What people are saying about 2012 The Awakening:
What a gift it is to see fictional entertainment tackling the large issues of humanity!
– Deepak Chopra, Author, The Ultimate Happiness Prescription
RIVETING! With the suspense of a Da Vinci Code, the spiritual awareness of The Secret, and the fearsome aspect of Orwell’s 1984, 2012 The Awakening will keep you thinking about it long after you’ve put it down. What a terrific film this book will make!
– Holmes Osborne, Actor: The Box; The Quiet American; Crazy in Alabama; Windtalkers; ER; Boston Legal; The X Files
Should be required reading for everyone on Wall Street and Capitol Hill.
– Steve Alten, New York Times Best-selling Author of MEG and DOMAIN
If you care about the future of our planet – this is a MUST READ!
– Kristopher M. Kriner, Sufi Cherag, Composer/Performer of the world-renowned Sufi chant recording Bismallah
The unique value of the type of combined science fiction-social commentary in 2012 The Awakening lies in its ability to educate about some of the current dark and harsh truths of the way so many people are currently being victimized and manipulated.
. . . constructive visionary Bill Douglas understands that there could be an antidote. Dreaming of it may just be the first step to a real “Awakening”!
– Coleen Rowley, former FBI Agent-Minneapolis Division Counsel and one of TIME Magazine’s “Whistleblower” Persons of the Year, 2002
Ravi’s extraordinary story is a startling reminder of just how threatening ideas can be. Compassion, harmony, forgiveness and peace . . . these things mark the end of powers that have ruled the world for eons.
– Rev. Nathaniel G. Haaland
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2012 The Awakening
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Bill Douglas
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What you are about to read is fictional,
with the exception of what isn’t.
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Introduction
Our world lost connection with its feminine spirit long ago . . . Her greatest desire – her greatest ambition – was to nurture . . . can you see the power of that? Can you understand how profoundly beautiful that ambition is?
The feminine force within us will now wield the power of 52,000 years of masculine technological development, and the balance created by this profound marriage will transform – everything!
– Ravi Shyamalan, Recipient, Nobel Prize for Economics
Dr. Richard Klein of Stanford argues that the suite of innovations [during what some call the Great Leap Forward, approximately 50,000 years ago] reflects some specific neural change that occurred around that time and, because of the advantage it conferred, spread rapidly through the population.
– The New York Times, Science, July 15, 2003
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Today is December 21, 2012. A feminine awakening struggles to embrace our planet.
Does this mean women are taking over in a feminist revolution? No, this isn’t about gender or sex, but rather a way of approaching the world around us. It is about nothing less than the very future of the human race.
Chinese mystics created the yin-yang image as a symbol of the ultimate power of balance. The lower dark wave reflects the yin-passive, receiving, or feminine aspect of consciousness, while the light wave above it represents the dominating yang-masculine approach – exploration, conquest, and exploitation.
For example, solar and wind are yin-passive ways of receiving energy, while the exploration and drilling of oil is a masculine method. Many of those advocating solar or wind energy solutions are men, while Sarah Palin’s “drill baby drill” strategy is a more masculine approach to energy solutions.
Our his-story has reflected and celebrated the more masculine achievements of both women and men, cataloguing our human exploration and development designed to control the planet’s resources.
Today a new page is turning; a balance is being sought. Why?
Our masculine consciousness served the human race well, enabling our dominance of the planet. This began 52,000 years ago when a monumental shift in human consciousness unleashed the technological age – what Chinese mystics would call the yang-masculine age.
At that time, a cosmic event occurred that may have precipitated such an awakening – one that scientists refer to as the Great Leap Forward. Fifty-two millennia ago, the earth, our sun, and the black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy aligned – just as they are doing again today.
With this cosmic alignment, an extraordinary lessening of the magnetic force of our planet is occurring. Scientists have predicted for many years that a lessening of the Earth’s magnetic force, a trend they had been tracking, would peak at the end of 2012. Social philosophers have suggested that this may be affecting human consciousness, pointing out that in modern history, revolutions in art, cinema, music, and technology sprang from the West Coast of the United States, where the magnetic force has always been weaker than in other areas of the planet.
Given that human consciousness is made of electromagnetic energy, what would happen if the magnetic force of the entire planet dramatically lessened? What impact would this have on the human race? Fifty-two thousand years ago it gave birth to the masculine-technological age, the age of exploration, conquest, and exploitation of resources planet-wide.
Today, Earth’s resources have been tapped out – our planet sags under the weight of our population, which is rapidly approaching 10 billion people. There is nothing left to explore, conquer, or exploit.
A massive shift is required in how we view ourselves on the planet, if we do not want to see our children and theirs spiral down into a dismal future of increasingly violent wars over a plundered world of shrinking resources. We must redefine ourselves en masse in order to make the next evolutionary leap forward as a human race.
The feminine awakening, stretching its wings like a chrysalis emerging from its cocoon, is yawning into existence in a tightening world of control. For 52,000 years our civilization has been honing the single-minded focus of expanding control over nature, other nations, and ultimately, the resources of the entire planet. One might say our modern religion is one of technological-physical control.
The feminine receptive approach is a contemplative, nurturing, spiritual one – seeing ourselves not as warriors or conquerors of Earth, but as home-makers – seeking a way to stretch the cupboard’s contents to nurture the 10 billion members of our planetary household.
The feminine awakening now struggling to spread its fragile wings within our minds has no armies or armaments; it is a spiritual permeation of the mind. The yin-feminine does not seek control; it seeks balance – a marriage of technology and spirituality. The yang-masculine knows only control – and it will slash and burn to maintain it.
This physical mind of control, countered by a spiritual awakening across our planet, is about to unfold a battle unlike anything we have ever seen – beyond what our current minds can even stretch to conceive.
The fuse that will ignite this epic event, the cosmic alignment of our Earth, our sun, and our galaxy’s center on December 21, 2012, was predicted hundreds of years ago by ancient Mayan mystics.
They called it the Opening of the Birth Canal of the Cosmic Mother.
Let the birthing pains of a new world begin.
Remember to breathe.
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“[Mary,] tell us the words of the Savior” . . . Mary answered, “what is hidden from you I will proclaim to you . . . and Peter said, “Did he prefer her to us?” and Levi answered, “Peter, I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries. If the savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her?”
– The Gospel of Mary, 7:6-7, and 9:4, 9:7-8
. . . markedly feminine also in their image and vision . . . were Jesus and Buddha.
– Deepak Chopra
The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds . . . know the masculine, keep to the feminine.
– Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching
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Prologue
The Soldier – December 21, 2012
A strange phenomenon is occurring throughout the world. People have been filling churches, mosques, and temples to capacity. Not for services, but during other hours to sit silently in contemplation.
– New York Journal, Sunday, December 30, 2012
Military forces worldwide are seeing “absent without leave” rates skyrocket, while intelligence institutions like the CIA, MI6, and Russia’s GRU are witnessing mass resignations.
– London Post, Monday, December 31, 2012
An apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves . . .
United States Patent Office, Patent No. 3,951,13
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It is the morning of December 21, 2012. The Earth is in great flux.
A trembling young trooper struggles to keep up with his superior, the hard man they call the Soldier. The young man can barely place one foot in front of the other – grimacing with the absolute focus it takes for him to complete this simple act as his world explodes all around and within him. No bombs, bullets, or enemies are involved. Yet this brutal conflict is devastating.
Ancient spiritual forces duel, wavelength against wavelength, with a projected technological might, fighting for control of this young man. Mankind’s consciousness, as always, is at the epicenter of an ageless clash occurring within this soldier’s beleaguered mind as it is cleaved in two by competing energetic forces.
The means by which a wave consisting of magnetic and electrical fields travels from one point to another was described in 1864 by Scottish mathematician James Clerk Maxwell. Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi later received the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating this power by projecting his telegraphic wireless energy technology across the English Channel.
One must wonder whether, when Marconi looked up into the night sky over a century ago, he could have imagined that his transmission of energy would lead to discoveries in technology and human consciousness that would become a high-tech battleground of the mind.
The battles are on many fronts. Each of us is on the front lines.
Twenty-two thousand miles above, beyond Earth’s thin life-giving, oxygen-rich troposphere, beyond the protective ozone layer, and beyond the ionosphere where the air is so rarified that free electrons can exist for a time without attaching to nearby positive ions, a geostationary operational satellite receives signals from far below in the Himalayas.
The monitoring Russians and Chinese believe this to be one of the ordinary environmental satellites that stay near the equator, traveling at the speed of the Earth’s rotation.
However, this satellite has a different mission. It receives analysis information from Earth, but it also has a powerful transmission capability. As the satellite hurtles through space, neck and neck with the Earth’s silent orbit, it is abuzz with activity.
Both its receiving and potent transmission apparatus are focused on the gargantuan Himalayan Mountains, where an epic battle is being waged within the energy matrix that is human consciousness. Mechanistic modern forces of linear control are being challenged by ancient powers of faith and compassion.
Here in the Tibetan highlands, the crisp thin mountain air is pierced by a haunting vibration. Monks behind the thick stone walls of the Dalai Lama’s temple of residence are joined in meditation, their voices harmonizing in different octaves to create a chant that vibrates through the very beings of those in the surrounding hamlet. A sound so unusual that the villagers, distracted from their morning chores, turn up their faces almost in unison to stare at the temple that towers above their homes on the higher mountainside, framed against the emerging color of an awakening morning sky.
A few hundred feet below the village, a force of men wearing headgear, oxygen masks, and camouflage military uniforms without insignias or identifying marks make their way up the hard-earthed Tibetan mountainside.
The Soldier grits his teeth, raising both hands to press down on his headgear in an attempt to block out the sound coming from above. The din feels like a jackhammer inside his skull, leaving room for only one thought: This is unbearable!