2012 - Science or Superstition

If you’re planning on hiding in the woods for the winter solstice on December 21, 2012 forget it, you’ll still be paying bills come January 2013. That’s the consensus of one interviewee from the documentary 2012: Science or Superstition (DVD street date January 27, 2009). This release from the Disinformation Company also contains extras that take the viewer on a tour of the Mayan pyramid at Palenque as well as expound on the theories of Terence McKenna regarding fractal mathematics and mystical mind expansion. As another talking head explains there’s a difference between opening the doors of perception and walking through said doors.
I found 2012: Science or Superstition fascinating on multiple levels. The concepts of Mithraism and the Vedic periapsis sent me scrambling to Wikipedia. The Mayan long count calendar that ends in 2012 merely predicts periods of time that are repeated like peaks and valleys throughout the ages. The shifting of the Earth’s magnetic poles may occur over hundreds of years. The CMEs (coronal mass ejections) of our Sun could fry satellites. The Hopi Indians believe that the changes mark the progression from what they term the Fourth World into the Fifth World. The path of the moon, Earth and Sun are lining up at the center of the Milky Way in 2012.
All of these ideas are tossed at the viewer like fastballs in a pennant game. It’s not important to accept each theory as fact so much as the information gleamed grounds you in a mindset that accepts our tiny place in a greater universe of change.
Meanwhile Sony Pictures is shooting 2012 with Roland Emmerich directing (set for release July of this year) while Warner Brothers is developing a Whitley Strieber novel on the phenomenon called 2012: The War for Souls.
2012: Science or Superstition won’t sway you one way or another. Rather this doc reveals facets for further sturdy from some of the more legitimate sources on the subject. There’s so much information coming at you, from the participatory cosmology of the Mayans to Islamic astrology and the doctrine of lunar modes, that you’ll have to watch more than once, if only for your own peace of mind.