The same thing happened with the Mayans and people like Jose Arguelles project linear time back onto their culture — using scalars, for example. The best book on traditional Mayan culture is Martin Prechtel’s “Secret of the Talking Jaguar” which records Guatemalan shamanism right before the CIA catastrophe there in the 1980s — from a linear application of time as apocalypse.

The Mayans were traditionally scared of zero for a reason - it’s the symbol linking to female formless awareness. The secret of 2012 is found in complimentary opposite harmonics, not a western projection back onto nonwestern cultures. The same “Solar” geometric definition of time occurred with the Incas, against the earlier matrilineal culture based on the moon, as recorded in the academic book: “Sun, Moon, and Witches.”

Thanks for the reference, too.

I think that not only were the Hindus right, but there’s practically no culture on Earth that doesn’t remember the last devastation in some fashion. Cyclical nature is, of course, big in Eastern philosophy, but it’s even more direct in other places around the world.

A few even do their best to “date” the regular occurrence and I think quite a few have done their best to pass the story and hints as to what caused it down over the past 12,000 years as well.

The next few chapters of my article are a little slow in coming, but they’re on the way shortly. I certainly hope that they shed a little light on what might have happened in the past, and what might happen again in the future. Of course, 2012 is a bit of a guess given the accuracy of our calendar over the past 12,000 years, but nonetheless, it’s a starting point that ends up being within a reasonable +/- error in some calculations.

It’s even more amazing that McMoneagle hasn’t responded. Actually, probably it isn’t, since the man has integrity and no time for fundamentalist idiots. I interviewed him in 1998, and he was cool about my “skeptical” questions, as was Lyn Buchanan.

Oh well. In any event, some interesting ideas and food for thought.

Should have checked with you before writing this! This is just the sort of info I was lookng for when I wrote the post.

It seems that when science takes the time to look into “outsider” theories, some of them are actually based (at least in part) in proveable fact. Fearless science–what a concept.

Thanks!

The dinosaur-killing comet at the KT boundary seems like a genuine “catastrophe” that now has scientific support (and it was widely attacked when first proposed in the late 1970s).

And now the evidence for a series of much recent catastrophes is building up. Richard Firestone and colleagues have impressive evidence for a deadly supernova around 41,000 years ago and a more recent bombardment 13,000 years ago that wiped out the North American megafauna and the Clovis hunters:
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1726.html

A “superflood” 8000 years ago caused by a massive glacial lake in Canada breaking its bounds was powerful enough to bring the Gulf Stream to a halt:
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13013-ancient-flood-brought-gulf-stream-to-a-halt.html

And the proposed massive eruption of Toba in Indonesia around 75,000 years ago is beleived to have nearly wiped out our immediate ancestors, accounting for the “genetic bottleneck” in modern humans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

I’ve become a catastrophist myself because all these events seem to have left markers on our recent prehistory. I’m also reasonably convinced that collapses of several civilisations can be traced to dramatic events like supervolcanos or cometary impacts. The tree rings examined by Mike Baillie tell an interesting story of global climatic events and Oxford astronomers Clube and Napier describe the breakup of a large comet in our solar system over the past 20,000 years as the culprit.

In short, I reckon that science is catching up catastrophism!

It’s no wonder they’re releasing this film BEFORE the year 2012