adding fuel to the debate some scientists eating creasing number of knotty disasters in recent years as evidence of a catastrophic climax events in two thousand and twelve how much of what we're hearing science and how much the december twenty first twenty twelve page is gaining ground in the popular media and there is a lot of apocalyptic hype around it but it does it's sort of an indication that one is not looking deep enough into the phenomenon one of the great challenges that poses us is this question of two thousand and twelve and what does it mean to us accumulated in the last time house and years that this too will come to an  if that were the only thing i knew that it was a consistent ancient prophecy i would note it i might shutter in the dark of night but i would leave it if it were not for the coincidence of contemporary solar physics with the sunspots climax and twenty were in the midst of a twenty twelve media being a spiritual start as we are and subject to such a terrible world around us we look for explanations and it's what motivated me to talk a little bit more about the scientific side of some of these explanations and we look at the totality of the evidence from coming from different ages different times periods and different sources including scientific this seem to pretend that something pretty important may be happening around the year two thousand and twelve then i think it's time that we pay serious attention to this perceives time as a linear progression with a fixed past present and future the my on the other hand just to time something more fluid and they believe that periods of time would be repeated through a series of wild ages the maya was far from unique in their understanding of time is repeating cycles in fact many cultures around the world had similar ideas about welled ages with highs and lows other world traditions and so i took the whole galactic alignment thesis on a world tour and looked at other traditions basically it does seem that the astronomical cycles and the galactic alignment information is deeply in coded in western traditions and mythologies legends everywhere from the laser to america's to europe to africa talk about periods of catastrophic dissolution of advanced civilizations of civilizations in general a lot of indigenous cultures around the world have a kind of coherent understanding of what the stymie and so the hopi in arizona talked about  this being the transition from the fourth world to the fifth world according to their all prophecies and then the classical mayan civilization they put forth the idea that you thousand and twelve is the end of a great cycle so you can look at you can look at egypt you can look at islamic astrology with the doctrine of the lunar nodes it almost seems like this galactic alignment in for me it is a very ancient idea it's really hard to to look at any ancient mythological system without realizing that they thought in cyclical to not limit so literally as we would put it today what goes around comes around my interests was could there have been a forgotten episode in human history and i began to find the evidence forcing me to to look at a period of about twelve thousand years ago it was the end of the last ice age and much in the mythology seemed to suggest that the cataclysm that occurred then in some way was going to come back and so i found that my quest was not only for the beginning of human civilization but also for the end of civilization of the ancient seemed to be washing down some kind of warning taking into account that human civilization would change greatly the cultures would change the languages would be lost looking for a universal system of communication and it seemed to me that they looked to the heavens for that stars will always be about have always been and if it's possible to encode your message by using the changing patterns of the stars then you might hope that some distant date someone else might read that message and this is when i came across the  immersed they were able to foretell the heavenly phenomenon a centuries into the future what is crucial is the position of our sun against the background of the stars that people would be able to observe and they're saying this is very important count us realize that you live in a time change and a time of transition able to bring back their warning of a catastrophic time for humanity but also the possibility of a new golden age humans have become a parasite and supplant it i mean we are committing matricide we're killing our mother who supports us the earth is decided to support a population of under a billion people bicycles to work not seven billion driving s u v s so the prophecies speak about this time of  very hopeful for the planet they're not that optimistic for humanity at large set right again that the new planetary alignment that would take place twelve twenty one twelve prediction of them in the mayan calendar is predicated on the assumption that the solar system travels around the galaxy in are going to predictable path why and we will therefore be deprived of a certain energetic sustenance that we hear that we we require for or continuing to live as we have what could that mean that to go back on but there are certain things that the v c r clock in the microwave that are thrown out of kilter even from being cut off from the sustenance for just a second and that is their physical explanation  opportunity of healing i attended the most recent reading of the prophecy in one nine hundred ninety eight where they were taking the pulse of the planet to see where we were within the  crises not a single crises but two or three that would cascade off each other bringing about dramatic corrections in the earth's climate missing parts of the planet inhospitable and  i think that there is a very real possibility there that around twenty twelve will see a shifting of the paradigm and more people will be coming over where of who we are where we came from our place in the universe and then that would pretty much coincide with mine prediction that will be into a new age called procession of the equinox when it takes one full life time just to notice that the stars have moved one degree hundred plus mists that talk about this movement of the stars causes some change in history of the earth and it just seemed that if it is only what modern scholars say it is just a  give us a whole different meaning we believe that the birth moving with the sun and the whole solar system going around another star we believe is the cause of why we see this precession of the twelve consolation orbits lasting twenty four thousand yes we know that all orbits conform to kepler's laws they move in on in the great a lips is rather than circles and that means the bodies speed up when laws and speed up and slow down now we have really really good scientific data for the last hundred years going back to at least the great simon new come here to number one astronomer in the u nine hundred and he kept prissy ice records for sasha and and noticed that it's beating up every year exponentially so he actually added in a something called a constant to the procession equation newcomes constantly call it nowadays and even since then the procession rate has sped up above the constant rate but we've taken the vedic view that it's caused by an  arbutus twenty four thousand years and therefore if precession actually measures twenty six we must be in the slow part of the arbonne far from the other star right now and so we plotted on a curve what should the procession rate be over this last you know one hundred years and we came out with the exact curve that we see historically and from that we're able to predict that the procession rate will continue to accelerate year after year after year until we reach abscess there seems to be a very very deep insights into how procession is related to changes on this planet that goes beyond what modern science is willing to acknowledge and watson's been said about a potential pole shift it seems clear that the poles are beginning to move at rates that have not ever been measured before whether or not this is the beginning of an actual pole shift or how long this all take i don't think anybody can say but of more immediate concern is when twelve five years from now the consequences for us here are going to be greater for the satellite system for our health in skin cancers and cataracts in the eyes and a host of health related issues and perhaps again as a as i mentioned there's a growing body of evidence that earthquakes and volcanoes and of course are workings are related so or so are important we have to get it we have to know learned fast at least we have to get a sense of the magnitude of this connection and and what we might be able to do to minimize it i think the thing that fascinates me most about place polar caps melting and global warming all over the place what most people don't realize is this is a solar system wide phenomenon the polar caps on mars are melting in the outer planets or more women s and meaning they're heating u so something is definitely happening if a pole shift occurred within the next few years it would disrupt civilization as we know it would it would be end of life as we know no w but it would be such a major change that it would mark the end of an era that we probably all had assumed was  whether or not the changes on earth and in our solar system are evidence of a physical real world climax in two thousand and twelve many believe that there is a coming shift in human consciousness that was the true message of the maya and to which we must pay due respect and consider acting upon i tend towards the metaphorical interpretation here i think that if we're due for any kind of pole shift it should be a pole shift in our collective consciousness in other words we have to steer clear of that poll that wants us to keep living in a world of dualism you know to be fixated to that that that mode of culture that seeks to dominate other cultures around the world and instead shift our minds to emphasize a partnership govern whether that change is for good the maya calendars speak for an insight into time that is somewhat counterintuitive to western with linear time for the mio it's cyclic but it's not only an insight into the cyclic nature of time but it's a vision of time and cycles as are breathing out in the breathing here you know moving out of connection to our true selves and then moving back into relationship with our true selves the two hundred sixty day calendar the vulcan this is the core building block of all the maya calendar systems it consists of thirteen numbers combined with twenty day signs thirteen times twenty equals to sixty to sixty is a key number for the maya because it corresponds to the human gestation period so there's this nine month process of human unfolding that we all share this is the philosophy behind the mayan calendar time unfolds like a flower and its unfolding the inner essence consciousness out of the earth matrix you might say another use for the two hundred sixty day calendar is that it corresponds to the interval between planting and harvesting of corn in the highlands so that an agricultural metaphor most incredibly the two hundred sixty day calendar is used as a calendar as well what we see in all this is the use of two sixty as a key to different dimensions in human experience it's basically uniting the cycles in the heavens and the cycles here on earth including cycles that human beings experience so it's an insight into that paradigm of as above so below the microcosm of what's the ma we do the same thing in our cultures we celebrate a yearly cycle as we celebrate the century cycles and often times these cyclical changes come with a deeper fire initiated and these were moments of darkness and the darkness representing this primordial origin once again and the new fire is the creation of the hearts once again  we see these as as very symbolic and very powerful moments of recycling and renewal the grand cycle should fall within the same parameters and so on the closure of the that basically fell into disuse over eight centuries ago this is the calendar that gives us the two thousand and twelve and date in the last count calendar there are cycles and the largest cycle is a period of thirteen bach tunes which is of five thousand one hundred twenty five years this thirteen bach tunes cycle was conceived of by the maya as one world age so it's a key to understanding the maya doctrine of the world ages that we find in the creation mythology and scholars now know how to correlate the maya calendar with our own calendar we know that the thirteen buckton cycle and date falls precisely on december twenty first tw not incorporate the long count other sites will develop even more complex cycles such as the eight hundred one thousand days cycle that link it develops the calendar is manipulated and utilized in different sides thing always happens at the end of the cycle so at the end of the cycle you have this go lactic alignment now my approach to the galactic alignment has been to look into the maya traditions and try to understand how the maya encoded this galactic alignment into their core traditions such as the maya creation mythology the ball game symbolism other maya traditions such as king making ceremonies and what i found is that the december solstice sun and the milky way and these different features these astronomical features that are involved in the galactic alignment for example there's a there's a  feature called the dark rift the great cleft in the milky way this is precisely where the december souls the sun is going to be converging with the milky way at the dark rift these astronomical features are front and center in se were determined to be related to astronomical cycles so we we understand from a very early time that astronomy was very influential in their creation of an ideology one of the ways that the ancient maya encoded their understanding of cosmologists including procession and including the galactic alignment was two mystery plays like for example the mystery play of the maya creation myth it has to do with the ball game and how the hero twins must kick the ball in to the goal range well the maya populace could come to see the mystery play and they would observe that and you could just sort of understand it in the in the literal way of the play unfolding before you but to those who are sensitive to the deeper esoteric or symbolic meaning in the mystery play they would know that the game ball is a symbol for the december to sun and when the hero twins are trying to kick the game ball into the goal ring the goal ring being the dark rift in the milky way the whole mystery play and the ball game is a story that encodes the galactic alignment process a number of hairy glisic inscriptions situated throughout the maya world tell us that the concept of creation was upin my phenomena each side it seems had their to a philosophy that was universal and so we can say that ballingall for example developed a complex relationship to those ancestral deities and that moment of creation have a concept of a sacred tree or a crossroads it's basically the cross formed by the milky way where it crosses over the ecliptic the ecliptic is the path followed by the sun moon and planets so in the sky you have ruler polka was buried and his sarcophagus lid has a very famous carving on it and it depicts him falling in to the underworld at death is basically entering the failure and the sham and had to journey into the cosmic center that's where he was able to retrieve the sacred power of rulership so that image of a collar on his sarcophagus lid is not simply an after death image which was a sort of a journey ing into the outer cosmos in a spiritual sense was an interest in the actual astronomical sky near the palace the famous square palace building in that complex of buildings there are several very interesting areas they're like courtyards they're sort of like rectangular areas that are surrounded by walls about three feet high it's now believed that these were once filled with water and mayan astronomers and visionary calendar priests would sit around this and at night the sky would be reflected in the still calm water of these rectangular walls this is how the maya did their stargazing very very interesting because it said of looking up at the sky they were looking down at the sky we've collected in the water very very interesting because for the maya the sky at night was in vision the as the underworld flipped upside down so all the stars in the planets that are moving around and doing alignments in the sky were actually the activities and movements of the underworld deity this is a really interesting idea because it it shows how apparent opposite like sky and under the monuments of his op were found in the one nine hundred fifty s and sixty's as they were left some eight hundred years ago so they're in c t they're still oriented to certain horizons in certain ways one of the key horizon his arms are outstretched in the end his it's basically a period measuring gesture is basically measuring a cycle of time so what this is saying is that at the end of the cycle the december solstice sun is lined up with the dark ri this carving still eleven points right to the rising december souls the sun that's just one example of how it's opera in codes information about two thousand and twelve that you might well john major jenkins research has gained widespread acclaim as a drake's name in understanding the mayan calendar system and its message for us the academic mainstream have yet to  true that when the sun is at the winter solstice it more or less lines up in the direction of the constellation sagittarius which is close to what we would call the center of the milky way galaxy which was not determined until even later i stress this because one wants to argue about precision here i could say in a very general way the with the sun comes through that general area of  new world eleusis and the old world eleusis was a place where seekers were initiated into the sacred mysteries and as sapa initiates those seeking knowledge were brought through a process of understanding this new galactic cosmologists and clearly secret plans was part of this we know that ritual mushrooms stones were found in the region around in sabah so we know that there was a kind of mushroom called going on there and we also know that die methyl tryptamine is a powerful loosened object that can be harvested from the glands of the blue photoed and steal a six access this body of wisdom which is infinite so to do that they had to step outside of ordinary time which is the opportunity we all have today as we come to the end of time to step into infinity to step into this body of ancient wisdom we can learn from each and civilizations and so so i hope i've played some part in reintroducing the wisdom of the ancient world to the  nature and vision quest and not just increases her tone and levels in your brain so you can experience the divine for a fleeting moment and then come back into a life that is healthy so you have to be willing to pay your dues to do the work to spend time in nature to spend time with yourself and not just increase the level so dopamine or certain brain chemicals that stimulate bless the psychedelics have opened the doors for many people in the west but opening the doors to walking through them a very different things core teachings are are there and presence in the my creation and it does relate to the galactic alignment that relates to this opportunity that we have to reconnect with our true selves with the unity consciousness through which we can solve the intractable dilemma's of the world we have to get back to that unity consciousness and awareness of how we as individuals fit into the whole this is not a call to the ego or to annihilate our sense of individuality it's really a call to be aware of our individuality at the same time that we're aware of the larger picture but it does require that we choose to be actively engaged in the process it's not something that's going to happen automatically that's kind of the interpretation of a cop out or something like that we really have to understand that  we do have a choice but we can choose to close down in fear and succumb to the forces of limitation that that seek to keep us limited keep us stuck to our egos and or we can open up in trusts and  respects for what is possible for me part of the essential you know kind of shift in consciousness that we may be undergoing is this kind of this next level of human consciousness is beginning to be formed into sort of recognise itself and that's actually what i see the archetype of cattle koat also kind of indicating or representing as an archetype of its meaning of bird and snake  eastern cultures so for me like one thing that's really important that's been happening lately in the last fifty years has been the integration integration of eastern metaphysical thought into the western psyche you know it's like everywhere you go every airplane people are reading tech no lama you know a car told the power of now and that's for them to philosophy we expressed for the for the european western mindset so people still sort of tend to think of spirituality as a trend in a way but i don't like the word spirituality very much i think it's much closer to being a profound transformative shift in the in our psyche so now i think there's a second stage in that a new story process going on for the western psyche but it's happening on a much more foundational level to so many more people have made those kind of worrying about some unfounded cataclysm that's going to take place in the year two thousand and twelve is not a part of my world view i just don't get it and so i would advise you not to worry i would advise you not to worry invest your time in feeding the homeless helping the poor and being green i mean invest your time in that not in the joining some far out cult where will all stand at the top of the north pole on our heads to wait for the coming because i don't think it's going to happen it ain't going to happen how's that for being specific i just don't think that there's a moment at twenty twelve where like jehovah's witnesses we the psychedelic lee enlightened if you are going to have to walk civilization down off its bad trip right i think that times already here so yeah it is up to us to take each other down off the bad trip it's just that i don't think that's that's four or five years from now i see it every day the concept that this end date or or a completion date of the mayan calendar has some relevance to the world in a global sense i think is a in the world it would be a mistake to rally around a philosophy that has has its place in history and and in its world and appropriated as something that belongs to a global sense as the we come to the end of the calendar we're going to be merging into millennium of gold millennium of opportunity a time of living at peace with each other a clean rivers of clean air our challenge today is to embody the prophecies to become that human after twenty twelve that i refer to as home alumina us but that's not guaranteed we think that we can postpone making the tough choices what the time is today i'm very much aware of all the prophecies and all the talk and discussion about two thousand and twelve but then i also lived through the russians going to kill us next week in the cold war and the harmonic convergence and huachuca a and i think i my first piece of advice to people is don't sell your house or move to the mountains because i think there's every likelihood that in two thousand based on total misunderstanding of each other and dismiss understanding stems from the way that we have developed our culture we do not use the common denominator  is it bad news for us or is it more like why by getting together and bringing ourselves together we can somehow make the world change it's the latter part that appealed so much to people when they read about the maya because the developed a participatory cosmology it's all about human action and what you must do as a human being to perpetuate the status quo in the universe or to change it it's up to you you can do it and here we sit here twenty twelve approaching not being able to do a damn thing about the big bang or evolution that bothers us we want a cosmetology in which we can participate i'm i have it and so we look to them and say well maybe we can learn something from them and i'm all for i mean i think there are a but i think there will be a positive outcome from the two thousand and twelve hype and mania as i characterized it because perhaps it'll make us take our cosmology a bit more seriously look into it a bit more think a little bit more about collective human consciousness think a little bit more about what we can do to make the world a better place that's a great message and if that's what comes out of all this i'm happy i'm a happy camper as we say i think we have gone through and i'm going through the final stages of the very dark age but i also see glimmers of hope everywhere i look i see people who are no longer willing to have their thoughts  conscious patrolled and controlled by others who seek direct spiritual contact who recognize that the established monotheistic religions whether judaism christianity and islam while they might have been instruments of liberation and some be looking at the mystery and meaning of life in a very different way very soon and that date twenty first of december two thousand and twelve sticks in my mind as one that is really worthy of of