2012 IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!!! http://www.calleman.com/
A colourful (if far from complete) explanation as to the working of the Mayan Calendar. Told by Ian Lungold, this video essay by Chris Valentine hopes to give the viewer a rough understanding of how the Mayan Calendar functions. http://www.mayanmajix.com/

THE MAYAN CALENDAR END DATE
Many people hear about the so-called end date of the Mayan calendar, and today some people have even created the illusion that the Mayan calendar was designed only to point out this end date. In reality, there is nothing to indicate that the ancient Maya who developed the Long Count calendar had any interest in what would happen as this calendar came to an end. Instead what the ancient Mayan scriptures talk about is its beginning. The exact date for this beginning was apparently based on the day of the year, August 11, when the sun was in zenith in Izapa, where most likely this calendar first came into use. Ancient Mayan inscriptions also talk about this time as the time when the First Father erected the World Tree so that the light could enter, a significant event in creation. The various dynasties in the different Mayan city-states would then try to track a relationship to this seminal event by First Father and legitimize their power based on this.

The Mayan calendar is thus a spiritual device that enables a greater understanding of the evolution of consciousness driving human history and the concrete steps we can take to align ourselves with this cosmic evolution toward Enlightenment. Oneness with everything.

28 OCTOBER 2011 IS THE MOMENT OF TRANSFORMATION, A SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS. The Swedish authority on Mayan calendrics, Carl Johan Calleman, says 28 Oct 2011 -- not the winter solstice of 2012 -- as the moment when Earth's people will leap beyond the limits of physical, Earth consciousness to spiritual galactic consciousness. Calleman holds that 28 Oct 2011 is crucial because the last days of a 260-day tzolkin cycle and a 360-day tun cycle coincide on this day.

The Mayan calendar is associated with nine creation cycles, which represent nine levels of consciousness or Underworlds as symbolized by the Mayan pyramids. This pyramidal structure of consciousness development can explain things as disparate as the common origin of world religions and the modern complaint that time seems to be moving faster.

Time, in fact, is speeding up as we transition from the materialist Planetary Underworld that still governs us to a new and higher frequency of consciousness, the Galactic Underworld, in preparation for the final Universal level of conscious Enlightenment.

The Mayan calendar is thus a spiritual device that enables a greater understanding of the evolution of consciousness driving human history and the concrete steps we can take to align ourselves with this cosmic evolution toward Enlightenment.