The Mayan Countdown

It won’t be long now. Just over 90 days until the end of the Mayan calendar arrives. Normally such well publicized “apocalyptic” dates come and go without much serious notice from me. My friends all warned me not to buy a ten thousand dollar computer software program in 1999, but I did; just wasn’t too worried about Y2K, and was, by that time, immune to the media hype which always swarms around such events.

It’s different this time

The Mayans were all about TIME, hence the infamous calendar getting so much press lately. I began studying the Mayan calendar some 15 years or so ago, by reading the works of Jose Arguelles, especially a book called “The Mayan Factor”. Over the years Arguelles and other Mayan experts have added greatly to our understanding of this lost culture. The one thing I brought away from these studies was that all the chaos and destruction were side effects, and not the whole deal…which is all about the evolution of humankind from childhood to adolescence…not the end of mankind, but rather the end of doing all the wrong things for the wrong reasons; the end of greed! A new great Age.

The calendar speaks to the ending of one cosmic era, and the beginning of the next, and all the changes, including earth changes that will result from it. This era change has been going on for some decades now, with the last 25 years seeing most of the eye-popping stuff, a time known as “The Quickening”. Now the lamestream media knows one thing better than anything else, and that is how to sell fear…and the 2012 Mayan Calendar is like Christmas to them.

As is their style, they will milk it for all it’s worth, and then some. What they won’t tell you however are two things. First that it isn’t at all about the end of everything…and second; the year 2012 is the year the calendar ends, not us. The year 2012 was marked as the time when all these changes that have been happening for decades would culminate, not begin.

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