Understanding 2012 – 1 of 8: ‘What do we know for sure?’

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How many of you saw the Hollywood blockbuster ‘2012’? How many of you scour the prophecy websites looking to see if and when that asteroid will hit earth and whether you live on a flood plain? Is any of that based in fact or truth or is it just fear gathering fear? Do you know where the whole 2012 thing started?

Today in blog 1 of 8 on ‘Understanding 2012’  I will share research and information that I hope will help dispel hysteria, dissolve myths and get to the truth of what 2012 really means. This blog is not conclusive by any means, it is a blog, I have done my best to summarise key facts and present this as clearly and dispassionately as possible.

I share a cross-section of the facts as we know them right now relating to the significance of the date rather than all the associated meanings, I explore those later in the BlogCast (see below for a list of the next 7 Blogs in the BlogCast). I leave you to pursue your own further research and of course I welcome any extra factual information you may have to add to the discussion. I love to hear from you. Please feel free to leave your comments in the box beneath the post.

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Most of you will know that the internet is chock-a-block with doom and gloom portents about the end of the world. Somehow the date of December 21^st 2012 has become attached to a cataclysmic ending of humanity. This global whisper of doom has gathered momentum over the past few years and we take each news report of a natural disaster as ‘evidence’ that those predictions are coming true.

2012 has become the portentous label attached to everything from earthquakes and Tsunamis to global financial meltdown. A powerful global superstition has clouded and confused the facts until we no longer know what is true.

An equally prevalent global gossip train and collective belief is that on December 21^st 2012 all those who have been ‘chosen’ will be lifted into spaceships or ascend to heaven on earth or another dimensional reality. As a Lightworker you may be surprised to hear me question this. I question everything, I suggest you do the same. In fact I urge you to question everything you hear and read about 2012 including the posts in my BlogCast, do your own research and select carefully and mindfully what you allow to shape your consciousness……because THAT is what will shape your world…..What do YOU feel about this? Join the discussion, have your say and ask questions in the box beneath this post.

My greatest concern is how readily people seem to be jumping on particular fear-based 2012 bandwagons.

Discernment, discernment, discernment. Trust what feels true to you, despite what I or anyone else says or writes. But please, please, please be willing to explore all around the issue of 2012, to see it from every angle and ensure you pierce through any delusions of consciousness or collective memes.

Later in this BlogCast I will post blogs where I do share my own ‘knowings’, feelings, beliefs and opinions  about 2012 along with some of the more popular assumed truths. For today I will share some of what has been documented so far as historical data.

So let’s break it down…

THE MAYAN CALENDAR – The Mayan civilization reached its height from 300 AD to 900 AD. It was situated in modern day Mexico and Central America. They had their own very sophisticated calendar, different from ours today called the ‘Long Count’ calendar. This calendar begins in 3,114 BC, time is marked out in approximately 144,000 day/394-year periods known as Bak’tuns. The 13th Bak’tun known as the cycle relating to the Transformation of Matter ends around Dec 21, 2012. Click Here for an image of the fractal time map by Dr Jose Marguelles depicting the 13 Bak’tun cycle of the ancient Maya.

OTHER CULTURES – Several cultures recognise the end of a cycle at around the same time. For example in the 4 ‘Yugas’ or cycles of the Indian Scriptures we are about to leave Kali Yuga. This is the final cycle, a destructive, dark 432,000 year age of meltdown. The cycles keep going and we are now due to enter the Satya Yuga, sometimes called The Golden Age and one that traditionally is said to last 100,000 years.

MONUMENT SIX & THE ANNIVERSARY OF CREATION – Not knowing what comes after December 21st 2012 does not worry the Mayans. They see it simply as the end of one cycle and the start of another. Simply the end of the world as we know it rather than a literal ending. Back in the 1960s in Southern Mexico, a stone tablet was discovered in Tortuguero during highway construction. On it was an inscription citing an event that would happen in 2012. This site is now known as Monument Six.

“It’s a special anniversary of creation,” said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. “The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they’re just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.”

WHAT THE MAYANS THEMSELVES SAY – Mayan Elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from modern ‘Western’ and not Mayan ideas. [Mr] Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the end of the world. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff,” he said – Telegraph Oct 11, 2009

A 13^th generation Mayan Elder Don Alejandro Perez Oxlaj talks about what 2012 means 

GALACTIC ALIGNMENT – In his book ‘Maya Cosmogenesis 2012’, John Major Jenkins shares that the ancient Mayan culture calculated a rare alignment of our sun with the galactic centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The date of that alignment was chosen by the Mayans to mark the end of their calendar. Translated into our Gregorian calendar that date works out as December 21^st 2012.

There is much debate about the actual end date of the Mayan Calendar and the date of the alignment between our sun and the galactic centre.  Some Mayan Scholars believe the calendar ends on December 23^rd 2012. Author Carl Johan Calleman believes the date to be October 28^th 2011.

Jenkins sites the period of time from 1998 to 2240 as that period where our sun is in alignment with the galactic core. He ties this to the end date of the Mayan calendar as well as significant dates in the Jewish calendar (the year 2240 marks year 6000 and the dawn of the seventh shemittah). Jenkins also finds connections with Islamic cosmology and the Hindu Chakra system. If there is anything you’d like to add please tell me about it in the comment box below.

I hope this gives you food for thought and gets a conversation started about the origins of the 2012 global phenomenon. It started as a date on a calender, that’s it! What this time on Earth means for us all, the role we play in creating our future and how to manage the shift inside and out will be explored over the next 7 days in 7 more blog posts as part of this free BlogCast: ‘Understanding 2012′ (see details below).

Much of the info out there about 2012 seems to exclude one very important aspect: YOU, what you think, feel, fear, sense and want to know about 2012 and the shift we live in. So I hope you will join me on this 8 day journey, get involved and have your say by leaving your comments and questions beneath each blog post.  I want to know what matters to you.

Love and blessings,
Kimberley ♥
www.kimberleyjones.com

Founder of The e-Wakening Academy
www.e-wakening.com

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COMING NEXT on the ‘Understanding 2012’ BlogCast:

Part 2 of 8: Earth Changes – What is happening and what can you do?

Part 3 of 8: The End of the World as we Know it – Labour Pains of the New

Part 4 of 8: Managing Your Fears – Managing the Shift

Part 5 of 8: Predicting the Future – Prophecies and Pitfalls

Part 6 of 8: Creating the Future – What is YOUR Role?

Part 7 of 8: Our Transformation – How are we Changing?

Part 8 of 8: What Can You Do Now? – A Call to Action

 

RESOURCES:

Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 – John Major Jenkins (Bear & Company (August 1, 1998)

Beyond 2012 – James Endredy (Llewellyn Publications 2008)

A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle (Penguin Books 2005)

Telegraph Newspaper – Oct 11, 2009.