I recently saw the Public Broadcasting Station‘s shocking but beautiful documentary, Extreme Ice. Dazzling photographs of illustrate the possibly irreversible melting of crucial glaciers at the earth’s poles. Could this meltdown of the ice lead to a pole shift as predicted by Edgar Cayce? I vaguely remember reading in the foreword of one of Immanuel Velikovsky‘s books something about a shift in the ice at the poles possibly causing the earth’s crust to shift over our planet’s core like the rind over the inside of an orange. Could this be the 2012 cataclysm?
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Here’s a quote that doesn’t make sense. It says that our solar system will be below the Milky Way Galaxy. That’s impossible since the Solar System – our sun, earth, moon, and the planets – are part of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are IN the Milky Way Galaxy. We cannot be below it. We are tiny. All the stars you see at night surrounding us are also in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is huge. For us to be below the Milky Way, we would have to be out in space without stars surrounding us.
The Milky Way Galaxy is our home galaxy. To say that the Solar System would be below and out of the Milky Way Galaxy is as absurd as saying that a waterlily would not be in a pond.
Here’s the quote from 2012 Warning:
The sun, earth, and milky way will align at the galactic equator, on December 21, 2012, the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and the end of the Mayan calendar. This only happens every 25,800 years! For the first time in recorded history, our entire solar system will move BELOW the milky way galaxy. These combined cosmic events, will be the end of the world as we know it.
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Sad to say, the Winter Star Party is over. However, we had great viewing on our last night, in spite of clear sky reports to the contrary. Because of this year’s cold weather in the Florida Keys, many amateur astronomers had left, giving those of us remaining, the pick of the places to set up our telescopes. Actually, because it was so windy, the most sheltered spots were the best. And, to tell you the truth, many of us spent much of the night visiting with each other knowing that we wouldn’t see each other until next year. I feel happy to be part of this group. And, since I had the digital photos of the Galactic Center that I had came to take, it was easy to relax and reminisce about the week. I will be using the photos in my movie investigating the 2012 phenomenon.
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I am happy to say that I managed to get two wonderful photographs of the Galactic Center a couple of mornings ago, here in the Florida Keys. The weather for this year’s Winter Star Party has not been easy. Many nights, the skies are clouded over. However, on two nights, which also happened to be bitterly cold and windy, we had clear skies right to the horizon! Usually, the night sky over the horizon is hazy because of the surrounding water.
Fantastic! Especially since the Galactic Center rises out of the ocean on the southeast horizon at about 5:00 a.m. Unfortunatley, a sliver of the old moon was rising just behind the Galactic Center. Nevertheless, with my trusty Nikon set to take 30 second exposures, I did get both a horizontal and vertical image that, with Nikon’s Capture NX2 software, I was able to resolve a great photograph of the star constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpio surrouding the Galactic Center. Many people believe that the line up of the earth and sun with the Galactic Center herald a new world on December 21, 2012.
We’re on the way to this year’s Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys. It is sponsored by the Southern Cross Astronomical Society. I hope to get better photographs of the Galactic Center for my 2012 movie. However, right now, it doesn’t look good. Lots of cloud cover.
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According to Synthia Andrews and Colin Andrews, co-authors of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to 2012, John Major Jenkins does not proclaim December 21, 2012 as THE DATE when the Galactic Center lines up with the winter solstice. On the contrary, Jenkins evidently says that from 1994 to 2030 we are in the “Galactic Zone” – the time when our planet is aligned with the Galactic Center.
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As I’ve said before in this blog, and as I say in my lectures on, “2012, Edgar Cayce and the Maya,” the December 21, 2012 date has changed a number of times.
The change in date is the result of developments in the translation of ancient Mayan glyphs, the written language of the ancient Maya. The Mayan glyphs have only recently been translated by archeologists and linguists.
Modern-day Maya do not know how to read the ancient Mayan glyphs. Although many modern-day Maya speak their traditional language, they virtually lost their written language when Bishop Diego de Landa, fired with Spanish Inquisition zeal, burnt all of their books on July 12, 1562. These books were one-of-a-kind, meticulously transcribed codices written by shamans similar to scrolls produced by monks. They were irreplaceable . . . and they are all, except for 3 codices and parts of a fourth, gone.
It has taken modern scholars a long time to decipher the unusual ancient glyphs. Once they had the dates translated, they had to correlate the dates they discovered with the dates of the calendar we use, the Gregorian Calendar. In the process, the date for the end . . . and subsequent beginning of the new . . . Mayan Long Count Calendar has changed a number of times.
At the present time, December 21, 2012 is the agreed upon date that has been correlated with the Gregorian calendar as the date was that translated from the ancient Mayan glyphs.
But don’t hold your breath. That date may yet change again.
Carol Chapman
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Today, I met with a woman who is becoming a friend. We have talked about 2012.
I have told her about my interviews with Mayan shamans, experts on the Maya and their Long Count Calendar, and Mayan people in the Yucatan.
She knows that my research among the Maya in the Yucatan is that the world is NOT going to end on December 21, 2012.
Instead, the Long Count Calendar will be starting on Day One December 22 IF present-day archeologists have correctly translated ancient Mayan glyphs and IF present-day archeologists have correctly correlated the Mayan Long Count calendar with our Gregorian calendar.
My friend told me that she had met a woman yesterday who proclaimed to her that on December 21, 2012, the world was going to end. Fortunately, my friend was able to assure this distraught woman that the world was not going to end on that date.
Carol Chapman
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John and I are off on another adventure. This time, we are going to northern British Columbia in pursuit of the Nisga’a Lava Beds. Earlier on this trip, we visited Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens in Washington State. I want to have images of volcanic mountains in the Pacific Ring of Fire for my 2012 movie.
Most people know about Rainier and St. Helens. But, do you know that Canada had a major volcanic eruption only 300 years ago? We have been to the Nisga’g Lava Beds before but, at that time, I did not bring my video camera. This time, I want to take footage of the lava beds that look like a river made out of huge chunks of charcoal covered in lichens. In the 300 years since the volcanic eruption that created these lava beds, there has hardly been any regrowth over the lava unlike the Mount St. Helens area, which erupted only about 30 years ago in 1980. The Nisga’a lava beds look as strange as a moonscape.
We have a long wait until our Hawk Air flight to Terrace BC. My laptop is plugged into an electrical outlet beside my chair. The red “battery charging” light on my camcorder is blinking because there is a second electrical outlet beside my chair where I have plugged in the camera. I used up two batteries taking exciting dynamic shots of seaplanes landing and taking off in Victoria. Now, I need to make sure that my camera will be ready to take footage of the volcanic mountains ,which are part of the Canadian Cascades, which we will be flying over on our way to Terrace.
John is sitting next to me in the small aircraft hanger adjacent to Vancouver International Airport. He is wearing a straw cowboy hat we got in Yucatan. His breathing is becoming audible and deep. His hands are clasped over his abdomen and his eyes are closed. His head is falling forward. Will he begin to snore?
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Today, it was all about Sony Creative Software: Sony Vegas Platinum Pro video software and how to save a video file of my 2012, Edgar Cayce and the Maya talk last weekend and then back up the video file on my external hard drive.
Learning new software feels like an encounter with an strange person’s brain.
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