The End of the World!! Maybe

Uh Oh! Here it comes again….the End of the World!! This time, it is due to end in the year 2012. December 21, 2012, to be exact. That is when the Maya Calendar ends and, according to some, we do too.

Now the end of the world is something that gets up everyone’s attention, including writers so there are bunches of books coming out on the subject. Some take it quite literally and tell you to settle up…before it’s too late. The fun ones explore the END as a BEGINNING.

For example, 2012 Awakening: Choosing Spiritual Enlightenment Over Armageddon by Sri Ram Kaa (133.3 KAA Main) is a guidebook that includes exercises and lesson plans. Some books cover the 2012 theories. . . Earth changes. Polar shifts. Pivotal times in human evolution. The book The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities (133.3 MYS Main) features several authors, and covers spiritual and earth changes. It asks if we are coming to the end of a cosmic cycle. Humm. Sylvia Browne’s book, End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World (202.3 BRO Main & Avoca) does a fine job explaining various predictions, including some Maya Calendar theories. Incidentally, she predicts that we will be around at least another hundred years or so.

I had always wondered how the Maya Calendar actually worked. In the book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (529 JEN Main), John Major Jenkins explains. Kind of. He goes into technical stuff, like the sun’s conjunction with the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. Did you know that there are seasonal alignments that occur once every 6,450 years, but the December solstice of 2012 occurs only once in every 25,800 years?

These books certainly offer plenty of food for thought!! They range from fun and lighthearted to deep thought and Uh Oh!

Over the years, several of us have gotten somewhat cynical about these new “End” predictions. Y2K? Remember Harmonic Convergence? And Heaven’s Gate? And are we going through a Nuclear Winter or Global Warming?

Mark Twain said it best, “The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.” Hopefully the rumors of earth’s end in 2012 will be also.

Reviewed by Susan