2012 & The Consciousness Singularity

[LightEye]

dear friends,

as far as i know the mayan calendar ends on 21122012 at 11:11. nothing more, nothing less. the rest of the doom and gloom you hear is nonsense...

by the way though...

it's the only calendar i know of which ends... ;-)

we'll just have to wait and see now won't we...

re-member though that there is no end, no beginning...

there is only change...

http://2012rising.com/2012

be well, be love.

david

2012 & the consciousness singularity

mayan calendarif you have not yet encountered any of the information related to this particular year amongst counterculture web pages, books and radio shows, it is worth taking a quick look at the background data. this introduction to the subject will have to be necessarily brief in scope, as there is simply far too much for any one person to convey or for that matter absorb, in a single sitting. the basis of the interest in the year 2012 is in the closing of a great cycle within the mayan calendar system. the ancient mayan people of central america kept the most complex calendar system in the known world. in all they had some 17 different calendars running in unison. the best way to visualize this is as a number of interlocking cogs of various sizes grinding against each other, thus days had a number of component parts. of course we have an element of these process ourselves within our simpler gregorian calendar, seven named days, up to 31 numbered days meshing with 12 named months as years pass.

each calendar related information on schedules for tasks or events such as seed planting, religious rites, eclipse’s, mystical predictions and other happenings seen as cyclical in nature. the calendar that most concerns us here is the 13-baktun or ‘long count' system which runs for just over 5125 years, its start and end set by the originators long, long ago. who exactly set this calendar turning is not known, however it started on 11-08-3114 bce and is set to complete on the winter solstice of 2012. the most glaring anomaly here is that the calendar does not start from anywhere near the time of its apparent introduction to the mayan people, they are very clear on the fact that that thousands of years of the great cycle passed before their particular description of its mechanics. available evidence tends to suggest they inherited the long count from more ancient peoples of central america , likely the toltec’s and olmec. even so, this still does not take us back to anywhere near five thousand years ago.