Mayan calendar prediction 'off by 50 to 100 years'

Oh noze!

The much-hyped "prediction" that, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, may be based on a miscalculation.
According to recent research, the mythological date of the "end of days" may be off by 50 to 100 years.

There goes that end-of-the-world party...

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Posted By Scotto at 2010-11-02 10:30:24 permalink | comments

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guest : 2010-11-11 07:18:15

isaac newton predicted 2060

gaugenmaier. : 2010-11-04 20:52:43

right on JMT, right on..........

Jedi Mind Traveler : 2010-11-04 12:55:07

The shock is that everything is turning into virtual reality - the metaverse - the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space. That's what psychedelics tell us, that we're already living in a virtual reality, the imagination of God, or something simply saying that all is mind or is alive or composed of energy.

This is apocalyptic, revealing, because it is the end of the solid, physical world that we have known. People are embedded in their worldviews. The mainstream, Western worldview, is that of duality and materialism - strict distinctions between mind and matter, subject and object, inside and outside. When duality is realized to be an illusion, when we realize that nothing is solid (especially our beliefs about reality) then that is the end of the world - the reveal-ation of the consciousness behind the veil of matter.

I think the last few years in history have really challenged people's beliefs about what reality is, especially the limited quality of their identities. Boundaries are dissolving throughout discourses - political, academic, scientific/spiritual - and that is the essential quality of psychedelics - to let us peak through the normal boundaries and see the infinite.

It will only feel like the end of the world if you hold onto a fixed reality. You must let the mystery in, or you'll have serious cognitive dissonance when confronted with the mystery, as we will soon see.

Anonymous. : 2010-11-04 08:51:01

"There's no reason that the acceleration will stop. We'll all certainly be future shocked."

But I don't see why this would be considered an apocalypse or an ending. If true, it would be best seen as a beginning.

Jedi Mind Traveler : 2010-11-02 19:58:50

Right, linear time perhaps breaks down into the present moment on psychedelics. On paper we might be recording linear time, year by year, but something far more peculiar is happening than just the tick tock of a monotonous clock. No, there is something seriously interesting going on here - the acceleration of novelty, from the earliest times we can postulate with the slow, plodding advancements of billions of years, to the blistering pace of revolutions and change we see today. Realizations and epiphanies of today are built on millions of years of humanity's struggle to know itself and the reality it finds itself in. To quote McKenna - "We are the inheritors of immense change."

There's no reason that the acceleration will stop. We'll all certainly be future shocked.

dreamdust. : 2010-11-02 18:13:26

Waiting, for a date to change things.
Looking, for a chemical panacea.
Searching, for answers anywhere but within...

someone. : 2010-11-02 15:28:05

Quick, somebody tell Daniel Pinchbeck. He's only got 2 years to change his latest book title.

Anonymous. : 2010-11-02 15:14:03

"I've seen the end of the world, the apocalypse, the reveal-ation at the end of time, many many many times. That's how I know it's real."

Then certainly you've noticed how that the linear narrative of time isn't always the best-suited temporal model with which to grok these truths!

One of the weaknesses of the current 2010 story is how it takes source material that was inherently cyclical and tries to cram it into a western, linear view of eschatology. But what's more interesting (and problematical) is the western psychonaut's penchant for taking the visionary experience -- which is again inherently non-linear -- and cramming it into western linear models. IMO much of the truth (and almost all of the beauty) of the original experience is lost in the translation.

There are many kinds of truths, from the mundane to the mythic, and I think it is a shame and a loss that we moderns too often think there is only one type of truth, and it is literal. Is a poem true? Is a song? Does the truth of a piece of art come from how well it reflects literal, physical events? Or are their other dimensions of truth?

It seems to me that those who try to fit the expanse of visionary experience into a straight-jacket of some kind of future journalism miss many of the finer points of what it means to behold a vision.

I don't take any of the 2012 narratives in any kind of literal way. And yes, I've done a lot of psychedelics.

HoboBoxerJoe. : 2010-11-02 14:43:50

So you know because you've seen it while hallucinating? Some of us require more evidence than YOUR hallucinations. Or even the hallucinations of millions.

I've done plenty of mushrooms and DMT before, and I don't equate my hallucinations to absolute truth. Just inner truth.

Jedi Mind Traveler : 2010-11-02 13:40:39

And how many psychedelics has the author experienced? zero probably. I've seen the end of the world, the apocalypse, the reveal-ation at the end of time, many many many times. That's how I know it's real.

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