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- From: kendrick+@CMU.EDU (Kendrick Kerwin Chua)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Trouble?
- Message-ID: <geyJZ_600iV482y6do@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:26:34 GMT
- References: <5438.1313.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
- Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 32
- In-Reply-To: <5438.1313.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
-
- >-> Actually, I believe--but I'm not sure--that the Mayan calender
- >-> does not stop at 2012. Instead I think that it starts into a new
- >-> age at (or around) this time. I vaguely remember hearing that
- >-> every age is supposed to be marked by some extraordinary events.
- >-> I think that this approaching one is supposed to bring forth a new
- >-> race of human(oid)s and a mass re-awakening of magick.
- >
- >According to Terrence McKenna (in Archaic Revival) the Mayan calendar
- >does indeed indicate the end of an age in 2012. McKenna has done some
- >very suggestive work with fractal-based timelines plotting technological
- >innovation, the rise and fall of civilizations, etc. and makes a case
- >that they too seem to predict the "immanentization of the eschaton"
- >circa 2012.
-
- Is the end of whatever era we're in really coming, and what would the
- effects be? We have this Mayan thing, we have the christian rapture, we
- have Crowley's transition from the Age of Horus into the Age of Osiris,
- we have the aquarian thing, etc.etc.etc. . .
-
- Call me skeptical, but the European churches were all convinced back in
- medieval times that the world was going to end on December 31, 999 AD
- (or CE, if you prefer). Things have been weird lately for me mentally,
- but they need to get much more commonplace and much more physically
- apparent before I start announcing the second coming of Cthulhu. :)
-
-
- Kendrick Kerwin Chua
-
- kc3u+@andrew.cmu.edu or
- kendrick+@CMU.EDU
-
- Dark Lord see me to freedom.
-