TOWARDS 2012
July 27th, 2009 by Barry Eaton
This is a new section with updates on the significance of the year 2012 and the Mayan Calendar…
NASA Debunks 2012 Doomsday Theories
NASA scientists are sick of being asked if the world is going to end in 2012 – so much in fact, they’ve published an article on their website explaining just why it’s a load of rubbish.
The release of Roland Emmerich’s film 2012, in which John Cusack’s character Jackson Curtis has to deal with the end of the world, has only made matters worse.
There are several theories as to how the world is supposed to end, most of which focus on a particular date - December 21. The best-known is that relating to the Mayan ‘long-count’ calendar, which some say ends on December 20 and begins anew the following day – much like our modern calendar ends on December 31, and begins anew the next day.
Unfortunately for its modern-day adherents, it was already out of use by the time of Spanish colonisation in the 1500s, and there is little consensus on the exact start date of the current long-count cycle or what its renewal actually meant to the ancient Mayan civilisation.
NASA points out that doomsday was originally set for May 2003, but combined with a different Mayan calendar and shifted to 2012 when nothing happened.
Another theory says a planetary alignment will impact the Earth negatively, but according to NASA no such alignments are going to happen in the next few decades.
Nor will crossing the galactic plane (when the solar system crosses the centre line of the Milky Way galaxy) cause any problems, as that happens every year with no consequence.
NASA says theories which claim a planet, known by various names including Nibiru, Eris and the somewhat ominous Planet X, is going to strike the Earth in 2012 are an “internet hoax”. Any incoming planet would already be visible to the naked eye, and Eris, though real, will never come closer than 4 billion miles to Earth.
Asteroids do strike the Earth on occasion, but none large enough to threaten life on Earth have been discovered.
Other theories involving pole shifts – when the North and South poles swap places – are barely more credible. Firstly, a shift in the rotational poles would require the Earth to suddenly start spinning in a different direction, which NASA say is impossible; secondly, magnetic pole shifts do occur infrequently – on average every 400,000 years – but is unlikely to happen in the next few thousand years, or cause harm to life on Earth.
Lastly, solar activity is expected to rise from 2012 to 2014, but only as part of the usual 11-year cycle. “Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications, although engineers are learning how to build electronics that are protected against most solar storms,” NASA writes.
The article doesn’t directly address the Timewave Zero theory, which states that increases in the universe’s “organised complexity” will reach a singularity in December 2012, at which point “anything and everything imaginable will occur instantly” – at least according to Wikipedia. Needless to say, the concept is so unscientific, it’s not surprising NASA didn’t bother with it.
“There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012,” says NASA senior research scientist Don Yeomans. “Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science.”
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2012 There are striking parallels between a diversity of cultures relating to 2012 and there are many world views available to us. Emissaries from many different traditions will speak about the beliefs & prophesies of their culture.
Hopi Predict a 25 yr period of purification followed by End of Fourth World and beginning of the Fifth.
Mayans Call it the End days’ or the end of time as we know it.
Maoris Say that as the veils dissolve there will be a merging of the physical & spiritual worlds.
Zulu Believe that the whole world will be turned upside down.
Hindus Kali Yuga (end time of man). The Coming of Kalki & critical mass of Enlightened Ones.
Incas Call it the Age of Meeting Ourselves Again’.
Aztec Call this the Time of the Sixth Sun. A time of transformation. Creation of new race.
Dogon Say that the spaceship of the visitors, the Nommo, will return in the form of a blue star
Pueblo Acknowledge it’ll be the emergence into the Fifth World
Cherokee - Their ancient calendar ends exactly at 2012 as does the Mayan calendar.
Tibetan Kalachakra teachings are prophesies left by Buddha predicting Coming of the Golden Age.
Egypt According to the Great Pyramid (stone calendar), present time cycle ends in year 2012 AD
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Mayan Elder, Carlos Barrios Explains 2012 and Mayan Calendar
Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq’ij (a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide) of the Eagle Clan. Carlos initiated an investigation into the different Mayan calendars circulating. Carlos along with his brother Gerardo studied with many teachers and interviewed nearly 600 traditional Mayan elders to widen their scope of knowledge.
Carlos found out quickly there were several conflicting interpretations of Mayan hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, Sacred Books of ‘Chilam Balam’ and various ancient text. Carlos had some strong words for those who may have contributed to the confusion —
Carlos Barrios: “Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”
”We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.”
He continues: “Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action.”
Carlos tells us: “The indigenous have the calendars and know how to accurately interpret it — not others. The Mayan Calendars comprehension of time, seasons, and cycles has proven itself to be vast and sophisticated. The Maya understand 17 different calendars such as the Tzolk’in or Cholq’ij, some of them charting time accurately over a span of more than ten million years..
”All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. — It will change –everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the Dec. 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator and the Earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy.”
At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all the world’s spiritual traditions.
Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy to flow through the Earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration.
Carlos reminds us: “This process has already begun. Change is accelerating now and it will continue to accelerate. If the people of the Earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape without having destroyed too much of the Earth, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way.”
The date specified in the calendar Winter Solstice in the year 2012 does not mark the end of the world. Many outside people writing about the Mayan calendar sensationalize this date, but they do not know. The ones who know are the indigenous elders who are entrusted with keeping the tradition.
The economy now is a fiction.
Carlos tells us: “The economy now is a fiction. The first five-year stretch of transition from August 1987 to August 1992 was the beginning of the destruction of the material world. We have progressed ten years deeper into the transition phase by now, and many of the so-called sources of financial stability are in fact hollow. The banks are weak. This is a delicate moment for them. They could crash globally if we don’t pay attention. If the banks crash — then we will be forced to rely on the land and our skills. The monetary systems will be in chaos, and we must then rely on our direct relationship with the Earth for our food and shelter.”
The North and South Poles are both breaking up. The level of the water in the oceans is going to rise. But at the same time land in the ocean, especially near Cuba, is also going to rise.
Carlos tells a story about the most recent Mayan New Year ceremonies in Guatemala. He said that one respected Mam elder, who lives all year in a solitary mountain cave, journeyed to Chichicastenango to speak with the people at the ceremony. The elder delivered a simple, direct message. He called for human beings to come together in support of life and light.
“Right now each person and group is going his or her own way. The elder of the mountains said there is hope if the people of the light can come together and unite in some way. We live in a world of polarity — day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance.”
“Just now the dark side is very strong, and very clear about what they want. They have their vision and their priorities clearly held, and also their hierarchy. They are working in many ways so that we will be unable to connect with the spiral Fifth World in 2012.”
“On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group’s understandings, are the key. There’s a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.”
Carlos believes the dark side works to block unity through denial and materialism. It also works to destroy those who are working with the light to get the Earth to a higher level. They like the energy of the old, declining Fourth World, the materialism. They do not want it to change. They do not want unity. They want to stay at this level, and are afraid of the next level.
The dark power of the declining Fourth World cannot be destroyed or overpowered. It’s too strong and clear for that, and that is the wrong strategy. The dark can only be transformed when confronted with simplicity and open-heartedness. This is what leads to unity, a key concept for the World of the Fifth Sun.
Carlos said the emerging era of the Fifth Sun will call attention to a much-overlooked element. Whereas the four traditional elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water have dominated various epochs in the past, there will be a fifth element to reckon with in the time of the Fifth Sun — that element is ‘ETHER’.
The dictionary defines Ether as a “hypothetical substance supposed to occupy all space, postulated to account for the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through space.” Perhaps it could be defined as the “space between space”. I would suggest it could be manifest as the alignment of charged particles from our solar system (Sun), and our galaxy (Milky Way) surge.
The Element of the Fifth Sun is Celestial.
“The element of the Fifth Sun is celestial. Within the context of Ether there can be a joining of the polarities. No more darkness or light in the people, but an uplifted unity. But right now the realm of darkness is not interested in this. They are organized to block it. They seek to unbalance the Earth and its environment so we will be unready for the alignment in 2012.”
“We need to work together for peace, and balance with the other side. We need to take care of the Earth that feeds and shelters us. We need to put our entire mind and heart into pursuing unity and unity now, to confront the other side and preserve life.”
”We are disturbed — we can’t play anymore. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone is needed. You are not here for no reason. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard but a special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history.”
Carlos says: “The prophesied changes are going to happen, but our attitude and actions determine how harsh or mild they are. We need to act, to make changes, and to elect people to represent us who understand and who will take political action to respect the Earth.”
“Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It’s very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity. Eat wisely — a lot of food is corrupt in either subtle or gross ways. Pay attention to what you are taking into your body. Learn to preserve food, and to conserve energy.
Learn some good breathing techniques, so you have mastery of your breath. Be clear. Follow a tradition with great roots. It is not important what tradition, your heart will tell you, but it must have great roots.”
“We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything — people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ‘ether’ — the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.”
“One simple but effective prayer technique is to light white or baby-blue colored candles. Think of a moment in peace. Speak your intention to the flame and send the light of it on to the leaders who have the power to make war or peace.”
Carlos reminds us this is a crucially important moment for humanity and for Earth. Each person is important. He said the elders have opened the doors so that other races can come to the Mayan world to receive the tradition. “The Maya have long appreciated and respected that there are other colors, other races, and other spiritual systems. They know that the destiny of the Mayan world is related to the destiny of the whole world.”
“The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It’s not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It’s encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.”
2012 Isn’t the End of the World, Mayans Insist (October 2009)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/WireStory?id=8801083
Despite doomsayers, Mayans say 2012 isn’t the end of the world as we know it – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.” It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood’s “2012″ opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House. At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the “Curious? Ask an Astronomer” Web site, says people are scared.
“It’s too bad that we’re getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they’re too young to die,” Martin said. “We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn’t live to see them grow up.” Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas. A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.
Most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes “predictions” from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: “Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?” It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades - the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or “Planet X.” But this one has some grains of archaeological basis. One of them is Monument Six.
The highest counter in the Mayan calendar is the alautun, which is an interval of 63 million years. Those who state the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 have not researched the Mayan system carefully. 2012 may be the equivalent of the year 10,000 in the Mayan calendar, which is significant, yet it may end up being but another Y2K
2012: Doomsday or the Dawning of a New Age?
An Interview with Alberto Villoldo
By Arielle Ford
A debate is raging over whether December 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, heralds a doomsday of apocalyptic proportions or the dawning of a golden age in consciousness. In the new documentary ‘2012: Science or Superstition’ (available from www.SpiritualCinemaCircle.com in Vol 7) scientists and experts present both the science behind the Mayan calendar as well as a positive message that we will be ushered into a new age of elevated consciousness and increased awareness.
One of the experts featured in the film is Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., a medical anthropologist who has researched the healing traditions of the Andes and the Amazon for over 20 years. Founder of The Four Winds Society (www.thefourwinds.com) and the author of more than ten books including Courageous Dreaming, The Four Insights and Shaman Healer Sage, Dr. Villoldo is dedicated to bridging ancient wisdom teachings with modern medicine and psychology. He recently shared his perspective on 2012.
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AF: What are the 2012 prophecies?
AV: They are indigenous prophecies of the Americas. You find them among the Hopi, Maya, Inka, and the Apache. December 21, 2012 is an astronomical alignment that is going to be the beginning of a new era of a new age.
These prophecies are very optimistic.
They’re not the apocalyptic prophecies of Christianity of the end of the world.
They’re really the beginning of the world.
According to the Maya, humanity first appears in the planet on December 21, 2012. So we’re still proto-humans. We’re still half cooked.
AF: Tell us about the isolated group of Inkas in Peru that you work with.
AV: They are part of the lineage of wisdom keepers that’s found throughout the Americas. They came across the Bering Strait originally from the Himalayas around 32,000 years ago. At the time of the conquest, they fled and settled in very high mountain tops where neither the church nor the state could find them.
They observed and foresaw the end of the conquistador looting, raping, and pillaging, and devastating the land, and polluting the rivers.
One time one of them said to me, “Alberto, we’re going to miss our white brother.”
They saw the end of a predatory time on the earth and the beginning of a millennium of peace.
AF: How did you come to meet these isolated shamans who live at 18,000 feet?
AV: They were the stuff of legend, and 20 years ago an old Peruvian archaeologist I knew introduced me to them.
I went to their villages and brought Western medications with me because they had been in contact with other Indians who had been in contact with diseased Westerners.
They had babies with dysentery and things that their local herbs and their nature pharmacies could not heal so I brought Western medication. I developed a close relationship with their medicine people.
With these people I learned about luminous medicine where they healed at the level of the luminous matrix that surrounds the physical body and that organizes the body in the same way that a magnet organizes iron filings from a piece of glass.
These people are able to look at your luminous matrix and tell you how your grandmother died, how you might live, how you would heal, and how you might die, because it is all encoded in this information matrix. They are able to also read the matrix of the Earth and that’s where they read the prophecies.
These shamans differentiate between information and knowledge.
To them information is knowing that water is H2O, but knowledge is being able to make it rain.
The prophecy was the information as to what could happen, what might happen. They saw us growing a new consciousness, downloading the information codes for a new human into our luminous energy field!
AF: What does happen in 2012?
AV: The Mayans speak about the cosmic womb, or the underworld called it Xibalba that it is at the very center of the galaxy.
Xibalba in the Mayan language means the place of fear, the place of darkness, the place that no one and nothing can escape from. And they said that this is right at the center of the galaxy. Around 15 years ago, astronomers discovered that right at the center of our galaxy there is a gigantic black hole, which is the place that nothing ever escapes from, not even light.
On December 21, 2012, there’s a perfect alignment between the earth, the sun and Xibalba, the black hole at the center of the universe of the Milky Way. This is a planetary alignment that happens only once every 26,000 years.
They called this the beginning of a new era. They believe that we’re getting the codes for new human transmitted to us in the form of light. According to the shaman, the codes for new humans are being sent to us through the sun, from the heart of the galaxy itself. When you hear about a lot of sun spot activity and Northern lights, put on your sunglasses, go outside, spread your arms, and download the codes for a new human.
AF: You say Xibalba is the place of fear. How do we dispel this fear?
AV: In this case, fear is seen as a positive thing because it is a terrifying place where you die to your old identity and you are resurrected.
Here they are talking about the death of a whole era, of a whole economic system, political system and social system.
The Inka talk about the calling of humanity and the harvesting of souls. They believe that the number of humans living on the planet is going to go down dramatically maybe to about 500 million people.
AF: And did they give a timeframe for this?
AV: They say that this is happening between 2012 and 2020.
But, on December 21, 2012, what you have is the tipping point. We’re either part of the solution then or we’re part of the problem. One of the interesting things the Inka say is that theres “no place in the world” that we’ll be safe. Absolutely no place.
But there will be safe people.
You can become a safe person.
AF: Where will you and your family be on December 21, 2012?
AV: On the beach in Florida (laughing). I feel that the reason that I came here and that many of us came here, including the viewers of Spiritual Cinema Circle, because we wanted to be part of the solution. And we did not want to miss out on this incredible event.
AF: What “signs” or evidence support the predictions of the Inka elders?
AV: They have definitive signs that they look for to mark the setting into motion of the great upheaval. One of them was the disappearance of the condor, which almost became extinct around 25 years ago. They talk about the drying of the high mountain lagoons and the melting of the glaciers, among other signs, all of which have begun.
AF: Should we view 12/21/2012 as a potential doomsday?
AV: If you suddenly have a billion people disappearing from the planet overnight, that’s a gigantic cataclysm. If you have it happening naturally and gradually, over a 100-year period, then it’s nature resettling and readjusting itself. I see it as both.
AF: Do you believe there will be a pole shift?
AV: I don’t think its a “matter of belief.” Off the coast of Chile there are areas in the ocean where the compass points to Antarctica and tells you that that’s north. There are eight or ten of these spots, the size of Australia, in the ocean where the poles, the direction of the compass have already shifted.
AF: What are the keys for personal transformation to become one of the safe people?
AV: I used to have a spiritual practice. I would get up in the morning, I Meditate, and do yoga all in about 40 minutes. Then I would have a cup of coffee, work on my writing, whatever.
Today, I don’t make time for my spiritual practice, everything I do today is my practice.
It is my yoga. So I don’t do spirituality 40 minutes a day, I do it 24 hours a day.
I do this by practicing generosity, by speaking truth, by celebrating nature, and walking in nature, where I speak to the trees and the birds.
AF: What will be the guiding spirit of the next five years?
AV: I think the solution is to turn inward, find inner peace, practice Peace, truthfulness and generosity, and know that you are part of the solution.
AF: What do you see as the opportunity of 2012 for individuals?
AV: It is happening today. We have the possibility to break free from the nightmare of our past of violence and exploitation.
To clear the slate both individually and collectively.
We can quantum leap into new humans.
We’re the ones that we’ve been waiting for where we can fully become whole brain creatures that utilize our entire brain and not just our stomachs and reproductive organs and mouths.
We can have the fullness of the human experience and be fully in the mystery of the human experience.
I think this is happening now.
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Thank you Searching For The Truth!
