2012: Oracles, Prophets and the Web-Bot Project
While cleaning out old programming on my DVR, I came across this little beauty from the History Channel: Decoding the Past - Doomsday 2012: The End of Days.
Now, if you’ve never watched the History Channel, you’re seriously missing out. I first got hooked on the Decoding The Past series several months ago when they tried to decipher all the symbols on the US Dollar Bill. Since then, I’ve learned about the Mayan cultures, an ancient elixir believed to be the “real” Sorcerer’s Stone and some of the secrets surrounding Free Masonary and noted historical figures.
This episode was no less entertaining. Doomsday 2012 takes a look at all the different prophecies that say the world will end on December 21 (winter solstice), 2012. These prophecies apparently come from a variety of oracles and seers - from Merlin to the Mayans, the Priestesses of Apollo to the I-Ching - psychics from different locations and different times all seem to come to the same conclusion: the world as we know it will end in 2012.
But what I really found interesting was the Web-Bot Project - a computer program originally designed to forecast financial events for stock brokers. The Web-Bot it seems, started picking up other inklings around the World Wide Web and began returning other not-so-financial predictions, specifically predictions about the end of the world.
What kind of inklings you ask?
The web-bot is actually a system of spiders that work like a search engine, scanning forums, blogs and other sites where there is lots of content to be found. When the bots find a target word or something similar, it takes a snapshot of the text and reports back where it is collected and compiled.
The theory behind this technology is that humankind has a sort of precognitive ability. Various research suggests that we undergo language shifts about 45 to 90 days before a grand-scale and typically, emotional event. The bigger the impact of the event, the more “notice” we seem to have.
The web bots scour the Internet and look for this type of shift. Interpreting the data has been likened by the project’s gurus at UrbanSurvival.com to be similar to trying to make sense of the I-Ching. The information isn’t always black and white but rather suggestive and sometimes even a bit cryptic.
The really amazing thing about this technology however, is that it appears to be pretty accurate. The Web Bot Project has predicted a number of big events, included the fall of the Twin Towers on 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, Cheney and his shooting incident, the Space Shuttle explosion and the commodity shortages to name just a few.
Now, if you’re rolling your eyes at the whole “seeing into the future” idea, you should know that the Web Bot Project isn’t the first to rely on this assumption. Quite the contrary, a considerable amount of research has been done on this concept, including a fascinating study by Dean Radin at the Boundary Institute. This theory assumes that time is essentially “relative” and that future events can undergo a “tipping point” which will then bleed back into past events.
At the very least, you’ve got to admit its all pretty fascinating stuff.
So, what about the end of the world?
Well, the information that the web bots returned is a suggestion that a global event will take place in 2012. If you’ve done your homework on the Mayans, you know that their amazingly accurate and ancient calendar ends on December 21, 2012. The reason for this assumption is that on that date, the Sun is predicted to line up with the center of the galaxy’s equator, a “dark rift” as the Mayans called it and a profound astrological event. Additionally, it appears that if you chart the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching, they map the major events that have taken place in the Earth’s history and end, yes you guessed it - in 2012. This is especially impressive since the I-Ching was written back in 2800 B.C. by the first Chinese Emperor, Fu Hsi. For more on this one, see Terrence McKenna’s Time Wave Theory.
But before we go running into an underground shelter, let’s remember that these oracles - electronic and otherwise - don’t really say what kind of event we can expect. There’s nothing that says we can’t experience a global shift in consciousness without the world literally coming to an end.
And the word “end” itself doesn’t necessarily mean bye-bye Earth. It could mean that we see an end to the world as we know it but perhaps a better world is waiting ahead. One that isn’t motivated by greed and marred by corruption. One that embraces the spiritual side of humanity over the materialistic ego. And quite honestly, that wouldn’t be such a bad thing, now would it?
Do I think we’re going to see some global catastrophes in the near future? Truthfully, yes - especially as long as we continue to deplete the Earth’s resources the way we do. I also think the Earth cycles herself on occasion, clearing out the garbage and renewing herself as best she can. So yeah, maybe some trying times are ahead but I think we’re also on the verge of the next step in evolution. I think that’s what the “global event of 2012″ will be - one that connects us with the higher consciousness we’ve been trying so hard to ignore.
So, what do you think? Will 2012 be a catastrophe or an awakening? Or maybe, nothing at all?
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