A new way of looking at 2012?

Over the years I've read many an occult text.

Be it Yoga, Tantra, Chaos Magick, Shamanism, The Tao, books on Gnostic Christianity, Enochian Magick, Hermeticism...on and on and on.

I've travelled the whole world, I've embraced and learned and, to an extent, adopted almost every religion out there, Catholicism, Hindu, Buddhism, Islam, Kabbalah, Shamanism...(I've stayed with Shamanism up till now).

Each and every major religion out there may be wrapped in dogma, it may be warped in human sensibilities but underlying each one of them are the same basic tenets of human decency.

Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

Love one another unconditionally.

Cherish your partner.

Respect your parents.

As above, so below. As within, so without.

These basic instructions permeate all of human culture. Even in the most archaic and primitive of cultures have at the centre of their morals instructions approaching the statements I've made above. Something else that the more esoteric and mystical religions tell us is that there is NO difference between the outer and inner worlds. There is a perceived separation, perceived boundaries, but the truth is we are all one with the Universe.

I'm too experienced to subscribe to one religion, too far travelled, I've covered too many miles and heard too many stories from the mouths and heart of people of different cultures to subscribe to Christianity any more. I've taken, picked, sifted through and chosen my own personal religion made up of what I believe is something approaching the truth at the heart of existence. I also believe that the material world is nothing approaching what the majority of mankind believes it is. It is merely an offshoot of our perception.

I don't deal in absolutes any more. I work as a writer I deal in myth, my trade is the whimsical conjuration of fantasy. It is my own personal experience that the world is made up of abstractions, of ideas that become real and sentient. Our world is the sum of the perceptions of each and every person on this planet. Our world is shaped by their perceptions, and in turn our world can be changed by altering the perceptions of every person on the planet.

People speak of the 2012 earth changes. They speak of Apocalypse. Look in the dictionary...another word for apocalypse is revelation.

I don't believe the world is going to end on December 21st 2012. Has anyone heard of Information Theory?

The amount of information is quantified in a mathematical theory. Say we take the time period between the first human being inventing the Axe till the renaissance. That is one information period. It took say, 4000 years. The time it took mankind to double that amount of information again only took 1500 years. The next leap was only 500 years and so on. Mankind has taken exponential leaps in advancement and increases in volume of information in the world. we now stand at a point where the amount of information is doubling every nine to twelve months. We are a society at boiling point. As we approach the new age, around the very end of 2012, I believe that the world may reach a point where the information we are assimilating is doubling at a rate of every second or every 10th of a second. That amount of information doubling will transform our society from one of liquid into one of steam. And when that happens...all bets are off. I believe our collective consciousness will be all encompassing at that point. Our entire species will begin to become aligned. We may for the first time in history begin to function as a harmonious society.

We can only hope.

Cheers

Tom.