 |
|
Back at the turn of the millennium when we went from the year 1999 to 2000, I was in a garage surrounded by all kinds of computer equipment. My boyfriend (more of a manfriend at our age, I guess) was a New England FCC agent and he and his "team" were awaiting the worst. There was so much preparation, safeguarding, strategizing, and whatnot that went into this change, the tension was extremely high. We watched all the time zones hit New Year and then came the U.S. and New England. Pffffffft! Like a bad firework, the fizzle was palpable. One reaction was extreme relief that the computers did not reset themselves to the stone age or worse. It was a simple tick of the clocks to the next minute in the next year - flawless and uneventful. The other reaction was some frustration, agitation, and annoyance that something bigger didn't happen. With all the exhaustive preparation involved, that small ego piece of them felt that their efforts were all for naught. Even though the consequences could have been catastrophic. Couldn't their efforts pay off somehow? No, not this time. Bottom line - nothing happened and that was a good thing. We are all poised for the "big day" of December 21, 2012. The speculation is weighty and enormously varied. When we first debuted our Door Opener issue on 2012 back in 2009, we were one of the only sources that put a kinder-and-gentler spin on the phenomena. Our folks did not believe the world would explode or that we would be "taken" in a literal way. What we did feel was that enormous internal changes were coming - and if we were uncomfortable or struggling with any of it, it would indeed feel like a kind of destruction. This Spring issue speaks more strongly to the internal growth. As we know, the internal is reflected in the external, so the natural disasters could well be part of our change, as reflected by Mother Earth. She does, however, have her own agenda - and that is survival. She will indeed fight for her life, and as we ourselves do with bacteria, disease, etc., she will attempt to destroy whatever threatens her - including us. We can find evidence of anything we want to. If we are looking at the premise of world destruction, there's plenty of wacky and destructive weather patterns to support that. If we are looking at the premise of rising spiritually into compassion and kindness, just look at the charities springing up to help all kinds of causes, the classes being offered, the books being published, and the neighbors helping neighbors activities. If you are looking at the opposite, prevailing negativity, pain, and harmful intentions, that those who are not able to rise spiritually will undergo great struggle and trauma, possibly not surviving the changes, well, there's plenty of evidence there, too. I think it will be very interesting for all of us when we reach December 22, 2012 (yes, we will reach it) with regard to our libraries. I know that our Door Opener crowd is a book-loving community. I myself have 15 books on the topic, and I know that's very modest in comparison with some of you. But I wonder what we will be referring to after December 22, which authors had come the closest in giving us the head's up. And we will all be looking to see what comes next. I wish I had torn it out, as I can only remember bits and pieces, but a couple years back, there was an article on the front page of one of the sections of the Hartford Courant written by a professor at Central (I think). He was talking about coming home one day to find his young son cowering in a corner with a calendar on the floor next to him open to December. He was crying and told his father, "It's over, it's over!! I'm so scared! What's going to happen now?" This part of the article was hilarious as written, but in essence the father took his son down to Borders, lead him to the calendar section, and asked him to look around. The son's eyes opened widely as he looked around at calendars with dogs, stars, cottages, seascapes, etc. His father gently whispered over and over, "We just start again, son, we just start again." I laughed out loud at this well-written article. He made a good point. But the difference here, and what is causing all the trouble, is that there is no "next calendar." Do we begin again? Where? With what? Of course there are other calendar systems throughout the world that we utilize (not sure anyone anywhere actually goes by the Mayan calendar in their everyday life, but I could be mistaken), but why does the Mayan calendar end without instructions on how to begin again? Do we go back to the start point? Is the calendar actually set up as a run-through-then-repeat system? What will you be doing on December 21, 2012? Even if you don't believe the end of times theories when it comes to the physical Earth, I just wonder if you will be listening to that oh-so-small voice in your head that has been fed with propaganda, physics, ancient teachings, and everything else - and you choose to just grab a pizza and stay home with your family that night watching Netflix and playing Apples To Apples. Just in case ... Namaste my friends, Dory |