2012 will change all of us

Whether you are humanistic, religious or even apocalyptic 2012 is going to change all of us to a greater or lesser degree.

When I grew up in the 1950s many people in my church then were saying things like, "When the change comes!" or "What is going to happen when the change comes." And many people who were more apocalyptic in my church moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico or Denver in the 1940s so they would be there when Los Angeles or all of California sank. So, since I grew up with this kind of thinking which was very prevalent during World War II especially with millions of men and women wandering around with Post Traumatic Stress disorder en mass from The Great Depression and World War II. However, today we also have a lot of people running around the earth who like those times had never seen troubles (financial and otherwise) on earth this bad in their lifetimes. For example, I was born in 1948 3 years after World War II ended. So, all my life nothing has been as consistently bad as 2001 to 2012 as far as the world goes. And even though I'm okay in my own life there aren't many people who I know who haven't been harmed in one way or another directly either financially, by deaths, by illnesses by divorces caused directly or indirectly from the last 5 or 10 years of chaos in the U.S. and on the Earth.

However, many people are terrified because of all these changes and are likely to freak out either directly because of 2012 or indirectly, especially apocalyptic types of people. So, on one level I am preparing for a lot of psychological aberration this year because the world is in extreme transition and people just can't keep up with it all.

However, I also expect many people to make incredible quantum jumps and leaps of faith spiritually, technologically, and humanistically like possible never before in human history. So, basically I equate 2012 sort of like the childbirth of the human race. And childbirth if you have never experienced it directly or indirectly blows everyone's minds in all sorts of ways.

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The times that compare to the last 10 years the closest are the Cuban Missile Crisis where the U.S. and the Soviet Union and Europe all expected to be dead and cinders during that time. And then the other time would be 1963 to the resignation of Nixon. In some ways 1963 when Kennedy was assassinated until Nixon resigned in 1974 was even scarier than the last 10 years. As a young person from age 15 
on I didn't know for sure whether I was going to die in Viet Nam, from police at free concerts in Los Angeles or by nuclear weapons. Today people worry about lone terrorists but then 100s of nuclear missiles were aimed at all of us unless we lived exceedingly remotely.

The fact that 2012 will change all of us should be obvious. However, we each have some control about how the year will affect us. So, approaching this year from a more empowered place likely will create a more desirable outcome for each of us.