2012: End Game - An Alt-Experience Presentation

An Alt-Experience Presentation

2012: End Game

By Stone Bryson

December 21, 2012. The day when everything changes.

Or so claim many people in the metaphysical community, anyhow. See, on that date the ancient Mayan calendar comes to a grinding halt. According to the interpretations of the legend by many learned individuals, when that date comes the world is at end. That’s right - apocalyptic, fire-and-brimstone end.

Of course, there is no evidence that the end of the Mayan calendar means such a cataclysmic event is around the corner. In all of the Mayan ‘literature,’ there is no mention of the ‘world’ ending; with that noted, it doesn’t mean that the Mayans had it wrong. Their calendar, based on 5,125.36 year cycles, does suggest that some sort of dramatic event is approaching. What that event is we simply do not know, although it is doubtful that a true ‘end-of-the-world’ is one of the possibilities.

The Mayans are not the only ones who saw in advance that the time in which we live would be monumental; the ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Norse, Celtic, Chinese, Indian, Maori, and Hopi cultures all have prophetic writings that (while not exactly marking the date 12/21/2012) place events of global change inside the next 7 years. Furthermore, the (oft-mislabeled) ‘new-agers’ point to the date as the beginning of the “age of Aquarius” when a new dawn for life-as-we-know-it is supposed to arise.

Even the biblical book of Revelations - if taken metaphorical and not literally - points the proverbial finger at this time frame as a dramatic moment of change. Beyond that, Christian mystics of yore were compelled to scribe prophecies that have bumped into the 2012 curiosity.

One of the more prophetic of these mystics - and due recent events one of the most discussed - is St. Malachy. According to legend, the 12th century Cardinal had a disturbing vision while visiting Rome in 1139, where he received cryptic messages that were to predict the next 112 popes.

Here is where it gets interesting. The selection of Joseph Ratzinger as John Paul II successor - becoming Benedict XVI - is #111; every prediction up through Benedict has been accurate. That means there is only one pope left on Malachy’s list, leading many to believe that after that pope the church itself will meet its demise. Considering Benedict’s age, Malachy’s prophecies bring us very close to 2012.

If you look at the whole picture, it does appear that something big - and I mean very big - is coming in or around 2012. Usually people - being fatalistic by nature - automatically assume the ‘end-of-the-something’ scenario because we are melodramatic creatures obsessed with our own continuality. Truthfully, I remain unconvinced that any sort of end is coming up upon us.

With that noted, I do believe that there is a change coming, something within the metaphysical-fabric concerning 2012 that deserves attention. Think about the seers, past and present. It is almost as if they have been running into some sort of psychic wall that has prevented clear knowledge of what is to happen after 2012. Rather than seeing a wall preventing their visions past a certain time, they see nothingness; it is easy to imagine why they would interpret that as ‘the end.’

While it is probably not an end, the aforementioned possibility of a psychic wall would certainly halt their predictions. Think about it - if you are walking along a path and you come across a wall blocking that path, if stand close enough to that wall it would really feel like ‘the end.’ If you are within inches of it, it does not feel like it is a climbable or a breakable wall - it just feels like ‘the end’ of the path, even though there may be a continuation of the path on the other side of said-wall.

The same could be said about the ancient seers and prophets of the various cultures mentioned above; if they were having all of these visionary predictions and then the visions stopped at a certain time (with them essentially running into that psychic wall), they would assume an end to the path. If would then make sense that they would translate that as the end of existence, hence all of the doomsday concern.

Even the ‘modern’ seers have run into that wall. It would certainly explain why Malachy did not see anything beyond 112 popes. Also, if you take a look at the (already convoluted) predictions of the 16th century seer Nostradamus, you’ll notice that those which stretch beyond 2012 become even more incomprehensible. Furthermore, the renowned 20th century visionary Edgar Caycee had difficulties seeing into the 2010’s. Even the prophets and remote-viewers of today will admit (when they are being honest) that seeing anything beyond 2012 is - at best - a crap shoot.

So what is so special about 2012? I do not know, but I have become convinced that there IS a psychic wall in place and that said-wall is going to collapse on 12/21/2012. What could bring down that wall? Perhaps the death of a devout person of faith. Or maybe it is the birth of a person who will lead us to wonderful (or terrible) things.

It is also possibility that a horrific natural event (like the eruption of Yellowstone or the arrival of an asteroid) is what blows a hole right through the wall. It could even be that the very fabric of the ethereal world will be ripped open and a new spiritual awareness will engulf us. Or maybe it will be something as insignificant as the publication of book - a book that ends up opening the doors to new mental vistas never imagined by our species.

Whatever 12/21/2012 brings (it will either be painfully obvious or so minor that it sneaks past our initial attention), I am confident that in the long run it will be utterly profound - the kind of thing that eventually changes the very calculation of time. Yes, I am convinced that something is going to happen on that fateful day to turn the world upside down, both in ways both exciting and terrifying.

I hope and pray to Deity I am here to see it..

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