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Apocalypse in 2012?

We all know that the Mayan culture existed many thousands of years ago and created thriving cities (such as Teotihuacán) long before western civilisation was, well civilised. Mayans also had an advanced understanding of astronomy and in particular time, with Mayan calendars being famous for calculating various astronomical events such as eclipse, conjunctions and planetary alignments. Mayan calendars can also be synchronized and interlocked, with their combinations giving rise to further, more extensive cycles and predictions.

One calendar in particular, the Long Count, has recently spawned a new wave of Apocalypse theories as the date, 21st December 2012, marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle, or a Classic Maya millennium. This is when the Maya calendar will turn over to all zeros - 13.0.0.0.0 by the long count. Speculation in is rife about why this date was chosen. Was it because they thought something terrible would happen? Why does the Mayan calendar stop at 5,126?

How was this date chosen? Well, the Mayan calendar is based on few units, similar to our years, months and days. One Baktun is equal to 394.3 years or 20 Katun, which is equal to 19.7 years. The Mayan calendar started on the Mayan epoch of August 11th 3114 BC, and comes to an abrupt end in 2012AD, 13 Baktun after the epoch.

Baktun Katun Tun Uinal Kin
Equals: 20 Katun 20 Tun 18 Uinal 20 kin
Days 144,000 7,200 360 20 1
Years 394.3 19.7 0.97

This date also happens to correspond with the winter solstice and it also marks an alignment of the sun with the centre of the Milky Way.

Some say that the Earth will pass into a stream of gamma radiation from the black hole at the centre of the galaxy, while others think that the alignment will trigger a solar flare or geomagnetic storms on Earth. Some are even predicting severe and violent earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis and hurricanes, all caused by the galactic alignment. Even further fetched is the notion that the Earth's magnetic poles will switch, or that we start spinning backwards!

But it isn't all doom and gloom. While 2012 marks the end of one cycle, it must also mark the beginning of another, one in which some Mayan mythology predicts that the ancient wisdom of the Maya will be rediscovered by the world and it will be a new dawn for mankind!

Other Mayan mythology predicts the end of mankind. The Popol Vuh is a sacred book of the Maya, and describes how the Mayans were living in the fourth world. The Popal Vuh describes the first three worlds in which the gods failed in making a perfect world, but the creation of the successful fourth world gave life to mankind. They Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.

So, did the Mayans know something we don't? or did the simply not get a chance to finish their calendar system? Will the doomsday theorists get it right in 2012, or will this be another Y2K?

One final thought: The doomsday theorists will get it right one day

Starchild Skull
Around 1930, in a mine about 100 miles southwest of the Mexican city of Chihuahua, buried underneath a human skeleton a mysteriously deformed, smaller skeleton was discovered. Dubbed Starchild, this skull has some very abnormal features, not seen anywhere else.

Mexico, Peru and the Inca people have long produced strangely deformed skulls as the ancients practiced the art of skull binding. This process creates a misshaping, flattened or elongated skull by tightly wrapping the skull of an infant. The wrapping is often done with rope or cloth, either by itself or against a wooden board.

Amateur anthropologist Lloyd Pye was first shown the Starchild skull by its owners in late February 1999. His initial reaction was some kind of rare genetic deformity, however the skull has peculiar features, which are too perfect to be a genetic anomaly.
Examination

The skull is almost perfectly symmetrical, even more so than a human skull. All of the bones (most of which have human counter parts) are perfectly formed, but they are shaped differently.

Scientists and medical experts have investigated it and they all agree that it is a child's skull. Dental examination shows a lack of erupted adult teeth so the child was around four to five years old. The face is missing from the upper bridge of the nose to the foramen magnum (the hole where the spine enters the skull), but the cranium and most of both eye orbits (the external parts of the sockets) are intact.

After examination the cranial cavity was found to be excessively large, at 1600cc it is 200cc larger in volume than an adult skull. A 200cc increase in cranial capacity represents a potential increase in brain capacity. Homo sapiens have a 200cc larger capacity than their predecessor, which in turn has 200cc increase over its predecessor.

A CAT scan has shown that none of the sutures between the bones in the child's skull have sealed themselves off from further growth. Nearly all examples of congenital deformity exhibit some degree of premature sealing of cranial sutures. This makes it highly unlikely for the child's skull to be the result of deformity.

Other peculiar features of the starchild skull include round, shallow eye sockets with the optic nerve channel at the base of the orbit, rather than the rear. There are no frontal sinuses and the back of the skull is flattened. The skull consists of calcium hydroxylapatite, which is the normal material of mammalian bone. Carbon dating has placed the skull at 900 years ± 40 years old. DNA tests revealed the child to be an X-Y human male, and to belong to a known Native American haplogroup C.
Alien Hybrid?

The Star Being Legends are well-known legends with roots spreading throughout Central and South America. In general they state that on a regular basis "Star Beings" come down from the heavens and impregnate females in remote, isolated villages. These women carry their "starchildren" to term, then raise them to age six or so. At that point the Star Beings return to collect their progeny and remove them to places, and for purposes, not clearly outlined in the legends. It has been suggested that improving a stagnated gene pool could be a motivation.

So did this child have a rare birth defect, or was it some kind of human/alien hybrid? Why are there no other skeletons like this?

Akashic Records
Akashic (Sanskrit akasha, "primary substance")

The Akashic records are the file cabinet of an individual's past lives and deeds. Think of the records as individual folders each holding the knowledge, talents and experiences from a particular lifetime. All these folders combined into one cabinet are your personal Akashic Records or Akashic library. You can open a file and look in a mirror, so to speak, at who you were 100 years ago and discover how that life influences this current one.

These ethereal records store the attitudes, emotions, and concepts from the mental mind as the physical body experiences taste, smells, sights, sounds, emotions and thoughts during each incarnation. These records utilize the law for every action there is an equal reaction and a person in a present incarnation creates their new experiences based on the past events of their pervious lives.

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone can tap into your Akashic records. These are pretty sacred folders that hold the very essence of who you are as a spiritual being and as a physical human. So there is a great responsibility given to the individuals who can tap into that information. These records are the most important piece of your soul and access to them is granted to the person them self, or to a few channels who have proven their understanding and acceptance of the responsibility, even accountability.

It's vitally important for psychic's to realize this. A psychic can 'pick-up' on the energies around you that make up the essence of who you are. But the details, the karmic lessons, and patterns that many try to interpret really can't be pinpointed without looking into the Akashic. Those that try to provide interpretive information, could be creating some very serious karma for themselves as well as the individual seeking their assistance. To manipulate a person's path or direction based on false information is a severe transgression in the spiritual realm.

There are many ways an individual person can tap into their own Akasha. Meditation is one of the easiest and best methods. There are others, from creative visualization, past life regressions or dream therapy. The best thing to do is find out which method will best work for you.

Ouija: Zozo Once Again

I was always very skeptical of spirits and ghosts until I had this experience. I don't know what they are, all I know is that I believe these entities exist now.

I was reading through the true stories section and I saw something that caught my eye: Zozo. I had a run in with this entity via a Ouija board, and I thought I was crazy until I saw that many other people had the exact same experience. My friend and I had just gotten a Ouija board and decided to play it all night. Well, I got ahold of someone, or something, called Zozo. The planchette would move very violently, and when it would get frustrated it would just sway from Z to O continuously. Every time I used the ouija board after that, Zozo would be the only one I could talk to.

One night it asked me to say something, and I was very apprehensive about it because the fact I had contacted the same spirit so many times in a row I figured it was watching me. It asked me to say, "Ramazama Jamal." I did some research and couldn't find these words in any language. Zozo was very pushy about it and got very frustrated and caused the planchette to actually shoot off the board a couple of times. Being the adventurous (and now I know stupid) person I am, I said it anyway, and I wished I hadn't.

Anywhere between 3-4 a.m. every morning I would be awoken by my cupboards slamming, and I would have to get up and ask them to stop. And they would, promptly. I would have terrible nightmares every night that caused my chest to tighten and become cold. I would wake up panting from loss of breath, but one night I felt eyes upon my back. I wasn't woken up by my cupboards this time; it was as if something called me from my dream to wake up.

When I turned around, I saw a shadow on the wall. I thought a friend had come in, so I asked them what they wanted. No reply. And then the shadow came out of my wall and became this black mass, faceless and blacker than black in the silhouette of a woman. The only distinction I had of its sex was that it tilted its head at one point and it had long hair. I was paralyzed with fear, and could barely push the words out of my throat. I asked it if it was Zozo, and it seemed to nod. Its head just moved from side to side like it was inquisitive, yet already knew everything. I asked it to go away and I covered my eyes. When I took my hands off it was gone. I moved out of that apartment a month later.

OUIJA STOLE THE PHONE

Zoe also had an experience with the Ouija and a cell phone, perhaps not surprising since teen girls seem to love their cell phones as well as a bit of Ouija drama. Zoe’s story took place in mid-September, 2008. She and her friends Maddie, Kelly and Brianna were all hanging out at Nora’s house after school. “We all knew the story that went along with her house,” Zoe says. “In the 1800s, a woman had killed her husband and then hung herself upstairs. So, we thought, this would be a great place to have fun with her Ouija board.”

The girls set up the board and almost immediately got a response from a 45-year-old woman named Tyra. They asked Tyra all the typical questions teen girls would ask about boys in their grade and other friends. They really weren’t taking it very seriously, however, never considering that something paranormal might be going on. In fact, they suspected that one of the girls was purposely directing the board to its answers. As they were arguing over who was secretly pushing the pointer, Nora suddenly shouted with excitement. “She asked us if we felt an area of coldness around the triangle,” says Zoe. “We all put our hands near it and found that the area was freezing! We knew that it was something paranormal as our hands brushed against the pocket of cold, so we stopped arguing and continued asking Tyra questions.”

Getting bored with the routine questions, one of the girls got more daring and asked if Tyra could possibly show herself. They waited for a minute... but nothing happened. Becoming impatient, Kelly shouted out that Tyra should steal Brianna's phone. It was just a joke and they were all laughing -- until Brianna discovered that her cell phone was missing. Instantly, the laughter turned to chaos as the group of five screaming girls ran around the room looking for Brianna's phone. “Some of us sat back down and asked Tyra where the phone was a couple times,” says Zoe. “Each time she replied that the phone was with her. We were getting seriously freaked out, so Maddie tried calling Brianna's phone. What happened next changed me into a firm believer of the paranormal. Maddie dropped her own phone, screaming that when she had tried to call Brianna's phone, the line had been busy, meaning that someone was using Brianna's phone to call someone. As Maddie and Nora bawled their eyes out, Brianna, Kelly and I asked Tyra where the phone was again. Tyra told us that she had put the phone in the bedroom across the hall, and that we should go get it before someone else finds it.”

Banding tightly together, the girls inched toward the closed door of the room. Suddenly it banged open on its own, causing more screams. Terrified, the girls huddled in a corner of the room until they finally got up the courage to go into the bedroom across the hall. “Maddie tried calling Brianna's phone again, and we heard a muffled ringtone,” Zoe remembers. “After looking for at least fifteen minutes, Kelly finally found Brianna's phone, sitting in a shoe underneath Nora's bed, freezing cold to the touch.”

THE ENTITY ZOZO

In this last story, Darren seems to confirm the warnings that many have given about the Ouija board. In particular, he warns about this thing that calls itself Zozo. Several other readers have reported contacting this entity also.

Darren read these stories, too. I took after this spirit told me to take a picture of it,” he says. “The spirit said it resided in a skull necklace, which is being held above the board. After taking this picture many strange events took place.

“The spirit said it was going to possess my girlfriend. She became deathly ill and violent. My daughter almost drowned in a bathtub the same day. She also came down with a horrible disease that required 16 days in the hospital, to which she was quarantined. The house became haunted, stuff flying around the kitchen, and we could hear ‘conversations’ emanating from within the house.

“I was shocked to read about other people who also had strange occurrences with this same spirit. This puzzles me greatly... why so many people claim the same name... who have no connection other than this evil named spirit coming to them via a Ouija board. I am convinced that this Zozo is a dangerous demon who wishes to cause destruction. It also seems that in Greek mythology there is a demon by the same name who is known as ‘The Destroyer.’ Don't believe me – look it up for yourself. Please help me to warn people that if this name comes to them, whether by dreams or through Ouija contact, be very careful. Don't go through what others and myself have had to go through. It is real... and it is harmful.”

SUMMONING HITLER

Before Ouija boards were sold in toy stores, people used to make their own “talking board” for their séances. This is what Denise’s mother did a number of years ago, Denise tells us. The setting is a small town in Germany called Tittmoning , which lies near the Austrian border. It’s an old town with a dark history. It suffered the plague twice and was virtually burned to the ground on three occasions in its past. Still, it features a castle, old buildings and, of course, cemeteries. Important to this story, too, is the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, then ruled Germany, much to the world’s dismay.

The story begins on a chilly summer evening in 1985 when Denise’s mother, then a 13-year-old girl, and her friend decided to have a little fun together while their parents were gone. They took a blank sheet of paper and a black marker, and started to neatly write on it the numbers 1 through 9 and 0. Below them they wrote the alphabet, drew a sun and a star, and finished it off by adding "Good Bye" to the right and "Hello" to the left. They set a little wooden desk and two chairs in the middle of the room and placed the paper on the table. They lit six candles around the room, then placed an inverted drinking glass on the table. They switched off the lights off and sat at the table. The two girls moved the glass to "Hello" and lightly pressed one finger each atop the glass.

One of the girls addressed their homemade Ouija board. "Hello? Is anybody there?" she asked. After a moment of silence, the glass slowly started to move toward the letters and spelled out YES. As the evening slowly turned into night, the girls had asked the spirit a variety of questions. They were enjoying this activity until one girl suggested, "Let's ask him his name!" They asked. Two seconds later, their talking board pointed out the letters L-H-E-I-T-R-D-O-F-L-A. At first the girls were puzzled, but then realized the letters were out of order. It was an anagram.

“Are you Adolf Hitler?” they asked. Silence for nearly two minutes. Then suddenly the glass shot across the room and shattered against the wall into millions of pieces. The girls went screaming out of the room and refused to go back in. The next day, strange things began to happen in the house: footsteps, a weird laughing sound... one of the girls even swore she saw Hitler's face in a corner, grinning at her.

Eventually, they were forced to return to the room to clean up the glass. As they entered the room, they found their self-made Ouija board ripped into pieces on the table. The girls picked up the shredded paper and buried it in their backyard. They have never touched another Ouija board – homemade or store bought – to this day.

OUIJA PHONE CALL

Many people firmly believe that spirits and other entities can communicate with them through the Ouija. But can that communication carry over to other devices as well?

Consider Jessica’s experience, who decided to play with the Ouija with a few of her friends in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. They were all at Becka’s house, which everyone thought was incredibly creepy and undoubtedly haunted; in other words, the perfect setting for their séance. Jessica, Becka and Diane set up the living room for the experiment with lit candles. Jessica and Diane sat on their knees on either side of a piano bench which held the Ouija board and placed their fingers on the planchette. Becka refused to touch the board and instead took the role of “scribe”.

“Please take note that we had all turned our cell phones off so that they would not disrupt the atmosphere,” Jessica says. After speaking to a young girl named Wisty and a man who would not give his name, but instead kept attempting to move the planchette through the alphabet, the girls decided to stop. “Suddenly, my cell phone started to ring,” Jessica says. “Being a teenager then, I used to have my ringtones all set as song clips. This time however, the phone rang its original tinny tune.”

Stunned, Jessica glanced fearfully at her friends. She slowly picked up her phone from the table and looked at the display to see who might be calling. “The phone number listed was not in normal format,” Jessica insists, “but it was something like this ************, without hyphens or parentheses as would be the norm.” Shaking, she answered and said, "Hello?" On the other end, a man began to speak incomprehensibly in a language she did not recognize and could never place. When Jessica told him she was going to hang up, the mysterious man got very quiet, then began to laugh. “That was assuredly the last time we used the board at her house.”

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE that the Ouija board is a dangerous object that can open portals to negative forces or that it merely reflects the many fears and desires that lie in our subconscious, the stories of people’s experiences with the board are fascinating. I suspect that many of the tales we hear, including the ones that follow, might be exaggerated or at least colored for effect, yet we’re willing to consider them since the authors have sworn that they are true.

THE OUIJA’S WARNING

“I used to live in a house in Pueblo, Colorado that I always thought was ‘peculiar’ because of the way I always felt in it,” says a reader who uses the name Aphrodite. She always felt like she was being watched, a feeling that intensified when she was alone. But she couldn’t quite identify the feeling. Was the watcher staring in anger or fascination? Soon the feeling turned into sounds.

One night her father had to go out to the store. To feel safe, Aphrodite locked every door in the house while she was upstairs. “The house is very big, so it creaks a lot, especially the stairs,” she says, “but as I was stepping into the shower, I heard the floorboards creak like someone was walking on them.” Aphrodite wrapped a towel tightly around her, counted to three and flung open the bathroom door to confront the intruder. There was no one there. She dismissed the sounds as her imagination and got in the shower. As she turned on the water, she heard the floorboards creak again. “Determined to find out the source, I left the shower running and with one huge thrust opened the door and, expecting to see someone, pushed forward so they'd fall down the stairs,” she says. Aphrodite grabbed only air.

Now thinking that the intruder might be a spirit, Aphrodite went to her room and fetched the Ouija board from under her bed and set it up on the floor. “I thought, if it was a ghost, it might want to communicate,” she says. Aphrodite lit five candles: red, green, yellow, blue and white. She set four of them at the corners of the board and placed the white one between her legs. “I gently put my hand on the board and called the spirit out. ‘If there's anyone here who wishes to communicate with me, please make your presence known.’” Something blew out the red candle and the Ouija’s pointer began to move. “The spirit told me he was a man age 32 who wanted to communicate with me,” she says. “He also said that he hated the way I lived and that’s why he watched me. I asked him if he was mad at me. He said yes. And the last message he relayed to me was: ‘GET OUT. WON’T BE SAFE LONGER.’ And with that the board was done.”

Aphrodite didn’t tell anyone of this experience, but she did try to convince her dad to move from that house. They didn’t even move when, during dinner one evening, they both heard the stairs creak, followed by an upstairs mirror crashing to the floor. They finally did move when Aphrodite’s dad got a new job. “Ever since then, I have wondered if the spirit is still there,” she says. “I still wonder if maybe I should have faced it or if it was a good thing we moved. I've talked to the recent owners of that house, and they say that their dog won't go into my old room and that the wife gets violently shoved when she is alone.

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