I'm always a little sceptical about these forecasts of apocalypse and cataclysm. 

The world as we know it ends every day, and we replace it with a new one.


Max Neill


> 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 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