2012 – The End or The Beginning?

Last year we poked some fun at the Mayan Calendar predictions posting a cartoon along with a report from my friend Stephen Knapp who learned from a Mayan shaman that there is no certainty as to the alignment of the Mayan calendar with the Gregorian calendar, meaning that 2012 on the Mayan calendar could be 2030 or it could be 2000. Nonetheless there’s a lot of hay being made in both the fundamentalist Christian camps and the New Age circles with this being the end of days. I’ve read that an amazing 25% of the American people say they believe that the world will end this year—it uncertain whether that was the writer’s hyperbole, or whether the Americans are that desperate to escape their troubles. There was also an apocalyptic film “2012” depicting massive earth changes along with the destruction of modern civilization. Typical Hollywood: mayhem, death and destruction to play on people’s fears.

So what is the future? Another of my friends, Nalinikanta Dasa, an astrologer, has given the future mixed reviews: It will be the best of times. It will be the worst of times. According to his read of the stars people are going to begin to let go of their attachment to material illusion and begin to make serious inquiry into the nature of spiritual reality. We are going to turn the corner, so to speak, and masses of people will begin to travel in a new direction in life. The best of times. At the same time, however, there is going to be widespread hardship and suffering. The worst of times. Apparently we are going to experience both the carrot and the stick, led to the positive, driven by the negative.

This concept is portrayed quite nicely in two videos that many people have by now seen: “Zeitgeist” and “Thrive.” They both make an in-depth study of our current situation and how we got here, and they both then offer their suggestions as to how we can escape the fate that we have created if enough of us will change.

Thrive

"Thrive" written, produced and starring one of the heirs to the Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble soap products fame) family, Foster Gamble. Gamble also reaches out to science and materialism as our savior, presenting the torus and its geometry as the possible touchstone of an enlightened era. He takes the viewer on his journey of discovery connecting all of the dots, and I mean all of them: sacred geometry, crop circles, UFOs and ETs, ancient cultures, free energy, the green revolution, the money powers and their suppression of health cures and dumbing down education, and more. Gamble then follows the money trail, venturing into the dark and threatening places that money always seems to lead to. He traces the problems to those at the apex of the pyramid, the top of the top of the human food chain—the money powers. Showing how they create money out of thin air to control and exploit the world, getting into Masonic symbolism, false flag terrorism, global domination and a new world order of slavery leading to a totalitarian New World Order. Whew!

He then goes on to propose his solutions which include a waking up the masses as to the nature of the destructive arrangement of civilization and the need to stop our participation in a system that leads to the destruction of both ourselves and the environment. We need to recognize that there are “destructive forces in power” that depend on us, the “imaginal cells,” and that by waking up to the present reality and altering our behavior we can shape a new and transformed future for our planet. “The structure of the controlling elite is dependent on our active participation. We can obsolete their plan; as we non-violently withdraw our support, their house of cards will fall.”

Gamble then outlines a prescription for forming a new society based on 3 over-lapping stages of a transition: reforming current systems, limiting government to the role of protectorate, and creating a completely voluntary, non-coercive environment for conscious planetary evolution stressing the necessity of avoiding the old “us versus them” mentality and relying on inner wisdom as a guide. He sees the possibility of a mass global awakening giving power to the people to make such a transition.

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a prodigious piece of work considering that it was written, edited, produced, directed, and narrated by one person—Peter Joseph—who also hopes to spark a movement of change. And there is not just one, but now three Zeitgeist videos: the Zeitgeist original released in 2007, then came “Zeitgeist Addendum” in 2009, and finally “Zeitgeist—Moving Forward” in 2011. All three are feature length with Addendum going just over 2 hours, and Moving Forward a whopping 2 hours 45 minutes.

Joseph does a great job of explaining our present day predicament, going into detail about the stupidity of our financial that enslaves everyone. He doesn’t, thankfully, get into all of the New Age fringe topics that Gamble does, but he also does, unfortunately, arrive at a “la-la” conclusion. He goes on to tell us how if we apply the existing scientific know-how we can save the day! Hooray! Designer Jacque Fresco of The Venus Project seems to be his knight in shining armor. While Fresco makes many good points about both the nature of man and science, he seems to have much to much faith in technology. So does Joseph who also seems to be very naïve about human beings and how this planet is being run. As with Gamble, Joseph shows how the many existing technologies can be applied to the benefit of every living person, and the environment. It’s true such technology exists—but we are not allowed to have it!

It’s a bit sad to think that these men, obviously intelligent enough to understand the big picture and analyze the problems very well, cannot see that their solutions are not going to be allowed to happen. They seem to think that it is sufficient to simply show that the solutions exist and point them out, and that they will generate a tide of enthusiasm and good will to make it so.

What do I see that they don’t see? Those who run this world are envious of the people and have a demonic mentality. That is why we have the problems that we have, and that is why the solutions are not going to be allowed. Instead, the solutions, which we are going to hear more about at this years Rio Earth Summit, is population control. As in too many people in the world. That in their view is the problem, and that is what they are going to work to correct.

Further, do Gamble and Joseph actually think that these demons who have created a money system that works to impoverish the many to enrich the few are just going to give up their game since they have been exposed? Hell no! Their mentality is they are the enjoyers and we are the slaves. The money system conveniently allows that to be perpetuated with very few even understanding it. If it cannot be done that way, then it will be done another way. And that is what they mean when they say they want a new world order. Look out, because that new world order is coming your way!

Gamble and Joseph are right about one thing however, and that is that the future can be wonderful. But first we have a slight problem to take care of, and that is those who now pull all the strings. The good news about that is that this can also be done simply, not with guns or violence, but by chanting, dancing and feasting, through a Spiritual Revolution! The spiritual revolution is a tide that raises all consciousness, including that of the ruling elite. They can also become happy in Krishna consciousness, and then help to create a New Spiritual World Order. Science, the Venus Project, and all of the new age bliss can be applied to bring a material utopia, but first we must create a spiritual utopia by calling out the names of the Lord—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare