2012 reality check...

It's Not the End of the World:
What the Ancient Maya Tell Us About 2012
by Mark Van Stone


The Maya Cosmic Prophecy: From Sensation to Sensibility

Maya Scholars, in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and North America, have been watching with amusement and dismay as self-styled experts proclaim that ancient Maya prophets foretold an earth-shattering happening to occur December 21, 2012. This predicted phenomenon gets described in contradictory but often cataclysmic fashion--as an ecological collapse, a sunspot storm, a rare cosmic conjunction of the earth, sun, and the galactic center, a new and awesome stage of our evolution, and even a sudden reversal of the Earth's magnetic field which will erase all our computer drives. One even predicts the earth's initiation into a Galactic Federation, whose elders have been accelerating our evolution with a "galactic beam" for the last 5000 years. In sum, the world as we know it will suddenly come to a screeching halt.

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The page behind the above quotation provides you with a thorough and scholarly explanations and debunking of most 2012 "prophecies" Like the galactic center thing:the Sun has been aligned with the galactic equator at summer solstice for 25 years. And with our current angle of the Earth axis, the galactic center is nowhere near where the sun is. The lectures are given in pdf Acrobat format, so make sure you have Adobe Reader installed. Enjoi.