(2)2012 prophecy has takenthe world by storm and nowhere has there ever been so much excitementand theories associated with this prophecy. Many people are of theopinion that in the year 2012 or 21 December 2012 to be more precise,the world is going to end or a major part of our earth is going to bedestroyed with widespread havoc and death all over the globe. Thebasis behind this fear is a group of prophecies from differentsources and certain scientific theories. Whenever there is a doomsdayprophecy, people seem to be eager to connect different theories andstatements in old texts to substantiate the prophecy and start topanic. Let us see what each prophecy holds and how it is to beinterpreted.

    Mostof the doomsday enthusiasts seem to draw their conclusions from thefact that the Mayan calendar is going to end on that day. 11:11 am on21st December 2012 is a solstice and brings an end to the Mayan5,125-year-long calendar. Many people jump to the conclusion as thisis the end of a long calendar the Mayans would have known that theworld would end on that date. Actually it should be taken as a dateof transitionrather than an end point. People seem to forget that after an endingcomes a new beginning and heralding of a new era. Although manypeople believe in a new era and beginning, they feel the ending ofthe past phase is usually accompanied by large scale destruction andhavoc. To a certain extent this may be true as people have to learnfrom their mistakes and there is no better teacher than natureitself. Destruction from a cataclysmic event and the resultanthardships can bring about a spiritual transformation in many peopleand thus sow the seed for a new and better age. Some people believethat the old has to be completely wiped out for the new to bepossible and hence propound the theory of an apocalypse which willalmost annihilate the whole world.

   Apartfrom the Mayan calendar, the2012 Mayan prophecies are based on many other theories which all haveone thing in common and that is the ending of a particular length oftime and starting of a new one.If you take the prophecy of Nostradamus it foretells the visit of acomet or a comet planet which passes close to our planet after aparticular number of years. This size of the comet is supposed to behuge and will trigger many cataclysmic events when it passes nearearth. There are also many theories which suggest that this cometwill force certain asteroids off their orbits and they will be oncollision course with the earth. A hit from a large asteroid cancreate a force of several nuclear explosions and cause massivedestruction. Many theories in the 2012 prophecy also suggest thatChina or Iran or both, will take advantage of the widespread anarchyin the world caused by the disastrous events and will bring aboutanother World War.

       Somealso attribute the coming of the apocalypse in 2012 to certaingalactic alignments and astronomical events. There are some who drawtheir theories from ancient texts of renowned divining arts like theI-Ching and so on. Thefact is all theories seem plausible, but the question remains whetherthe destruction will be on the scale which is predicted, or 2012 isjust the year where there is a tremendous shift in the thinking andattitudes of people around the world,which will herald a new age. It all remains to be seen.