Connecting the dots to doomsday

What does the Mayan's, Merlin, Mother Shipton, and Terrence McKenna all have in common besides the letter M? Why it's doomsday prophecies of course! I'm not adding my own voice to any prophecy of the end of the world, but you must have noticed that there is something in the air of late?

With global warming, civil unrest, global disasters and global economic volatility taking turns at making headline news it's no wonder there's a sense of unease rife among our collective consciousness, but it's any bodies guess what may happen next. What is clear, at least to my mind is that something's got to change, and according to the Hopi Indian Elders it is us.

We live in a time of great change. That much is evident even to the most casual observer. But amidst all the upheaval we see around us, we seem to become more and more resistant to change with each successive generation warning the next about the horrors of the past, dangers of our dark and primitive nature. Our forefathers claiming ancestry, impressing on us the moral code that uphold our modern civilisation, extolling the virtues of monotheistic belief systems and theocracy, peddling the importance of social position and standing, and enforcing a prejudiced economy that is as uncertain as the calametous climate changes that occur with ever increasing alarm.

Personally I tend to side with the Hopi Indians. Not only do I find a strange accord with their call to awareness, I seem to have instinctively agreed with their opinion on the evident choice that loom in our collective consciousness. We share a belief in the reverence of nature, the relevance of culture, the relation between us and nature, and the iherent reward of being.

In a way it also explains why predictions by the likes of Terrence McKenna that 2012 will be the end of the world, and why his mathematical experimentation with the oracle of I Ching which inspired his Time Wave Zero theory would match the ancient Mayan prophecy of 2012 as the year that time will end. Like both of them I believe that 2012 will be a year of unprecedented change, and together with the Hopi Indians I believe that the future beyond 2012 depend on a choice that we must make. A choice that has been a long time coming. One that will bring a fundumental change to the face of humanity, and bring an end to more than 2000 years of suffering under our own belief.

Like the popular band R.E.M. I am quite optimistic that even if this is 'The end of the world as we know it', I feel fine!