To kick off the year 2012, the whole Dreamland Team comes together to tell you just what they expect the new year to mean. Do they think that the world might actually end in December of 2012? Or is the truth closer of what Linda Howe tells us, drawing on her interview with calendar expert Jose Arguelles, who first pointed out that the final date in the Mayan Calendar takes place this year. No matter what that means or does not mean, 2012 is stacking up to be quite a year, and you can be sure that the Dreamland Team is well ahead of the curve. Don’t miss this fascinating journey into some of the most brilliant and unique minds in radio.read more

John Major Jenkins is one of the leading 2012 researchers, and here he explains to us the history of the Long-Count Calendar that encodes the 2012 date. So what did the ancient Maya actually believe that the date meant, and is there any reason for us to believe that the calendar is any way predictive of events that will happen in our world–beyond the doomsday hype?
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Mexico’s archeologists don’t put much credence in the ancient Mayan prediction that the world will end in December of 2012, but at a recent press conference they admitted that a second reference to that date has been found on a carved fragment at a southern Mexican Mayan site. Is this the secret they’ve been hinting about?
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A few hours after a comet discovered by amateur astronomers on September 30 impacted the sun, a massive coronal mass ejection took place directly opposite the object’s impact point. Previously, solar scientists would have assumed that this wasa coincidence, but observation of another sungrazer on July 5 revealed significant interactions with the sun’s atmosphere.

So it now seems possible that comets–the largest of which are tiny in comparison to the sun–can nevertheless cause sreactions from the solar disk. Scientists at NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory will be studying this matter with interest.
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