Volume 18 Issue 8
January 4, 2012
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THE 2012 MAYAN PROPHECY Will the End be a Looming Disaster?

LAURA BEVACQUA
FEATURES EDITOR

he Mayan calendar points to
December 21nd 2012 as be-
ing the end of our present
age. The Mayan calendar revolu-
tionized humanity’s perception and
is set to reach the end of its 13th
cycle. Changes around that time to
the sun’s magnetic field could have
consequences for all of humanity.
December 21st 2012 is a date that is
well known globally. Several hun-
dred years ago, the Ancient Mayans
predicted the apocalypse on this very
date. With a 5,125-year-old calendar
resetting itself to 0.0.0.0. on this
date, many are assuming and prepar-
ing for the worst.

Perhaps we are already witness-
ing the beginnings of this change
with the desertification of more land,
the rising in sea levels, and global
hunger pandemics. Some have sug-
gested that the 2012 date marks the
end of the world or a day of giant
catastrophes as planet Earth will col-
lide with a black hole, passing aster-
oid or a planet called Nibiru which
will leave crippling effects across all
continents.

From books to films, the Mayan
predictions and stories are buzzing.
The anticipated movie, “2012” cost
$260-million in production. Accord-
ing to critics, everything including

its special effects and alluring be-
lievability in the possibility of what
is to come makes it a film of massive
proportions.

It might be true that different
types of epic proportions await us
in 2012, though scholars from vari-
ous fields have dismissed the idea of
such threatening events occurring in
2012. Some professional Mayanist
educators have provided clarity and
assurance that the predictions of a
looming end is nowhere to be found
in any of the classic Maya scripting.
Some have suggested that the idea of
the world “ending” in 2012 in fact
misrepresents classic Maya history

and belief.

Traditional Mayan prophecies
understood and had a reverence for
long cycles of time. The end of the
Long Count, according these Mayan
prophecies is about our shifting out
of today’s ‘sleep’ state and ‘waking
up’ to ourselves as divine beings by
reconnecting to the Source of who
we all are; the universal, divine
consciousness that permeates every-
thing. Based on this prophecy, this is
a beautiful time for humanity and an
amazing time to be alive; we would
be living through one of the most im-
portant evolutionary periods in the
history of mankind.

Some have said that we are en-
tering a crucial evolution of high
levels of consciousness that requires
us to embrace our planet’s environ-
ment. Can we go beyond certain
dogmas and imagine what lies be-
hind this existence? Could we de-
velop a better understanding of our
place in the cosmos? Perhaps hu-
manity is on the brink of a New Age
that will open our spiritual selves
and invigorate our conscious being.
Perhaps we will be able to tell our
great grandchildren that you were
alive, using and expanding our full
capacity as a human being during a
sacred and changing time in history.