THU., JANUARY 03, 2008
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It's The End Of The World As We Know It
by Robert Phoenix
The sixth verse in the twenty-fourth chapter of the book of Matthew reads: "and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."
"Not yet," that is, unless you're at a health food trade show in Vegas chatting up a guard that's ex-special forces, fluent in Chinese and Korean and who, when 2012 is mentioned, remarks; "Oh, that's when we're scheduled to go to war with China."
That's what happened quite recently to a good friend of mine.
The casualness of that comment is almost as chilling as its implications; it's doomsday-as-dinner-date, pre-arranged for the mass consumption of souls.
Just a week earlier, a good friend had just returned from Arizona where she had spent the week with a shaman. She called me to ask if I'd heard anything about "earth changes." It seemed the shaman had been visited by elders, who'd traveled by foot to an isolated region in the Sierra Madre to alert her about coming alterations to the planet's landscape — massive ones. We're talking beaches in Flagstaff, Arizona.
I pondered what she'd told me, pieced it together with a few other theories I'd been considering, and within hours I was watching a homemade video on YouTube that went into great detail about a planet called Niburu (or, as scientists refer to it, "Planet X") which, according to the video, has a 3,100 year orbit around our solar system. When it passes through the Milky Way, it brings massive change with it. One of the other names Niburu apparently goes by is "The Winged Terror."
According to the video, Niburu is scheduled to make its closest pass to Earth in — you guessed it — 2012. When it does, it will produce a dramatic climate shift, pole shift and general tough shift for just about everyone.
Terrence McKenna, probably the most important researcher of non-linear realms of the past thirty years, saw 2012 as an attractor in the event horizon of the time-space continuum, a point where history and time would accelerate at warp speed and we would be shot out of a cosmic cannon into a realm of hyper-reality where our next evolutionary step would be a leap into the untapped potential of psyche and spirit. He called this moment, "The Eschaton."
Whether you believe it or not, 2012 is stacking up to be a viral event like no other.
On "Re-Evolution" from the Shamen Collection, McKenna goes into this theory in great detail. "It's fairly profound, it's fairly apocalyptic. History is ending. We are to be the generation that witnesses the revelations, the purposes, the cosmos. History is the shockwave of the eschaton. History is the shockwave of eschatology. What this means for those of us who will live through this transition is that we'll be privileged to see the greatest change in the history of the universe."
For even further validation of these doomsday prophecies, consider the Mayans. Universally acknowledged as the master day keepers of history, the Mayan calendar, one of the most accurate of all, stops on 12/21/12. For the Mayans, history as we know it is radically changed. Whether you believe it or not, 2012 is stacking up to be a viral event like no other.
A quick survey on eMusic finds thirty-one-tracks with 2012 in their title, and six full-length releases that go by that name. The music ranges from the lusciously chilled grooves and ecstatic frequencies of Mystical Sun to the raging metal storm of Burnt By The Sun on Relapse (they also chime in with an equally brutal, yet brief assault on the senses with, "Arrival Of Niburu"). In, fact there's even a sloppy, lo-fi rock band on Tunecore called, Niburu who also have track called "2012." Raybeam, another Tunecore artist has a two part-dance suite devoted to 2012 on their album, Deep Down the Rabbit Hole. For you emo fans, Kincaid gets in on the action with "California 2012" from Kincaid Plays Super Hawaii. It's a decent-sized list. I have a sneaking suspicion that it will grow exponentially as the Mayan calendar winds down.
As we cycle into 2008, the question remains: will time literally run out? Will 2012 have enough thump to trump the greatest hits of the Book of Revelation? Are they, in fact, one in the same?
McKenna didn't think so. He saw 2012 as the ultimate magnet guiding us in its tractor beam to an arrival of a simultaneous and shared form of enlightenment.
So no matter where you are right now, raise a glass to the sky for a toast and take a good look at the stars — one of them might be moving closer with each passing day.
"Not yet," that is, unless you're at a health food trade show in Vegas chatting up a guard that's ex-special forces, fluent in Chinese and Korean and who, when 2012 is mentioned, remarks; "Oh, that's when we're scheduled to go to war with China."
That's what happened quite recently to a good friend of mine.
The casualness of that comment is almost as chilling as its implications; it's doomsday-as-dinner-date, pre-arranged for the mass consumption of souls.
Just a week earlier, a good friend had just returned from Arizona where she had spent the week with a shaman. She called me to ask if I'd heard anything about "earth changes." It seemed the shaman had been visited by elders, who'd traveled by foot to an isolated region in the Sierra Madre to alert her about coming alterations to the planet's landscape — massive ones. We're talking beaches in Flagstaff, Arizona.
I pondered what she'd told me, pieced it together with a few other theories I'd been considering, and within hours I was watching a homemade video on YouTube that went into great detail about a planet called Niburu (or, as scientists refer to it, "Planet X") which, according to the video, has a 3,100 year orbit around our solar system. When it passes through the Milky Way, it brings massive change with it. One of the other names Niburu apparently goes by is "The Winged Terror."
According to the video, Niburu is scheduled to make its closest pass to Earth in — you guessed it — 2012. When it does, it will produce a dramatic climate shift, pole shift and general tough shift for just about everyone.
Terrence McKenna, probably the most important researcher of non-linear realms of the past thirty years, saw 2012 as an attractor in the event horizon of the time-space continuum, a point where history and time would accelerate at warp speed and we would be shot out of a cosmic cannon into a realm of hyper-reality where our next evolutionary step would be a leap into the untapped potential of psyche and spirit. He called this moment, "The Eschaton."
On "Re-Evolution" from the Shamen Collection, McKenna goes into this theory in great detail. "It's fairly profound, it's fairly apocalyptic. History is ending. We are to be the generation that witnesses the revelations, the purposes, the cosmos. History is the shockwave of the eschaton. History is the shockwave of eschatology. What this means for those of us who will live through this transition is that we'll be privileged to see the greatest change in the history of the universe."
For even further validation of these doomsday prophecies, consider the Mayans. Universally acknowledged as the master day keepers of history, the Mayan calendar, one of the most accurate of all, stops on 12/21/12. For the Mayans, history as we know it is radically changed. Whether you believe it or not, 2012 is stacking up to be a viral event like no other.
A quick survey on eMusic finds thirty-one-tracks with 2012 in their title, and six full-length releases that go by that name. The music ranges from the lusciously chilled grooves and ecstatic frequencies of Mystical Sun to the raging metal storm of Burnt By The Sun on Relapse (they also chime in with an equally brutal, yet brief assault on the senses with, "Arrival Of Niburu"). In, fact there's even a sloppy, lo-fi rock band on Tunecore called, Niburu who also have track called "2012." Raybeam, another Tunecore artist has a two part-dance suite devoted to 2012 on their album, Deep Down the Rabbit Hole. For you emo fans, Kincaid gets in on the action with "California 2012" from Kincaid Plays Super Hawaii. It's a decent-sized list. I have a sneaking suspicion that it will grow exponentially as the Mayan calendar winds down.
As we cycle into 2008, the question remains: will time literally run out? Will 2012 have enough thump to trump the greatest hits of the Book of Revelation? Are they, in fact, one in the same?
McKenna didn't think so. He saw 2012 as the ultimate magnet guiding us in its tractor beam to an arrival of a simultaneous and shared form of enlightenment.
So no matter where you are right now, raise a glass to the sky for a toast and take a good look at the stars — one of them might be moving closer with each passing day.
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