Yesterday, I found myself thinking about this blog and noticed just how quiet certain Yogi Masters are now. To be totally honest, teaching Kundalini Yoga and being very familiar with the writings about the shift from Pisces to Aquarius, I also found myself uncharacteristically restless on two portentous dates in December, i.e. 12/12/2012 and 12/21/2012.
On the first of these dates, at 12 minutes past the hour I left my job and went into the ladies toilets where I meditated for 12 minutes. Even as I was doing this the more rational part of me was screaming 'what are you doing this for?' I ignored it and carried on meditating. I didn't notice anything different afterwards, but then again, I wasn't looking for anything. After all, the big one was 12/21/2012. What I was doing was only preparation.
The day of 12/21/2012 dawned and it struck me that there were other parts of the world where it was already 12/21/2012 and there was no reports of anything out of the ordinary. I was flying to my family that day for Christmas and so, counting flight time, I found myself being up all day and night of the 21st. If being mindful and aware were the criteria for being able to receive whatever shift was coming, no-one was more qualified! Again my journey home was completely smooth and uneventful, no different than the everyday flow of life.
12/22/2012 dawned. When I woke up, I felt I had been well and truly fooled, taken in by prophets of doom, who had absolutely no proof, but had been so convincing that many people, including me, had listened. I could have pointed the finger at spiritual people, especially yogis, but to be fair, many people who don't see themselves as 'spiritual' were also anticipating 'something' would happen.
Having now had time to ponder the whole event, I think it shows how we as human beings are prone to fabricate meaning where there is none. All that happened, I assume, is that Mayans ran out of paper for the end of their calendar.
What some of us present day human beings did was to spin this into an end-of-the-world, doomsday scenario. We put meaning into totally meaningless events and then lived the month of December as if our interpretation really meant something. When you look at it like this, it is so ludicrous as to be funny.
There has been very little comment from those who were most vociferous, but I came across this post on Facebook which I am copying and acknowledging the writer for because he's had the courage to write what I was thinking and has phrased it better than I could.
On the first of these dates, at 12 minutes past the hour I left my job and went into the ladies toilets where I meditated for 12 minutes. Even as I was doing this the more rational part of me was screaming 'what are you doing this for?' I ignored it and carried on meditating. I didn't notice anything different afterwards, but then again, I wasn't looking for anything. After all, the big one was 12/21/2012. What I was doing was only preparation.
The day of 12/21/2012 dawned and it struck me that there were other parts of the world where it was already 12/21/2012 and there was no reports of anything out of the ordinary. I was flying to my family that day for Christmas and so, counting flight time, I found myself being up all day and night of the 21st. If being mindful and aware were the criteria for being able to receive whatever shift was coming, no-one was more qualified! Again my journey home was completely smooth and uneventful, no different than the everyday flow of life.
12/22/2012 dawned. When I woke up, I felt I had been well and truly fooled, taken in by prophets of doom, who had absolutely no proof, but had been so convincing that many people, including me, had listened. I could have pointed the finger at spiritual people, especially yogis, but to be fair, many people who don't see themselves as 'spiritual' were also anticipating 'something' would happen.
Having now had time to ponder the whole event, I think it shows how we as human beings are prone to fabricate meaning where there is none. All that happened, I assume, is that Mayans ran out of paper for the end of their calendar.
What some of us present day human beings did was to spin this into an end-of-the-world, doomsday scenario. We put meaning into totally meaningless events and then lived the month of December as if our interpretation really meant something. When you look at it like this, it is so ludicrous as to be funny.
There has been very little comment from those who were most vociferous, but I came across this post on Facebook which I am copying and acknowledging the writer for because he's had the courage to write what I was thinking and has phrased it better than I could.
"December 2012 has come and gone. No end of the world and no shift in consciousness. No aliens arrived to ‘save the planet’ either. No ‘rapture’ or anything of the sort. No three days of darkness. No planet Niburu.
"I hope this shows very clearly that all those who have been preaching these various events have been mistaken and that they would do well to examine and alter the processes by which they came to their completely incorrect conclusions and explain how they came to make such mistakes that have caused so many people so much distraction and caused many people to make decisions that have caused them serious setbacks if they wish to be taken seriously on any matter in the future.
"Theirs is the responsibility for having distracted the attention of the human species from the serious issues of Rapid Resource Depletion (RRD), Pollution and Global Climate Change (P&GCC), Global Monetary Collapse (GMC), and the increasing incredibility of the Growth Model of Development (GMD), which have to be responded to effectively and immediately."
~Nirmalan Dhas
