy, communism, socialism, democrats or republicans; it is not about 9/11. It is not about the end of the world. It is not about Christianity vs. Moslems or Jews vs. Gentiles; It is not about war and peace. It is ALL about each of US and what is going on inside of US that will bring us all together again rather then divide and fragment us. I often wonder what would happen if each and every person on this planet could form a huge circle and hold hands together for one hour, one second, one moment in time and inject as much love for each other as we possibly could into that circle, what might occur? I don't really know. Do any of you? There are times when I read the postings on the Gathering Spot that I feel that many of you are attempting to do just that in you own way: spreading the truth within. Thanks.
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different. Not so much thoughts manafesting reality.....The key was "the reality WE are experiencing".....Hope that makes sense..sometimes I confuse myself....