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And let me preface this by saying I know almost nothing about the Mayan calendar or prophecies, nor do I consider myself psychic or "sensitive" in any way at all. But some of the concepts in this thread just "clicked" with me when I read them.
I've seen 2012 in the Mayan calendar referred to as "the end of time," basically the end of the world. Or, as has been noted, "the end of linear time" (bit of a difference). If we're ending the 4th age and beginning the 5th, that sounds to me like a major shift in mindset, consciousness, and lifestyle.
Now, for the last few years I've become increasingly convinced that our current energy-consumptive, technological lifestyle is on the brink of collapse. The cities are going to implode into hellholes when the energy runs out. I've felt a steady low-level panic impelling me to get out of the city, find a place in the wilderness, and become absolutely self-sufficient and off-the-grid. I'm fascinated by all things related to a more natural mode of survival; I look at my basic necessities of life and ask myself "How did people do this 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago?" It can be done; there's a lot of "necessities" in our daily lives that we've been conditioned to "need," which are not in fact necessities. As we'll find out, when civilization collapses around us. I think it's closer than many believe.
Now, might it be possible that the Mayan date of 2012 will be the turning point? I've always said that while we know things today that the ancients did not and could not have known, they also knew things that we don't know, and maybe they called it long ago. The world (or its survivors, at least) will have to go back to the old, non-technological way of doing things. Time as we know it, as we measure it in minutes and seconds, and the artificial slavery that it imposes on us, will take on a whole new meaning. We'll have to live our lives by the seasons again, by the passage of days, by the growth of crops, by births, deaths, and other lifetime events.
And the survivors will be those who are already mentally prepared for the shift.
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