- [Narrator] Judgment day and the end of the world
is all in our minds,
and our minds are a dangerous place to be.
Hey, hey!
Remember when everyone said that the world would end in 2012
and they made a movie about it and everything,
and everyone was saying there would be cataclysmic events,
like massive fires, World War III, plagues of locusts,
floods and mass civil unrest
leading to complete shutdown of all of society?
Welcome to 2020.
Yeah, so a funny story.
While we all know that didn't happen in 2012,
because we're all obviously still here,
almost every prediction
people made about how the world would end back then
is pretty much coming true this year in 2020.
Wildfires exploded across Australia at the tail end of 2019
and were strongest in January.
World War III, after the assassination
of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani,
tensions between the U.S. and Iran were at an all time high,
with attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
sparking fears the next world war could happen very soon.
Swarms of locusts,
eating thousands of crops and causing famine,
that was February in Kenya.
Flooding, March in the UK.
Civil unrest and anarchy in the streets,
mark another one off for apocalypse bingo.
I'm still wondering if we're gonna get
a hoax alien attack this year.
You really would be forgiven for thinking
that the Maya just got the math wrong on their calendar,
maybe the stonemason just had too much peyote that day,
who knows?
But believe it or not,
there's actually a conspiracy about this going around,
that our current year 2020 is actually 2012
and it all has to do with the time
that we adopted the Gregorian calendar
as opposed to the older Julian one.
Now, before we start, let's just say
there are a few big issues with this theory.
The least of which is that different parts of the world
adopted the Gregorian calendar at different times.
So, it wasn't just a universal thing
that you can just calculate the math on and bang!
You've got yourself a date to lock yourself
in your doomsday bunker with your mask and your Kool-Aid.
But we'll get there soon.
So, what is this whole thing about?
Well, recently, a man named Paolo Tagaloguin,
who claims to be a researcher and Fulbright scholar,
took to Twitter in a now deleted post,
that he claimed was a joke,
and did some rather questionable math
and came up with a theory that basically said,
"We are technically in 2012.
The number of days lost in a year due to the shift
into the Gregorian calendar is 11 days.
For 268 years using the Gregorian calendar,
1752 to 2020 times 11 days,
2,948 days divided by 365 days per year
equals eight years."
Which, according to him,
puts Apocalypse 2 Nibiru Boogaloo,
on the 21st of June, 2020.
Now, at the time of recording this, it's July.
So, that obviously didn't happen.
And as we said earlier, there are a few issues
with his calculations that proved him wrong.
To start with, let's get some background info.
The Gregorian calendar is essentially
the most widely used calendar and dating system
in the world today.
It splits the canonical year into 12 months
and spaces leap years
to make the average year 365.2 days long,
focusing predominantly on Earth's revolutions around the sun
as a means of keeping time.
If you live in the world today,
chances are you at least know this dating system.
It was invented by Pope Gregory XIII
and gradually replaced the much older Julian calendar
that was used at that time,
an event would some people say gave us April Fools' Day.
See, aside from Christian influences,
like changing how the lunar cycles
were calculated by the church
to get a more accurate date for Easter
and the date of the new year,
the Gregorian calendar also shortened the average year
by .0075 days to stop the drift of the calendar
with respect to the equinoxes.
The Julian calendar though was proposed
by Julius Caesar around 46 B.C.
and was invented with the help
of Greek mathematics and astronomy
and had been used up until about 1582.
This is where we see the first issue
with Tagaloguin's theory.
Not only does it not take into account the leap years,
but the date he used for its adoption, 1752,
is only the date that the new calendar was adopted
in Britain and its colonies,
otherwise known as the area of the United States,
east of the Appalachian mountains.
Much of Europe, including a lot of Catholic countries,
such as France, Spain, Lithuania,
and much of the not-so-holy Roman Empire
had adopted it right from the start though in 1582.
In fact, some of the first records at the time
show a funny glitch in the dates where Thursday,
the 4th of October, 1582, was immediately followed
by Friday, the 15th of October, 1582,
the next day, seriously.
And this is a real thing today in all of our calendars.
Go on any calendar app and check it out for yourself.
It's pretty funny.
Arguments between Protestant Christians and Catholics though
led to a delay in the calendar
taking off from the rest of the world
with some countries not even changing
until the 18th century
which meant that they had to observe an additional leap year
which is where we get the 11 extra days from.
The French and Spanish colonies in the U.S.
actually adopted the change
when their home countries did in the 1500s.
So, in short, the math is quite wrong.
The other thing to consider
is that the whole 2012 phenomenon
was a huge misunderstanding.
We've covered this on the channel before, Episode 16.
But in a nutshell, the world was never going to end,
at least not in the sense
of the movie cataclysms or anything.
See, the calendar would actually reset
at the end of the 13th baktun,
rather than end all life on earth entirely.
If anything, think of the Mayan calendar
like a car's mileage counter.
Once it reaches 99999999,
it just resets to zero
or one since we can't have a year zero.
The thing about the Maya though
is that they love their cycles.
They thought everything was a cycle,
which, if you've seen our episode
called Cycles and Sine Waves,
or ever read any of the Hermetic writings,
it makes sense to think that most things
naturally move in waves.
Cycles appear to be built into the fabric of the cosmos.
In Mesoamerican mythology, even the world itself
went through four creations and recreations
before the Gods got it right.
Something about reigning jaguars or giant floods
kept messing everything up.
And Lil??, what have you got to say for yourself?
Anyways, my point is did the Mayan calendar
end on December 21st, 2012?
Yeah, technically, but they didn't see it as an ending.
Once the baktun reached its end,
it would simply transition into a new phase
and trigger a kind of rebirth for all of our culture.
The beginning of a new massive cycle of time.
A lot of New Age beliefs saw this rebirth
as a dawning of a new age of consciousness
where people would go through a period of great transition
leading to an overall higher consciousness
for all of humanity.
And we would eventually move into a new heart-centered age.
And this was the beginning of that shift.
So, this time we're in now, would this have been that shift
that the Maya thought were so wicked cool?
Well, yeah, you bet.
The biggest period endings they experienced
were baktun endings.
So, it was a pretty big deal,
just not a world-ending, huge kind of deal.
Well, maybe, it depends on how we describe it.
Is it the end of our old way of life as we know it?
Yeah, we could probably say that.
Given our current climate in 2020,
it's easy to look for energetic or spiritual excuses
for everything that's happening.
And maybe there is something to be said
about how we can account for time
and the energy coming back around
to clear out old ways and paradigms
before we can move into a new one.
It's interesting to see that almost everything
we thought would happen in 2012 is happening now,
almost like we didn't learn the first time around.
So, we're repeating the energy
until we finally break through and change for the better.
You might be wondering why a crazy theory like this
took off so quickly though, despite its questionable math,
and, well, part of it actually lies in astrology.
We've covered the astrology of Coronavirus
earlier in another video,
so definitely go have a check on that
for some other relevant planetary gossip.
But the thing is astrologers have been hyping up 2020
as a year of radical change for many years now.
Thanks to the rare alignment of Saturn and Pluto
on the 12th of January, which was made bigger by Jupiter
coming in shortly thereafter, which is the angle
we looked at in our COVID astrology episode.
Well, no one could have predicted how epic
a catastrophe Corona could have been.
Hey, we did get at least one apocalyptic cataclysm, I guess.
Many astrology charts predicted
that this year would mark history
by challenging us in some pretty extreme ways.
According to Chani Nicholas, right from the very beginning,
January's conjunction was a scary start,
as its episode coincided last time with both world wars
and the economic recession of the 80s.
So, we were really in for it from the starting line,
along with two Mercury retrogrades this year,
and the latter being during the next election.
So, it seems some more stuff is bound to go down
before we're through the 2020 woods.
But it's not all doom and gloom though,
given the position of Neptune
which suggests we're entering a time period
where we feel more interconnected and understanding
of each other than ever before.
And with Venus's recent retrograde in Gemini,
we have an energy of renewal
and reassessment with relationships,
both with others and ourselves.
This is a time of apocalyptic matters.
And if you recall,
from one of our flagship original Spirit Science episodes,
apocalypse translates literally to a lifting of the veil.
And so, 2020 is a time where the truth is coming out.
We're seeing clearly all of the chaos of human consciousness
with crystal clear vision,
as truth comes to the surface in order for it to be healed.
And even better though, 2021 is supposed to be great.
With the conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Aquarius,
on the winter solstice at the very end of this year,
we'll be entering a period of fresh start,
especially in regards to science and innovation.
Chinese seems to think that the new energy
will probably guide many industries to change in ways
that make them practically unrecognizable,
and some new and amazing concepts
and innovations will be coming out in how we live in harmony
with the Earth and her resources.
Maybe we'll even see
the electric human BlackFly drone machine come to market.
And I mean, hey, we might even start laying the groundwork
for our first spirit center next year.
And we've got some really big plans for that
but we'll have to save that discussion for another time.
So, if the 21st of June, 2020, wasn't the end of the world,
did anything interesting happen on that day at all?
Well, there wasn't anything as dramatic
as tidal waves or volcanoes going off
and blowing everything up all around it,
but it was World Yoga Day and World Selfie Day
and World Optimism Day and World Indigenous People's Day.
Yay and well, you get the picture.
We made it into a lot of different things.
Astronomically, it was pretty cool too.
There was actually a solstice, new moon, solar eclipse
in Cancer, although only parts of Central and Eastern Africa
and some parts of Southwest Asia could actually
see the eclipse though but still, someone somewhere,
probably thought the world was ending.
And so, long story short is 2020 the new 2012?
If we see 2012 as a time where the energy shifted
and brought us into a new age, then kind of.
A lot of what's going on at the moment
in the world is dramatically
shifting our cultural climate and collective consciousness.
The riot especially, have uprooted long held old systems
of oppression and making way for new
more progressive energies and mindsets, which is amazing.
Is the world going to end at some point this year?
Probably no more than it did in 2012.
When a cycle ends, the calendar is meant to be a reset
to the beginning and start all over.
It's meant to be a time of change and renewal,
which 2020 certainly is.
Spiritually speaking,
perhaps the new energies that got introduced
to us in 2012 have finally integrated
into our society and are shaking things up.
And we're only just now feeling it.
Just like in 2012,
we are presented with a great opportunity.
If 2020 is the actual 2012,
well then I can't wait for 2032, but in this present moment,
let's rebirth some stuff for real this time.
And if you need some help getting your cosmic rebirth on,
allow me to share with you the Seven-Day Transformation.
It only takes a week to completely
shift your entire reality.
Here's what someone else said after they went through it.
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We'll see you again soon.
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