| The 2012 date is based on the last date in the Mayan | | | | or consciousness. |
| calendar – the last day of the 5125.36 year cycle | | | | Frank Waters also presented the theory that the |
| as well as the even longer 26000 year cycle. The | | | | galaxy and Earth and the rest of the celestial bodies |
| Mayans had a remarkably sophisticated calendar that | | | | would reach a critical alignment. December 21, 2012, will |
| has provided an accuracy rate of predictions | | | | be winter solstice, a ritually important date almost |
| unprecedented by most other prediction generators. | | | | universal among Earth cultures. |
| It is presumed that because there are no predictions | | | | Proponents that this alignment among orbit planes is |
| beyond the December 21, 2012, date, the world as we | | | | significant suggest that this alignment will cause spiritual |
| know it must end. But for some, this does not | | | | enlightenment among mankind. Some even believe that |
| necessarily have to mean a permanent, disastrous | | | | aliens or beings of higher consciousness could use the |
| end. Instead, the 2012 date may simply be the ending | | | | December 21, 2012, date to step in and aid humans in |
| of one cycle and the beginning of a new cycle, a | | | | their shift of consciousness. |
| chance for things to change for the better rather than | | | | Hindu stories suggest that the new age will be |
| worse. | | | | heralded by a new avatar, or incarnation of a god, to |
| The Mayans may simply have not presumed that their | | | | guide humans into a new phase of their existence. |
| calendar was needed beyond the end of this cycle, | | | | While many 2012 predictions dwell on the myriad |
| and there was no way for them to continue | | | | natural and supernatural disasters that could occur on |
| predictions indefinitely. | | | | that date, the catastrophic events predicted for the |
| There is no reason why a new cycle beginning on the | | | | 2012 date cannot rule out the possibility that all the |
| 2012 date should mean the complete destruction of | | | | turmoil will act as birth pangs for a new age of |
| parts of the old cycle. Instead of the world devolving | | | | enlightenment, supported in part by the Revelation |
| into chaos and extinction, Frank Waters presented an | | | | prediction of apocalypse followed by a thousand-year |
| alternate theory that the 2012 date will be a time of a | | | | utopia on Earth. |
| paradigm shift or change in consciousness all over the | | | | Just as the Dark Ages yielded the Renaissance |
| world. | | | | (indeed, the Renaissance could not have occurred |
| Others have argued that the new age could bring | | | | without the Dark Ages), so too might terrible disaster |
| about a leap in evolution or a radical change in DNA. | | | | lead to a time of great change, prosperity, art, science, |
| Everyone on earth will achieve a higher state of being | | | | wisdom, imagination, and spiritual renewal. |