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The Exact Date:  Well, to start with, the evidence tell us that the Mayan calendar probably does not end on December 21.   According to some people, it ends on December 23.  But that date is also questionable. 

Calendar Accuracy:  Any serious discussion regarding the exact date on which the Mayan Calendar ends should include answering these two questions:   "How accurate is the Mayan Calendar?"   and How accurate is translation from the ancient calendar system to our present day calendar?  

If you search the Internet looking for scientific research studies regarding the accuracy of the Mayan Calendar and the accuracy of its translation into our Gregorian calendar, you'll find a lot of conclusions that leave 12-21-2012 to be just one number a among many.   Some say 21 December 2012 date is inaccurate by a few days, some say it's off by about a year, and others say it's even further off.  The exact timing and the correlation between the Mayan Calendar and our present calendar is difficult to calculate and the varying results leave us with  a debatable issue.

This aspect has been almost completely ignored by the mainstream media, by the religious extremist, and by those who can make a buck peddling stories about the Mayan Calendar's end. 

Another factor to consider is the fact that in any calculation the conclusion can only be a as accurate as the data it's derived from.   Researchers are telling us that correlating the Mayan calendar with our present calendar is a rather complex process and takes considerable skill.   It's not a simply cut and past process.  The calendar covers more that 5,000 years, and in that long a time frame, even a very small inaccuracy could result in an ending point that is not 12-21-2012.  Check the Internet and you'll find several answers and several way to calculate the ending date. 

Winter Solstice:   December 21 is the date of the winter solstice  --  the shortest day of the year for those of us in the northern hemisphere and the longest day of the year for those south of the equator.   See the section below titled:  Cosmic Event  

The Observer and the Observed:     Another importance consideration is that predictions are probabilities and not carved in stone facts.   Present-day subatomic physicists are telling us that observing something changes the thing observed and that the probabilities (and the anticipated results) are affected by thinking about them.  

Prophecies:  The most appropriate word to describe prophecies it's "Ambiguity.   Prophecies  tend to be vague and leave room for interpretation.  They use words and phrases that can be interpreted in several ways.   As a result, there's often multiple and very different events that could be said to be the fulfillment of the prophesy.  

Any time there is an interpreter, he (or she) puts his own beliefs, attitudes  and expectation on the prophecy.  

A Cosmic Chicken-and-Egg -- Klein Bottle:   The media, religious extremist, and those who can make a buck on the Mayan Calendar's end are peddling doomsday scenarios.   These predictions are affecting the beliefs and expectations of millions of people.   This in turn, is affecting the mass human consciousness.   Mass human consciousness affects the world we live in and everyone and everything in it.  

Thus we (the collective we) are changing whatever will occur on December 21, 2012.   The media hype about the end of the Mayan Calendar appears to be like a cosmic chicken and egg Klein Bottle.   There's no beginning.   There's no end.   There is only the Great In Between -- an in-between within which we, collectively and individually, create our own reality.  

If you want to know the real truth about the end of the Mayan Calendar, we suggest that you go onto the internet and watch the You Tube video of Abbott and Costello titled "Who's on First."  

No Mayan Predictions:  The Mayan calendar simply ends.   It doesn't declare or predict anything!   Anything said about the Mayan Calendar is a function of the person making the statement.   It's his or her story about the calendar.   It is not  factual data given by the calendar, itself.   21 December 2012 is not the end of the world.   It's the end of a cycle   (See the section below titled:  Cosmic Event      

You might also note that over the centuries, we've had dozens of doomsday peddlers telling us the exact date on which the world will end.   Everyone of them without exception, has been both a fabrication of the predictor and wrong. 

Fairytale Society:   We live in a fairytale-based society, and all the hoopla bout Mayan Calendar is jus one more truth twister.   Here are some Examples:  

Religion:   When one examines  religious beliefs, the evidence tells us things about reality that are vastly different from what most humans believe.  

Separation or Unity:  In direct contradiction to both the scientific evidence and evidence (passages) in the  Christian Bible, most humans are stuck in the illusion of separation.  The false assumption is that everything is separate from everything else - that we are separate from Creator/God, separate from nature and separate from each other.  The truth is that everything is energy and and all energy is intimately interconnected.   Another false assumption is that our thoughts do not affect anything outside of ourselves.   

Democracy:   We believe we live in a democracy.   We actually, live in a thinly-disguised corporate dictatorship.  

Free Market:   People believe our economic system is a free market.   Actually we live in a highly regulated and controlled economy - an economy in which is overwhelmed with thousands of laws and regulations all designed by super-wealthy, Money & Profit/Dopamine Addicts, for the exclusive benefit of the super-wealthy, and run by super-wealthy the Money & Profit/Dopamine Addicts. 

Fairytale Money:    The Banker lend customers non-existent make-believe money (fiat money) and charge customers exorbitant interest rates for its use.  

Drug Addicts:   The world is run by the super-wealthy drug addicts Money & Profit/Dopamine Addicts   >

Violence:   Every study ever conducted, without exception has concluded that cooperation is vastly superior to violence, and yet, violence rules the entire planet.  

Linear Versus Cycles:  Humans are stuck in the illusion of a linear reality where things have beginnings and ends.   The Universe doesn't work that way.   Everything moves in cyclicals and spirals.   Any time we do anything, we always step into existing cycles and later step back out again.   Nothing in and of itself, ever ends.   The end of one  cycles is the beginning of another cycle. 

Beginning at birth:   We teach our children fairytales about Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, sex, marijuana, and countless other things.   

Politics:   The people who lie to us about politics not liars, their spin doctors.  

Get Real!  Fairytales like  The Rapture  and  God's Instantaneous, Supernatural Transcendental Magic Act  are excellent con-artist money makers.    The 12-21-2012 story greatly enhances the believability of  The Rapture. 

The Bottom Line:   The evidence tells that the doomsday prophecies about the End of the Mayan Calendar are just another set of money-making fairytales  

And one other thing,   The Time of Great Changes which our distant ancestors referred to as  "The Shift of the Ages"  is already here!   

Cosmic Event:   21 December 2012 is the date that approximates the midpoint in a cosmic event.   The Earth is in the process of crossing the Galactic Equator (the equator of the Milky Way),     In other words, the earth is transitioning between two halves of the universe.   It's like traveling south and reaching the Earth's equator.   Cosmically and symbolically speaking, the Earth is moving from the northern hemisphere into the southern hemisphere (or vise versa).  

Distances in our galaxy are measured in millions and billions of light years.  Every movement in the physical universe takes time.   How wide is the galactic equator.   Can that crossing point be measured accurately enough toe declare and exact date of crossing?  

What Does All This Mean:   What would you like it to mean?   Based upon the evidence, a logical conclusion is that 21 Dec 2012 is an approximate midpoint in a several-thousand-year-long cosmic cycle.  

Some General Possibilities:   One or more cataclysmic, global-level events could occur that will cause great havoc on the Earth.   These three events listed below are are not likely to occur on December 22, 1012.     
1)  Excessively strong solar flares temporarily knocking out the Earth's      electrical system. 
2)  Intentional or accidental release of a deadly virus.  and
3)  A global level pandemic.   One thing that is all but certain is that this shift in to the next cycle will trigger a significant shift in human consciousness.  

December 22, 2012  -- Some Possibilities:   12/22/2012 has been so strongly promoted as a day of disaster  that many people are filled with fear about this day.   The Rapture believers are anticipating that it's the day the earth will be destroyed and Jesus will return.  

It's certainly possible that those who would use mass consciousness to promote their objectives could intentionally trigger a serious problem on this day.   Let's look at the possibilities:  
1) Islamic terrorist could do something to create destruction, such as releasing a dirty bomb (A regular bomb dilled with highly radioactive nuclear waste) in a major city. 

2)  A major computer virus could be activated on that day.   The entire Internet could be infected and/or overwhelmed.   This could even shut down much of the military defense systems all over the planet.   Why would anyone do that?   What could they gain?  Who are the possible perpetrators?  

***  The Russians? 

No. They'd have nothing to gain.

***  Off planet beings? 

No.  If there are such beings (and very likely they do exist) they have a technology so superior to ours that they'd have no  need to screw up our computer systems. 

*** Islamic extremists?  

Possibly, but not likely.   They'd cause damage, but even shutting down the computer system would, in and of itself, not destroy western society.  

*** The communist leaders of China?  

Possibly as a precursor to a military take over of Russia.   This has been talked about for decades, going all the way back to Edgar Casey (twentieth century psychic and medical clairvoyant).   This, too, is unlikely.   This would almost certainly trigger a major global war.   In the long-term, this would be disaster for everyone everywhere.  But then, the Chinese leaders are Power & Control/Dopamine Drug Addicts, and who knows what a drug addict will do?

***  Fundamentalist Christian extremists? 

Some of the extremists believe that helping God to bring on The Rapture is a good thing to  do.   So again, who knows?  

3)  Off planet beings could publically announce their presence.  

4)  There could possibly a cosmic event.  (Not likely.   See the next section below about time.)

5)  On the other hand, it could be just another day.  

The Bottom Line:     Be prepared for everything, anything, and nothing.

Human Time Versus Cosmic Time:   We think of time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.   Universal time is measured in millions and billions of years.   The likelihood of a cosmic event being predicted 5,000 years into the future and being predicted down to the exact day of Earth time is about as likely as a fruit fly living for a hundred years.   In physical reality, changes take time.  

On a cosmic scale, a shifts take years, even centuries, so whatever this transition is bringing us is already under way and will likely go on for at least several more years.   All you have to do is look around you to see that we are experiencing major changes and the evidence indicates the coming changes will be even more profound.

A Shift in Mass Consciousness:  This time frame could also be a time for a major and rapid shifting of mass human consciousness.   Changes in human beliefs and attitudes have been going on as long as humans have been on Earth.   Just like the physical changes, the rate of change in beliefs and attitudes is accelerating exponentially.   In other words, the rate of change is accelerating.   Perhaps our  Fairytale Society  is about to wake up to at least a touch of reality.

Whirlpool Analogy:  On Earth a whirlpool spins clockwise in the northern hemisphere and it moves counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.   Which way does a whirlpool spin when it's exactly on the earth's equator?  Following the Hermetic principle of "As above so Below.  As within so without." an analysis of a whirlpool on the equator might give us a clue as to what is occurring on the entire Earth as we move across the cosmic equator.  

Evolution Jumps:  Again going back to the Hermetic principle of "As above so Below.  As within so without." and examining how evolution works may give us a clue as to what's going on and what to expect.   Scientists have discovered that evolution is not a steady flow.  It's a process in which pressure for change builds up and then, in a very short time, a significant change occurs.  This also could be what's going on in human social, political, economic, religious, and environmental evolution.   We are in the middle of major changes.   One of the major reasons is that the present economic system (which is at the core of human social system)  is based upon numerous false assumptions and it's not sustainable.  

Another possibility, is that the human-caused changes may be just another con game designed by The Powers That Be to trick people into believing still another illusion  We really don know what it is or isn't going to happen.   And still another possibility is that December 12,2012 might be just another day.  

Ride the Wave:   Regarding what is happening and whatwill happen, we'd be wise go with the flow.   Like a surfer, they ride the wave.   And like a trained martial arts master, we have the opportunity to use this wave for positive transformation or for self-destruction.  
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