Check out my Amazon Author Page with a trailer of the End of the World 2012 Movie

Galactic Center from the End of the World 2012 Movie and EBook Photo Copyright (c) 2009 Carol Chapman All Rights Reserved

I’ve been putting together my Amazon author page for days, well, actually weeks. It contains posts from this blog, my tweets, my books (I can’t list movies though), a couple of photos of me. However, it looked as if the blog posts were not coming up. Therefore, I took a look at the page from an Amazon customer’s point of view (I’ve been working on it from the back end). Well, guess what! It’s gorgeous. Amazon does such a great job of putting these author pages together. I would have never known if I hadn’t looked at it from the front end! And, the blog posts are there. So, here’s a link to the page, and if you’re interested in seeing the trailer for the End of the World 2012 Movie, just scroll down on the right hand side to the “author video.” It looks like a picture of the Galactic Center. That’s because it is!

If you’re interested in reading more about the End of the World 2012 Movie, here’s the link to the Amazon listing.

People are buying the End of the World 2012 EBook–Yay!

I’m so excited again, because I received posts on my Facebook page (Facebook.com/CarolChapman8) that a couple of people had bought my  End of the World 2012 Kindle Ebook.  That makes me feel soooo good, because I spent years videotaping the content for the End of the World 2012 movie and editing it, and interviewing people, and travelling in Yucatan, because I want people to know the truth about 2012. And then I worked hard some more and made the information in the movie into an ebook and a paperback book. There is so much misinformation out there! I didn’t go through all this trouble just to say, “Well, there, I did it.” I did it to communicate with others. This morning I received a Facebook post saying:

Hi Carol, just finished reading End of the World 2012 E Book. Really enjoyed it, interesting to get the correct facts about the Maya Long Calender. Thanks for a truthful perspective on 2012 !

That makes me feel very happy! If you’re interested, here’s a link to the Amazon listing of the End of the World 2012 Kindle Ebook.

End of the World 2012 Movie, Book, and EBook now available!

The End of the World 2012 Movie, Book, and EBook Cover

I’m so excited, because my End of the World 2012 Movie, paperback book, and ebook Kindle are now available on Amazon.

I’ve worked long and diligently in making the movie, book, and ebook, starting with shooting footage in the Yucatan and interviewing Mayan shamans in 2009. Then, over the next couple of years interviewing experts on the Maya, the Mayan Calendar and the Mayan prophecies. And finally, I am happy that I was able to include recent discoveries in April and June 2012.

This has been a project that has meant a lot to me. In fact, I felt the information in the 2012 movie would be so helpful to others that I also made it into a book and an ebook Kindle by adding behind the scenes descriptions of the making the movie and more information about the people I interviewed.

Now, I’m looking forward to the movie, book, and ebook being of great help to people who are looking for the truth about 2012.

140 million people worldwide strongly agree that the Mayan prophecy means the world will end this year

I’ve been thinking about that poll, the one done by IPSOS for Reuters News. They surveyed 16,262 people in 21 countries and found out that:

One in ten (10%) respondents in 21 countries agree ‘the Mayan calendar, which some say ‘ends’ in 2012, marks the end of the world’ – 2% strongly agree, 8% somewhat agree. 

One in seven (14%) global citizens believe end of the world is coming in their lifetime

So, today I looked up the population of the earth and it was 6,840,507,003  in 2010 (and steadily rising so it’s more now) according to the World Bank.

That means that 10% of approximately 7 billion people or 700 million people worldwide believe that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 and therefore the world will end. 

Even if you just take the 2% that, according to the IPSOS survey, “strongly agree,” you’re still talking about 140 million people.

That’s a lot of people believing the world is going to end this year!

A whole lot of people.

Poll: 10% worldwide believe the Mayan prophecy predicts the end of the world on December 21, 2012

I had an experience while speaking in British Columbia in April, of a person who believes that the 2012 Mayan prophecy means that the end of the world will come on December 21, 2012. This person is one of the 10% worldwide, surveyed by Ipsos, who believe that the Mayan calender ends on December 21, 2012, which means that the world will end on December 21, 2012.

I referred to the Ipsos (Reuters News) poll yesterday on this blog. According to that poll:

“One in ten (10%) respondents in 21 countries agree ‘the Mayan calendar, which some say ‘ends’ in 2012, marks the end of the world’ – 2% strongly agree, 8% somewhat agree.”
One in Seven (14%) Global Citizens Believe End of the World is Coming in Their Lifetime, One in Ten Believe Mayan Prophecy is True (10%), Fear World Will End in 2012 (8%)

OK, so here’s my experience.

In British Columbia, we stayed at a hotel that serves a delightful complimentary breakfast that includes scrambled eggs, oatmeal porridge, and many bakery items. We also appreciate the helpful and friendly service in supplying this wonderful breakfast by the young woman who serves us.

Because of the fine selection on their “continental menu” and the wonderful service, we have stayed at this hotel many times. As a result, we have deepened our acquaintance with the young woman who serves us. Therefore, since I knew someone who had a condominium for sale in the area, I mentioned this to the young woman just in case she was looking or she knew someone who was looking for a condo to buy.

To my surprise, she replied that she couldn’t take on a huge commitment such as buying a home, because the world was going to end on Decmeber 21, 2012. I could have left the topic at that, but because we have come to know this woman over the years, I care for her and do not want her to live in fear. She also has two children and I don’t want young people to be frightened. This was no longer about the condo. It was now about her and her feelings of fear.

Therefore, I told her that I had travelled to Yucatan five times, that I had interviewed Mayan shamans and experts on the Maya, that I give presentations showing that the Mayan calendar does not end on December 21, 2012, and that, based on my research, the Mayan prophecy did not say that the world was going to end on December 21, 2012.

She let me say what I had to say, but I could see she still believed the world was going to end on December 21, 2012.

Complimentary Thursday Evening Event in Toronto

If you are in Toronto, or traveling to Toronto for my events on Thursday and Saturday (May 31 and June 2), here is more information on the free event at Alternative Thinking.  

Topic: Do Mayan Shamans Believe the World Will End on December 21, 2012?

Location: Alternative Thinking Bookstore, 758 Bathurst St., just below Bloor.

Date: Thursday, May 31

Time: 7 to 9 p.m.

Cost: Zero (0) Nothing

Description: This program will address three main points:

1. What are Yucatecan Mayan Shamans saying?  includes research garnered through interviews with Daykeeper Hunbatz Men and a Mayan shaman performing a spring equinox ceremony at Chichen Itza

2. What are Guatemalan Mayan Shamans saying? results from an interview with Dr. Robert Sitler, author of  The Living Maya: Ancient Wisdom in the Era of 2012 and Director of Latin American Studies at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, who has visited and studied the Maya for 30 years.

3. The original December 21, 2012 Maya Prophecy

If you are in the area and can make it, I look forward to seeing you there.

I will have books to sell there.

For further information, please click here.

Or copy and paste the following link in your browser:
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Antarctica coastline on the Piri Reis map

I am continuing to work on the 2012 End of the World Movie. I’m just at the part where I talk about previous end of the world scenarios and I mention the Piri Reis map, which, according to Charles Hapgood, illustrates some of the Antarctica Continent, with details of the landmass under the ice such as flowing rivers. The following excerpt is from Wikipedia.

Hapgood suggests that the Antarctic section of the map was copied at an incorrect scale to the rest of the map and resulted in the distortion and enlargement of the continent on several ancient maps. This would explain why there is no waterway between South America and Antarctica. He suggests several points of continuity between the Piri Reis Map and modern maps of the continent below the ice sheets. Since the Antarctic continent was not officially sighted until 1820 and its full coastline was not known until much later; this claim, if true, would require major revisions to the history of exploration, settlement, evolution, and technological advancements of the time.

Piri Reis Map

Mayan Mythology, 2012, and the end of the world

A Live Science article by Benjamin Radford addresses the doomsday meaning of the end of the Mayan calendar on December 21 2012. Radford says that:

In fact, the link between global catastrophe and Mayan calendar-based prophecy is largely fiction. Ads for “2012” begin with the phrase, “The Mayans warned us,” though of course the Mayans did not “warn” anyone — they simply had a calendar system that happens to “end” in 2012, much as the way the Gregorian calendar on my office wall “ends” on Dec. 31.
The Truth about 2012 Doomsday Hype

The 2012 End of the World View attempts to reconcile two conflicting beliefs: Lorenzo DiTommaso

Lorenzo DiTommaso, professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal, says that the worldview of expecting an end of the world, whether on December 21, 2012, or at some other time, is a very persistent and powerful way of understanding the world.

He says that when people feel as if the world is out of control and beyond their comprehension, a belief in the end of the world returns order to the world.

“Problems have become so big, with no solutions in sight, that we no longer see ourselves able as human beings to solve these problems,” DiTommaso said. “From a biblical point of view, God is going to solve them. From other points of view, there has to be some sort of catastrophe.”

The apocalyptic worldview springs from a desire to reconcile two conflicting beliefs.

“The first is that there is something dreadfully wrong with the world of human existence today,” he said. “On the other hand, there is a sense that there is a higher good or some purpose for existence, a hope for a better future.”

Viewing the world as a flawed place headed toward some sort of cosmic correction reconciles these two beliefs, DiTommaso said.

The Draw of Doomsday: Why people look forward to the end

Mayan end of the world prophecies influenced by Spanish conquerers

Interestingly, Europeans feared the end of the world as long ago as the 1500s, during the time the Spanish were exploring and conquering the Americas. The 2012 end of the world mania is not new.

Notably, Hoopes said, Mayan end-of-the-world prophecies don’t appear in the historical record until after the group made contact with Christian missionaries — a bunch of people with their own strong beliefs about the end of days.
In fact, astrological end-time predictions were popular in the 1500s, when Franciscan missionaries began voyaging to the New World. In 1524, Hoopes said, an astrological conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter spurred fears of a second Great Flood, touching off panic.
“They were actually preparing for this catastrophe by buying real estate on high places and by stocking up on whatever the 16th-century equivalent of duct tape and bottled water was,” Hoopes said.
Biblical doomsday predictions would have certainly made it to Mayan ears, Hoopes said. In other words, Mayan prophecies simply appropriated Christian theology.
“The world for the Mayas really did end in the Spanish conquest,” Hoopes said. “So they incorporated that into their explanation of what was happening to them.”
11/11/11 How Friday is Tied to the Mayan Apolocalypse