Don’t mess with the Mayans because they know what’s in store for us

Perceptions by Gerry Warner

Dear readers: As many of you know, I’ve been writing a column in this town for a long time, about 15 years in fact, beginning with “Politically Incorrect” in the Cranbrook Daily Townsman in 1997 and the last year and-a-half as “Perceptions” in the Cranbrook Guardian and eKNOW, the fastest growing on-line media outlet in the Kootenays.

Over that period of time, I’ve met many of you, got to know some of you and enjoyed receiving your praise and your criticism equally as much. However, nothing is forever. All good things must come to an end and that includes my modest writing efforts to highlight issues, get people thinking and spread a bit of enlightenment.

As many of you must know the world we all love is currently living under a dark prophecy. Some call it a hoax. But when you look at the facts, it raises grave doubts.  I’m referring, of course to “Nayam Ycehporp,” or the end of the world as predicted by the Ancient Mayans more than 3,000 years ago. Sure, there are many that don’t believe, and for a long time I numbered myself among their ranks. But then, I decided to do a little research and here’s what I found out. You be the judge.

The Mayan Civilization of Central America goes back thousands of years to what historical scholars call “Pre-History,” eons before the modern era as we know it. Historians in recent years have authenticated the Mayan “Long Count,” or calendar as we call it, to the year 3114 BC and that’s even further back than the Egyptians.

The ancient Mayans were perhaps the greatest mathematicians and astronomers the world has ever known and their entire civilization was based on the intricate relationships between their seven-base numbering system and the trillions of celestial bodies they identified orbiting in the universe. Using calculations that even the most powerful of modern computers can’t perform, they divided time into a series of epochs stretching from far back in pre-history to the future. Each epoch was 777 years long, and it’s generally agreed by modern day historians that the Mayan civilization hit its zenith in the year 777 AD, at which time it came to a sudden and blinding end. Consequently when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America in the early 15^th century, they only found ruins of what was once the greatest civilization of the New World.

Now keep in mind there were still lots of Mayans around when the Spanish arrived, but those Mayans knew virtually nothing about the great palaces, temples and pyramids that lay abandoned all around them. It was as if a space ship had suddenly arrived and spirited the great Mayan civilization away to a higher order and left a progeny of  lost souls to start over again. In other words nobody died, but the essence of the Mayan culture evaporated like so much star dust and time itself was reset to begin another epoch anew.

So if you do the math under a seven-base system you are led to the inevitable and irrevocable conclusion that civilization as we now know it will come to an end precisely at noon Dec. 21, 2012 and all of us will be rapturously transported to a new 777 year epoch that our puny minds of today can’t even contemplate.

So don’t believe the usual naysayers and doom-and-gloomers that say we’re all going to die on that glorious date.  We’re not going to die. Not at all. Instead, we’re going to be transported to a higher level that will elevate us far above this vale of tears and it will be a catharsis in which we will all be renewed. What form that renewal will take, we don’t know. Nor should we. The way I imagine it, and some Mayan seers say the same thing, it will be like climbing a great white mountain blindfolded, and when you get to the crest of the peak, the blinds fall from your eyes and you see Nirvana .

Sure, it could be different, but whatever it is, I’m looking forward to it and I think you should too. And in case you doubt, check what Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on TV Thursday about the Mayan  Prophecy.

I think you will find it very enlightening.

Gerry Warner is a retired journalist and a Cranbrook City Councillor. His opinions are his own.os opinions are his own.