December 21 ---what would likely happen

Two days before the alleged "end of the world" according to those who believe in the Mayan prophecies and the end of their calendar. All I know is this--come that day, colleagues of mine covering the Philippine stock exchange and banking and finance reporters will all gather in one place to celebrate Christmas. And if indeed the world ends by the twenty first, then employees of this big newspaper outlet would have to miss their year end party.

Anyway, I think life would go on as usual after the end of December 21. Yet, you:ll never know. Life can end in a second,futures can actually be changed in just one second. Obviously, a hit from an asteroid or a meteorite is out of the question but a mega volcanic eruption is not unlikely, but a certainty. A sun burst which will affect the world as we know is, likewise a very high possibility. These are natural occurrences which are not bound by time. They can strike anytime and anywhere. The only question when they do is--how much damage and to what extent is the destruction.\

Those whose arrivals were predicted by ancient scriptures like a large meteorite or a huge comet striking earth, are unlikely to happen since if there is an impending collision or an impact, these objects would have been detected as early as today. According to NASA, no such thing will or is expected to happen.

Again, if such a world-ending event would happen come December 21, it would have to be an internal natural disaster--like a huge earthquake or an eruption of a super volcano.

Mayan prediction of December 21, 2012

Those who believe in the "end times" must have surely read stories about the Mayan calendar and how it will end by December 21, 2012. Mayan texts discovered in Guatemala predicted an apocalyptic end of human civilization, something which, if you study world history, is part of a normal cycle of nature.

Be that as it may, I am sure that 2012 will not be the end of "everything", as what many believe it will. For one, our present condition has not reached a tipping point, which, I am sure, bankers and financiers problematizing the present financial condition of the world,  would definitely not agree. I will believe this if humankind has exhausted all its creativity and innovation to a point that all created things by man have reached its final created form. When all creation has reached finality, so will the world as we know it.

What I believe would happen by December is this--the usher of a new world era, the coming of knowledge. Mayans predict that a god, called Bolon Yokte, will arrive and will open up a new era of change. Yokte is associated with war and change.

The question really is---will Yokte destroy what has man created since the 16th century? I believe that systems and processes which man created and were proved to be harmful to the symmetry existing in nature, will be destroyed utterly, along with those who support these processes.

The new era will be a world attuned with nature. The new era will harness the energies available in nature and gives it back to nature in the form of energies. It will be a symbiotic relationship, one that benefits humankind and the universe.