December 2012 marks the ending of the current baktun cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Though the Long Count was used by many cultures in pre-Columbian America and was most likely invented by the Olmec,^[5] it has become closely associated with the Maya civilization, whose classic period lasted from 250 to 900 AD.^[6] The Long Count set its "year zero" at a point in the past marking the end of the previous world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to either 11 or 13 August 3114 BC in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, depending on the formula used.^[7]
Unlike the 52-year calendar round still used today among the Maya, the Long Count was linear, rather than cyclical, and kept time roughly in units of 20, so 20 days made a uinal, 18 uinals, or 360 days, made a tun, 20 tuns made a katun, and 20 katuns, or 144,000 days, made up a baktun. So, for example, the Mayan date of 8.3.2.10.15 represents 8 baktuns, 3 katuns, 2 tuns, 10 uinals and 15 days since creation. Many Mayan inscriptions have the count shifting to a higher order after 13 baktuns.^[8][9] Today, the most widely accepted correlations of the end of the thirteenth baktun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0, with the Western calendar are either December 21 or December 23, 2012.^[10] Even before the dating issue was settled, the early Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson had written in 1957 that "[t]he completion of a Great Period of 13 baktuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya".^[11] After the correct date was determined, the anthropologist Munro S. Edmonson added that "there appears to be a strong likelihood that the eral calendar, like the year calendar, was motivated by a long-range astronomical prediction, one that made a correct solsticial forecast 2,367 years into the future in 355 B.C. [sic]".^[12]

Crop Circle Messages?

rop circles have been around for some 40+ years now; however, this new concept and term didn’t make it into the Oxford Dictionary until 1990. Crop circles are patterns created by the flattening of crops such as wheat, barley, rye, or corn. What took so long was the thinking that they are man-made hoaxes or works of art. Do we close the book on any other thinking about such phenomena?

Let’s play along and take a deeper look than just the superficial hoax theory.

Could they be caused by ball lightning and vortices in the wind producing isolated indentations in crops? Ah, that seems more remote to me that sophisticated pranksters somehow with engineering degrees that allow them to accomplish such amazing designs. And, there are some wild things out there. Then there are people like Colin Andrews, an electrical engineer from the U.K., has been researching the crop circle phenomenon since 1983. His take is greatly different.

His recently published book, Government Circles, is quite a read!

Colin Andrews has been disputing the British Governments document that set out their official position regards involvement of the Ministry of Defense in crop circle and UFO research. Andrews showed documentary Evidence from his book that they lied- and not just once. The game is ON!

What we do know is that the whole concept of crop circles has gone from very basic circles to sophisticated designs beyond what one would think any of us humanoids could do- and overnight as well. Could it be that these designs (some are fractals) which depict the universe, the solar system, and other galaxies are coming from some sort of higher consciousness? And what does this have to do with the Mayan calendar and or 2012?

Andrews writes of a meeting that he had with Aztec elder Tlakaelel in which a design was given to Colin to see if he had ever seen such in the various crop circles. Colin had not. Then within thirty minutes of their meeting he was faxed that exact design which appeared in a field in Silbury Hill, England. Colin’s meeting with Tlakaelel was in America. Could it be that our “consciousness”, our intent is making its way into the third dimension somehow?

I don’t know the answer to that one.

But this I believe. Very few of the crop circles could be done by humans, not nature as we know her. Are there messages for us from afar, or from within our consciousness? I’m not ready to say no.

Galactic Equator

According to John Major Jenkins, it will take 36 years to precess through the Galactic equator.  The Galactic Alignment "zone" is
1998 +/- 18 years = 1980 to 2016. This is "era 2012"

[So why are we worried?]

Will the world end in 2012?

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com
According to the culture of ancient Maya, part of what scholars call Mesoamerica, astronomy predicts some major cosmic developments for December 21, 2012, including, perhaps, the end of the world as we now know it, as some people believe. Mayan calendars are still used by a few cultures in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador and are said to be the most accurate ones in existence. They date the solar year accurately within minutes, taking account of the cycles of sun, moon, Venus, and other cosmic bodies and only have to add one "leap day" after 380,000 years. Mayan civilisation was quite advanced, possessing technology that modern man is still trying to comprehend.

Survival of the Crops

Survivalists tend to focus on coping without access to the luxuries of the current era. An aspect that is often neglected is that, whether it is due to global warming, cosmic rays, volcanic eruptions or a pole shift, you could find yourself suddenly in a new climate.

Consequently the crops of today might not prosper. A smart survivalist will make preparations for local climate change, and be ready to deploy crops that suit the new environment. Given that nobody knows if or how drastically the climate might change, this would require storing the seeds of a wide variety of crops.

Over in Peru there is a currently an initiative that is attempting to ensure, no matter what the climate, we will always have potatoes:

The Peruvian farmers will be paid to look after the most diverse collection of potatoes in the world. They will try growing varieties at different altitudes and in different climatic conditions so that if today's commercially available potato varieties start to fail anywhere in the world, replacement varieties will be ready and waiting.