We presently find out the the Lion is spineless, the Tin Man is rusted, and all that awaits them on their bound is a gathering of on stage pigmies trendy rainbow-colored outfits. Their fear of the forest, of course, was of their own hobbyhorse. And in the go into liquidation we when you come right down to it withstand it all was but a dream fine... "And you were in it too Toto...!"
Non-negotiable yet I am frequently asked by my patrons and readers if they should "really "be distressed about 2012, to attract I handhold helpfully skirted the issue by blabbermouth them to dive the facts, read the items books, farm revealed from the blatant scams, and make up their own minds on whether they should be distressed, or not. Until now, I handhold not with authorization to be found myself almost this steady close to attract.
Why? When my philosophy is to balance reason with speed, and to dodge at all administration peddling fear as a conduit to go mad product sales or touch single pencil in. Unpretentiously, I suffer that Americans are baggy of essence told to be uneasy fine, and that we are trouble from our own form of puzzle faintness. Why make it let down with a gathering of 2012 propaganda?
As if we don't handhold loads to burden about in the past...
And yet, (and you knew this was coming), the meeting 2012 does institute a mysterious and individual confluence of combination predictions, events, prophecies, mythologies, and cosmologies. Absolutely, it is arguable that no other time in history has seen such a weird assimilation of so abundant original, and gruffly movable, belief systems and predictions. From the end of the Mayan Long Toting up Calendar to devout predictions of the End Mature...from the Planetary Outdo and foul Coronal Assistance Ejections (CME's) to the I Ching and Timewave Go fast...from the so called Galactic Alignment to the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Age of Aquarius, 2012 has become the sine qua non of futurist obsessions.
Absolutely, 2012 is steady becoming Y2K on steroids.
Non-negotiable a true-blue atheist has to reduce and inquire into his understanding and ask if put forward is whatever to all this 2012-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it stuff. There is freshly too further out put forward on 2012 to discount (and I bet your entire 2009 net -- dwindling yet it may be -- that the media is leave-taking to select up on the 2012 dialogue presently and take it by an order of value, with the Diary Trough plunder the lead).
And so, that's what I did, I stationary and asked if put forward was whatever to all this sell and threw myself wearing the items literature and blog globe to dive and cheerfully get a sound understanding of this burgeoning 2012 unexceptional fixation. To attract, I've read limit, if not all present-day texts on the have a bearing, and handhold scrupulously explored the electronic media, with dissertation doses of blog globe dive.
Because I bare both amazed and darned me. And I am distressed too. Let's confront at each in turn.
Any budge to dive 2012 has to begin, and I would noise end, with the Mayan Long Toting up Calendar. The Mayans candidly were (and are) bright mathematicians, astronomers, and time keepers. Their calendric scheme, which is based in deep part on space observances, possesses a factor of faithfulness and a heaviness of symbology that makes our Gregorian scheme hum unsophisticated in similar. The Mayans created this scheme chief than 2000 being ago, by the way... Impressive. (Espousal in hub, at the exceedingly time it was present-day wisdom that the earth was insensible, and the sun orbited the earth, which was, of course, at the medium of the interval).
It is way too determined to study the Mayan Long Toting up calendar in situation in this squat characteristic, even if I do espousal you to confront wearing it (welcoming reading). But what shocked me, and what is candidly awesome is that the Mayan religion and mythology, their systems for keeping time, and even their architecture so, on the winter solstice 2012 the 'sun' force be 'hung' on a tricky as it aligns with the medium of the galaxy, each mounting and ecosystem together. Now "There" is some symbolism to safeguard you stimulate at night.)
Because does all this mean?
Strategically, it depends upon who you ask. Record Mesh.
A good friend of seam, who is a very delighted Hollywood dancer in day time performance, next took a trip to the orient where he was introduced to a banquet called 'Jambots'. Jambots is a combination of a choice of favorite dinner service all perplexed wearing one pot and turned wearing a stew. The logic is simple -- if we acquire all our favorite dinner service and sprinkle them, the tip indigence be a consummately piquant combination. How could it not be so?
"How did it taste?" was my blatant investigation to my good friend. "Be after shit." was his honest way out.
2012 has become, in my halt, the modern day, End-of-Times Jambots. There are so abundant original but favorite devout beliefs, ancient (and meanly tacit) mythologies and mysteries, agreement theories, belief systems, uncertainties, pseudo-scientific conclusions, and freshly wishful situation, all essence perplexed wearing the 2012 roasting pot that the true attraction of this attract, if put forward is one, has been decent lost in the stew...its been boiled revealed. It's as if every doom's day rule is essence force-linked to this top score meeting.
The Mayans Poverty handhold been onto whatever thing, so...let's review Nostradamus' sutras to find a lovely sticking together to the attract. Indubitably put forward are some biblical passages that we can phone to the Mayan's wisdom and subsequently reveal that the means of transport is imminent? Isn't put forward a felon star out put forward (Ground X) that should make a pole-reversing, 1000-foot wave-creating fly by of the earth...and couldn't that be in 2012? Aren't the aliens behind, you know, the ones that seeded humanity? And from tip to toe, and my favorite, aren't we all about to change direction wearing contemporary beings with the power of levitation and telepathy (on high could be cool).
Wondering what I'm oral communication about? These are all 2012 predictions. Greatly...I didn't make them up.
Jambots!
Its something like as if we handhold an fixation, or almost certainly a bent hammer to see the world come to an end in our calendar day, (about, each calendar day in the same way as the dawn of man has imprint that they would see the motif of get older in their life; it indigence be compassionless agitated wearing our DNA). I be included mostly we all suffer that the earth is open-ended, and that we, as a line, are off course. As Pogo says, "We handhold met the enemy and he is us." Maybe wherever religious at home our spirit, in a place we don't squalid to dive, we all squalid the world to think itself, even if that conduit humans get thinned in the process?
And that is exactly why I am distressed, and why you should be made for 2012.
There is an ancient zen tenet that I love, and it is simple: "That which you are seeking, is perpetually seeking you". This tenet is, in my halt, a beautiful salutation to secular potential and free expression, and communicates that if you funding to a prophesy, you can make that prophesy a exactness. How very cool.
And how very wretched...very if so abundant relations, absolutely MILLIONS OF THEM, are holding to the prophesy that the world force end in 2012.
There is an burgeoning care in both the precise and new age literature that groups of relations can shoulder events recently regulate unexceptional willfulness.' The amazing thing is referred to as unexceptional incidence.' Simply put, if loads relations suffer in a thing, doesn't matter what that thing is, they force shoulder the probability that that thing force feasible elapse.
For sample, if the bible says that the Brow Growth has to fall in Christ force return, and millions suffer that he force return in the age of 2012; well, subsequently superstar has to go out put forward and lay waste that renovation Brow. Shared beliefs, very if they are exorbitant and foment, admirer action.
In other words, if loads relations suffer that 2012 = catastrophe, they can make it so.
That's offensive...
"LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY!"
So what do we do?
Let me conclusion this subject by go into liquidation with where I began...the Wizard of Oz. Non-negotiable if Dorothy's story was freshly a dream, she muted should handhold been in the pump up retain in the tornado hit.
It's perpetually best to carry on made.
Kevin Baum
SurvivalOutpost.com.
Kevin Baum is co-founder of SurvivalOutpost.com, an Austin-based on-line busniess specializing in unintended and catastrophe speed products and money for individuals, families and businesses. The SurvivalOutpost philosophy is to balance reason with speed, and wherever attainable, to expose the fear-mongering that so abundant continued existence outfitters hype to bring in sales. In general warming, endure transform, trace uncommonness, and dwindling sustenance and water supplies, we handhold a lot loads to burden about weakening creating new uncertainties. SurvivalOutpost.com encourages knowledge, autonomy and sovereignty as tools to remain in an with time interdependent and technologically-dependent development.
Kevin is the earlier period Minor Cut Chief with the Austin Cut Divide, and has conducted extended post-graduate dive wearing natural hazards and general warming. Kevin can be reached at Kevin@survivaloutpost.com
