The Madness of 2012, Atlantis and Graham Hancock

 

Remember 2012? The Mayan Calendar predicted the world's end on December 21, 2012, and according to the film version starring John Cusack in an RV outrunning meteors for some reason, really does a number on New York City (as usual), LA, the Vatican, Buddhist temples up in Nepal, and to top it off, an aircraft carrier by the name of the John F. Kennedy, comes on a tidal wave to obliterate the White House. How did it only get 39% on Rotten Tomatoes?

Post 2012, I read an obscure astrology book called 2012 by Mark Borax, which has nothing to do with the film or the world being destroyed, thank goodness. It's a memoir of becoming the true apprentice to astrology master, William (now Ellias) Lonsdale, and his time in Lonsdale's Mystery School.

Published in 2008, the author was probably hoping to sell books based on the 2012 laser focus/hysterics of the time, but it just doesn't focus on 2012 enough to warrant the title. The opening chapters do have him going on a crazy acid trip on the slopes of the volcano Mount Shasta, but that's as close as we get to any possible explosions from Earth's belly.

The memoir is self-indulgent at times (a little too much descriptive personal relationship/drug stuff), but he's a poetic, vivid writer. Borax is honest and authentic, which is necessary in the world of new-age in order to be relevant.

Borax finally addresses the 2012 "mass death" in his afterward (though it is mentioned in some of Lonsdale's transcribed talks at his home, Bonny Doon within the text). So what is the take away? According to Lonsdale, the Mayans predicted a meta, time/era death. Not a "destroy the world" death. Lonsdale adds that if we don't take the opportunity to wake up to this cross roads in history, and we keep acting like ostriches with our heads in the sand, we may inadvertently create an environment of a 2012 disaster scenario. Hopefully we will all have killer RV's like John Cusack did.

What was remarkable about this strangely titled book, despite the personal stories the author included about his sexual relationships and affinity for nudist resorts, is the evolved spiritual expression Lonsdale and his wife Sara share in their teachings through Borax's transcription. Specifically, I found the further evolution of the masters, Sara and William, at the end of his book exceptionally interesting. Here they express the reality of death is the point where we have the opportunity to truly be alive. It may sound a little 'drink the Kool-Aid' but how different is that from any other philosophical/religious version of the post-death experience?

Another exciting concept was the three-dimensional expression of the natal astrological birth chart. Most visual representations of the position of the bodies of our solar system at any given moment (like your birth), are flat as shown in the example below:

The flat natal chart is bursting with information as it is, each one is unique, and anyone versed in the symbology can talk for hours on just one bit, but it's sort of like the version of the world being a disk instead of a sphere. The world is not flat, nor is the natal sphere, as ever, unique to each individual.

What does that mean? Think how much more dynamic a ball is when compared to a sheet of paper. You can do a lot more with the ball. Our own personal spheres represent not only what is, but also what was, and what there is potential to become. It encompasses all things - a paradoxical ALL. You can enter the realm of the sphere and feel the meaning, physically, and sensually. Past lives, future incarnations, and the optimal path of destiny through this life are all there waiting for us to understand. Our own expansive worlds to explore. 

And one more compelling idea transcribed from Lonsdale: Each of our souls came from eternity a fully developed being with a life purpose all its own. Some part of us dwells beyond the need for transformation and improvement, beyond any need to be changed at all. It reminds me of the Holy Spirit concept in Christianity, but the Holy Spirit is not YOU, it's part of the trinity that LIVES within you, guides you, etc. And, one other caveat, Holy Spirit supposedly only moves in when you have fully accepted Jesus as your personal savior. Lonsdale's spirit concept has no prerequisites. Our human incarnation is here for growth and change, but a part of us retains the truth of the immortal soul.

Lonsdale believes he had a past life in Atlantis. According to Lonsdale, a real past life experience came to him in a dream of a time before our presently measured time of a society far beyond our own.



The reality of mythical Atlantis is still the realm of the 'coo-coo' for most people, and a pretty hard pill to swallow, but consider Gobekli Tepe. 

In the ancient town of Urfa in southeastern Turkey, archeologists have unearthed massive carved stones with the estimated age of 11,000 years old - seven thousand years older than Stonehenge - made by prehistoric humans historians believe had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. Some of these carved pillars stand sixteen feet tall and weigh up to ten tons. 

Now this is not evidence enough to prove Atlantis of course, but it does throw a cog in the static concept of our human ancestors, and the certainty of the historical timeline. 

The timeline is a work in progress - as we find more clues buried by time, stagnant unmovable mindsets need to be challenged. 

In other words...why the hell do we think we know anything for sure? Isn't it amazing that we don't? 

In the book, Magicians of the Gods, Author Graham Hancock lays out the importance of sites like Gobekli Tepe:

"With the date of its foundation presently set at 9600 BC, Gobekli Tepe also requires us to reopen the cold case of Atlantis which archeologists have long ridiculed, pouring scorn and derision on anyone daring to utter the much reviled "A" word. 

As noted at the end of the last chapter, the Greek philosopher Plato, whose dialogues Timaeus and Critias contain the earliest surviving mention of the fabled sunken kingdom, sets the catastrophic destruction and submergence of Atlantis by floods and earthquakes at 9,000 years before the time of Solon - i.e. at exactly 9,600. The Greeks could not have known of Gobekli Tepe (let alone that it was mysteriously founded at the very moment Atlantis was said to have died."

Oh and this is just the beginning...

Postscript - Ancient Apocalypse starring the research and ideas of Graham Hancock is currently on Netflix. When I initially wrote this blog post the first time, it was back in 2017, so he was not as well known as he is now. It is exciting to see his work being presented to the world, despite his being maligned, and disparaged. 


Links to Resources:
Smithsonian Article on Gobekli Tepe
Graham Hancock's Magicians of the Gods
2012 - The Book by Mark Borax