The first thing that started the speculations about a 2012 end date was the Aztec/Myan calendar which was carved in stone by a somewhat advanced culture long before Spain and other people started using the name "America". Some thought the date had to do with the return of the legendary feathered sperpent which was also part human in the symbols illustrating such, who they thought was a leader of that culture who departed towards the east and vowed to return someday. A story simular to the ones we hear about Jesus in our Western belief systems.
The serpent representing wisdom and the feathers representing flight - aka freedom. Or representing the feathered dove which is symbolic of a gentle nature - messinger of peace.
Others simply speculated that the calendar represented the end of time or of an era of time ( historical age ).
Then Terrence McKenna came up with the idea that the I Ching which is a book from China - otherwise called the "book of changes" could be used as a calendar. Just like the Mayflower discovered the earth is not flat he proposed that the I Ching is not flat and should be viewed as a multi-dimenstional model.
He knew that he would have to confirm that in a way that would be acceptable by science.
In the book "brief history of time" and simular follow-up books that were put forth by those who are into physics we speculated ( in theory ) that time and space is mult-dimensional. If you could move backwards in time to the Big Bang point of orgin you would pass beyond that point into other dimenstions because that force of energy would have created more then just our dimensional universe - but others in many directions from that point of expanding outwardly - like the peddles of a flower unfolding from a single seed. Thus this universe would have clones of it's self that are simular to what we can see with our limited observational methods.
So McKenna created some computer software that would allow the user to determine future peaks in history based on graph waves that are repeated - like the graphs used at a hospital to keep track of the energy perks in our human body.
(pulse) - or used in a lie detector machine.
By projecting the year 2012 the graph became an un-eventful line suggesting a era of peace. No major "novelty" perks such as a big war or other events that are used to highlight our western history as important dates to take notice of.
(hope this is not all too complex - but had to input this data in my blog).
He likewise noted that the multi-dimensional aspects employed to comprehend this conformed to the altered states of consiousness discovered by shamans and mind pioneers with the use of mushrooms and other plant-based substances.
So what does this all mean? In my next blog entry I will explore some possibles. Is 2012 the date when we move up into another dimension? Into some grand illusion? Into the manifestation of our visions and dreams that we have desired to download into reality? Stay tuned.... to be continued .....
