A Ramble About 51412 Leading Nowhere

Image called 51412 by Kyunyo

I had one of those spikes of visitors to this blog over the previous weekend, the most was on Sunday when the total for the day reached 51,412.

When I looked at the number 51,412 I realised that to the left of the comma added up to 6 and to the right 7 - so 67 - a coincidence!

Was this some sort of sign I wondered? So I Googled 51412 and - well I didn't come up with very much!

Firstly the image at the top of the post. Not too sure what it represents but it's the right way up! I noticed though that the size of the picture is 1412 x 1412.

I then realised that 51412 in many countries would be interpreted as the 14th of May 2012. Being a soccer fan I remembered that this was the day Manchester City won the English Premier League for the first time in 44 years with a memorable climax to the season at their final match against Queens Park Rangers.

Photo: Reuters - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini runs onto the pitch

Also on the same day, for the Cannes Film Festival, an enormous poster of Marilyn Monroe was erected in front of the Festival Palace.

Meanwhile there were fireworks over Hamburg Harbour in Germany to celebrate its 823rd birthday.

So not too much from the number 51412 but if the 12 was taken as 1912 instead of 2012 it would be the date for the launch of the Titanic Disaster Fund. The image below shows the cover of the programme from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London supporting the fund.

And on that note I'll end this ramble as it doesn't seem to be reaching any conclusion. I guess the glass slipper didn't fit!

Other 67 Not Out Posts:
A How Did It All Begin Ramble
Memories Of The Future
10 Ghost Story Posts

Today: The Beginning Of The End Of Our Civilisation

Is today the beginning of apocalyptic happenings that will see the end of our civilisation?

I've previously published posts about Orion and how the constellation's belt has been replicated on earth by ancient civilisations at places such as the Hurlers Stone Circles and Thornborough Henge in Yorkshire England.

Why did these ancient civilisations respect Orion? Surely not simply as a calendar, this doesn't ring true.

When digging deeper into the mystery of Orion I came across the theory that the Transit of Venus, as it passes over the constellation of Orion, will signify 'the coming of the end of times'. The book the Orion Prophecy by Patrick Geryl and Gino Ratinckx, for example, believes this to be the case.

June 5th/6th 2012 are therefore significant days as there will be a Transit of Venus. Will this bring about catastrophic earthquakes and tidal waves as predicted by some?

I'm not an astronomer or even an astrologist but this is what was said in the Daily Mail about the Transit of Venus:

"June 5/6 is a significant date because there will be a Transit of Venus.

Although the Sun, Venus and Earth roughly line up every 584 days, the orbits of the Earth and Venus are tilted with respect to one another so Venus usually passes above or below the Sun with respect to the Earth.

A transit takes place only when the three bodies are in line, and this is rare. Transit of Venus occur only in 'pair of pairs' patterns, repeated every 243 years. Two transits take place in December (around the 8th of the month), eight years apart. One hundred and 21 years and six months later two June Transits occur (around June 7th), again eight years apart. After 105 years six months the pattern is repeated.

The first transit in the current 'pair' took place on June 8, 2004, the previous event having been December 6, 1882. The latest transit will take place over June 5th and 6th (2012).

The transit is an exciting time for astrologers, especially as Venus will be transiting the Sun in what is called a retrograde motion - it will appear to be going in the opposite direction of our planet.

Venus began its retrograde on May 15, 2012 and completes it on June 27, 2012."

Okay, but where does that lead us?

Firstly one date to notice in the above is the first transit of June 8, 2004. Six months following this was the dreadful 2004 tsunami and earthquake in the Indian Ocean. Think of this as you will.

Now we move on to what The Orion Prophecy suggests. The authors say an equivalent transit was in 9792BC which was the culmination of a cycle of the Mayan calendar - this, it is claimed, was when Atlantis was destroyed.

The book goes on to say that June 5/6 transit heralds a similar catastrophe which will occur on December 21, 2012 which is when the Mayan calendar completes its current cycle. This is why today June 5th 2012 is the beginning of the 2012 Phenomenon which, some would say, will lead to the end of our civilisation.

Personally I'm more positive. No one can deny that there are changes happening in 2012 already, think simply of the worldwide financial crisis and the uprisings in various countries.

Yes, change is on it's way, but life is change. Nothing stays the same. I'd like to think that 2012 heralds not disaster but a shift or transformation in mankind's outlook both spiritually and physically. The so called time capsule that is the 'Hall of Records' may not be some physical record but something we sense and feel inside.

There could be exciting times ahead. Perhaps that's why the ancients replicated Orion's belt on the ground, they knew something we have forgotten. 2012 may be our wake-up call.

Other Posts:
The Mystery Of The Three Hurlers Stone Circles
Mysterious Links Of The Ancients To Orion And The Afterlife
The Orion Bug Lets The Imagination Take Flight

Creation And Destruction Of The Earth

Not sure why I thought about this, but it's strange how in the beginning the earth was created in six days - and God rested on the seventh.  According to Genesis in the Bible, that is.  One problem with this (well, lots really) there wouldn't have been any 'days' until the sun and moon were created.

Also God created light and darkness - day and night - on the first day but, again, there was no sun or moon.

It always interests me how some people take the Bible as being, erm, gospel.

I suppose the argument would be that a day in the beginning wasn't a day as we know it.  It was much, much longer - a period of time. Someone, years ago, who reckoned he knew all about this sort of stuff, said a day was actually a thousand years.  "Why a thousand years?" I asked.  Great rumblings and mutterings and, "Because it was", was the answer.

But everything goes in cycles or periods of time (as we know it). Occultists talk of Cosmic Days, we are supposedly in the fifth - but maybe we are moving into the sixth, and this is what the Maya calender is really all about.

It won't be the end of the earth or mankind, but a new beginning, a shift in consciousness. It would be nice to think so.

According to James Redfield the Mayan calender illustrates a time scale showing the nine Steps of Creation.  It is the ninth step that ends in 2012 - the first step beginning about 16 billion years ago when the universe was created.  All very simplistic.

A more fanciful approach was taken by José Argüelles in The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology. He claims that on August 13, 3113 BC the Earth began a passage through a galactic synchronization beam that emanated from the center of our galaxy, that it would pass through this beam during a period of 5200 tuns (Maya cycles of 360 days each), and that this beam would result in total synchronization and galactic entrainment of individuals plugged into the Earth's electromagnetic battery by December 21, 2012. He believed that the Maya aligned their calendar to correspond to this phenomenon. So there you go.

There's lots of doom and gloom and fanciful stories on the Internet, books on the subject of 2012 abound - well they would be, it's a lucrative market.

I think that Karl Kruszelnicki in Great Moments in Science gets nearest to what I feel will happen on 21 Dec 2012 - a new calender will commence.

Kruszelnicki writes: "…when a calendar comes to the end of a cycle, it just rolls over into the next cycle. In our Western society, every year 31 December is followed, not by the End of the World, but by 1 January. So 13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan calendar will be followed by 0.0.0.0.1 – or good-ol’ 22 December 2012, with only a few shopping days left to Christmas."

No doubt this isn't as exciting. I feel that man will continue to grow spiritually and will one day go on to inhabit other planets, just as the first settlers of our age travelled to North America, Australia and so on. Hopefully, being of improved consciousness, they will treat any 'natives' they may find on these planets with more respect than we did with the likes of the Native Americans and the Australian Aborigines. Or will it be us that is more 'native' like in comparison?

In the meantime let's try to make this place and time a better place and time for everyone.

The Odd Comparisons Between 1912 And 2012

I have mentioned before that I like looking for old books at flea markets, car boot sales and so on.  One I picked up recently, The Odd Volume, was from 1912 so is exactly 100 years old. It's interesting to see the comparisons with today.

Strangely there was one subject brought up by someone on television the other night. The question was about multi-culturism in the UK and where had the 'English' gone in London.

There are similarities to a cartoon from 1912 - as per the picture below. The wording says: "WHERE ARE THE ENGLISH? Perplexed American: Say, officer, can you tell me whether there is any native quarter in this 'ere golden city?"

Humour back then was a little more gentle in 1912, though perhaps not so acceptable to the 'Softer Sex'. This is the 'joke' for the cartoon below: "The Sterner Sex: An awful affair! Fourteen lives were lost. The Softer Sex: How sad - fortunate it wasn't thirteen, thirteen is such an unlucky number".

But humour also had a meaningful touch on Romance and Reality. In the cartoon below, set on the beach: Effie (reading her Fairy Tale Book) "And so she met the Prince Charming of her dreams, as all girls do. Do they mother? Did you?" Mother: "Yes, of course. I met your father." That's him in the background.

I like some of the adverts. Arthur Conan Doyle had a new book out in 1912 called The Lost World. On New Year's Day on UK television a new series started about Sherlock Holmes, brought up to date and set in 2012. Holmes was, of course, a Conan Doyle creation.

There are ads for such delights as 'Essence of Beef' for all 'Cases of Exhaustion' and a pretty girl is picking elder flowers for 'after shaving use.'

And haven't we all found the dirty need to 'Zog it Off' now and again!

Some of the pictures, like this 'Little Stranger' by Willy Pogany encapsulate the differences between 1912 and 2012 ... or there again ...

... maybe not - as per this picture titled 'Life or The Simple Lifer', we still ponder about which path to choose today.

12 Paranormal Attributes Of A 2012 Evolutionary Shift

Many people appear to be of the opinion that we are heading towards some sort of evolutionary shift. Perhaps this is what 2012 heralds. Not doom and gloom and the end, as is often forecast, but a huge leap forward instead.

Man may be about to develop new abilities - some are already experiencing these. What is classed as paranormal will become normal.

These new abilities could change life as we know it - for the better.

Michael Murphy in his book The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution Of Human Nature has set out twelve attributes that he feels we are moving towards. These are:

1) Extraordinary perceptions, including apprehensions of numinous beauty in familiar objects, voluntary clairvoyance, and contact with entities or events that are inaccessible to the ordinary senses.

2) Extraordinary somatic awarenesses and self regulation.

3) Extraordinary communication abilities.

4) Superabundant vitality.

5) Extraordinary movement abilities.

6) Extraordinary capacities to alter the environment.

7) Self-existent delight.

8) Intellectual ideas received toot ensemble.

9) Supra-ordinary will.

10) Personhood that simultaneously transcends and fulfills one's ordinary sense of self while revealing one's fundamental unity with others.

11) Love that reveals fundamental unity.

12) Alterations in bodily structures, states, and processes that support the experiences and capacities above.

I've always been of the opinion that man will continue to survive and evolve. As I see it the doom and gloom fear merchants have got the wrong end of the stick. There could well be changes in the near future but these will lead to interesting, exciting times. Enjoy the ride.

"Soul and mind instantly lost their physical bondage and streamed out. My sense of identity was no longer narrowly confined to a body but embraced the circumambient atoms ... a swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems ..."
Paramahansa Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi