Can We Escape Doomsday?
By James Donahue
A news report recently suggested that public belief in a looming apocalypse is one of the reasons people are flashing their credit cards so freely, workers are walking off their jobs and the stock market is acting erratically.
Largely thanks to the Christian church, which is steeped in prophecy of a doomsday event in "the end times," millions if not billions of people all over the world have been expecting something terrible to happen ever since our calendar hit the 2000 mark. The onset of the COVID medical assault on people all over the world during 2021 and spilling over into 2022 has only intensified this belief.
Television documentaries are laced with doomsday scenarios that suggest this event may range from a collision with a stray asteroid to a planetary polar shift. The programs examine the effects of global warming, the possibility of another ice age caused by increased volcanic action, or perhaps a nuclear war.
A lot of would-be soothsayers predicted the return of Jesus on or about New Year’s Day, 2000. Small cult groups flocked to Jerusalem and literally set up housekeeping, awaiting the appearance of their messiah. Naturally, the Israeli government found them to be a nuisance and did all it could to discourage them from making public spectacles of themselves.
When Y2K passed and Jesus failed to make his appearance, I suspect some thought the apocalyptic date would happen on January 1, 2001. Purists, of course, saw this as the official start of the 21st Century. But that date also passed without a showing by a savior and a promised rapture of the chosen. In the meantime, the world has been plunging rapidly toward some kind of cataclysmic event, as seen by the increased solar flares, the melting ice caps, the super storms, burning forests and onset of killer diseases.
Then there was the 2012 theory. This was based on the ancient Mayan calendar uncovered in the jungles of Central America. This amazing calendar, which recognized 365 days in each year plus one extra leap-year day every fourth year, reached an abrupt end on Dec. 22, 2012.
Armed with this piece of information, many doomsday prophets said they believed this calendar marked the day the world would end. I found a web site that claimed that the Mayans were given special knowledge by the Annunaki, an alien race of beings that allegedly invaded the Earth thousands of years ago. The site suggested that a pole shift was going to occur on or about this date, causing mass death and destruction of most, if not all life.
It is obvious that the doomsday prophet who developed that particular web site didn’t consider the Jesus factor a valid piece of the futuristic puzzle. That might be the only area where I might agree.
Actually, scholars who study the Mayan culture, find the calendar to be a complex and highly accurate record of not only the Earth's yearly cycles, but also movements of the planets and even certain star clusters. The Mayan calendar measures thirteen 144,000-day Earth cycles, with its final cycle, or "baktun," ending on the day of the winter solstice in 2012.
But the conclusion of the Mayan calendar did not mark the end of the world, or the beginning of a new cycle. It appears that the people who carved the calendar on the rock just ran out of room for a larger calendar. And this begs the question: could there not be a new beginning for those of us fortunate enough to survive the deadly obstacle course we seem to be preparing for ourselves in the years to come?
There were reasons for the keen interest in the year 2012. People who study the astrological charts noticed something very interesting about the year 2012. It was a year filled with perfect alignments involving the Sun, Moon, Venus and the Earth. Two solar eclipses occurred. The first was astrologically in conjunct with the star cluster Pleiades, which was of special interest to the Mayans. This star cluster was somehow linked to the Mayan belief in the serpent, which also is an important symbol to contemporary mystics. The second eclipse brought the sun and moon in alignment with the constellation Serpens, recognized by the Mayans as the head of the serpent.
The serpent, or kundalini, is recognized among many native tribes as a phallus. In reality it represents the energy transmitted along the human spine. It is the electrical force that links the body's chakras. And it may be the channel through which we find our escape from the doomsday scenario developing in the old reality we have known in the third dimension. I think the Mayans understood this distinction.
The winter solstice of 2012 was the last in a series of solstices that have the Sun aligned with the equator of our own Galaxy, or the Milky Way.
So did we shift dimensions in 2012 without noticing the change? People who can look into the future believe that something important was about to happen, and this particular moment had all of the elements of being an especially magical event.
I personally believe that some humans . . . at least those who are awake and aware of the fantastic changes occurring all around them . . . have already passed through an important evolutionary process.
By James Donahue
A news report recently suggested that public belief in a looming apocalypse is one of the reasons people are flashing their credit cards so freely, workers are walking off their jobs and the stock market is acting erratically.
Largely thanks to the Christian church, which is steeped in prophecy of a doomsday event in "the end times," millions if not billions of people all over the world have been expecting something terrible to happen ever since our calendar hit the 2000 mark. The onset of the COVID medical assault on people all over the world during 2021 and spilling over into 2022 has only intensified this belief.
Television documentaries are laced with doomsday scenarios that suggest this event may range from a collision with a stray asteroid to a planetary polar shift. The programs examine the effects of global warming, the possibility of another ice age caused by increased volcanic action, or perhaps a nuclear war.
A lot of would-be soothsayers predicted the return of Jesus on or about New Year’s Day, 2000. Small cult groups flocked to Jerusalem and literally set up housekeeping, awaiting the appearance of their messiah. Naturally, the Israeli government found them to be a nuisance and did all it could to discourage them from making public spectacles of themselves.
When Y2K passed and Jesus failed to make his appearance, I suspect some thought the apocalyptic date would happen on January 1, 2001. Purists, of course, saw this as the official start of the 21st Century. But that date also passed without a showing by a savior and a promised rapture of the chosen. In the meantime, the world has been plunging rapidly toward some kind of cataclysmic event, as seen by the increased solar flares, the melting ice caps, the super storms, burning forests and onset of killer diseases.
Then there was the 2012 theory. This was based on the ancient Mayan calendar uncovered in the jungles of Central America. This amazing calendar, which recognized 365 days in each year plus one extra leap-year day every fourth year, reached an abrupt end on Dec. 22, 2012.
Armed with this piece of information, many doomsday prophets said they believed this calendar marked the day the world would end. I found a web site that claimed that the Mayans were given special knowledge by the Annunaki, an alien race of beings that allegedly invaded the Earth thousands of years ago. The site suggested that a pole shift was going to occur on or about this date, causing mass death and destruction of most, if not all life.
It is obvious that the doomsday prophet who developed that particular web site didn’t consider the Jesus factor a valid piece of the futuristic puzzle. That might be the only area where I might agree.
Actually, scholars who study the Mayan culture, find the calendar to be a complex and highly accurate record of not only the Earth's yearly cycles, but also movements of the planets and even certain star clusters. The Mayan calendar measures thirteen 144,000-day Earth cycles, with its final cycle, or "baktun," ending on the day of the winter solstice in 2012.
But the conclusion of the Mayan calendar did not mark the end of the world, or the beginning of a new cycle. It appears that the people who carved the calendar on the rock just ran out of room for a larger calendar. And this begs the question: could there not be a new beginning for those of us fortunate enough to survive the deadly obstacle course we seem to be preparing for ourselves in the years to come?
There were reasons for the keen interest in the year 2012. People who study the astrological charts noticed something very interesting about the year 2012. It was a year filled with perfect alignments involving the Sun, Moon, Venus and the Earth. Two solar eclipses occurred. The first was astrologically in conjunct with the star cluster Pleiades, which was of special interest to the Mayans. This star cluster was somehow linked to the Mayan belief in the serpent, which also is an important symbol to contemporary mystics. The second eclipse brought the sun and moon in alignment with the constellation Serpens, recognized by the Mayans as the head of the serpent.
The serpent, or kundalini, is recognized among many native tribes as a phallus. In reality it represents the energy transmitted along the human spine. It is the electrical force that links the body's chakras. And it may be the channel through which we find our escape from the doomsday scenario developing in the old reality we have known in the third dimension. I think the Mayans understood this distinction.
The winter solstice of 2012 was the last in a series of solstices that have the Sun aligned with the equator of our own Galaxy, or the Milky Way.
So did we shift dimensions in 2012 without noticing the change? People who can look into the future believe that something important was about to happen, and this particular moment had all of the elements of being an especially magical event.
I personally believe that some humans . . . at least those who are awake and aware of the fantastic changes occurring all around them . . . have already passed through an important evolutionary process.