And people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough....
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk:rofl:
Okay, what I REALLY meant to post was a little somethin' from David Wilcock, at the end of his video, The 2012 Enigma (available for viewing on YouTube and Google Video). I transcribed it for reference on accelerating time for my 2012 article, and there's other good, heartening stuff in it as well, so I felt the need to share:
"I wanted to share with you a perspective on 2012...and this deals with the idea of what exactly is going to happen between now and 2012, and this is a great segue into a piece of information which is scientific in nature....I was poking around in Russian physics; I was looking through the Web for various scientific studies done by Russians on torsion fields, which is the energy field of consciousness, and they’ve done some fantastic work. I quite by accident stumbled across the Russian Institute of Temporology, which is the study of the nature time, and found a paper by Dr. Sergey Smelyakov.
"He looked at the Mayan calendar and found that—does everyone know about the Golden Mean, phi, 1.618? that’s the harmonic cut, the sacred cut, the basis of all life and all growth—if you take the Mayan calendar cycle, 5,200 years in length, and start chopping it up by the phi ratio so that it implodes into a singularity in 2012, which means if you have an imploding spiral, you’re cutting it by phi, you cut up 5,200, make that sacred cut, then cut that unit, and cut that unit, those cuts will fall on certain years.
"And what he discovered is that on those years very, very substantial changes happened on the planet, including the fall of civilizations, the rise of new methods of measuring time, the rise of new civilizations, the rise of great spiritual teachers such as Jesus and Gautama Buddha, major earth changes....In fact, the Russians did a 2,000 year retrogressive study of earthquakes and found that the biggest earthquakes happened on these resonance points. Think about what I said—it implodes into 2012.
"So what does that mean? Prior to actually hitting 2012, in the last year especially, there’s going to be one after the other after the other. And every one of these wave fronts changes the planet, changes consciousness. One of the last ones we had was in 1991, which was the fall of the Soviet Empire. One of the more recent ones that we had was like two days before the Bush administration invaded Iraq, which I believe was the political fall from the public will of power that they had.
"So we’re dealing now with the next wave that’s coming in 2009 (this was filmed in 2008). As we head into 2010, 2011, they’re going to start happening every couple of months, then every couple of weeks, then every couple of days. By the time we get to 2012, we’re going to be hitting new ones every hour, and toward the end it’s multiple times per second.
"My readings have told me, for what it’s worth, that some of us will be able to have ascended abilities—I mean full-on ascended abilities—prior to the actual shift happening. So that would be very cool, because what we’re expecting after 2012 is a 100 times more harmonious utopian world, where things like time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekenesis, are as common and everyday as breathing. And I look forward to that time.
"I’ve been told that anyone, if you’re willing to do your practice, which basically involves the acceptance and forgiveness of the self, and if you get that down, you start looking at everyone else. If somebody else upsets you, the only reason why they would is because they’re hitting an issue that you have. So if somebody does something and it’s no longer your issue, you won’t be upset by them. If you can find that peace and equanimity within yourself, then you will be the most compatible for this change that’s coming. And as each of these new wave fronts hits, these are sufficient enough—they used to take hundreds and hundreds of years—they change the whole nature of the world and civilization. They’re going to start happening every week and then every day. So you can harness the potential within yourself, and I see a very positive future coming."