Popular Culture of
2012
February 4, 2012
Christy Warner
Through
this journey of writing about, “The
Mysteries of 2012 and Their Affects on Today’s Society”, the theories that
relate best to popular culture are the myths of the Five Suns, the Singularity
Theory, the Mayan prophecies, and eschatology.
The latter, eschatology, is the most interesting find within these
analyses. Popular culture is and has
been creating eschatology throughout history.
The History Channel’s slogan
is, “History is made everyday”. It is
important to remember that society is today,
making history. The coming of December
21, 2012, and the ending of the Mayan calendar will be a monumental shift in
history.
In this
final presentation, the most important ideas to go away with are the facts that
have played relevant roles in popular culture since the first ancient writings
have been discovered. There are five
ages of the universe: 1) The Primordial Era, 2) The Stelliferous Era, 3) The
Degenerate Era, 4) The Black Hole Era, and 5) The Dark Era (The University of
Michigan, 2001). There are five ages or
races of humanity defined by Hesiod (Greek poet) and linked with archaeology,
they are 1) the golden race, 2) the silver race, 3) bronze race, 4) the heroic
race, and 5) the iron race (Griffiths, 1956).
The
magic number is five or a new world. All
eras, ages, and races have ended while another one has begun. The Mayan’s calendar, Native Americans, and ancient
prophecies include five worlds or ages, and they are the ages of the Sun
(Jaramillo, 2007). The first age is the “Red
Age of the Sun and Initiation”. The
second age is the “White Age of the Sun and Refinement”. The third age is the “Black Age of the Sun
and Transformation”. The fourth age is
the “Yellow Age of the Sun and Completion”.
December 21, 2012, is the end of the Fourth World and the beginning of
the age of “Great Purification”.
Dr.
Richard Boylan, Ph.D, states it best in his article, “Transition from the Fourth to Fifth World: The “Thunder Beings Return””,
"That
Fourth World is this present world we live in. The survivors spread across the
broad lands, and gradually began building
up the high civilizations which surround us today. Since this Fourth World is the one we have grown up in, we
are aware of the behaviors of those
in it. It can accurately be said that, after an initial time of fidelity to the
path of wise consciousness, many have
fallen into a low level of consciousness. In fact, it can honestly be stated that many people of this Fourth
World have fallen into the fatal flaws of the three
previous Worlds: forgetting the Oneness of all creation, sinking into greed and
materialism, and engaging in
promiscuity and aerial mass warfare. But we have added an additional serious element: mass
destruction of Earth and its ecological systems. Thus, the Fourth World’s fatal flaws are: all of the previous
Worlds’ ones, plus ecocide, the killing
of one’s own environment".
Dr. Boylan continues to
state,
"During
this transition more than ever before, each of us is being called to serve the
Great Spirit, that Center of
Consciousness from which everything derives its being. Each of us has an important role during this Great
Purification. We need to help find ways for nations,
races and tribes to put aside differences, and join together for the good of everyone. We need to help plant and animal
species survive. We have to bring to an end the
pollution of Earth, and return to our proper role as caretakers of Earth’s
ecosystems. We need to lay aside
the "success" lifestyle of greed and materialism, and learn to adopt
a lifestyle of "just enough"
and "good enough". We need to move away from the twin follies of promiscuity and puritanism,
and learn to reverence sex as the delightful yet sacred activity of appropriately joining opposites to create a
higher truth. And we need to lay
aside the weapons of war, and operate with that compassion, understanding and economic justice which make for peace".
Popular culture is changing through metaphysics and uniting. The meek and humble are becoming the heroes. The larger the calling of the “Great Spirit”, the greater chance for a change in humanity today. The shift of third dimensional consciousness is already taking place and “shifters” or “bloomers” are arising with knowledge of the fourth & fifth dimensions. Popular culture is not about fads or trends fed to society by public media; it is about the similarities we share with ancient civilizations and the popular culture, which has been lost, being rebirthed.
References
Dr. Boylan, R.
Ph.D. (1998). Transition from the Fourth to Fifth World: The “Thunder Beings
Return. Mayan Majix. Retrieved on February
4, 2012, from,
Griffiths, G.
(1956). Archaeology and Hesiod’s Five Ages. Jstor.
Retrieved on February 4, 2012, from,
Jaramillo, J. Dr.
(2007). The Mayan calendar and the four ages or periods. 2012 Rising. Retrieved on February 4, 2012, from, http://2012rising.com/article/the-mayan-calendar-and-the-four-ages-or-periods-of-the-sun
University of
Michigan. (2001). Five ages of the universe.
Regents of the University of
Michigan. Retrieved on February 4, 2012, from, http://www.fathom.com/course/10701055/index.html
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