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Beyond
2012
Catastrophe or Ecstasy
by Geoff
Stray
In
1975, Dannion Brinkley was speaking on the telephone during a thunderstorm.
A lightning bolt hit the phone line,
sending thousands of volts of electricity through his head and body. His heart
stopped and at the hospital, he was pronounced dead, and a death certificate
was issued. He was then covered with a sheet and wheeled towards the
morgue….then he woke up! He had been dead for 28 minutes, and this was the
longest clinically documented near-death experience ever recorded at that time.
He later told how he had gone down a tunnel into a bright light, went through
a
life-recall self-judgement process and was shown a series of future world
events, up to 2014. Brinkley said that “between 2004 and 2014, more
precisely between 2011 and 2012”,
there would be “the
return of an energy system that existed here a long time ago”, and that it
would culminate in an “electromagnetic polar Earth
shift” between 2012 and 2014. The whole process
would present mankind with a spiritual opportunity to raise their
consciousness. What Brinkley didn’t know, was that 2012 is the next “Creation Date” of
the ancient Maya civilization.
The Maya
The Olmecs, who are the first civilization
known to have inhabited Mesoamerica, are said by archaeologists to have arrived
there between 1800 BC and 1500 BC. Several Maya scholars now agree that the
calendars used by the Maya were developed by the Olmecs in a town called Izapa,
which became populated between 1500 BC and 800 BC, and which the Maya inhabited
from about 250 BC. The Tzolkin (literally: “count of days”)
calendar was developed by the seventh century BC, according to Mayanist, Munro
Edmonson, and consists of 260 days. The calendar was used as an
almanac, giving each of the 260 days a unique quality that not only influenced
the character of those born on that day, but that would also make it favourable
for doing certain tasks and unfavourable for doing others. The descendants of
the ancient Maya that live in the highlands of Guatemala, have been using this
260-day calendar in an unbroken sequence, for thousands of years. They explain
that the 260-day calendar is based on the period of human gestation.
The Long Count calendar has a direct
relationship to the Tzolkin, since it consists of 260 katuns rather than the 260 days of the Tzolkin. The Long Count was fully
developed by the mid fourth-century BC, according to Edmonson, although the
oldest stela dating a contemporary historical event, shows a Long Count date
equivalent to 36 BC. The Long Count consists of a hierarchy of cycles; 20 kin or days made one uinal, or 20-day
period; 18 uinals made a tun (360-day year); 20 tuns made a katun, and 20 katuns made a baktun. After 13 baktuns had passed, a
Creation Date is reached, which is written: 13.0.0.0.0. The last Creation Date
occurred on a Gregorian historical date of 11th August 3114 BC, and
this is the “base-date” of the 13-baktun cycle, from which all dates inscribed
on stelae were counted. The next time the Long Count date reaches 13.0.0.0.0
will be on 21st December 2012.
Precession
Maya
scholar, John Major Jenkins has made a strong case that the Long Count
calendar of the Maya was actually a device for
tracking the cycle of precession. This is the 26,000-year cycle in which
the Earth’s axis, which is 23.5 degrees off “vertical”, rotates in a circle,
and is measured by the movement of constellations against the fixed positions
of
the
rising equinox or solstice Sun. The winter solstice 2012 termination point
of the 13-baktun cycle indicates a 36-year time window (1980 to 2016) in
which the
winter solstice Sun rises on the galactic equator. Astronomers variously
put the exact half-way point of this process at 1998 or 1999, but the Olmecs
and
Maya targeted it at 2012. Some commentators have said that the Maya were
thus 13-14 years out with their end-point, which is still quite impressive
considering it was calculated over 2,000 years ago by a non-technological
society. However, as we shall see, there are reasons for considering that
the
year 2012 is a significant year in the Galactic Alignment process, and
was deliberately targeted.
The Toltec people of northern Mexico, like
the Maya, used the 260-day almanac and also a 365-day calendar known to the
Maya as the Haab. Each day had a name in the
260-day calendar and a name in the 365-day calendar, but it took exactly 73 Tzolkins,
and 52 Haabs for the combination to repeat itself. This period is known as a
Calendar Round, and every Calendar Round the Toltecs held
a ceremony called a New Fire Ceremony six months before the day of the zenith
passage of the Sun (when it is directly overhead). John Major Jenkins has shown
that this New Fire Ceremony was originally also a method of tracking the cycle
of precession. It is recorded that exactly six months before the New Fire
Ceremony, the priests would go to the top of a hill to see if the Pleiades
reached the zenith at midnight, and if the constellation reached the zenith,
that meant that the “world would not end”. They would then know exactly
how close the Pleiades would be to the zenith Sun, six months later, when the
stars were not visible due to the daylight.
The Stone Alarm Clock
When
the Toltecs moved down to the Yucatan peninsula, in southern Mexico, it seems
that they merged their zenith cosmology
with the Maya system, and encoded the result into the Pyramid of Kukulcan at
Chichen Itza. The pyramid has 91 steps on each of its four sides, totalling
364, plus the top step: 365 altogether. This is a clear sign of a calendrical
meaning. Every year, on spring equinox, the afternoon Sun causes a shadow play
on the pyramid, so it appears that a huge snake is descending the pyramid from
the sky. The effect is enhanced by stone snake heads at the bottom of one
staircase. The Crotalus durissus rattlesnake, whose zig-zag pyramid pattern has
heavily influenced Maya art and architecture, also has a marking close to its
rattle, that is identical to the Maya Ahau glyph, which is associated with the
Sun. The rattle itself, is called “tzab” in the Yucatec Maya language and this
is
also the word for the Pleiades constellation. Jenkins argues that Kulkulcan,
the Maya name for Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of the Toltecs and Aztecs,
is thus a symbol for the Sun-Pleiades-zenith conjunction, and sure enough, we
are now at the beginning of a 360-year time window when the Pleiades conjuncts
the zenith Sun directly over the Pyramid of Kukulcan. Right at start of the 360-year
time window is 2012, and on the 20th May 2012, 60 days after the
equinox snake shadow-play, the Pleiades-zenith Sun conjunction will occur on
the same
day as a solar eclipse, on the day 10 Chicchan in
the unbroken Tzolkin count of the highland Maya. Chicchan means
snake, and the snake rattle is sounding our wake-up alarm call!
The Hopi Emergence
According
to Frank Waters’ Book of the
Hopi, the Native American Hopi people say that we
are in the fourth of seven eras the Fourth World, and that we are approaching
the transition to the Fifth World. The First World ended by fire; the Second
World ended when the Earth “teetered off balance”, causing floods and an ice
age, and the Third World ended in a flood. There will be a “Great Purification” just
before the start of the Fifth World. The transition is called an Emergence
and every year, in November, the Hopi have a
ceremony called Wuwuchim, held in an underground
chamber called a kiva, in which they re-enact
the Emergence, which is seen as a birth process,
and “initiates undergo a spiritual rebirth”.
There is a hole in the floor of the kiva, symbolising
the previous ascent, or Emergence from the Third
World to the Fourth World. The ladder leading up and out of the kiva represents the forthcoming Emergence from
the Fourth World into the Fifth World. The ceremony includes a “New Fire
Ceremony” and culminates at midnight, with the Pleiades constellation overhead,
showing a direct connection with the Toltec (and later Aztec) New Fire
Ceremony, which Jenkins has decoded as a precession-tracking method, as encoded
in the Pyramid of Kukulcan, “stone alarm clock” with its 2012 rattle-snake
alarm.
The Spiritual Wedding
It
seems that “the end of the world”
actually means “the end of the World”, as in the end of the current era, and
there are at least three more to go, according to Hopi mythology. Archaeologist
Laurette Sejourné says that the Aztecs misunderstood the religion of the
Toltecs, which was based on the concept of rebirth symbolised by the snake,
since it sheds its skin and Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent, who is
represented in the “stone alarm clock” at Chichen Itza, represents a union of
Earth (snake) and sky (feathers).
In
Kundalini yoga, there is said to be a fire-snake, coiled in three and a
half coils in the base chakra (one of seven
power-zones along the human spine). It is coiled around the Shiva lingham the
male line of force that comes down from the sky. Kundalini, according to Mary Scott,
is an Earth force that comes up from the Earth. She also notes that there are
several findings by dowser Guy Underwood, which confirm this connection.
Kundalini yoga is the practise of awakening the snake and allowing it to rise
up the spine until it reaches the highest chakra, the Crown chakra, where the
meeting of Shiva and Shakti lead to enlightenment and the trance of Samadhi
ecstasy the annihilation of the ego and the end of duality. This sounds very
similar to the meeting of the Maori Sky and Earth gods, which has been
predicted for 2012, and also the merging of the Inca Overworld and Underworld
onto the everyday world also predicted for 2012.
The original Toltec religion of rebirth
associated with Quetzalcoatl has actually now been revealed in a long lost
Aztec codex called Pyramid of Fire (published
by Jenkins), which says that Quetzalcoatl is “the man that achieves God”, and
that concept of sacrifice was originally the sacrifice of the ego. Everyone has
their own serpent, which is the energy of Tonatiuh, the Sun. “And in this serpent sleeps consciousness, in this serpent is hidden
divinity. From this serpent his wings will grow”.
Plasmatic Immersion
So
the “spiritual opportunity for mankind”
spoken of by Danion Brinkley can be confirmed as a time very close to 2012,
when something will trigger a mass Kundalini experience in mankind… but what
could the trigger be?
Alexey
Dmitriev, a Russian geologist, has
analysed the increasing changes in Earth’s weather and seismic phenomena, plus
recent changes to the geomagnetic field. He has also taken into account solar
changes, and changes to the weather and magnetic fields of all the other planets
in the solar system. A ten-fold increase to the layer of deflected interstellar
plasma on the heliosphere boundary indicates that the solar system is headed
into an area of magnetised plasma that Dmitriev says is causing these changes.
An increasing incidence of plasma balls in the atmosphere is a sign of the
imminent “transformation of Earth” says Dmitriev, involving an interaction with
processes beyond the three-dimensional world.
Like
Brinkley, other near-death-experience subjects have also foreseen Earth
changes and consciousness changes associated
with 2012, as have many who have undergone out-of-body experiences, lucid
dreams, remote viewing, meditative trance states, and even alien abduction
experiences. These are all mystical states in which the pineal gland in the
centre of the human brain secretes dimethyltryptamine (DMT) into the blood,
according to Rick Strassman’s recent study, and the Maya shamans used a
mushroom containing psilocybin, which is a close relative of DMT, apparently
accessing some sort of global mega-mind - the developing consciousness of the
Earth mother
The13-baktun
cycle is a 260-unit cycle and thus a macroscopic version of the 260-day
sacred Tzolkin calendar, which is
based on the period of human gestation, so the 13-baktun cycle may measure a
planetary gestation period of 5,125 years, which is the length of human
civilization’s recorded history. It seems that our entry into the magnetised
plasma band will cause Earth weather changes, and a geomagnetic reversal, which
will trigger the pineal gland into DMT and pinoline production, leading to kundalini
and out-of-body experiences and increasing incidents of telepathy, while we
develop our ability to see beyond the veil and into the next World.
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