Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies by Gary Daniels (best color ereader txt) 📗

Since the Maya believed the Katun cycles repeated once every 256 years, it is helpful to look back at previous years associated with Katun 13 Ahau and see what happened then to be better able to foresee what might happen in the future.

The previous time period associated with Katun 13 Ahau was between 1776-1796. These were indeed momentous years for the world and the history of civilization because these years represented the birth of the United States of America and modern democracy.

In 1776 the British colonies in America declared their independence from England. The most famous sentence from this declaration was the following:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The impact of these words on human civilization cannot be underestimated. Not only did it lead to the American Revolution but these words would also form the foundation for the abolition of slavery and the equal rights of women and racial minorities.

Since the beginning of civilization, slavery and other forms of servitude and inequality had been a central, nearly unquestioned part of life. Kings and Pharaohs believed they not only derived their power from God but also were, in fact, descended genetically from God; thus, their power was not to be questioned by those they ruled over. They passed their power genetically down to their sons who inherited their father's throne and thus power stayed among a very small group of people.

This would all change with this one sentence from the Declaration of Independence. Over the next 256 years kings would be abolished or reduced to mere symbolic figureheads all over the world. Over this time period more and more classes of people would gain more and more rights. Thus the trend of the past 256 years starting in 1776 has been an increase in the rights of individuals. Thus for kings, it was definitely a time of total collapse where everything was lost. All the European empires would eventually collapse and the country whose Declaration of Independence started the ball rolling would end up the one lone superpower in the world.

This reveals an important aspect of the Mayan predictions: they appear dependent upon one’s point of view. From the point of view of kings, it was a time of total collapse. Since the ancient Egyptians 4,000 years prior, civilization had been based on kingship. The beginning of the end for this model of civilization arrived in 1776. But for the average person, it was not a time of total collapse but a time of ever-increasing rights and power.

The last year of the previous Katun 13 Ahau cycle was 1796. This was also a momentous year for humanity for it was then that the first President of the United States stepped down and refused to hold office beyond the two terms he had already served. For this act, King George III in England called Washington "the greatest man in the world" because it is a rare thing for a person in power to voluntarily give up that power.

George Washington never had opponents during his two elections and had he run again it is unlikely anyone would have challenged him and he would have easily served another term in office. Instead, he stepped down. Thus in 1796 the first true election was held in the world's youngest democracy. A peaceful transfer of power occurred which was a rare thing in world history.

The next previous Katun 13 Ahau cycle was between 1520-1539. This time period would see the fall of the major empires in North and South America: the Aztecs and Incas. Outbreaks of smallpox and other diseases would wipe out millions of native inhabitants. The Spanish explorations of the southeastern U.S. would wipe out tens of thousands of Native Americans through disease and warfare and bring about the collapse of many of the ancient Native American civilizations. Thus from the perspective of the native inhabitants of the New World, this cycle did, indeed, bring about all the negative events predicted in the Chilam Balam prophetic books.

Based on the preceding evidence, what can we expect between the years 2032-2052? One worrying bit of information comes from a U.S. Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) report in 2007 that noted by 2040 the world was expected to reach “peak oil.”[26] According to Wikipedia, “peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production is expected to enter terminal decline.”[27] According to the report currently there is no energy source that can replace oil for transportation purposes. Also the report stated, “While the consequences of peak oil would be felt globally, the United States, as the largest consumer of oil and one of the nations most heavily dependent on oil for transportation, may be particularly vulnerable.”

As supplies of oil dwindle there will be increased competition to control the supplies that remain. This competition would likely take the form of warfare between the superpowers. Yet long before this the price of oil would continue going up causing the price of everything else from food to consumer goods to go up as well. In the past such price increases have led to great social unrest. Food riots have been the downfall of many regimes in the past.

Another worrying bit of information comes from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. According to their current projections the CBO believes the budget of the United States is unsustainable at current levels and the American economy will crash by 2037. The global economy nearly crashed in 2008 due to a few financial and insurance institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere making bad business decisions thus illustrating the world financial system is more fragile than anyone knew.  If the U.S. crashes in 2037 it would take the rest of the world with it. Combined with Peak Oil this could be a perfect storm of events that could bring the developed nations to their knees.

Yet a financial collapse and