It was a little over 40 years ago when a little known man from Europe produced a book that few people read initially. Over time this book gathered adherents and momentum until, after the landing of the Apollo 11 moon mission and the inundation of western minds with the likes of Dr Who and Star Trek, The Invaders and The Outer Limits, it became a worldwide phenomenon. What was that book? Chariots of the Gods. Who was the author? Erich Von Daniken.
You may very well ask what has this got to do with 2012? Well, Von Daniken theorised that ancient astronauts had visited Earth in our distant past. These same astronauts taught our ancestors many things about the universe. One such teaching was the knowledge that lead to the development of the Mayan Calendar. The very same calendar that predicts the end of the fifth world on 21 December 2012.
I came across this series of videos which explains the Ancient Alien theory and that of Von Daniken. Enjoy them.
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I read with interest your recent Post about Ferdinand Ossendowski. The prophesy given in Ossendowski’s book is indeed intriguing, but there are several details which should be pointed out here. First of all, nowhere in the his book Beasts, Men and Gods, does Ossendowski say anything about Shambhala, despite what any number of later writers would claim. And it was Pauwels and Bergier in Morning of the Magiciansand Trevor Ravenscroft in Spear of Destiny, among others, who conflated Shambhala with Agharti, which Ossendowski does mention. Agharti has no resemblance whatsoever to the Shambhala of the Tibetan Tradition. In any case, Ossendowski’s Account of Agharti is suspect, to say the least. As for the appearance of the so-called King of the World at Narobanchin (Narabanchi) Monastery, the Diluv Khutagt, who was the abbot at Narobanchin when Ossendowski visited there and met with him, later moved to the United States. He maintained that almost everything Ossendowski wrote about his visit to Narobanchin was sheer fantasy. (I have, by the way, visited the Ruins of Narobanchin Monastery; I have also met with the Current Incarnation of the Diluv Khutagt, who now lives in Russia.) In short, Ossendowski’s tale about Agharti might well rank as one of the greatest literary hoaxes of the 20th century. I might also point out that any of the several branches of the Altai Mountains are more than a thousand miles from Shigatse, but admittedly that is a quibble.