2012: Why Didn’t An Asteroid Hit Earth?

Some people suggested this was going to happen in December 2012… well, so far we haven’t dissolved into cosmic dust – but who can know what the future brings!

The 2012 phenomenon comprised a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on December 21st, 2012.

This date was supposed to be the end-date of a 5’0125-year-long cycle in the Mayan calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological concepts related to this date have been suggested.

An esoteric interpretation of this transition posited that during this time Earth and its inhabitants might undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggested that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe like the apocalypse.

Scenarios posited for the end of the world included the Earth’s collision with a passing planet (often referred to as “Nibiru”) or black hole, or the arrival of the next solar maximum. An artistic representation of this can be seen here:

American philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna believes however that in 2012 the world will not dissolve into pieces, but instead enter a whole new level of “novelty”.

I predict the most novel event in the history of the world in 2012, and for conservative mind that might look like doomsday, but it isn’t doomsday, it’s simply that we are moving deeper and deeper into uncharted territory, novel territory. And that’s frightening to some people, and exhilarating to others.

(Terence McKenna)

The strange attractor of 2012.

The whole cosmos wants to change into information or in a geometrical model, all points want to become connected…
there is an ultimate endstate of that process, it’s the moment when every point in the universe is connected to every other point in the universe…
the strangeness of our condition signifies the nearness of the attractor.

(Terence McKenna)