A bit of background on the 2012 hubbub... which I first read years ago with Mckenna's Timewave Graph/Singularity/Mayan Calendar stuff... fascinating/funny stuff, depending on how gullible/high/open-minded/perceptive/intelligent you feel, at the time.
Ah, 2012... The Rapture for the New Age set.
2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"2012 Geophysical and Cosmological speculations
John Major Jenkins, and others claim that an alignment will occur when the sun rises above the horizon on December 21 2012, at which point the sun will rise in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus causing an alignment between the earth, sun, and the galactic center. This event is said to cause numerous earth changes...
There are also claims like from Michael Tsarion that an actual physical alignment of our entire solar system will occur with the horizontal plane of the Milky Way Galaxy on that day...
There are also theories that a currently unknown planet, sometimes referred to as planet x or Nibiru, which supposedly has an odd orbit that only enters the local solar system every 3600 years will return in 2012 causing many problems...
2012 metaphysical speculations
2012 is claimed by some with New age beliefs to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or alternatively an apocalypse). There is disagreement among believers whether 2012 will see an end of civilization, or humanity will be elevated to a higher level.
Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.
Several authors have published works which claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
* The 1997 book The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
* The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
* Riley Martin claims that Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their 'Great Mother Ship' when the Earth is 'transformed' in 2012.
* Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness."
Often times people assume that december 21st 2012 will be the end of our existence because it is the end of the long count calendar. However I feel as though it is more a shift of consciousness instead of the world collapsing, people going crazy, and some cataclysmic thing happening. I read a book called "the 100th human" that sheds a different light on the whole theory. Check it out at www.the100thhuman.com.
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