The year 2012 and the month of December is approaching. It seems far off, but with the acceleration of time these days it’s going to be here before we realize. For those who still don’t know what 2012 is all about, here is a brief synopsis, and a link to the wiki article…

             Supposedly the ancient Mayans in charge of creating a extremely accurate calendar did a wonderful job, but they stopped at a point which translates to mid-December of 2012 in the Julian-Gregorian calendar that we all use in the West. The reason for the end of the calendar is that there was no point going beyond this date, according to the Mayans. Some have translated this to mean that the earth is going to end, time recycles back to its starting point, or that humanity (and everything else) is going to start into a brand new era of being. That’s where the speculation begins to get interesting. There are books galore that can tell you all about what the relevance of 2012 is, but should you believe any of these writings?

             Recently I visited the planetarium and spoke with the director of the facility. She is a professional astronomer in Eugene, Oregon. We had a chat about the stars, planets and such, and I asked her if the stars change position over the thousands of years of humans watching them. She informed me that besides a few small deviations, the stars are where they were from our perspective as long as humans have scurried on planet earth. I then asked her about any astronomical evidence that would support the Mayan calendar from a universal point of view. I thought that if we were approaching a starting point as referenced from our position in the galaxy or larger sphere, it might give some credence to what is being tossed around as a life-changing event for all of us. After considerable thought, reflecting and calculating, she could offer no correlation to an astronomical event. I thanked her for her time and knowledge.

             So, that is one scientific opinion that would scrap any notion that December 2012 is going to produce anything more than the puff of smoke that came with the Y2K bug that was supposed to bring civilization to its knees.

             But if I could offer a couple of examples that would point to a significant event, it would be these two:

• Time is moving faster and faster. I can easily remember a time when I was bored and watched the clock, but those lazy days are far gone. Now I have trouble doing the relatively same tasks in a day, as I always run out of time. I could expand on this and say that if we were a grain of sand in an hourglass of time, we wouldn’t notice the passage of time if we were near the top of the heap. But once we get closer to the bottleneck, things start to really accelerate by our perspective and become more rapid as we get closer to that point. Now, I could blame all the technology that ’steals’ our time by giving us more and more information to assimilate, but that wouldn’t be as interesting…
• We are becoming more aware. OK, not all of us. Watching ‘Family Guy’ or reality programming doesn’t seem to do much for the evolution of the mind, but I have noticed that people are becoming more aware of what is going on around them. The fact that we now have a president that is full of promise to make our lives better and more in balance with the earth is also proof that the majority of people are ready to move into a new era of being on this planet. Time tells if we can actually make it in time before things get too bad too quickly. 

             In conclusion, 2012 can be a major event where everything is different. Maybe we all get to read each others’ thoughts, or maybe Jupiter collapses into a star and we have perpetual daylight. Ya, a lot could happen that would get us all driving solar-hybrid-garbage processing Toyotas, but I am just going to live well, love lots, and wait and see.

             Links: Wikipedia (scroll down to “2012 geophysical and cosmological speculations”) or Nay-sayer or the Mayan-Hindu connection. Take your pick!

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          -Keitan