The End of The World

I raise this because of the documentary made by the History Channel about the Mayan Prophecy, which is already on sale to the public (as well as several books on the same subject). The documentary seemed to me very interesting and appealing.

Basically the idea is that the Mayans, who had a clear time frame, more complex and more holistic than ours, provided for several events that have now passed, as the arrival of the white man – Her nan Cortes – on 8 November 1519. The Mayan calendar predicts that something very serious will happen in the winter solstice, December 21, 2012. So serious is the event that the world as we know it will disappear. This does not mean that the world will end, it simply means that a great event will transform the world.

However, it is known today that this date during the solstice the Earth is aligned with the Sun and the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is known that the center of the Galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Based on Einstein and some astronomical information, some say that alignment with this supermassive black hole will lead to a change in the Earth’s magnetic field, which happens periodically. This will lead to tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc..

Other Prophecies

Curious was the documentary they relate to prophecy. For example, the very ancient I Chin is a book about Chinese world views and philosophies of life, which contains some predictions if we use the theory “Time Wave Zero”. Using this technique we see that the Chinese book warns that the world will end on 21 December 2012.

They called also Merlin the magician of the court of King Arthur. Apparently these medieval prophets (there were several Merlin), predicted Napoleon, Hitler, the name of the first colony in America, etc.. Also predicted that this century will be a nuclear terrorist attack in the United Kingdom that will kill hundreds of thousands of people, that global warming is too obvious and that … will be a change in the Earth’s magnetic field will lead to a global disaster.

Another person mentioned was Sibyl, a prophet / oracle in Rome – such as Delphi in Greece. It also correctly predicted several events, including the end of the world to more or less the same date as the previous ones.

They also discussed a project called web bot making predictions from what is appearing on the web. Supposedly predicted the events of September 11 in June 2001. This project provides a global event for 2012.

All this make you think that many predictions are coincident, and the Maya the most relevant.