said a lot of things.I still see that object at the end of time casting shadows back to us like a mirror ball. Terence liked to quote, Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, I-Ching, and he invented his own Elf Language.But like the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda said: "I am not a metaphysical man"...he also said, "It so happens that i am sick(or tired) of being a man" I think Pablo was a metaphysical being, but he did not make an issue out of it, he saw everything on earth in his"Residence on Earth" as a natural flow between our desires and our basic needs, his poetry mirrored society and placed simple pleasures in perspective with an awareness of the human need for beauty and silence, for dignity and feeling nature as a deep understanding of poetic justice, with a connection to the things around us.If 2012 says anything it is talking about these things that make like worth living and not just sustain us through some shift of the cycles of transition and transformation, we are talking at a major shift in human consciousness? that the powers that be are scrambling to turn into 2012 doomsday movies?

I very rarely comment on articles here - but this one was fantastic...can't say I learned anything, but it was damn nice to get a good laugh in-between all the serious posts...great work, hope to see more articles from you in the future!

I suspect that the minute after 11:11 on 12.21.12 we will all be saying "See? Nothing happened," yet all the while the world really had ended while a new one began.

Case in point, the Y2K scare was a red herring but the old world disappeared with the new millennium, heralded by the dot-bomb and an inconceivable act of American self-flagellation that has launched us into two or three wars, a nightmare we still haven't woken up from. Who would have partied like it's 1999 if you knew what was in store around the corner?

So as the spiral tightens into a knot, we will forget all about the acceleration of UFO revelations, the fallout from the New Depression, an oddly spotless sun and such things as the "statue on Mars" and the "Montauk Monster." Instead, we'll just breath a giggly sigh of relief and proclaim that the world didn't end after all. Or did it?

but then it mysteriously started up again.I was experiencing my own personal apocalypse, little nobody human that i am.It might of ended in 68 when i saw that strange black line in the starry night sky, must have been a full moon that night.Some people just go out and kill other people because those others believe in freedom, they think if they end their life like that, by shotgunning down some teachers and kids they will end the world, because they hate our freedoms.

i found out my intel iMac was made in China tonight, when i installed 2 gb of memory, and then i found out that it still wasn't enough to download the software system upgrade to 10.5.4 i need 4gb.I could not get the screw out, so i had to pry the little panel off with a knife, it made me think about how silly the human condition is, 2012 is just another glitch on the blip.Oh, when all i needed was a second hand typewriter, and i few good books, and some cans of soup to last me through doomsday like in road warriors.Dune buggy barbarian punks and a lot of cheap tattoos, and canned god food.

It pains me to think that so many people are so focused on 2012 being the "end time" or even the "new beginning." What really matters is that you are living in the HERE and NOW. You can't live every day like Dec. 22nd 2012 will be your last. You can't rely on scientific calculations of prophetic claims to estimate total collapsing of world economies or new revitalization's of spiritual uplifting.

 

What you need to do is live your life day in and day out while bringing the most love you can into this world. That is what really matters. Sure its fine to stockpile rice and things like that if you really want to. But you need to be realistic and keep the most important things in check.I would say the most important thing about 2012 is not to worry about it.

 

Don't let a speculation about a calendar date drag you down. As cliche as this sounds, you can't worry about things that are beyond your control. Whatever happens will happen, and thats the way it will be. If there are huge atrocities on or by that date, you will just have to deal with them like everyone else. If something really good happens, then thats cool too. Just don't let it stress you.

 

I once heard someone say, "Life never hands you situations that can't deal with."

With the sun's cycle shifting and in turn the magnetic fields on earth changing, we may experience a sudden flood of dmt into the human-ape brain from out of the pineal gland on that fateful day in 2012. No didasters, no catastohpe or death, just a blissful awe and awareness. And once the entire human race has had this psychedelic experience we may be able to stop fighting all these pointless wars and get over ourselves to start studying the real mysteteries in the world.

Along Eliezer's lines, I believe that for a prophet it must be terribly frustrating not to see the mayhem, s/he has devoted her/his life to warn about.

Missing the chance to smugly say: "What did I tell you" would be a blow to anyone, not mentioning the trouble of reconsulting your starcharts or the crystalball to find the miscalculation.

For the rest of us, hopefully 'here and now' and other deep oriental wisdom in western fast-philosophy version, will bring us through unscathed.

Well, the bounderies between the worlds ARE getting thinner, the alpha-male paranoia syndrom stronger and nature weaker.

But personally I'll start worrying seriously, the day religious and political leaders will start acting sensible. THEN the shift is imminent.

 

PS Rice keeps very badly in basements, unless its very dry basements

You talk about that frickin' date like an IMAX movie's coming out - "2012, A Space Odyssey." Most likely if the Earth is destroyed it will be BY OUR OWN HANDS.

Yes, 'Thinking', you are, most Mayaholics are preparing to Observe and not Participate by observing and not participating save, perhaps, going to seminars with DJ-s so they won't leave and sewing fuzzy coats of toxic materials to wear in the 110 degree heat.

Practicing The Golden Rule, the one you learned in kindergarten, is all that is needed to make a profound positive 'shift' HERE AND NOW, just like not eating fatty crap is all you need to do to lose weight.

PLUS, of course MOST of the Mayan codices were burned, just like That Man. Only four or five survived. How does ANYONE know that what we have been able to study and/or trill upon was not amended by the others, or even nullified. And perhaps what exists is part of a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTEXT we can't understand by that small part alone.

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PANARCHY!

It alllll has to go - even Anarchy.

it makes this whole article pointless. Terence talked about 2012 hundreds of times, and it mapped out with the I-Ching. Anyways there's no 2000 year grace period when the biosphere is collapsing. This article is vapid and/or disinfo, just very poor commentary. And to end with Macbeth, can you be anymore boring?

with all the anger/defensiveness? the article was clearly written with a solid sense of humor - it doesn't feel, to me, that he was trying to convert or convince anyone of *anything*. some of the comments above, while containing some very good rebuttals, just seem over-the-top with the anger and the defense...thank god for cj!

I'm more frightened that any dissenting opinion is seen as "angry" and "defensive" in this Land Of The Free-ish - even on here - than I am of "2012"(Wow! added up that makes five! The number of fingers and toes on each hand! What can that deeply mean?), an asteroid hit, toxic air AND the Hillbilluminati combined.

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PANARCHY!

It alllll has to go - even Anarchy.

i donno, "sure gets hard don't it Jesus?" this line is not some guy thinking about his penis, it was in a poem this street poet i once knew, he use to recite it on the street for spare change, and at local poetry readings, I don't remember the rest of the poem, except the part about Jesus digging on the animals when he was just born, or something like that there.I remember the first time i saw Jim Ryan do his street poet thang on the main drag of Santa Cruz, i was walking down the street with another poet friend of mine and we came across Jim sayin his...it...sure...do...get...hard...don't...it...Jesus? and my friend and i began laughing like it was a joke, but Jim was from Oklahoma and he was as sincere as a hungry street poet gets.I can imagine a variation on this poem that you could recite on the street, it goes...IT sure gets strange as 2012 gets closer, don't it Buddha?

but if you recited that now you prolly would be called a torrorist a taroritz a ta-or-or-its, you know anybody that don't believe what W sez.

Maybe the rice was in a walk-in cooler?

Meanwhile...

Sign at a monastery in Thailand: 

Cut yourself some slack: 

100 years from now

All new people.

Cit:

"100 years from now

All new people."

You have to be VERY enlightened to find consolation from this.

I curtsy to you. I apologize for detonating. I've heard those words so much lately, applied to anything that veers, especially from conforming "non-conformists", that my Yang burst out of it's casing. Thank you for your kind response.

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PANARCHY!

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but there is no mention of the end of the world in this theory, but of the end of times, which is quite different.

Terrence also vibed out on a possible discovery of time travel in 2012...Terrence picked the 2012 date because that was the only date that made his math program for mapping time/history work. I have also thought of how accurate could the date be due to different calendars used through history and foggy start/end dates...McKenna talked about years being different lengths according to dfferent ways of calculating a full yaer... he was tying in the 64's in the Iching with a possible year of 384 days I believe ....but there will also be a major comet or two in the area... Other philosophers have stated that it is here now... possibley the full cycle came with the nuclear tests and Hiroshima matching up with the big Bang... what about the dawning of the age of aquarius... maybe the womens rights movement was the full circle after the goddess religeons were over run with the priest craft... Time seems so flexible and pliable...I have hard time thinking that it will be some big magical switch at midnight...but it's fun to think about...

2012 the end of time as we know is special ... While we are so focussed on the details of the prophetic apocalypse we miss the point that this change is not happening all of a sudden ... it's happening here and now ! The process of ascension is clouded with the doomsday scare ! Fear ? You can choose love as that's all you need to ascend ! ....  080808 , The opening of the crystalline gateway of christ consciousness which brings in new evolving energy is one of the important cosmic gateway openings we shall see as we more foward in this linear time construct ! Yesterday, on the 080808 a beautiful crop circle formed with the figure 8 (Infinity) below Milk Hill, Wiltshire ! It's all connected and our consciousness is not separate from the cosmic consciousness ! We are One ! Love, Laughter & Light ... Mate :)

 

" Follow your Bliss "

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I guess there is no rush to dig out and dust off my "End of the World is Nigh" sandwich board just yet. Fuck me, have I had some good mileage out of that.

If you don't have the tools nor understanding to perceive an event, does it happen?

 Stockpiling goods will sustain you for only a limited time. Better to prepare oneself to be flexible, liquid and resourceful.

A massive paradigm shift takes time to filter through to those who, at first, refuse to believe. A shattered worldview will be the fallout to those who do not understand anything other than linear logic.

My guess is that tachyons and faster than light travel will finally be identified, opening up a whole new world of the wondrous strange and a different understanding of " time. "

Party pooper;)

But I, being one who has devised plans for survival in case of any sort of anything, will be chuckling at everyone on January 1, 2013. Why is this? Because all those people who did prepare for 2012 are going to be slightly, possibly extremely, agitated and might take it out on all those who did not prepare...I smell something along some line about like that cooking so I would say it is still good to be prepared for something...who knows...good chuckles though, thanks.

The preservation of integrity requires the admission that one never "knows". I enjoyed this article and sense it is likelier to be true than "the rest", although I do feel compelled to consider "the rest" and give it precedence on an on-going basis, so what does that tell me? Not sure. And, something is happening, but you don't know what it is . . . do you, Mr. Jones?