Hi All,
Great topic! And great job on the website, Steven!
I have been mulling this one over for a few years now, and have an idea of what will 'happen' around about 2012.
For the most part it is along the lines of the first few posts; major metaphysical changes with varying amount of reflection in the physical world.
From all the material I have read or viewed, old and new - Ra, Seth, McKenna, Jenkins, Arguelles, Drunvalo, Lungold, Tsarion, Braden, Will Henry, Jay Weidner - the list goes on, but I'll stop there. If you mash all of what has been said together, pretty much the 'jury is out'! You can pick and choose from any number of projections or beliefs and get what you want utter doom or complete salvation. It's a thoroughly mixed bag. So What's Going To Happen?
I think the Key, which has been mentioned, is the individual perspective, driven home by people like Gregg Braden and the makers of What the Bleep, and I believe this is the only thing that will 'materialize' so-to-speak, for each and everyone of us. If we cling to apocalyptic christian, muslim or societal beliefs, then that is what that collective consciousness will get. If ours is a higher mode of realization, enlightenment and transformation, than that is what those thinkers and believers will get. The only explanation for this type of outcome is our current human understanding of quantum theory, mechanics and the nature of consciousness, of which something new is being discovered daily. If any 'major' unified change or shift is coming on about 2012, I would have to say it would be the ultimate understanding of earth-human consciousness in relationship to the universe or at the very least the galactic logos. There is a scripture from one of the latter prophets of the christian old testament that reinforces this (to me) which goes something like "In that day (of judgement) ALL people will know that I am the Lord, then sudden destruction will be instantly upon them." To me, this implies some ultimate conscious awareness just before the shift of the material plane.
Something Blue/Raphiem turned me on to a couple of years ago was the idea of multiple dimensions of earth being realized at this time of the 'ascension' harvest on about 2012. This coincided with my understanding of Terence McKenna's work and theory surrounding the 'Time Wave Zero'. If time and space truly are going to intersect round about 2012 (mayan interpretation), then the period up until that very point will be like surfing the edge of an event horizon of a black hole, where local time will seem the same but time all elsewhere will speed up to infinity (the point where you intersect with space time.) meaning that local time will actually slow down to infinity...
If we are to believe that our individual consciousness, or synchronous collective consciousnesses ( so-called 'like-minds') are going to take this seemingly linear trip along the event horizon into the black hole of space/time intersection on about late 2012, then at that point the consciousness or collective consciousness, as the case may be, will have the ultimate (timeless) options for steering, speeding up or slowing down - ultimately piloting the 'ship' which would be the manifestations of our consciousness: everything from just our 'physical' body to our immediate surroundings: house, car, land or even the planet and solar system. This seems to imply that a true shift in 'reality' for the pilots in question, or a split of universes at that point of convergence on about 2012.
For me personally, based on all this information and my leaning toward numbers or numerology being the only cognitive way humans can translate the multi-dimensional universe, I feel that the Earth will split into three (3) primary phases or universes around about 2012 and each of those three splits will effectively get an infinite number of sub-splits, some of which spanning with another primary split, but for the purpose of this discussion that idea is just quantum mumbo jumbo, so I will stick with my vision of the three primary phases of the earth split at 2012 for now.
The First Phase of earth will be destruction of all 2nd and 3rd density life through some cataclysm or other, most likely massive solar flare with Earth responding violently. This is essentially what Ra foretold in 1981.
Phase Two will be status quo, with a leaning towards enlightenment - this will be a fundamental continuation of how things have been (I feel) essentially improving over the years, until all 3rd density life fades off to other planets and 4th density takes over (per recent Q'uo channels) to ultimately transfer into the complete New Earth, which is:
Phase Three, the New Earth, 4th density, which is already populated with 4th density individuals and co-habitors of 3rd density. At this point, it is a sort of dream-land for most inhabitants - they are awaiting final awaking to the cosmic consciousness, just like those of us who feel we are wanderers are awaiting (sometimes with impatience) the rest of humanity to Wake Up, so we can enter the Earth into the Galactic community.
All three of these earth shifts will actually be happening and perceptible from each phase (excluding the first, with perhaps brief observations before lights out), and this shift has actually already started at least since 1999, but some say as early as the 1950's or perhaps 1750's. In the quantum/G-d universe All Time Is Now, so this has been happening, literally forever! But for our human purposes, let's just say it's been happening for the last 100 years or so (transition from 3rd to 4th density Earth)
As an example, I think of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 when a munitions ship collided with another boat in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia and exploded resulting in about 2000 instant deaths, both on the boats and on both shores of the harbor. The part I find most interesting about that event is the Mi'kmaq tribe of native americans that had been sequestered on the Dartmouth side of the harbor were completely obliterated by the blast, no remains whatsoever of their people or their encampment - incinerated, atomized, gone.
In context, I am sure the natives were not terribly happy with the recent invasion and having to deal with their new white overlords or being sequestered to such a small area after having had command of that land for centuries. But I am also sure they were aware that the white man's coming signaled the end of their native 'fourth world' and the coming transition to the fifth world, either through visions of their own elders or transmission of the Hopi prophecy which was widely spread across the north americas by that time. Imagine being a member of this tribe on that day - seeing a flash of light and then... transition into a brilliant new world where the travesties of the white man nowhere to be found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
In the Phase Two Earth (3rd density persistent) this event in Halifax was seen as a catastrophic, Armageddon-type event given the explosion and annihilation of a people. In the First Phase Earth that is exactly what happened. But oh, what a wonderful thing when viewed from the recently established 4th density earth! Finally these ones who had been waiting to come over have arrived, cleansed by fire, released of the bondage of their 3rd density bodies, but without any pain or suffering - in the twinkling of an eye, quite literally. That was their revealing, their apocalypse ( greek literal translation of apocalypse: remove leather covering ) They had been transformed by Light.
Is that not what everyone from Jesus to Ra have spoken of the time of ultimate ascension? A transformation, a shimmering transition between worlds where thought remains coherent but all around us all external is changed, realigned to something more 'right' than ever before, conforming to our very thoughts.
I think we have that opportunity before all of us, and it all hinges on our perception, how we choose to accept our surrounding 'reality', work with it, mutate it, change it to something more right than we have ever experienced. I truly believe 2012 will serve that purpose for many of us, who share that conscious dream of ultimate change. However, I think most of humanity will need to adjust and repeat experiences elsewhere.
I hope this doesn't fly in the face of anything else that was said here - I feel that it fits in well with everything I have read in this thread, just in my own words, from my own perspective. Comments welcome, of course!
Love and Light,
~†~ aw