You might’ve heard about Roma and Charleville, towns way inland from the Australian coast, usually known for being VERY dry, now so wet after the best rainfall in a couple of decades that they’ve been declared disaster areas! I live much closer to the coast, and we’ve been feeling the effects of drought for about 8 years. But now our dams are at 80% capacity and climbing, and the forecast is for a warm wet autumn. The rainfall is breaking 100 year old record and everyone is shaking their heads and wisely saying “climate change”, or worse, muttering about earth changes and the end of the world! I even heard someone say the Chile earthquake is because of climate change! What is everyone on about?

Well not everyone – not me, for example, nor a lot of people I regularly hang out with. Yes, we are experiencing earth changes. Yes the weather around the world is extreme. We know that Australia is a land of “drought and flooding rain” as our poet Dorathea McKellar said over 100 years ago. And Aboriginal people have Dreamtime stories about the same thing. Just because our records only go back 100 or so years, doesn’t mean this isn’t a regular, long established, perfectly normal, pattern.

But anyway – that brings me to the topic of today’s post, the much-touted 2012 mystery/looming disaster/transformation/other interpretation.

I first came across the 2012 stuff about eight years ago when a lecturer made a passing reference to it. A few people in class nodded wisely and my interest was piqued. What is that about, I thought? So I googled for it and found almost nothing. That’s not the case now of course, there’s tens of thousands of 2012 information sites, and they all have their own take on this upcoming date, December 21, 2012. Many of them are about buying tinned food and heading for the hills; many about the disasters coming; and many more about the transformation we’re heading for.

For myself, I choose to explore, and if anyone is interested, I’ll share the results of my exploring here, just reply in the comments below and let me know. Otherwise I’ll not bother you all

To give you an example of how this would show up, I’m currently reading an amazing book by a very credentialed 2012 information researcher, Barbara Hand Clow, called Catastraphobia. She says that the societal impact of historical disasters have impacted into our racial memory, and it’s that impact that fuels the fear that grows around events like Y2K (remember that ‘disaster’?) or the GFC. It’s left us, she says, with a psychological syndrome she calls Catastrophobia – phobia of catastrophe.

Think about the average news bulletin – is Barbara correct?

She explores the human brain, how we access and create memory, and then a bunch of ancient mythical disasters – and sums it all up by telling us what she thinks is coming in 2012: a transformation, an evolutionary leap, a new way.

She’s not the only one saying this of course, and if you’re interested I’ll keep sharing this 2012 information from people who really know! Why? Because it really ticks me off that most of what is on TV is people whining about something or other; and most people get their thinking-material from the TV. I believe that the people who subscribe to this newsletter are also tired of the whining, and when we all put our thoughts into something that lifts our thinking, our spirits, and has the possiblity of transforming our belief, we contribute to the transformation of our cultural thought form. And that means something to me.

So I am happy to continue this 2012 exploration on my own, or to share it here . Let me know what you think, if I get ten comments below, I’ll continue…