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 by Kristina Morgan

Unless you’re completely out of touch and don’t watch the news or read tabloids you’ve heard of 2012. There’s even an action-packed movie by Mel Gibson that promises to scare the heck out of you if most websites about 2012 haven’t already. So is 2012 the end of the world? The beginning of a shift in spiritual consciousness that heralds the Golden Age of humanity?  Or just a bunch of conspiracy-theorist hype?

 A History Channel program titled "Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012: End of Days" says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger a "pole shift."

"The entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours, changing the position of the north and south poles, causing worldwide disaster," a narrator proclaims. "Earthquakes would rock every continent; massive tsunamis would inundate coastal cities. It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe."

Living in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico makes the Mayan prophecies that originated here particularly fascinating to me but I wondered what the Maya really think of their prophetic date and about being at the source of all this hoopla, especially where it concerns a prophecy that may be ladled out in heaping mugs of fact-distortion and fear—or mean the end of the world. So what do the Maya have to say about these interpretations of their calendar?

About a week ago, I had the opportunity to hear Ac-Tah, a descendent of the Maya, speak in Ajijic. His message is being carried all over Mexico teaching that this will be a time of great change in the world—but not the end of the world.

Actah says, “The Mayans were very technological and advanced in sciences. My grandfather taught me that I would live to see a change in consciousness. Many books have been written but 90% of them have nothing to do with what the Maya believe.”

Maya scholars and elders in Mexico have been watching with amusement and dismay as self-proclaimed experts from the U.S. say that ancient Maya prophets foretold an earth-shattering happening to occur December 21, 2012. This predicted phenomenon gets described in cataclysmic terms--as minor as an ecological collapse to the earth's initiation into a Galactic Federation, whose elders have been controlling our evolution for the last 5000 years. In short, the world as we know it will suddenly come to a screeching halt.

Carlos Barrios is a historian, an anthropologist and investigator. After studying with traditional elders for 25 years since the age of 19, he has also became a Mayan Ajq'ij, a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide, Eagle Clan.

"Anthropologists visit the temple sites," Barrios says, "and read the steles and inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It's just their imagination... Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. The indigenous have the calendars, and know how to accurately interpret it, not others."

Apolinario Chile Pixtun, a Maya elder interviewed by USA Today, agrees and says he is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.

Or is it?

Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists.

"I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."

It will likely get much worse for him. As Hollywood's "2012" opens in cinemas this November and features earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off.

But some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth's axis wobbles, slightly changing with the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun's lowest point in the horizon.

A spooky coincidence, which will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.

Author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it.

John Major Jenkins has studied Mayan ruins for the past 20 years. He says, "If we want to honor and respect how the Maya think about this, then we would say that the Maya viewed 2012, as all cycle endings, as a time of transformation and renewal."

Ac-Tah says, “This is a time of a new vibration. Be aware of what is happening around you. Coincidences are just manifestations of your vibrations. This transition time will last 20 years and will affect everything from the way we view our relationships to the way we handle our money.”

Carlos Barrios is in agreement. "Humanity will continue," he contends, "but in a different way. Things will change, but it is up to the people how difficult or easy it is for the changes to come about.”

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