Where I've Been and Some Thoughts on 2012

And I'm back!

For now at least....

My father died two months ago. I won't say anything more about that in this post, as if you want to know more you can read all about it here and here. Since then I haven't felt very much like blogging, to tell the truth, or networking, or connecting or yoga or meditating or ... of doing much at all, really. Well, as of last week his spirit finally left the bardo (if the Tibetans are accurate) and has found it's way into a new body, to begin a new life with a new mission (somewhere in Africa, I've been told) and since that time it's as though a cloud has broken and the Sun, finally, is starting to shine through.

And speaking of clouds, what do they look like where you are? Wherever that happens to be. I'm just asking. Anything ... striking about them? Let me know, I really am interested in your observations.

Just because I've been silent a while doesn't mean I've been blind. I've been spending a lot of time, observing things, just watching and seeing what comes through the media, and in the world around me. This is something I've realized I just have to do on occasion, take some time out, close my mouth, cease action and simply ... observe. In the past I might have apologized for the absence, probably come back with a different blog name and even begin addressing my communications with an entirely different community, as though a lack of productive output was lazy, thus reprehensible, thus something to be ashamed of and so penance sought and performed.

No longer. Now I recognize it as just one more cycle following another, like winter upon the harvest. And just what will the harvest be like this year? Who will feast, and who starve? Speaking not only of what we think of as food....

Events are moving quickly. You might think of it as time speeding up and you might merely say time is becoming denser, but either way there is less time to react, more going on every instant, change following upon change and it seems the whole world is gearing up to tear itself to shreds. Lots of confusion and fear out there, and 'who'ever might benefit from this there's no doubt there's plenty to go around.

Of course there's the awakening, too. Small but growing fast, activating mind after mind, as exponential in nature as everything is proving to be here at Time's End. It might yet be enough to save this world - or perhaps, more accurately, redeem humanity's part within it - but that is by no means certain to any save those within it. Certainly those with the money, the knowledge and above all the power to control and steer society for so long do not seem to expect the awakening to meet with success. Else why go to the effort of trying to stop it?

Another point strikes me, that the movement is best expressed by a verb, 'awakening', and not the noun 'awakened'. No one here is awake, not yet, and neither are they under the illusion that they are. We are very far from that still; to date few know more than that they are dreaming, that waking up is possible: this and nothing more distinguishes them from the much greater multitude who know they sleep.

One day, perhaps, we shall all awake, and perhaps that has something to do with 2012. Perhaps, or perhaps not, and it's good for everyone to keep in mind that anything and everything we know might be and very probably is part of the dream. Will anything at all of significance happen on December 21, 2012, at the end of the Mayan Long Count and the beginning of McKenna's retroactive timewave? Until that time it really is impossible to know.

I confess to some skepticism regarding 2012, a paranoid suspicion that it may be part of that pernicious plot to keep us (or the survivors, at least) fully enslaved for the next cycle of ages. Let's say there's an important date coming up, an all-important window of opportunity during which time is particularly pliable, where the density of events reaches some critical threshold and it's not so much that anything is possible but that everything is probable. In such a time consciousness might pull from the infinite matrix of possibilities anything it imagined.

Now, if you're a power-mad, deeply paranoid predator that's managed to control a herd vastly larger than itself for a vast stretch of time, this would be the one moment in which it would be most likely to lose the game. No matter how well-played up until that moment, at that moment, everything it had gained might be lost.

What would you do, what strategy prepare? If you had the whole timeline to manipulate to your black little heart's content, what might you do? Well, assuming you know the date (as you no doubt do), you'd first set about ensuring no one else does, either, which means destroying the knowledge wherever your agents encounter it, or at least secreting it away for the elite among them to study. You're no doubt thinking of the Library of Alexandria, of what happened to the Maya, and perhaps the Vatican might come to mind as well.

But that's not all. As the Fateful Day approaches, it's effects echoing backwards through the timestream will start to become apparent to the more aware. Explanations will be sought, models created, the whole of divinatory art and tradition combined and applied with every modern tool (and with the Moment so near, those tools are oh, so sophisticated.) The I-ching, the tarot, the tzolkin, and numerology meet computers, math, engineering and econonometry and it's very possible the Day will be pinpointed.

So, as the date approaches, the predatory agency might be expected to throw an incorrect day into the meme pool, muddying the waters with misinformation so as to lead humanity astray one last, crucial time. It would have to be close, to be believable, but not too close. After would be preferable to before, as well, for a before date - coming and departing without remark - would let all know they'd be had and the trick would not work twice in such a short period. However, if the proffered date for the end-of-times is after that crucial deadline, you might just induce your opposition to hesitate ... one last, crucial time.

Any good lie must be dressed up with a certain amount of truth, however, especially if it is meant to deceive those to whom truth has become more important than air. So to sneak the meme in, you connect it to something real, something legitimate.

Thus it was with great interest that I read of the following dispute over the end date of the Mayan calender: according to Dr. Carl Johan Calleman, the correct end date is October 28, 2011, over a year before 21122012. The reasoning is simple: to the Maya, the tzol'kin was the primary calender and as the tzol'kin cycle begins with 1 Imix, the Crocodile in Unity, and ends 260 days later with 13 Ahau, the Sun in Ascension, then so must the greatest cycles of Mayan time end on this date. This isn't just Calleman's view, many researchers take this position as, for that matter, the living Maya themselves do. 13 Ahau, of course, corresponds to the 28th of October, 2011.

What then are we to make of the burgeoning interest in 2012? You encounter the meme everywhere now. Hell, there's even a movie on the way, a Hollywood big budget major motion picture. I think you all know exactly what to make of that, so I'll spare you any more of the paranoia and trust that you'll follow your own instincts, not mine or anyone elses, in this as in everything.

Written on 10 Kan, the Manifestation of the Celestial Serpent

Yoroshiku