The Living Earth

On a philosophical level, very little credence has been given in the mainstream intellectual community to the theory of a living earth. Strange, becuase, to me, the fact that Earth is a living organism is a no-brainer. It goes through its cycles like any woman, and much of what the Maya foretold about 2012 could very have to do with the Earth herself. In Alaska, the eruption of the Augustine Volcano in January bears watching. It is relatively new volcano, and it's not done blowing yet. The ice melt being reported by Linda Moulton Howe and others is probably the single scientific story that bears watching. She will be on Coast to Coast AM March 17 with a full report.
Theories espoused by learned people about the effects of this ice melt abound, and it is worth noting that in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions this ice is melting faster than in any other time in the modern era.

Why 2012?

In Through The EyeBox

When looking into the 2012 situation, it is easy to become derailed by the many sources of supposedly viable information. I first heard about the Mayan Calendar and the end of the Mayan Long Count way back in the mid-1990s. Back then, with more than 15 years before the 2012 'end date', there was time to leisurely peruse all available material on the subject. My interpretation of the 2012 event has to do with the sun, and therefore the earth and the rest of the solar system, crossing the galactic center. As a result, consciouness opens up to a galactic rather than terran understanding. Sound like sci-fi? Maybe it is. But, if one wants to be scientific about this, rather than take, my word or the of some New Age theorist (of which there are many), a few notable sources come to mind.
The Mayan Factor, by Jose Arguelles, was one of the first books to grapple with this subject and bring it into the public consciouness. Though fascinating, unfortunately it is not an easy read, and tends to ramble through numerological permutations that may or may not hold up under mathematical scrutiny. Amazon reveiwers shredded Arguelles' book.
Arguelles also departed from the original Mayan Calendar (actually there's more than one 'count') and created the Dreamspell Calendar, which (in my humble opinion) may or may not be an accurate reflection of the original.
Maya Cosmogensis, by John Major Jenkins, is an abstruse tome that gets to its point the long way. Though helpful in unraveling some of the mystery surrounding the 2012 end date, the reader needs to wade through quite a bit of dross to get to the meat & potatoes. Amazon reviewers gave Jenkins higher marks than Arguelles, but when you read the reviews themselves, these people seem a little bit scary.
Then there's Terence McKenna, the brilliant, drug-using independent researcher who transmuted time into a 'novelty wave', a fractal representation of time which steadily increases in speed/novelty before ending abruptly in 2012, synchronizing with the Mayan calendar.
So basically, what we have here is a date, 2012, attacked from several different perspectives.
My conclusion is that if you feel the changes in your bones, you gut, your intuition -- if you know beyond the rational mind that something big is going on, you will be more drawn to try to flesh out the theories surrounding 2012 to inspect them for merit.
If you're a skeptic, you'll find much of the information surrounding 2012 to be hogwash, and you'll go turn on your TV.

Countdown to 2012

Greetings 21st century cybersurfers. This weblog has been started in order to keep an eyebox on the events swirling around us at an ever-increasing rate of acceleration. As the novelty rate rises toward its inevitable peak, which some say will happen in 2012, this weblog will provide readers with insights, articles, and links in synchronicity with millions of others doing the same all over the planet.

Peace. Pax. Shalom. Salaam.