2012 Judgement Day December 21, 2012: Judgment Day
By David Brooks
Science can neither confirm
nor discredit the validity of many religiously or prophetically deemed judgment
days of the future, the soonest of which will be arriving December 21, 2012,
the final day of the Mayan Calendar. Although the Mayas reached their
conclusion astrologically, many religious beliefs and prophets have also
independently attached different earth-shattering events to take place during
relatively the same neighborhood in time. As the winter solstice of 2012
apocalypse draws nearer, scientists and skeptics alike are paying close
attention to the world's development and potential signs that might support the
Mayan calendar's End-Time date or the religious belief of others in a
prophesied Judgment Day. Most religions throughout
history that believe in a God or a Creator have had some sort a judgment day
within their belief system. In each case, this is a time when the earth shall
be destroyed or cleansed of the wrong-doers and those that believe in their God
shall be saved or brought to heaven to reside in His Kingdom. Both the Jewish
and the Islamic faiths have specific end-time dates arriving within 229 years
of the Mayan prediction in 2012 apocalypse. The Jewish date is in
October of 2240 while the Islamic date falls in the "Year of the Haj"
in 2076. The Jewish faith maintains that each one thousand years marks one day
for God. Likewise, many Christian prophets have claimed that He shall return on
the third day of God, which could be anytime between January 1, 2001 and
December 31, 3000, each day of God again being represented by a thousand years.
The Christian faith gives
no specific date for when God is going to return to earth and destroy all evil
while taking His followers with him to Heaven. Instead, the Book of Revelations
talks of diminishing faith, increased violence, world wars, world catastrophes,
and natural disasters mounting shortly before His reappearance. Many religious
leaders look at today's crime rates, Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, wars
being fought between nations, and the growing number of atheists as signs that
God's return will be soon. In 2005, La Voz De Aztlan reported, "...many of
the Old and New Testament biblical prophecies of the end-times correlate
amazingly with religious beliefs of the Mayas and other indigenous
civilizations of the western hemisphere."
The Mayan calendars use
astrology rather than faith in pin-pointing their version of the last day on
earth as we know it. The Mayas were well ahead of their time in regards to
tracking the stars and motions in the skies. The mere fact that they were aware
of a solar system and the difference between planets and stars without the use of
high-powered telescopes baffles scientists and historians to this day. Nonetheless,
their calendars have been proven to be by far the most accurate in existence.
The Mayans claim that time
will no longer be able to be measured after December 21, 2012 apocalypse
because it will no longer consistently travel in the same pattern that it does
today. This could very easily be a description of what would happen to time if
the earth got thrown off its axis. Likewise, if its orbit around the sun is
changed, so is the length of a year. Their explanation was that the solar
system will reach the conclusion of a 5,125 year natural cycle on December
21, 2012, at which time drastic changes will take place. Scientists have
confirmed that, in much the same manner as a year cycles through the four
seasons, the Mayas were once again correct in regards to the 5,125 year
seasonal cycle of the solar system.
From 1555 to 1566, he wrote
hundreds of quatrains. Each of these quatrains is a prediction, a vision he
claimed he had gotten from the future that had been delivered to him by God. Most
of his predictions were related to the political and economic conditions of his
own era, the late 1500's and into the 1600's, but he also counted the number of
future world wars correctly, going so far as to name "Hizler" as the
second anti-Christ behind World War II. Many scholarly translators of
Nostradamus' work believe this prediction came to fruition on September 11,
2001 with the World Trade Center's collapse in New York City.
From his quatrains that are
considered relevant to today and potentially coincide with the type of dramatic
changes that would take place during the prophesied end-time days, some experts
translate to state that a war will begin out of the Middle East and the third
anti-Christ will be a man with a turban and a beard. He predicts that there
will be massive, worldwide loss of life, both militant and civilian. He then
claims that a millennium of peace will follow this final world war, which some
interpret as starting over, or not enough people left in the world to fight.
Nostradamus was well-known
and not appreciated by the government in power at the time of his writings. There
is no doubt that Nostradamus had an incredible insight of some sort to be aware
of world wars, planes, and submarines, to name but a few, hundreds of years
before they took place or were invented. Precise dates, and many times the
event itself, however, are subject to translation of his original work, which
not every translator sees eye to eye on.
In light of so many unrelated
sources pinpointing the same relatively small span of time for a cataclysmic
event to occur, many scientists are carefully tracking the numbers and
severities of today's natural disasters and comparing them closely to the past.
In Revelations, as the world as we know it nears its final days, natural
disasters are on the increase. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a
government funded organization, in the 1900's there were 110 earthquakes large
enough to cause 1000 or more deaths throughout the world. The great San
Francisco earthquake of 1906, for example, caused 3,000 deaths. With today's
population, that same earthquake could easily be responsible for 30,000 deaths.
This leaves us to look at
the severity of the earthquakes. The Richter Magnitude scale is used to measure
the strength of each quake. During the first fifty years, the 1.1 earthquakes
per year averaged a 6.6 on the Richter scale. The average in numbers is only
half an earthquake more per year, but the average Richter scale level has risen
quite a bit to 7.5.
Hurricanes and tropical
storms are also being closely tracked. According to the National Hurricane
Center, the United States had more hurricanes in the first half of the 1900's
than the second half by twenty-three, but the percentage of those hurricanes
that were ranked in the most severe categories rose from 32% to 39% in the
latter half.
On the most recent years,
CNN News reports that a record number of storms hit the U.S. in 2005. The
seasonal average for named storms is ten. That puts over 50% of the hurricanes
into the higher categories, a dramatic increase from the last century.
Another natural phenomenon
going on right now that scientist and governments alike are very concerned
about that could potentially cause the realization of the Mayan prediction
regarding the fate of the earth, is global warming, or more specifically, the
melting of the earth's ice caps. "Temps in the arctic are rising twice as
fast as they are in the rest of the world" (Bill Owens).
Bob Corell, one of the
world's top authorities on climate change, recently joined with 300 scientists
from eight countries and put together The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. Corell
adds, for CBS News, that sea levels which have risen 10 inches over the last
century will have risen an additional three feet during the next 100 years. The
result of this would cause the lowlands in virtually every country in the world
to be under water. The Netherlands would simply no longer exist.
On August 23, 2005, the
India Daily Technology Team, released a study about the overall condition of
our planet, stating "The tectonic plate shifts, underwater volcanoes,
earthquakes, landslides and Tsunamis are increasing at rates never seen
before...The number of floods and droughts has increased beyond imagination in
the last ten years." The numbers in some cases are indeed up, but in most
there is little change. However, the intensity or magnitude of these natural
disasters has most definitely increased and currently show no signs of changing
this trend.
The increased severities of
these storms and earthquakes, as well as the predicted melting of the ice caps,
are all natural phenomenon that may be taking place as part of the natural
cycle of the solar system. Just as every summer melts away the winter snow and
ice, the rising temperatures here on earth could be a part of a change of
seasons in the solar system. Since the end of this cycle occurs December 21, 2012
the apocalypse, it stands to reason that a new cycle will begin on December
22, 2012. We know that the solar system, as well as the planet we live on,
has been through this cycle countless times in its billions of years of existence.
We also know that the earth has been through many of these cycles without
falling off its axis. Since the ice caps are not predicted to melt completely
for another century or so, and the new solar season begins in less than six
years, it is quite possible that the new season could begin to correct these
natural phenomena before they contribute to the destruction of life on this
planet as we know it. People were stocking up on supplies and preparing for a
world-wide economic collapse just before the turn of the century based purely
on the suspicions of a few paranoid folks in power. By 2010, the paranoia that
the Maya's might be correct will undoubtedly reach discussion levels to equal
the intensity of Y2K, if not surpass it. But without concrete scientific
evidence that the structure of time is going to change as in the Mayan
prediction, or that the earth is going to change its rotation or orbit around
the sun in less than six years, in my opinion, we will more than likely see
another prophesied judgment day come and go once again. Then after a
collective, global, sigh of relief, we will undoubtedly shift our attention to
the next potential judgment day in 2040 when all nine planets of our solar
system line up in a straight line for the first time in hundreds of thousands
of years. 2012 apocalypse.
2012-apocalypse: end-of-time
Among the past lives that
human beings memorize, particularly those that beings with very high
consciousnesses memorize in their auras, the most precious life should be that
in Lemuria, or Mu (Mooh) continent, which can be regarded as the origin of
humankind. About a million years ago from now, the first consciousness in the
universe called Mu and many other beings with very high consciousnesses from
various parts of the universe came to the earth. They were experts from the
whole universe who gathered at the earth—a planet created to assume a special
role in the development of the universe—to progress a special event. Remaining
in an energy state of uncontaminated consciousnesses, they lived while singing,
clapping hands, and dancing together.
Neither worries to fulfill
the need for food, clothing, and shelter nor greed for material things existed.
Selfishness, jealousy, envy, and rage that humankind is currently experiencing
did not exist in Lemuria. The beings loved each other and were in harmony in
the crystal clear and clean environment of the earth.
As time passed by, however,
beings with consciousnesses of low frequencies flocked to the earth. The
frequency of the earth gradually lowered, and the earth went through the
process of materialization. In this process, the Lemurian society began to
change rapidly and fundamentally. Some of the beings with higher
consciousnesses that had not experienced life and death by staying in an
etheric state returned to the universe. On the other hand, others that promised
to remain on the earth until the dimensional ascension in the future began to
prepare for various lives to adapt themselves to the lower consciousnesses on
the earth.
As the earth materialized,
the system of reincarnation was introduced, and in this system nobody could
have a whole memory of one’s past or live a life completely revealing one’s
intrinsic capabilities. Thus, of the beings that opened the Lemurian period,
those that promised to keep remaining on the earth began to experience
reincarnation under the same condition as the other beings in the material
earth, with their cosmic capabilities and knowledge being sealed. Their
physical lives on the earth were planned in terms of two aspects: to accumulate
energies needed for the role each being has to carry out in the period of the
earth’s dimensional ascension and to effectively undergo each being’s learning
that should be experienced.
Life on the earth has not
at all been easy to anybody—a life in which one, in total oblivion of one’s
self, perceives vivid feelings through the five senses. Many Lemurian beings
reincarnated into high priests, monks, political or religious leaders,
Hwan-oong, or Dan-goon in diverse ancient civilizations, such as Atlantis,
Hwan-kook, Egypt, Inca, Maya, and the civilizations that followed. They also
experienced many common lives not known at all. Because of the vague memories
of their existence, which are occasionally sensed through their feelings, they
have lived tougher lives than others and have lived in obscure nostalgia and
yearning for the universe.
As the earth’s ascension
begins, these Lemurian beings are collectively awakening from a long sleep. Their
awakenings are occurring through diverse stages planned according to each
being’s program in this life, so each being is currently at a different stage. Experiencing
a complete awakening, they will obtain powerful internal strength that enables
one to begin one’s true life without any compromise. Possessing vague
impressions of the earth’s dimensional ascension, many Lemurian beings who are
awakening now think they should do something. They think they should take the
lead to protect the earth’s environment, to help the miserable, or to help
people’s consciousnesses grow, and many of them are already in action. The
tasks they should truly do in this life will not begin until after they
experience the last stage of awakening.
On the surface, life seems
to progress by one’s will and capability, but in fact it unfolds according to
planned scenarios, and humans are beings who experience those scenarios. Thoughts
to accomplish or achieve something occur because one does not totally realize
that life is a stage play to experience. Also, people’s thought that systemized
efforts for the development of spirituality is necessary should be
reconsidered. With no exception, organizations and groups are formed based on
people’s desires. So far, most people have placed too much confidence in the
strength of humankind and have believed that human beings change the world even
though they have witnessed great natural disasters occasionally. Although
people know that the earth is merely a grain of sand in the beach, they have
negated beings of outer space and have lived with a blind faith that the
earth’s Great Change will not happen during their lifetimes. Moreover, those
events will reveal that a more fundamental energy world, which is unfolded
infinitely, exists behind the visible material world and that eventually the
world will evolve by the will of divine providence and not by that of
humankind. I expect that the earth’s Great Change progressing on a full scale
will definitely show this aspect to the whole humankind.
Those who expand their
awareness and begin to know the essence of life through spiritual experiences
find that people who are desperate to only obtain and consume material things
surround them. Moreover, they come to rediscover the fact that all media such
as newspaper, magazine, TV, and the Internet are filled with heroic episodes of
people excelling in achieving wealth and fame. What is needed for them now may
not be turning their eyes to the outer world. It is necessary to feel the
rapidly changing earth energy and listen to the collapsing sound of the existing
material system through the spiritual sense that is gradually being developed. I
expect everybody spiritually awakening now to feel deeply the following
message: “You do not need to worry at all about the future. 2012 apocalypse
"These same shamans
told Dr. Villoldo that the world was truly coming to an end... that the planet
would be transformed over the next few years in ways beyond our current ability
to comprehend." "The Mysteries of the
Great Cross at Hendaye" by Jay Weidner and Vincent
Bridges
The Maya A great deal has been
written about the end times and December 21, 2012 apocalypse, the date the
Mayan sacred calendar inexplicably comes to an abrupt end. Interestingly, it
was an elaborately developed culture right from the start. Edgar Cayce said
their ancestry came from Atlantis. This civilization went into rapid decline
approximately 900 years ago. Nevertheless, the Mayan
artifacts tell us in no uncertain terms that they were master astronomers with
an intimate knowledge of the heavens. And they were obsessed with recording
cycles of cosmic time. The Maya described five
different ages that existed in the distant past, each lasting some 5,125 years.
They have also told us that all of those ages ended with some form of physical
cataclysm, which was needed to cleanse our planet of mankind's negative karma. One
has to wonder why their calendar, constructed more than two thousand years ago,
mysteriously ended with the fifth age at "zero point," on the winter
solstice of 2012 the expected apocalypse. Is there no next age? The Tibetan Wheel of
Time Equally compelling is that
almost one thousand years ago, in another part of the world far from the Maya,
an Indian yogi named Somanatha brought the Wheel of Time (Kalachakra) to Tibet.
Soon thereafter, the first incarnate lama, Karmapa, added refinements to the
Wheel's dates. The Wheel of Time contains
a profound prophecy. Add the remaining 25 years to this date and one arrives at
2012, the end of the Mayan calendar ... the end of time ! The start of 2012
apocalypse ? The Hopi The Hopi, whose name means
"people of peace," have sacred traditions that go back thousands of years.
Their time-honored teachings point to certain prophecies that would manifest
just before a great purification takes place on planet Earth. The purification would be a
time when the world would shudder and tremble causing much destruction, in order
to cleanse the planet of the karmic negativity we have created while serving as
its caretakers. Not too long ago, the Hopis said that those prophecies have now
completed. It appears that the time for purification is upon us, as we approach
2012.
The Peruvian Shamans It will be a time in which
our reality will be turned inside out, upside down and completely restructured.
These same shamans also say
that something very profound will occur this time around, with a possible break
occurring between spiritually awakened individuals and those who are not. End Time Prophecies Similar end time prophecies
can be found in many Eastern and Western religious teachings, in various
channeled messages given to individuals by other worldly sources, as well as in
the lore of different native cultures and esoteric texts. Some point to financial
collapse or even WWIII that will usher in the end of days. Others speak of a
massive shift in human awareness, in which our old ways of thinking will end,
as we birth the emerging Age of Aquarius with a new collective consciousness. Benjamin Creme There is an intriguing
message of hope that Benjamin Crème has brought to millions of people around
the world for the past thirty years. After careful study, I have to admit it
deserves open-minded consideration. Then, assisted by the
Masters of Wisdom, He will guide humanity out of the present mess we've created
and work with us to build an entirely new civilization. What raises the eyebrows is
that a vast majority of these prophetic messages, some of which predate current
time, are converging at this moment in human destiny. Admittedly, not all agree
on the details. The 2012 apocalypse. Fingerprints of the Gods In his best selling book,
Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock conducted an exhaustive investigation
into mankind's remote past. This effort took him all over the world from the
Great Sphinx, to the Hopis, to the Andean ruins and to the monuments of many
ancient civilizations, including the Maya. Hancock believes that
within the records and monuments of these ancient civilizations there is an
important message for us. The "fingerprints" of information that our
ancestors left for us to discover and contemplate warn of terrible Earth
changes that periodically afflict our planetary home. Cycles of Time Throughout the ages,
Masters and other adepts were sent to planet Earth to help us find our way. While
here they realized that the flow of time in our material world was not linear
but cyclic. Sacred Hindu teachings, passed down to humanity for thousands of
years, tell us the same thing. This ancient knowledge was based upon the most
important cycle of Earthly time called the Great Year or Maha Yuga.
The Great Year consists of
25,920 years and is said to have a profound influence on the destiny of
mankind. It results from the phenomenon known as precession that is caused by
the slow wobble of planet Earth, as it rotates on its axis. In variance with
the Mayan calendar, the Hindu teachings describe how the Great Year is made up
of four ages, or Yugas, each approximately 6,480 years in length (either way,
both the Mayan calendar and Hindu wisdom agree that we are now at the extreme
end of the Great cycle). Based upon the Yuga count, we are living out the final
moments of the fourth age, the Kali Yuga or Iron Age, when humanity sinks to
its lowest level. And we are told that such an ending will have profound
implications for our cosmic evolution.... the shift in human consciousness. The Mysteries of the
Great Cross of Hendaye I recently read a book
called The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye by Jay Weidner and Vincent
Bridges that continued to bring the end times into further focus for me. According
to the authors, an extraordinary message was carved into the mysterious cross
at Hendaye, discovered in a churchyard in the south of France. It's
significance flows forward from the ancient Egyptian mystery schools, the
secret knowledge of alchemy, Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, Sufism and mystical
Christianity. The authors conclude that whoever carved the celestial alignments
and inscriptions on this cross several centuries ago had a profound knowledge
of the universe. The body of information
encoded within the cross' message deals with the end times, the 25,920-year
cycle and may very well be linked to the age of Atlantis. The authors of the
Hendaye cross book have fitted together the pieces of an alchemical puzzle that
does not depend upon prophesy. Rather, they point to specific celestial
alignments and inscriptions embedded in the cross' messages that connect to
serious Earth changes. In fact, the next cleansing, coinciding with the general
time period of 2012 apocalypse, may have already begun.... the beginning
of the New Age... According to the Henday
Cross book, a mysterious alchemist named Fulcanelli left humanity certain
teachings during the 1900s. Fulcanelli tells us that based upon the cross'
encoded message the northern hemisphere of planet Earth will be tried by fire,
as a result of a double catastrophe. Furthermore, the cause of this
catastrophic cleansing will originate from an off-earth source. The authors of this book
also cite recent scientific evidence to suggest that the periodic cataclysms
afflicting our planet can be traced to explosive bursts of incomprehensible
energy that periodically discharge from the center of our galaxy. In some
esoteric writings the galactic core has been referred to as the Central Sun,
which emits rays of divine influence that guide the evolution of our galaxy and
all who inhabit it. The enormous outbursts of
light energy that come from the galactic core appear to be in sync with
different stages of the 25,920-year cycle. For example, the last significant
change that overtook planet Earth occurred approximately 13,000 years ago,
halfway through the Great Cycle. At that time, the last Ice Age ended with
catastrophic flooding, and, as some suggest, massive earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions and perhaps a violent displacement of the Earth's crust resulting in
a pole shift.
Interestingly, recent
scientific evidence published by Dr. Paul LaViolette proposes that a massive
burst of super wave energy was released from the galactic core approximately
13,000 years ago. Ancient wisdom tells us that the Great Year is a function of
God's cosmic clock, which creates constant change and opportunities for our
growth and evolution. In unison with other cycles, it gives rise to the
natural, rhythmic flow of birth and death that affects the disappearance and
reappearance of Earth changes, lunar cycles, the four seasons, and the phases
of our own lives. The Maya and others are
telling us that the hands of cosmic time are once again striking twelve for
mankind. As such, a transition has begun that will give birth to a divinely
inspired, quantum leap in human experience. Fulcanelli and others say
that only spiritually awakened souls will remain after the coming changes. And
those souls will form the seeds of future generations who will usher in and
sanctify the coming Golden Age. Related teachings indicate
that in the process of separating the wheat from the chaff the spiritually
aware will be brought into a higher realm of existence. The remainder of
humanity would continue to awaken to their divine nature through another
25,920-year cycle on another 3-dimensional planet similar to Earth until they
are ready to "graduate." How quickly will these
changes occur? Taken together, this kind of information is a lot for the human
mind to bear. I also feel it will be coupled with physical cleansing. How much
upheaval occurs and to what degree it challenges our everyday lives remains to
be seen. The reason is that the future is fluid and will be defined by the
individual and collective choices we are making today. Clearly, we have maxed
out our global home. Earth Mother cannot replenish her resources fast enough to
satisfy our collective greed. The environment is almost at the point of
irreversible destruction. Add to the above the recent Pentagon report of rapid
climate change that could occur over the next twenty years due to global
warming and we have the ingredients for climate disaster and planetary chaos. Throw
in global dimming, changes in the ocean currents, which have already been
reported, rapidly retreating glaciers, rampant greed, wars, deception, attempts
at global domination by powerful countries, unending materialism, and
self-gratification and the end result only intensifies. For sure, there are gradual
signs that higher choices are being made today for the betterment of mankind
and the well being of our planet. However, baring a major miracle that can
occur at any time, I see nothing tangible enough to suddenly tip the scales of
humanity's collective consciousness towards God-centeredness, love, harmony,
peace, justice, and sharing and away from the current madness. And that is
exactly what it will take before the rapidly closing window of opportunity to
advance the human spirit closes around us. Ancient lore says that
Atlantis was destroyed because technology became God and relatively few
Atlanteans were spiritually aware and living their truth. cannot eat
money" ~ A Cree prophecy
2012 apocalypse : Galactic Alignments in Ancient Traditions & the Future of Humanity
I delivered relief supplies
to Quiché Maya villages in the Guatemalan highlands. Mesoamerican studies is a
relatively young field. In researching and writing seven books, I have focused
on decoding the ancient Mayan calendar and its associated cosmology, and I have
been drawn to address one unanswered question: Why does a large cycle of time
in the Mayan Long Count calendar end in the year that we call AD 2012? Mayan scholars have spent
almost a century deciphering the Mayan calendar’s relationship to our own. Utilising
nested cycles of 20, 360, 7200, and 144,000 days, the Long Count culminates in
a World Age cycle of 13 baktuns, which equals 5,125 years. After decades of
interdisciplinary analysis, Mayan scholars Joseph T. Goodman, Juan Martínez,
and J. Eric S. Thompson determined that the 13-baktun cycle of the Long Count
calendar could be confidently located in real time, and its end-date would
occur on 13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count, which corresponds to December 21, 2012. Because
the end-date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar occurs on
a winter solstice, I felt that the ancient Maya may have intended to indicate
something with that end-date. For example, periods of time within the Long
Count are named by their end-date; we are currently in the 4 Ahau katun of the
Long Count calendar because the last day of this katun falls on 4 Ahau. Generally, Mayan metaphors
draw from nature. After nine years of research into the 2012 question, in 1998
I published my book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 apocalypse, presenting an
astronomical explanation for the Mayan 2012 end-date. The precessional
phenomenon that is responsible for bringing the solstice Sun into alignment
with the Milky Way is caused by the slow wobbling of the Earth on its axis. Izapa
– a progressive ceremonial site containing astronomical alignments and
monuments portraying the Mayan Creation Myth – is evidently where the Long
Count calendar was instituted. My research shows that the
ball court at Izapa is ground zero of the knowledge that a future alignment of
Sun and galaxy would occur. This “solstice-galaxy” or “galactic” alignment has
great significance within Mayan mythology and cosmology. In my books,
especially Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 apocalypse, I show how this alignment
scenario was encoded into basic Mayan institutions such as the Creation Myth,
the sacred ballgame, and king accession rites.
My reconstruction of the
true intention of the Mayan calendar end-date, though seemingly quite novel,
gains support in my subsequent research, for I have discovered that such
“galactic” concepts were recognised in other ancient cosmologies (e.g.,
Egyptian, Islamic, and Vedic). The book, Galactic
Alignment: The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian,
and Vedic Traditions (Inner Traditions International, 2002 – available from New
Dawn Book Service), examines evidence that the alignment of the solstice Sun
with the Milky Way galaxy (the “galactic alignment”) played a significant role in
Old World and Eastern religious iconography and metaphysical traditions. Tracing
the galactic knowledge back to ancient Vedic India, it appears that its
manifestation in Islamic, Greek, Mithraic, Celtic, and Medieval Hermetic
traditions is merely a nascent resurgence of a knowledge that is very ancient
indeed. It must be emphasised that
this ancient “galactic cosmology” is based in empirical astronomy. The periodic
alignment of the solstices with the galactic plane is basic astronomy, although
discussion of it is largely absent from astronomy text books (Jean Meuss’s 1997
book Mathematical Astronomy Morsels is an exception).
As a researcher of ancient
traditions, I can point to certain interpretations and reconstructions that are
implied or are even unavoidable given the facts – for example, I can say with
confidence that solstitial alignments to the galactic plane were significant
players in ancient traditions that addressed questions of eschatology,
cosmology, human salvation, and the nature of time. For example, a chapter in
my new book explores Oliver Reiser’s work that suggests the Galactic Centre is
a major factor in the evolution of life on Earth. My own path of discovery
suggests the following: Beyond the insatiable quest for empirical physical
evidence lies the transcendent challenge of metaphysics, and our materialist
paradigm could benefit greatly from a serious look at the profound insights of
traditional metaphysics. I believe that many
researchers are currently focusing overmuch on ancient technologies. assumes
that the presence of recognisable technology is the best barometer of how
advanced an ancient culture was. However, my surprising discoveries of an
advanced Mayan cosmological science suggest that what is more important to
explore, and what speaks clearly to a void in modern values, is the spiritual
insight we find in ancient traditions. Many of us have studied and practiced
various spiritual disciplines derived from ancient Hindu, Mayan, or even
Egyptian teachings. The ancient Mayan civilisation understood the universal principles
that create and sustain the world. These “first principles” underlie the
physical laws that modern science has used to create technological miracles,
but the first principles of Mayan sacred science embraced a much larger
universe in which human beings were seen to be multidimensional and capable of
traveling beyond time and space, beyond the confines that limit modern science
with its “laws” that are valid only in the physical three-dimensional plane. We
are amazed by the ancient Maya and their baffling, complicated calendar
science, and how they built their huge stone cities without using beasts of
burden. The ancient Vedic civilisation is not particularly celebrated for
material achievements and yet, like the Maya, they enjoyed a sophisticated
understanding of celestial cycles as well as a deep understanding of human spirituality.
Modern historical investigation continues to push back the dating of the
origins of civilisations and the advent of material technologies. This explains
the ancient Maya’s isolation and independent genius which nevertheless had
tapped into the same doctrines also found in ancient Vedic and Egyptian
cosmology. In part 3 of the book Galactic Alignment, I explore the metaphysical
ideas of the Traditionalist school, in particular the writings of esteemed
scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy and symbolist philosopher René Guénon. In the Vedic
doctrine of World Ages, Kali Yuga is the final age, the age of greatest
spiritual darkness, and its end signals the shift to a new World Age. Clarifying
some undeveloped areas within Traditionalist thought, and drawing from the
insights of various Vedic commentators, I identify the galactic alignment of
era-2012 apocalypse as the key to the timing of this transition,
anchoring the Vedic yuga doctrine to a real astronomical event. What if ancient
civilisations were aware of the Galactic Centre and the precession of the
equinoxes, and that they believed that eras of galactic alignment – like the
one we are struggling through right now – somehow contribute to the unfolding
of consciousness on Earth?
The larger life-wave of
humanity is at stake. The metaphor is about birth and death. Unfortunately, few spend
much time reflecting on death – the Great Transformer. That teaching is encoded
into the Vedic theft of soma myth, and in pursuing its underlying wisdom
regarding the transformation of consciousness, all of the book’s themes are
integrated into the metaphysical importance of the solstice-galaxy alignment. This brief introduction
invites readers to explore more deeply the source material that contributes to
my conclusions, including studies in sacred cartography, Mithraic symbolism,
the Chaldean Oracles, Islamic astronomy, Vedic and Egyptian metaphysics,
Hermetic studies, South American traditions, Christian architecture and
iconography, and Mayan astronomy.5 For empirical scientists,
astronomy is the central key that connects these questions to hard science, and
the metaphysical concepts relating to these eschatological questions are, in fact,
closely related to astronomy. Yet beyond empirical concerns, the role of
galactic alignments in spiritual transformation is revealed as a core concept
found in all of the major ancient traditions – in both the Old World and the
New World. Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 apocalypse and Galactic Alignment by
John Major Jenkins are available from New Dawn Book Service.
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