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2009-11-07T21:27:00.000-08:00

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No Doomsday in 2012

2009-10-13T02:42:00.001-07:00

For all those 2012 Mayan Prophecy believers out there, I have bad news. There is going to be no doomsday event in 2012, and here's why…

The extent of the Mayan empire
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/
The Mayan Calendar
So what is the Mayan Calendar? The calendar was constructed by an advanced civilization called the Mayans around 250-900 AD. Evidence for the Maya empire stretches around most parts of the southern states of Mexico and reaches down to the current geological locations of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and some of Honduras. The people living in Mayan society exhibited very advanced written skills and had an amazing ability when constructing cities and urban planning. The Mayans are probably most famous for their pyramids and other intricate and grand buildings. The people of Maya had a huge impact on Central American culture, not just within their civilization, but with other indigenous populations in the region. Significant numbers of Mayans still live today, continuing their age-old traditions.

The Mayans used many different calendars and viewed time as a meshing of spiritual cycles. While the calendars had practical uses, such as social, agricultural, commercial and administrative tasks, there was a very heavy religious element. Each day had a patron spirit, signifying that each day had specific use. This contrasts greatly with our modern Gregorian calendar which primarily sets the administrative, social and economic dates.

Venus Express observation of Venus (ESA)

Most of the Mayan calendars were short. The Tzolk'in calendar lasted for 260 days and the Haab' approximated the solar year of 365 days. The Mayans then combined both the Tzolk'in and the Haab' to form the "Calendar Round", a cycle lasting 52 Haab's (around 52 years, or the approximate length of a generation). Within the Calendar Round were the trecena (13 day cycle) and the veintena (20 day cycle). Obviously, this system would only be of use when considering the 18,980 unique days over the course of 52 years. In addition to these systems, the Mayans also had the "Venus Cycle". Being keen and highly accurate astronomers they formed a calendar based on the location of Venus in the night sky. It's also possible they did the same with the other planets in the Solar System.

Using the Calendar Round is great if you simply wanted to remember the date of your birthday or significant religious periods, but what about recording history? There was no way to record a date older than 52 years.

2012 It's Not The End Of The World

2009-10-13T02:42:00.000-07:00

The Maya Cosmic Prophecy: From Sensation to Sensibility

Maya Scholars, in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and North America, have been watching with amusement and dismay as self-styled experts proclaim that ancient Maya prophets foretold an earth-shattering happening to occur December 21, 2012. This predicted phenomenon gets described in contradictory but often cataclysmic fashion--as an ecological collapse, a sunspot storm, a rare cosmic conjunction of the earth, sun, and the galactic center, a new and awesome stage of our evolution, and even a sudden reversal of the Earth's magnetic field which will erase all our computer drives. One even predicts the earth's initiation into a Galactic Federation, whose elders have been accelerating our evolution with a "galactic beam" for the last 5000 years. In sum, the world as we know it will suddenly come to a screeching halt.

These predictions are alleged to be prophecies by so-called "Ancient Mayans" whose "astronomically precise" calendar supposedly terminates on that date. According to such accounts, these mysterious Maya geniuses appeared suddenly, built an extraordinary civilization, designed in it clues for us, and then suddenly, inexplicably, vanished, as if they had completed their terrestrial mission. These same experts claim special credibility for the Maya prophecies by asserting that these historic sages, with their possible extraterrestrial origins, had tapped into an astonishing esoteric wisdom.

Could any of this be true?

The credibility of those claims deserves rational attention-which is what I intend to provide. Neither mystic nor prophet, I am a Mayanist. More specifically, I am a professional art historian and an epigrapher (less formally, a glypher), one who can read and write Maya hieroglyphs. For over a decade, I have focused my scholarly research specifically on Maya culture and writing, making some surprising discoveries that can present a more definitive perspective on the prophecies of the ancient Maya seers. As we approach the critical year, it is time to offer a more viable account of the Maya prophecy and expose both the fallacies and ethnocentricism tainting the current sensational accounts.

Here I intend to explain what we actually know about (1) Maya knowledge and attitudes, both ancient and modern, (2) the date 13.0.0.0.0. and (3) their many Creation stories and prophecies. I shall draw from recent decipherment, ethnography, interviews with Maya priests and knowledge-keepers, and especially from their surviving prophetic literature. That literature includes The Books of Chilam Balam, among others, the pre-Columbian Codices, and ancient inscriptions. The evidence is sometimes fragmentary and often puzzling to us moderns, at least at first. But I believe the effort will be worth it.

First, let me affirm that the year 2012 does hold particular significance in Mayan scholarship. Those of us who study the ancient and modern Maya — anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, linguists, historians, amateurs, collectors — have been anticipating the end of the Maya Great Cycle for some time. We write it 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in. We have known for half a century that this date probably correlates to December 21 (or December 23) in the year 2012 in the Gregorian calendar.
It's Not The End Of The World http://www.famsi.org/research/vanstone/2012/index.html

Be careful of swine flu

2009-04-28T00:35:00.000-07:00

warning of swine flu epidemic

Apr 27th 2009 at 11:18 AM

http://www.apocalypse2012.com/blog/

Suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico top 100
April 27 2009 at 10:04AM

By David Koop

Mexico City - Mexico's government is trying to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as a new work week begins by urging people to stay home Monday if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to have killed more than 100 people.

NZ racing to stop spread of swine flu
April 27 2009 at 10:08AM

Wellington - Hundreds of plane passengers who flew with a school group believed to have caught the deadly swine flu were being tracked down on Monday as New Zealand raced to prevent the spread of the disease.

Global alerts amid flu strain
April 27 2009 at 06:59AM

By Mica Rosenberg and Alistair Bell

Mexico City - Parents cancelled children's parties, nightclubbers were booted out and people stocked up on DVDs as residents here huddled at home for the weekend in the midst of a serious flu scare.

The capital, one of the world's biggest cities, suspended public events and closed bars and restaurants to try to halt the spread of a new flu virus that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico, with more than 1 300 believed to have been infected. In the United States, at least 11 people have been infected.

DECEMBER NEWS

2008-12-03T02:39:00.001-08:00

Larry Joseph, author of the best selling APOCALYPSE 2012 was interviewed on
CARTE BLANCHE, the flagship of the M-Net channel.
While I feel that the interview was a little short, you might want to get yourself a
copy via Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

We do need to respect earth or we will not have an Earth to live on.

15 January 2008: Get your Paperback copy NOW

2008-01-13T23:16:00.000-08:00

Watch the Video of Larry on 2012:

The thesis of this book is that the year 2012 will be pivotal, perhaps catastrophic, possibly revelatory, to a degree unmatched in human history.

1. Ancient Mayan prophecies based on two millennia of meticulous astronomical observations indicate that 12/21/12 will mark the birth of a new age, accompanied, as all births are, by blood and agony as well as hope and promise.

2. Since the 1940’s, and particularly, since 2003, the Sun has behaved more tumultuously than any time since the rapid global warming that accompanied the melting of the last Ice Age. Solar physicists concur that solar activity will next peak, at record-setting levels, in 2012.

3. Storms on the Sun are related to storms on the Earth. The great wave of 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma coincided with one of the stormiest weeks in the recorded history of the Sun.

4. The Earth’s magnetic field, our primary defense against harmful solar radiation, has begun to dwindle, with cracks comparable in scale to the ozone hole opening up randomly. A pole shift, in which such protection falls nearly to zero as the North and South magnetic poles reverse position, may well be under way.

5. Russian geophysicists believe that the Solar System has entered an interstellar energy cloud. This cloud is energizing and destabilizing the Sun and all the planets’ atmospheres. Their predictions for catastrophe resulting from the Earth’s encounter with this energy cloud range from 2010 to 2020.

6. Berkeley physicists, who discovered that the dinosaurs and 70% of all other species on Earth were extinguished by an impact 65 million years ago, maintain, with 99% certainty, that we are now overdue for another such mega-catastrophe.

7. The Yellowstone supervolcano, which erupts catastrophically every 600,000 to 700,000 years, is preparing to blow. The most recent eruption of comparable magnitude, at Lake Toba, Indonesia, 74,000 years ago, led to the death of more than 90% of the world’s population at the time.

8. Eastern philosophies such the I Ching, Chinese book of changes, and also Hindu theology, have been plausibly interpreted as supporting the 2012 end date, as have a range of indigenous belief systems.

9. At least one scholarly interpretation of the Bible predicts that the Earth will be annihilated in 2012. The burgeoning Armageddonist movement of Muslims, Christians and Jews actively seeks to precipitate the final End-Times battle.

10. Have a nice day.

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2008-01-06T00:36:00.000-08:00

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Don t look up It won t help. You can t get out of the way, you can t dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there is nothing you can do about it.

The signs of Apocalypse 2012 are here

2007-12-21T18:55:00.000-08:00

The weather in South Africa has been changing. No more do we have long warm summers nights, in fact, you can easily experience 4 climate changes in one week. It gets cold. Unheard of ut yes. Earthquakes in New Zealand, the Poles melting..

Have you bought your copy of Apocalypse 2012 yet? Do not be blind to what Mother Earth is telling us. Get your copy now!

When I look ahead, I don't see Planet Earth imploding on itself in 2012... and I don't think that mankind is doomed to extinction on that date, nor that we will all face a mass day of judgment. But I would be in serious denial if I didn't notice that serious change was upon us, and that as a species we are more at risk now than perhaps ever in our history. "Something" is going on. The planet itself is shifting position, the magnetic poles are shifting, the polar ice caps are melting . Al Gore's wake up call in "An Inconvenient Truth", is long overdue... The media is running public service ads now in Canada suggesting that we need to prepare our survival kits at business and at home to be able to sustain ourselves for at least 48 hours should there be a mass power outage. For the first time in my lifetime, there is the feeling that the environment might pose a far greater threat than any world war might.

Change is being forced upon us, whether we want it - or know it- or not... The red flags are flying tall and strong in almost every nook and cranny on the planet. Those who have been sleeping through this transition have little choice but to awaken and prepare. But for what, and how?

I believe that the Mayans understood, as few other races have, the cycles of change that run through time... and also that they had a deep understanding of human nature... they could see that our way of life would evolve at such a pace that we would put our world as it existed at great risk, and that there could come a "fork in the road", a moment in time, beyond which events could not be predicted... telling us that we have a choice in this time. Dec 21, 2012, could very well mark the end of the world as we know it. This date marks a turning point - a time when we can't predict what will happen, - a time when it is up to us to decide what direction to take and what our future world will look like.

It is not surprising to me that our governments are urging us to have our survival kits at the ready... powerful destructive forces are at work now, the very face of the planet is changing, and with it, our way of life. By Dec 21, 2012 these forces may be at their peak, the winds and waters will roar and we will be challenged as never before to create anew... a new way if working with our environment, a new way of being with each other, new ways of life.

Larry Joseph chats to Montel Williams

2007-10-30T22:35:00.001-07:00

Have you got a copy of Apocalypse2012? Buy it online or from your nearest bookshop.

Larry Joseph, author of this fascinating book, chats to Montel Williams and the show is aired on 2 November 2007. Make sure to watch it!

Apocalypse 2012: Ole! and National TV

2007-10-23T22:06:00.000-07:00

Larry is traveling all over to present his book Apocalypse 2012. The past week he was in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona , courtesy of Planeta, the publisher of the Spanish translation of this popular book that was published in January,2007 in the USA.

Larry says:"In Madrid, I did nine interviews back to back, including the national news agency and the largest television news station, during which interview, fighter jets kept buzzing the capital to everyone's shock and amazement. So loud that they had to stop the interview three times. It was as though I had brought my own apocalyptic special effects with me. The Reporter concluded that the way to stop the apocalypse would be to kill me ;)"

La Vanguardia, the largest newspaper, gave Apocalypse2012 and Larry Joseph the whole back cover to talk about the book.
Do you have a copy of Apocalypse 2012 yet?

Look out for Larry on the MONTEL WILLIAMS show! Apocalypse 2012 is now doing National TV :)

Apocalypse 2012

2007-08-19T22:29:00.000-07:00

You just need to listen to Skynews, and yes I punt them because they fast, they update all the time and you can see what is going on in the world, to realize that our world is certainly NOT a happy place.

Britain nearly drowned. Then the earthquakes in South America with all the after quakes made headline news. Hurricane Dean ( I always thought the female ones were the worst is creating havoc in the Islands and heading for America.

I will not even bring the chaos of African politics into the picture because at least this is created by man.

Have you read Apocalypse2012 by Larry Joseph? Or are you waiting for the paperback copy that will hit bookshelves in 2008.

I think that we need to adhere to the warnings to sit up and fix our stuff ups if we want to go anywhere beyond 2012.

Some people are doing so by fixing the wildlife in Mozambique which was destroyed by stupid wars. Why Break it so we have to fix it? If every person on earth just STOP and think before they add to the situation here on earth, it will be one LESS thing to fix.

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Apocalypse 2012 : Change is being forced upon us, whether we want it - or know it- or not

2007-07-08T09:47:00.000-07:00

When I look ahead, I don't see Planet Earth imploding on itself in 2012... and I don't think that mankind is doomed to extinction on that date, nor that we will all face a mass day of judgment. But I would be in serious denial if I didn't notice that serious change was upon us, and that as a species we are more at risk now than perhaps ever in our history. "Something" is going on. The planet itself is shfting positon, the magnetic poles are shifting, the polar ice caps are melting . Al Gore's wake up call in "An Inconvenient Truth", is long overdue... The media is running public service ads now in Canada suggesting that we need to prepare our survival kits at business and at home to be able to sustain ourselves for at least 48 hours should there be a mass power outage. For the first time in my lifetime, there is the feeling that the environment might pose a far greater threat than any world war might.

Change is being forced upon us, whether we want it - or know it- or not... The red flags are flying tall and strong in almost every nook and cranny on the planet. Those who have been sleeping through this transition have little choice but to awaken and prepare. But for what, and how?

I believe that the Mayans understood, as few other races have, the cycles of change that run through time... and also that they had a deep understanding of human nature... they could see that our way of life would evolve at such a pace that we would put our world as it existed at great risk, and that there could come a "fork in the road", a moment in time, beyond which events could not be predicted... telling us that we have a choice in this time. Dec 21, 2012, could very well mark the end of the world as we know it. This date marks a turning point - a time when we can't predict what will happen, - a time when it is up to us to decide what direction to take and what our future world will look like.

It is not surprising to me that our governements are urging us to have our survival kits at the ready... powerful destructive forces are at work now, the very face of the planet is changing, and with it, our way of life. By Dec 21, 2012 these forces may be at their peak, the winds and waters will roar and we will be challenged as never before to create anew... a new way if working with our environment, a new way of being with each other, new ways of life. The bible speaks of this time as the opening to the Golden Age... let us pray. It is up to us to bring it on.

A most exciting moment in mankind's history!

So, if the Mayans were right and we're nearing the end of the 13th long count cycle, what can we do to make this a relatively easy transtion, to ensure that we're around to participate in the next long count cycle?

I believe there are two signficant strategies that we each can adopt in our personal and business lives to shift the tide from dark to light as we move towards the 2012 "deadline".

1. Go Green... Think about the ways you can conserve our resources. Be conscientious about turning out lights, recycling whatever you can. Avoid using chemicals. Get back to nature in every way possible. Plant a garden, grow some of your own food. Think global, buy local... Get involved in protecting our water supplies, preserving all life on the planet. Attend to the needs of our trees and plants, insects, birds and animals. Imagine what 6 billion people could do if we all focused on saving our lives and the planets'!

2. Love... Be loving in all of your thoughts and actions. Avoid judgment. Live fearlessly. Laugh a lot! Find little reasons to be joyfuil, and grateful. Be graceful. The more love we generate on the planet, the more light we can attract around us, the more likely this can be an easy shift.

The Mayan calendar documented the many cycles within cycles. The wise ancients who created the calendar ended it when they saw a definitive conclusion to one of the many larger cycles of our evolution, the moment when when they could clearly see the power shifting. 2012 is the turning point, the birth of a new calendar... and it is up to you and me to create it. in love and light. 2012 heralds am exciting new beginning here on planet earth - and probably the entire universe.http://www.globalpsychics.com/enlightening-you/predictions/2012.shtml

Apocalypse 2012, UK review

2007-05-09T16:39:00.000-07:00

There is some interesting material in this book that makes it well worth reading. The author travelled to Hermanus, south Africa, to interview a geophysicist called Pieter Kotze at the Magnetic Observatory, who confirmed that the Earth’s magnetic field is diminishing and that some researchers think this is a sign of an imminent magnetic reversal, but is he not sure himself. If the field is reversing, this will mean that wildlife such as migrating birds and salmon returning to spawning points will become lost; weather will continue to get more chaotic, with fiercer hurricanes, tornados and electrical storms. Kotze went on to describe a 100,000-mile crack in the Earth’s magnetic field called the South Atlantic anomaly, over the ocean between Brazil and South Africa, which is allowing solar energy to enter, which has already damaged satellites. Kotze says that this will increase the likelihood of damage to power-grids during solar storms. He also says that the Ozone hole over Antarctica may be connected with this penetration of solar proton radiation.

Larry Joseph has found a psychic called Anne Stander, living near Johannesburg, South Africa, who specialises in volcanic and seismic predictions. Her group – 123Alert, has a good prediction record, including the eruption of mount St. Helens in March 2005, which surprised geologists, as there was no preceding seismic activity. She predicts that the rising seismic and volcanic activity will peak in 2011, particularly on the Pacific rim, from Alaska down to California and Mexico.

Joseph investigates the possibility of the Yellowstone super-volcano erupting, and the possibility is very disturbing. According to Steve Sparks, a professor of geology at the University of Bristol, the huge caldera (200 square miles), can be compared to a balloon – not one full of water, that would ooze out slowly, but one full of gas that would explode with a pinprick. This occurs approximately every 600,000 years, and last happened 640,000 years ago. Monitoring with seismographs and heat detectors all over Yellowstone Park shows that the huge abscess is showing all the signs of being about to burst. This would turn most of Wyoming and Montana into a pile of black, steaming volcanic rubble, poison most of North America with radioactive fallout (since the super-volcano is right on top of a huge uranium deposit), cause the failure of the Asian monsoons, bringing famine and disease to that part of the world, and probably plunge the northern hemisphere into a volcanic winter that could last for several years. The last time a similar scale eruption occurred was the Toba super- volcano, 74,000 years ago, says Joseph, one that he says was triggered by a prior period of global warming, and the volcanic winter triggered a cold snap that plunged the world into an ice age lasting 60,000 years. The Bush administration has just authorised another 10,000 oil wells in Yellowstone, in addition to the existing 5,600, and scientists have proposed drilling very deep holes “to test out a hypothesis that the supervolcano’s hot spot is fuelled by mantle plumes”. This is analogous to pricking the gas-balloon.

Joseph thinks that 2005 was a key year in the unfolding of increasing earth changes leading to 2012. A cluster of catastrophes was focussed on Central America. Just after Hurrican Rita, the Llamatepec volcano erupted in El Salvador on October 1, and was followed by Hurricane Stan 4 days later affecting El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico. After another 3 days, an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Guatemala and El Salvador, and then Hurricane Wilma arrived. Joseph lists the sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) of 2005, including a proton blast on January 20 that travelled to earth 50 times faster than normal (p.106), and a solar flare that occurred on September 7, 2005 – an X17 – that was the second largest ever recorded. In fact, there had been at least two flares larger than this – an X22 on April 2, 2001 and an X45 on November 4, 2003 (he mentions this one on p.117).

Read the whole review at http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/apoc.html

Aocalypse2012: SOld out in USA, now in the UK!

2007-02-13T21:33:00.000-08:00

The book sells like HOT cake in the USA. It got brilliant ratings. Now it is available in the UK via Amazon, so hurry and get your copy today!

Devastating earthquakes. Record-breaking tsunamis. Category 5 hurricanes. Spiking global temperatures. World war. Predictions of how it will all end have been around for thousands of years. In Apocalypse 2012, Lawrence E. Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike.

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2007-02-09T13:22:00.000-08:00

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2007-02-07T06:45:00.000-08:00

Apocalypse 2012: 3 1/2 Star rating

2007-01-28T22:28:00.000-08:00

TERMINAL ESCHATOLOGY: THE END OF THE "END TIMES"?, January 26, 2007

Reviewer:

RBSProds "RBS" (Deep in the heart of Texas) -

Three and a half ENGROSSING Stars!!!
In "Apocalpse 2012", scientific investigator Lawrence E. Joseph makes it clear in the introduction that he believes in God and is not "New Agey". And he spends a considerable amount of time laying a scientific 'cause for concern' about the future of the Earth and the Solar System. I had anticipated only a laundry list of calamities awaiting us in 2012. Instead what I got in the beginning of the book can only be described as a "creep fest". He initially proposes some things so creepy it actually made my skin crawl. It's bad enough thinking of natural disasters awaiting us in the future in the form of explosions of Mount St Helens or Monteserrat, or another Hurricane Katrina or tsunami, but what if we cause it ourselves"?

The author tells us the physical scenario of 2007 is unsettling: the sun is in an atypically turbulent period of activity with the next solar upheaval due in 2012; the solar system's very movement through space may be endangering it; "California-sized cracks have inexplicably opened up in the Earth's magnetic field", the Yellowstone supervolcano "is preparing to erupt", threatening nuclear winter; and that we are overdue for a gigantic cataclysm that regularly reduces the population of Earth's species by at least half. And he's just warming up with these topics. But the prophesying is based on other more earthly factors.

Not one to be an armchair analyst, Mr Joseph has actually been to Guatemala and talked with a Mayan priest about the calendars (yes, there's more than one) and taken part in rituals, he's been to South Africa's Hermanus Magnetic Observatory to investigate the data on the magnetic cracks, Durango Colorado's SORCE solar conference, and many other places: along the way talking to everyone from scientists to shamans to validated psychics. The scientific data alone amassed on earthquakes, sun activity, hurricanes, and such is impressive and fascinating and makes this book a worthwhile, engrossing read just to get at those particular parts. And then there are interesting things like the Shiva hypothesis. It's his conclusions that are somewhat suspect, but he's welcome to his opinions and he may be right in the end. If only one of these predictions comes true, it could be "lights out" for mankind.

And the book does give us warnings and information that you won't read or hear about in very many other places. Beyond this, despite what the Mayan calendar says and if nature doesn't strike first, ironically we may be ONE KEY FATAL MISTAKE away from destroying life on planet Earth OURSELVES by our actions or inactions.

Highly recommended for the scientific parts of the book which are absolutely RIVETING. "BE SAFE", indeed. Three and a half ENGROSSING Stars

(Note: this review of based on an eBook digital download of 424 pages, within which 37 pages are notes, references, and additional information.)

5 star rating for Apocalypse2012

2007-01-23T21:26:00.000-08:00

***** Factual Yet Funny But Mostly ... Frightening *****, January 23, 2007

Reviewer:

John Jay Harper "www.johnjayharper.com" (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews

Since I opened the first page of this book, I was captured by its style as much as its content. For as I write and speak extensively on the coming global supersolar storm circa 2012, too, and issue warning after warning that our weapons of mass manufacturing-era is all but dead and gone, the words that Lawrence E. Joseph uses to describe these civilization-changing calamities disarms me as it alarms me.

Now that takes a damn good wordsmith to properly employ gallows humor, as he calls it, while all the time he gets us to braid our own noose and volunteer to stick our necks into it simultaneously. I mean this book is more a manual for the dead than the living since he seemingly expects the majority of us to meet the undertaker in 2012. Albeit that will take the form of a solar storm that will cremate us rather than bury us alive as some see earthquakes and tsunamis doing in fact. Nonetheless, as I have seen in my own visions, the greatest concern that we both have is that if the SuperVolcano known as Yellowstone erupts at the time of the solar maximum sunspot eruption, then it will be lights out for 90% of the world population according to some estimates. Why? It will be as I say over and over again from starvation, a slow angonizing death for sure.

Ask the millions that are doing so today in Third World countries ... or will it be the case, as I suggest in my book, that we will wise-up in the next few years, begin to respect the natural world order, band together in communities focused on family to survive the shift of the ages in 2012. Whatever the case, this book is a valuable worst-case scenario guide to the looming disasters that will come to pass as we spiral faster and faster towards an inevitable rendevouz with destiny; the most energetic and transforming region of the cosmos for us -- the central core bulge, called a "black hole" for a reason, in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Of course, this is what the Maya shaman knew as the Mouth of the Crocodile as it swallows you whole as you sink deeper and deeper and deeper into trance to commune with cosmic consciousness that resides there as well. To the Maya this is the Home of Hunab Ku -- the Sun Behind the Sun, or ... God. Yes, we are to worship the Sun God as it will be that living light that will bring both death and rebirth to the blue-marble planet we call the Good Green Earth soon.

Dr. John Jay Harper is author of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century and his award-winning blog on the End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012.

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2007-01-20T00:20:00.000-08:00

2007-01-19 19:50:33

I am receiving complaints that my book, Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization’s End, is causing a lot of fear. Nothing I have written in my 25-year career has caused so much distress as this book appears destined to do. Although my vision for 2012 has many positive, uplifting aspects, there is no denying the very scary side and for that I do apologize.

People already have more than enough to worry about, and I am truly sorry for any psychological and emotional discomfort my book may cause. I particularly regret burdening parents, whose worry-load for their children is barely manageable under normal circumstances, and also young people, who are supposed to have so much of their lives ahead of them.

But fear, though unpleasant, is not always a bad thing. It is downright helpful if it alerts one to the significant possibility of danger. That ancient Mayan prophecy and contemporary solar physics both point to the year 2012 as a potentially catastrophic year, is, by my lights, a significant possibility of danger. Better that we should be goaded now into preparing and defending ourselves than remain blissfully oblivious and get cosmic sucker-punched five short years from now.

Regardless of how much credence one places in predictions concerning 2012, the fact of the matter is that, at this point in history, our defenses are down, and no one is building them back up. Even after the unimaginable disaster that Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, there has been little preparation for what might come next. Is it your opinion that, in the area where you live, the public places where people might seek refuge – schools, auditoriums, athletic stadiums, etc. – have been adequately equipped with food, water, medicine and other necessities for survival?

True, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency that so badly botched the New Orleans disaster relief operation, is in the process of being dismantled. But has a new and better relief organization taken its place? We are sitting ducks.

Afraid? Good!

2007-01-12T13:09:00.000-08:00

If there were a chance that opening this book could set off a chain of events that would lead to Apocalypse, to the end of Life as we know it, would you be tempted? Finger poised uncertainly above the flashing red button? How about if the Apocalypse promised to result in a new age of enlightenment, a Heaven on Earth like never before?

Personally, I’ll take the security of my cozy life over a chance at nirvana. But status quo may no longer be an option, for any of us. This book will convince you that there is a nonnegligible chance that the year 2012 will be more tumultuous, catastrophic, and, quite possibly, revelatory, than any other year in human history.

Parts of this book are best read with a bowl of popcorn: looking into the jaws of a great white shark in search of the meaning of death; touring a picturesque Guatemalan town with Mayan shaman just weeks before it is utterly destroyed. Other sections go better with a tranquilizer, such as the impending eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, or the mass extinction headed our way—on the scale of the great collision that destroyed the dinosaurs and 70 percent of all other species, our best scientists contend that it’s now overdue. Nail-biters should beware the fact that the next peak in the sunspot cycle, due in 2012, is widely expected to set records for the number and intensity of solar storms pummeling the Earth with radiation and igniting natural calamities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and Katrina-sized hurricanes. And that our entire solar system appears to be moving into a dangerous interstellar energy cloud.

Is it a coincidence that the burgeoning war between Christianity and Islam seems hell-bent for Armageddon? Or that numerous other religions, philosophies, and cultural traditions are signaling that the end is near, with 2012 emerging as the consensus target date? A new era is about to be born, with all the pain and blood and joy and release that birth naturally entails.

Facing oblivion, or at least mega-metamorphosis, is something that few of us are emotionally prepared to do. Thus my excuse for the gallows humor that pervades this story. In a memorable Mary Tyler Moore episode, Mary cracks up laughing at the funeral of Chuckles the Clown who, dressed as a peanut while marching in a parade, was shucked to death by an elephant. If Mary can giggle in the face of death, so can we.

With kind regards,
Lawrence E. Joseph

The Case Against 2012

2007-01-07T13:24:00.000-08:00

Guilty of Apocalypse: The Case Against 2012

The thesis of this book is that the year 2012 will be pivotal, perhaps catastrophic, possibly revelatory, to a degree unmatched in human history.

Ancient Mayan prophecies based on two millennia of meticulous astronomical observations indicate that 12/21/12 will mark the birth of a new age, accompanied, as all births are, by blood and agony as well as hope and promise.
Since the 1940’s, and particularly, since 2003, the Sun has behaved more tumultuously than any time since the rapid global warming that accompanied the melting of the last Ice Age. Solar physicists concur that solar activity will next peak, at record-setting levels, in 2012.
Storms on the Sun are related to storms on the Earth. The great wave of 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma coincided with one of the stormiest weeks in the recorded history of the Sun.
The Earth’s magnetic field, our primary defense against harmful solar radiation, has begun to dwindle, with cracks comparable in scale to the ozone hole opening up randomly. A pole shift, in which such protection falls nearly to zero as the North and South magnetic poles reverse position, may well be under way.
Russian geophysicists believe that the Solar System has entered an interstellar energy cloud. This cloud is energizing and destabilizing the Sun and all the planets’ atmospheres. Their predictions for catastrophe resulting from the Earth’s encounter with this energy cloud range from 2010 to 2020.
Berkeley physicists, who discovered that the dinosaurs and 70% of all other species on Earth were extinguished by an impact 65 million years ago, maintain, with 99% certainty, that we are now overdue for another such mega-catastrophe.
The Yellowstone supervolcano, which erupts catastrophically every 600,000 to 700,000 years, is preparing to blow. The most recent eruption of comparable magnitude, at Lake Toba, Indonesia, 74,000 years ago, led to the death of more than 90% of the world’s population at the time.
Eastern philosophies such the I Ching, Chinese book of changes, and also Hindu theology, have been plausibly interpreted as supporting the 2012 end date, as have a range of indigenous belief systems.
At least one scholarly interpretation of the Bible predicts that the Earth will be annihilated in 2012. The burgeoning Armageddonist movement of Muslims, Christians and Jews actively seeks to precipitate the final End-Times battle.
Have a nice day.