Question submitted 05.01.08, via email.

Dear EsaRa–

There are lots of books and web sites out right now about what is supposedly going to happen in 2012. Some of them claim the world is going to be destroyed, and others claim we’re undergoing a major transformation from an age of darkness to an age of Truth.

Either way, people seem to be obsessed with the idea that something earthshaking is going to happen in December of 2012, and it does seem like things are very chaotic and unstable in the world right now as we get closer to that date.

Can you give us some insight into the significance of 2012 for the human race?

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Dear One–

Welcome, and glad are we to be in contact with you. Remember that we see things from a broader, grander perspective than you do, from a view that encompasses all that you truly are. In other words, what we call the absolute truth of your being. Yes we see the hoopla, is that a good word, surrounding a certain date in time, and the future at that. Of course it has to be a future event, what good would speculation be on a past event? Ha, we are amused with ourselves.

You see so much attention is being directed to this supposedly one huge event in the future, a time most are hoping will be a transition into a better place. Or for those steeped in fear, the ultimate demise of all of mankind– or at least the part of mankind that is not well liked.

This all stems from the mind’s only two occupations: to acquire something, or to reject something. These are always the only two thoughts your human mind can have. What if you just stopped all the wanting of something better, or running away, or even preparation of something worse? What if you just gave up your small ideas of things being better?

In absolute truth, there is nothing better or worse. There is no hurdling of mankind towards some future date with destiny in which everything will change. Of course things will change, it is the only thing that is inevitable and stable, this change.

Look around right here and now for a moment. You have been wishing, hoping and yearning for things to be better for a long time. Is it better? You’re still not there, this rushing around hoping for better, it’s still some carrot at the end of a stick.

How about the illusion of deflecting the worse that could happen? Has that worked out yet, either? You can strive and devote yourself to preventing things from being worse, but here it comes– or your judgment of worse, it seems, comes around anyway.

Give it up. Give it all up. We encourage you to be more present to what is going on around you right now. Without this hope of things getting better, you can breathe in deeply and enjoy the joy of knowing how things are right now.

Start right now to enjoy what life is presenting to you on your plate. You really can enjoy whatever you’re experiencing without muddling through layers of better or worse, or good or bad, or right or wrong.

There are, of course, many, many layers to this question. You all suffer in this illusion of hope, we would take hope away. Crash. What would you be without it? Well, you would just BE. And that is joy full within itself. You see how narrow you must make your view of life when you think that things would be better or you have some expectation, some hope of something better? You completely miss the wonderful illusion of life that is being presented.

Also, try to explore just what you think will change on that date. Is your hope, expectation, thought of what is better universally held by everyone? No, your thought of what is good, would not be the same held by someone else. So which way will the universe tilt? Won’t it just be fun to enjoy now, and still be in that joy when December 2012 rolls around?

We are incomplete without your being.
– EsaRa