is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for something monumental to take place? maybe social chaos? maybe ufo contact? maybe time travel? or maybe its all just wishful thinking? but if thats the case then i want to know why i have these, at times, overwhelming feelings of a desire for a change of pace?

Something monumental happens every day - I get up. But seriously, monumental things happen all the time. And overall, the earth is a wonderful place. But with regard to the human system? I (and many others before me) liken the U.S. to Rome. I always teach my students that countries and Empires have a life cycle. And that the average lifespan of a great power is approximately 250 years, on average. Thomas Jefferson said it this way: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
So, given the lifespan of a great power, I'd conclude that the U.S. has peaked and is on its way down (though I think George Bush expedited its demise by about 50 years). China and Asia, well this region is on the upswing (after 600 years in the doldrums). Europe, well Europe in uniting has gotten stronger, but Europe will suffer with environmental changes. Europe will eventually have to allow Russia and Siberia to become members of the EU. Siberia may become the breadbasket of the world. The other factor in the equation is global warming, which is starting to exert pressure onto human systems everywhere. That may be the pressure you are feeling.

I would agree lmbeharry. The US is definitely in decline and there are several factors helping this along. China has been an emerging superpower for a while and recently the way they save without spending from all the products they are selling to the US puts the US at a disadvantage. That relationship is also causing the US dollar to further be devalued. Russia is stable but I would consider the EU as the emerging superpower of the continent.

I would have to agree with Imbeharry and Clovis. The only change I see or feel coming is the fall of the United States. If what Imbeharry says about George Bush putting the fall at roughly 50 years, however, that kind of frightens me. I still have more than fifty years left to live, provided the end of the world doesn't come in 2012 like everyone seems to think it will.

Gas prices are high as it is, and before long, there will likely be people who can't get to work because of it, or people who cannot pay other bills or provide food for their families, just because they need a way to get to work. For those who might cry out things like "Take a city bus" "carpool" or "Walk or ride your bike", it's not that easy. Especially where I live. In a county with maybe ten thousand folks, there are very few people who work in the same place, or if they do, live within a close distance of each other. We do not have city buses: in fact, Little Rock and Hot Springs are the only cities I know of with public transportation. Eureka Springs probably has it too. And riding your bike or walking? Not so easy.

The slipping of our economy and the raising of prices to accompany that is already putting the country in ruin. Here in rural Arkansas, with gas approaching $3.50, you can either put five dollars in your tank and hope you can get back to forth from your home to the local grocery store a few times, or you can buy a gallon of milk without having to run to the nearest Wal-Mart, which is roughly twenty to thirty minutes away, depending on traffic.

Yes! I definitely think change will occur soon, and not a moment too soon!

I kinda prefered it as it was, the individual countries seemed to have more identity before the EU came rolling in...
I have no reasonable objection to the EU, but some sort of instinct seems to make me regard it with suspicion...

Off TOPIC...Your avatar is freaky, seriously creeping me out! LOL what is it?

Governments fall.

Massive populations with massive resources and massive amounts of weaponry do not fall, they either change their rulers or they go down fighting taking massive amounts of other populations with them.

In a nuclear and advanced bio-warfare age the latter event is not something sane people in the world should wish for.

Hope for an end to corruption and a new government that actually serves the people in the USA and not international investors.

Yes that is my hope as well. I do think the US recession will effect the global economy. We are a global community even if most of us do not see it that way.

I think the real change will come from the people. They will start to make choices on their own and not as a result of being brainwashed by others. This process will be gradual because it is hard to accept how easily we allow ourselves to be influenced by those who seek power and wealth at our expense.

So as I see it, the recession will be the start of a great awakening for humanity.

John

Hm, arent they going to turn on the Large Hadron Collider soon? Parhaps something happens then?

I feel it. Nothing like time travel or anything like that. But I feel a huge travesty coming along. Billions of people dying kinda travesty. meh *shrugs* I could just be loopy. I hope I'm just loopy.

I can't remember the exact date but i think it's sometime this year.

WERE ALL GONNA DIE... Or maybe not...

If you are getting a feeling like the winds of change are upon you, It maybe something huge that affects all of human kind, or it maybe just confined to your life only.You just never know till it is upon you.The most likely culprit at this time would have to be another large scale war.

hah right after i posted and used the words winds of change i saw your sig.Funny..................................

No one knows me on this site anymore.
Before I left I was a very prominant member, and known across this board for my skeptism and enthusiastic logics.

I just spent a year travelling around the world, living in small villages in jungles and mountains, talking with very wise people. And they all say the same thing.
And from everything, everything i've learned while i've been away, from the deepest truths and beginnings of religion to the ultimate change of Age we are about to embrace has convinced me fully. Convinced a man who just a year ago called himself the very definition of Skeptic, that great change is imminent.

Wow... um.. wow that's... Yeah. That's surprising coming from you. What do you feel is going to "change"? Human consciousness? And do they all honestly feel this around globally?

Its called if Hillary Clinton becomes president... men are are deep sh*t. LMAO! Just kidding...

I feel the same way. Something big is about to happen. What? I have no idea. Perhaps its the demise of the U.S.? Who knows... right now the U.S. is in a depression. Gas prices keep sky rocketing, as well as oil. Its hard to find a decent job these days. Unless you spend years in college, its hard to survive out there. You need a roommate to afford an apartment. Sales tax is higher than ever. Even in places where tax use to be low. That's why people were moving out of the big cities. But now those areas are becoming tourist states. There's a story by Fox News that we are 50/50 right now with global warming and a new ice age. You can thank Bush for the demise of the U.S. I think all politics can agree with that. The last good president we had in my own opinion was JFK? Has anyone else really made a difference in change? Just the S.O.S.

If the government doesn't stop medaling with world affairs that have nothing to do with us, the U.S. is going to be one of the poor countries and maybe be asking Russia for a loan soon.

I feel a change is needed too!

Welcome back Burnside!

Thank you.
btw I think Global Warming is an incorrect term. It refers to Global Climate Change, which is more likely to result in a new Ice Age than a super hot Age. We're had Ice Ages like this before, hell there was one time when a deep Ice Age came so quickly we're stull uncovering Mammoth remains frozen in the act of eating grass. So man made or not, a super Ice Age is possible and probable. No doubt we're helping speed that along.

But I think GCC is a byproduct of our unhealthy living, it doesn't actually connect with whatever great Change is imminent. What do I think is happening? Impossible to say. Alot of wise men and Shamans throughout the world tell of a new age of Enlightenment we're supposed to be entering, telling stories of how the last great civilizations on earth, such as the fabled Atlantis, existed 13,000 years ago when the world was last tilted with the rest of of our solar system towards the great center of the Universe and the central Sun to which all solar systems and galaxies revolve in the same way our Earth orbits the sun. It takes our System 26,000 years to orbit the Super Sun, and half that time we are in the darkness and half that time we are in the light. For the last 13,000 years we have been Orbiting in darkness, tilted away from the super sun, and as such we have been killing each other, ourselves, and our Earth on an almost constant basis, like primordial animals grunting and polluting. 2012 marks the new Age of enlightenment, and, well.. that's it. Maybe we'll enter a new concious awareness or something, we can only wait and see.

I've also heard theories that we're all about to go bonkers and tear each other apart, so, well, comooooooon enlightenment!

Wow.. that was a lot to take in! LOL...

I agree... you just feel like something is going to happen. You don't know what, but you get an over whelming sensation of.... ????
Something you can't explain.

Maybe only certain people are connected to this feeling? Or is it the world is so oblivious to what's really going on? I lean towards the world is oblivious to what's really going on. A lot of people are in their own little crazy world, and blind to see the BIG PICTURE. I admit, at times I am caught up in my own drama, that I forget that life is supposed to be abundance.

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Please do not troll the forums with non intelligent posts.
BurnSide

Well, most of the world lives in a state of perpetual ignorance, and consider it bliss.
Bliss that they don't know the truth of their corrupt governments and fake religions and content to just take life and living as it is at face value. With that kind of unconnection to life and actual living, it's no wonder they don't feel things.

My buddy believes some kind of concious shift is imminent or occuring already, where we'll start to see the emergence of, well, psychic energy is probably the wrong term for it, but something like that. In Peru a group of men told me about how, 13,000 years ago, man and animal communicated brilliantly without words, just by thought. But the dark Age we have lived in suppressed that.

Many also believe there are frequencies to existance, sort of like radio waves. Which explains certain evidences like Quantum physics popping into our frequency of perception and out again. After all, energy cannot be created nor destroyed, so where does it come from/go? SO perhaps some are more intune to the other frequencies of existance, which is why we feel a change or will be changed by it...

I remember you. It's interesting that you were able to take a year off to travel and learn. Can you elaborate? Are you now less skeptical? What have you come to believe in?

I elaborated in my last two posts.

I agree. I do see this changing with the increase in discussion groups like UM. The idea of having compassion for all that we are, will go a long way toward making this ride an easy one.



This area will shift more easily once we accept that we live in a culture that pratices deception. Most of us have been conditioned to think our survival depends on presenting what we think others wish to hear. The desire to be open and authentic will take a while to catch on IMO.



Yes energy concepts. I think we are energy beings much more than we are physical beings. Once we as a culture learn to control how we feel about life, a lot of other things will change.

I see my taxes going up.

I'm skeptical of damn near everything that doesn't have good evidence to back it up, but I can say this:

I DO feel like something big is about to happen in the world, something that will shake our reality up. I've felt it since I was younger, and it gets stronger as time goes by. I used to think I was...special, or something - deeply involved in whatever was about to happen. I never experienced anything I couldn't explain, except the feeling of something big looming in the future for mankind.

It may be a side effect of getting older, but I'll be damned if I don't know what you mean. It's hard to explain, but I know. As I got older, I realized that it probably wasn't something that hinged on me directly, but something that will involve everybody.

I just hope I'm on the right side of whatever it is when it happens.

I feel a bit like that sometimes, but I think its just because day to day routine gets very chlostrophobic after a while! lol. We are due (probably overdue!) for the next huge scientific breakthrough though arent we?

Welcome back BurnSide. Glad to hear you had a great year of exploring.

As far as the energy can't be created or destroyed comment, I have to say that is true but it is transfered. To put it more succinct it is used somewhere else. For example and this will be abit offensive to some, but lets use our bodies for example. The energy can't be destroyed or created is accurate, however I use to believe that upon death that energy would be transmitted to a higher plain. I have now changed my mind on that. I believe that the electrical impulses in our brain upon death is used to start to transfer our bodies back into the earth aka decomposition. Hence as many years ago when we were buried after death without fancy coffins or tombs our bodies were taken back by the earth. Such as when you bury a pet in the backyard so to say that ground would become more fertile hence we lived we consumed from the earth and we give back to the earth with our bodies making the ground fertile again. OK that was abit off topic lol.

As far as a change, well I do think mankind is on the verge of a discovery that could change the way all humans think and perceive this world and the universe as a whole. I have no idea what it could be but again as the OP said it's a feeling.

Oh look at that my 4000 th post was to BurnSide

hey Burnside, i really appreciate you sharing with us your story of "self-exploration". it was really enlightening. i also wanted to share with everyone something that i've posted on this forum before. it's a 3 part video concerning the mayan calendar and where we are headed as we embark on our next great evolution: the evolution of the mind. please try and be open minded everyone. take it for what it is.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-489786527478456160

Thank you Silver! Glad to see you're still around.
Novel idea, your belief about energy transfered back to earth through decomposition and whatnot is kind of a very crude but realistic Gaia theory, somewhat. Very interesting way to see the passage of energy.

Great post John A, you made me feel better about my ideas right there.
It's interesting to see the different views people are accepting or formulating that all revolve around central themes. Definitely makes you think.

I know you sweetie.....

Great to see you back and I see you haven't given up smoking yet......

Burnsy I know of the Gaia theory, but I'm not one that believes in it. The earth is a recycling machine and no matter what we do the earth will eventually reclaim what we have taken from it including us. Be that metals, water, dirt what have you, the earth reclaims everything, well except what we shoot into space. The earth is not alive but gives life and for that cycle to continue it must reclaim what is earth and that is everything. Crude yes, but true. As far as someone having an inner enlightenment on what is in store for us, eh don't buy it. However a change is coming and know one knows what it may be.

Thanks Mum! No, i haven't quit, I ment too.. but.. yanno.................
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Indeed! It's the suprise that makes it most exciting anyway lol.

Wow, I thought I was the only person who felt this way.
I feel like we (as a planet and/or civilization) are on the "verge of something." I don't know what, or whether it's good or bad. (I'm hoping good.)
Or maybe I'm feeling overly emotional?...

Actually the Gaia principle says that the earth as a whole is alive. The earth is a living entity by virtue of all of the life force within her embrace.

Off topic but damnit, i just spent two minutes trying to squat that virtual big off my screen.
Still used to jungle bugs crawling over my laptop haha.

I posted elsewhere that I should have taken the screen name: "fly in the ointment."

the way the world is being ran there will eventually be a world wide rate of rebelions, deaths and chaos. hopefully life will improve for everyone soon or after the rebelions.

simple people simply breath

complicated people have to figure out why before they can.

this being a summary of Stupidity of Progress.

if we will need food why is half the country obese

if we need to save gas why does everyone choose the Suv over tiny car or better yet a bicycle.

if drugs and sex bad why are they the staple for advirtising. [dare ya to count]



yep thats karma at the door bringin a good boot in the rear.

I see the United States losing it prominence in world affairs. We have nothing left to offer. We gave up our manufacturing to Japan, Mexico and China. We are allowing free admission without consequences to illegal aliens. Our credibility as a world peace leader is almost non-existent and our dollar is worth less every day. In the past we bullied our way around the world by offering much needed financial aid, with the current trend of the dollar devaluation, I see this coming to an abrupt end. I see the European Union and China having a go at it.

Yeap! Feeling a definite shift, in what I have no clue.

YES ~ ever since I was a little girl.. I KNEW I would be witnessing a major event. Then in the mid 90's things started heating up... I believe our REALITY is about to change (quite probably causing fright to the lemmings out there (lemmings=unaware/unawakened). I am feeling a paradym shift that may include a re-wiring of our DNA (or "a turning on" of this so called junk dna that scientists are referring to) , but also the changes in the electromagnetic field and the Earth's Rising Base Frequency Earth's background base frequency, or "heartbeat," (called Schumann resonance)... I think the Mayans were well aware of this time in earths history. Time is speeding up. Strange things are happening around the globe. Reality changing will freak out most minds... I feel I have to try and prepare myself for my mind taking a leap into an unknown zone ~ and I pray that I and those I care for ~ will survive that change.

Hello,

I think the world is slowly positioning itself for war. There are some definite clues in the media, with some power changes definitely occuring.

Some may disagree with me on this one, but I think this is a result of capitalism going out of control. We have these oil wars, which are driving petrol prices up, cost of housing is becoming unaffordable for the average citizen, cost of food is on the rise due to global climate disruptions, unemployment is gradually slowing down as we see world economies decline...

People have lost the "big picture", if you like. Everyone's out to make money, drive the best cars, live the lavish lifestyles in so called "McMansions". Plasma TV's, 4WD's (SUV's), huge homes with 5 bedrooms housing 2 people, etc. Don't get me wrong, if you can afford it, by all means go for it, but is it really necessary?

For example: I live in Melb, Oz. Currently, the median house price is around $400K. Of course, if you venture out in the suburbs, you could find a house for about $260K, but those areas are rampant with crime and people would not live there if you paid them. So, for someone who's on an average wage of $50K per year, there's no way you could afford a mortgage on a house, along with utility bills (which have recently gone up in Victoria), along with petrol (which is nearing $1.60AUD per litre). Its extremely difficult to get into the rent market as well, with rents in the city areas well and above $2K per month. So, you can't drive, you can't get a decent house, you can't get a better job to pay for everything you need...there's only way to go and that's down.

I'm still deciding whether to believe reports that a major environmental catastrophy will happen in 2009, followed by a major change in 2012 but I can definitely see a change coming up nevertheless. This type of living cannot continue without some form of repercussion.

And then of course you've got the over-population problem. I sense a war with the intent of culling population numbers. With so many countries now equipped with nuclear weapons, its only a matter of time.

Thanks for reading!

This world is a scary place. I sense something is going to happen, that something's got to give, so to speak, however, it's not going to shift our way until something catastrophic happens first. That's the way of the world, and mankind. I don't subscribe to "marked" years, such as 2012. Too many before us have tried prophesying and including such "marked" years in their prophesies just to have their prophesies not happen in the "marked" year.

But yes, I am in agreement with you that something is on the horizon. Exactly what, I don't know. But, it's gonna be big, and the average "Joe" isn't going to be able to withstand it economically.

Thank you for reading.

ValkyrieVoice

I do feel like there's something big that's going to go down.Not sure when,it's kind of unerving.So yeah,me too.

That's my view, too: the fall of the U.S. Empire and the return of China and the Roman Empire (European Union). I'm also very wired into the shifting weather patterns, and the dread of more frequent and more deadly storms. That's what I'm sensing. It's especially unnerving to have witnessed such drastic changes in weather since my youth.

I watched "6 degrees could change the world" on National Geographic, and apparently Global Warming could play a big part in that.


Anyways, in regards to the first post, and I know it sounds a little strange, but when the clock struck twelve to signal the start of 2008, I went and sat outside on the steps leading to my house, in the dark. Once the fireworks had stopped, I thought for a while. (while traumatizing my mum, who didn't realize I was so close by) And... I just got this weird feeling. That this year something significant would happen. Like... a once-in-a-lifetime significance.

Of course, I could be 1) totally wrong and just got a weird feeling, 2) Could be a personal "Big change is coming!" or 3) This proves nothing. Although it is kind of fun to think of something good that might happen. And... depressing to think of what might be bad that could happen.

Just gotta wait and see, I guess.

I do feel the change. It is as if time is racing towards it. Ask a small child if the day goes by slowly as some of us remember it used to do. They will say no.

The change is the paradigm shift, the lifting of the veil, the cosmic consciousness, the next great awakening, the start of a new cycle, age, eon.

I have a feeling it is corporate globalism of currency, real estate ownership and legislation of the general public. As a lot of people have mentioned there is this ever-increasing inability to afford what was once affordable. Take housing for instance, it wasn’t too long ago that financial institutions didn’t want to own houses. Their job was to loan money and charge interest, which made them a good deal of money. Today there is a major shift in this trend. Some institutions are offering 60-year mortgages and interest only mortgages. If the average age of a person getting one of these mortgages is 30 (because college is a must to afford them) the chances are that death will occur before ownership. Interest only mortgages are self-explanatory, we are seeing the mortgage crisis that they have created in the U.S. Then there is the new ‘reverse mortgage’, where you sell your home to the ‘bank’ and they make a monthly payment to you until your death, and they own the house.

Why would there be such a reversal of policy unless there was something in it? Free money! In both cases (60-yr. And int. only) the mortgag (ee) is paying top dollar for something he/she will probably never own. When they default or die, the institution (corporation) retains ownership and can do it again. I just have this gut feeling that this is a growing trend. Here in the U.S. the once ‘valued’ dollar is almost worthless, and our President’s solution to the economic crisis is to give everyone $600 dollars. It is ludicrous, yet people here are eating it up like lollipops.

Then there is the gas crisis going on here! Everyone is saying corn ethanol will be the solution. WRONG! Corn is an inefficient way to make ethanol. It requires a lot of fertilizer and the yield per acre of corn is relatively low. And! Corn is a food! We feed our livestock and population on corn; it will drive up the cost of corn, which will drive up the cost of ethanol and food. Yet the U.S. government is putting a considerable amount of money into the development. It just doenst make sense? Until you consider the influence corporate lobbyists have on our political system.

yes i feel exactly the same.overwhelming feelings indeed of a desire for change and a new experience.it`s that feeling like im going to move far away from here and start a new life somewhere without knowing what to expect other than GREAT change .i have been drawn to the stars all my life but especially this last 2 years it`s been more intense.so maybe just maybe the change will come from the stars:) you can see great changes in the world right now but nothing universally unique n EPIC like i feel is about to happen.happy to see others feel the change is coming. In the mean time_Take care- Click to view attachment