After the Disaster
Recently, a $250 million film linked 2012 with a mass wipeout of humanity from earth crust displacement and super-volcano spew. The spectacle seemed designed to curtail any deeper thought or discussion of the subject by making it appear ridiculous. Apparently, I was parodied in the film, as The New York Times noted: "Though not much is made of the Mayan angle, the most amusing character, a doomsday prophet and radio broadcaster played by Woody Harrelson, seems in hair, beard and interests to have been drawn along the predictive lines of the real author Daniel Pinchbeck (2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl)."
Although my ideas run counter to what the filmmakers propose, I was also incorporated into their marketing and promotion machine. I was one of three "2012 experts" flown to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to address the global press, and then to Los Angeles for the appropriately black-carpeted premiere. I accepted the invitations because I hoped to use the opportunity to convey a different message. As the media reduced my ideas to sound bites or hopelessly distorted them, I felt as if a mask of cultural fears and misconceptions was being projected onto my face. This was not surprising, but it was still unsettling.
I don't pretend to be a "2012 expert" or a "doomsday prophet." I am not a specialist or scholar, but a generalist, journalist, and freelance philosopher. In my last book, I described, as truthfully as I could, my exploration of subjects including psychedelic shamanism and indigenous prophecy. While a number of visionaries propose that something radical, absolutely astonishing, and unprecedented is going to happen as we pass through the 2012 portal -- galactic synchronization, mass DMT activation, sudden ascension, huge solar storm, galactic superwave -- I have never pretended to have an answer. I don't know what the Classic Maya understood exactly or what means they used to codify their knowledge. While a Long Count cycle of over five thousand years ends in 2012, there is scant evidence they thought any particular event would occur at that precise time.
Despite all of the question marks around the subject, "2012" can be useful as a focusing lens or "a litmus test for consciousness," as author Mark Heley proposes. Instead of fixating on any future event, we need to realize that any positive transformation, whether in 2012 or after, will only be the result of deliberate actions and conscious choices made by human beings in the present. Despite the intensifying evolutionary pressures we face and the telescoped timeframe in which progress and change now occurs, we remain a half-awake, half-conscious species. As individuals, we tend to be vain, fragile, self-serving, ego-centered. The organizations and institutions we create reflect our individual flaws.
This much is inarguable: We find ourselves in a window of opportunity where we either radically change our direction as a species or face devastating consequences. We are at that threshold where, as the social ecologist Murray Bookchin put it, our world "will either undergo revolutionary changes, so far-reaching in character that humanity will totally transform its social relations and its very conception of life, or it will suffer an apocalypse that may well end humanity's tenure on the planet." Examining trends in climate change and species extinction, the esteemed scientist James Lovelock, who developed the Gaia Hypothesis, now thinks there could be 150 million people left alive at the end of this century. Other scientists share his ominous outlook. As resources such as fuel and fresh water become scarce, it is quite likely we will see even more horrific wars, masses of refugees, famines, droughts, pandemics, and revolutions.
If the outlook from a purely empirical perspective looks bleak, the good news is that science has ignored some crucial factors. One is the possibility that human beings, through an evolution of consciousness, could develop a regenerative culture that contributes to the health of the biosphere. In the 1960s, the design scientist Buckminster Fuller proposed that society could be redesigned to be "comprehensively successful" for everyone on earth. In the short term, we could become far more flexible and resilient, instituting a global program that re-localizes basic essentials, such as growing food, producing energy, making clothes and shelter, while liberating knowledge as a free resource and commonwealth. We could institute "cradle to cradle" manufacturing practices, and use satyagraha techniques to stop the spread of GMOs. We could replace money, as a basic instrument, by new systems for exchanging value that support collaboration and trust over competition and self-interest. Despite the system's inertia, we have the capacity to restore the natural systems we have corrupted, and create a new planetary culture based on communality of interest.
Another factor ignored by science and the mainstream is the reality of paranormal phenomena, psychic energy, or what Carl Jung called "the reality of the Psyche." There is much evidence for the existence of all sorts of extraordinary psychic effects, and many people have direct experience of such phenomena. As an analogy, we can consider the recent discovery and application of electricity. Once engineers learned how to conduct and store electricity in the 19th Century, we transformed the entire earth in a blink of evolutionary time. If we discovered reliable means to access, utilize, and channel psychic energy, we might participate in an extremely rapid evolution of consciousness and society. Jose Arguelles has proposed that our future culture would be "psycho-technic," applying our modern technical capacities to the realms of the psyche that modern society lost contact with in the last centuries.
The possibility for a rapid regeneration of human culture is predicated on a great awakening happening quickly -- before ecological meltdown leads to systemic breakdown. People need to awaken spiritually, to realize the many dimensions of psychic life beyond those accepted by modern society, and at the same time, bring those realizations down into the daily lives and social practices. Spiritual realization needs to be integrated with social commitment and direct action. Since the biosphere is now directly threatened by our post-industrial civilization, retreat from society is no longer possible or desirable. No matter whether we like it or not, each of is, inevitably, a social and political agent whose smallest actions have a direct influence on other people and the world around us. Our current culture enshrines irresponsibility, greed, and waste. If the human species wants to survive, the civilization that replaces this one is going to have a different set of values and a revamped operating system.
While it is conceivable that 2012 may see some sudden quantum shift in human consciousness or an alien landing on the White House lawn, it is also possible that we have a much longer struggle ahead of us. In that case, the end of the Long Count may still be significant as the hinge of a transition in our species' awareness. An ever-growing segment of humanity is becoming conscious of the culture of domination that has degraded the biosphere, annihilated local cultures, and locked us in a prison of constricted awareness. As more and more of us realize this, we will unify our intention to undertake the difficult work of superseding it.
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2012 doubter
hi doubter
But human culture exponentially accelerates the evolutionary pace. Look at what electricity has done in just two centuries.
I often discuss Peter Russell's ideas from his essay in "The Mysteries of 2012": He sees revolutionary changes in human consciousness and society happening at exponentially accelerated rates. The Agricultural Age took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds of years, the Information Age took several decades. He proposes we are on the cusp of the next revolution, from information, data, or specialized knowledge to wisdom and forethought that integrates the specialized knowledges into a long-term project for regenerating the biosphere and allowing for the diversity of human cultures.
I do think evolution is speeding up, and that is part of the amazing nature of the time we are in - we have the potential to see an evolutionary shift of awesome importance happen in our time, through the medium of our consciousness, something that we participate in directly when we choose through a self-willed, self-directed "mutation" in consciousness, to become participants.
"Will the transformation."-Rilke
Hi Daniel
The changes you cite are all technological changes not changes of consciousness.
Of course, there is feedback between technology and consciousness but I am not at all convinced it is positive feedback - it is more a mixed blessing. Have you read Bill Joy's "Why the future does not need us"?
I think we are, indeed, at a critical point. We are being lured by the sirens of technology into the antithesis of what you (and I) are hoping for.
Technovolve
I like to look at evolution as a more fluid transition that might speed-up or slow down as needs arise. Stephen Hawking I believe has a good handle on where the "evolution of evolution" is headed as the quote below from an article states:
"In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes.""
source of article quote: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/stephen-hawking-the-planet-has-entered-a-new-phase-of-evolution.html
source of above link:
http://www.rationalvedanta.net/node/131
i recommend bruce lipton's
i recommend bruce lipton's new book:
spontaneous evolution...
scientists are having to face the fact that evolution can happen within a generation, rather than just spanned over millenia.
2012 Movie - Expert Filmaking and Manipulation
Daniel, I agree with your premise. I think we can evolve as a species and I know from over 20 years of personal experience that our individual world views can be changed and we can move from victimhood to empowerment. I've seen enough transformations in myself and many other people to know what we truly are capable of IF we chose to take the inward journey. Kudos to you for not only taking the journey, but writing thoughtfully and eloquently about it.
I would also agree that there is not only a quickening of our experience of time but also an increase of "love" or "grace" or "intelligence" on the planet. The marriage of science and spirituality continue to evolve and the explosion of new ideas and new research appear to be exploding at the same rate as the number of global crisises. You would think we have all the information we need in order to navigate the changes by now. The question is do we have the heart or courage to take action?
I did not see the movie 2012, nor do I plan to. I enjoy creative story lines and I do not feel this film has much to offer in this area. I did watch the movie trailer which was full of spectacular special effects, which I felt were quite over the top. I have a friend who, after watching the movie, was convinced the earth is going to end dramatically on December 21, 2012 and there isn't anything she can do about it but to enjoy the time she has left. Was the intention of the film to plunge us into fear and deep despair? Pehaps. But for those individuals willing to explore what the true meaning of their life is, perhaps the movie will end up being a catalyst for change. Who can say. I do know fear and despair are only issues if we choose to stay stuck in them.
Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps
Doubter, you might be interested in Robert Felix's book "Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps."
Robert makes the case that periodic magnetic polar reversals, and the reduced protection from radiation that goes along with them, have triggered periods of rapid evolutionary advancement in the past.
Of course said reversals also kill off a lot of living creatures in the process, but... ;-)
muddle in the puddle
Defense
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I was not immune to it's vast marketing campaign. I couldn't ignore the inundation of articles about 2012, and the feeding frenzy of the media preying on the hype, fear, and controversy surrounding the subject. I also knew that Mr. Pinchbeck would be at the center of this maelstrom, as one of the most visible writers who regularly deals with the subject... he even got a mention on a Fact vs. Fiction piece by graphic designer David McCandless on his "Information is Beautiful" site. (http://tinyurl.com/yk6furv)
I cringed, because if there is one thing the media machine is flawless at, it's making people look silly. Lord knows how many thousands (millions?) have now been forever turned off to this "crackpot fad" and its drugged-out herald Daniel Pinchbeck.
It was inevitable that some kind of response would be necessary from the community, and I'm relieved to see Mr. Pinchbeck produce such an honest, level-headed, and comprehensive piece. It's unfortunate that what he, and the community at large have to say may not be taken seriously at any point in the foreseeable future, but it's immensely reassuring to know that the integrity is there, when it is so hard to find in the mainstream.
Festina lente,
Nick
excellent
yes!!
The collective slumber you speak of will come to an end. There are ready thousands of people who have "removed" themselves form the treachery of modern society, living on what the Earth has provided. Once we all stop getting our water from a tap, food from a controlled warehouse, and mobility from instruments of destruction, we will all be very awake indeed.
2012 Change / Fear
The forth coming date 2012 is already bringing change. An example of this can be found on the back of the last page of, 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl. On that page along with the short bio, on you Mr. Pinchbeck, is the web address for this site Reality Sandwich. You, as a published author, have made my presence on this site and my reply to your post possible with that inclusion.
This site and these posts have made an impact on many. If the sole and net result is that some of us have found a voice, and a certain fellowship through you and the other writers that post here, that alone would be more than commendable. I believe that the majority of posts on this web site are meant with the best of intentions, and a true belief. I am not certain that can be said of some of the other authors and writers that are currently working their thoughts and beliefs, about 2012, into the mainstream. As for the writings and posts of yours, that I have read, they have all been from your heart and what may be called your soul or essence. You have been very careful to represent what you have written as what you, personally, have seen or felt. In 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl my only dissappointment was in finding that you could not put forth, and therefore did not put forth, a prophecy.
It would be comforting if someone could, with out doubt and with irrefutable facts, point out the future. I am afraid that has yet to be done. In the meantime it is enlightening to read the writings of individuals that let themselves come through in their words. So at further risk of being the one that sucks it up to you. It is something like the following. Those that have read any of your writing, and have any sense whatsoever, should be able to discern that you are passing on your personal experiences. In some instances those of us that do understand can see that it was more than likely painful for you to do so. I realize that you are the object of a considerable amount of attention. So in summing this up I will give you a bit of further praise. Charles Bukowski is considered, by some, to be the best poet /writer of a generation. He is very good, (should say was). You write in that vein, from within yourself.
In final answer to a concern in your post. From those of us that understand your writing be strong in the knowledge we know better than to trust the mainstream media. For the rest, those that would ridicule, let us keep on trucking toward enlightenment through open thought and discourse.
Have to warm up my rig, darn near -10 last night. Need to check on the realities of my physical sustenance.
Thanks, Mr.Pinchbeck fear not.....
if one were to lay out the
if one were to lay out the future, without a sliver of doubt... would that undoubtedly be what would happen? If we really knew, it wouldn't be the future anymore; it'd be an aspect of the present, and so would never occur at any future date since it already happened.
I don't want to know the future. I can't really remember too much of the past except for what my mind chooses to present to me upon recollection... so I'm all about now. I am largely unknowing, but I know to trust the mystery... thanks for this article, Daniel!
Good point.
I agree on many of the things you say. Daniel deserves much credit for bringing us this fascinating information. I really sincerely think that it is a beautiful story.
I also found this site through the 2012 book and I really enjoy reading (almost) all of the ideas and viewpoints presented by both the authors and commenters here.
As for the 2012 movie I didn't see it in fear that it would be crap. So that's a good thing. :)
extremes
I just thought the following passage might be a little bit too extreme -
' We are at that threshold where, as the social ecologist Murray Bookchin put it, our world "will either undergo revolutionary changes, so far-reaching in character that humanity will totally transform its social relations and its very conception of life, or it will suffer an apocalypse that may well end humanity's tenure on the planet." '
Isn't there the possiblity or probability of some kind of middle ground?
ie that we will manage to muddle through relatively unscathed and unchanged inspite of all our current problems?
I'm just wary of the certainty of that extreme viewpoint that you're putting across.
middle ground
hi ada,
The question of whether there's a possibility of a middle ground is a good one. I recommend checking out Buckminster Fuller's "Utopia or Oblivion." The title sums it up: he felt that either we would make the world work for everyone or most probably we would terminate our existence on the earth in a short span of time. I think Fuller's perspective is really one of the most critical approaches right now, plus an exceedingly sensible one.
When we look at species extinction especially, but also the toxification of the environment (giant plastic dumps in the ocean etc), etc, it does seem we are acting as some type of catalyst species shifting the biogeophysical nature of the planet from one state to another. It may be that we change the planet to a state that no longer includes us. Fuller's idea is that if we become conscious of our capabilities to do less with more, etc., we will naturally redesign society to serve the entire human population and the entire community of life on earth. This may seem farfetched - but being able to fly in planes or teleconference was also once out of the realm of human possibility. Once humans have a shared intention, they are often able to do things previously seen as completely impossible.
McDonogue has put out the possibility that we could redesign all industry so the effluents actually benefit rather than damage the environment, which is what nature does as it produces. I think that idea is a seed of what is to come, in terms of material processes.
And then on the immaterial side, there is this other capacity that society has not yet explored: the utilization of psychic energy to bring about regeneration of the biosphere and a peaceful world.
"Will the transformation."-Rilke
off-topic: translation of your books
Hi Daniel,
I'm really sorry to butt in to this thead but I haven't found a way to contact you in any other way. I am a translator (english to french), passionate about the shift in consciousness, and I really like the way you spread and defend this topic.
As I am looking for a meaningful translation project, I was wondering if you had had any of your books translated into french, and if not, whether you would allow me to find a publisher here in Paris to carry it out.
Please send me a reply by email at emmoulin@hotmail.com and I will tell you more about my translation abilities and motivations regarding this project.
Thank you very much in advance, all the best to you,
Emmanuelle Moulin
alldreamedup
emmoulin@hotmail.com
Thoughts from a peasant
For whatever my opinion is worth, this article is 'useful'.
No ivory-towers or: "Now see what you made me do".
Awaiting an automatic evolution of consciousness is a lottery, most likely leading to the few survivors saying. "What did I tell you". Alternatively have the traditional methods of 'saviours' with competitive models seldom lead anywhere.
If we are to manifest counter-ripple effects to the general insanity, it must be done at such a pragmatic level, that 'the masses' (OK, ...shoot) can see the benefits. A cheap, functional windmill for electricity, or organic carrots priced so not only fanatics or the rich will by them. THAT'S what people notice and respond to.
And to join in the creative process of such is within the grasp of almost everybody interested in alternatives to mainstream. Every contribution can give effect.
Citydwellers? No excuse. E.g. start cooking 'real' food, making it tasty, healthy and interesting (but don't mission. It adds a taste of ash to the food). Learn and practise natural medicine, take a trip out of city and collect the herbs yourself. Help start alternative business without the common new-age $$$$$ attitude.
We all start somewhere, and even despair can be overcome, when we realise that some things take time. I've been part of it and seen it function most of my life, and while I often have wished for faster and bigger results, I can see the small effects gathering momentum enough to give me some hope.
There are ofcourse other, loftier levels to function on. But without pragmatism, they can easily become exclusive.
We Don't Need No Education
The 2012 meme does not need a major Hollywood blockbuster to make it seem even more ridiculous than it already is. I am so disappointed, but completely unsurprised, that so many people have bought into yet another rehash of eschatological hoo-haa. Has the study of nearly 2000 years of Christianized Western thought and history taught us nothing?
How is it that "new age" folks always seem to buy into the most outlandish ideas, ideas for which there is often no empirical reason to believe in? Let us be clear that the Mayans (and I'm not sure why anyone should care what they thought about anything) did and DO not see 2012 as The End of anything. It is simply when one of their many time cycles turns over, just like the West's single cycle turns over every 12 months. I know an ethnobotanist who works with Mayan healers in their rural communities, folks who still use the traditional calendars for all sorts of purposes. He says that they are utterly befuddled by the gringos' preoccupation with this idea, and are humored by how far we've taken it. 2012-ers are, in my view, even more out on a limb than evangelical Christians, Madhi-oriented Muslims, messiah-longing Jews, etc. They've taken one very tiny detail of an ancient, foreign culture's cosmology, decided that the weirdo interpretatino of it was a given, and are going crazier and crazier about it as we get closer and closer.
Has anyone noticed that events around our globe are just a rehash of the events that have plagued our lives since the beginning of recorded history (wars, diseases, injustice, etc.), and that there isn't the slightest indication that anything will change anytime soon? Perhaps I will have to eat my own words two years from now, but I'm willing to bet quite a lot of money that there are going to be a great many disheartened, unenlightened people come December whatever, 2012. I will shake my head, perhaps laugh a bit, and move on, living life on planet Earth.
2012
This is a comment that was written by "13muluc" in the topic "2013 - or what to do when the apocalypse doesn't arrive" - I think it fits in very well right here again.
"Massive transformation is coming, with or without an apocolypse in the biblical sense. What is different this time is that 101 flavours of shit are poised to hit the fan in the very near future, many of these are not only predictable but unavoidable if nothing fundamental changes. A continuation of "business as usual" isn't an option at all. It really is do or die. The specific date doesn't matter, except as an estimated time of arrival. I think 2012 is serving as a collective "hook" for our un- or semi- conscious knowledge of this. I hope we will recognise it as the wake-up call it could be, rather than an excuse to stay in denial and immaturity. I know things look bleak now, but that's because people have a tendency to perpetuate a lie until the perceived cost of maintaining the lie exceeds the perceived cost of admitting that it is a lie. The majority are not quite there yet, but soon will be. It could happen this year, or next, or in 2012, but I don't think we'll be able to string it out much past then. The lie I'm refering to concerns the purpose and value of human (and other) life. Evolution is not, and never was about survival. If it were, we could not call ourselves an evolved species, since amoeba and cockroaches are both better at survival than humans ever will be. Evolution exists. It happens when it needs to, and that would be now. The alternative is extinction." -13muluc
Pinchbeck/Harrelson
Re: mahajohn
I immensely enjoyed your hilarious comment. It isn't that long ago, that Elizabeth Claire Prophet (leading a neo-theosophical splintergroup) made people all over the world sell their possessions to come and live in a collective shelter, awaiting the big finale. Which to my knowledge didn't arrive, though I ofcourse could've been un-observant that day.
I do believe in a kind of 2012'ishness, but as you say, why let the mayans carry the brunt of specifying the time. My own attitude is less based on prophesies, but rather on what can happen, if you give a bunch of talking monkeys enough kaboom'ery (amongst other toys) to play with.
Infinite Love is the only Truth
Very intuitive,beautiful and
An End Date by any other name...
There are many western concepts which suggest an 'end date' or better put define a culmination of the human drama. Hegel called it the 'historical dialectic' which completed itself in the full liberation of humanity. His antithesis was found in Karl Marx's Dialectical Materialism, which ironically influenced the modern material world which many suggest is collapsing under the influence of the higher dialectical process. I am surprised no one has ever compared McKenna's timeline as an interpretation of the historical dialectic.
Chardin called it the triggering of the Noosphere, a interconnected sphere of human thought where the highest ideas administer global consciousness.Futurists call it the technological singularity, the point where information and technology improves at a rate fast enough to produce things like immortality, space travel within our lifetime.
We don't need to know what the Mayans were thinking with their calendar to explore our global birth into a new era, we just need to pay attention to what our emergence into the future is showing us.
Rome Viharo is a futurist, new media producer, and proud pop.
Right on mark for me, Daniel
2012
Well, we'll know soon enough. December 21, 2012 is only three years away.
It still wouldn't hurt if more people learned to do things like grow their own food or learn how to sew. I'm not suggesting anything major like moving to the middle of nowhere and trying to live off the land. Maybe just buy a little seed kit and grow your own salad.
I still can't shake the feeling that something is going to happen on December 21, 2012 and I don't discount the possibility of earth changes happening. I seem to recall that geologists think the Himalayan Mountain Range was formed in a period of about 72 hours -- so earth changes can occur very rapidly.
We also do appear to be some sort of fractal image of the end-stages of the Roman Empire circa 475 A.D. Although, lately, I've been detecting similarities to the French Revolution, what with some of our financial elites starting hobby farms and homesteads like Marie Antoinette did with her hobby farm, Le Petit Trianon. Google Neel Kashkari (never was a bankster so aptly named) to see what I mean, or, jump to the link below:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/iwashington-posti-profile_n_382...
So, while we may not be sure what to do, now might be a good time to learn some practical, salt-of-the-earth type skills, which is always good advice anyway.
Now, if I can just figure out where I should be between December 13 and December 21, 2012...because I have a sense it may matter.
WOW DANIEL!
like i said...
DarkLore
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0975720015/thedailygrail
Hi Daniel, excellent article, as usual your rational approach of analyzing the data and realizing there is a future beyond 2012, is exactly what is needed, not more hysteria. I just checked out the Tool band site. They are recommending the DarkLore series for interesting reading. I checked it out and you are one of the authors of the Vol. 1 in the series. Right on Daniel. I will be checking this out some more. Peace.
Haha!
please
2012 is just trendy. Quetzlcoatl never left. The level of mind control is greater because the population is larger. That's the difference. We are all hypnotized by the dark magicians. Corruption still rules. Resist the mind control. The smallest act of kindness redeems the human race.
Remember the Aztecs publicly removed beating human hearts while everyone was mushroom tripping. Maybe Quetzlcoatl really will leave one day. Peace. And Love.
just this just that
just a trend to mend, just a position to defend, it's like you tell some kids in a class room to write an essay on on some historical subject.If the kids use their imagination it might produce some interesting results.If they all start to get stuck, then it just becomes another copy cat, competition.So, hoop de doo we got all the little experts on the 2012 phenomena on the Mayan Calendar , ect.Or maybe they are not experts, even the experts don't agree exactly.So now it's just a trend.Another trend, so let's trot out the not so experts on trends.take the kinds of advice we get on here,we are told and i will take the above post as an example."we are all hypnotized by dark magicians" ok kids here is your essay topic.It's a meaty provocative statement. But, i wonder, is this as far as we have come in this whole conversation? Because it seems to me this is where i came in way back in the late 60's.Am i suppose to not watch Harry Potter? Are we just children playing with dynamite in the wake of vampires? So we could say that we are all hypnotized by dark vampires.Or reptiles, or back in another age we could begin our essay topic with " There be dragons"Yes people technology is a dangerous thing.And ten, twenty years ago people were listening to Terence Mckenna and taking mushrooms while the dark magicians were symbolically ripping our hearts out to sacrifice them on the internet alter.Meanwhile the war drags on.And the morning of the magicians is waking up on 2012 day. Oh all those trendy kids reading the trend benders.The mind bending just got more chancy, a few years ago a hip journalist took a boat ride down the amazon.And here we go folks the movie to end all movies the end of the world just got more tech power, so we can now balance more contradictory concepts on the head of that space needle, now we don't need bigger and better monsters, Godzilla can go into retirement.Now we can have real cool actors, like Woody Harrelson and John Cussack to take us to the edge of the end of the mad mad mad world.Hang on people! and wash it down with amazon shaman cola."After the deluge" after Rimbaud.
Oh and in between that last post while i was writing mine, we got ad spam bombed.And the bombs keep falling, and so does the elaborate house of magic cards.
Have a nice day, and God Bless its pointed little head.
Waiting for God'o
Daniel deals with perhaps the most crucial area of 2012 when he discussed engagement with a change process v's waiting for 'change'.
The Maya engraved prophecy on monument 6 Tortuguero is certainly not a clear answer to the focus of the Maya interest in ending their 13th Bak'tun on the winter solstice of 21-12-2012. The question must be asked, what are we waiting for?
Whether the answer is instant enlightenment or sudden destruction, both are the wrong answer. We are waiting for something else to take choice in destiny out of our hands. We are waiting to be let off the hook by something 'out there' just over the next hill.
Largely this is inaction born from culturally embedded apathy and programmed incapacity of higher mental functions (including sixth sense abilities). As mentioned anything set to change us in 2012 will be brought about by humans choosing to shift mankind's direction. Perhaps it will only occur for a small minority, so be it.
What 2012 most certainly has done for many humans is bring back a sense of mystery and marvel regarding our very existence. This can only be a good thing.
So much of human progress is the tales of men who gazed up into the infinity of the cosmos and simply pondered deeply on it's mysteries. Deep cultural change is rarely something that just happened, it was the fruit of what some individuals bothered to do for the good of others.
Bruce Fenton
http://2012Rising.com
Climategate, 2012, etc.
Some historical facts concerning 2012 and the Mayan calendar
Sometime around 60 AD, in a year One Reed, a group of 20 male technicians and/or scientists arrived on the east coast of the Yucatan peninsula, and proceeded to teach the early Mayans or Olmecs everything they knew.
One of their lessons concerned a Long Count calendar, featuring base-20 and base-18, which began on August 11-13, 3114 BC and will end on December 21-23, 2012 AD. That bizarre calendar has only 360 days per year, which although out of sync with the solar year by 5.25 days for each Earth orbit, allowed early Mayan priests to count time for very long periods of time without using decimal fractions, but only using their fingers (integers)!
One thousand years later after the Mayan civilization had collapsed, a tribe of somewhat barbaric Aztecs rediscovered their great city of Teotihuacan, and carved a large Sunstone which purports to remind us that the Fifth and current Mayan Sun will end in December 2012 AD by "movement" or earthquake.
More recently since 1990, many of those ancient Mayan cultural themes have appeared once again in English crop pictures, along with symbols for their legendary leader Quetzalcoatl meaning "Feathered Serpent".
What could all of this mean? I tend to think that the unknown group of 20 male scientists, who arrived in the Yucatan 2000 years ago, were not originally from Earth. If indeed they were visitors from another distant world which is also populated by humans (as some crop pictures suggest), then they would not have taught the 2012 calendar to those early Mayan priests unless there were some good reason to do so.
Its starting date of 3114 BC is now thought to be a period of "sudden climate change", perhaps the Great Flood. Hence its end date of 2012 AD could also have geological connotations.
Its upcoming end date of 2012 AD might also be a planned "time of return". Quetzal always promised that he would return at the end of his Long Calendar, or equivalently five cycles of Venus (520 years) after Spanish invasion. If so, then his site of return will probably be near Avebury and Stonehenge, where most modern crop pictures have been appearing 50 times each summer since 1990.
The press tells everyone that local human fakers are making such field pictures, but they are intentionally lying, perhaps at the behest of governments. I have visted southern England for 2 weeks in each of the past 3 summers, and on each occasion witnessed firsthand many crop pictures that could not possibly have been locally human-made. Thousands of reliable people there saw the same things. Good people and friends, in this great age of TV-based deception, you are being lied to!
The end of that ancient Mayan calendar in 2012 AD should thus be very significant in one way or another, either for geological events, or for open extra-terrestrial contact. Indeed, the entire modern crop picture phenomenon seeems to be focussed on it.
spiral of light in sky
Talking of crop pictures, I wondered what anyone thought of this amazing spiral of light seen in the sky over norway last night..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Mysterious-light-appears-over-Norway-before-Obama-Peace-Prize-speech
pretty amazing!
Already the explanation of a Russian missile test is being steadfastly glommed onto despite Russia's denials, although the explanation at this video appears potentially plausible as to how the spirals were created:
http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how-the-mysterious-giant-spiral-happened
Although it doesn't explain how it all came to be illuminated in the sky.
One thing that made me think of crop circles was someone's description of the visage as one that seemed almost to be computer generated - that's how crop circles seem to me in their perfection.
Here's another link:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1650&category=Environment
In the mean time
What if?
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doom and gloom prevails
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hope is not lost
W O W
wow...and i mean, "wow!" personally, i feel that this is an exiting time to be in existence; to be alive; to be who we are at this time that we are...now.
see, i was never aware of the whole december 21st, 2012 thing. up 'til the spring of 2007, i was pretty much oblivious to even the notion of all this. i recall, that year, around the beginning of march it was, i was discussing with a close buddy of mine, my five year plan that i had to make something happen. whatever it was that i was planning to make happen, i knew not of. my friend then starts talking to me about 12-21-2012, and asks me if i've heard of it before.
i was like, "no."
he then begins to explain to me what he's come across, showing me this green covered book with this twirly-circly design, seemingly spiraling outward (or inward). the title of the book was an odd one to me, with one word i had trouble pronouncing correctly. the tile read: 2012: the return of quetzalcoatl.
shortly after, i started digging a little into that book, skimming here and there. i was like, "hmmm...interesting!" and since my buddy hadn't read it yet, he wouldn't let me borrow it.
so i did my own bit of researching into the 21st of the 12 month of 2012 and found some really intriguing things. little did i know then, just how profound it all tied into my whole five year plan of which i had started at the beginning of 2007, and which was to end at the end of 2012. now was this a coincidence??? hah! i no longer believe in such things as coincidence(s) anymore. synchronicities, as how the author of that book had put it, would best sum up the term i was lacking.
2 years ago when i first read the book, it made alot of sense, which opened further, my consciousness to the going on of this whole thing. various other sources point to this same thing as well. as i'm going thru and reading it again now, 2 years later, it...it...
well, synchronicities, anyone??? i've 2 more years until my 5 year plan is up. so therefore, i believe i'll wait til this current plan comes to it's close before pondering up what the next 5 year plan will be.
and just what was this current half-decade plan?
gee...that's a very good question. beats me. life changes, and one can only change along with it.
"if nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose of themselves. moving, be like water. still, be like a mirror. respond like an ehco"
-Bruce Lee
well well
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