2012 Messenger – What will happen?

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Remember “Y2K”? Consider the noise surrounding 2012 and the Mayan calendar to be similar.

The alarmists and poetic New Age opportunists who promote their tall tales while tugging at your heart strings with “heart-centered” communications will move on to other things in 2013.

Yet another correction in the financial markets will probably take place in 2012, along with extreme weather conditions around the globe and other calamities, but none of it will be any more out of the ordinary than any other year over the past several thousand. Even if E.T.s landed on the White House lawn in 2012, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the Mayan calendar.

Do yourself a favor and refuse to accept feel-good prose mixed with half-truths and outright myth as fact. Escapism and Hollywood-esque science fiction isn’t “spiritual,” it’s just a means for profit for the New Age snake-oil salespeople while taking you on a ride to nowhere.

We highly recommend fact-checking everything in films/books centered on 2012 and the Mayan calendar. Stories of catastrophe and doom sell and there’s a huge market for such misinformation.

The Mayan calendar is a perpetual calendar, it had to end/start over again at some point, and it isn’t the most accurate calendar when you compare it to others throughout history.

December 21, 2012 is merely the first day of the Mayan calendar 13th “b’ak’tun” (144,000 day cycle), and when a new 5,125.37 year (1,872,000 days) cycle begins. Just as we begin our modern calendar (which is a more accurate time keeping system than the Mayan calendar: http://tinyurl.com/yzqyxar) on January 1st, the longest cycle in the Mayan calendar starts anew every 5125.37 years.

7 Myths surrounding 2012 and the Mayan calendar:

1. The New Age 2012 authorities speak of “transcending many of the worst prophecies already…” (and if you buy their next book and attend their seminars, you can transcend the others too).

2. The “future of humanity” is not at stake and there is no “critical crossroads, evolutionary jump and shift in consciousness, and radical transformation,” in connection with the Mayan calendar and 2012.

Humans have always been spiritually progressing for eons, and everyone’s evolution is unique and transpires at various rates. For some, the year 2012 may be a very important year, for others not at all. And that goes also for the years leading up to and following 2012.

Additionally, as humanity moves beyond each decade, century, and millennium as reflected in our modern calendar, there always have been and always will be adjustments and shifts of varying degrees (e.g., year 999 to 1000 AD): they are gradual, and represent different things to everyone depending on their unique personal charts.

3. The Mayan calendar (Tzolkin) has not predicted “…every eclipse (and other astrological phenomenon),” as some 2012 exploiters claim.

4. There is no “galactic alignment, occurring for the first time in 26,000 years.” At this time, Earth is approximately 30,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Also, viewed  from Earth, the Sun will only appear to be in the center of the Milky Way, and this “alignment” happens every winter solstice (yawn).

5. Your “spiritual parameters” aren’t dissolving at this time (leading up to Dec. 2012) to allow you to “create the reality you want…” That’s just another false-hope-for-profit scheme.

6. “Everything” is not leading up to 2012 and things are not “coming to a head.” The magnetic fields aren’t weakening, the Sun has not “already lost its poles,” and the Earth’s poles aren’t melting any more than at any other time in recorded history.

7. The Mayans said nothing about disaster and doom, financial or otherwise in relation to 2012. The recent financial crisis has nothing to do with the Mayan calendar and 2012–it’s an extremely tenuous link.

Prediction is all about pattern recognition. In order to establish a reliable pattern you have to note every time there is a significant, regular juncture in the cycle. In this case, the Mayan calendar, it’s every 144,000 days (394.3 yrs. in our modern calendar), or every 5,125.37 years for the longest Mayan calendar cycle.

However, you must look at multiple cycles/indicators (Scott relies on over 500 in his systems of analysis) to get  reasonable accuracy rates, in particular how the universal cycles relate to you personally (personal cycles).

At the start of each 144,000 day/394.3 yr. Mayan cycle, you’ll find these years in our modern calendar (besides 2012), going back in time: 1618; 1224; 830; 435; 41, etc.

Notice that none of those years coincide with any of the most significant financial crises in recorded history, as outlined below?

*Tulip craze/collapse of mid 1600s

*South Sea Company craze/collapse early 1700s

*Railway mania bubble in mid 1800s

*Stock market crash of 1929

*Dot.com crash of 2000-2001

*Mortgage/credit crisis 2008/2009

(The Great Railroad Bubble is one of history’s worst financial collapses: Speculators in Britain spent more than 25% of GDP, the equivalent of $4 Trillion today.)

It could very well be that we’ll see another financial markets/credit collapse in the near future (e.g., 2016/2017); everything is cyclical, including boom to bust financial cycles, and they have nothing to do with the Mayan calendar.

The 2012 story-tellers who exploit an impressionable audience’s thirst for escapism should be seen for what they are: myth propagators and profiteers.

We believe that end of the world scenarios and Mayan “prophesy” that promises ruin and transformation for all of humanity are 100% entertainment. It’s deplorable that so much New Age content is full of fabrications and falsehoods. It’s just an opiate for the uninformed and adds to the colossal body of evidence that exposes the bulk of the New Age industry as a racket.

“…(the interpretation of 2012 as a doomsday or ‘cosmic-shift’ event is) a complete fabrication and a chance for a lot of people to cash in.” Sandra Noble, executive director of the Mesoamerican research organization

“There is no serious scholar who puts any stock in the idea that the Maya said anything meaningful about 2012.” David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin 

Copyright © 2010 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo

Will the world end in 2012? The Mayan Calendar 2012 says so. But there is still an ongoing debate about it. Some people say it is a big hoax. Some claim that it is true and we are all doomed. What to believe? Well maybe it’s time that you learn more about the Mayan calendar 2012.

What exactly is the Mayan calendar 2012 and who are the Mayans? The Mayan are a group of people who lived thousands of years ago in what is now modern day Mexico. If there is one thing that you need to know about the Mayans is that they are great astrologers, scholars and mathematicians. This means they know a lot about the world and the universe. The Mayan calendar 2012 that everybody seems to be talking about is actually just one of the calendars called the Long Count calendar. The most interesting thing about this calendar is that it seems to predict a great catastrophe that will happen in the year 2012. According to it, there will be an end to the existing era and a new one will begin.

Some experts believe that the calendar is indicating things on a more metaphorical level. A symbolism for a coming transition in thought and consciousness. There also are those that insist that the calendar refers to a real catastrophe that will occur and that will wipe out most if not all life on earth.

One of the misconceptions about the Mayan calendar 2012 predictions is that it points to an end of the world. While the calendar ends in 2012, it didn’t actually indicate that the world will cease to exist after that fateful year. In fact, it seems to point to the birth of a new period. Many people still stick to the concept though that the world will end in the year 2012.

Whether you believe that the Mayan calendar 2012 points to a real global disaster or not, it would be best if you will keep yourself informed. There are many resources about the Mayan prediction but the best are the ones that include scientific data with the discussion.

You should also prepare yourself for the worst thing that can happen. While it is not advisable to panic, it would be useful if you can at least prepare yourself from natural disasters such storms, floods and earthquakes. You should be prepared for disasters that can come any year and not just in 2012.

The 2012 calendar is now the most infamous calendar known to man.

Until just recently, not many people put a lot into the calendar. To most of us a calendar is blocks of time by which we arrange our busy lives. We are in tune with dayplanners; books with lines for every hour of every day, week in and week out. Suddenly the world is agog over a calendar chisled in stone. It cannot be erased or changed to suit the whims of modern life. At best, the Mayan 2012 calendar is mysterious and other worldly.

Did you know that the 2012 calendar left by the Mayans is not round?

Nor is this piece of archaeolgical time keeping brightly colored. In fact, the Mayan Long Count is a series of calendars known as ‘stella’. They are actually very tall squared columns of rock that occupy a special place in each ancient Maya community. All four sides of these stella have series of glyphs and figures carved on them. Once up on a time there were many books that held the key to the Long Count calendars. All but one of the books, or codexes as they are referred to, were destroyed by the papacy in the 1500’s when the Spanish arrived to change the Maya world forever.

So how did they arrive with the 2012 calendar end date?

Many years of study has gone into deciphering the glyphs by numerous archaeoligists and historians. Originally, there were several different conclusions, with four different translations arriving at end dates within a several day range. Eventually, it was decided that one of them was correct. Then decades later this particular scholar changed his mind after further study. He proclaimed the real end date of the Mayan calendar was not December 21, 2012 but December 23, 2012.

Dartmouth scholars did not agree and maintained the December 21st end date.

So there is a minor descrepancy as to which date in December 2012 the Long Count calendar of the Maya people ends. Yet, splitting hairs over this two day span is really not changing things at all. And so the Mayan 2012 calendar remains with an end of our current age date on the Winter Solstice.

They are all in agreement that the stone calendar does end on 12-21-12.

Numerically, this is a curious date that looks the same coming and going, with a center that is a mirror of both ends. More mysterious than the baktuns and glyphs is the fact that every program on your television, webpage or print publication about the 2012 calendar of the Mayas shows the wrong artifact. Every single one of them presents you with the Aztec Sun Stone as the image of the Maya Long Count calendar.

This makes the mystery surrounding the 2012 calendar deeper yet.

The Aztec Sun Stone mimics the time keeping system known as the Maya Tzolkin. But the Tzolkin measures a moon cycle and just keeps rotating through the days. The Haab is very simple, while the sun stone is complex in carvings. Additionally, the Aztecs were not meticulous time keepers; in fact the dates could be off by years from one community to another. Whether it is because the sun stone is brilliantly colored or the reasoning lies elsewhere is at present unknown. Still, what most people think is the Mayan Long Count calendar is absolutely wrong. After all, the Aztecs and the Mayas are two seperate cultures.

The Mayas used decimals in the numerics necessary to create their 2012 calendar.

Some people believe that the Mayan people were the first to use decimals. They learned mathmatics and calendar keeping from the Olmecs. The Olmecs were the first native inhabitants of South America in the current age of man. It is said that the Olmecs were the people saved from the land of Lemuria at the time that Atlantis and Lemuria were destroyed. So this incredible mathematical system appears to actually carry over from the third world of man. Be that as it may, the end date remains firm for the 2012 calendar on December 21st.

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While doing research on the unusual occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle, he will uncover something that the government is willing to kill for. Getting more than he bargained for, his discoveries will not only unlock the mysteries of the Devil’s Triangle, the Mayan doomsday predictions about the year 2012, and what happened to the lost city of Atlantis, and fall in love in the process.

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Starvation, and disease were becoming the norm. Violence and anarchy reigned, while flies fed upon the bodies of the unburied dead. Everywhere was death, dying and sorrow. Earthquakes shook the ground with an ever increasing frequency, across the entire continent, making most of the large cities unsafe for human habitation. Constant, unseasonable storms of tremendous force plagued the homeless millions who had escaped alive.

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Is December 21, 2012 the end of the world as we know it? Climate change seems inevitable with countless hurricanes, earthquakes and innumerable disasters around the globe in recent years. What did the ancient Maya know and why did they place such significance on this date? As we near the final date of the Mayan Calendar, mankind must face what is perhaps the most difficult hurdle of alla profound change in ourselves. This enigmatic film unveils the other side to the 2012 engima;

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Special Features include additional insights and commentary by Philip Coppens.

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