I am personally doubtful about the 2012 stuff but impressed by James Lovelock's predictions that in just a few decades climate change will start to impinge on our species catastrophically. I think some of the radical green US anarchists like Zerzan and Jensen have been writing for years that this civilisation can't go on as it is. I agree that lies dominate our civilisation but it isn't only the 'sheep' who need to wake up - most of us knowingly participate in untenable mendacious and consumerist (and maddening symbolic-bureaucratic-technological) lifestyles because we benefit short-term and can't find an acceptable way out. (One useful source here is Hogan, M. (2009) Enlightened happiness and pragmatic systems science - positive psychology meets Colin Feltham's anthropathology thesis. The Irish Psychologist, 35 (5-6), 138-148.)   

But again, we have here quite different perspectives - radical but in danger of far-fetched hysteria; thoughtful but in danger of complacency; business as usual (but dyed green) capitalism claiming sustainable alternatives ....... and probably some sage FoW middlegrounders - is there any hope of convergence?       

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From: Group concerned that academia should seek and promote wisdom [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Latham, Paul
Sent: 23 April 2009 10:55
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Subject: Re: Mayan Wisdom: Apocalypse 2012

Hi Guys,

I think Tom makes some valid points. I think were are deep set in a
civilisation built up on a lie, there is a huge conspiracy and people
are slowly waking up. The coincidences in what the mainstream media
portray, and hidden messages which people dismiss are too great to
ignore. The majority of people are sheep. Wake up folks. Maybe not the
end of the world, but the start of something way beyond are
comprehension because as of yet, the sheep, haven't been fed the truth.

Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Group concerned that academia should seek and promote wisdom
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Milner-Gulland
Sent: 22 April 2009 20:32
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Subject: Mayan Wisdom: Apocalypse 2012

I became fascinated with the work of Graham Hancock when he came over to
these parts to give a talk about ten years ago. He argues that the
Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Gizeh were both constructed by a
pan-global, non-Egyptian and highly sophisticated, Megolithic
civilisation existing around 10,500 BC. His manifold arguments are very
compelling and down to earth, and he ultimately leads us to wisdom
surrounding the Mayan calendar, which predicts cataclysmic global events
occurring at cycles the period of which renders a great cataclysm due in
the year 2012; indeed, December 22nd
2012 is the Mayan Doomsday; and it is then that all the planets are in
alignment. This, according to the Mayans, occurs every 5215 years,
causing a spark of light, received from the central galaxy, that
signifies the transition between the old era and the new, there being
solar flares and a generally brighter sun, the cosmic event reversing
the polarity of the sun's magnetic field. The result would be our being,
finally, propelled into the Golden Age that amounts to a glorious legacy
of the Mayan culture. (We have had our warnings, supposedly: we would be
given 13 years to get our act, as a civilisation, in order, beginning in
1999.) It is perhaps merely a cyclical development, then, that, as
recently reported on the news, the sun is currently remarkably dim.
Concomitantly, the magnetic fields of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are
changing. These planets are each becoming brighter and their atmospheric
qualities are changing.

  The civilisation Hancock describes approximately coincides with the
era of the supposed Atlantean civisaltion, reckoned to have been
destroyed by a cataclysmic event. Indeed, its is around this time that
the mass extinction of species that marked the end of the Pleistocene,
and the end of all the known Upper Paleolithic cultures occurred; the
evidence supports a pattern of worldwide volcanism, very rapid
geological uplift in South America and an extraordinary disruption in
the kingship list in the land now known as Egypt. This was at the time
of a cultural orientation, suggested by the architecture and positioning
of the Gizeh Pyramid, towards the constellation of Orion, which is
associated with the deity of Osiris -- and Leo, the initial sign in the
Dedera zodiac, thus heralding the inception of a new age. The writings
of Zecharia Sitchin dates the Great Flood to this very era, this being
in his viewpoint the transition to a new era (noteworthy is that
Herodotus and at least one later author record the existence of marine
shells deposited atop the Great Pyramid).


  Those who consider that Atlantis is mere fable might think twice if
they launch Google Earth, switch on the ocean features facility, then
type in the coordinates 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W. This takes you to a
region north-west of the Canaries and a little way south east of the
Plato and Atlantis Seamounts. It requires just a little bit of image
enhancement but you find there, etched into the ocean floor, a perfect
rectangle dissected by a grid structure that is reminiscent of Milton
Keynes.

  Indeed, researchers have been finding signs that might very well
vindicate the concerns. The earth's magnetic field, which has been
weakening for the past 500 years or so, has become particularly weak in
the past twenty years.
Recent, anomalous seismic activity seems to indicate churning motions of
the earth's mantle which might point towards an imminent polar reversal
in the earth's magnetic field. Any such event will be associated with
seismic activity on a titanic scale. Another source of concern has been
the discovery, by NASA, of a breach in the earth's magnetic field, ten
times larger than any other such previously thought to exist. But most
astonishing is the fact that the bout of immense solar activity that has
reached us is the product of a north-pointing solar-magnetic field (the
northern IMF).It had, previously, been believed that this orientation
will always generate a 'shields up' respsonse resulting from interaction
from the earth's magnetic field; yet the opposite has occurred.


  In 2012, the solar storm Solar Cycle 24, will reach its peak, with the
earth's and the sun's magnetic fields being in sync. The US National
Center for Astronomical Research models this to be one of the strongest
in centuries, 30-50% stronger than the last (and starting as much as a
year late). Cycles of solar activity correlate closely with cycles of
hormonal changes (especially in the male, prompting agreesion),
psychotic activity (reflected in murder rates) and wars; they can also
result in disruption to satellite orbits, communications and power
breakdowns.

More intriguingly, for those into cryptic codes, someone wrote to me
recently with the following:

<<If you had watched the film Contact (1997) that had an
extraterrestrial message in the form of prime numbers from 2 to 101 and
like me thought it was simply amazing then here is a real non sci-fi
extraterrestrial message which is encoded using prime numbers as per the
first chapter of the Quran (THE KEY) which has:
                    7 verses
                  29 words
                139 letters

Not only these are prime numbers but their digit sums (7=7, 2+9=11 and
1+3+9=13) are primes too, and the sum of these sums (7+11+13 = 31) is

1+3+yet
another prime! What's more, joining these numbers left-to-right 729139
and right-to-left 139297 results in primes too :)

Shortly after, browsing through the Quran I found, in chapter THE
MERCIFUL,
31 repetitions of a verse that comes after every time God reminds us of
a certain bounty He is bestowing upon us that asks:

"What other bounties of your Sustainer do you still not believe?"

repeated at: 13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45,
47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77.

The sum of these numbers = 1433 which is a prime and its digit sum
(1+4+3+3=11) is prime too. This is in itself is of small interest but
when I realized that the current Islamic Hijri year is 1430, then a LOUD
wake up call was sounded that we are only 3 years away from a great, if
not the greatest, bounty from God in the year 1433H = 2012AD.

Now I can see what all this 2012 fuss is about. I can only wish it would
be the re-appearance of Imam Mehdi and Prophet Jesus (may peace be upon
them
both) to wake up the sheeple into a new Spiritual Awakening
revolution.>>

I have been interested in the spate of post-apocalypic drama that has
appeared on British TV in the past few months: the series 'Dead Set',
'28 days later' (a truly stunning film), the series 'Being Human' (and
there's more to come in the form of one called 'Survivors'). Employing
stark verisimilitude, in these productions it's as though someone in
media is trying to give us a message. (Also we had A Clockwork Orange on
television a couple of weeks ago, about the same time as Brave New World
was discussed on In Our Time.)


There has been mention, too, of comets and large asteroids that are
known to be on course for a near miss or a direct collision in or near
2012, while blockbuster films addressing these themes have been brought
out in order to, it has been speculated, give us a degree of
psychological preparation for any imminent events.

Then, of course, London hosts the Olymics in that year. That's bound to
be a disaster and a half.

Tom

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