Mark Heley's blog

To those attending the Pyramid Eclipse festival at Pyramid Lake, NV, it is important to understand the loaded history of the area you will be visiting so mutual respect can flow between the festival-goers and the permanent residents of the area.

This will be the final spin in a series of 7200 spins that began on August 11th, 3114 BC. In the Classic count, or Long Count, the tzolkin date will be 4 Ahau, the same as December 21st of this year, meaning that April 5th will share the same energy as this final day of this great cycle.

Is the world going to end on October 28^th, 2011? If you are a follower of Dr. Carl Calleman's theories about the Mayan calendar and the pyramids, you may be expecting something to happen. Yet if Calleman is right it means that ALL Mayan inscriptions of the Classic period are wrong.

The sell out of this year's Burning Man has created a firestorm of debate across the community. The sight of $1000 tickets on eBay has shaken up the ethos of participation and radical inclusion. Despite the rhetoric and philosophy, it is no secret that some burners are more equal than others. What's new is that the most fundamental criterion of participation -- entry -- is now subject to market pressures.

Social media is often described as a 'revolution', but in Egypt, this appears to literally be coming true.

At 2pm EST on Thursday December 2nd, the astrobiology department of NASA are going to hold a news conference to announce what is billed as a finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Are they going to tell us there's life on other planets?

To understand why we project the apocalypse onto 2012, we have to understand where we are in the evolution of human consciousness. Despite our ipods and helicopters, we are still embedded in a cosmology that not long ago thought the Earth was flat.

The year 2012 coincides with the next predicted solar sunspot maximum. A dramatic increase in cosmic radiation is likely to affect Earth's magnetic fields and the atmosphere of the planet in unpredictable ways. The question is to what extent and how these changes will manifest.