By COGwriter

With 2012 fast approaching, there has been seemingly increased interest in certain ancient Mayan writings and 2012 calendar predictions. Will 2012 be the end of the world? What date in 2012 are many focused on?

December 21, 2012 is when the Maya’s “Long Count” calendar marks the end of a 5,126-year era.

Here is some information about it:

The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT (All About 2012. http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm viewed 01/13/08).

While most people believe nothing other than some astronomical occurrences will happen then (and the Mayans were apparently correct about that according to astronomers), some believe that the Mayan 2012 date may mark the end of civilization or perhaps the beginning of a time of great tribulation. It is also getting increasingly popular to refer to the astronomical event as the “galactic alignment” (Nostradamus and 2012. History Channel, original air date 01/04/09)–though most astronomers have difficultly identifying the center of the Milky Way galaxy (and hence many feel that there is no alignment event).

USA Today reported the following in an article titled Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse?:

Journalist Lawrence Joseph forecasts widespread catastrophe in Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization’s End. Spiritual healer Andrew Smith predicts a restoration of a “true balance between Divine Feminine and Masculine” in The Revolution of 2012: Vol. 1, The Preparation. In 2012, Daniel Pinchbeck anticipates a “change in the nature of consciousness,” assisted by indigenous insights and psychedelic drug use…

Part of the 2012 mystique stems from the stars. On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that “whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time,” Joseph writes (G. Jeffrey MacDonald. Does Maya calendar predict 2012 apocalypse? USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm viewed 01/14/08).

What the records actually were intended to mean by the ancient (pre-Columbian) Mayans (pronounced “Myans”) is unknown and has been subject to a lot of debate. But literally, the destruction of the planet seems to be shown by some.

When the Spaniards came across the Mayans, they considered them to have pagan practices associated with the devil. Because of that, once they conquered them, they began to burn and otherwise destroy most of the writings of their civilization (known as codices), most notably under the direction of Bishop Diego de Landa. One Catholic, however, intervened and prevented three from being destroyed. These Mayan codices are now known as the Madrid, Dresden, and Paris codices. There also is a fourth, the Grolier codex, whose authenticity is sometimes disputed, but may be genuine–only a few pages from it survive. From time to time, other fragments of Mayan drawings of this period have also been found. The Dresden Codex contains the highest amount of astronomical observations and calculations of any of the surviving pre-Columbian texts. There are also nine writings called Chilam Balam (meaning “oracular priest” “jaguar”) that seem to combine Mayan and Spanish beliefs that came from the late 15th/early 16th century. The Chilam Balam contains the most explicit 2012 Mayan calendar predictions (and other Mayan calendar cycle predictions).

One writer (probably Robert Bast who has his own “wiki”) has stated this about the Mayans and the calendar:

Like the Aztec and Inca who came to power later, the Maya believed in a cyclical nature of time. The rituals and ceremonies were very closely associated with celestial/terrestrial cycles which they observed and inscribed as separate calendars. The Maya priest had the job of interpreting these cycles and giving a prophetic outlook on the future or past based on the number relations of all their calendars. They also had to determine if the “heavens” or celestial matters were appropriate for performing certain religious ceremonies (Mayan Civilization. http://2012wiki.com/index.php?title=Maya_civilization viewed 01/14/08).

The actual Wikipedia states this about a Maya calendar 2012:

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief, first forecast by José Argüelles, that a cataclysm will take place on or about 21 December 2012 (Maya Calendar. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar viewed 01/14/08).

On two different programs, The History Channel claimed:

The Mayan calendar seems to say that the world will end in 2012 (Crowley, Phil. 2012, Decoding the Past. Original air date 03/01/07).

The ancient Maya have prophesied that the world will come to the end on 13 Baktun on their current calendar. This date translates to December 21st, 2012…A new age may occur…

Others…see destruction…

The last page of the Dresden codex actually shows the destruction of the world via water…

This graphic illustration depicts the destruction of the earth by flood…

Others see it as a day of rebirth…

Others see it literally, with very severe consequences (Mayan Doomsday Prophecy, Decoding the Past. Original air date 08/03/06).

So we see two interpretations from different sources that indicate that either something terrible or something very good will happen in or near the end of 2012.

Perhaps I should add that most 2012 Mayan predictions seem to be based upon Western interpretation of the calendar and Mayan drawings as opposed to what the Mayans themselves have ever publicly taught throughout history.

Other Comments on 2012

On The History Channel, Steve Alten, author of Domain, stated:

The four prior cycles all ended in destruction. So when we talk about the Mayan doomsday prophecy, we’re talking about the end of the fifth cycle, the very last day, which equates to December 21, 2012 (Mayan Doomsday Prophecy, Decoding the Past. Original air date 08/03/06).

The History Channel narration after the preceding comment immediately was:

This means the fifth and current cycles, like its predecessors, will also end in destruction (Mayan Doomsday Prophecy, Decoding the Past. Original air date 08/03/06).

While I do not believe that the end will come then, I do believe that we are getting close to the time of the destruction of civilization as we know it.

Now there is a relic commonly called the “Aztec calendar stone” (some claim it is technically not Aztec) or the Mexica Sun Stone which is currently in a museum in Mexico City is believed by some to point to destruction. The legends regarding it are similar to some of the Mayan ones:

The real name of the Calendar Stone was Cuauhtlixicalli (or literally, the “House of the Eagle,” or “Eagle Bowl,” or, closest to the real meaning of its name, “The Vessel of Time”). It was not a calendar in a restricted, modern sense, but a complex, sophisticated almanac for divination…the Aztecs believed that the world had been destroyed four times before… According to Aztec astronomer priests, our Fifth Sun, which began 5,106 years ago, is supposed to come to an end between December 21st and Christmas eve, 2012. (Joseph F, Stichin Z, eds. Discovering the mysteries of ancient America: lost history and legends, unearthed and explored. PublisherCareer Press, 2006 pp. 78, 79, 82)

This may be why some have pointed to December 23, 2012 as a possible date of total destruction. But again, that seems a bit too early for total destruction (though it is not too early for a rough period known as “the beginning of sorrows”).

Regarding the Book titled The Mayan Prophecies

Some who read the Mayan works also compared those writings to the modern science of astronomy. Many were intrigued by the fact that a major astronomical alignment was believed to occur about the same time as the Mayan calendar indicated that something major was to occur. This, combined with the Drseden codex, is what led to many Mayan calendar interpretative predictions.

Here is some additional information from the website of Adrian Gilbert, co-author of the book The Mayan Prophecies (the other co-author is Maurice Cottrell):

The Mayans had rather similar beliefs to the Aztecs though with some major differences of emphasis. Several of their bark-books have been preserved showing their amazing knowledge and fascination with astronomy.The most important of these was what is now called the “Dresden Codex”, named after the town in whose library it was lodged. This strange book, inscribed with unknown hieroglyphs, was written by Maya Indians who once ruled over much of Central America, the ruins of their once grand civilization littering the jungle. In 1880 a brilliant, German scholar, who was working as a librarian in Dresden at the time, turned his attention to this codex. By a process of extraordinary detective work he cracked the code of the Mayan calendar making it possible for other scholars and explorers to translate the many dated inscriptions to be found on buildings, stelae and other ancient Mayan artefacts. He discovered that the Dresden Codex itself was concerned with astronomy providing detailed tables of lunar eclipses and other phenomenon. These were so accurate that they put our own calendar to shame. He also found evidence for a curious “magic number”- 1,366,560 days, which could be factorised in a number of ways and which harmonised the cycles of Venus and Mars with two “yearly” cycles also used by the Maya: the sacred tzolkin of 260 days and the Haab of 365 days. However, he also found that they had another system of counting the days relative to a starting date, called the Birth of Venus and now known to be 13 August 3114 BC. This calendar was divided into “months” or uinals of twenty days, “years” or tuns of 360 days and longer periods of 7200 days, (the katun) and 144,000 days, (the baktun). The number 13 was magically important to the Mayans and they believed that, starting from the Birth of Venus, after 13 of these longest periods, or baktuns, the world would come to an end. This means that working from their start date for the present age of 13 August 3114 BC, this Mayan Prophecy points to a date for the end of the age which is in our own time: 22 December 2012…

In 1986 Maurice Cotterell put forward a revolutionary theory concerning astrology and sun cycles. He had for some years suspected that the sun’s variable magnetic field had consequences for life on earth. The sun has a complex field which loops and twists itself into knots. It has long been suspected that these loops give rise to sunspots, which are dark blemishes on the sun’s skin. The number, size and location of sunspots are constantly changing and as a former Radio Officer, Cotterell was well aware that they have profound effects upon the earth’s magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere. Whilst working as Head of Electrical and Communications Engineering (Estates) at Cranfield Institute of Technology, he devised a program that would compute the relationship between the sun’s magnetic field and the Earth. As expected his model predicted that there should be a sunspot cycle of roughly eleven and a half years, closely corresponding to what has been observed over several centuries. However, he also found graphic evidence for longer cycles including a period of 1,366,040 days. His work took a new turn when he read about the Mayan super number from the Dresden Codex: 1,366,560 days. This was exactly two 260 day cycles larger than his theoretical sunspot period. He therefore proposed that the two were related. As his earlier work on what he called Astrogenetics indicated that human fertility was dependent on the presence of sunspots, he now had evidence that the Mayan calendar was not arbitrary but was based on a knowledge of the effects of sunspots (http://www.adriangilbert.co.uk/docus/books/mayan.html).

A critical review of the The Mayan Prophecies book reported the following:

Gilbert appears to have written the 212 pages of main text, even summarizing Cotterell’s work in his own voice, while Cotterell provides 100 pages of mathematically complex appendices which the casual reader will find impenetrable. These are supposed to provide the rigorous scientific evidence for Cotterell’s end-date cataclysm theory, which is as follows. Sunspot cycles give rise to larger solar aberrations in which the sun’s magnetic field periodically reverses, causing the earth’s pole to shift and thus resulting in cataclysm. According to Cotterell, the solar reversals come in groups of five, which together make a grand cycle of 18,139 years. The five “ages” are not all of the same length, due to complex solar rhythms which Cotterell modelled on a computer using only three variables. Three of the ages last 3553 years each while two last 3740 years each. These are supposed to correspond to the Mayan or Aztec myth of five (or four) ages. A key number here is the number of days in 3740 years (using 365.25 days per year): 1366035. This number is “close” to a number in the Dresden Codex, written in Long Count notation as 9.9.16.0.0. This corresponds to a date in 627 A.D., which is 1366560 days after the so-called Long Count “zero date” back in 3114 B.C. The closeness of these numbers is supposed to demonstrate that the Maya were aware of sunspot cycles, solar magnetic field reversals, and that is why the Long Count pinpoints 2012 A.D. as a cataclysmic World Age destruction. “From his studies… Cotterell has concluded that the Maya prophecy for the end of the fifth age concerns a reversal of the earth’s magnetic field – around 2012 A.D.”

…The inner jacket cover reads: “The present world will end on December 22nd, 2012…So prophesied the Maya 5,000 years ago…” (Review-Essay of Mayan Prophecies by Gilbert and Cotterell, Element Books 1995. Book Review. October 18th, 1995. by John Major Jenkins c. Four Ahau Press, http://www.alignment2012.com/mproph.htm viewed 01/13/08).

The History Channel and other television sources have picked up on us, and now many people are concerned that December 21, 2012/December 22, 2012 will mark a time of destruction and the end of civilization. Several have looked into certain of the books premises and alleged facts and have disagreed with them.

A few people seem to believe that on the next day or so (December 22, 2012 or December 23, 2012) that this may mark the beginning of a new and better era for humanity. Personally, I suspect that the one who will become the European King of the North may be more obvious around that time and may claim (even possibly retrospectively) that he is bringing in the positive era that the Mayan calendar may indicate (the Bible indicates that a European Beast power will be aligned with a future changed version of the Roman Catholic Church).

Specifically, some “Catholics” (and others) seem to believe that there will come an “age of peace” before Antichrist (e.g. Birch, DA. Trial, Tribulation & Triumph: Before During and After Antichrist. Queenship Publishing Company, Goleta (CA), 1996, pp. xlii-xliii, 410), hence it would not surprise me if they claim that this new age begins (or more likely will have began) around December 22, 2012 (cf. Ezekiel 13:10-16).

However, the Bible shows that although people in many places will at first prosper because of this King of the North (Daniel 11:39; Revelation 18:3), that God will punish those who follow him (see Russia in Prophecy) or have his mark (666). Thus this is not going to be a biblically acceptable “age of peace”–and some Catholic writers also agree with my assessment.

Netherlands’ Worries About a 2012 Flood

In the Chilam Balam there is the following:

But when the law of the katun has run its course, the God will bring about a great deluge again which will be the end of the world. When this is over, then our Lord Jesus Christ will descend over the valley of Jehoshaphat beside the town of Jerusalem where he redeemed us with his holy blood (José Hoíl J, Roys R. The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel. Roys Publisher, 1933. Reprint Forgotten Books, 1967, p. 62).

The above is biblically, a false claim. 2012 is not the end of the world. That Mayan 2012 prediction is wrong. The Mayan 2012 flood prophecy will be proven false (Genesis 9).

However, the people of the Netherlands have long been concerned about the possibility of a destructive flood killing many as much of that nation is below sea level. And partially because of the Mayan prophecies, some in the Netherlands are concerned that they may be predicting the destruction of their nation and perhaps others, like Belgium.

A “flood 2012″ is a concern to some. Notice the following news item:

Many Dutch prepare for 2012 apocalypse

UPI – June 23, 2008 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (UPI) —

Thousands of people in the Netherlands say they expect the world to end in 2012, and many say they are taking precautions to prepare for the apocalypse. The Dutch-language de Volkskrant newspaper said it spoke to thousands of believers in the impending end of civilization, and while theories on the supposed catastrophe varied, most tied the 2012 date to the end of the Mayan calendar, Radio Netherlands reported Monday.

De Volkskrant said many of those interviewed are stocking up on emergency supplies, including life rafts and other equipment. Some who spoke to the newspaper were optimistic about the end of civilization. “You know, maybe it’s really not that bad that the Netherlands will be destroyed,” Petra Faile said. “I don’t like it here anymore. Take immigration, for example. They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse.” http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/06/23/Many_Dutch_prepare_for_2012_apocalypse/UPI-40461214263554/

The fact is that although Mayan prophecies do allude to flooding, the Netherlands will not be destroyed by a flood in 2012.

However, it is possible that a few years from then that it could have major flooding problems. Unlike most countries, since much of the Netherlands is below sea level, flooding is truly a national concern. But because I do not believe that massive flooding on that type of scale will likely occur until sometime after “the Day of the Lord” begins (which is 2 1/2 years after the Great Tribulation begins), I believe that the most destructive flooding cannot occur before 2014, and most likely will not be for one or more years after that.

And yes, I know that there has been flooding in the USA and elsewhere (see Midwest Flooding and Myanmar). But the type of deadly destruction that the 2012 prophecies appear to be referring to is not likely to happen until a few years AFTER 2012–but prophesied problems may happen in 2012.

ABC News reported that it is not just the Dutch:

Thousands Worldwide Prepare for the Apocalypse, Expected in 2012

Two years ago, Patrick Geryl, then 51, quit his job as a laboratory worker for a French oil company. He’d saved up just enough money to last him until December 2012. After that, he thought, he wouldn’t need it anyway…

“You have to understand, there will be nothing, nothing left,” Geryl told ABC News from his home in Antwerp, Belgium. “We will have to start an entire civilization from scratch.”

That’s because Geryl believes the world as we know it will end in 2012. He points to the ancient Mayan cyclical calendars, the longest of which last renewed itself approximately 5,125 years ago and is set to end again, supposedly with catastrophic consequences, in 2012. He speaks of the ancient Egyptians, who, he claims, saw 2012 as a year of great change too. And he points to science: NASA predicts a sharp increase in the number of sunspots and sun flares for 2012, he said, sure to cause electrical failures and satellite disruptions.

All this adds up, Geryl said, to unprecedented catastrophe. First, a polar reversal will cause the north to become the south and the sun to rise in the west. Shattering earthquakes, massive tidal waves and simultaneous volcanic eruptions will follow. Nuclear reactors will melt, buildings will crumble, and a cloud of volcanic dust will block out the sun for 40 years. Only the prepared will survive, Geryl said, and not even all of them.

These may sound like the ravings of a madman, or perhaps the head of a small apocalyptic sect. But Geryl is not the only one who believes in the apocalypse. Thousands of people worldwide seem to be preparing, in one way or another, for the end of days in 2012. Survival groups exist in Europe, Canada and the United States…

“We had Hurricane Katrina, the recent cyclone in Myanmar,” Lehmann said. “We’ve got major flooding in Iowa. We’re always going to have natural disasters. But they are picking up quite frequently now.”

Lehmann said he eventually hoped to move away from Cape Girardeau, built on the banks of the Mississippi River, to the higher plains of southwest Missouri to keep safe from the floods sure to follow the earthquakes of 2012.

Geryl and his Belgian and Dutch followers have similar intentions, though their plan will take them much farther from home. They are looking to buy a plot of land high up in African mountains, where they’ll be able to withstand the monstrous tidal waves and wait out the cloud of volcanic dust that they said would block out the sun.

Geryl said the group has recently zeroed in on a location, but won’t reveal his find for fear of tipping off rival survival groups in the United States and Canada. On that land, Geryl’s group, whose core membership consists of 16 people but whose wait list supposedly lists hundreds, will build concrete dwellings or outfit caves for survival…

When asked what would happen if December 2012 were to come and go without the earthquakes and tsunamis of his predictions, Geryl fell silent.

“I don’t really contemplate that possibility,” he said. “[My predictions] are so spectacular, they can’t possibly be wrong.” (Will the World End in 2012? ABC News, July 3, 2008. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=5301284&page=1)

Since the above mentioned Canada a couple of times, Canadians may find the following article of interest Canada in Prophecy: What Does Bible Prophecy, Catholic Prophecy, and other Predictions Suggest About the Future of Canada?

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Answer: The ancient Mayans, based on star charting, prophesied that December 21, 2012 would be the end of the world (or at least some form of universal catastrophe). Meso-American star charting started around 680 B.C. by the Olmec civilization who were recording astrological patterns in the sky and eventually shared this information with the Mayans. The Mayans had a long history of tracking the winter solstice (probably for planting crops) and creating calendars (at least 17 that we know of). At some point, they developed the belief that our sun is a god and that the Milky Way, called the “Sacred Tree,” was a gateway to the afterlife. After learning from the Olmecs, they began keeping records of the stars’ patterns of movement and continued to do so for the next 200-300 years.

The Mayans then developed their own calendar (The Long Count) ca. 355 B.C. They were able to use their observations and mathematical prowess to calculate the future movements of stars across the sky. The result was that the Mayans discovered the effect of the earth’s wobbling as it spins on its axis. This wobbling rotation causes the stars’ patterns of movement to drift gradually in the sky (called “precession”) in a 5,125-year cycle. The Mayans also discovered that once every cycle the dark band at the center of the Milky Way (called the Galactic Equator) intersects with the Elliptical (the plane of the sun’s movement across the sky).

During that year, the sun reaches its solstice (a brief moment when the sun’s position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane from the observer) on December 21 for the Northern Hemisphere and June 21 for the Southern Hemisphere. That year, the solstice occurs at the moment of the conjunction of the Galactic Equator with the Milky Way. The year this occurs (in relation to our Gregorian calendar) is A.D. 2012, and happened last on August 11, 3114 B.C. With Mayan mythology teaching that our sun is a god and the Milky Way is the gateway to life and death, the Mayans concluded that this intersection in the past must have been the moment of creation. Mayan hieroglyphs seem to indicate that they believed the next intersection in 2012 would be some sort of end and a new beginning of a cycle. The Mayans also believed that the blood of human sacrifices was what powered the sun and gave it life.

All the so-called “Mayan prophecies of 2012” are nothing more than wildly speculative extrapolations, which are based on the yet uncertain interpretations by scholars of Mayan hieroglyphs. However, the truth is that apart from the astrological convergence, there is little indication that the Mayans prophesied anything specific regarding the events of this distant future. The Mayans were not prophets; they were not even able to predict their own cultural extinction. They were great mathematicians and accomplished sky watchers, but they were also a brutally violent tribal people with a primitive understanding of natural phenomena, subscribing to archaic beliefs and the barbaric practices of blood-letting and human sacrifice.

There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that would present December 21, 2012, as the end of the world. While that date is no less valid for an end-times event than any other future date, the Bible nowhere presents the astronomical phenomena the Mayans pointed to as a sign of the end times. It would seem very inconsistent of God to allow the Mayans to discover such an amazing truth while keeping the many Old Testament prophets ignorant of the timing of the events. In summary, there is absolutely no biblical evidence that the 2012 Mayan prophecy / prediction of doomsday is in any sense valid or probable.

Accepting the Mayan 2012 prophecy logically requires acceptance of the following theories: our sun is a god; the sun is powered by the blood of human sacrifice; the creation moment occurred at 3114 B.C. (despite all evidence that it happened much earlier); and the visual alignment of stars has some significance for everyday human life. Like every other false religion, the Mayan religion sought to elevate to the point of worship that which was created in place of the Creator Himself. The Bible tells us about such false worshipers: “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25), and “since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). To accept the Mayan 2012 prophecy also denies the clear biblical teaching about the end of the world, because Jesus told us “…of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father” (Mark 13:32).

Recommended Resource: Understanding End Times Prophecy by Paul Benware.

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By Gene D. Matlock

After “graduating” from Marine Corps boot camp in 1952, I was sent to Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California, as a teletype operator. I loved to spend my liberties listening to the crackpots giving speeches about all kinds of subjects in Pershing Square, Los Angeles.

I wrote and sold a fictional short story about one of those speech makers. According to the story, this man went to Pershing Square to discuss his philosophy of life. “Listen everybody,” he screamed, “I’ve come to the conclusion that this world and all the people in it exist within a larger world, unseen to us, And that world, with all its people, exists within still a larger world, etc., etc., just like the infinite layers of an onion. Now, let’s suppose that some evil nations live within this being. Finally, their host being refuses to tolerate their evils any longer. He destroys the world with fire!”

As he continues to speak, the world suddenly begins to heat up. The city of Los Angeles feels like the inside of an oven. Screaming and choking in agony, everybody in Pershing Square starts running away. The man screams, “Please don’t go! I have much more to say!” And then the sky turns blood red. The world and everyone in it disappear in a puff of smoke.

The story ends this way: A doctor is bending over a patient sitting in a chair. The doctor says, “You don’t have to worry about that wart any more. I burned it off with this red-hot needle!”

Little did I know at the time that the Hindus teach that we do, indeed, live within a nearly infinitely large being named Brahma, the Creator of the Universe. He lives and dies, just as we do, for one hundred brahmic years.

[Right: Image of Brahma] One day in Brahma’s life is called a Maha Yuga (Great Age), consisting of four Ages (Yugas) named Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali. A Maha Yuga is 4,320,000 of our years. At the end of this time, everything in this cycle becomes destroyed by a cosmic fire.

After the day of Brahma, there will be a brahmic night of equal length. After that night is over, Another Brahmic day dawns, called Satya Yuga. The Satya Yuga will be an undreamed of paradise for the new mankind emerging from the previous brahmic night. A Kali yuga lasts for 432,000 of our years. The ratios between the Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali years are 4:3:2:1. In other words, the Satya Yuga, which consists of full righteousness, decreases by one-fourth to Treta, one-half in Treta Yuga, and last of all, three-fourths in Kali Yuga.

Life for humanity will descend in quality until the Kali yuga arrives. After that comes the brahmic night and the beginning of another Chatur (Four) Yuga (Ages) the following dawn.

By the way, Brahma is now 50 brahmic years old. Not even he can live forever!

Those of us who have studied the Chatur Yuga carefully, previously thought that we ended the Kali Yuga a few years ago, in approximately 2000 AD.

We thought we’d just phase out slowly. But not being as knowledgeable of astronomy as the Meso-American Maya wisemen and their forefathers, the Maya in India, we did not calculate correctly . Our Meso-American Mayans say that the end of the Kali Age will occur in 2012 AD. We also thought our bodies would survive the Cosmic Fire. But now, we who were off-track are getting worried. Will this “Cosmic Fire” really burn us to ashes, or will it just be a painless radioactive “purifier?”

Now, for a question that most of us humans want answered.

WILL WE SURVIVE?

Yes, we will. A human is not and has never been his body. He is his mind, with all its virtues, lusts, evils and defects as I described in my article about Quetzalcoatl.

WHO WILL SAVE US?

The Hindu Triad or Holy Trinity is Brahma, Shiva (The Destroyer), and Vishnu (The Preserver). Shiva andVishnu are also part of the Unbegotten Brahma. In reality, Shiva and Vishnu are also the same Deity, for Vish is just a reversal of “Shiv.”

Shiva will protect us again, as he has always done in past Maha Yugas. He will swallow the poison of our evils, turning his throat blue. From then on, throughout all the other successive Kali Yugas, Brahm, through his Shiva and Vishnu aspect, will send out sons in the flesh who will die on their crosses to reassure us that we will always be redeemable.

 

Above: Shiva and Vishnu and his wife, Parvati. Notice Shiva’s blue throat, symbolizing that he has swallowed all the sins of mankind, guaranteeing him eternal life.

Notice the Mayan depiction of their god Chak. Chak was the long-nosed Mayan God of thunder, lightning, rain, and crops-plus other natural phenomena. His equivalents in other parts of the world wereZeus, Dyaus, Jupite ,Shiva, Ca, Jah, Ju, Jahve, Jehova, Jeho, Sakh, Sagg, Sa-ga-ga, Sakko, Zagg, Zax. Like Zeus, he is often depicted holding a serpentine thunderbolt and a grail, or someone is handing it to him. The Mayan Chak is equally depicted. Why is he colored blue? The answer is simple: He has absorbed your poison and mine! The Toltec Quetzalcoatl and the Mayan Kukulkan did for the Toltecs and Mayans, just what Jesus Christ did for us — according to the myths about crucified saviors. Could there be any truth to the Maha Yuga, crucified saviors, and the like. Or is all this just junk science?

The Mayan God Chac (Chak).

WHO DISCOVERED THE MAHA YUGA?

As I stated in my Viewzone article about the Mayans, the four principal groups in India”s antiquity were the Asuras (Assyrians or Indus Valley people), Panis (Phoenicians), Yakhus or Yakshas (subjects of Kubera, god of gold and treasure a.ka. Nagas) and Mayas. We know them today as the Dravidians (Tamils, Malayalam, etc.)

[Above: Kukulkan hanging on his cross, symbolizing the ultimate redemption of mankind. Notice the rattlesnakes coiled around him. notice also that he has an eagle's head. Kukulkan's relationship with the eagle and serpents proves his identify with the symbol on the Mexican flag, as seen in the picture at the right. Read my article about Quetzalcoatl in order to see the Hindu version of the Eagle with a Naga held in its beak.]

The non Indus Valley people in ancient days were exceedingly superstitious and fearful of the Mayans. The latter were excellent international shippers and traders, builders and astronomers. Their superstitious enemies thought their accomplishments had to be magic and beyond human ability. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. Later, they went to the Americas, having been taken there by Kubera and his Yakshas. Read my article about the Mayans. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. The Mayans were ultimately driven to ceylon, etc., etc.

Before the ancient Meso-American Mayans’ civilization fell into decline, they prophesied the cataclysm that is supposed to happen in 2012 — the end of this Kali Yuga.

It surprises and shocks the people of India to find out that the Meso-American Mayans predicted that this Kali-Yuga will end in 2012 AD. Today’s Hindus insist that mankind has been in the Kali-Yuga for only 4,000 to 7,000 years. However, they must realize that the Mayans, the ones who really knew the secrets of the universe, were driven out of India and forced to live in Ceylon. There, they inhabited the province of Maya which was named after them. Afterwards, Kubera and his Yaksha subjects took them to Meso-America.

Since the Mayans were driven out of India, non-Mayan Hindus, not knowing the astronomical secrets of the Mayans, have interpreted the theory of the Maha-Yuga. So who really knows when this Kali-Yuga will end? Today’s Hindus in India? Or the people who have always claimed to be “Masters of Time”-the Mayans of Meso-America?

When I first started writing this article about the Mayans and their prophecy based on scientific astronomical principles, I was going to make it as lengthy and explanatory as possible. However, I decided that if the Mayans are correct, it’s too late for words and explanation. Nothing I can write can change things. Let’s face it!

2012 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!

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The first prophecy tells us about the “time without time,” in it it’s said that starting in 1999, the human being has to choose to make a change of attitude and conscience; to open its mind to integrate everything that exists. This will be a period of 20 years (a cycle that according to the Mayanss started in 1992 and will end in 2012, a key date for the indefinite transformation), in which humanity will enter a process of great learning and change. They also pronounced that seven years later will start a period of darkness in which will face every individual will be faced with his own behavior. Humanity will enter the great room of mirrors; materialism will be left behind and will give way to liberation from suffering.

The second prophecy states that the answer to everything is within every individual, that its behavior determines its future. It confirms that beginning with the solar eclipse of the Aug. 11, 1999, the behavior of all humanity will change rapidly. They assure that starting after this eclipse, men would easily lose control of their emotions or will acknowledge their inner peace. It also indicates that the energy that is received from the center of the galaxy is causing an increase in the vibration of the planet and brain waves, altering their behavior, their way of thinking and feeling. This prophecy mentions two paths: one of comprehension and tolerance and another of fear and destruction. The path to follow will be chosen individually.

The third prophecy states that there will be a change in temperature, producing climactic, geological, and social changes in a magnitude without patterns and at an astonishing speed. One of them will be generated by man in its lack of conscience to care for and protect natural resources of the planet and the other generated by the sun, which will increase its activity due to the increase of vibrations..

The fourth prophecy points out that the anti-ecological conduct of man and the greater activity by the sun will cause a melting of ice in the poles. It will allow the Earth to clean itself and green itself again, producing changes in the physical composition of the continents of the planet. The Mayans left registers in the Desdre codices that every 117 spins of Venus the sun suffers new alterations, and huge spots or solar wind eruptions appear.

The fifth prophecy says that all systems based on fear, on which this civilization is based, will suffer simultaneously with the planet and man will make a transformation to give way to a new harmonic reality. The systems will fail and man will face himself and in this a need to reorganize society and continue down the path of evolution that will bring him to understand creation. Only one common spiritual road for all humanity that will end all limits established among the many ways to look at God will emerge.

The sixth prophecy points out that in the next years a comet will appear whose trajectory will endanger the existence of man. This culture considered comets as agents of change that came to put into movement the existing equilibrium, allowing the evolution of the collective conscience. For the Mayans God is the presence of life, has all shapes and has infinite presence.

The seventh prophecy: In this prophecy it’s said that from the year 1999 and until 2002, the light emitted from the center of the galaxy synchronizes all living beings and allows them to voluntarily access an internal transformation that produces new realities. The Mayans mention that every individual has an opportunity to change and break its limitations, with it creating a new way of communicating through thought. It’s predicted that limits will disappear, a new era of transparency and light will begin, the lie will end forever.

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El geólogo Jim Berkland le dijo a la cadena de television Fox News que este mes podría ocurrir un terremoto de grandes proporciones en los Estados Unidos.

Entre otras cosas el experto dice que el 19 de marzo habra una luna llena y no solamente eso sino que, pocas horas despues, la luna estará mas cerca de la tierra que en los proximos 5 años.

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Y como si esto fuera poco, al dia siguiente se producirá el equinoccio lo que significa que tres de las fuerzas mas poderosas de la naturaleza se juntaran en cuestion de horas y esto, segun Berkland, va a afectar enormemente la marea de todos los oceanos.

Todas estas fuerzas maritimas, superficiales y subterraneas, podrias causar movimientos telúricos impredecibles de las placas teutonicas y por lo tanto esto aumenta la posibilidad de que un terremoto se produzca dentro del llamado Anillo de Fuego situado a las orillas del Oceano Pacifico.

El experto advirtió que existe una gran posibilidad de que dentro de las proximas 2 semanas se produzca un terremoto en la costa oeste de los Estados Unidos. Agrego que la muerte de millones de peces cerca de Los Angeles hace pocos dias es una muestra de que todos estos eventos podrian estar relacionados.

A continuacion les presentamos el video donde Berkland le explica sus predicciones al periodista Jim Cavuto:

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Para los mayas los procesos cósmicos son cíclicos y nunca cambian. Lo que cambia es la consciencia del hombre que pasa a través de ellos, siempre en proceso de perfección. El ciclo actual terminará el sábado 22 de diciembre de 2012, debiendo para entonces la humanidad escoger entre desaparecer como especie pensante que amenaza con destruir el planeta o evolucionar hacia la integración armónica con todo el Universo en una nueva Era de Luz.

Todos nosotros, de una manera u otra, sentimos que estamos comenzando a vivir los tiempos del Apocalipsis. Todos sentimos la guerra. Cada día hay más erupciones volcánicas, la polución generada por nuestra tecnología se ha vuelto alarmante. Hemos debilitado la capa de Ozono que nos protege de las radiaciones del Sol. Hemos contaminado el planeta con nuestros desechos industriales y basuras.

La devastación de los recursos naturales esta acabando con las fuentes de agua, con el aire que respiramos. El clima ha cambiado y las temperaturas han aumentado de manera impresionante; los glaciares y nevados se derriten, grandes inundaciones se suceden en todo el mundo.

Nos amenaza el caos informático. La pobreza generalizada por los efectos del caos económico se sienten en casi todos los países del mundo. Todos buscamos respuestas y un camino seguro para los tiempos que vivimos. Reconocemos, a partir de los problemas que enfrentamos a diario, que no estamos viviendo en armonía. y nosotros somos los causantes de estos de estos males que aquejan a la humanidad.

Muchas religiones elaboraron profecías acerca de lo que esta pasando. La Biblia anunció que cuando todos estos hechos sucedieran al mismo tiempo estarían llegando los tiempos del Apocalipsis. Se dice que los pueblos antiguos incluidos los mayas sabían que esto iba a suceder por eso dejaron unas guías para que cada uno de nosotros de manera individual contribuya a llevar a la humanidad hacia “el AMANECER DE LA GALAXIA”, “AL DESPERTAR ESPIRITUAL” a una nueva Era en la que no habrá más caos ni destrucción, cuando aprendamos el verdadero significado de AMAR, cuando abramos nuestro corazon para perdonar, cuando controlemos el ego, que nos hace creernos que somos importantes y nos olvidamos que tan solo somos una minuscula particula en el universo.

Se dice que los mayas nos dejaron siete profecías en las que hablan de sus visiones del futuro. Están basadas en las conclusiones de sus estudios científicos y religiosos sobre el funcionamiento del Universo que ellos tenian.

NOTA: HAY MUCHA ESPECULACION Y SENSACIONALISMO EN LAS SUPUESTAS PROFECIAS DE ESTE PUEBLO, CUANDO IBAMOS A LLEGAR AL 2000 SE ESCRIBIERON CIENTOS, DE ARTICULOS CON LA TERMINACION DE A TIERRA Y SEGUIMOS EXISTIENDO.
CREO QUE EL HOMBRE EN SU MIEDO INVENTA CATASTROFES QUE SE ESCRIBEN Y DESPUES SE ENDOSAN A PUEBLOS INEXISTENTES Y PERSONAJES MUERTOS.

La primera profecía habla del final del miedo. Dice que nuestro mundo de odio y materialismo terminará el SABADO 22 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2012 (personalmente creo que esto es tan solo sensacionalismo y que jamas este pueblo dio una fecha exacta, generalmente las profecias serias, jamas dan fechas exactas,) que para ese día la humanidad deberá escoger entre desaparecer como especie pensante que amenaza con destruir el planeta o evolucionar hacia la integración armónica con todo el Universo, comprendiendo que todo esta vivo y consciente, que somos parte de ese todo y que podemos existir en una nueva Era de luz.

La primera profecía dice que a partir de 1999 nos quedan 13 años, sólo 13 años para realizar los cambios de consciencia y actitud de los que nos hablan. Otra fecha que arbitrariamente alguien escribio y para darle mas credibilidad a o que el creia, le endoso estas supuestas profecias al pueblo maya)

Los mayas se supone que creian que nuestro Sol, al cual llamaban Kinich-Ahau, es un ser vivo que respira y que cada cierto tiempo se sincroniza con el enorme organismo en el que existe. Al recibir un chispazo de luz del centro de la galaxia brilla más intensamente, produciendo en su superficie lo que nuestros científicos llaman erupciones solares y cambios magnéticos. Ellos dicen que esto ocurre cada 5.125 años; que la Tierra se ve afectada por los cambios en el Sol mediante un desplazamiento de su eje de rotación. Predijeron que a partir de este movimiento se producirían grandes cataclismos. Para los mayas los procesos universales, como la respiración de la galaxia, son cíclicos y nunca cambian. Lo que cambia es la consciencia del hombre que pasa a través de ellos, siempre en un proceso hacia más perfección.

Se supone y es ago muy cuestionable que los mayas basados en sus observaciones, predijeron que a partir de la fecha inicial de su civilización, desde el 4 Ahau 8 Cumku, es decir, desde el año 3113 a. C., 5.125 años en el futuro, o sea, el SABADO 22 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2012, el Sol, al recibir un fuerte rayo sincronizador proveniente del centro de la galaxia, cambiará su polaridad y producirá una gigantesca llamarada radiante. Para entonces la humanidad debe estar preparada para atravesar la puerta que nos dejaron los mayas, trasformando a la civilización actual basada en el miedo en una vibración mucho más alta de armonía.

Solo de manera individual se puede atravesar la puerta que permite evitar el gran cataclismo que sufrirá el planeta para dar comienzo a una nueva Era, un Sexto Ciclo del Sol. Los mayas aseguraban que su civilización era la quinta iluminada por el Sol, Kinich-Ahau, el gran Quinto Ciclo Solar. Antes habían existido sobre la tierra otras cuatro civilizaciones que fueron destruidas por grandes desastres naturales. Creían que cada civilización es sólo un peldaño en el ascenso de la consciencia colectiva de la humanidad.

Para los mayas, en el último cataclismo la civilización había sido destruida por una gran inundación que dejó unos pocos sobrevivientes de los cuales ellos eran sus descendientes.

Pensaban que al conocer el final de esos ciclos, muchos seres humanos se preparaban para lo que verían y que gracias a eso habían logrado conservar sobre el planeta a la especie pensante, el hombre. Nos dicen que el cambio de los tiempos permite ascender un peldaño en la evolución de la consciencia, dirigirnos hacia una nueva civilización que manifestará mayor armonía y comprensión para todos los seres humanos.

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2012 is a business

Before you read this article, here is a video I recently recorded about 2012 and how people build businesses around it to make money. While a lot of people say that you can’t trust NASA or the government because they would certainly hide this 2012 stuff from us, I say there are a lot of people who want to spread this because they make money out of it. So, in the end, who do we trust? Watch it, I think that explains it all, but still, read the article and all the comments for more information. 

What is 2012 about?

The year 2012 is referring to the last year of the Long Count Maya calendar. The current Great Cycle, as the Mayas call it, is set to end on the winter solstice of 2012: December 21 2012 and many people believe that on that date, the world will change and never be the same. Some predict terrible events resulting in the destruction of our world and some predict that it won’t necessarily end, but that we will enter a new era and massive changes will occur.  

This article will try to answer most questions you may have in a rational way. because there are way too many websites creating some sort of fear propaganda around 2012 and as you will see, you have nothing to be scared of.  

There’s too much disinformation going on about this subject and there’s an article you can read that was published around 1990 that reminds me the current situation:   

• 1990’s End of World

What will happen on December 21 2012?

Quick answer: Nobody knows, but probably not much. 

There have been a lot going on regarding the 2012 prophecy recently, including the movie “I am legend”, but  surprisingly, not much information about what is really supposed to happen on that date is available. This is Probably because nobody knows and also because probably not much will happen. Most information available about 2012 is making reference to mass destruction of the world as we know it, earth’s pole shift/magnetic field reversal, Nostradamus predictions, end of Mayas calendar, etc.  

The base of all the predictions is the end of the Maya calendar in 2012, which is supposed to mean the end of the world or a period of radical changes. In fact, the end of the Maya calendar is known as the end of the Great Cycle. People find it easy to believe in that theory because Maya civilization is known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy. It can seem like they really know what they’re talking about, but the truth is that the end of the Great Cycle is not the end of the world, it’s in fact a great celebration for the Mayas:   

For the ancient Maya, it was a huge celebration to make it to the end of a whole cycle” says Sandra Noble, executive director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies in Crystal River, Fla. To render Dec. 21, 2012, as a doomsday or moment of cosmic shifting, she says, is “a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.” 

From USA Today  

On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years(Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. The Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home galaxy of the planet Earth). This special alignment means that the usual energy that typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 2012 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time. Scientists are actually in great doubt about the fact that the Mayas even knew what they were talking about.

Astronomers generally agree that “it would be impossible the Maya themselves would have known that” says Susan Milbrath, a Maya archaeoastronomer and a curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. What’s more, she says, “we have no record or knowledge that they would think the world would come to an end at that point.”From USA Today  

Putting apart scientific data, here are the commons beliefs of the December 21 2012:  

• Galactic Alignment. This Galactic Alignment occurs only once every 26,000, this is considered as the end-date in the Mayans Long Count calender. It is the alignment of the December solstice sun with the Galactic equator.
• A comet hitting Earth (Nostradamus)
  • Read my article on Nostradamus to discover the real truth about Nostradamus: Nostradamus is not a valid argument!
• Earth’s Pole Shift/Magnetic field reversal
  • Read my article on pole shift to discover the real truth about 2012 and pole shift: What is that pole shift thing and What is that pole shift thing part II
• Increase of calamities, natural disasters, mass destruction, etc.

I don’t want to repeat myself, but all of this is very vague as nobody really knows what will happen and the world is not at its first doomsday prophecy. There have been a lot of “Unfulfilled” prophecies in the past and you can have a look at this Wikipedia document for a list of unfulfilled religious prophecies.  What I find quite interesting about the 2012 theory is that there’s not much publications from well respected scientific organizations. NASA has published a couple of articles about the pole shift, but nothing else that could reveal a certain fear of the end of the world. Now you could argue that “big organizations” certainly wouldn’t reveal anything that has to do with the end of the world, but that’s another debate.

2012 conspiracy theory

I mentioned in the “What will happen” section that there’s a lack of scientific information coming from well respected sources like NASA. Some people claim there’s a conspiracy theory behind the prophecy to hide it from the public so it doesn’t create mass panic. Now, this does and doesn’t make sense. At first, it sounds like it could be true because I totally agree the government could restrain publications from the NASA as it’s a governmental agency, but I find it weird that this kind of information wouldn’t “leak”.  Do you really think something as big as the end of the world wouldn’t leak from any agency? Keep the NASA apart, do you really think the scientific community would miss something as big as that? When there’s no scientific data about a subject, you really have to doubt.  You’ve probably read a lot of information on websites from people claiming they know more than they should know and that the government is hiding all this information from you. Government is hiding a lot of things from you, more than you probably imagine and they would probably try to hide the end of the world if it was going to happen. But, let’s picture this: The Mayas were there 1000 years before Christ which makes it about 3000 years from now. Do you think someone could hide the end of the world for 3000 years if it was really going to happen and was really that possible and scientific?  I have my doubts.  

Pole shift/reversal, the only 2012 end of the world possibility

The only rational “2012 End of world” possibility is actually pole shifting. A Pole shift is a rare phenomenon and is characterized by the north and the south poles swapping places. Such reversals, recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks, are unpredictable. They come at irregular intervals averaging about 300,000 years; the last one was 780,000 years ago. I wrote an article on pole shift that explains the whole process, have a look: What is that pole shift thing? Such event could really disrupt our planet that’s true. Imagine the North pole and South pole swapping places: Telecommunications, animals, humans, etc. would all be affected and it would be a really important change. There’s only one thing you need to consider… I’ve read in a lot of different places that a polar shift is going to happen on December 21 2012 and it is totally false:
Polar shift is a process that roughly takes 5,000 years to complete and doesn’t start on a specific date and time. The real truth is that nobody knows when the next one is due. The process takes time and another myth wants the earth’s magnetic field strength to be near zero during that transition time. It would actually be as strong as it is now but simply a lot more complicated. Once again, it is explained in my What is that pole shift thing? article.   

Will I die on December 21 2012?

I can’t tell, the Mayas can’t, Nostradamus can’t and the aliens can’t. On December 21 2012, a comet won’t hit the earth, a pole shift won’t happen instantly and a massive gravity burst won’t happen either. The only thing you can fear is a pole shift and it can take up to 5,000 years to complete…   

What if you’re wrong?

In the case that I am wrong, that every scientist on this planet is wrong and that the NASA can’t figure out a simple galactic alignment that would put our world to an end then I guess we are all in the same situation. You, me and everyone will die. Scary isn’t it? Well, no one can tell what will happen tomorrow or in 2012.

Hope you enjoyed

I hope you enjoyed reading on the 2012 end of the world prophecy and that you are looking at it in a completely different way. Post your comments and come back to Daily Common Sense for more scam debunking.

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