Truth behind 2012

The story began with the claims that a planet NIBURU,an alleged planet discovered by Sumerians is channelised towards the earth.This calamity was at first anticipated in may 2003, but when nothing occurred the end of the world date was moved ahead to dec 2012. The last time the world got all aroused over the mysterious turning of a calendar was the assumed Millennium of Jan. 1, 2000. No matter the actual Y2K computer-date bug. True-believer authors brought out scary and/or hopeful articles about the moment's prophetical potential to catch an huge cosmic wave and alter everything for either good or ill.

MAYAN CALENDER END IN DEC 2012
Just as calendars on our kitchen walls doesn't end in dec 31st, the mayan calendar doesn't cease to end in dec 2012. This date stamp is the close of the Mayan long-count period on the other hand -- just as your calendar begins once again on January 1 -- another long-count period sets out for the Mayan calendar.

PLANET X
There are no terrestrial alignments in the following few decades, Earth won't cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if this conjunctions were to occur, their consequences on the Earth would be negligible. You may have already heard something about planet X . The idea of planet X, and the hunt for the evasive planet, began in the midst of the 19th century after Neptune was discovered, since a lot astronomers believed there was some other planet beyond Neptune’s orbit . When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, it was believed to be planet X, affirming the conjectures of Percival Lowell and many other astronomers. However, in 1978, astronomers discovered that Pluto could not be planet X as it was too small to affect the orbits of the gas giants.This led scientists to conclude that no planet X, at least Percival Lowell’s version, exists. One of the many theories as to how human race will be abolished in 2012 is by planet X barging in Earth . To further elaborate matters, some people who believe in 2012 have also associated planet X as being the same as Nibiru. The Nibiru hypothesis says that an alien race came to Earth thousands of years ago and genetically altered beings into humans so as to serve them. Nibiru is supposed to return in 2012 to cause havoc and destruction is nothing but rubbish.

TRUTH BEHIND POLAR SHIFT THEORY
A reversal in the rotary motion of Earth is out of the question. There are slow movements of the continents, but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational magnetic poles. However, many of the calamity websites pull a bait-and-shift to befool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal happening every 400,000 years on the average. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia. Now let's distinguish between geomagnetic reversal and polar shift. Geomagnetic reversion is the change in the magnetic field of the Earth, where the compass north pole shifts to the South Polar Region and the south magnetic pole shifts to the compass north Polar Region. Once this action is complete, our compasses would point toward Antarctica, instead of northern Canada. Polar shift is considered to be a less likely event that occurs a few times in the evolutionary timescale of the Solar System. Many sources (including the doomsayers themselves) frequently mention both geomagnetic reversal and polar shift as being one of the same thing. This isn't the case.Though there seems to be a current downward trend in magnetic flux density, the current magnetic field is still regarded as above average when compared with the fluctuations measured in recent history.

SOLAR STORMS PREDICTED FOR 2012
Although a solar flare from out Sun, aimed like a shot at us, could cause secondary troubles such as satellite damage and harm to unprotected cosmonauts and blackouts, the flare itself isn't powerful enough to ruin Earth. In the far future when the Sun begins to run out of fuel and swell into a red giant, it could be a bad era for life on Earth, but we have a few billion years to wait for that to occur.Doomsayers point to the Sun as a imaginable Earth-killer source, but the reality remains that our Sun is a very unchanging star. It does not bear a binary star partner (like II Pegasi), it has a predictable cycle (of around 11 years) .Even if a big flare did hit us, it will not be an extinction event. Yes, satellites may be damaged, causing secondary problems such as a GPS loss (which might disrupt air traffic control for example) or national power grids may be overwhelmed by auroral electro jets, but nothing more extreme than that. Satellites may malfunction and migrating birds may become confused.

13 Moon calendar mayan

The Maya calendar also known as the 13 moon calendar, is an interesting piece of work both because of its complexity and because of its great accuracy. The Maya people have predicted many events in the past and the most discussed one is their prediction for 2012. So how does the calendar work and what exactly did they predict? Read on to find out. So why is it known as the 13 moon calendar? Well the reason for this is because the Mayans used a 13 month instead of a 12 month system, with each month having 28 days. Some will argue that this is a more natural way of counting time as todays 12 month calendar have a varying number of days for each month. There's also 13 full moons in a year.

Nobody knows when the Maya calendar was made but experts say that it was already in use around 600 B.C. The calendar itself starts on August 11 in the year 3114 B.C. The 13 moon calendar utilizes a long count in order to accurately measure long periods of time. This long count starts on August 11 in the year 3114 B.C, and ends on december 21. 2012. This end date is close, and have been the reason for many 2012 doomsday theories.

The Mayan people have had many remarkable predictions, like predicting 9/11 and solar eclipses thousands of years into the future. What's interesting is that many others have predicted something catastrophic to happen in 2012, including China's oldest texts, the I Ching prophecies. The I Ching prophecies have proven themselves time and time again, predicting World War 1, World War 2, 9/11 and more. I-Ching also predicts the end of time on December 21. 2012. What the end of the Maya calendar means is a highly debated topic. Some say that it's just a calendar with a random end-date and therefore doesn't mean anything. Others believe that the date have significant meaning, after all Mayans are not the only people who have chosen this specific date to signify the end.

Regarding end of earth

There has been said a lot on 2010 predictions regarding end of Earth. Many astrological and scientific facts has been given that are pointing towards one thing that 2012 is the end of the world. In this the most popular one is the Mayan calender also called Mesoamerican Long Count Calender. It is there for the period of 5125 but after 21 December 2010 there is nothing in that calender. Experts are believing that it is pointing towards the end of the world in 2012.

The Hindu vedic astrology is also saying the same. According to vedic astrology, December 2012 is the month when Kalyuga will end (present time) and Satya Yuga will begin. There will destruction and the whole earth will have a new life.

There are few other 2012 predictions regarding end of Earth which are Sun Storm Predictions, Super Volcano, Swapping of North and South Poles, Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) and more like this. In Sun Storm predictions, solar experts believe that the Sun although in the middle of its stability is giving out signals of excessive heat, which in December 2012 will so high that it will lead to the end of the world. As per Super Volcano theory the volcano under Yellowstone National Park that is located in United States burst after the period of 650,000 and December 2012 is the time when it will burst and engulf the whole world. The volcano will be so intense that it will lead to the frozen winters for at least 15,000 years. According yet another theory that is the Swapping of poles it is said that north and south poles of the earth swap their positions once in 750,000. So the time is near when this swapping is going to happen. During swapping the gravitational pull of the earth will vanish leading to the end of world in 2012.

2012 Mayan or aztec calendar

Until just recently, not many people put a lot into the calendar. To most of us a calendar is blocks of time by which we arrange our busy lives. We are in tune with dayplanners; books with lines for every hour of every day, week in and week out. Suddenly the world is agog over a calendar chisled in stone. It cannot be erased or changed to suit the whims of modern life. At best, the Mayan 2012 calendar is mysterious and other worldly.

Nor is this piece of archaeolgical time keeping brightly colored. In fact, the Mayan Long Count is a series of calendars known as ‘stella’. They are actually very tall squared columns of rock that occupy a special place in each ancient Maya community. All four sides of these stella have series of glyphs and figures carved on them. Once up on a time there were many books that held the key to the Long Count calendars. All but one of the books, or codexes as they are referred to, were destroyed by the papacy in the 1500’s when the Spanish arrived to change the Maya world forever.

Many years of study has gone into deciphering the glyphs by numerous archaeoligists and historians. Originally, there were several different conclusions, with four different translations arriving at end dates within a several day range. Eventually, it was decided that one of them was correct. Then decades later this particular scholar changed his mind after further study. He proclaimed the real end date of the Mayan calendar was not December 21, 2012 but December 23, 2012.

Numerically, this is a curious date that looks the same coming and going, with a center that is a mirror of both ends. More mysterious than the baktuns and glyphs is the fact that every program on your television, webpage or print publication about the 2012 calendar of the Mayas shows the wrong artifact. Every single one of them presents you with the Aztec Sun Stone as the image of the Maya Long Count calendar.

The Aztec Sun Stone mimics the time keeping system known as the Maya Tzolkin. But the Tzolkin measures a moon cycle and just keeps rotating through the days. The Haab is very simple, while the sun stone is complex in carvings. Additionally, the Aztecs were not meticulous time keepers; in fact the dates could be off by years from one community to another. Whether it is because the sun stone is brilliantly colored or the reasoning lies elsewhere is at present unknown. Still, what most people think is the Mayan Long Count calendar is absolutely wrong. After all, the Aztecs and the Mayas are two seperate cultures.

Some people believe that the Mayan people were the first to use decimals. They learned mathmatics and calendar keeping from the Olmecs. The Olmecs were the first native inhabitants of South America in the current age of man. It is said that the Olmecs were the people saved from the land of Lemuria at the time that Atlantis and Lemuria were destroyed. So this incredible mathematical system appears to actually carry over from the third world of man. Be that as it may, the end date remains firm for the 2012 calendar on December 21st.

2012 Examined

It's always been my philosophy that the most rational approach to anything is to safety and emergency preparednessbalance reason with readiness. So when the murmurs about 2012 began to grow into grumblings, and the grumblings grew into shouts, and the shouts grew into hysterical ranting, I figured it was about time to look into the matter and see if I couldn't find out what the facts on 2012 really were. Should we be worried? Should we stock up? And whose opinion should we trust? There are an awful lot of crisis-mongers out there, willing to pass along any terror-inducing hype as a means of parting you from your bucks. If there really IS anything we should know about December 21, 2012 that's significant to our safety or peace of mind, then it would be a shame to lose the message because we got too tired of listening to the tinfoil-hat-wearing New Age crap-peddlers.

So, what are the facts? 2012 does, after all, seem to present a unique confluence of multiple prophecies, events, predictions, mythologies, and cosmologies. It's arguable that no prior period in history has seen such a merging of so wild a variety of belief systems and prophecies. There's the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, and biblical prophecies of the End Times. The predictions of the I Ching, and Timewave Zero. The Sybil, Nostradamus, Isaac Newton, Edgar Cayce, and Mother Shipton all weigh in, among others. The Hopi have tossed a hat into the ring. Even science - or at least pseudoscience - gets a toe in the door, what with the statistics of the Bible code, the Web Bot Project, the Solar Maximum and threatening Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), predictions of a possible geomagnetic reversal (incorrectly referred to as a "polar shift"), the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the potentially deadly Planet X flyby. What isn't debated is that there will be a rare galactic alignment on that day, one that only appears every 26,000 years or so, which in itself is enough to make even the skeptics pause for thought. As we finally, truly enter the Age of Aquarius, 2012 has become the byword for futurist phobias. But is it just Y2K on steroids?

There is simply too much out there on 2012 to get away with ignoring it completely. It's only a matter of time before the media latch onto it and hype the living hell out of the subject - the History Channel has certainly taken the lead there. But when you really dig in and read the literature and hit the blogs, trying to nail down the facts on 2012, you're pretty likely to end up both fascinated and befuddled, and even run the risk of joining the collective obsession and succumbing to the scare.

Any research on 2012 has to start with the Mayan Long Count Calendar. The Mayans actually were (and are) brilliant mathematicians, astronomers, and time keepers. Their calendric system, which is based largely on astronomical observances, has a degree of accuracy and a depth of symbology that puts our Gregorian system to shame. Two thousand years ago, at a time when the majority of the world didn't question the idea that the world was flat and earth was the center of the universe, the Mayans came up with a cosmological view that could make astronomical predictions that were accurate to within mere seconds. No mean feat, to say the least. I certainly can't go into even a fraction of detail about this fascinating topic in this short article, but I encourage you to read more about it, as it's one of the most interesting angles to the whole 2012 topic.

But possibly the most interesting thing is that the Mayan faith and mythology, their systems for keeping time, and even their design and hieroglyphs, are very like those of other traditional civilizations, such as the Egyptians, with whom they were unlikely to have had contact. This odd synchronicity becomes tough to explain, until you consider the one thing they did have in common - the sky. Is it really possible that multiple cultures and civilizations, divided by vast distances in time and geography, could divine similar meaning and draw the same conclusions from the same astronomical observances? And if so, does this lend greater credibility to their philosophy of time and how it is to unfold? Anthropologists attempt to answer this question, with varying degrees of success.

In our solar system, the Sun and the planets share roughly the same plane of orbit, known as the plane of the ecliptic. From our perspective here on Earth, the Zodiacal constellations move along or near the ecliptic, and over a span of time, appear to recede counterclockwise by one degree every 72 years. This movement is attributed to a tiny wobble in the Earth's axis as it rotates. The result is that, approximately every 2,160 years, the constellation visible early on the morning of the spring equinox changes. In Western astrological traditions, this signals the end of one astrological age (currently the Age of Pisces) and the beginning of another (Age of Aquarius). Over the course of 26,000 years, the precession of the equinoxes makes one full circuit around the ecliptic.

Just as the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere is currently in the constellation of Pisces, so the winter solstice is currently in the constellation of Sagittarius, which happens to be the constellation intersected by the galactic equator. Every year for the last 1000 years or so, on the winter solstice, the Earth, Sun and the galactic equator come into alignment, and every year, precession pushes the Sun's position a little way further through the Milky Way's band.

New Age proponents of the galactic alignment hypothesis argue that, just as astrology uses the positions of stars and planets to make claims of future events, the Mayans plotted their calendars with the objective of preparing for significant world events. However, the alignment in question is not exclusive to 2012 but takes place over a 36-year period, corresponding to the diameter of the Sun, with the most precise convergence having already occurred in 1998.

Nostradamus much-quoted 16th century physician and prognosticator with his cryptic quatrains has been the most respected seer in history. A number of his quatrains are believed by scholars of prophecy to pertain to our time, and warn of dire events. It's estimated that about 50% of his prophecies have come true. While this passes in some circles as a staggeringly huge number of hits, it's worth keeping in mind that it's an equal number of misses, too...and even the hits are open to interpretation. Never, anywhere, does he specifically mention the year 2012. In fact, he goes on to claim that his visions extend as far as the 38th century, so apparently humanity doesn't meet its gory end any time soon after all. And with no concrete dates to point to, we are forced to wait and see - in retrospect - whether or not Nostradamus had any real insight into current events.

Surely there must be some biblical passages that dovetail with the Mayan prediction of the end of days. Fundamentalist Christians are loud in their warnings that the rapture is imminent and those who miss it are in for a crapload of trouble. But wait - many doomsday dates predicted by theologians have come and gone, leaving their followers wondering what "didn't" hit them. And the bible itself assures us that nobody, not even Jesus or the angels, knows the exact date that anything is going to go down. That's a secret God is keeping to himself, we're told. Did He change His mind and decide to leak the info after all?

Well then, isn't there a rogue star out there - Nibiru, or Planet X - that's due to make a pole-reversing, 1,000-foot wave-creating flyby of the earth? Both sides of THAT argument lay their case in front of the public, and we are free to take an open-minded look at it. As for Nibiru, latest thinking on that subject - at least by astronomers, who are in some position to know - is that it doesn't even exist, much less plan to drop by - or drop on us - in 2012. According to them, Nibiru=fake. End of story. As expected, detractors abound.

What about the aliens, the ones that seeded humanity and keep coming back to steal cow parts and human fetuses? Those who claim to be in contact with these extraterrestrials are supposedly being assured that they will finally make their landing on the White House lawn on December 21, 2012. Unfortunately, we're forced to take the word of the contactees, with no way of verifying the information for ourselves. And why these contactees consider beings who behave the way these ETs apparently do as "space brothers" who should be welcomed with open arms is beyond me, but that's a discussion for another article!

Finally, and most encouraging of all, is the idea that - far from disaster and ruin - the new age is going to bring enlightenment and a sorely-needed raising of the human consciousness to a higher and more spiritual level of existence. This will include everyone being able to engage in telepathy, levitation, and the ability to speak with the angels. Great as this sounds, again - best to examine whatever passes for evidence that this is what's going to happen.

It seems to me that the information (or misinformation, as the case may be) that is making the rounds is being served up to the public as if it were a sort of stew...a particularly inedible one. You might love peanut butter, peach ice cream, asparagus, chocolate sauce, and liverwurst. But if you jam them all in a blender and try to swallow the result, how yummy would it be? Personally, I'd rather eat the contents of my cat's litter box. While it might seem logical to take a lot of really good-sounding ideas, each worthy of consideration on their own, and simmer them all together in a single pot for a tasty combo of intellectual flavors, the recipe really doesn't work. And that's what's happened with 2012. So many favorite non-secular ideologies, traditional (and poorly accepted) mythologies and mysteries, conspiracy theories, belief systems, fears, pseudo-scientific conclusions, and just plain wishful thinking, all being tossed into the 2012 crock-pot. The true importance of this date, assuming there is one, is in danger of being utterly lost in the stew. Every doomsday scenario ever concocted, brilliant or barmy, is being forcibly linked to this single date.

It's weird, but it seems that every generation since the beginning of all those biblical begats has looked forward to the world ending during their own time. Apparently we all understand at a deep and depressing level just how far off course we've drifted, spiritually and emotionally. We are desperate for change, even if it means a gigantic dieback of humanity itself. And if there's any truth to the theory that, by our concentrated thoughts and intentions, we create our own reality, then we have some reason to be frightened for this particular generation. There's a traditional zen proverb that sums it up: That which you are looking for, is always looking for you. There's an emergent awareness of this possibility that events can be influenced by a collective will. It's a phenomenon known as "collective manifestation." In brief, it suggests that the more people believe a thing, the more influence they will have - consciously or unconsciously - in bringing it about. If this is true, then we are on track for SOMETHING significant to happen in 2012, simply because we decided amongst ourselves that we really, really wanted it to.

Tsunami stupidity of 2012

The growing harmonic convergence of apocalyptic stupidity that goes under the rubric 2012 or "the Mayan Calendar Prophecy" has not yet reached Y2K proportions. And while it's broken out of the New Agey cult status where it's been fermenting for some years, there are still many in the chattering classes who haven't heard about it. "The end of the world in 2012?" my friend Stanley said. "You mean I have to wait that long?"The cult around the date Dec. 21, 2012—the supposed apocalyptic final day on something referred to knowingly as "The Mayan 'Long Count' Calendar"—has been the subject of fevered fantasies on the net and the free New Age "magazines" given away at health-food stores. But last week Newsweek gave it serious attention, and there's a metastasizing web of 2012 sites, including at least one anti-2012 site, which has a section devoted to debunking the apparently limitless number of gullible airheads who have become 2012 believers.

Even within the web of believer webs there are bitter mini-schisms already: Some believe that Dec. 21, 2012, will mark the end of the world in some kind of fiery apocalypse, planetary collision, gravitational reversal, black-hole disappearance, spontaneous combustion, or planetary rotational reversal of some sort. Then there are those who believe that the end of the old Mayan calendar will be something to look forward to: a transformational moment in the history of creation that will be all good for earth's peeps—a "harmonic convergence"-type thing. (Remember that from the '80s, when a bunch of planets lining up were supposed to work wonders on Earth?) In 2012, human nature will undergo a rebirth, the beginning of a New Age.

And, of course, there's at least one major motion picture of the cataclysm school, Roland Emmerich's 2012, due this November. And, needless to say, the New Age section of your local chain bookstore is bursting with 2012 titles. There's the literate Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. I was an admirer of Pinchbeck's brave first book, Breaking Open the Head, about his search for shamanic experiences, and must admit I'm disappointed that he seems to have reduced all that mystery and wonder to a single number in 2012—although I'm sure that's not how he would put it.

And, finally, there's the frankly exploitive: everything from Beyond 2012 to (I swear) The Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012 (a bit redundant). Then there are the "2012 survival kits," a 2012 iPhone app, an "official" 2012 store, and other foolishness—the whole Y2K survivalist huckster aspect of 1999 replicating itself.
It's a harmonic convergence all right, a harmonic convergence of ignorance and superstition—a tsunami of stupidity—worthy of the millennial cults of the 19^th century most enjoyably anatomized in Leon Festinger's famous study, When Prophecy Fails, a look at the way end-of-the-world cults grow even stronger after their prophet's end-of-the-world date flies by and the world confoundingly continues to exist.In addition to 2012 the date, 2012 as a concept has its harmonic convergence (or maybe cataclysmic convergence) with an ever-widening spectrum of New Age idiocies. It's like a magnet for mindlessness. There's the literal convergence with "Planet X," for instance.

Apparently, Planet X (aka Nibiru) was spotted by astronomers in the early 1980s in the outermost reaches of the solar system. It has been tracked by infrared observatories; seen lurking around in the Kuiper Belt, and now it is speeding right toward us and will enter the inner solar system in 2012. So what does this mean to us? Well, the effects of the approach of Planet X on our planet will be biblical, and what's more, the effects are being felt right now. Millions, even billions of people will die, global warming will increase; earthquakes, drought, famine, wars, social collapse, even killer solar flares will be caused by Nibiru blasting through the core of the solar system. All of this will happen in 2012, and we must begin preparing for our demise right now.

Sounds scientific to me. I hope I have flashlight batteries for when Nibiru comes "blasting through" the solar system. (As far as I can tell from a brief survey of the subject, "Planet X" is an artifact of some infrared anomalies that may or may not have "planetary" reality. Scientists disagree, but few have formed apocalyptic cults around it.) Of course, this summary leaves out the various UFO versions of Planet X (and 2012) theories in which space aliens are going to manifest themselves, maybe hopping off Planet X during a flyby as either Wise Teachers or Sadistic Destroyers. Spiritual idiocy doesn't afflict only the ignorant, of course. See this recent account of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the great rationalist detective Sherlock Holmes, got taken in by spiritualists.

What is Doomsday?

Some call it the Day of Resurrection while others call it the end of the day. So what does this mean? Well, for starters, things will change in 2012. Ancient Maya left the code that clearly shows something fierce and apocalyptic is near when their calendar ended. Most analysts believe the code is translated Maya December 21, 2012. 

According to the Maya code, there are 5 major cycles of time, which has passed 4. Each cycle lasted 5125 years, with major damage in the earth and all living things are happening at their end. Now, most of this information comes from what scholars have translated the Maya code, flying machines and calendars. Code predicts that the total destruction of the earth and human beings (the universe) when the big cycle now reaching the end of the thirteenth Baktun this. 

What is known is that we now live in (near the end) of the five major cycles - one in which the Maya live, only 500-4500 years ago. This cycle began in 3114 BC, and ended in December 2012. The driving force behind the doomsday prophecies are Mayan Long Count Calendar. After using three significant calendar, the Long Count Calendar is an extension of the 52-year Calendar Round. 

However, as the Mayans were clever astronomer, there are many prediction of accuracy in astronomy. For example, the earth will be aligned with the galactic plane on December 21, 2012 - something that proved even to this day. This even happens once every 26,000 years. Threats such as Planet X (also known as Nibiru) entered our solar system, timewave zero, asteroids strikes, solar flares, and the polar shift that destroyed all methods to bring sense in Armageddon. 

On the other hand is safer, a New Age has come, says the human race will have the option to enter a period of peace and understanding. More from the viewpoint of astrology, spiritual understanding of this will be considered in need of a new era of positive living. This shift in global consciousness, supported by New Age beliefs that have been re-describe Maya civilization and the confused even the modern humanity, is called Mayanism. Maya is very aware of months, the sun and the cycles of galaxies and the sun continued to rely on God for survival. Most of their culture destroyed by the Spanish during the Inquisition. But what was not destroyed prophesied scientific astronomical events that will happen.

Clear predictions for 2012

Maya does not expect the end times in the year 2012, what exactly do they predict for the year. Many pored over the evidence of monuments scattered Maya said the kingdom did not leave a clear record of predicting that there will be something specific to the year 2012. 

Maya did not pass graphics-though not dated, end-of-the-world scenario, described on page 1100 of the end-around text known as the Dresden Codex. This document describes a world devastated by floods, imagine the scenario in many cultures and may have, on a less apocalyptic scale, by the ancient people (more on the Dresden Codex). Full-scale accuracy is past time led, not directed towards the future. Long Count monuments are events related to the ancestral Maya ruler and the divine.