2012

Quotations from a book I'm reading:

...Human concsiousness is rapidly transitioning to a new state, a new intensity of awareness that will manifest itself as a different understanding, a transformed realization, of time and space and self. By this thesis, the transition is already under way - though largely subliminally - and will become increasingly evident as we approach the year 2012...
If we were to experience a change in our way of thinking, the world could be transformed once again.
Approaching this subject requires "uninhibited fingers for the unfathomable," to borrow a phrase from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzshe. It was Nietzshe, that solitary visionary and destroyer of false values, who noted that much of what we take for knowledge - even in science - is actually a projection of our psychology onto the world. Our thinking tends to circle around established conventions whose basis is forgotten or obscure. Nietzshe proposed that the attainment of knowledge requires a "solid, granite foundation of ignorance" for its unfolding - "the will to knowledge on the foundation of a far more powerful will: the will to ignorance, to the uncertain, to the untrue! Not as its opposite, but - as its refinement!"
...Each person has to go through their own individual process, confronting their habitual mechanism of avoidance and denial, overcoming their fear and conditioned cynicism. This process happens in stages...
...For over a thousands years, the genuises of the Mayan and Toltec civilizations that predicted the Aztecs were fixated on codifying their understanding of time, memorializing it in their stone architecture and sculpture. According to their precise calculations, the Earh was approaching a cycle, and the potential gateway to a higher level of manifestation. This approaching milestone also marks a rare astronomical event: the alignment of the Earth and the Sun with the "dark rift" at the center of the Milky Way on the winter solstice of December 21, 2012. A large chapter in human history will be coming to an end. All the values and assumptions of the previous World Age will expire, and new phase of human growth will commence." This is a natural process, in which new life follows a death...
...Our modern world is based upon fundamentally flawed conceptions of time and mind, on these fatal defects we had erected a flawed civilization - like building a tower on an unsound foundation that becomes increasingly wobbly as it rises - then logic might indicate the necessity, as well as the inevitability, of change. Such a shift would not be be the "end of the world", but the end of a world, and the opening of the next one.
To be continued.