I’ve pulled an all-nighter diving into various Mayan calendar theories. An evening of discovery, focusing mainly on the astronomy. Those old Mesoamerican ways of timekeeping are really cool. They are systems that are based on multiple cycles, and track time by the overlays of the cycles. It keeps their mind on the meta level. I think that part of our problem with time is time itself — that it’s in the nature of linear time to compress like this. The nature of the older methods used in our part of the world would inherently take the mind to a different level, due to playing with metacycles. It’s a more spacious version of time, capable of gracefully moving through long phases. Given this, it’s likely that 12/21/12 coincides with a time pulse of some kind. There is nothing specific to predict this except the calendar itself, and a slightly wider cosmology than Western culture tends toward. It’s easy to see why the presence of the date has given rise to so many visions — that would even seem to be the point.
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