THOSE MAYANS ARE RUBBING ME THE WRONG WAY

"This is the end, my only friend the end, of all elaborate plans, the end..................

of everything that stands the end............"

I was looking at a pop art poster pasted on a dirty construction site that featured the word "MAYANS" on it. I glanced over at my spiritual cohort and joked..." Are you feeling the fear?"

Her response seems absolutely hilarious to me now. "FUCK THE MAYANS" she said without missing a beat.

My god, what got into her Crunchberries?

I interpreted her Nihilistic pearls of wisdom as meaning, civilization is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012 as predicted idiot. Take a course, do some research, get a life BOZO the clown. So I thought maybe it was a sign that I should.

Fair enough Bambi Bambenek, but what about the fact that filmmaker George Lucus, the very knowledgeable and forward thinking nerd billionaire believes that the prediction holds some very serious water. " Take a look at the movement of the Tectonic plates" he muttered over a plate of mashed yeast. Seriously.

I am not going to regurgitate the 10 minute version of who these people were and what made them a fascinating people. They simply were.

However I will say that there is a disturbing theory out there that most of the modern world holds true, and it is completely fallacious.

We believe that we as a people are much more sophisticated than any of our ancestors could possibly be. We have cryogenics, we have computer chips, nuclear technology, genetic modification, Gaspar Noe and Mike Huckabee. Advance to the nearest Railroad.

How could the Mayans, the Ancient Egyptians or even the Sumerians have anything on us?

In short, the answer is that in many different aspects of existence they were much more advanced than we were. Spiritually? That is however another tangent that I am not going to attempt right now. (and definitely not my area of expertise)

So I wanted to talk about the FEAR part. (There is an interesting look at the acronym of the word Fear.... Fuck Everything And Run..........Or.. Face Everything And Recover)

Most of us humanoids are nervous, closet atheists these days, so what gives with the end of the world prediction? Or in other words. Is a couple of years enough to Enter the Void and to obtain some sort of closure before the big event?

(Although many of us have heard or are aware of the ancient Mayan calender, a lot of us either don’t understand it or simple don’t know how it works. Well to start the ancient Mayans had a very accurate understanding of our solar system and its cycles. Their long count calender is most significant of their calenders because according to Mayanist (people who study Ancient Mayan People and culture) it ends on the specific date of December 21 2012, which coincides with modern day astronomers, who believe that is about the time that our planet alignment takes place with the galactic equator.

Modern scientists have a theory that is quite similar to the Mayan prophecies of the planets alignment. This theory is called pole shifting, in which the position of the north and south pole change, which could cause world wide disaster, massive tsunamis could wipe out coastal cities, hurricanes on every continent, it would be major catastrophe, unlikely as it seems a Princeton University study suggest the poles have shifted before and that the north pole was in the middle of the pacific, which would put Alaska at the equator.

This doomsday date has been prophesied for thousands of years by the Mayans, Zulus, Incas, Hopi Indians, and many other ancient civilizations. Some believe it is a day of enlightenment, some believe the pole shift theory, and some believe that gods will come that day. Whatever the case may be and with some many different scenarios I hope the best one plays out.)

I am not convinced that anything at all is going to occur and I hope nobody else is. Could this really be the "end of days" that was predicted or will I actually have to sit through The Ice Capades one more time.

To just come out and say....."Fuck the Mayans", seems a little bit over the top, even for me.

I think that to face it straight on without the anxiety piece and say "what am I going to absolutely accomplish in the next 700 days that has some real meaning" given the fact that we could live for another hour or two years or forty. This could be used for a positive twist.

See I might spin this into some good old fashioned life coaching. When faced with a Mayan doomsday prediction, always look on the bright side of life!!

Or the more nebulous idea......what kind of food were the Mayans into? Did they have weight issues? Did they have a good sense of humour. Apparently it goes along way.

If we can trick our monkey minds into some sort of suspension of disbelief for the greater good, then perhaps we should get on it.

There is no calender, and time doesn't really exist in the quantum world. Or that is what I keep telling this old heart of mine, that's been broke a thousand times. I digress.

See you on December 21st, 2012..............................................................

Disclaimer: If you want to just travel INTO THE VOID right away. Feel free to take the trip, there may not be any substitute.

Rick