Monday, September 3, 2012

"Everything You Know Is Wrong."

Some of you might remember that as the title of a Firesign Theatre album, a comedy act from the 70's and 80's. I'm a research analyst and a futurist by profession. My experience with the 2012 material has led me to formulate and evaluate theories about what is happening. At this point I’ve thrown a lot of them out the window. This is not something that lends itself to rational analysis. At one point I simply gave up like the exhausted Zen student who has burned out his neural circuitry trying to solve a koan logically. In my opinion, one thing that is happening now is that the Pandora’s box of human experience good, bad, and extreme has been opened. We are now awash in an impossible to fathom array of choices, ideas, and experiences long forgotten. As just one example, quantum physics is busy throwing decades of accepted wisdom and long held theories about the nature of reality and matter. In addition, there are more theories in 2012 lore about what's happening cosmically and energetically than one can count. There are no easy answers and while many spiritual teachers have puzzle pieces, in my opinion, there is no single source of wisdom and knowledge that I’m aware of that can serve as an infallible guide. We all need to figure out the mystery of 2012 for ourselves. If this makes me a "2012 agnostic" then so be it. In any event, “the more I find out, the less I know” as Billy Joel sings in one of his songs. I suspect this may be true for all of us.