My Take on December 21, 2012

It’s only a big deal because there are a lot of deeply religious cretins out there, and they’re disappointed by the lack of disasters at the turn of the Christian millennium and the fact that 9/11 took their gurus (read televangelists) completely by surprise. So they’re looking for another convenient deadline. Anytime the world’s going to end, church pledges go up. Because you know, why save? - the “end times are near”. It’s an old scam ever young.

Further .. The 2012 End of the World thing is the worst. Everybody’s got a different interpretation, and the only common denominator between them is that they’re all wrong. The Maya tracked an asteroid that’s going to crash into Earth on that date. The Maya left their cities and flew to Venus and that’s the ETA of their return flight. The Maya knew that on that date there’d be a mega-earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a plague, a flash ice age, a drop in sea level, or all five. They knew that on that date the earth’s poles would reverse. On that date our yellow sun will burn out and a blue sun will take its place. The Christians knew all this only later and wrote about it in a book later controlled by zealot religo-politicians aiming to control the masses and prevent insurrection.


Maybe, just maybe, the Mayan Calendar is about cycles – spiritual cycles of forward evolution. If so, perhaps we are on to the next stage of an enhancing spiritual evolution – as a people and as a planet. Wouldn’t that be nice!

And remember, the Maya have numerous calendars – daily, seasonal, solar, lunar, long count, short count, and more. The calendar everyone has their panties in a bunch about is the Mayan Ritual Calendar – i.e., not a linear, temporal measure of the 365.25 days in a solar year. It’s measure is thought to be a cycle of 5,126 years, or from about 3115 BC to about 2012 AD. Rituals, folks – not disasters.