Dear Friends,
Click the link to view the images/access the
links.
Be Well.
David
A Review of the Most Awaited Day in History
D21-2012: The Grains of Truth and an Expose´of Those Who Obscured It
At the root of most everything said
about the “Mayan Calendar’s end” is a grain of
truth.
And we have reason to celebrate because the
most significant
and relevant grains have sprouted and are
taking vigorous root.
Depiction of the New Fire Ceremony from The
Codex Borbonicus
The most awaited day in history came and went,
and the mainstream media had a back slapping field day acknowledging that the
“Mayan Apocalypse” had failed to materialize. All of the ridicule, delusions,
fear and false hopes associated with December 21st, 2012 fall squarely on the
shoulders of spiritual charlatans and pseudo-scientists and their naive and
scientifically illiterate audiences.
The non-events of December 21st, 2012 should be
a wake up call to the self-proclaimed spiritually awakened. And in particular
to the faithful followers of the late Jose Arguelles, Carl Johan Calleman,
Graham Hancock, Greg Braden, Mitch Battros, David Wilcox and Patrick Geryl.
Those of you who follow Arguelles know about all of the magical things he
predicted would happen on December 21st, 2012. Specifics further down.
In order to distinguish himself Calleman
invented his own Mayan Calendar end for October 28, of 2011, and he went as far
as too predict that “global humanity will attain nondualistic enlightened
consciousness by the end of October 2011. It will simply not be possible not to
be enlightened after October 28, 2011″ ~ Carl Calleman
Even Daniel Pinchbeck, author of The Return of
Quetzalcoatl, still clings to the claim that December 21st, was a “hinge point
— in a shift of planetary consciousness.” The phrase shift or transformation of
consciousness must be the knock out buzz phrase for the New
Age/spiritual/mystical community.
All of the authors mentioned, including John
Major Jenkins have used the phrase in either the title of their books and/or
they use it extensively within their books. Jenkins is by far the most grounded
and best researched of the well known 2012-Mayan Calendar (2012-MC) researchers
so I can only surmise that his use of the phrase in the title of one of his
most recent books is a marketing tactic used to appeal to those who are fond of
content that seems to promise a “transformation of consciousness.”
But why the inordinate attraction to the
concept of transformation of consciousness? In our context consciousness means
the mind’s awareness of itself and the world. Within the New
Age/spiritual/mystical community the phrase has come to connote lofty, noble
and progressive thinking and/or an “enlightened” state of being.
For the sake of brevity and accuracy I will
henceforth refer to the aforementioned community as the Mystics to distinguish
between grounded and ungrounded forms of spirituality. Ungrounded forms of
spirituality are based on archaic and obsolete ideas, superstitions,
psychobabble, pseudo-science, baseless concepts and outright fantasies.
It’s not that I depreciate or take for granted
the wonder of existence, but why should anybody believe that the zero date of a
calendrical age is going to transform people’s consciousness or bring about any
other mass or exceptional effect for that matter? The only reasons that many
fall for the “transformation of consciousness” pitch is sheer naiveté and in
particular scientific illiteracy.
How is awareness of oneself and the
world—transformed —when awareness is not an object that can be transformed into
something else. Awareness is a process that automatically records sense data as
electro-chemical brain activity and neuronal connections. The mind then does
its best to interpret the data. But the mind is a relative entity that is only
as effective as the quality of information it contains. Meaning that a weak
data base can only generate weak assessments.
At best we can modulate the process of
awareness to limited degrees and then it takes exceptional effort and
circumstances to achieve what are at most temporarily enhanced states of
awareness.
Under normal circumstances we can actively seek
to increase the number of items we are aware of by seeking new experiences and
purposeful learning, but that says nothing about the veridicality of each item.
Meaning that you may have read all of the books by all of the authors mentioned
herein, with the exception of Jenkins, and at the end of day much of what you
have learned about 2012-MC exists only in your head.
Veridicality refers to the degree of
relationship between the ideas we have about how or why anything exists,
functions and/or happens and the actuality of it. See Why We Believe What We Do
and Why We Should Be Concerned for more details on the challenges of
ascertaining what is true and what is not.
Under extraordinary circumstances we can
momentarily yet dramatically enhance our awareness by ingesting a psychoactive
agent and/or engaging in consciousness altering practices such as meditation,
drumming, chanting or dancing to name a few of the more common techniques.
A few have special talents that enable them to
modulate their consciousness at will or it happens to them spontaneously, but a
calendar zero day has never been shown to alter consciousness much less
transform it.
But spontaneous events can alter consciousness
in permanent and dramatic ways and in particular traumatic or life altering
events such as the unexpected death of loved one, a shamanic initiation, a
psychotic episode or when you’ve learned that you’ve been deceived in very big
way. In certain cases the use of
psychedelics can also leave us with permanent and significant alterations in our
state of awareness.
Otherwise I am sorry to report that a
spontaneous transformation of mass consciousness is not remotely possible on
any day. We must replace the misleading
and useless concept of transformation of consciousness with the precise and
practical—transformation of leadership culture— ; for it is the policies of our
current leadership agencies (governments) that are propelling the degeneration
of society and the natural world.
The dominant leadership culture of Imperial
Civilization thrives by economic parasitism e.g., taxation, monetary
monopolies, and resource theft. A practice made possible via a misinformed,
domesticated and distracted subject class.
The ruling classes leverage their power to
immiserate the vast majority of humankind and then they use our collective
resources build better cages for the subject class, to realize their vision of
the world and to amass their fortunes at the expense of nature and society. It
is the leadership class who controls our collective resources and it is they
who appropriate the commons for their benefit.
If we were to spend our collective resources on
improving and educating society to the same degree that our governments develop
militarism then an enlightened society becomes a plausible reality.
I sense that the most enlightening thing about
December 21st, 2012 was that, unsurprisingly, none of the many predictions came
true for that day. To the disillusioned I say demand evidence and strive for
scientific literacy so that you don’t end up believing in delusions. And if you
won’t make the time or don’t have the patience for scientific literacy then at
least read those who do.
And while we are at let us also demystify
scientific literacy. Scientific literacy is a concise term for universally valid
knowledge of how nature works and of how such knowledge is arrived at and
applied effectively. Knowledge that is not dependent on faith. The Earth tilts
on its axis whether we believe in it or not. If people knew about plate
tectonics then they would never fall prey to those talk of sunken continents
(Lemuria, Atlantis) because continents don’t sink.
According to the United States National Center
for Education Statistics, “scientific literacy is the knowledge and
understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for effective;
personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and
economic productivity”. A scientifically literate person is defined as one who
has the capacity to:
understand, experiment and reason with basic scientific
facts and their meaning.
ask, find, or determine answers to questions
derived from curiosity about everyday experiences.
describe, explain, and predict natural
phenomena that accords with universal actualities.
understand articles about science in the
popular press and to engage in social conversation about the validity of the
conclusions.
identify scientific issues underlying national
and local decisions and express positions that are scientifically and technologically
informed.
evaluate the quality of scientific information
on the basis of its source and the methods used to generate it.
pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence
and to apply conclusions from such arguments appropriately.
It is my hope for all concerned that December
21st, 2012 was the beginning of the end for pseudo-scientists and spiritual
swindlers. If our world is expected to evolve then the majority must learn how
to separate the charlatans from the diligent.
The True Meaning of D21-2012
Before I go on to talk about the grains of
truth I want to touch on what I had been saying in anticipation of December
21st, 2012 (D21-2012). On April 21, 2009 I published my first article on the
significance of the Maya Long Count calendar’s reset. That article is entitled
Transitioning to a Planetary Culture: Trend Convergence and The Case For
Socio-Cultural Transformation.
And then on September 15 of the same year I
published a second article is entitled Imperial Civilization has Run Its
Course: The Birth of a Planetary Culture is Upon Us. The titles of both
articles clearly indicate that my take on the root meaning of D21-2012 is
planetary scaled socio-cultural change. I also expressly state that such
changes have been taking place well in advance of D21-2012 and that they would
continue long after the Long Count’s zero date.
I have always said that D21-2012 was a day of
observance and that if anything exceptional happened on that day it would be
socio-cultural in nature. And that was the case as millions around the world
gathered in observance of that day.[2]
In order to appreciate the universal relevance
of D21-2012 one must understand the concept of cycle juncture window (CJW). A
CJW is a period of time either side of a cycle’s zero date. I have found that
shift type events are most apt to happen within a CJW and that the magnitude of
such events are proportionate to the scale of the cycle in question. A CJW is
also proportionate to the size of the cycle in question.
For example the solsticial year cycle has a CJW
of around 36 days while the outgoing 5125 year Maya Long Count Cycle (LCC)
would have a CJW of around 520 years. This means that shift type events are
most apt to happen within a window 18 days before and 18 days after the
solstice zero date for the solstice to solstice year cycle. While proportionate
shift type events for the much longer LCC would be most apt to happen within a
window of time 260 years before and 260 years after the zero date.
One example of a proportionately scaled shift
type event or series of events for the LCC was the shift from hand based
production to machine based production that started in the mid-1700′s. A shift
commonly known as the Industrial Revolution.
A shift that began 250 years ago. More information on shifts and the
various CJW’s maybe found in Anticipating Personal and Collective Shifts in
Relation to MMAC Time Science.
The one other key theme associated with cycle
restart is renewal as it pertains to the socio-cultural domain. And how has
this theme manifested itself? Imperial
Civilization is over 5000 years old.
Large scale rebellion against this age old institution began 52 years
ago with the onset of the 1960′s counter cultural revolution.
The ongoing rebellion reached new levels of
organization and scale with the emergence of the Arab uprising in January of
2011 and the Occupy Movement in the fall of the same year. And then with just 11 days before D21-2012
the world’s latest anti-establishment movement—Idle No More— sprang to life.
The world’s 100,000 plus social and
environmental justice movements are also manifestation of the socio-cultural
shift that has been underway since the 1960′s. After a slow and steady period
of emergence and development during the sleepy 70′s 80′s the movements got a
major boost when the internet became publically available in the early 90′s.
The emerging Planetary Culture seems to have shifted into high gear over the
last 2 years and that process can only continue to grow!
Socio-cultural renewal was the only happening
prophesied by precolumbian Mesoamericans [1], and it is also the only happening
implied by the LCC’s D21-2012 zero date.
It’s hard to say how many millions of people
observed D21-2012 out of fear, hope or reverence.[2] Whatever the precise
number it was significant because those who observed it out of hope and
reverence represented just about every culture and nation. That means that
D21-2012 was a cross cultural ritual event on behalf of humankind and its socio-cultural
evolution. I did my part to rally people to observe and use the momentum of
D21-2012 to help propel the growth of the emerging Planetary Culture with the
following 3 articles.
The Universal Meaning of 2012 and the Mayan
Calendar: The Mythos, Astronomy and Sociology of 2012-MC
Call for a Global Jubilee: Why and How to
Celebrate December 21st, 2012
Call to Action: Let’s Declare a Year of Jubilee
on the Most Awaited Day in History
As the sensationalists and wannabe prophets
fall by the wayside I want to stand out as the one independent researcher who
had his feet planted firmly on the ground, and as one who did not succumb to
sensationalistic tactics for the sake of notoriety and commercial success. The
true story of 2012-MC doesn’t need to be sensationalized or exaggerated to be
appreciated. The truth about it is fantastic enough.[1]
THE GRAINS OF TRUTH
THE MAYAN PROPHECIES: This was perhaps the
biggest lie told by 2012-MC writers because there are no oral or written Mayan
prophecies to be found anywhere!
The Grain of Truth: There are only two
verifiable prophecies related to 2012-MC. The main prophecy is around 1200
years old and is of Zapotec origins. The second prophecy was given by the man
who delivered the Zapotec prophecy. They are both documented in a 1971 book and
they both have come true. [1]
THE END OF THE WORLD: This lie was propagated
by the mainstream media. Not a single pre-columbian culture predicted the end
of the physical world and neither did the present day Maya. No 2012-MC author
that I know of made mention of the “end of the world” in literal terms but many
did predict large scale cataclysms.
The Grains of Truth: The Aztec Legend of the
5th Sun is a mythological account of 4 previous world ages and their subsequent
destruction. According to the Legend we are supposedly in age of the 5th Sun
and it too is to be destroyed. The Legend of the 5th Sun is a mythical tale and
therefore cannot be taken literally, but in a mythically illiterate culture
literal interpretation of myths is a common problem.
Large calendrical periods such as the Maya Long
Count calendar are referred to as world ages. D21-2012 marked the end of a
world age. The scandalous mainstream media dropped age and instead declared the
rumored end of the world.
However, I do believe that we are witnessing
the end of the dominant world system of the last 5000 years. That is the
transformation of a cultural system that I call Imperial Civilization. Imperial
Civilization has defined the overarching process, thrust and characteristics of
human history since its inception.
Meaning that the Imperial model of
socio-cultural processes is what has given form to the collective human world
of the last 5000 years. The world of Imperial Civilization is defined by
leadership agencies (governments) that are characterized by tyranny, rule by
force, deception, secrecy, economic subjugation, economic parasitism (taxation,
monetary monopolies) gender imbalance, ecological indifference, privileged
violence and war as an economic strategy.
If anything must end then it’s the world of
Imperial Civilization. The nascent Free Information Age is the undoing of
Imperial Civilization because the free flow of multi-sourced information and
omni-directional info-channels is diametrically opposed to the Imperial model.
The rallying cry heard round the world is planetary scaled revolution against
the Imperial establishment!
CATASTROPHES aka EARTH CHANGES: Baseless claims
about impending poles shifts, crustal displacement, killer solar storms, super
volcanic eruptions, Planet X, Comet Elenin, photon belts, Planet Niburu, and
galactic superwaves all managed to capture the attention of the scientifically
illiterate.
The Grains of Truth: The Gulf Oil disaster, the
Haiti earthquake, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the resulting and
ongoing Fukushima disaster, eminent ecosystem collapses, resource depletion,
overfishing, deforestation, pollution, ongoing mass extinction event, radical
climate extremes and oscillations, increased earthquake activity, faltering
economic system, record breaking natural disasters, and worst of all a super
deranged leadership class that has settled on endless warfare as a means to
enrich itself are all large scale catastrophes.
In the September 2009 article mentioned earlier
I wrote. “From my vantage point the catastrophe is upon us and it’s called
Western Civilization 1.0 gasping for its last few breaths as it strives to
maintain the status quo at all costs. What more calamity do we need in order to
recognize that the world as a whole is in the grip of a serious and
unprecedented socio-environmental crisis?”
If the state of the world is not enough to
unsettle you then you have been socially desensitized and politically
neutralized. And not to mention ecologically indifferent. If you need an
assessment of just how close humans are to the precipice of human induced
cataclysmically scaled ecological disasters please take a look at The Great
Wikileaks/Occupy/Jubilee Movement, the Approaching Apocalypse and your Two Choices.
Earthquakes
We are indeed in period of increased
seismicity, but we needn’t worry about that trend increasing until the Earth
breaks apart. Which is what the sensationalists would have us believe.
Earthquake activity follows the same curve as the sunspot cycle. Except that
solar maximums with the lowest sunspot count are associated with a still
greater increase in earthquake frequency and intensity. And we happen to be in
the middle of low sunspot count solar maxima hence the increase in earthquake
activity.
MYSTICAL-MAGICAL: I must preface this section
by saying that the contributions of Jose Arguelles are paradoxical to the story
of 2012-MC for it was he who started the confusion surrounding 2012-MC and it
was he who also rediscovered what I believe will one day be considered the
greatest scientific discovery of all time.[1]
Jose Arguelles predicted a “rainbow bridge”
around the earth, universal telepathy, the biosphere-noosphere transition, and
spontaneous mass enlightenment. Dolores Cannon predicted a transition into a
5th dimensional realm. Countless others have referred to a Rapture like
Ascension and David Wilcock said that our pineal glands would be instantly
flooded with DMT. Calleman asserted spontaneous mass enlightenment and Jenkins
hinted at a transformation of consciousness.
The Grains of Truth: In the early part of 1900s
the Jesuit priest and French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the
Russian geochemist and minerologist Vladimir Vernadsky toyed with the idea of
an emerging noosphere or “the sphere of human thought.”
Arguelles liked the sound of the noosphere
concept and began proclaiming that the Long Count Cycle’s reset date was the
“Omega Point” that Teilhard de Chardin was referring to as it related to his
borrowed idea from Vernadsky on the biosphere-noosphere transition. To
Arguelles the noospheric Omega Point meant the advent of universal telepathy.
I am confident that Vernadsky and Teilhard de
Chardin foresaw the emergence of the internet even though they did not
articulate it in technological terms. But in functional terms it is the
Internet that they were describing.
The Arguellen claim of universal telepathy is
best modeled by Twitter. Twitter is the real time transmission of thoughts
offered onto the collective planetary brain or directed at a specific person.
Twitter, email and text messaging are technologically mediated forms of
telepathy.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic” ~ Arthur C. Clarke.
The transformation of consciousness meme is a
hyperbolic reference to the universally expanded state of awareness made
possible by the free flow of information from any point or individual on Earth.
The consequence of which is the gradual transformation of our harmful
socio-cultural practices.
THE TIMEWAVE: I did not include Terrence
Mckenna in the above list of pseudo-scientists because he made a sincere effort
to place his Timewave theory on a sound mathematical footing. Though he did
speculate a great deal about what his Timewave theory meant. The question has
always been whether or not the Timewave theory bore any resemblance to reality.
I did what I could to test its premise as a measure of novelty and it seemed as
if there was a relationship.
I used the Timewave graph to accurately
anticipate 4 upticks in human activity over the last 2 years. The key events
listed in the following tally are only the most significant and cornerstone
events of the time periods in question. The first instance was the outbreak of
the Arab Spring. The second uptick was the emergence of the Occupy Movement and
the third was a general across the board intensification of world events. The
fourth and final instance was the outbreak of the Global Debt Jubilee meme in
late August and September.
The problem with any further testing of
Mckenna’s Timewave theory is that it does not go past D21-2012. December 21st
was indeed a culmination of sorts, but novelty will continue increasing as long
as humans keep innovating. I’ve recently
learned that Peter Meyer, the Timewave’s software programmer, has a version of
the Timewave that goes until 2018. Perhaps the Timewave saga is not over. Time
will tell.
THE SHIFT: David Wilcock’s Shift of Ages book
profile page proclaims “The Earth is already undergoing a Dimensional Shift.”
Need I say more? When a pseudo-scientific book such as Wilcock’s makes the New
York best sellers list; then you know that it’s a sign of the times. Greg
Braden also touts the Shift of Ages meme by telling us to brace for a “zero
point pole shift.” He says the last one happened 12 to 13 thousand years ago
and that it was the event that sunk Atlantis and caused the great flood.
Pole reversals do happen but they do so only
once every one hundred-thousand to every one million years. The average
interval being around 450,000 years. The last one happened 780,000 years ago.
Additionally, pole reversals take about 1000 to 10,000 years to complete.
Meaning that they are not sudden and catastrophic.
And as I mentioned earlier continents do not
sink in sudden cataclysmic fashion. The Biblical flood legend is about 5000
years old; not 12 or 13 thousand as Braden states. There is strong evidence to
suggest that the great flood was caused by a comet induced tsunami.
Thus far we have two possible sources for the
Atlantis mythos and both involve a volcanic induced tsunami. The first event in
1500 BCE wiped out what was the most sophisticated culture of its time—the
Minoans on the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean. The second event happened
on the Atlantic facing coast of Spain around 1159 BCE.
Somewhat grounded versions of “the shift”
involve the transition from a predatory warring culture to a peaceful
compassionate one. But even the more grounded visions, such as those of the
Shift Network, do not offer viable pathways to facilitate the transition from
one state to another. I fear that the Shift Network is more about peddling spin
your wheels spiritual workshops than anything else since the practices they
sell do not address the real issues.
The idea of a globally scaled shift is based on
the premise of highly significant change. In our case a hypothetical reduction
of the world’s already bloated military budgets by 5 or 10 percent does not
constitute a cultural shift. Global demilitarization and disarmament would be
the kind of planetary scaled cultural shift needed to convert our warring world
to a peaceful one. The Shift Network message of a shift to a peaceful world
cannot be taken seriously unless they were to take up the cause of
demilitarization.
The Grains of Truth: The world is in a state of
increasing change and instability and that means that shifts of all kinds are
taking place. But are they the types of shifts we need to transition out of
Imperial Civilization? The answer, based on the worldwide growth of
democratizing trends, is a resounding yes! Prior to the age of the internet
each nation was under the near absolute control its respective government, but
the genie is now out of the bottle and he’s not going back.
Governments have told us that we have enemies
to fear, but more and more of us are realizing that our truest enemy is in our
midst. We are learning that governments as we know them are the most deadly of
all cultural cancers. The social sickness has been identified and people around
the world are mobilizing to bring about sane and just forms of leadership.
If we are to shift to a better world then it
will be because we have disarmed the beasts and figured out how to do away with
imperial governance and all of the problems they create. Instead of building up
armies and armaments we will devote our collective resources toward ecological
integrity, social betterment and real problem solving.
References
1). The Legend of 2012: Part 1 The Legend is
Alive and Well ~ A True Story
2). Lisa Clapier with Unify.org told me in an email that
2,777,430 people email confirmed observance of D21-2012. The actual number would be higher since we
cannot expect everybody who observed was aware of Unify’s participation
tracking system nor can we expect 100 percent compliance with their request.
Pinterest
Related Posts:
DEBT JUBILEE: An Emerging Global Consensus !
Anthropologist Dr. David Graeber on the
Necessity of a Debt Jubilee
Global Transition Report #3: From OccupyWallSt
to Occupy Earth 2012 – The 5th Alarm is Here
The Great Wikileaks / Occupy / Jubilee
Movement: The Intensifying Apocalypse And Your Two Choices !
The Galactic Alignment Clarified: The
Magnificent Astronomy Behind the 2012-Mayan Calendar Story
CALL TO ACTION ! Let’s Declare a Year of
Jubilee on the Most Awaited Day in History !
The Long Tradition of Collective Debt
Cancellation in the Ancient Middle East
Anticipating Personal and Collective Shifts in
Relation to MMAC Time Science
GLOBAL TRANSITION REPORT 2: Full Spectrum Intensification,
Our Global Predicament and the 4th Alarm
GLOBAL TRANSITION REPORT 1: We Are Going from a
3 Alarm Fire to a 4 Alarm Fire!
The Galactic Alignment Clarified: The
Magnificent Astronomy Behind the 2012-Mayan Calendar Story -
THE LEGEND OF 2012: Part 1 The Legend is Alive
and Well! ~ The True Story -
❊ ❊ ❊ ❊ ❊
No comments:
Post a Comment