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NASA Claims Polar Shift Due In 2012

Solar System - Did you notice? In February 2001, the Sun did a magnetic polar shift. The next one is due again in 2012. NASA scientists who monitor the Sun say that our star's awesome magnetic field flipped , signaling the arrival of a solar maximum.The Sun's magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun's southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again.
(Source: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm)

The Maya

The Long Count calendar has a direct relationship to the Tzolkin, since it consists of 260 katuns rather than the 260 days of the Tzolkin. The Long Count was fully developed by the mid fourth-century BC, according to Edmonson, although the oldest stela dating a contemporary historical event, shows a Long Count date equivalent to 36 BC. The Long Count consists of a hierarchy of cycles; 20 kin or days made one uinal, or 20-day period; 18 uinals made a tun (360-day year); 20 tuns made a katun, and 20 katuns made a baktun. After 13 baktuns had passed, a Creation Date is reached, which is written: 13.0.0.0.0. The last Creation Date occurred on a Gregorian historical date of 11th August 3114 BC, and this is the “base-date” of the 13-baktun cycle, from which all dates inscribed on stelae were counted. The next time the Long Count date reaches 13.0.0.0.0 will be on 21st December 2012. The 2012 Winter Solstice will also occur on this day at 11:11

The Hopi Emergence

According to Frank Waters’ Book of the Hopi, the Native American Hopi people say that we are in the fourth of seven eras ­ the Fourth World, and that we are approaching the transition to the Fifth World. The First World ended by fire; the Second World ended when the Earth “teetered off balance”, causing floods and an ice age, and the Third World ended in a flood. There will be a “Great Purification” just before the start of the Fifth World. The transition is called an Emergence and every year, in November, the Hopi have a ceremony called Wuwuchim, held in an underground chamber called a kiva, in which they re-enact the Emergence, which is seen as a birth process, and “initiates undergo a spiritual rebirth”. There is a hole in the floor of the kiva, symbolising the previous ascent, or Emergence from the Third World to the Fourth World. The ladder leading up and out of the kiva represents the forthcoming Emergence from the Fourth World into the Fifth World. The ceremony includes a “New Fire Ceremony” and culminates at midnight, with the Pleiades constellation overhead, showing a direct connection with the Toltec (and later Aztec) New Fire Ceremony, which Jenkins has decoded as a precession-tracking method, as encoded in the Pyramid of Kukulcan, “stone alarm clock” with its 2012 rattle-snake alarm.
(reference http://www.2012theodyssey.com/articles-beyond.html)by Geoff Stray

Timewave zero

Novelty theory attempts to calculate the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until his death in the year 2000.
Originally McKenna had chosen the end of the calendar by looking for a very novel event in recent history, and using this as the beginning of the final 67.29 year cycle; the event he chose was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which gave an end-date in mid-November of 2012, but when he discovered the proximity of this date to the end of the current 13-baktun cycle of the Maya calendar, he adjusted the end date to match this point in the calendar.
(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_theory)