This song was going through my head the last couple days. My sense is that it will be really easy to let ourselves by consumed by the mountains of bad news, the overwhelming work in front of us to make a better and sustainable world in the face of forces that have other things in mind. Its easy to let ourselves get caught up in the negativity.

However, I think a lot of people are coming around. We don't see the good things that are happening on the 6 oclock news. We don't hear how many acts of greed and manipulation have been mitigated by one or two thoughtful souls who did the right thing and made a difference.

More than ever, this period in time is chance for each of us to be hero's in the way we interact with what is right in front of us.

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
Thats dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And dont cry baby, dont cry
Dont cry

I noticed this terms several times this week in reference to the economy. George on UrbanSurvival.com used in his first paragraph yesterday.

If you Think It's Been Bad So Far...
You ain't seen nothing yet...at least that's what a number of data points seem to be suggesting. This could be the beginning of the 'perfect storm' in economic terms

Even the networkers at NextStep issued a warning to their community on their blog and on their facebook group about the "perfect storm" now forming.

All you have to do is google "Economy Perfect Storm" on google.. and you will get more than you want to read.

Couple of other news sites I have been looking at, Signs of the Times , and great collection of article son the Terminus Site, and the Global Anticipation Bulletin

Big things are about to happen. The s**t is about to hit the fan. But the economic is only the beginning. We are already seeing several instances of weather patterns ( drought) disturbing food production. Expect food prices to rise. Urbansurvival put up an interesting map.

What's that saying? " The trouble with living in interesting time is that you have to live in them"

I spent some time this week surfing around other sites that cover this topic to see what people were saying. I added links to the better ones to our t-link blog.

Trying to get a sense of what the current thoughts are on this idea. I visited a couple of decent forums 2012forum and Terminus Reality. Both are very active with good discussions going on.

One site I thought was particularly interesting was the great escape blog. The chronicles some idea from a group who are studying what is going on in the world and decide to unplug and make there way away from "the matrix". Great observations.. interesting process. Feels like few million other are or soon will want to join them.

I hope they find a place that can become a source for the new world to emerge. But there may be more to it.

It reminds of one part of the Conversations with John

A great deal of glamor, speculation, drama, fear, and titillation surrounds the interest that many people have in predictions of the future, particularly those that foretell of war or destruction. Often, in the back of their minds, there is a sense that these events will happen out there and not to them, or else they wish to know so that they amy find a place of safety. Yes, I can say with confidence that there is no place anyone can go in the world where he or she can be safe. The dangers and challenges are not physical. Where can you go to be free from the inner cry of humanity for help and solace. Where can you go that the psychic toxins of fear and hopelessness can not reach you. In truth, there is only one place and that is alignment with God and Spirit. This alignment is with a force that does not try to avoid these poisons of the psyche, but embraces them, heals them, and reaches out to care and share itself. It is an alignment with the presence of peace, born of each person's efforts to give him or herself in service to each other and to the world.

Link: http://www.survive2012.com/

Some ideas and analysis of what might happen.. along with his blog in which he tracks a lot of news and observations on 2012 related issues. His blog here.. http://survive2012.com/news/news.html

Link: http://afterarmageddon2.blogspot.com/

Along with http://afterarmageddon7.blogspot.com/.. collection of news and commentary on the current events unfolding in the world.

Link: http://www.endtimesroundtable.com/

A christian centric forum community that is active with some good links.

Link: http://terminusreality.com/forum/index.php

An interesting and active online forum community with some great collection of articles and links posted by users.

Link: http://www.sott.net/

A nice news aggregation sites for tracking world events. I could spend a day here easily.

Link: http://matrixgreatescape.wordpress.com/

A group of folks from Belgium blogging about their process of planning to unplug from the matrix totally. Very interesting. Too bad they moved to wordpress which is blocked in China.

Link: http://www.singularity.com/

A site to track the work of Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity concept. Another track ( not necessarily 2012 related ) into monitoring the accelarating change. Links to resources.

So what is going to happen. Why all this talk about meme's? What does that have to with the end of the world? Overall, I am pretty clear that everything will be OK. Of couse, OK to me in this context has a very broad definition. In many of the prophecies, they talk about going through a great tribulation, going to the brink of inialation. At the last possible moment, things change.. the light returns and a new age dawns. The return of Christ, the age of aquarius, the end of kali yuga, it is a point in time with different names across different cultures. This is where we might end up if you place any stock in the prophecies and interpretation of people who read them. We will have a world, but it will not be the world as know it.

The problem is getting from here to there. Evidence currently, is that it could be pretty intense. Right now the moment, the economic systems are collapsing, largely due to our own efforts. However, larger changes lurk and in some places in the world already are outworking. War ( armageddon is already here if you are an Iraqi or Palestinian ), Climate Change and feedback from the environment, as well as our self created issues will come into play and affect us more and more as things play out. It could mean alot of us don't make in our current bodies to the time when start the new. Maybe that not entirely bad, but it could look pretty intense for awhile.

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Make it up and then believe it. Thats what memes are all about. The more you give a certain idea attention, the more people become attracted to it and eventually the more people believe it. What we want to do, is come up with a few high thoughts that will help us understand and navigate through difficult times ahead.

Here is a good one. As I said, I have been dancing around these concepts and paradigms for decades. I have read ancient prophecies, analysis of ancient prophecies, prognostications by modern visionary and psychics, and more daily news, online forums and discussions, and mailing lists that I care to remember. Not that I believe all of it.. but it does give perspective and encourages discernment in thought to know what other people are thinking.
Click the READ MORE.. you really want to get this one.

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