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2012 Update
January 1st, 2012 | 
Author: Welcome to 2012
I wanted to give a short update as I have not posted a blog or article for a while. I have been mostly writing my new book. The 12-chapter, 270 page manuscript is now complete, and I now going through it chapter by chapter to give in more personal stories and better up the writing. 5 chapters are now done, with 7 to go. I will list the chapter headings below so you will have more of an idea of what I am writing about.
Working on this book has also demanded much more inner personal work, as each chapter has been an inner exploration of my insight (or lack of) in any of the areas of writing. It has forced me to look at many things in order to try and be as clear and focused as possible with what is being written, and to honestly present when I am unsure about certain areas.
As for the new year…
Lots of talk will begin to happen now as people look at their new calendar and see January 2012 on it. 2012 is something that was an initial focus of my exploration when I began questing 14 years ago. It seemed like such a far away time- but here we are? Does it mean anything?
Maybe.
The main focus on this date has been interpretation of the Mayan Calendar, which has actually be badly mistranslated by academics and spiritual researchers. There is even wide disagreement about when their calender even ends (when matched with our own). End dates vary from a few days, to hundreds of years. But the date of December 21, 2012 (winter solstice) has made it into the publics’ minds- and there are reasons astronomically to suggest this as a possible date to end this calendar. What is important is that on all that has been found from the Maya, they write very little about the ending, and only a small amount about the beginning. They do not discuss some sort of apocalyptic or destruction, nor some sort of evolution lifting blissful consciousness. All they say is that it will be the end of time. Everything else about it is modern opinion. Keep that in mind.
However, the year 2012 is now imbeded in the human mental structure. People have been conditioned to think that something big is going to happen this year. So it is possible that the worldwide human subconscious structure may create an event of some kind- that may have nothing to do with any sort of prophecy of the Maya- simply to verify the inner egoic subconscious idea that something big has to happen this year.
So what can we do? Keep with the observation, of self, our thoughts, our environment. Keep searching for another false concept, idea, structure, that appears and back away from it. We do not want to live and act in a fearful or anxious way, nor do we want to be wandering around in denial of what is/will be happening in our insane global societies. We want to somehow stay BETWEEN these two extremes, a detached watchfulness. Keep to the work, keep shining light on that which is hidden, question every aspect of ourselves, and every aspect of society we have been told to believe and trust without question. That is what 2012 might be- a giant distraction to a key time of inner work. Don’t be distracted, keep on task.
A final reminder from the writings of Richard Rose, “The view is not the viewer, the observed is not the observer.”
Cheers
CHAPTER HEADINGS OF NEW BOOK
1 Loose Footing
2 Magical Commitment- What is There to Lose?
3 Wisdom, Warriors and Shamans
4 Mind Games
5 Meditation or Medication?
6 The Matrix
7 The Free Will of Donnie, Bagger and Arjuna
8 Energy Boosts
9 Powerful Allies
10 Between-ness
11 Jacob’s Ladder
12 The End by Death
Epilogue- Professor Plum in the Conservatory with the Candlestick
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