End date of Mayan calendar in fact 28 Oct 2011

I just recently found out that it's a common misunderstanding that the Mayan calendar ends on Dec 12, 2012. In fact, it ends on Oct 28, 2011.

Someone has a theory on why this misunderstanding has come about?

I've read some fascinating texts on the webpage of Carl Johan Calleman and I got a lot of insight reading his article on the 9 underworlds and 13 heavens. Being interested in numerology I also find it fascinating that both dates above become 8 when you add them together. 8 as in eternity.

Yeah well no proof...

Is October 28 astrologically significant aside from it being a purported end date of the Mayan calender?

I know little of the Mayan calender aside from the whole 2012 aspect.

(Although I did watch a very long video once where some guy talked about different "nights" and such)

reply to post by Reconnection

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you should always post links, and cite sources. for many reasons.
1. i would like to read this material
2. you will be challenged by many posters here. sources will help your case
3. it will draw more posts to your thread

that being said i dont see how so many experts could have this date wrong for so many years. expecally with all the claims on how accurate it is compared to our calander? please cite source..

mmm.. yeah and wasn't 12//21/12 found to correlate exactly with Terrence McKenna's computation of the I Ching?


OP where'd you get your original information?

or do you want people to keep on posting here asking you all these questions asking about information that should have been posted in the first place?



just sayin..

waste of time and space.

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Seems there was some discussion of counting errors. But this is all I've found so far:




Source

Garyo is right on with this one. According to the research of Dr. Calleman, the calendar does seem to end in October of 2011.

www.calleman.com...




What's interesting about this is that Calleman's research seems to suggest a shift in consciousness leading up to the end time event. Perhaps this means that our perception of time shifts as well. Scientifically, our solar system aligns with the galactic horizon in late 2012. However, the significance of this is highly debatable. Another interesting aspect is that we can not be 100% certain that our conversions are totally correct. Perhaps we have been off by one year or more this whole time.

I tend to believe that the consciousness of humanity will create the end time scenario in one fashion or another, and it will transpire when it needs to.

[edit on 19-5-2008 by Vipassana]

Sorry, my mistake. I'm new to this forum and I didn't want anyone to think that I'm promoting any specific websites. That's why I just stated the name of my source. You should try Google. I hear it works really well when you're searching for things...

If Prevenge thinks this is a waste of time and space why do you repeat what someone else has already informed me about?

These are my sources:

www.calleman.com
The page is in a frame so I can't link directly to it but click on Introduction to the left and scroll down to the title "The Mayan Calender End Date". It says that the misunderstanding has something to do with the sun being in zenith somewhere but this is where I don't get it. Hence the post.

For some further very interesting reading I suggest these articles by Calleman:
www.calleman.com...
www.calleman.com...

And finally, here's my other source:
www.mayan-calendar-code.com...
www.mayan-calendar-code.com...

Thanks to Garyo for the interesting quote and I fully agree with your ideas Vipassana.

reply to post by Illusionsaregrander

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I think you may be interested in the book "The Mystery of 2012" by Bradden & al., mentioned in another thread. (As I said in that thread, I am not necessarily a big fan of Bradden, so it's not like I am promoting his book just for the sake of it.)
The authors describe how the phenomenon came about in the first place.
It all grew from a minuscule mention by Jose Arguelles, first in 1975, and most notably from an expanded interpretation of those data in Arguelles' 1987 book. (They also say that Terence McKenna, for example, didn't know about "2012" until 1993, at which point he rewrote the text of his book to fit it in.)

So, it's all based on the interpretation of a single man...
And, as I explicitly said in the other thread, that does NOT automatically mean that what he says is untrue. But it does open legitimate questions about the entire phenomenon.


PS. It seems I have been misspelling Braden's surname.
Sorry about that.
(I've left it as it was - i.e. misspelled - so that anyone who's been committing the same error can learn from me. :-))









[edit on 19-5-2008 by Vanitas]

reply to post by Vanitas

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Interesting, I will check that out.

Gregg Braden's essay in that book is a joke. See nibiruchallenge.blogspot.com...