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This is one of the most profoundly grounded and sensible observations that I have heard in recent memory regarding any of the Myan prophecy or 2012 calendar mythology. It rises above the noise-some chaff parroted and mimic-ed by humans too distracted and addicted to be bothered with manifesting their own evolution. This circumspection by Phillip Coppens appears in a promo for the documentary "The Galactic Alignment" on the DVD "2012 Mayan Prophecy and the Shift of the Ages". Phillip's words speak to me on a level that feels very honest in an age when so many individuals act in possession of an apparent certainty that everyone but themselves is doing the exactly the wrong thing.

In the promo Coppens states:
"Now, one of the things about 2012 which needs to be pointed out is actually that this galactic alignment is Earth centric. It's us seeing the sun in the galactic center from the position of the Earth. It's a symbolic event. It's not meant to be taken as literal fact. Like so many things about ancient civilizations and their obsession with the skies, it involves this element of symbolism." He goes on to clarify his understanding of the Mayan's possible intentions "They were using this as a metaphor of giving us a truth perhaps for example that this pool at the galactic center was once the birth of our sun, but it's a symbolic message it haven't to be taken litterally far too many things in this day and age are taken litteral, and that is a problem when we try to understand ancient civilizations and why they try to go on about 2012, or calendars, or anything else for that matter."

Now, if only some of the conspiracy theorists, schizophrenics, prophets, symbolic truth addicts, or other mental indigents of our modern age would grok this simple truth of mythological, symbological, and metaphorical flexibility, then we might have a vast army of healty and creative minds, instead of rank, inneffectual, psychological terrorists running amuck on the information repositories of our world. Frankly, my fine internet friends, if you are certain that you are doing the 'right thing' then you have an excellent measure for why it is probably the entirely wrong thing to be doing.

Seek truth people. Seek it within, and, once you find it, guide yourself to health and wellbeing. Preaching your personal truth, removed of fact and interpersonal understanding, is simply base terrorism, and I think we can all agree that there is an unnecessary abundance of such willful abuse in this world. Seek personal health, sacred time and space, balance, and tranquility. You will discover that you have achieved these states not by your own knowledge, but because someone, eventually, will ask you how you did it, and when they do stop and ponder for a moment before answering. You will have to ponder, not because you do not have an answer, but because you will want to answer them in a way that only they will understand, and that, simultaneously, they will understand perfectly.

Be Well, Do Well, Know That You Are Loved

Cameron Owen Johnson

P.S. While you're at it, learn a language or two. Mathematics and calculus are good places to start, but so are drawing or singing. Don't take my word for it. Captain your own ship toward the point that best serves you. The world will make sure your efforts fit in perfectly.