2012 AD

The End of the Mayan Calendar is scheduled for December 21, 2012 (give or
take a year). The possibilities of what this “end” might mean is an increasingly
hot topic on the Internet, in conferences, printed articles, and in discussions all
over the globe. This is because it just might be an incredibly important
moment in history -- e.g., the end of history!
Calendars, in general, do not end [1]. The whole purpose of developing
and/or keeping a calendar is to predict future events based upon the cyclical
nature of the world -- to keep such things as agriculture in line with the
seasons or inform out-of-line politicians when their terms of office are up for
reconsideration. [In this regard, politicians are like babies. Both need to be
changed periodically, and often, for the same reason.] But the idea that
everything is coming to some sort of completion, i.e. the end of cycles, the
end of days, the end... period... This just doesn’t compute when it comes to
the idea of a calendar.
But the Mayan Calendar is not necessarily your average, run-of-the-mill
calendar. It is, among other things, reputed to be the most accurate in the
world. This is due in part to the fact it is also a relatively complicated
calendar, using cycles of 13 and 20 (weird!), relating to the cycles of other
planets (e.g. Venus), and in general incorporating some 22 (at last count)
different sub-calendars, such that every contingency can be accounted for.
The Mayans did not elaborate in great detail about what would happen in 2012 A.D., just that their calendar would end. However, there has been no
end (pardon the pun) to the possibilities being forecast by modern day
interpretors of what the Mayans might have meant. These possibilities
include 2012 A.D. as a time for:
1) major changes in human DNA (as in Indigo Children),
2) an enormous leap in Consciousness,
3) dimensional shifts (as in Hyperdimensional Physics and/or
Superstrings),
4) the cessation of linear Time,
5) an evolutionary human pinnacle,
6) a huge surge and multiple breakthroughs in technology,
7) the end of Money [Shirley, you jest!],
8) massive genetic mutations [the good news!],
9) a serious, altogether-too-close encounter with a Near-Earth
Objects member,
10) and a cosmic alignment of our solar system with the plane of our
Galaxy, the Milky Way. The latter represents the end of a 25,920 year cycle
a cycle based on the Precession of the Equinoxes).