It is, according to the widget on my desktop, 642 days until December 21, 2012. Anyone in the western world who doesn’t know why that date is significant has been living under a rock and that lack of knowledge can be remedied by a simple Google search followed by several days (if thoroughness is desired) of sorting through everything that the search will turn up. The point is there are a lot of people out there who believe that “something” is going to happen. The broad view is simple. Either “something” will happen or it won’t. If nothing happens, several thousand TONS of books on the subject will be (hopefully) recycled, trillions of megabytes will be repurposed to other uses and life will go on as it has always done although hopefully with some improvements! Working under the assumption that it will be necessary, planning for life after the Post Office continues with Skywise keeping an eye on the financial aspects and me working on the best ways to make our retirement income go as far as possible. That’s only prudent and we are nothing if not prudent, especially where our finances are concerned.
But what about the other alternative? Suppose something DOES happen, on or before the 21st of December, 2012. What then? There are a lot of folks out there who claim to know what will happen. Referred to as “ascension”, there are books and web sites all over the place claiming to have the answer. A popular scenario involves some variation of a “Galactic Federation” executing a mass landing at the “divinely appointed time” which will result in Humanity eventually taking its place as an important member state in Galactic society. Everything from a complete reordering of human society (including debt forgiveness, honest government and prosperity for all) to the restoration of Earth’s environment to moving the entire population of the planet into vast underground cities so that the restored surface of the Earth can remain pristine. And, we are constantly assured, everyone will participate in this Golden Age although some sources admit that not everyone will have achieved a sufficiently high level of “frequency/vibration” to gain entry into the paradise that they are assuring us is just around the corner. Not everyone agrees on the particulars but they all say use your “discernment” a.k.a. intuition/instinct/conscience to decide what is true with the assumption on their part that the reader will accept their scenario as the “true” one. One “messenger” has said if the energy inherent in the message flows through you easily, then it is in tune with you. Now the previously mentioned scenarios with the “Space Brothers” coming down from outer space to save our collective bacon does resonate to a certain degree to this First Generation Trekkie’s soul but.... there are places where the energy of that vision is hitting a big honking rock. Yeah, replicators and rejuvenation sound great and the idea of being, oh, twenty-three again (even if that thought does make the world tremble in fear) and having perfect eyesight and knees that don’t hurt isn’t something I’d turn down either. But.... living in an underground city? Never watching the sunlight sparkle on a running creek, never hearing the breeze rustling through the trees, never again to stand outside on a warm summer night, surrounded by the welcoming darkness with the moon shining down on my face.... No. In order to live without those things I would have to change in such a fundamental way that I would no longer be “me.” It would be a stranger who answered to my name and wore my face and not the girl who rearranged her bedroom regularly so that the light of the full moon would fall on her face while she slept or the woman that girl grew into. So the “dominant” scenario in its various forms does not completely resonate with me.
Fortunately, I have found one that does in a little known book published by Hampton Roads. It isn’t nearly as comforting as the others nor does it promise that everyone will be “saved” -- for want of a better word. It is, to be honest, rather unnerving, even a bit scary. Maybe a “lot” scary depending on your personality. But... it resonates with me and it makes sense to me, every word, and while I find bits and pieces of the same information in other places, no other source has all the pieces that resonate with me without any of the blockages. I noticed the book in Border’s. I’d never heard of the author and had only a slight grounding in the subject but I bought the book on impulse. I read it. It resonated. I bought the author’s previous book and then the third and hoped that more information would be forthcoming only to learn that the author had died shortly after the third book’s publication. I was disappointed but I figured that a “community” would soon develop around the author’s work and that more information would eventually be found there. Funny thing happened though. NO community developed. Or at least none that I can find online and google searches will turn up sites that trash the author and her final two books, claiming that she committed suicide and/or that the information contained in her final works was the product of alcoholic hallucinosis -- she was a recovering alcoholic who admitted that during the period prior to writing the books, she relapsed. What I find odd and a bit suspicious is the virulence with which these allegations are made. It is as if someone wants to discredit the information by painting the author as a psychotic alcoholic. No other author writing on this subject has been subjected to this level of vilification and certainly not from within the 2012 “community.” Attacking/discrediting the messenger is a time honored tactic when the message can’t be suppressed and these books are still in print although they can be hard to find. Apparently, they are selling well enough that the relatively small publishing house that brings them out finds it profitable to keep them in print. So I have to wonder. What if the information in those two little books about 2012 IS substantially true and the stuff coming off of the shiny web sites and being churned out by various other authors, isn’t? Given what she said about the “cosmic situation” right now, that makes a lot of sense. I’m going to need to do a lot more thinking but I’m pretty sure what my conclusion is going to be...
[The author I’m referring to in this post is Lynn Grabhorn who wrote “Excuse Me, your life is waiting” and the “Excuse Me, your life is waiting Playbook.” The two little books that have caused all the commotion are “Dear God, What’s Happening to Us?” and “Planet Two” both still in print from Hampton Roads the last time I checked. "Dear God" is also the book I'm referring to in my previous post. If you feel the least pull of curiosity about either book, check them out although “Planet Two” will make a LOT more sense if you read “Dear God” first. They may be what you’re looking for....]
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