Thousands expect apocalypse in 2012

It starting to seem like the brakes are being taken off that were holding back the changes so maybe the McKenna Brothers have a chance of being right about the acceleration things changing.

If that is the case then things getting accomplished in a shorter and shorter amount of time could add up to something unheard of by 2012.

The McKenna scenario is somewhat more dramatic han the exponential accelerations suggested by Henry Adams, Korzybski, Fuller, Toffler and even Leary, because, within the McKenna theory, all of the 64 time-scales peak together. That is, they assert:

a 4,300-year cycle from urbanization to the dawn of modern science;

a 384-year cycle in which science has caused more upsurge of novelty than in that 4,300 cycle;

a 67-year cycle (from technological breakthroughs of the 1940s, to the peak in 2012) in which there will be more acceleration than there was between Galileo and Hiroshima;

a 384-year cycle in 2011-2012 when there will be more tranformations than in all the previous cycles;

a 6-day cycle at the end of that in which things will move even faster; and so on, down to a grand climax in which, as they say,

in the last 135 minutes, 18 such barriers will be crossed, 13 of them in the last 75 X 10(-4) seconds.

That is, in the last two hours before Peak, we will achieve 18 extensions of consciousness and power, each one comparable to the passing from sea to land or from Earth to Space.

And in the last .0075 seconds of the Great Cycle we will pass through 13 such transformations.

By the turn of the next century, then, we will be a completely new species in many dimensions: living in space, not on a planet; able to program our nervous systems for any degree of function we wish; possessing a lifespan in centuries, and well on our way to Immortality.

2012 will come and go just like all the other "end of the world" predicted years.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm

The World as we know it ending can have many different meanings...We could no longer be dependent on fossil fuels...The land-line phone could become obsolete...we could find an alternate food source and stop slaughtering millions of animals...CHANGE has a lot of meaning, and not necessarily fearful ones...

Change is Good...Change for the Better...Change Yourself...

IT'S THE END !!!!!! WE ALL MUST JUST FREAK OUT AND CRAZY THINGS LIKE HAVE SEX RIGHT NOW !!!!

HOT GIRLS ARE YOU WITH ME ????

More people are alive today than all that have ever died. So yes, we are at a point where great things may happen. Good? Bad? We will decide.

You have to realize our civilization as of now has forgotten many many things.
Oh psychic isnt as developed and our connection to our planet is barely starting to get noticed.

A human being is not different from a tree or a mountain or a stone. Its all part of the big system called planet earth and if your senses are keen enough, you can feel things you could never explain and maybe be diagnosted with schizophrenia. Its all about the developed use of your right side of the brain.

Over all, my conclusion is that, even though I completely disagree with the "end of the world threory" I cant help but to grant that something may really happen. Something that we just cant understand anymore. Who knows what it is, but im pretty sure the ancestors left there, written, for a reason.

Hey, who knows for sure? But there may be something to this. The Myan's sure knew how to create a calendar that would last to modern day.

I'm excited!

Apocalypse simply means 'Unveiling' or 'lifting of the veil' - It has nothing to do with the end of the world.

Supposedly 2012 with be a very active year for the Sun and our solar-system will be aligned with the Galactic center. All else is just speculation.

I believe it's going to be the end of the world, as we know it! Not the end of the world...period.

I believe everything that JaneForGore said! :)

Of course i agree that one should just live their lives and not worry. If it happens it's not like we can do anything to stop it! But for those of you who just shoot down this idea because you actually take it literally, you need to look at the FACT ( yes fact ) that many cultures ( including the bible for you religious nuts ) have claimed this year as being significant in the future of our existence. I dont believe it's the "end of the world" but more of a "end of the world as we know it." It is pretty evident that mother earth ( not Global warming ) is making changes to our environment in front of our eyes and its possible that 2012 is the date when big change will happen. Whether physically, mentally or spiritually.

I think we're going to make ourselves change. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I believe this has something to do with the end of contrary the end of an .

I am only concerned about the tail effect of an article like this on mainstream right winged Americans, specially the ones who are awaiting the rapture. This mainstream article validates their beliefs and it is the beginning of an apocalypse frenzy to come. Expect some people to get rich selling apocalypse survival kits.

Now I know when to max out my credit cards...yessss.

Heres the thing........either it will end or it wont....either it will be good or bad or nothing.....whatever it is, if ther eis something that will happen not much we can do about it, so just chill out, relax, and stop trying to make "survival kits" or freaking out about it because if it is the end you cant survive so there. Point is just live for today because you can't control the future.

My cynical side of me says this is a bunch of phooey, like Y2K, but there's apart of me that is adherent to the prediction.

What if it's for real? There sure are a lot of danger signs. But I don't think it will necessarily mean the end of the earth, just humans. Their have been billions of creatures before us that has walked on this planet but are no longer inhabiting it. Species come and go so what makes humans think they are the exception of the rule?

Maybe 2012 will be when mankind disappears and only returns as fossiles for some other soon to be advance species?

As much as I'm ashamed to admit it, I'm slightly terrified. And I know that it's irrational, because exactly *how* many apocalypse predictions have passed? And how many times has the world ended on schedule? It hasn't. I've got not right to be afraid, but I feel like the end of the world is so much bigger than me - that I'm powerless to resist. I think that's what scares me the most... however ridiculous that sounds.

The only thing that will definitely come to an end on winter solstice 2012 is all this new-age noise about the importance and unfounded optimism spouted by the 2012 crowd. Tell you what, if the dope laws change in December of 2012, I vow to make regular burnt offerings to the spirit of Quetzalcoatl.

Contemplating the true nature of the moment we occupy. a transitory season in a bigger cycle, is a worthy venture and invariably educational. If you want some chillingly accurate prophecy about the days we find ourselves in, check Orwell and Huxley.

Yes, Kev-vie lad, hosed.

Right. I suppose we're all buggered, then eh?

Current has featured this story around 5 times now. I could repeat what I said in the other features but I wont bother anymore.
Believe what you want to believe, man. jeez.

oh no not again......this time i will be ready...i think i still have my y2k surviel gear..from 2000

Judging by what has been happening, in the past eight years, and the thousands of years preceding,...
How can we say this prediction isn't so?!!?

It's about 50/50 with the predictions being both the end of the world with things like the magnetic pole shift and the dawn of a new era with things like the Harmonic Convergence ushering a time of higher consciousness.

The thing that gives more credence than the usual predictions is that it's not just 1, it's about 25 things all at the same time, so it might just be a neck and neck race down to the wire whether the good things or the bad things happen.

Wait... How many Apocalypses does this make now? Thats what I thought

The bible does predict that the world as we know it, will end but it doesn't say when. It says instead, 'live each day as though it were your last.'

There are thousands who expect the apocalypse every year. I always wondered what people who truly believe such things do after it passes? Going back to work would be so...anticlimactic.

I’m so tired of hearing about 2012. It is the people that feed on this theory that will lead to anything remotely apocalyptic happening.

This is known as the Harmonic Convergence , or the end of the Mayan long count in 2012, which really is said to be the beginning of a new 5,125 year cycle... meaning that war, materialism, violence, injustice, abuse of power, etc. would end with the birth of the new sun on December 21, 2012. There is no evidence that the ancient Mayans believed that the world would end at this point in time, but of course, thank the media for taking something totaly out of context to get ratings. The world will end much faster by our own hand than any other way.

That said, the Mayan prediction isn't neccessarily a doomsday prediction. They explain it as a time of great change, which I guess to most people is the end of the world.

People feel as though major changes only happen in books and movies. But in reality we are living in a very complicated time. There are many systems working to keep our society seemingly stable and "in balance". Lately the imbalances have become more an more pronounced in many areas of life. We have only really been in our current window of stabilitysince the 1920's or so (very debatable, I know). And even with that, it hasn't been a calm 90 years. WWII, Cold War, M.A.D....etc.. The Romans are an example of the limited span of the "status quo". Civilizations are born, they grow, they reach there peak, and they dissolve. It has happened through out history and there is no reason that it shouldnt continue.

Another end of the world prediction. Now where have i heard that before????????????????????

The end of The Long Count, as it is known, will herald the end of the world according to Mesoamerican mythology. And if the Mayans were right, then can we be serious and say that they obviously foresaw the son of a great leader leading us all into oblivion. Now, Bush may not be mentioned in the Popul Vuh or anything but I think that this was written in the stars somewhere. That's why The Long Count ends on 21/12 2012. The reckoning is almost upon us.

Oh, shucks... and I was sooooo much looking forward to Christmas 2012!

There's really no way to know how much of this real and how much is Hollywood superstition and fantasy -- until then!

What ever happen to the world ending in 2000 with all the Y2K scares. I guess businesses can profit by making their products "Apocalypse" ready.

this is not true. I believe by 2012 humans will be more educated and start making healthier decisions for the environment and for ourselves.

current.com depresses me more and more everyday...