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You might wonder why this matters, but in fact it does. The Global Consciousness Project can detect “disturbances in the force” prior to the disturbance. It has been described as the bow wave of a boat. The energy of an event precedes it, disturbing the “time” field even before the event occurs. Results of these studies indicate that mind and matter are interactive in fundamental ways.

Codex Cues

You can watch events emerge on www.boundaryinstitute.org/randomness.htm and www.boundaryinstitute.org/articles/timereversed.pdf.

Give yourself a minute to feel this. Have you ever felt someone coming before they arrive? Or known the phone was going to ring, or who was calling? Maybe you felt the bow wave of the event.

Dean Radin, from the Institute of Noetic Sciences, writes that in laboratory situations, people react to an event six seconds before it takes place. Does it mean we all perceive six seconds into the future? Or that highly charged events send shock waves into the past that we perceive in the future? Get your head around that!

The Least You Need to Know

◆ New Age information accepts a time of global disruption as the old ways crumble but focuses on the spiritual renaissance it will bring.

◆ Earth changes and political and social unrest are part of the disruption to come. This is a rectification period to bring us back into natural balance.

◆ Channeled information suggests that you can expect changes at the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels as we approach 2012.

◆ Channels and intuitives see the future as a time of mass empowerment.

◆ Modern technology is providing new ways of viewing time and predictions.

Chapter 13

A Healthy Dose of Skepticism

In This Chapter

◆ Controversy around the findings of Argüelles, Jenkins, and Calleman

◆ Skeptics weigh in on the predictions

◆ Don’t believe everything you read

◆ Doomsday predictions that didn’t come true

◆ Beware the self-fulfilling prophecy!

As you can imagine, both skepticism and fanaticism abound regarding 2012. Healthy skepticism enters a debate with an open mind but maintains critical thinking: asking questions and not stopping at easy answers. Unhealthy skepticism begins the debate by already believing it knows the answer. It doesn’t ask questions and doesn’t listen to evidence. We can say the same thing about healthy belief and unhealthy belief, or fanaticism. Unhealthy skepticism and unhealthy belief are equally dangerous.

In this chapter, we’ll look at controversy surrounding the Mayan theories and overall skepticism surrounding the 2012 predictions. We’ll start with the Mayan theories. The three key researchers are José Argüelles, John Major Jenkins, and Carl Johan Calleman—all of whom you’ve met in earlier chapters.

You may already have noticed the first problem. There are no Mayan Elders. One of the major criticisms of the “Mayan” theories is the lack of native Mayan input. Criticism of the rest of the 2012 predictions tends to be based on the reliability of the “prophet,” his or her personal credibility, and the probability of the prediction.

Critique of Argüelles

José Argüelles has been a proponent in the Mayan calendar revival since the 1980s. He started researching in the 1950s, formulating his own theories about Mayan timekeeping. He believes that “time is the frequency of synchronization.” He promoted the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 as an energy shift in the 25-year countdown to the end of the Long Count calendar. He also created his own calendar, the Dreamspell calendar, meant to harmonize the users to natural cycles by using a 28-day, 13-month calendar. (See Chapter 12 for a review.)

Argüelles’s work is unsupported by Mayan scholarship. Argüelles is accused of co-opting ancient traditions and reframing them in modern New Age terminology. In addition, Argüelles’s Dreamspell calendar doesn’t properly coordinate with the length of the year and month.

Here’s the problem: