2012 - End Of The World or Crossroad For Humanity?

There is this ominous date of 2012, which keeps more and more people alert in these days, even though there are still some people who never heard about it. It is an interesting date, resulting predominantly from the fact that according to the Calendar of the Maya civilization, which was a very sophisticated time scheduling instrument, a (roughly) 26.000 year period comes to it's end at the Solstice (December 21) of 2012. Many people have attached all kinds of different meanings to this date, reaching from the end of all times to the beginning of a new era.

I myself have the impression that our actual time, so shortly before the 2012 date, has a culminating quality. Energy seems to move much faster, many problems seem to get out of hand, we are confronted with a massive onslaught of disastrous news, weather changes, economical problems, overpopulation, draughts, firestorms, all kinds of upheavals. At the same time, more and more so-called conspiracies and hidden agendas come to the light, the internet opens new avenues of journalism and it gets harder and harder to tell which version of so many events in history is really the true one.

Thanks to the internet, the world population as a whole has for the first time in human history access to all kinds of information, news can spread like wildfires within minutes all over the globe and hardly anything can be kept secret anymore for a very long time. The powers that have shaped our societies and all conventional information channels start to loose their grip on their audience and they try to re-establish their former power and influence, but in my eyes, they stand on insecure grounds.

 

 

At the same time, there is a growing movement that goes in another, more spiritual direction, dealing with the creation of our own reality, influencing our seemingly unchangeable destiny, re-membering our inherent creative power. We learn about the Law of Attraction, how we attract the essence of our dominant thoughts, how we can stop a downward spiral by finding better feeling thoughts, how we can be happy without a reason and therefore attract completely different experiences into our lives.

 

To me, it doesn’t seem to be a coincidence that these two phenomenons are gaining momentum at exactly this time. It feels as if we are reaching a tipping point a point at which we are at a crossroad where we can either despair over the bad news that are bogging us down and which seem to be hopeless or we can recall our power and recognize that we don’t have to participate in this reality if we don’t want to.

 

Science and spiritualism seem to meet on common grounds, for the first time in many centuries, coming to the conclusion that matter actually isn’t really solid, but rather a swirling sea of infinitesimally small particles held together by immense amounts of energy. The discovery that subatomic particles cannot be categorized as either wave or particle, but rather as a undetermined possibility, which only takes the one or the other form when an observer is present, has opened up all kinds of discussions about the true nature of our reality.

 

When I look at the papers these days, and read the various blogs and news, contrast seems to explode, problems seem to get so much bigger that I can’t really think of any solutions using the “old”, common means. Alone looking at the amounted debt of all civilized societies it is already clear that there is no way to ever consolidate this with merely cutting back expenses, all these “old-fashioned“ remedies seem puny and ineffective when applied to the size of the problems.

 

So I think that at this time, with contrast still increasing, we are at a crossroad, where how we look at this world and at this reality will determine the quality of our future. If I only look at reality as something merely mechanical, as a problem for which there is only a rational and material solution, then, I suspect, the amassed problems of this time will have a huge impact on my life experience, since there doesn’t seem to be a rational way to really solve these problems.

 

But if I look at reality as just an expression of my actual dominant vibration and if I accept that reality can take on all kinds of shapes and forms, then a solution to our problems is always within reach, because there is no doubt that we can always come to a better feeling place if we decide to look for better feeling thoughts.

 

And then I can turn around my own, private life experience, no matter what mass consciousness around me decides to do. Once I realize that my own life experience is only very loosely connected to the life experience of the masses, and that I have the option of feeling better, no matter what is going on around me, I can let go of the immediate problems and focus on the solutions.

 

The How of these solutions is not our responsibility, and sometimes, it is really astonishing how the seemingly most difficult problems can dissolve if we take the time to get back into harmony with ourselves before we try to solve them.

 

So, my guess for 2012 and the years which will follow is, that it will get more and more important for a harmonious and happy life experience to remember our true nature as powerful beings having this freedom of thought in order to create whatever we want. If we let the actual, knock-on-wood reality take over and fall for the trap of taking it as solid as it seems, we will have a way harder time to enjoy our life experience, since the problems seem to be just huge if they can only be solved by action.

 

Reality is deceptive, since it makes us believe that this is all there is, while in truth, it only shows us all there was so far, it is always only an indicator of where we have vibrated until now. We can change our perspective and therefore our world, any day, and our manifestations, the knock-on-wood reality around us, will show this change, each and every time.

 

But the reality around us doesn’t change first, we always have to do the first step, in faith that the laws of the Universe are consistent. The same way as your picture in the mirror doesn’t change before you change your expression, the reality you perceive cannot change before you change the signal you send out. We live in a seamless 3-D life experience and therefore, the changes always take place with a small buffer of time, which is exactly the time it takes us to get from one vibration to the other.

 

We cannot jump from a totally helpless view of life to a empowered one in one quantum jump (and even if we could, it would not be  sustainable), we have to develop new habits of thought, new neuronal pathways in our brains in order to really change our experience in a sustainable way. Once we have installed these, it is easier and easier for us to detach from the reality around us and to focus on the solution we are aiming for instead, if the reality around us is not pleasing to us.

 

And even though we might live in a world where mass consciousness, due to the constant barrage caused by mass media (based on a very questionable agenda), creates difficult situations, our own, private, individual life situation can be blissful and relaxed, like living on another planet, far away from the countless problems and injustices which seem to be integral part of our lives. They don’t have to be, unless we invite them in.

 

We only perceive that which is active in us, so the more we are focused on solutions, the less the problems can be dominating our experience. This is the reason why very successful people rarely encounter longer lasting problems. They deal with problems as well, like everybody, but they recover quicker, they have these mental loops which send them immediately into a problem-solving mindset from where they go forward, relying on their own strength and power.

We all have heard about the notorious people who might stumble but never really fall, who don’t take a NO for an answer and who redefine themselves after each and every failure. All that distinguishes them from others who are easily defeated are their habits of thought. They don’t allow thoughts of failure to take over their brain cycles. They are used to regard the world as their oyster and they are not willing to change that just because their fortune is momentarily a bit rusty.

 

This is the attitude we all need. We need to realize that this reality, which seems so unshakable and solid, is nothing more than smoke and mirrors, like a matrix, showing us what is going on in us. And then we have to take advantage of the malleability of our life experience, day after day, experience after experience.

 

Many people say that the new era we are commencing around this time on our planet, will be the Golden Era, the time of enlightenment and harmony. I guess it all depends on our perspective. This time is as threatening as we let it be and as disturbing as we allow ourselves to focus on the darker side of the equation. As soon as we know that with every problem, we create immediately an equivalent solution in our virtual reality, which precedes all material manifestations, we always have the choice what we want to focus upon.

 

And no problem on this planet gets solved by focusing on the problem. Acknowledging the problem and knowing that the solution is already created and only has to materialize, is the mindset we want to achieve. Our life experience will improve dramatically as a result of it, there is no doubt.

 

© Dorothee Geray 2010