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
