Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, grade: A, course: Psychology, language: English, abstract: As the world approached the year 2012, controversy theorists made significant impacts on what people would expect, among them was the end of the world as humanity has known it. The actual event that will erase life from the planet remained a subject of debate; to same an asteroid would strike the earth while others proposed ideas of mystical proportions. As 21/12/2012 came closer, humanity was prepared for what it might bring with it. To peoples surprise, the day passed like any other with no noticeable uniqueness.



Although the Mayan calendar ended, its prediction of the end of the world did not become physically accurate. However, a new understanding of the year 2012 begun to surface. In the book Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, Braden Gregg comes up with a reasoning that the old world ended and a new world started, not in the physical form of ending, but in form time.