Dana Mrkich – Depending on which source of alternative media you may have come across over the past few months, increasing in crescendo the past few days, the world was supposed to end the other day (again), or we are about to ascend as a planet into a whole new level of consciousness tomorrow during the Lunar Eclipse, after which the New Earth ‘officially’ begins. Wow ‘officially’! Wow, tomorrow!

I’m the first to love, and talk about, a good old heightened, even pivotal moment in this progressive, constant, evolutionary journey we are all on. There is no doubt whatsoever that any and every astrological alignment and solar flare adds power to the waves of consciousness that are pouring onto this planet right now – waves that are only going to increase in strength for the forseeable future.

What has my bee in a bonnet are these ‘this is THE date’ predictions, either foretelling the official ‘end of the world’ or official ‘beginning of the world.’ They trigger false fear and false hope, and then when those dates pass a lot of people are left feeling deflated, or justified in their ‘told ya so’. What an excellent strategy to make people give up on feeling anything is ever going to change. What an excellent tactic to make people feel that all this talk of energy is a load of crap.

I wrote a lot about the end of 2012 in the decade preceding it, in the context of it being the end of a cycle, and beginning of a new cycle. Not an end of world, and not an overnight new one either. A turning point. A crossroads. An opportunity for us to collectively get together in the ethers as we slept at night and decide: which way are we going to go? We had to decide this collectively as a humanity for our continuing existence on this planet, and we have all had to decide this personally as individuals on this planet. Continue reading →