Into the Future!

ELL...
I haven't been very attentive to Writtin's.  Not that I haven't had anything  rattling around in my head I have, its I haven't had anything GOOD to say.  IT was a very challenging year for me,, from start to finish....

Some random ideas that have been ping ponging around in my head lately:

So 2012 is gone! That sounds like such a far away time~ when I was a kid back in the 1960's I thought there would be colonies on Mars by now.  Didn't you?
What has held us back? 
We have held onto old ideas such as gasoline engines, coal burning power stations, and a 9 to 5 lifestyle. We have milked the gas and oil cow till she is nearly dry and now we are MILKING it for all its worth.  As a world population we are stagnant as the super rich control the world we live in and we continue to be players in an economy that was created to keep the upper tier rich as the rest of us struggle to make the best of the lemons  disguised as "THE AMERICAN DREAM"

I was recently reading a copy of the magazine Prevention.  By the time I finished reading it I felt doomed to a life of anguish and unanswered questions.  Headlines such as:
FATIGUE, WHAT CAUSES IT
ARE YOU IRON DEFICIENT?
WHY YOU CANT SLEEP
IS THE FOOD YOU EAT MAKING YOU SICK
HOW TO STOP BACK PAIN WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION

When I read these shock-lines I realized we Americans are a mass of sick people.  We are in constant pain both physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.  The American way of life is what is giving us fatigue, gives us a horrible diet, wont allow us to sleep, and creates a body riddled with all sorts of complaints. 
IF we could fix the spiritual problems first that would give us the strength to deal with the emotional, and then the physical would fall into place.  WE think we are a sick society now, wait until the kids of today grow up...they are being raised by cell phones and x-boxes.  When its their turn to be the Dead Beats in the House and Senate what will be important to them?  Will they care about the natural world at all?

They had a "take your kid hunting day" here yesterday and today! SO the only time a kid is encouraged to go into the woods is to kill something? To me that is SICK!

9 to 5 keeps people enslaved.  A life is like a flash in time...when compared to the Universe  our existence is a nanosecond! We spend our most productive years working to earn money.  I was thinking of this; what if instead of retiring at 65 we retired at 50? Reason being...if people moved out of the jobforce at age 50 younger workers would move into these jobs, it would keep the tax foundation strong and steady, a young workforce is more productive, and as workers age they are more prone to disease! AS we enter into that pivotal age  we need time to work ON US, a job takes precedence.  IF we had 16 hrs a day to work on our own health, we would become healthier people! Less fatigue, less emotional issues, stronger physical bodies, and we could discover who we are spiritually! IF we wait until we are 65 years old we are pretty much at a point of no return!
...By this time workers are so beat down by the work a day life style, they    cant/dont make time for exercise, we dont make time to relieve stress, we dont have time to cook and eat right...just going to work and staying on the wheel takes all we have to give.  Not everyone is able to tap into our inner Super Man or Wonder Woman.  Some can and my hat is off to those people, but I dont want to be like them.

The Medical machine is draining us dry....if we didnt have to work away the best years of our life, we would be healthier! IT would cost US less for workers to retire early! Happy people are healthier!....IF our system included saving for the future...we could retire early! We are not told HOW important it is to save money, we are sold an "investment idea".  SAVING money is the key to financial security!  Investing is like playing the lotto.
Pay yourself first should be the most important thing we learn in high school!  But I  dont  recall a class called MONEY. The typical education is not preparing us for the REAL world we live in. 
What if the classes being taught were like this:

NATURAL WORLD SCIENCE
YOUR SPIRITUAL BODY
YOUR EMOTIONAL HEALTH
YOUR BODY and HEALTH
FINANCIAL DOs and DONTs
FAMILY DYNAMICS

Maybe then we would be prepared to actually take better care of ourselves and be productive and happy at the same time.

SO on we go still rolling a square wheel uphill...all we can do is work on
 ourselves and make it better one day at a time.

What a time to be ALIVE!

HEN will the world end? How many times we've heard this one and wondered about it ourselves...No one knows of course! Personally I dont think the Earth will ever end...it will change and become foreign to mankind, and it will evolve and continue for as long as the Sun that warms it is alive and well...

Today I had some thoughts about it.  As our movement around the Sun brings us to the close of one REALLY LONG cycle and the beginning of a new one we have to think that we are gonna be at a spot in TIME that we have no recorded history of...so WE don't have a clue what may be in the stars "literally" for us!!

Just watching the movie 2012 right now and it brings even more of these thoughts to the front of my brain and any of you who have read my writings know that time and space are particularly fascinating to me.  WHAT could happen?  The Planet could become so inhabitable that we die off, just about like the dinosaurs did 65 million years ago.  As soon as 10,000 yrs ago we had sabre toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and more large & strange land creatures that made North America their home...now ALL extinct.  That is about half the portion of time it took to make our way through this galactic cycle we are now completing...SO We are talking about that period of time when the world was fit for them---We are about 12,000 yrs into the Holocene era--the previous one was the Pleistocene era, when the glaciers retreated...so the Mammoths died off due mostly to climate change in the middle of this era, the Holocene Epoch.

We have dragged our feet due to economies of the world that we have forgotten that we live in a UNI--VERSE..(it means all together) and yet as we drew our boundaries in the dirt, and separated ourselves with language, geography, religion and politics, we forgot that our Earth is ON cycle and moving right along with US ON IT...we have made zero plans to survive this galactic alignment--and the changes we may encounter...as a species. 
To me this has been the strangest winter for North America so far..I binged it and found this:
the warmest winter on record happened in 1999-2000, then again in 2007, then again in 2010...AND now I believe 2011-2012 will break all those records.  The Earth is changing!! It is warming up, the air currents have shifted, some say the poles are shifting South to North..who knows.  All I know is Ive been alive almost 60 yrs Ive never seen anything like what we have going on right now, my mom has been around 87 yrs she says the same thing... Our Spring is happening NOW..a complete month and half too soon!!

I just wonder whats in store; will some planet that we never knew existed suddenly come into view? WOW wouldn't that be amazing--HOW cool is it to be alive right NOW during this amazing planetary event???  I mean the last time this happened humans were Neanderthals------(homo erectus was still around) OMG--what will our civilization be like at this point 26,000 yrs into the future if we survive that long? 

 One could compare witnessing this Epoch to such super history makers as being alive at the time of Adam and Eve, Jesus, or Genghis Kanh, King Henry the 8th, Noah, Buddha, we have come to a conclusion...

Its a time NO ONE has been in and lived to recorded it for posterioty and No ONE will most probably know OF US in 26,000 yrs.  I cant even figure out how many generations will pass if you consider a generation is 20-25 yrs SO 10,000 generations  will pass --its not like our descendants will say "my Grandmother 10,000 times removed was alive to see this Galactic Alignment"---I dont think so...we should put our eye witness accounts in stone so it will survive the eons of time to give witness to them who will come after us.
 People Get ready to WITNESS!!!

Some say its a hoax, there is no alignment and its all B.S. But its not it is a real event that is coming, that doesn't mean there will be a big BOOM or anything of that nature but it means we will be witnessing something we have never witnessed before..

I witnessed Sagittarius winning the Belmont Stakes by 25 lengths...
I witnessed 9/11
and now this HOLY MAC!! What a life... eh??

Found this Glossary of Terms that is very interesting..

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The ecliptic: The path followed by the sun, moon, and planets. It is the plane of our solar system. The ecliptic encircles the earth and is divided into twelve constellations, or zodiac signs.


The Milky Way: The bright band of stars that our solar system belongs to. It encircles the earth and is wider in the region of Sagittarius because that is where the 'nucelar bulge" of the Milky Way's center is located (our Milky Way is saucer shaped).

The Galactic equator: The precise mid-line running down the Milky Way. Analogous to the earth's equator, it divides the galaxy into two hemispheres, or lobes.

The Dark Rift in the Milky Way: A feature caused by interstellar dust that runs along the Milky Way from the Galactic Center northward past the constellation of Aquila.

The December solstice sun: The sun, on the December solstice. It is one-half of a degree wide.

The December solstice point: The precise midpoint of the sun, on the December solstice.

The Precession of the equinoxes: The earth wobbles very slowly on its axis and this causes the position of the equinox to shift backwards, or precess, through the signs of the ecliptic at the rate of one degree every 71.5 years. The full precessional wobble is complete in roughly 25,800 years.

The vernal equinox point is defined by the intersection of the ecliptic and the celestial equator.

The Celestial Equator: The earth's equator projected into the stars. It is the plane of the earth's rotation.

The Cross formed by the Milky Way and the ecliptic: Exactly as stated. There are two of these, one in early Sagittarius, the other in early Gemini. The former cross has the virtue of being located within the nuclear bulge of the Galactic Center.

The nuclear bulge / the Galactic Center: A bright and wide region of the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and between Sagittarius and Scorpio. The more precise and abstract center-point of the nuclear bulge is the precise Galactic Center, located at about 6 degrees Sagittarius (sidereal) and 27 degrees in the tropical zodiac.


Additional Glossary of Mayan Calendar terms

We can have a more general discussion of galactic alignments in history if we consider that the solstice axis aligns with the galactic equator every half precession cycle. Likewise, the equinox axis aligns with the galactic equator every half precession cycle. Thus, galactic alignments, more generally speaking, occur in era 2012 (1980 - 2016) and every quarter precession cycle before and after era 2012.
In terms of Mayan astronomy and mythology, the Dark Rift feature (which the Maya called the Black Road or Xibalba be) lies along the galactic equator (the Milky Way) in the place where the December solstice sun will be in 2012. (More precisely, the December solstice sun will reach the southern terminus of the Dark Rift, where it touches the ecliptic in Sagittarius.) Thus, in terms of Mayan mythology, we can also describe the Galactic Alignment of era-2012 as the alignment of the December solstice sun and the Dark Rift. This entire region is targeted by the cross formed by the Milky Way and the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpio. This Cross was also recognized by the Maya, and was called the Crossroads or Sacred Tree. This entire region is embraced by what astronomers call the 'nuclear bulge' of the Galactic Center—the center of our Milky Way galaxy. As any amateur astronomer or naked-eye star gazer knows, this nuclear bulge is recognizable without the aid of radio telescopes. It is wider and brighter than other parts of the Milky Way. So, in a general sense we can also say that the alignment in 2012 is an alignment between the December solstice sun and the Galactic Center. However, since the nuclear bulge is quite large, this definition is not as precise as saying "the alignment of the December solstice sun with the Galactic equator", which occurs in the range 1980 - 2016. This is the alignment zone I refer to with the term "era-2012."