If you put 666 into Roman numerals, you get DCLXVI, which Robert Graves held to be the titulus of the AntiChrist, just as INRI was the same for the Christ. It stands for a Latin phrase which essentially means 'Domitian Caesar basely killed the envoys of Christ', which could refer to either Domitian Caesar or Nero, whose (rather plebeian) family name was Domitian...

Somewhere at the start of Revelation it says 'The time is Now', meaning, presumably: when it was written. I'm always amazed that people can read it today and think, yes, that directly relates to modern events... It's clearly a complex code to describe a situation which passed almost 2000 years ago, rather as if I began my latest apocalyptic vision "I saw a Bush who was the son of a New World Order standing astride the world..." etc etc.

For a completely alternative view of the whole 2012 phenomenon which owes nothing to the New Age movements or recent psychedelic movements, visit www.biroz.net/houseofsky - yes it's my own essay and this is disgusting and blatant self-promotion, but what the hey!! :-)

Bruce

In the context of this doomsday laundry list it's clear that, in many traditions, the end of the world has always been in vogue. This seems rather self-destructive. As Walt Kelly said through Pogo and Albert: "We have seen the enemy and he is us." Why would a species hard-wired for survival be so drawn to predictions of its own demise? While this question is largely rhetorical, one reason is clear: An imagined future built on the rubble of the past allows the ongoing, low-grade apocalypse of the present moment to be ignored. In order to break this cycle we must stop waiting for some future event that exists only as thought forms in our heads. As Daniel Pinchbeck points out so well in 2012, only through conscious action now can we hope to have any say in what is to come. Fortunately this is happening right here on Reality Sandwich. Thank you all. Also in 2012, the insightful Mr. Pinchbeck sums it all up with the Hopi saying: "We are the ones we are waiting for."

Thank you for your article. It caused me to stop and think, and to risk sharing a few of my own thoughts. Perhaps the Book of Daniel and the Revelation of Saint John the Divine were literally speaking of specific people and times and places. Trying to match the prophecy to an exterior event, or else to 'disprove' it would make sense. There are other possibilities of course. Edgar Cayce suggested that The Book of the Revelation was really pointing to an awakening of consciousness. Th "Seven Seals" the "Seven Churches" etc may refer to the Seven Chakras of the spiritual body. Far from "New Age," these have been written about for at least 6,000 years by the Hindus of India, and described by mystics, saints and seers of all faiths and religions of all ages and cultures. The Apocalypse referred to is that of the movement of a specific energy up along the spine to the Brain, resulting in the achievement of transcendence or enlightenment. The Bigger news is that as more and more 'ordinary folks' find themselves a part of a larger awakening, a "tipping point" may be passed where it becomes the "new normal" and the entire race of man evolves into a state of clairvoyance and prescience(sp?). Those Saints, Seers, Mystics Sages and Shamans will have been the harbingers of what was to come. Except that I suspect the talents /gifts and abilities they possessed were not so much of a "leap," as they were simply a cessation of repression of an entire half of the Human Psyche. While I salute and respect the erudite scholars of Reality Sandwich, they are perhaps good examples of the result of total intellectual suppression of the feminine for so long (millennia,) that it becomes difficult to to even imagine a world where everyone was christed and man(woman) was fully and completely human for the first time(again,) since "The Fall," (the fall in consciousness, aka The Garden Mythos.) Lennon sang; "Imagine no religion, its easy if you try..." I can imagine a Gaia Consciousness that literally redeems the planet and everyone on it in an instant, (the twinkling of an eye.) Many years ago I was trained in cryptology and I think that the key to deciphering some of these "predictions" is that they are describing "states of mind," not "dates in Time." The exciting thing is that I may just live long enough to find out! I am grateful for each author who takes the time to share here on this wonderful E-zine! You keep the rust from turning my mental gears to dust!

Ok, as far as the prophets, and the "Revelations" in particular, how odd is it to look at the "language that they used" quoting Bob Dylan, and look at, ah , recorded history as we know it, or don't. We seem to be looking at a pale horse through a glass darkly, to use some of the language thats runs parallel to those whom like Nostradamus are in the fluid quantum fields of possibility. Everybody has their hand in the pie in the sky, but who gets the plum? Was Plato telling us something about the past or the future? How would we know how all this got spun?What is the end of the world a metaphor for? Who does it serve, or what psycology is end timers?

Speaking of 'The persistance of Time" or of memory as in the most famous Dali painting we get that melting watch feeling of time being somehow fluid, or the flow of time is not what we think it is, except when we allow our imaginations to connect with various dreamscapes.Nothing is as it seems. therefore who dares make predictions based on some crusty 2000 years ago, or more recently. Except when we ponder the Mayan calander, we see some real signs, symbols, and numbers, that see a flow of cyclic time. We are always up against some kind of built in factor in the human equasion, that is divided against itself, it seems.

When Nietzsche saw that "God was Dead" was this another way of saying that people in the God House were always talking about the end of the world because they really did not believe that God went on forever? And therefore all Bible stories take on this apaca-eclipse? Is it something about written language itself? Why does the Hopi language seem more like Dali, in its fluidity?

As far as the number 666, i see that as an extention of creative vision that runs through this whole confusion of numbers and time.2012 divided by 911=maybe maybe how E=MC squared=the mayan calander=a pair of chop sticks.

 

Floating in a lake of slowly heating water, one frog turns to the other frog and says, "Don't worry, a catasrophic geothermal event will occur soon enough and the water will heat up so quickly that we'll automatically pop out!"

As we sit here and ponder the wisdom of the ages, passed down in texts, rituals, calendars, and myths, are we truly on the edge of transformation, or is our ego blinding us to the hard facts of physical existence?

The Eastern philosophies are held in high regard, as their esteemed rituals and insights are held as panacea to the coming onslaught of real-world challenges. But, as these ideas gain popularity in the west, let us not forget that the eastern peoples have been diligently practicing these techniques for thousands of years. They have not, as of yet, experienced any 'evolution' in the common experience of man. Yet, we seem to think that a critical mass of practice is just around the corner, spearheaded by the west, in the 21st century.

The Buddhist monks of Burma, hardly a trivial group of hippie shamans, may represent the pinnacle of transcendental human experience. But, does their steadfast commitment to alternate realities, and relinquishment of material goods provide them any more protection against the bullets of ignorance than a common, materialist westerner? In fact, our commercialized culture of materialism has provided far more protection against the evils of other men than enlightenment and meditation could ever provide. This isn't because the capitalist system has some grand moral plan to provide salvation to humanity, it is because the system urges people to become educated in order to succeed in the system, while at the same time keeping people in the system occupied protecting their social standing. Therefore, it is much safer in our society to stand up and say, "Bush was responsible for 9/11", than it is for a Burmese monk to cast off the shackles of an ignorant, and despotic military regime. The Buddhist monks are some of the most spiritually advanced humans on the planet, and yet their admired stoicism provides no protection against the realities of physical existence. The idea that we can enlighten every member of the planet, and somehow transform humanity, stands in stark contrast to the historical precedent of "might equals right", or that "one bad apple can spoil the bunch"

I think to a certain extent, we are deceiving ourselves with the idea that as soon as enlightenment reaches a critical mass in western society, that it will somehow save us from our destructive physical nature.

I see two ways that the human species evolves. In one direction, our species as a whole evolves over time as our physical makeup responds to a changing environment. This process takes place over great spans of time, and is almost imperceptible from the vantage-point of a single individual within the species. The other direction we evolve is individually, through death, as our true nature becomes a new singular reality. The first evolution, that of the species, is imperceptible to an individual, while the second evolution, that of the individual, is imperceptible to the species, as it takes place upon death. This second evolution has been described by many a seer, sage, mystic, tripper, monk, and saint, while the first evolution has been described by many a scientist, or similarly intellectual being. Outside of these two evolutionary realities, the idea that mass-consciousness change can take place in the physical realm, collectively among billions of individual, is simply without precedent.

With this being said, we can look at the 2012 date through a more restrictive lens. There is no doubt that our species is creating a physical environment where the normal processes of biological evolution may be unable to keep pace, at which point we will be forced to evolve ourselves through the pioneering use of modern technology in order to survive. This achievement, that of a species designing the bio-physical mechanisms for which it will survive in the real world, is a major shift in the evolution of man, even as this evolution is not widely, or consciously embraced by the individuals. Could this have been the shift described by the ancient Mayans? A shift from the human species' reliance on the physical world for survival and a connection with the natural processes of our planet, to that of a species that creates it's nature through the application of intellect and technology. A shift such as this, while not altogether exciting or obvious to many individuals within the species, is undoubtedly profound when examined through the eyes of a species that existed for millenia completely reliant on the whims and bounty of the natural world.

The second possible explanation for the evolution of 2012, represents the second type of evolution mentioned above, that of the individual. If this evolution were to occur, it would entail the relatively-simultaneous deaths of millions of people, as their evolution and true-nature manifests itself in a mass-evolutionary event. The remaining individuals who do not undergo this 'transformation' will once again, be blind to the transformation that has taken place, and will either lean on current religious explanations, or be left to devise new myths and interpretations, to describe the event that is beyond their realm of individual understanding.

These two evolutionary possibilities, from the standpoint of historical precedent and critical analysis, stand in stark contrast to the Utopian-evolution theories gaining popularity in our existentially-starved western culture. In terms of sophistication, the western world is indeed slightly more advanced than more traditional cultures, but does this advancement entail anything more than a more comfortable physical existence? Does this slight advantage provide the catalyst that will allow our people's to transcend physical reality in a few years, what the true mystics are unable to achieve after thousands?

When examining the possibilities of human evolution in the 21st century, let us not forget that just because an idea or thought is new to an individual or culture at large, does not mean that it has any more inherent value or power for the new student, than it does for the elder practitioner of faraway lands. Before we go espousing the benefits of meditation and existential reality, let us turn to the pages of record for current events, and see that meditative power alone are no protection against the natural laws and processes that have given rise to our current physical existence. If mass-evolution is to take place in our time, who's to say that it doesn't all take place in India, or among Monks, or some obscure indigenous tribe in a remote corner of the world.

Let us not let our ego blind us.

P.S. One of things I think is great about this site is that it allows us to explore the outer-realms of our existence through all the modern devices of communication. At the same time, I see most contributors and visitors examining the evidence with critical thought and pragmatic optimism, so that what is ultimately contained on these pages is a true and honest exploration of our place in the cosmos. Cheers to the reality sandwich team for creating such an accessible and stimulating, while not outlandish and speculative, place for us to share such interesting ideas.

These comments are all fascinating, and bring up any number of possible responses and directions for response. Personally, I don't think you can have it both ways. I don't think that you can argue BOTH that the times require urgent and immediate practical solutions AND that we will be saved from ourselves by a mass awakening of consciousness that will happen in 2012. If the latter is true, why bother to do anything now? After all, if we all become enlightened in 2012, everything will become much clearer and the solutions can all be worked out in a jiffy. My own perspective is that the issues of the current moment--violence, discord, environmental stress--are serious and deserve serious, practical solutions. I don't think we can afford to wait or hope for a mass shift in consciousness that may or may not come. Nor, for that matter, may a mass shift of consciousness be necessary. If everybody--and by this I mean even and especially the powers that be--were simply to live by the basic ethical principles to which everyone now gives lip service, many of our current problems would vanish by magic. But maybe that itself would require a mass shift of consciousness. It makes me think of an old Andy Capp cartoon in which Andy is at the doctor. The doctor says, "There's nothing wrong with you, Mr. Capp. Just lay off the booze for a few days and you'll be fine." To which Andy replies, "Isn't there a simpler solution? Like an operation?"

From the article,

Despite the jocular tone of this essay, I do have a serious purpose in mind. For several generations now, there has been a call for a new religious impulse, one that is faithful to the human experience of the sacred while cognizant of advances in human knowledge, one that retains the central ethical values of the human race while discarding those that are merely the result of superstition and prejudice. I too believe that unless such an impulse comes into play on a large scale, we face, not the end of time, but a dismal future in time as we know it.

The phrase, Secular Humanist, comes to mind, as well as Carl Sagan's groundbreaking series, "The Cosmos", a 14-hour journey through the evolution of man and our place in Universe. Hardly a cheesy, cult-documentary from the 80's, this film has the power to do more for the human psyche and awaken unknown consciousness in individuals than anything else I can think of. It's certainly had a profound influence on my thinking.

I do not see the 2012 date as the end of time or as the date of some single great appocalypse. It represents a moment in time where our total human group conciousness will be being "born" so to speak. It's gestation began long agao. We entered the final trimester when our massive population explosion began. Little more than half a century agao our population hit one billion for the first time in any recorded history. Since than it has multiplied by over a factor of six. With each one of us being a cell in a greater brain. Our group mind has become large and developed enough to become self aware in it's own right. When that happens it will be sudden. Like being born. After that things will change, albeit slowly at first, to a point where we don't think or communicate the same way we do today. It will be the end of life as we know it and the beginning of a new life, or rather, a new age.

When talking about 2012, I tend to see explanations referring to pole shifts and meteors and cosmic radiation from the center of the galaxy, or some other such calamities to jump-start this new reality-whatzit that's on the way, but when I permit myself a bit of idle speculation on the matter, I find more inspiration in the process of life on earth rather than a sort of "tough love universe" that suddenly smacks us across the face with disasters to wake us up into Utopia. When I turn my attention to more naturalistic possibilities, I find it easy to see the entire planet as a single individual, an individual life form that is reaching maturity. Gaia is a 13 year old kid, apprehensive of the new changes coming, and resorting to violent desperation and woeful atheistic nihilist-materialism as coping mechanisms. But a child cannot help turning into a mature adult, much in the same way trace elements in primordial soups can't help turning into single celled organisms.

 

The process of life on earth is a process of convenient inevitability. Animals quickly evolved from plants, and found their way onto land where there just happened to be trees waiting for them. When we climbed the trees to get the food, we needed a more advanced mind and more dexterous appendages to navigate the branches. Throw in a few million years and maybe some mushrooms if McKenna was right, and you've got yourself a self-reflecting, choice-making individual human being, a neuron in the mind of Gaia. These neurons start talking to each other and forming more complex societies. Social movements are akin to the rapid-fire thoughts of the brain. Gaia decided to think about empire, then she changed her mind and thought about democracy. This series of changes, from amoebas to monkeys to government, is a rapidly accelerating process, and I find it a bit naive that such fantastic events such as molecules turning into dna, fish crawling out of the water, and monkeys harvesting crops are all done with, and we're stuck with these whiny, confused egos and our endless feats of mass fear, hatred, and self-destruction. I think we're destined for more.

 

A society made of only children would find the idea of a mature adult preposterous, much like our society finds the idea of a noosphere preposterous. So what will we mature into? We must examine what holds us back, and what developments we would require to overcome it. I feel our biggest obstacle is our fear. How do we overcome it? Communication seems to be the best mechanism for promoting peace and mutual understanding. A staggering majority of our technological advances have been our desperate attempt to communicate with each other. What form of communication goes beyond our current advances of the Internet and cellular phones? It's dangerous to drop the word telepathy, and it's even more dangerous to talk about people who experience various kinds of telepathy under the influence of certain chemicals, but to me it seems like a natural progression beyond spoken and written word. If we could read each others' minds, we would have nothing to hide from each other, and no reason to be a afraid of each other. A human society where everyone is everyone else's best friend could accomplish a great deal beyond what we're up to these days.

 

Gaia has evolved incredibly rapid yet semantically limited communication between her neurons. Is she destined to make the rather small leap into instant communication? How will this development come about? How does sexual maturity come about? Hormones released on a time delay by the brain. We can explain that process, but can we explain the more esoteric process of the development of a self-reflecting mind? Sure we can, the more connections a brain has, the closer it gets to self-awareness. So, what process will bring about a telepathic human race? Will it be our scheduled dose of fairy dust from the center of the Milky Way? Will it be a meteor that crashes into our planet carrying spores of a strange new form of edible plants that activate our latent X-genes? Will it be a process so simple, elegant, and hilariously unexpected that we can't even fathom how it will work? Did the molecules sit around and theorize about their eventual synthesis into self-replicating chains?

 

I'll admit that it's dangerous to depend on some 2012 scenario that will solve all our problems for us, but I'd like to think whatever event that occurs on 2012 will be less of an event and more of a coincidence. Humanity's greatest strength is its technological prowess. Is Gaia using this strength of ours to gradually compel us towards the new devices that will enable us to live together in peace or advance us to some sort of manufactured yet inevitable singularity? "Hmm. Google's debuting their augmented reality system in Q4 2011...how will that go?" "MIT is on the verge of true AI within the next 5 years. What will that mean?" "Nano-fab shops are the fastest growing industry in history, with many analysts predicting that due to new advances in solar power, and the self-assembling aspect of the machines will allow a new Fab in every home and community around the world within the decade" To what will these headlines point us towards?

Ok technology,its obvious that technology seems to be way ahead of the people whom wield it, simple questions.Why when we discover E=MC squared the first thing that happens is the potential to destroy the world, why is it that Einstein said: that you can't stop war while preparing for it?

Gaia, and the core of the galactic eye, what is being seen between them, why is mankind so miniscule that we are constantly fed lies, lies, and more damn lies?What is it in the human equasion that happened from the monkey moment to the human moment that we have a furtive lying dissembling group that is destroying its own nest to spite its face? I don't know how to speak without sounding a bit sarcastic because these kinds of thoughts are always in the front of my consciousness.I read people like Mark Twain and i see the way he was twisting the phrases he used to squeeze a drop of reason from the status quo.This is intelligence in action, what we see today is a media that dissembles like a pavlovian dog in a dog show.

So if there is intelligence in the universe, and it would find a thread through out meta-history then it would manifest as signals of a language of the future that needs to be decoded like signals from outer space, messages of all sorts of harmonics and nuance that would come through as scenarios of possible ends, an object tossing off reflections, like the History we are trying to awaken from.If at some point the intelligence that is speeding up parallel to the dumb down, and this intelligence is like past the speed of light, then a series of symbols will turn like the gyre of human spirit, and the zeitgeist will transform, this would appear like discoveries that will be like the offering from Michael Renee in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' it will appear like crop circles and finally the Will to transform that has eluded the folks at the top of this spinin top.

excellent points. i support the goal of rousting the complacent appocolypse-waiters with these kind of observations, but as for reducing the 2012 scholarship to typical apocolyptica, i have to disagree. first of all, dig this: the time of christ was not only the birth of appocalyptic predictions, it was the birth of the very Idea of an end to linear time. most world cultures today still don't even think of time as linear, a cyclical view is more typical and perfectly in keeping with almost every observable phenomenon. written language binds time and creates a new type of history. the birth of written history corresponds to the developement of historical religions based on past events such as Judaism. The concept of appocalypse as bound to the Christian tradition seems to stem inevitably from the singularity of the Christ event. the eternal now is interupted by a matter of primary importance that took place only once in the past. this system of thought cannot last... forever, as it were, or else human culture is only doomed to stagnate deeper and deeper into unconscoiusness as that event receeds deeper and deeper into the past. anyone who subscribes to the christ story must therefore invent some sort of second coming scenario to reconcile the dilema. While the paradox may only be within the interpretation of christ's life as an event in linear time, rather than, for example, as a myth about the shifting Zodiac, the newfound ability to cognize an "end of time" is no less impresive as a shift in conscoiusness.  perhaps the next level is not some abstract apocolypse that is going to happen to us, but rather the collective realization of what the "end to history" means.

 

the maya did not believe in linear time. 2012 just represents the end of a very large cycle. i think you hit the nail on the head when you suggested that appocolyptic predictions are as sure as the calander, ie. it is a natural human impulse to ascribe significance to any future date that is defined. we all paniced at Y2K just as we did with Y1K seemingly for no good reason, but perhaps the problem is that are looking to the wrong calender. we are using the Gregarian calander that is, the Roman calander basically, that encorperates such features as extra days in August becuase Augustus wanted there to be.  the Gregarian year 2000, that is, has no astrological importance.  its just 2000 solar cycles since the beginning of the age of Pices. By contrast, it makes perfect sence to ascribe signifance to Mayan calander dates becuase the Mayan calander is scientifically tuned to celestial cycles, which anyone can see clearly do have an effect of human destity observing even the basic relationship of women to the moon. All mayan dates have significance within the framework of Mayan science, each coresponds to an exact positioning of celestial bodies. The Mayan calander can be used to accurately predict the location of celestial bodies at any given time. Accomponied by some knowledge of how our planet is effected by those bodies can reveal a great deal about future events. With no understanding of how exactly our collective fate is influenced by the geometry of the galaxy, it is hard for western science to put Mayan calindrics into context, but if Pinchbeck and others have reported correctly (i would really like astronomical confirmation) that 2012 represents the allignment of earth, sun, and center of galaxy for the first time in over 26K years, i think there is more than enough reason to suspect that something is going to, and/or IS going, down. maybe the poles shift and there is sudden ecological catastrophe. maybe Gaea awakens to information coming from the center of the galaxy and mushroom spring up in strategic locations such that mankind is inspired to use our existing technology to create the noosphere. maybe the sun flares up and we all die. as much as it seems counter-intuitive to adopt a complacent apocalyptic vision, there are plenty of plausable scenarios in which there is really nothing we can do to aid or prevent it from happening. Since we don't really know to much about what such an event might be, however, i think it is far more profitable to take a look at what IS happening.

 

 yes, each generation faces unique challenges, but no generation but ours has faced the prospect of total ecological collapse unless The Flood was predicted, nor were global events in linear time even cognizable until less than 100 years ago when a global standard for time first emerged.  Many species and ecosystems and cultures are unquestionably experiencing "the end," whereas our culture is only becoming more and more tightly bound to the concept of a linear progression of events that finds us here on the brink of an unimaganable future.  i agree that it is probably arbitrary to ascribe paradisical quaalities to the impending omega point, espeicially if one is not activly engaged in creating it, but i also think that an apocolypseless continued life-as-we-know-it scenario is quite out of the question.  there is no way for the human species to go foreward in linear time with respect to the massive ecological shift that is well underway + the frenzied pace with which technology is redefining our lives.  extinction or transendence seems like the only way to go.  2012 seems like a perfectly reasonable climactic date with respect to the accelerating pace of our technology, but the philosophy exists irrespective of the date.

Excellent stuff, good to see it posted here... I'm glad :)

An excerpt from something i wrote a few years ago:

Such "peak experiences" are for me the compass by which i try to navigate in my life, having glimpsed what humanity involves...i do not project any other meaning or forecast from them.

A "coming transition" has always been prophesised by visionaries, and perhaps results from a sort of transference of internal re-generative processes to worldly processes, if such a distinction can be made. . .

There have always been prophecies about the end of the world and the like. There is no "coming" transition as i see it. The world and everything in it is always in transition. Always dying and being re-born. This transition is here and now!

I think of it more as us having the potential to be consciously and actively involved in that transition , in whatever form.

Investing in beliefs is a losing business, much more so in beliefs that maya or time will somehow end, and that we will be delivered from all the bad stuff. Beliefs like the aliens or the new humans, or the rainbow warriors coming to save us .

There is potentially no end to the cycles of real illusion , they can go on forever in different forms, history repeating and all that. It's up to us to choose to live within and without these cycles

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  Something amazingly transcendental is happening right now. It's called life!

What i feel is always here for each of us is the opportunity to choose to go with the flow, the transition to our realised humanity...and that may be where free will comes in , and that may be where the infinite wizdom of the Master Plan comes in , in that the Plan is not written and enforced on us by God or Fate , or DNA. The blueprints are constantly updated, it is there yet not there, we are potentially free to choose to co-create it, every moment, instead of waiting for 2012 or multiples thereof.

As we know the universe cannot just be ruled by some kind of dictator or vengeful god with a timer stopwatch ! "You'd better get on with the script OR ELSE! Your time is running up!"

What time? The time we have seen to be an illusion?

 

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http://eyohey.com/Texts/eleventhour.shtml

I have been seeking the time to write a critique of this piece - though in a sense my entire "2012" book is a critique of this perspective. Unfortunately I am enmeshed in writing something else right now, and don't know if I will get there "in time." I wish the author had taken the "time" to examine my thesis directly, as it would then be much easier for me to respond.

People interested in this topic might enjoy the following essay, which offers a cogent thesis on how an accelerated transition might take place:

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/SoundsTrue2012.php

 

 

"Will the transformation."-Rilke

"Waiting for a literal end of time may be nothing more than a muted and unconscious longing for this liberation."

This is a thought i have been sitting with since 1999. We want a certainty to our existence that a specific date in the "future" will provide. But life does not work that way. One of the greatest Prophets of the 20th century Edgar Cacye would say that his predictions would be effected by the consciousness at any given moment.

So I will put out, to us all, the vision of LOVE. Who cares if we have a singularity of events if we do not master the one most important energy at our disposal. And that is LOVE. All the ages of Man are lacking that one ingredient to bring Heaven on Earth. So all the new thought,machines whatever will devolve us without basic Love and respect. I am no Luddite in wishing a Golden Age. Hey I want my promised spaceship and telepathic music studio. And wether or not 2012 will bring a New Age or more linear growth, without Love it is all just a mind masturbation game. Right now we are just clever monkeys. EGO needs to be of service to the Heart. Then we will have it all!

two interesting blokes. a large portion of the rainbow family has adopted Argüelles's calander. what's this guys trip? that the destiny of mandkind hinges on the collective institution of HIS addaptation of the mayan calander? now talk about ego-projections.

 

i do find it to be a quality calander, even if i have not yet internalized my role as a Blue Double Magnetic Monkey. with its synchronictic lunar paterns and rich symbolic imagery, the Arguelles calander is probably serving well the transition into a more tribal-wholistic-feminine world-view.  in justifying its existence as a femanizing agent, however, it is doomed to faliure as a agent of total transformation before the continued crushingly masculinizng influece that is the alphabet. it fails, meanwhile, at its professed claim to total attunment with cosmic cylces, as its main opperation is simply to substite synchronicity with the sun for that with the moon.

 

calleman's thesis that the stucture of the 9-tiered pyramid represents the mayan understanding of the exponential rate of creation resonates deeply with my impression of contemporary history, but i cannot help but wonder if similar impressions on calleman's part cuased him to project this thesis onto "the heap of broken images" that remain of mayan culture, or if the evidence is not more intricate and compelling than... I have thus far gleaned from picking his name off the surface of things.  I suppose I could read Calleman's book, but I intuit that as with Sitchen I would have trouble putting his interpretations in context without a better background in anthropology.

I am more interested how the motifs from Book of Revelations seems to be being used all around us. For example, if you are an American, and/or have access to the one dollar bill. Did you know that the number 666 can be found numerologically there under the pyramid symbolism. What do you think this could mean?

May be 2012 is a kind of ''inflexion point' (remember your geometry...) where a majority of human beings will understand the true meaning of existence...? I dream that, after this point, spirit will be, at least, politically free... May be , for example, the UN will declare that ALL PLANTS MUST BE LEGAL...! It can be a MAJOR turning point for humanity... As a psychonaut, I consider myself as a ''dream-specialist''...and, you know, the power of dreams is the most powerful power of all. We can transform the whole world. 2012 can be the start of a world where WE, free spirits, will know complete liberation. LOVE P.S.: SEE ALL OF YOU IN BASEL (SWITZERLAND) FOR THE WORLD PSYCHEDELIC FORUM (march 2008)

I would hope, as humans, we are more than our body since those carcasses are so very fragile and can be damaged or destroyed so easily. They depend on so much grace; air, water, food and protection from the elements. I don't suspect that an apocalypse would be an end to the earth as easily as it might put an end to mankind. Species are disappearing daily and on that day in December, it might be the end of the timekeepers rather than the end of time...

In the article Mr. Smoley writes: "What is going to happen in 2012? Since these prophecies are not Christian, there is no talk of the Lord's return." Then he goes on to talk about the transformation of consciousness that seems to all the rage among 2012 experts. But what about "the return of Quetzalcoatl"? It seems to make sense that if the ancient Mayans predicted the return of person that they in fact meant a person and not a change in overall consciousness. I for one am looking for a human being to fulfill the 2012 prophecy. And I'll tell you, I'm not the only one of the cape crusader fan club watching the skies for mankind's friend. The Christians, the Muslims, the Jews, the Buddhists, the Hindus and the Pathists (a follower of Matrixism) they're all doing it. They've all got their prophecy of the One that will make us one. Why so arbitrarily take the Prophet out of the prophecy?

Is there some way to make this clear:

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

Repeat 12 more times:

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

The Solstice DOES NOT align with galactic center in 2012 !!!

PLEASE wake up people ... 

GALACTIC ALIGNMENT

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