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By Carlisle Bergquist, Personal Growth Author

2012, Earth Changes, Ascension, Rapture, The End of Days, maybe you’re like me and haven’t quite figured this all out.  It seems that somewhere deep within our collective psyche, for as many millennia as humankind has been able to voice it, people have been predicting a world-ending catastrophe accompanied by a last minute rescue from some higher source.  The most recent collective trauma was the Y2K scare that had people stockpiling food, water, and “low-tech” devices of all kinds in order to survive when technology failed.  That didn’t turn out as dire as we feared for ultimately the solution was within our control.  Despite that alarm, we are more dependent on glorious gizmos today than before.

Gifted seers, like early warning radar, have predicted that some enormous change will occur in this creation.  Shamans have prophesied this “great turning” in indigenous villages, every religious tradition has recorded some description of it in their scripture, and like a weather-change many sentient beings that walk this planet sense something in their bones.  Y2K was a glitch, a flaw within human made technology and perhaps the fact that we averted the expected infrastructure meltdown enhanced our complacency towards even larger problems.  The prophetic change seeded in our collective psyche is easy to ignore for it arises away from our vision and beyond our control.  Like a hurricane stirring on distant seas, we can do little but general preparation as we wait for it to reveal its magnitude and trajectory.

No matter what, if you are a true believer or a skeptic, something moved you to read this article and I simply ask you to consider whether all the polarity and struggle occurring in the world today seems different.  Our environment is in crisis producing what seem like ever more intense storms.  The economy has suddenly gone comatose throughout the world.  Religious wars are on the rise.  Even our interaction with nature seems to bring an insurgent response where otherwise wary animals launch strange attacks on humans.  Is it all just coincidence or are we crossing a maelstrom of epic import beyond which lays an uncertain passage?  Many have described this transition and attempted to name its date only to be proven wrong.  Still, the coming of 2012 on the Mayan calendar looms disturbingly near and formidably specific, especially given the foreboding signs that play out daily in the world before us.  I suggest that whatever its cause, in this coming period more will be asked of us than to sit and await rescue from a woeful world.  In case it is in a New Heaven, on a New Earth, or walking more miles in the same pair of shoes, perhaps we should be asking, “How can we help create the world we all can live in come 2013?”

The port beyond the turbulence seems a question of faith.  No matter if, you view the ensuing transformation as a messianic return or a frequency ascension; whether you perceive it as the descent into chaos or the coming of the Apocalypse, clearly it is time to ignite the highest light we know in every aspect of our lives.  We must fulfill our obligation as the stewards of our part of creation.  We must shine, not with the piety of a particular creed, but so brightly filled with the light of the Creator that all can find their way through whatever dark times may lie ahead.  We are not to hide our light, not to protect ourselves alone, but to serve others.  It is time for spiritual seekers and visionaries alike, “to do, what you have been learning for,” time to practice that for which you preach.  It is not an easy task. 

While writing this article I had a vision of sorts–a shadowy unsettling vision that required me to go beyond inspirational words and consider what might happen should a worst-case scenario lead to a calamitous end.  I don’t like the “prophet of doom” perspective so my intention here is not to evoke the worst but to stir thoughts that may mitigate any difficult times that lay ahead.  Our facts and myths all say that drastic alteration is possible.  Dinosaurs once covered the planet only to disappear and we speculate that great civilizations rose and fell hundreds of thousands of years before us without leaving a trace.  If the myths are true, humankind has taken eons to recover to where we find ourselves now.  So what if it happens again?  It doesn’t matter if it’s caused by a pole shift, a nuclear winter after a stupid war, volcanic emissions, alien invasion, pandemic, pestilence, or a direct encounter with an errant asteroid.  So, now that we’ve walked all this way into what may be only the forest of dark fantasy, a fairy tale comes to mind.

At the behest of an “evil step-mother,” Hansel and Gretel’s father deserted them deep in a strange wood and left them for lost.  Realizing their possible fate, Hansel had the foresight to leave small white pebbles along the trail as they went leaving markers to lead them back to their environment and out of their dark peril.  Our environment includes vast amounts of information stored for us on computers–with the best backup systems.  Historians store films, documents, and artwork in underground vaults around the country.  Groups are storing seeds from plants all over the world to prevent parts of our food chain from becoming extinct.  That said, what if an event as catastrophic as the one the ended the dinosaurs or sank Atlantis occurred?  Would we be able to find and utilize these materials amid that level of devastation?  Could survivors recover the treasure troves of information we have acquired and would they know how to use these resources in a strange new world?  We need to leave a lot of white pebbles!

In addition to our duty as stewards of this planet, perhaps as we approach uncertain times we should also steward the wisdom and knowledge we have gained for those that follow, in case the universe is about to hit the reset button on humankind once again.  I haven’t quite figured out this end of the world thing but like so many others, I sense the urgency of our time.  Some things are clear.  We can’t wait on the shore as if a passing cosmic cargo ship will save us and we must do all we can to save this precious planet and ourselves.  We can’t run around like Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling and expect anyone to listen.  It is encouraging that recent events seem to have awakened masses of people worldwide and a paradigm shift may be underway, no offense to 'chicken little', but maybe we can put him out of work.  Finally, we can’t live in denial–something IS falling and some of us will have to dig our way out from under it. 

Our sun, along with its solar system, also travels in a great orbit around the center of this galaxy.  Just as the Earth’s angle changes along its circular path around the sun causing us to experience different intensities of light and the cycling seasons, the entire solar system encounters different energetic influences along its galactic promenade.  We have–at least in this life–never been in this part of the universe before.  The scale of the solar orbit is too grand for us to recognize and predict these influences or to know them like the seasons of our lives.  Sensitive seers have long alluded to coming energetic changes, perhaps they access some kernel of genetic memory, or Akashic record that suggests the characteristics of a region of space we have not passed through for hundreds of thousands of years.

As a solar collective, we are approaching an ancient expanse on our grand passage, new to us only because of the brevity of our lives.  Perhaps the uncertainty some of us feel deep within our bones is a coming change of season on a galactic scale.  Fall turns into winter and winter again to spring, each transition comes with challenge and reward.  Transition can be rough.  An acorn buried in the soil needs the cold of winter to activate its growth and shed its shell in the spring-warmed loam.  Each season requires us to prepare for the next.  Whether humankind is to be the fresh shoot of growth emerging from the soil or the shell cast off to allow it might depend on how well we prepare.  My vision shook me and made me think maybe this is bigger than anybody can grasp.  Maybe it’s better that way.  While I cannot know the nature of the cosmic order or the Divine plan it unfolds, I am certain there is order.  My task is to prepare myself, and anyone else I can, for the transition.  Whether the date is 2012 or beyond we have an obligation to ourselves and to life itself to be able to continue into the next season.  It’s time to pay attention, time to visualize a positive outcome.  If the grand season is about to change, I’m hoping it looks a lot like spring and I’m leaving this white pebble on the trail for anyone who wants to follow.

Carlisle was interviewed on Champagne Sundays online radio show on January 11, 2009. To listen to the entire, unedited show, please click here. To listen to Carlisle's interview, please double click on the Play Button below.