What is going to happen at 11:11 pm on December 21, 2012 at the winter solstice? Could absolutely nothing happen? As far as I am concerned, nothing will. So, what's up with the 2012 hype as many refer to it? The story begins at least 5,000+ years ago when the Mayan calendar started (3114BCE). But more recently things started to change radically at the Harmonic Convergence which occurred on August 16 and 17, 1987.
One would be hard pressed to deny that the past twenty years have been anything but normal!
The Harmonic Convergence (a planetary alignment) was and is seen as a global awakening to love and unity through divine transformation of sacred information. The Harmonic Convergence was predicted by author Tony Shearer in his book Lord of the Dawn (1971), and according to Jose Argüelles' interpretation of Mayan cosmology, the selected date marked the end of twenty-two cycles of 52 years each, or 1,144 years in all.
It all sounds very mystical and "new-age" until one looks at the indigenous tribes (such as the Mayan, Hopi, Ican, etc.) and their predictions about or around 2012. Adherents of the "convergence" believe that a "major energy shift" would begin and last for 30 years as we pass through the galactic center (until around 2016-17). The electromagnetic pulses (a photon band?) would carry energy powerful enough to change the global perspective of man from one of conflict to one of co-operation.
Sound too weird, crazy, maybe impossible?
Argüelles believed in a 26-year countdown to the end of the Mayan Long Count in 2012, which would be the so-called end of history and the beginning of a new 5,125-year cycle. Evils of the modern world (war, materialism, violence, abuses, injustice, oppression, etc.) would end with the birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on December 21, 2012. Others, me included, see this "passing" as a thirty year event. Whatever or whoever is right or wrong, one must admit that we're experiencing unique times, and I think it not strange that many ancient civilizations have pointed to these times in their written and oral traditions.
Unlike the Y2k ten year computer phenomenon, can these esoteric and ancient indigenous people have something right? For me, we're not waiting for a date; rather, we are in the moment (albeit a 30 year one). But, when one considers the enormity of the universe, how does one measure this concept called TIME? :-)
As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.
