“End of the World” Science Festival, Rome, Jan 2011
October 29, 2010
A machine translation of the description is below. The event is being held Jan 20-23, and further details can be found here (in Italian).
“Do not worry about the world coming to an end today. It Is Already Tomorrow in Australia.” (Charles M. Schulz)
Every culture during the ancient history of humanity, he addressed a special interest in the “end of the world, the ‘Apocalypse,” the final catharsis. In the myths, religions and different forms of art, always and everywhere men have shown signs of a strong belief that one day the time will end, often accompanied by uncertainties and fears aroused by such an image.
But beyond the stories and suggestions that disturb and invade the collective imagination, what do we really know the end of the human species and the planet that hosts it? E ‘near or far from us? We are underestimating or overestimating the potential causes of extinction and a catastrophe? If it were really close, we would know to predict? And most importantly, how much should we worry?
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2012 Cruise Announced (March 5-12, 2011)
October 24, 2010
If attending talks by expert speakers in a cruise environment appeals to you, consider this “spiritual” trip from LA to Mexico next March. Speakers include Carl Johan Calleman, Richard C. Hoagland and Jim Marrs. Here’s the introduction, detailed information can be found at DivineTravels.com.
Join some of the world’s greatest spiritual teachers, authors, visionaries, and experts in the fields of the Mayan Calendar, Great Pyramid, Remote Viewing, NDEs, Spirituality, Ascension, Meditation, Healing, and Prophecy in an amazingly rare spiritual cruise to the Mexican Riviera, where we will celebrate March 9, 2011 – the date on the Mayan calender where we enter the “9th Wave.” This vital cusp begins the “Universal Wave Movement – The Wind of Unity Consciousness,” which leads to the final culmination point of the Mayan Calendar.
The Ascended Masters and Divine Beings have told us that this unprecedented event is essential to attend–not only for your own personal spiritual enlightenment and ascension, but more importantly, for lifting the vibration of this planet as we co-create the shift into the 9th Wave.
Could the Mayan Long Count Calendar Be Wrong?
October 21, 2010
One of the key events described by Aldana is a battle date as set by the ruler of Dos Pilas (a Maya site in the current geographical location of Guatemala). Ruler Balaj Chan K’awiil chose this date by the appearance of Chak Ek’. According to Johan Normark, researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University, Chak Ek’ “used to be believed to be Venus but in another study Aldana believes it is a meteorite.”
If this is the case, there’s a correlation mismatch. If an event is assumed to be correlated with the rising of Venus (a predictable, cyclical occurrence), but it’s actually correlated with a random event such as a meteorite, then we have a problem.
Add this to a mismatch of solar calendar dates between Mayan sites and the end date of Dec. 21, 2012 could be at least 60 days out.
As I have always maintained, Dec 21 could just be a symbolic date (it is the darkest day of the year), and 6 months either side of this date could be when the Mayans expected the worst. Changing that date by 60 days shouldn’t make any difference to those who are making serious preparations.
This is not the first time the “GMT correlation” has been questioned, but it remains very widely accepted by academics. It is however a good excuse for Discovery.com to continue their mission opposing the concept of a 2012 doomsday, which has no scientific basis. What they are missing is the implication that, seeing as the Mayans believed the previous Long Counts ended in catastrophe, they probably thought this one would end in a similar manner.
Author Ian O’Neill doesn’t make a lot of sense when under a sub-heading of It’s Just a Numerical Coincidence he says: Now, purely as a consequence of the Long Count’s numerical value, many Mayan scholars agree that the calendar will “run out” after 5,126 years. The calendar ends on a certain date, yet O’Neill is trying to tell us that it is a coincidence due to the nature of numbers?
Another Aussie 2012 Cult
October 18, 2010
Yesterday a major Australian newspaper published two articles regarding an alleged cult in Queensland being run by Natasha Lakaev. Her business, Universal Knowledge, is a “new age personal development course”, but a “former member of her inner circle” describes it as a cult that cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars. She says that Lakaev preaches an end of the world on Dec 12 2012, and only her devotees will survive…
Natasha Lakaev’s Universal Knowledge organisation was offering courses until last year that prophesied the world would end in December 2012 and almost everyone except her devotees would die.
A former member of her inner circle, Carli McConkey, has told The Sunday Age that Ms Lakaev was physically violent and psychologically manipulative, and had persuaded her followers that she was the Queen of Atlantis, a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and one of 12 members of the Intergalactic Council of the Universe.
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But McConkey deals with shame and guilt over things she has done to her children, her family, her husband and other cult members. Some family members still will not talk to her. And she finds it difficult to plan for anything after armageddon, which Lakaev prophesied would be December 12, 2012.
