2012 Mayan Doomsday Prophecy is not accurate…

It’s not the end of the world as we know it, says a local professor about the Mayan doomsday prophecy.

Mayan Doomsday Prophecy

The Mayan doomsday prophecy is a prediction by the ancient Mayans that the world will end in 2012.  However, Kristine Larsen, an astronomy professor at Central Connecticut State University, is debunking that theory, according to the Bristol Press.

Larsen is giving talks and writing articles about how prophecies make sense only to people wholly ignorant of science and the Mayan calendar.

Mayan Calendar

“The Mayan calendar ran in cycles. One of their cycles is “Bak-tun,” called the ‘long year’ or ‘great year,’ which is 144,000 days long,” Larsen tells the Press. “Think of it like a decade or century ending for us. It’s much bigger than the end of the year.”

According to Larsen, the current Long Year ends in 2012, but the end of one year predicts nothing more than the beginning of a new one. The equivalent, she says, to looking at our calendar ending on Dec. 31 and believing the world will end too.

Jose Arguelles & the Harmonic Convergence

The Mayan doomsday idea is all over the place and Larsen has a theory on where it began. She believes it started with a man named Jose Arguelles, a believer in the Harmonic Convergence, which was supposed to end the world in August 1987 after other planets in our solar system lined up in a certain way, the Press reports.

She also has a there an idea of the kind of reaction doomsday believers will have when they wake up on either New Year’s Day 2013 or Dec. 22, 2012, the day after the winter solstice.

“Some people will take credit for it, like they always do — ‘it was because I prayed, it was because I made a sacrifice,’ In 1910, Halley’s Comet came astronomically close to earth. People committed suicide. One man in California somehow managed to nail himself to a wooden cross — don’t ask me how — and offered himself as a sacrifice for the planet. Fortunately, someone found him in time, and took him to get medical care,” Larsen tells the Press.

“My biggest fear is someone will be hurt, either by their own hand or someone’s else’s,” Larsen said.

Brad Carrigan claims that the 2012 doomsday prophecy is true

Brad Carrigan, author of the book 2012 Enlightened, claims that the year 2012 (not to mention the prophecies surrounding that year) aren’t just the plotline of the recent Hollywood blockbuster 2012.

Brad Carrigan, who will speak at an upcoming seminar exploring 2012 phenomena, says the portentous year will indeed bring significant change to humanity.

“I look at it as a regeneration period,” he said, referring to a “great revealing” that will allow civilization to learn “the deeper knowledge of who we are.”

“We haven’t been told the truth about our history. We’ve allowed ourselves to become the sheep.”

Carrigan, who has been researching theories surrounding 2012 for the last 25 years, claims that government and religious organizations are hiding pertinent information from the general populace, such as alien contact, and that 2012 will be “the age of Aquarius” when such deceit becomes transparent.

December 21, 2012

While he believes that some sort of natural disaster may occur Dec. 21, 2012, the day the Mayan calendar ends its 5,125-year cycle, he doesn’t want the spiritual relevance of the event to get lost.

“2012 covers a wide spectrum … there’s a lot of elements to it,” he said, adding the “doom and gloom” aspect is only “a part of it, to a degree.”

“I think it’s a beautiful time of transformation,” Carrigan said. “There’s a deep spiritual desire of society to really come together. We want truth. We want love.”

While he wouldn’t hazard a guess as to the number of human casualty to be expected during 2012, he said the recent devastating earthquakes in Chile and Haiti are evidence that something is coming.

“Something’s causing that change,” he said.

In the meantime, he said, no fear is necessary.

“It’s nothing to be afraid of,” he said. “It’s a reawakening. We all die anyway…we can rebuild and make the world a better place.”

Carrigan’s seminar takes place next Thursday at The Cultch.