2012, Nostradamus, Mayan Calendar, Oh My!

2012, Nostradamus, Mayan Calendar, Oh My!

2012, Nostradamus, Mayan Calendar, Oh My!
After I hear or examine 2012 and the hype, hysteria and hilarity that increasingly surrounds that ominous year, I can not help however to remember the well-known and humorous line uttered by the Scarecrow and Dorothy as they meander along the Yellow Brick Highway in the Wizard of Oz, "Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"
We quickly find out the Lion is cowardly, the Tin Man is rusted, and all that awaits them on their journey is a bunch of singing pigmies carrying rainbow-coloured outfits. Their concern of the forest, of course, was of their own creation. And within the ending we in the end uncover all of it was but a dream anyway... "And you were in it too Toto...!"
Although I am incessantly requested by my clients and readers if they should really be concerned about 2012, so far I have conveniently skirted the difficulty by telling them to analysis the facts, learn the relevant books, stay away from the plain scams, and make up their very own minds on whether or not they need to be concerned, or not. Till now, I've not formally positioned myself concerning this rapidly approaching date.
Frankly, I believe that People are uninterested in being told to be afraid anyway, and that we're suffering from our personal form of crisis fatigue. Why make it worse with a bunch of 2012 propaganda?
As if we don't have sufficient to fret about already...
And but, (and you knew this was coming), the 12 months 2012 does current a strange and unique confluence of multiple predictions, occasions, prophecies, mythologies, and cosmologies. Certainly, it's controversial that no other time in historical past has seen such a bizarre merging of so many alternative, and wildly various, perception programs and predictions. From the end of the Mayan Long Rely Calendar to religious predictions of the Finish Instances...from the Photo voltaic Maximum and lethal Coronal Mass Ejections (CME's) to the I Ching and Timewave Zero...from the so known as Galactic Alignment to the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Age of Aquarius, 2012 has develop into the sine qua non of futurist obsessions.
Certainly, 2012 is quickly turning into Y2K on steroids.
Even a true-blue skeptic has to cease and scratch his head and ask if there is anything to all this 2012-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it stuff. There is simply too much on the market on 2012 to ignore (and I bet your whole 2009 salary - dwindling though it could be - that the media goes to select up on the 2012 dialog soon and elevate it by an order of magnitude, with the Historical past Channel taking the lead).
And so, that is what I did, I finished and asked if there was anything to all this hype and threw myself into the related literature and weblog sphere to explore and hopefully purchase a coherent understanding of this emerging 2012 collective obsession. So far, I've learn most, if not all modern texts on the subject, and have totally explored the electronic media, with each day doses of blog sphere research.
What I discovered each amazed and confused me. And I am concerned too. Lets have a look at every in turn.
Any try to analysis 2012 has to start, and I would argue end, with the Mayan Long Depend Calendar. The Mayans actually have been (and are) sensible mathematicians, astronomers, and time keepers. Their calendric system, which is predicated largely on celestial observances, possesses a level of accuracy and a depth of symbolism that makes our Gregorian system appear sophomoric compared. The Mayans created this system more than 2000 years ago, by the way in which... Amazing. (Be mindful, on the similar time it was up to date wisdom that the earth was flat, and the solar orbited the earth, which was, after all, at the center of the universe).
It is manner too formidable to examine the Mayan Lengthy Depend calendar in detail on this brief piece, although I do encourage you to look into it (fascinating reading). But what shocked me, and what is truly amazing is that the Mayan faith and mythology, their techniques for maintaining time, and even their structure & hieroglyphs, are similar to these of different ancient civilizations (Egyptian, for instance), with whom they might have had no contact.
This unusual synchronicity is troublesome to elucidate, except you think about the one thing that every had in widespread - the sky. Is it potential that multiple cultures and civilizations, separated by both distance and time, can draw the same divination and conclusions from the same celestial observances? And if so, does this lend better credibility to their time preserving system and its inner meanings? Was the Mayan Long Count actually about impending disaster, or does it hold a deeper reality that, as but, we do not perceive?
There may be common settlement on the following info because it pertains to 2012: the Mayan long rely calendar does finish on the winter solstice on December 21, 2012, and it does coincide with a rare alignment of our rising solar positioned in the center of the Milky Method galaxy (from an earthly perspective), and each happen within the time of the Precessional switch from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius, an event that only happens each 26000 years. (This 'alignment' is particularly interesting when you think about that the middle of the Milky Approach galaxy, regularly known as the 'great rift' is framed by four outstanding stars that form an the wrong way up cross; so, on the winter solstice 2012 the 'sun' will probably be 'hung' on a 'cross' because it aligns with the center of the galaxy, every rising and setting together. Now there is some symbolism to maintain you awake at night time.)
What does all this imply?
Effectively, it relies upon upon who you ask. Enter Confusion.
A great good friend of mine, who is a really successful Hollywood actor in day time drama, once took a visit to the orient where he was introduced to a meal called 'Jambots'. Jambots is a mixture of a number of favorite dishes all thrown into one pot and was a stew. The logic is simple - if we take all our favorite dishes and mix them, the result must be a supremely tasty mixture. How could it not be so?
"How did it style?" was my obvious inquiry to my good good friend. "Like shit." was his sober reply.
2012 has change into, in my view, the trendy day, Finish-of-Times Jambots. There are such a lot of different, but favourite non secular beliefs, historic (and poorly understood) mythologies and mysteries, conspiracy theories, perception methods, fears, pseudo-scientific conclusions, and simply wishful pondering, all being thrown into the 2012 boiling pot that the true significance of this date, if there may be one, has been utterly lost within the stew...its been boiled away. It's as if each doom's day concept is being drive-linked to this single year.
The Mayans MUST have been onto one thing, so...let's evaluate Nostradamus' Quatrains to find a clear linkage to the date. Certainly there are some biblical passages that we will hyperlink to the Mayan's wisdom and due to this fact declare that the rapture is imminent. Isn't there a rogue star on the market (Planet X) that ought to make a pole-reversing, a thousand-foot wave-creating fly by of the earth...and couldn't that be in 2012?? Isn't the aliens' subsequent visit overdue, you already know, those that seeded humanity? And eventually, and my favourite, aren't we all about to transform into enlightened beings with the facility of levitation and telepathy (flying could be cool).
Wondering what I'm talking about? These are all 2012 predictions. Seriously...I didn't make them up.
Jambots!
Its virtually as if we now have an obsession, or perhaps a twisted want to see the world come to an finish in our era, (by the way, every technology for the reason that dawn of man has thought that they might see the 'end of instances' in their life; it must be hard wired into our DNA). I feel fundamentally we all really feel that the earth is changing, and that we, as a species, are off target. As Pogo says, "We've met the enemy and he is us." Perhaps somewhere deep inside our soul, in a spot we don't wish to explore, we would like the world to 'fix' itself, even if which means we get 'thinned' in the process?
And that is precisely why I'm involved, and why you should be prepared for 2012.
There is an ancient zen proverb that I like, and it's easy: That which you are seeking, is at all times in search of you. This proverb is, in my view, a beautiful salutation to human functionality and inventiveness, and communicates that in the event you hold to a imaginative and prescient, you can make that imaginative and prescient a reality. How very cool.
And how very dangerous...particularly if that's the case many individuals, indeed THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF THEM, are holding to the imaginative and prescient that the world will end in 2012.
There's an emerging awareness in each the scientific and new age literature that teams of people can affect occasions simply by means of collective 'willfulness.' The phenomenon is known as 'collective manifestation.' Merely put, if sufficient individuals imagine in a thing, no matter that thing is, they may affect the probability that that thing will possible occur.
For example, if the bible says that the Temple Mount has to fall earlier than Christ will return, and millions consider that he'll return within the age of 2012; well, then any individual has to go on the market and destroy that darn Temple. Collective beliefs, especially if they're unreasonable and fanatic, foment motion.
In different words, if enough individuals believe that 2012 = disaster, they will make it so.
That's disturbing...
So what do we do?
Let me answer this question by ending with the place I started...the Wizard of Oz. Even when Dorothy's story was just a dream, she nonetheless ought to have been in the storm shelter before the tornado hit.
It is all the time greatest to stay prepared.
Kevin Baum
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