| | | | | Way, and this "alignment" happens every winter |
| Remember "Y2K"? Consider the noise surrounding | | | | solstice (yawn). |
| 2012 and the Mayan calendar to be similar. | | | | 5. Your "spiritual parameters" aren't dissolving at this |
| The alarmists and poetic New Age opportunists who | | | | time (leading up to Dec. 2012) to allow you to "create |
| promote their tall tales while tugging at your heart | | | | the reality you want..." That's just another |
| strings with "heart-centered" communications will move | | | | false-hope-for-profit scheme. |
| on to other things in 2013. | | | | 6. "Everything" is not leading up to 2012 and things are |
| Yet another correction in the financial markets will | | | | not "coming to a head." The magnetic fields aren't |
| probably take place in 2012, along with extreme | | | | weakening, the Sun has not "already lost its poles," and |
| weather conditions around the globe and other | | | | the Earth's poles aren't melting any more than at any |
| calamities, but none of it will be any more out of the | | | | other time in recorded history. |
| ordinary than any other year over the past several | | | | 7. The Mayans said nothing about disaster and doom, |
| thousand. Even if E.T.s landed on the White House | | | | financial or otherwise in relation to 2012. The recent |
| lawn in 2012, it wouldn't have anything to do with the | | | | financial crisis has nothing to do with the Mayan |
| Mayan calendar. | | | | calendar and 2012--it's an extremely tenuous link. |
| Do yourself a favor and refuse to accept feel-good | | | | Prediction is all about pattern recognition. In order to |
| prose mixed with half-truths and outright myth as fact. | | | | establish a reliable pattern you have to note every |
| Escapism and Hollywood-esque science fiction isn't | | | | time there is a significant, regular juncture in the cycle. |
| "spiritual," it's just a means for profit for the New Age | | | | In this case, the Mayan calendar, it's every 144,000 |
| snake-oil salespeople while taking you on a ride to | | | | days (394.3 yrs. in our modern calendar), or every |
| nowhere. | | | | 5,125.37 years for the longest Mayan calendar cycle. |
| We highly recommend fact-checking everything in | | | | However, you must look at multiple cycles/indicators |
| films/books centered on 2012 and the Mayan calendar. | | | | (Scott relies on over 500 in his systems of analysis) to |
| Stories of catastrophe and doom sell and there's a | | | | get reasonable accuracy rates, in particular how the |
| huge market for such misinformation. | | | | universal cycles relate to you personally (personal |
| The Mayan calendar is a perpetual calendar, it had to | | | | cycles). |
| end/start over again at some point, and it isn't the most | | | | At the start of each 144,000 day/394.3 yr. Mayan |
| accurate calendar when you compare it to others | | | | cycle, you'll find these years in our modern calendar |
| throughout history. | | | | (besides 2012), going back in time: 1618; 1224; 830; 435; |
| December 21, 2012 is merely the first day of the | | | | 41, etc. |
| Mayan calendar 13th "b'ak'tun" (144,000 day cycle), and | | | | Notice that none of those years coincide with any of |
| when a new 5,125.37 year (1,872,000 days) cycle | | | | the most significant financial crises in recorded history, |
| begins. Just as we begin our modern calendar (which | | | | as outlined below? |
| is a more accurate time keeping system than the | | | | *Tulip craze/collapse of mid 1600s |
| Mayan calendar: on January 1st, the longest cycle in | | | | *South Sea Company craze/collapse early 1700s |
| the Mayan calendar starts anew every 5125.37 years. | | | | *Railway mania bubble in mid 1800s |
| 7 Myths surrounding 2012 and the Mayan calendar: | | | | *Stock market crash of 1929 |
| 1. The New Age 2012 authorities speak of | | | | crash of 2000-2001 |
| "transcending many of the worst prophecies | | | | *Mortgage/credit crisis 2008/2009 |
| already…" (and if you buy their next book and attend | | | | (The Great Railroad Bubble is one of history's worst |
| their seminars, you can transcend the others too). | | | | financial collapses: Speculators in Britain spent more |
| 2. The "future of humanity" is not at stake and there is | | | | than 25% of GDP, the equivalent of $4 Trillion today.) |
| no "critical crossroads, evolutionary jump and shift in | | | | It could very well be that we'll see another financial |
| consciousness, and radical transformation," in | | | | markets/credit collapse in the near future (e.g., 2016 |
| connection with the Mayan calendar and 2012. | | | | 2017); everything is cyclical, including boom to bust |
| Humans have always been spiritually progressing for | | | | financial cycles, and they have nothing to do with the |
| eons, and everyone's evolution is unique and transpires | | | | Mayan calendar. |
| at various rates. For some, the year 2012 may be a | | | | The 2012 story-tellers who exploit an impressionable |
| very important year, for others not at all. And that | | | | audience's thirst for escapism should be seen for what |
| goes also for the years leading up to and following | | | | they are: myth propagators and profiteers. |
| 2012. | | | | We believe that end of the world scenarios and |
| Additionally, as humanity moves beyond each decade, | | | | Mayan "prophesy" that promises ruin and |
| century, and millennium as reflected in our modern | | | | transformation for all of humanity are 100% |
| calendar, there always have been and always will be | | | | entertainment. It's deplorable that so much New Age |
| adjustments and shifts of varying degrees (e.g., year | | | | content is full of fabrications and falsehoods. It's just an |
| 999 to 1000 AD): they are gradual, and represent | | | | opiate for the uninformed and adds to the colossal |
| different things to everyone depending on their unique | | | | body of evidence that exposes the bulk of the |
| personal charts. | | | | New Age industry as a racket. |
| 3. The Mayan calendar (Tzolkin) has not predicted | | | | "…(the interpretation of 2012 as a doomsday or |
| "…every eclipse (and other astrological phenomenon)," | | | | ‘cosmic-shift' event is) a complete fabrication and a |
| as some 2012 exploiters claim. | | | | chance for a lot of people to cash in." Sandra Noble, |
| 4. There is no "galactic alignment, occurring for the first | | | | executive director of the Mesoamerican research |
| time in 26,000 years." At this time, Earth is | | | | organization |
| approximately 30,000 light years from the center of | | | | "There is no serious scholar who puts any stock in the |
| the Milky Way Galaxy. Also, viewed from Earth, the | | | | idea that the Maya said anything meaningful about |
| Sun will only appear to be in the center of the Milky | | | | 2012. |