NEWS: OMG APOCALYPSE 2012!!

Quite a good article, the whole end of the world thing reminds a whole lot the Y2K craze that ended up with actually nothing (even if because of it I spent new years eve of 2000 in a stopped metro cart due to a blackout, but I'm still alive so fuck it).
It's about time someone wrote an article that actually analyzes the thing objectively instead of looking just for confirmation clues.

There are many, to be sure, who hold such a simplistic view of the 2012 'thing' (it's a really expansive concept which can't be reduced to a single attitude or set of carved-in-stone 'predictions'... try having a look at the Beyond 2012 site for starters). 2012 is many things to many people, but if you think it is something that is going to 'happen' to us, then you're missing the point big-time. It's everything to do with a collective and unitary consciousness engagement. To me it is a window of opportunity corresponding with an energy threshold of cosmic proportions. 12/21/2012 is not the end of time, but the end of a cycle (and therefore the beginning of a new one, as you point out). One author, John Major Jenkins, has theorized (backing it up with intensive studies in archeo-astronomy in several books) that it corresponds with a point in the ecliptic (the 26,000 year cycle of the heavens through the twelve signs of the zodiac) where the earth and the sun line up with the center of the Milky Way galaxy. I tend to view the date as more of a 'tipping point'. But in order to experience and take advantage of this opportunity, we have to open our minds (way beyond the materialist limitations and prejudices of our empirical scientific Western mindset) and engage with the unknown and inconceivable. The wave of human civilization is cresting, people, and what comes next is anyone's guess. These are exciting times,.Prepare to be surprised (or disappointed if you're expecting to have a fairytale/comic book paradise or doomsday scenario served up to you on a plate).

Don't forget dreaming the impossible dream and fighting the unstoppable foe.

While I was never worried about anything happening to the Earth or any of the rest of this Universe, I have always been concerned with humanity and it's psycho-social role in it including spiritual/psychosomatic abilities, including a concept I have heard of called 'faith' technology'.

The basic premise of 'faith technology' is this, you believe it will happen, have faith that it will happen and in some way it will happen.

So with that in mind I have always thought that the end was near for some of us, and not because some diefic entity, or some prophesy, but because people wanted and or needed it to happen.

Agreeing with Flux about the world not going on at this brisk pace, there is an argument for the majority of humanity realizing this and taking steps, albeit subconsciously and wholly based in spiritual pursuits, to help the world of man. This may be a misplaced paradigm but to a small degree it is humanity (mainly westerners) attempting to seek a counterbalance, with the only way out being a mass-extinction event caused by god or some other supernatural event,

After all who wants to pull the trigger themselves and who is non-biased enough to say who lives, who dies to save the rest of humanity when an Apocalypse takes those decisions out of our 'human' hands and places them outside of our jurisdiction or our fault.

Sorry for rambling on there, first comment added here, and just woke up, though it is what was on my mind.

Though take heart, as with all things, life will find a way, next might be the era of insecto-sapiens. Something to look forward to.

Says who? Dr. Malcolm?

Yes that was the quote but is also backed up by lichen on mars.

sinking ship!

from Survive 2012 website:

How bad can it be??? Mutha fuckin UNICORNS!

i know which side i'm on.

Well, assuming Western civilization survives the next few decades somewhat intact, cultural and/or technological Singularity seems pretty probable. The old biological paradigm of sex, and the ineffectual dichotomous thinking that stems from the gender divide, is becoming obsolete as psychic exploration and advanced computation help to blow old conceptions of life out of the water. New systems of language, novelty as Terence McKenna would call it, are becoming a reality, and the 2012 date has a bizarre resonance with the observation of accelerating returns in the modern world.

That said, it's probably just a coincidence ;P.

Great article, particularly for someone who works at a bookstore and has to help people find Sylvia Browne books at least twice a day.



If you looked like this, would you put your photo on EVERY book cover you've ever published?

I enjoyed this article.

Why no obsidian blades? I can think of a few people who should be sacrificed.

again, from the survive 2012 site:

interesting.

Excellent article, Flux.

Fascinating.

Potential lichen on Mars.

Unicorns may seem to be the most outrageous aspect of the research, but I think they would undoubtedly be the most intriguing topic of interest from a marketing perspective. I want to read a book about unicorns.... <=:-)

sorry my unicorn emoticon looks like a penis hahaha

at any rate if the mayans werrre right... all people are screwed for not appeasing the mayan religion (im looking at you, you doom craving christians!)

id, however, sooner die an aztec heretic

- Alecks

Loved your article Flux!!! I took a mesoamerican class last quarter of school, and that was one of the things that we talked about. Very entertaining!

Thanks for the explanation. that really helps. Now I can return all that tinfoil I'd bought. I guess they figure if you're a doom-sayer often enough, eventually you'll be right. **shrug** Boy. Wolf. "Nuff said.

Mayan Calendar:


Traditional Chinese Calendar:


Interesting, no?